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There's something so strangely intriguing about this game. All of this platforming could've been packaged in a standard, run-of-the-mill linear platformer, but instead it's spread out in this colossal labyrinth of a world, and it keeps me wanting to dig for more, even if there is no proper ending as the description says. Exploring it feels like carving out a pocket of understanding in something too big to ever be fully knowable.

I spent nearly all day today combing this game for secrets and hidden areas, and mapping it all in an image editor (despite how much this world resists being mapped). I've logged 278 rooms and 47 checkpoints, and there's still many areas left uncharted. I don't know if I'll ever see all this game has to offer, and I love it for that.

Other side of the maze. Itch wouldn't let me put two images in one comment for some reason.

Not sure how this happened, but I got to round 104, and despite eating all of the pellets, the level won't finish. I have no choice but to force a game over.

20,654,230 is a pretty good score, at least.

Really enjoyable way to play Pac-Man! The themes based on other Namco games are cute.
If I could ask for anything, it'd be an option to customize the keybinds, or at least the ability to pick from the default keys of the four players. Personally, I'd prefer to play with WASD over arrow keys, but that seems to be exclusively reserved for player 2.

Here's some extra hints to nudge you in the right direction:

1. Rirel pryy bs gur pbheglneq sybbe cnggrea ercerfragf n ebbz bs gur ubhfr.
2. Rnpu pryy pna or rvgure ba be bss. Jung qbrf guvf zrna sbe gur ebbz vg ercerfragf?
3. Gel gheavat nyy gur pryyf bss, gura ghea fbzr ba bar ng n gvzr. Frr jung unccraf gb gur ubhfr'f ynlbhg nsgre rnpu punatr bs gur cnggrea.

If you're still really stuck, here's the answer, though I strongly encourage figuring it out yourself if you can:

Gur ubhfr vf n svir ol svir tevq bs ebbzf, jvgu gur pbheglneq ng gur pragre. Gur rqtrf bs gur tevq jenc nebhaq; sbe rknzcyr, vs lbh tb bss gur evtug rqtr, lbh'yy fubj hc ba gur yrsg rqtr. Rnpu pryy bs gur pbheglneq sybbe cnggrea ranoyrf be qvfnoyrf gur ebbz va gur erfcrpgvir pryy bs gur tevq. Gur pbheglneq vf nyjnlf ranoyrq, urapr gur tnc va gur zvqqyr bs gur cnggrea.
Vs lbh gel gb tb vagb n qvfnoyrq ebbz, vg "fxvcf" bire gung ebbz, va juvpurire qverpgvba lbh'er tbvat, ercrngrqyl hagvy vg svaqf nabgure ranoyrq ebbz, naq vg pbaarpgf gb gung ebbz vafgrnq. Guvf cebprff jencf nebhaq gur rqtrf nf jryy. Vs gur ebbz lbh'er yrnivat vf gur bayl ranoyrq ebbz va gung ebj be pbyhza, gur ebbz jvyy pbaarpg gb vgfrys va gung qverpgvba.

I'll put this hint in rot13, so anyone who doesn't want it isn't spoiled:

Lrf, gur ubhfr vf aba-rhpyvqrna. Gur pbheglneq vf gur xrl gb anivtngvat vg. Gel nygrevat gur cnggrea ba gur sybbe, naq frr jung punatrf.

Took me a little while to realize what was going on, but once I did I was able to figure things out after drawing some maps. I like the way the finale puts your knowledge of the map and its mechanic to the test. Good game!

I played a second run. A swarm of carnivorous bugs chased me face-first into the bad end of a barbed-wire fence. I was lucky that I fell on a side they couldn't figure out how to reach, and that I had enough dressings to patch up the wounds covering his entire body, but I was never able to get the resulting infections under control. At least he got to die in his sleep this time, with the help of one too many painkillers.

Somehow, despite being not as bad of a death, this one hit me a lot harder emotionally than the first. No piece of media has ever made me feel more like I was watching an actual person die. I applaud you for what you've created here, Orsoniks. I wish I could handle it, but I am too weak to go through that again.

