Oh! Kinda weird that two are one - but that hint was what I needed :)
abraxas86
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This game would be much less frustrating if the “use” and “reset” buttons weren’t right next to each other… Otherwise, the concept is pretty neat! I ended up throwing in the towel just after I got the skull because I accidentally reset the room when I went to grab a block and I don’t have it in me to re-do two full rooms again…
This is a really cool dungeon crawler. The whole time it felt like I was inches from death but always managed to pull through. I really liked the fighting concept - it was like a music-less rhythm game of sorts. The music is fantastic, too. Def recommend giving it a go!
Just a heads-up, the Linux package may have some stuff that wasn’t meant to be bundled. Nothing bad, but looks like screenshots from some other games, and a cool hand-drawn pic? shared-1-sheet0.png and shared-1-sheet1.png, specifically ;)
This seemed okay, but the demo wasn’t really enough to rope me in. I only had entity show up, and it wasn’t really scary or anything… it just stood there. I thought maybe it was hungry, but it wouldn’t give me its order. Ah well, maybe it will be less shy on the next night.
Without the entities, this game would boil down to a very basic and almost boring game loop. We need more going on to keep us engaged and anxious.
This game is pretty fun, but a few things are really frustrating:
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having to click in the commandline after every command, and no DOSKEYS like functionality to let you hit “up” to recall the previous command.
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The “Play the game” game is scuffed. I died in the 3rd stage, and the “restart” message thing never showed up. Thankfully you can just refresh and start over from “part 2” of the game and carry on, but sucks you have to re-do all of the minigame to get there.
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decode [string] 30 just broke the CLI and I have to refresh again [EDIT: no idea how I broke it, I tried a second time and it was fine… but not the right value lol]
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DOS wasn’t case-sensitive for file paths, but this game is. Took me a bit to figure out why I couldn’t get to my file ;)
Note: this was the browser-based version.
Man, you’re always pushing the limits of ZZT. If I saw this kinda stuff 20 years ago, my thoughts on ZZT would have been much different. This game is great, and the soundtrack is awesome, too! I love the unhinged events along the way. Only downside is that my browser crashed when I was prob 80% of the way through the race, and I didn’t have a chance to save since my only choices were Save&Quit and Abandon… I wish we had a “save and continue” option :(
The person giving the description of this path is absolutely terrible at giving directions… so little of it makes sense - is the path beside the house 1 straight square as well? Does a turn mean just the L or does it mean the L and the straight part after it? I couldn’t figure it out. “Here, draw your own dang map” LOL
No matter how many times I follow the directions, this is the closest I end up with, and the last two steps completely break it.

