it seems to have a bug...if you close and revisit the page again, all the timers are reset...so you can gather stuff instantly
A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game
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#112Re: A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game
#113it seems to have a bug...if you close and revisit the page again, all the timers are reset...so you can gather stuff instantly
You can always just do this as well.
State.stores.wood = 99999; State.stores["alien alloy"] = 99999; State.stores["laser rifle"] = 1
World.water = 60; Path.outfit["energy cell"] = 80; Path.outfit["cured meat"] = 40; Path.outfit["grenade"] = 10
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#114Pretty neat! I found a bug though. I think all my villagers got eaten by a best :( But it keeps saying "3" next to "gatherer", even though there are 0 people, it gathers 0 wood, it says 0/4 population, and the up arrows to increase other resources don't work. Very confusing.
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#115Is there any way of saving the game like Candy Box?
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#116Is there any way of saving the game like Candy Box?
It autosaves to cookies every now and then (it flashes "saving" in the top right corner when it does)
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#117Here's something I consider a problem:
If you're in the cave, and something attacks you, at the end if you press "eat meat", sometimes, exactly at the point when you want to click it, the buttons become "leave cave" instead, and you accidently press that. Then, a next fight may begin, and you're at low health.
Please provide some consistent way to heal yourself before a next fight.
Re: A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game
#118Here's something I consider a problem: If you're in the cave, and something attacks you, at the end if you press "eat meat", sometimes, exactly at the point when you want to click it, the buttons become "leave cave" instead, and you accidently press that. Then, a next fight may begin, and you're at low health. Please provide some consistent way to heal yourself before a next fight.
World.water = 80; Path.outfit["energy cell"] = 80; Path.outfit["cured meat"] = 40; Path.outfit["grenade"] = 10; Path.outfit["torch"] = 10; Path.outfit["bone spear"] = 1; Path.outfit["iron sword"] = 1;
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seriously... I just completed the spaceship sequence and I'm too mad to even react properly (per HN standards). I knew this was gonna happen and it did happen. Shame on me.
Agreed. A minute of dodging, ship goes zoom, and then a game reset. It'd be nice to at least see a summary of my resources, or a score, or anything.
I guess you could call it an adventure game? Yeah, the ending was a bit unexpected, but then again so was everything else :D I enjoyed it a lot, and it reminded me how with early games the imagination did most of the work.
Though I found the sudden restart pointless, and I think it took away from the ending a little. Unless the point of course was that you crash, and find yourself in a room with a fire that's nearly gone out... [kinda like that book of the guy who rhymes with Peevin' Ping haha]
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#120Stroke fire takes too long. After waiting for the first one and getting a second wait, I quit. You should make it faster until you have acclimated the user to the slow pace.
Alternatively, you should have an attention span not measured in seconds.