Rest in peace, little dog guy. ;-;

I've played only one run of this. I lasted longer than I expected to. Perhaps longer than I should've.

People in the comments aren't kidding when they say this game is brutal, not just mechanically, but psychologically. One slip-up can leave you with a wound you'll be dealing with for the rest of your short life, and the screen effects and the character's dialogue make sure that you know exactly how much pain he's in.

I made it to layer 3, but I was probably already doomed by then. His whole leg was infected, and by the time I found something to treat it, all it could do was slow it down. My little fluffy dog guy died slowly, lying in some sandy pit, trying to claw himself to death before the sepsis and starvation could beat him to it. There was nothing I could do but watch. There was a part of me that hoped he might die during the times he passed out from exhaustion, because he was in too much pain to sleep. He didn't get that mercy.

This is a very good game. I don't know if I have it in me to play a second run.

Yeah, I was thinking about something like that at first. I also considered representing the numbers with actual digits, but I realized that'd get difficult with the bag being unordered and all. Maybe someone will figure out a way to do it.

I tried my hand at making a calculator with this; managed to make one that could do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and integer division with both positive and negative numbers. There doesn't seem to be a good way to share programs (rulesets?) made with this, so I stitched some screenshots together to show it all in an image. I changed four of the symbols into the four operators for convenience.

First operand is a quantity of triangles, second operand is a quantity of diamonds (black for positive, white for negative). You perform an operation by placing an operator symbol in the bag with the operands and evaluate until it stops.

The ruleset takes up all 48 rule slots. I imagine the same functionality could probably be done with less rules and less symbols, but it's hard to keep track of it all and not have it interfere with itself so I didn't bother. I'm proud of it nonetheless.

I think I managed to figure out all of the rules, but I didn't feel like trying to engineer a solution under those constraints so I just tried stuff that felt like they might fit until I found something. The solution I got was ZG9taW5v (Base64)

I would really appreciate it if there were some sort of confirmation pop-up that appeared when you click the Close All Tabs button on the app's tab menu.

I've bought a few of the really big bundles that have been made on occasion, the ones with over a thousand items, like the Bundle for Ukraine and such. And since it's not feasible to register everything in all those bundles to my library (which would make my library pretty cluttered anyway), I keep the pages for those bundles open in tabs on the desktop app.

This poses a problem when the button to open a new tab is right next to the "close everything yes I'm absolutely sure" button. Multiple times now, I've misclicked when trying to open a new tab, and had to go trawling through my email to get the URLs of the bundle pages back because I closed all the tabs on accident.

This could theoretically be fixed my moving the Close All Tabs button somewhere else, but I can see how there may not be a better place for it from a UI design perspective, so all I'm asking for is some sort of "Are you sure?" popup to appear when you click that button, so I can have a chance to save my tabs from deletion if I click it on accident.

If something like that could be done, I would be immensely grateful.

I deciphered most of the alphabet for fun, and translated the description. I don't think I can put spoiler tags in comments here, so I've put the translation through rot13 in case anyone else wants to solve it themselves.
Neat little game, by the way!

URYYB UHZNAF

JR PNZR GB LBH JVGU CRNPR

OHG JR NER ABG FHER NYY BS LBH PNA
NAFJRE HF GUR FNZR

FB JR GEL GB PNERSHYYL UVQR VA LBHE
FBPVRGL NAQ YVIR NZBAT LBH HAGVY JR
NER FHER GUNG LBH PNA OR BHE SEVRAQF

CYRNFR GEL GB OR CNGVRAG JURA LBH FRR
FGENATR CRBCYR VG ZVTUG OR BAR BS HF
GELVAT GB YRNEA LBHE JNLF

GUNAX LBH NAQ UNIR N AVPR QNL

I love games with weird level geometry like this! I kept playing past the end and got 207 fruit before running into myself.

oh wow, this is horrible, great job
managed to get a score of 15, somehow