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A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game

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Re: A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game

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Post by mrgreenfur »

rdsoze wrote: post #118
Aardwolf wrote: post #117

Here'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;

Why with the energy cells without the laser rifle?

Re: A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game

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Post by gnosis »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #159
gnosis wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If no one cares, why are there dozens of replies to this thread? More to the point, if at least you didn't care, then why did you comment? Why didn't you "just move on"?

He does not care about your minor decision, he is instead annoyed by your post to announce your minor decision to the world.

"he is instead annoyed by your post to announce your minor decision to the world"

Well, I'm annoyed by these other people's announcements of their minor decisions to play this game despite it being a threat to their security and privacy.

So, I don't agree with the mouthbreathing masses. It won't be the first nor the last time.

You know these same people would probably be exploited by some dancing baby app, punch the monkey game, or porn app which they fell all over themselves to install, and then announced to the world how great it is!

Yeah, I don't want to be hacked or tracked like the rest of these morons are. Sue me.

Re: A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game

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Post by pekk »

ams6110 wrote: post #16

Seems to use the psychological technique of intermittent rewards to encourage continued clicking of "stoke the fire." Unfortunately after about 4 stokings with no new developments in the game, I got bored and quit.

As opposed to the psychological technique of continuous rewards, or never rewarding something (both of which are also boring)?

Re: A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game

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Post by lsaferite »

Aardwolf wrote: post #114

Pretty 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.

Your builder, who never gets eaten, produces +2 wood every 10 seconds.

Re: A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game

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Post by networked »

networked wrote: post #138

This reminds me less of parser-based text games and more of the 1990s hyperfiction like Afternoon, a story [1], Victory Garden [2] or 253 [3] and net.art like My boyfriend came back from the war [4]. Give those a look if you liked this. The hypertext novel 253 , which looks in the life of every passenger on a London Underground train, is probably the best starting point. Edit: Oh, and also Fallen London [5] and other…

s/looks in/looks into/

By the way, and if you're at all interested in the history of hypertext fiction do watch this video: http://vimeo.com/15561443. The speaker in the video talks about a fascinating parallel culture of hypertext writers and readers who paradoxically seem to resist the idea of putting their creations on the Web. Instead, some of the authors choose to disseminate their works on physical media: floppy disks, CD-ROMs and now flash drives.

Re: A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game

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Post by darkarmani »

pdknsk wrote: post #32
anigbrowl wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that would make it a bit unmanageable in the later stages, though.

Well you can easily switch back to default! Another tip for fighting: equip different weapons. I had only equipped the best weapon, as is customary in games, not knowing you can attack with all equipped weapons at once basically (each weapon has a separate timer). This makes a huge difference.

Switching back didn't seem to work for me. The game is super fast for me now.

Re: A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game

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Post by aghull »

mjn wrote: post #9

The style of a minimalist interface that starts sprouting things, somewhat ASCII-game-ish yet also rather dynamic, reminds me a bit of Candy Box: http://candies.aniwey.net/ . It's an interesting UI and 'reveal' style for a game, and glad to see another one using it. Feels somewhat refreshing. edit: Ah ok, if you view-source it mentions Candy Box as an inspiration.

Isn't this a lot closer to dwarf fortress?

Re: A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game

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Post by tripzilch »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #49
ams6110 wrote: post #16

Seems to use the psychological technique of intermittent rewards to encourage continued clicking of "stoke the fire." Unfortunately after about 4 stokings with no new developments in the game, I got bored and quit.

In this and candy box you're not really supposed to pay attention to the window for the first couple minutes. There is literally nothing to do. Then later once you're maybe 10 minutes in you can switch away for extended times if you want to wait for the continuous income, no need to press buttons, no 'intermittent rewards'. It could be changed but it's not actually depending on any kind of psychological tricks. The d…

> In this and candy box you're not really supposed to pay attention to the window for the first couple minutes. There is literally nothing to do.

Yeah, interesting call, that. When I played Candybox, I was told "before you dismiss So what it, wait until you get 60 candies, then shit gets real".

So, what does a self-respecting hacker do, when faced with 60 seconds of "literally nothing to do" ... except the challenge of opening the JS Console to see if I can make that counter run faster, preferably in less than 60 seconds? ;-)

(answer: yes, it was in fact fairly easy)

Re: A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game

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Post by anigbrowl »

gnosis wrote: post #154
anigbrowl wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get a burner machine or something. I've yet to have a js-based security problem.

"I've yet to have a js-based security problem." You mean you have yet to become aware that your browser has been owned through some Javascript exploit. Somehow that isn't very comforting to me.

I'm sorry, what basis do you have for saying 'your browser has been owned,' as if it were inevitable and I were merely unaware of it? Just because I have JS enabled does not mean I'm indifferent to security. Besides my OS, I also monitor traffic through my router and modem.

Please don't assume that your abundance of caution entitles you to dismiss others as ignorant or indifferent to security matters.

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