By the fire of the lime kiln
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If you are reading this, I have failed. I have sworn to myself I will slay the mad wizard who haunts our gentle island with his ghastly visage.
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We were not always bedeviled by the hostile ghosts crawling our land. The forests were safe, the roads - oh God above! Now it seems the fear and howling in one's head manifests alive, fear becoming solid. The longer I spend from my home, the greater my evil cohort of followers.
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I have stepped out. When I see a vampire bat before me, I close my eyes and grit my jaw and I bump into it with all my might. I am left covered in its blood, having been felled. I am strong enough. I have also been overwhelmed. I've stepped wrong and found myself surrounded by more than one bat, whom relish in taking their turn to bump me in kind. Oh, the teeth! The gnashing, and the sucking! O! I fear that I have but few lives to live. Nothing, I hope, a warm meal in town can't fix, what with the four doubloons in my corduroy pocket. I need to be of my toppest kind. Orcs have been spotted in the vicinity of the neighboring town, a beast of pure anger not seen for many ages. They may be slow, but I doubt my own ferocity if I were to bump them but once. Were I to pause, upon seeing them? Press the button of my soul, stand my ground, and let them come to me?
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O! the worms. Just as I thought my night terrors were becoming familiar and kind, I came across a new nightmare. From the trees their eyes, and from the trees their arrows. My pockets grow thin with the unexpected toll of this adventure! And there is talk yet of teachers of the magick arts?
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I cannot sleep at night. His evil fortress grows from the highest mountains, and the glow of all the mind's most dark obsessions burns deep from within. I have heard tell of flying machines that could carry me up above the clouds, above the peaks. Lord in heaven give me strength, it is not only a fear of heights that haunts my sleep.
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No! No! Who was I, so full of hubris, a simple man from a simple village who thought he could save the world! These tunnels are too dark, my light grows dim. Foes round every corner. I am ill prepared, I am repentant, but I no longer have faith that my cries can be heard.
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Hello Stumpbeard. It is obvious many people want to play this game and are interested. Without proper tutorial and instructions, players come to play it then notice the problems and just close the page without playing. They automatically scroll down to see if the dev put the normal expected info there. It is not a big issue, but we can overlook the fact you used out of date azerty type keys xz etc and arrows for this game when most people in this day and age use qwerty. We cant even choose to use wasd if we want but that isnt a huge deal because the game is so small. I had a hard time with understanding the aiming part and it said to aim with A which makes no sense because you are saying also to use xz. Did you consider you cant aim really without a mouse or some of the other keys. My kb is a small one so I dont have a numberpad. But I think it would be a good idea to just allow us to use mouse only or the wasdqezc whatever to aim that way you can do it in 8 directions. But I think to solve all the issues because we love this game man, is to just allow the mouse to be used and give a short tutorial. Or allow us to rebind keys. You could expand this game srsly and put it for sale on Steam. Id pay 10 bucks for it.
Thank you so much for the feedback! I will have an update out soon with a tutorial and alternate keybindings. I'll make sure to message you when I do and I really appreciate the thoughtful message. Have a great night!
Hi, I am having fun with the game. However. I do not know how to finish the game.
I bought the 4 items, and I dont know that the 4th one does (the one that looks like a bark from a comic).
I bought them in this order: sword, bow, thing(?), spell.
PD: Congrats! Less is more and you prove it with this project.
Thank you! The last thing is a hot air balloon, you can board it with Z in the overworld and exit it with X. This lets you fly to the dungeon in the middle.
Oh gosh, there was a bug in the previous version of the game that made the balloon not spawn outside the city when you bought it. Sorry about that! Fixed now.
Glad my comment helped. It is a good short game!
Basic gameplay loop is walking around bumping into guys to kill them for money. Most tactical complexity comes from waiting a turn without moving with Z to manage your position, or holding Z to aim your attack on diagonals. You can get a stronger weapon, a ranged one, some magic. Ultimate goal is flying a blimp to the castle in the middle and killing the final boss.
Sorry there was no tutorial or instruction of any kind! I appreciate you taking time to play.