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Linux users are probably aware, but same deal: 

 chmod u+x ./linux.x86_64

I'm just getting a black screen with music, but I'll see if I can figure out why it's giving me a hard time.  Could be because I'm trying to run it on a 5+ year old laptop lol.

Trying to figure it out still, but if anybody knows how to run the Unity Debugger (or if this is something I can do as an end user) I might be able to track down what's going on.  It's not throwing anything to the terminal.  Could be an issue with trying to run Unity stuff in Wayland, too.

[EDIT]  Same issue running the game in an xorg gnome session.  I'll see if I can find anything else and update if I do.

[EDIT 2] I *think* the solution is that you need to set the UnityPlayer default for Linux to use Vulkan, but that may cause other issues - not totally sure.  See here: https://forum.unity.com/threads/black-screen-after-splash-screen-but-can-hear-mu...

I don't mind being a Linux guinea pig if you need one.  I'm running Arch, but I also have a Windows desktop so it's not like I couldn't just run it in that environment.

I think the best I got was... 1 island for a destination, and then reaching that destination to get a 2nd one... the I crashed into rocks lol.

The wind direction and sailing theory is super awesome, though.  It keeps things interesting and adds a fun challenge to it all.  Would be cool if there was a practice mode that completely opened the middle section of the map.  I think that would really help get a feel for the basic controls and concept.

Am I absolutely terrible at this?  Yeah.  Did I have a fun time being terrible at it?  Also yeah!  Didn't even realize this was one of your games until I saw the VXL in the middle of the map haha

Quick, but fun!

Dreamcast VMU-OOM next?  Lol

This is such a cool concept.  I also lolled at getting called out "You can do better" 🤣

This was a blast to play through.  Really great atmosphere and story.

No worries, I guess I won haha.

This is a cool concept.  I like how it introduced new challenges right through until the end.  Looking forward to the next chapter if it comes to fruition.

Have you considered the possibility of a level editor for this?

Guess that's why I couldn't get anywhere lol.  Among the scenes, I was able to find 1 item, break it, and that was it.

Is this game complete?  I'm totally lost lol

I forgot I was actually on twitch when I did this one.  I was offline when the other bug happened... but I got lucky jump here in a highlight: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2097885226

I'm that stubborn idiot that will sometimes try repeatedly to do the "nobody's gonna do that" thing just to see what happens.  This time it wasn't intentionally me being a dink, though.  I had one diamond left to find and I knew that section down there hadn't been cleared yet.  It was the only place I could think of, and the challenge at that point (for me at least) was roughly where that leap of faith seemed like a good potential for where I needed to go... until I got there and cooked my savegame lol.

I haven't had a chance to play since the other day.  I suppose it's possible that I managed to load in after the game was updated, that sounds like my kind of luck lol.  I honestly have no idea how I triggered it, but I couldn't fix it without starting over.  It was early game, so nbd.

I'll have to start over again later, but I can give it a try when I get a chance.  It was tricky getting this far as it was lol.  I managed to get into this particular section by just timing my drop and spamming the fire button with the single-shot blaster enough that I could fall down the chute.  I was missing 1 of the diamonds to get through the upper path and thought maybe I was supposed to go down.  Whoops 😅

whoa haha.  Really cool find, it looks like a totally dead forum... I'll have to browse it further to see what else is going on there.

haha don't apologize for your name, it's fine.  It just happened to look like something that could have been an anagram too.

The game was a lot of fun to get through, even with the one broken puzzle!  I enjoyed the sleuthing.  I hope to check out your other games soon too - you replied to me over on DISOWN95, but I haven't had a chance to check that comment yet haha

Did... did you make an entire web forum by yourself just for this game?  I'm impressed lol

omg it goes deeper!

I suspect a lot of people were making the same mistake I was - adding spaces between the commands:

load  *"diary"*

[EDIT] Actually, it works both ways... I'm not sure how I messed it up the first few times lol

You have to enter it exactly as it is on the note - no spaces or anything.  Took me a bit to figure out

I think there's a few problems:

1. the Neko game is only spawning birds - I tried to play it here and NG and both did the same thing.

2. the Pigpen cypher where ICU is reversed, I think you have a "V" where I think you should have a "^".

That last one was a doozie.  I needed the walkthrough to get on the right track.  I was pretty close, though.  

NGL I thought for a sec your name was an anagram at the end lol

I was able to solve it by railing up the letters again and again until they unscrambled themselves.

Saaame.  I wasn't sure if this was a bug, of if I was missing something lol.

Tried on newgrounds, confirmed it was a brand new game (no saved content pulling through) and again, it would only spawn birds regardless of which option I picked.

I was apparently one diamond short of opening the passage in the blue area, and managed to single-shot blast myself into the hole to the purple zone. I have no way out now.  Whoops

I have no idea how I did this on my first playthrough, but the dude that was supposed to spawn in this scene never spawned, even after dying and resetting it still wasn't there.  I had to reset my save and start over to figure out how to progress past this screen

This was the best I could do free-hand with a regular ol' wired PC mouse.  I'm satisfied:

Fun Picross concept!  A few things I'd personally suggest:

Swap start/select functions.  To me it's more natural for Start to bring up a menu than Select.

Hold-and-drag style behaviour where you can hold down a button and use the DPad to repeat the action on the next square.

This was a fun little game with some really unique puzzles to solve.  My only suggestions would be to start your player closer to the NPC at the start so that it's immediately obvious that you have to use the arrows to move, and to have the spell text stay on screen longer.

 

/me clicks drum, instantly gets "This Song is Not About A Girl" by Flume & Chet Faker stuck in head.

What were we supposed to use the pen on?  🤔
 

I had to brute force the 3rd number.  I still don't get how it is what it is.

Level 5 was a bit cheap, but still an impressive concept.

Such easy tasks - what could possibly go wrong? 🤣

5:06 first try!  Fun little puzzle - that last stage was a doozy

Playing on OG hardware - you don't need VGA to play, it's working fine NTSC using Composite-out.  Only thing is that it doesn't seem to loop when you die - you have to reboot the console to restart the game 😅

That said - this one's fun, albeit tough as nails lol.

Yay! I glued all glued all those clowns in their sewer lol.  Took me a while to find that one stretch that's kind of isolated from the rest of the roads

How do we add palettes from Lospec?  I'm not sure which version the feature was added into, but I haven't been able to find any info on it.  PB wants a .pal file, but Lospec doesn't let me download to that format.

Thanks!

After just a month of being released, Galactic Foodtruck Simulator has already surpassed the popularity of all other ZZT games on itch.

This looks interesting, but what's with the blockchain element?  It wasn't mentioned in the main game description.

Listen here, I tried to close the dang door so no perverts would watch me in the shower, but the game wouldn't met me and next thing I know, I got filthy demonic PERVERTS spying on me in the shower 🤣