I'm sorry but that is too obscure as it stands. Especially given the responses to things like TALK RAVEN and SAY HELP... If the raven responded with CAW? to those, then maybe I'd have got there.
I might have got WHISTLE in the end... I'd been trying virtually every other way of making a noise... but I think you're going to get players giving up in the tower without an extra hint. I completely get that the throne gives the hint that the raven is going to be the solution.
One thing you could do, is time how long the player has been stuck in the castle and change one of the examine messages, or add an extra environmental message, if they've been stuck there too many turns. Something like "The raven is out of reach. You wonder how you could get its attention."
Yes, I will complete the game before the end of the CaveJam.
You will return to the burning tower in the last room (the dark room that is now lit by the fire) and you will find an object that will tell you where to dig with the shovel (you no longer need the torch and I will use it differently). I must also put the epilogue and prologue that will explain why this game title and why the troll has been transformed into stone, but also the essential role of the pearl in this story, which I did not have time to develop; a lot of work to do!
From memory, Garry, the butterfly reveals the route back into the cave... so you can retrieve that other item. I imagine you've got to around about the end of what was there when I tried it. You're meant to burn down the tower... the idea, I believe, is that in the full game you'll be able to swim back there.
Oh... and French crows go Crôa Crôa apparently! :) I can't find what noise French ravens make.
You sound like you're at the end where I was. If you're getting the message about 'not being able to return to the tower in this version' then that's the limit of what is there so far.
It's certainly surreal. :) I felt referring to the chest as "he" was all part of that... I felt like half the inanimate objects had the potential to be alive in the game!
Needless to say, I've examined the map, read the map, followed the map and several other weird and wonderful commands (no, it's not edible), but drawn a blank. Or so I thought.
I went where the map indicated using a Scott Adams' style command and, blow me down, I ended up back at the beach. Now I've finished the game with a less than optimal score and am wondering what I've missed.
Went back to this one, just to check the above, so I thought I might as well get the proper (good) ending.
