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Love the artstyle. Music does get pretty repetitive, but still it's really cool that you took the effort to make it yourself. (also it could be argued that the repetitivness is in sync with the repetitive nature of the gameplay).

I wouldn't have figured out that I'm supposed to drop the items at the princess if I hadn't watched the video. But after that, everything started making sense and the game was pretty funny. 

I love how you used grind and repetitivness (only being able to carry a single item) to drive home the social contrast between the knight and the princess (or something like that I dunno xD)

Líbí se mi na téhle hře skoro všechno - grafika, hudba, sound design jsou super, všechno je správně juicy, gameplay má očividně dost potenciál.
Je tu jediná drobnost, která ale hru naprosto zabíjí a činí jí pro mě skoro nehratelnou, a to je to, že schováváte kurzor :D
90% mojí kognitivný kapacity tím pádem padne na to, abych vůbec mířil tam kam chci mířit, a nejsem schopnej se soustředit na zbytek hry

that `cheese VS play it the fun way` player dilemma was obviously also an artistic intent supposed to fit into our main theme or something like that xd

Thanks :) 
Honestly it's still really hard to grasp what the difficulty might seem to be for other people, given I left so many ways how to totally cheese through it xd (e.g. you can get unlimited healing by just spamming spells for some time, since the healing spell you'll eventually cast heals you just as it does the enemies lol )

Nah, I was just randomly going through the page and realised I didn't post here the very experimental hotseat build, that's been on github since october xD

But I'll most probably return to this as a base for my masters thesis, so you can expect some nontrivial update in maybe cca half a year. In any case, thanks for caring :)

Hint in case you struggle with the safe code: you get it by just subtracting two numbers which are written on page 3 (the one in the chest; room right next to the safe). From the contents of that page, it should hopefully be pretty obvious which two numbers.

Reply to this comment if you still want more hints.

Please don't post the exact number in comments and spoil the game for some unfortunate soul that happens to randomly glimpse over it

Read the diary pages bit more carefully. There's one that directly mentions the safe xD

But in any case, thanks for the feedback that it might be harder than we intended

MultiInput library is available here

The first stage is so soul-crushingly tedious and boring (I had to retry like more than 10 times at least) - and I totally love that! It's just such a perfect example of procedural rhetorics in action - really makes you think about how lucky our ancestors in Proterozoic must had been :D

The contrast of the really easy 2nd stage probably theoretically makes sense (to show the player how huge the advantage of being the first actually was or something) and I must admit it feels quite rewarding, but still it somehow feels out of place and breaks the immersion for me. The victory cutscene is fun.

The visuals are nice but their placement apparently still needs some polish.

Overall a nice game that passes a message to the player in a really cool and unique way.