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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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Everyone can plan a game that requires javascript. A vanishingly small number of people actually wont. Reading anything more into this single comment is silly.

From your comments you seem to actually be interested, so let me tell you about it from my neo-luddite POV. I love games ( I actually _pay_ for games I like ). I also run with my browser fairly locked down. If you've made a game like this and want me to take more than 10 seconds on the web page, at the bare minimum have it load _something_ without scripts and without requesting anything from another domain ( this mea…

I don't know if that's necessary here. How is someone supposed to get to this page without knowing it's a game? And if someone that turned off javascript doesn't expect that a game might need code, well, I'll have more fun laughing as the door hits them on the way out than I would having 0.1% more traffic.

(I would agree with you if there is some significant flow of visitors that don't already know it's a game, but not until then.)

Re: A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game

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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.

To anyone else trying Candy Box, a few hints to get started:

- Wait until you have 60 candies (new options appear)

- Click the cowboy hat 4 times

- Buy the wooden sword

Re: A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game

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How do I get leather...? I have a tannery, I guess I need a tanner, but I don't know how to get one...

"Tanner: 0", "Hunter: 0", etc, have little icons next to them, but clicking does nothing...

I've maxed out my village etc (and am accumulating huge quantities of wood I can't use for anything anymore), but can't seem to advance until I get some leather!

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