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That wasn’t a bug. You had the controls set to WASZ, not WASD. The third menu option allows you to select different control schemes, including WASD or a joystick (unfortunately, WASZ is mislabelled as WASX on the screen, due to a typo - which has now been fixed).

Thanks for trying it out!

Thank you for trying it out, and for making the video. I love seeing people play my games.

Thank you!

Thank you. That’s really cool!

The new version has selectable controls, including joystick support!

The new version fixes this bug, and adds several features.

Thank you so much, my friend!

Thank you so much. And thanks for letting me use your video too.

To echo what I said on Reddit, my initial version used the C64 cursor keys, which is actually an awful experience due to having to use shift to go up or left. I intend to add configurable controls (or at least a selectable control scheme) and joystick support in a future update.

Yes, you are right. That instruction is wrong. It was supposed to be simply bit $80 and test the acculumator. Somehow, the assembler didn’t flag this. It still works because it is effectively a NOP as you mentioned, and the lda PLAYER_HP_H on line 281 already sets the negative flag appropriately. Good catch! That line can be removed. I’ll fix it along with an upcoming feature update.

The version of xa that I have is 2.4.0 and it was installed from the standard Ubuntu 24.04 repository. This change looks like it was introduced in 2.4.1 and Ubuntu hasn’t updated yet.

I also ported it to assembly as a learning exercise. Both the BASIC and the assembly version can be found on my project page.

I enjoyed seeing your 10 line version for the Oric and decided to implement the game for the Commodore 64 and expand on it a little making use of that machine’s features. It’s a lot larger (about 190 lines of BASIC code - heck, even the victory fanfare I used for the win condition is 9 lines), but it was a lot of fun to do.

And finally made it!

So close…

Hi Dave, I just tried the Linux version and while it starts up, it crashes the instant I click “1” to start the first level. I’ve sent you details via Discord.

Happy to be of service 😄

Thanks so much for playing. I’m happy you enjoyed it!

That would be awesome! I’m glad you’re enjoying them!

Although I’ve enabled “🌙 Use a dark theme where available” in my profile settings, since a few days the itch.io homepage (and only the homepage) always appears in light mode for me. Adding the “dark_theme” class to the body element makes it appear in dark mode just fine.

I’ve set up a greasemonkey script to do this for me, but I’m wondering whether this is a bug or an intentional decision on Itch’s part.

Very addictive. Nice work!

Completed it, which got me 63 out of 60 points. There’s some really cool places to discover, though the parser needs some TLC, making it quite tricky to get to the end. I hope you make it into a full game with lots of detail.

By the way, apart from QfG of course, did I detect KQ3, KQ4, LSL2 and PQ2 references in there? Mostly in the hallway, but the KQ3 one with a certain magical creature and baked goods…

I'm late to trying this, but finally did. All your games that I've tried have been terrific and this is no exception. Great work with the story and the detailed animations. Really looking forward to seeing where this story goes. The scary part is that I personally know some people who really think this way.

Very nicely done. A tad light on the puzzles, but it more than makes up for that with story. Highly atmospheric. I think you could improve the polish a bit by not allowing the same action to be repeated (when I've taken the potion and used it, I can just take it again and use it in the same way).

Oh my poor nerves! Well done on yet another AGS game that does something completely different from what the engine was conceived for!

One quick suggestion: maybe put a border around the playing field or give it a non-black background. When I play it full-screen on my 16:10 monitor, I have to guess where the 16:9 playing field ends and I can crash into a wall that seems like it's not there.

Thanks for playing! I'm glad you had fun!

Ooh, cool! Hope you enjoyed Mike's silly escapades!

Oh, that's really weird, I thought I had fixed that in the post-jam update. I'll check it again!

Glad you enjoyed playing the game!

I had a bit of trouble spotting the items that I needed, so I think this would be improved if they were a little more prominent. Cute little story. And I love the art style.

Thank you! So glad to hear you enjoyed it 😊

I hadn't heard of Groovy before, that looks cool.

The C++ side of things handles graphics (sprites, backgrounds, fonts), sound, pathfinding, converting input into events for the script, and file IO and has a rudimentary GUI layer, the Javascript side of things uses those APIs and classes as they are exposed from C++. Most of the typical adventure game stuff (the game UI, inventory management, cutscenes, loading/saving, responding to keyboard/mouse events) is handled entirely in Javascript, usually as modules that I import into new projects as needed. No changes were made to the language itself, as that is all just vanilla Javascript.

Glad that you got it to run and that you enjoyed it. The engine is a C++ programme that embeds the Duktape Javascript library and provides rendering to either Direct3D8 or OpenGL.

Much more content than I would have expected for a jam game, and great attention to detail. Two thumbs up from me.

It is positive, in my opinion.

I had to idea what I was doing during the game and was just guessing my way through it. And that seems to be precisely the situation the character found themselves in.

My utter loathing of a certain person meant that it took a while for me to try this game, but the idea is really funny. Also very nice work with the graphics. I had quite a bit of trouble with the interface, and I see you intend to improve that in the near future. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out then, especially if you add another room. The ending would likely make more sense too, then.

If you want, I can give you a list of the issues that I encountered, but you're probably already aware of them.

Thank you very much, so glad you enjoyed it!

Bernard and DotT as a whole for its graphic style and humour were top of mind for me as I created this, so I'm quite happy that came across. Thanks for playing and so glad you enjoyed!

I got stuck for a moment, as mentioned through Discord, but managed to complete it anyway. Heh, looks like you did a twofer! Nice work!

It was the first time. I had just elected to go exploring rather than stay at the party, went to the right, then on to the kitchen, outside to the courtyard, (mistakenly) back into the kitchen, out again, then to this area.

I got stuck by the bridge seemingly leading to a forest. Bella says something like "A dead end? This isn't the way, then" and I can not click on anything, including the one object I see lying on the floor.