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Are you on Mac? We’re aware of a bug on Mac where sometimes it thinks the Option/Alt key is still held down after it has been released. Pressing and releasing Option/Alt again usually clears this state—sorry we don’t have a better fix yet.

This could also be happening on Windows, but on Mac I know it’s a thing for sure.

I think holding Option is also a way to turn the cursor to the Eye icon and look with left-clicking, so this bug would explain both problems you’re describing.

Amazing! That about covers it.

Cuuuuute and fun! I fully mossed it

The music goes HARD! The look and feel is pretty good too, I just haven’t figured out how to get more ammo by clocking into jobs, and ammo not restocking when I respawn makes it hard XD

I fiiiinally got it to say Player Scored!! Even though I don’t know why it happened when it did, I’ll take the win

Cool! At one point I accidentally damage boosted into the wall and then I got pretty far by running along through the walls :)

So this was also for a jam where a different developer had each game for a day? That sounds so cool.

The simple idea here turns out to be pretty fun and surprising. I got a configuration where left and right were so far apart on the keyboard that I couldn’t really course-correct midair after making a jump, and that meant I had to judge distances more carefully which felt new.

When I got to the end it didn’t reset or increase the counter - I’m gonna try refreshing to get a different control set and play again?

This was wild. I liked how the audio was calm and ambient enough that I could play it while at work.

It was fun looking at little details on the desk like all the game/gamedev icons on the desktop, Link and Toon Link, the note on the little scrap of paper, the typewriter keyboard, the Artist’s Way…

Hi! OpenBoE detects the largest scaling option that will fit within the resolution it detects from your operating system, and doesn’t display the higher options. So out of 1x, 1.5x, 2x, 3x, and 4x, it seems to think 2x won’t fit on your screen. I’m wondering if you are using the system setting on Windows that automatically scales windows up for a high-res monitor? I haven’t accounted for that. If you are, setting your Windows system preferences to have a 1X scale, might make the 2x option appear in OpenBoE.

That’s just a theory and I know it would be inconvenient to change system settings every time you play the game — but it would help to know if that’s what’s happening. And if it doesn’t work we can try other things.

Ok that does explain it!

I found all of the nests, but one of them I think I found totally by accident, clipping through the floor in the water room with the rotating platforms. I fell for a long, long time before entering another water zone. After getting that nest I was never able to find the intended route to get to that zone. So I’m curious what it was.

Hi! I do want to have a Linux build, it’s just lower on the priorities list. I still have to get code signing done on the Mac build, because that’s affected a lot more players so far.

Money is tight for me right now and I do prioritize requests from paid supporters. If you backed the IndieGoGo or subscribe to the Patreon, let me know so I can take that into account!

Hi! There’s one thing that needs to be done to make it run on MacOS for now:

In the Terminal app, type xattr -c "Blades of Exile.app" with the path where you downloaded Blades of Exile.

Have you done that yet?

If you slide into the community Discord, I can help figure this out if that’s not the issue. https://discord.gg/bHv2RCBQzX

Aw thanks!!

You were right about fields and walls hurting monsters every turn! I’m opening a bug for this.

I have a vague memory that you might be right about field effects damaging monsters over time. I’ll test that in my emulator install of the original version when I get a chance.

About carrying capacities, I’m not sure, but I agree it frequently gets annoying in this version, so maybe a change was made by accident.

Ok. There are scales 2.0 and above, but they have some UI elements that clip outside the screen making it unplayable so we only provide options for the largest size where everything can fit.

If we make some adjustments to our taller menus I think we should be able to allow 2.0 on 1080p.

In the game preferences there is UI scale! It should be trying to set that as high as it can fit on your screen, so if it’s starting at 1.0 scale on a 1080p screen there might be something wrong…

Thanks! Love to hear it.

Hiya! Sorry for the delay in this. I did get a build running on my computer today. If you try again I hope it will work for you!

You will find that the game is very buggy and that might be frustrating. Keep in mind that I developed this game as open-source software and have never been paid for doing it. I can’t prioritize working on it right now, aside from getting it to launch, because it was a shame that it wasn’t at least opening correctly.

Yeah, it’s very cool to see someone interested! When I get a chance, I’ll make a new build and try to figure out why this one doesn’t launch.

For what it’s worth, that puzzle is so hard because I was out of time and wanted to get every bit of the music track into the level! I would 100% redesign it–it’s mainly difficult for unfair reasons.

EDIT: Ohhhh, I think you’re actually talking about the cat puzzle? You may be struggling to solve that one because you have good moral values.

I think I fixa da problem real good

bought this :)

Hi BenevolentWanderer, I also have a project which could fit in with your list of transmasc games! https://nqn.itch.io/flies-flies-flies

Thanks for making the list :)

Awesome

Thanks!

I'm stuck in the third dungeon, with the hint "Where arrows fly when fired thrice, look between the rightmost eyes." I've checked in every room where arrow traps are, and I don't see "eyes" anywhere.

Thank you! I agree and I do try not to over-extend myself trying to put diversity into absolutely everything I make.

My own experience has to inform the core of my stories for sure. Some of my projects are more autobiographical and less diverse, and that's okay too. As long as I keep putting my support behind other artists and projects that are marginalized.

Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for the support. :)

thanks :)

https://nqn.itch.io/dancing-with-demons

https://nqn.itch.io/the-whisperer-in-darkness

https://nqn.itch.io/i-think

I think you did a good job on the sound effects. They make the combat pretty satisfying, although I think the game is almost impossibly difficult. Good work, though!

Yeah, the sprites and landscapes are not bad, and the intro looks pretty nice. Don't worry about the incompleteness or lack of polish, since this is your first game jam. You will improve at these things if you keep game jamming and aiming to make something better than you did last time. Good work submitting for the first time!

This was really good. The music and sounds are well done, and the stealth can get pretty tense. There are a couple problems with the controls, specifically with ladders and ducking. Sometimes the player doesn't duck or stand up when he should, and at the top of the ladder he can get stuck until I jump off of it. I thought standing up might be disabled while moving but this was not always the case.

Well, I took the time to read the rules and understand them before starting, and had no trouble. This is more than most players will give, sadly.

Good work! The art style is cohesive and fits the theme well. The music is also pleasant. I felt really stupid after falling for both optional traps. :P

Cool to see more interactive fiction in the jam. My game is also somewhat of a visual novel, though we picked very different source material.

After getting the hang of it, the gameplay is kind of fun and the difficulty scales nicely for a challenging experience. Nice job.

I'm adding this to my collection of favorites.

This is really great! Your core mechanic is elegant and a joy to discover when playing blindly. I stopped reading the description after it said the game was designed to be self-evident, and I think it delivered on the promise. Very well polished, though jumping seemed more difficult than it needed to be, as has been mentioned.