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Forlorn Shores

A puzzling adventure through strange lands. · By Jusiv

Finally won!

A topic by Zug1974 created 5 days ago Views: 52 Replies: 3
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…with the good ending!

Easily one of the biggest game challenges I’ve had in a long time. What a trip. Thank you Justiv for all of the hard work you put into this. I still can’t believe you were able to jam all this game into a pico 8 cartridge.

Kudos!

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I think I finished too :) There are some questions still not very clear to me, though:

  1. Jul qbrf ‘Z’ va fybg Q ybbx qvssrerag?
  2. Vf gurer n qverpg uvag nobhg ubj gb npgvingr gur ornpu (jbeyq bar, bprna) boryvfx? (V xvaq bs whfg gel vg pybpxjvfr naq pbhagrepybpxjvfr)
  3. Jung vf gur zbafgref va gur haqrejngre (jbeyq svir) sbe?
  4. Vf gurer nalguvat jr pna qb jvgu gur ohgnar?
Developer (2 edits)

1. That is an unintentional error I will fix in the next patch.
2. Yes, but it requires noticing some patterns. Specifically, (ROT 13) gur flzoby ba gur ahzore gnoyrg pbhcyrq jvgu gur ahzore frdhrap jevggra ba vg. If you have audio on this is also reinforced by (ROT 13) gur abgr cebterffvba bs gur syhgr. This reading direction is consistent across the game.
3. They tell you how to get the (ROT 13) crney arpxynpr without trial and error.
4. I have no idea what item you mean by that. Every one is used at least once.

Developer(+1)

Congratulations, and great to hear you enjoyed it!

And yeah if you pull up the cart on the Lexaloffle BBS or splore you can see it's like riiiight at the very limit. 8192/8192 tokens, 100% compression (even with the variable and function names being minified), and the entirety of the spritesheet and tilemap is used for data storage.