Oh, thank you so much, Kozure Okami. I'm really glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the kind words. There are so many incredible games in the jam this year - I'm glad to have contributed to it. Sorry you had some issues with it - I'll have a look into this and see if they are bugs. The game is indeed very hard, but my hope is that people can find the knowledge as they play to turn the RNG in their favour :-). That said, I might actually tone down the difficulty a bit - it is a bit too brutal. I noticed that some players have finished it in less than 700 turns. To me, that is incredible. I can't really finish it myself!!
At any rate, thank you for leaving the message, and it's amazing to me that I am able to share this little tiny world with so many people around the world. I also drew the cover art myself. It's based off a real pub but I traced it manually and then obviously changed a lot and added my own embellishments. The original pub image is in the credits if you're curious. I really wanted to capture the beauty and pure escapism of the 80s DOS era. Especially the Sierra era of EGA games. I used the PICO-8 palette, so it's in the ball park.
Thanks so much again and I'll let you know if I can track down those bugs (sorry about that!).
Tim