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It's come to my attention that there's a mismatch in the exclamation points on the challenge level (the description should not require an exclamation point). The bug was introduced when I refactored the description text. I'll publish a fix when my dev PC is next fired up.

I wrote a somewhat evil bot for this, but it seems like Itch has deleted my post containing it -- I'm not sure if that's because I posted a massive chunk of bash code, because I posted code at all, or because I posted a YouTube link of it in action.

Here's a link to a page about it, so that hopefully I trigger fewer of Itch's filters: https://pub.colonq.computer/~liquidcake/loveless_ai.html

Anyway, this is a nice simple game, which made it quite fun for me because it gave me the opportunity to write said bot!

I think the slightly uncanny valley happy and sad hellspawn really adds to the experience here.

Not necessarily a criticism of the game, but I hit back habitually to escape menus a few times, and not being able to skip back to where I was before as a little frustrating. If you could do that irritating thing pages do to disable back, I think it'd help defend idiots like me from ourselves a lot!

There is a wealth of content in tie-based puzzling, it seems. I had fun!

I actually tried both in Firefox and in Chrome, but it looks like it works fine now, anyway! It's possible Firefox ESR behaves like Chromium while Firefox bleeding edge doesn't, or that Private Browsing triggered the same behaviour, I suppose?

That final solution is cheeky, but well in the spirit of the problem, I think!

I tried playing this morning, but I couldn't seem to get the Clippy box to disappear except via the web dev toolkit, which felt a little violent, and the buttons below weren't active after I removed it -- is there a recommended play environment?