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Mousing over the 'total' counter will highlight the counters giving it its score.  If your question is about the interaction between the counter in 47 and N counters, it just doesn't work for whatever reason.  Maybe the N's are theoretically invisible or something idk

I played the game a while ago and found it fun but only barely challenging enough and the addition of punctuation marks which I am certain were not previously present has drastically lowered the difficulty of the puzzles, which makes me sad :(

I love the pawn promotion sound effect for when you promote a pawn XD it was very funny

refreshing the page can also trigger the overlay without the text box, which may have something to do with whatever itch does that stopped me from getting to actually refresh the page when I pressed refresh (on firefox)

On a level where it matters, I muted the sound and the game concluded I cheated.  Clearing my cache and replaying it happened again, so I am guessing you aren't supposed to do that, but it's weird because the sound volume can't matter on any other level (that is, there seems to be custom behaviour that makes it work on this level) I'm not sure how the cheat detection works, obviously, but it is pretty annoying.  I would guess it was intended if the overlay went away after fulfilling the instructions, but it doesn't which makes the game pretty unplayable (or, at least, unfun).

In the time it took to type this and double check my assertions the overlay has now disappeared, so maybe it's not cheat detection?  It also triggered (and was fixed by clearing cache) when I guessed the wrong answer on a puzzle regarding pixel colors (I thought maybe you needed to change the target number via editing the page), which I assumed meant web page edits weren't in the intended solution space, though, so I'm pretty sure that's not supposed to happen...

Edit: Probably should have read the instructions.  I was trying to avoid spoilers, but it appears inspect element (and, I assume, page editing generally) is cheating.  That still doesn't explain why it would trigger just from scrolling the sound down, though.

Did a rook run just too prove pawnstorm isn't the only option (though it is obviously the best option).  Rooks work great as well, but you really need the relic for +card +blood on kill or else they are basically worthless.  With it, battery becomes a 'win the game' card, and random attack is very good, too.

Would recommend only storing the best score for each patron with each name on the leaderboard.  I feel kinda bad for filling it up.

Turns out you can have more turns if you play Aphelion, which is indeed a problem for balance, although I am pretty proud of my Grelman score being in the top 10 considering XD.  Wish I knew what the bug was-- presumably it's a way to get more turns without the turn count increasing, but who knows.

Fair enough.  I think I probably misunderstood the rule about not trying to always roll d12+d10, and should probably make more general skills.

Man, these adventures are *long*.  I've never had a character make it more than 3/4 of the way through, so far, but they are pretty fun.  I think the problem is probably just that I've been reluctant to game the system so I usually end up with 3-4 d4 skills and roll my d12 once or twice an adventure because it's usually something like "underhandedly fighting superior opponents" and the adventure is like "enemy: 5 minute wait at the supermarket checkstand, d8 difficulty 8 hp" so I'm stuck rolling my d4 "walking normally in normal circumstances" trait (which would be super broken if I ever took it at char gen) and my d8 "social peacekeeping" and I just eat like 8 stamina drain and 15 resolve loss on something the game probably didn't intend to be that difficult.

Very awesome game; would have liked to have more turns but obviously that would be a problem for balance.

Encore doesn't repeat the clockwise activation effect of the arrow thingy, although it does repeat the damage.

The clock is interesting but also extremely powerful, particularly since with luck upgrades you can kinda just pick what outcomes you want.

Stuck open and I couldn't close it

On replaying, no text presented on monster 2 so it's probably not tutorial related... not sure what could have caused it, then. The quest was to defeat an enemy without taking any damage.

Opening the quests window at the wrong time freezes the game, I think.  I beat the first enemy and clicked quests to collect the reward, but after playing the animation for collecting it, everything stopped being intractable. Could be tutorial-related; I haven't suffered through the entirety of the message-box-chain yet, probably. Game looked like it would be fun, though.

Are you supposed to get caught by the hand at the end?  It seemed like I beat it pretty quickly, and there wasn't any screen explaining the thingies I got out of how many there were, so I suspected the credit-roll was a fake-out, but it seems to have also reset my data (or, at least, the shroom west of start is back). I'm not aware of any thingies I missed, but the big white circle thingy above the single-blocks-over-water section was a little tricky to find, so maybe there were other things like that that I missed?  Unclear. Anyhow, the game was fun and the controls were pretty intuitive; good design on the platforming sections definitely helps with the blind reads.

Well, the art is there.  Good luck on making the game!

Glad to see it is still being worked on!  Bugs I noticed in the new version:
1) Witch potion refills don't seem to work on other witches (or the initiating witch)

2) Some blessings have the "infinite cooldown" marker that is otherwise reserved to potions.  They shouldn't have this marker because they are start-of-battle triggered abilities so the cooldown should never come up. E.g. Unbreakable.

3) Synthesis can be leveled up. It should be a blessing, or leveling it should have some effect

other notes:

1) Not a huge fan of the changes to potions. Because other cards can level up and they can't, all non-xp potions are significantly worse than a "normal" card most of the time. Even with two witches, throw flames will almost always be better than a fire potion, for example, and Armor Up is better than a block potion.  This is okay if potions are supposed to be mostly trash but the vestigial forms of cards that used to be good archetype support (i.e. mix mix mix and brewmaster) makes it seem like you might want them to be a viable strategy. I would suggest leaving the 1/fight restriction but nixing the 'never allowed to level up' restriction.

2) Quack drops a lot, which means it will likely feature as a single copy in most party's builds.  In general, monster drops can get a huge number of duplicates to the player pretty quickly because there isn't (currently) much enemy variety, and there's no drop variety.

3) Fights are significantly more rewarding than events.  "Good" events do something like one pretty-good level up; a fight seems to be at-least a level on every character.  I ran two witches and 3 XP potions so this might be a skewed perspective. 

4) I liked the random onslaught version better than the node-based map, personally. 

5) I liked getting to choose what to tier up into.  Starting at tier 2 with less diversity of class-power options is a little sad for me.

I actually always followed the random suggestions of my family members, which made the mutiny a little weird but still understandable.  Horse-Friend Champion Caring Learned Diplomat lady should probably be the family head anyways.

Sometimes matching and breaking too many tiles at once, especially with multiple armament procs, freezes the game. Otherwise fun.

Ok,it's actually just missing a ton of words and this was just the first super-common one I noticed. Game is otherwise interesting, but a terrible dictionary can really hamstring word games.

game does not recognize 'cryptid' as a word. C.f. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cryptid

Fun, but quite short.  Bottled XP is very good, especially on a Witch.  Hope it doesn't become abandonware.

Finesse doesn't increase combo even when the hand difference is quite large.

Kitten+Spiders (+monocle+juice when available). Buy Capacity whenever possible unless you have to pick between it and a broom/wing. Buy all brooms (you probably will never see a wing).  Buy +1 items and use them on the kitten if you have extra money.  For relics, you want Scepter (+6 to kitten), scales(+4$ per round), lips (+1 point per round per consumable ever used), and eventually the shopping cart.  You can use the last slot for whatever. Rerolling after picking an item gives you an extra item choice-- this is very good but you want to be careful about having enough money to get any good  consumables that show up (and/or charms), so I wouldn't reroll if it would put you with less than 3$ early, and preferably not less than 5$.  Rope(+magnet), camera, and parrot can all be back-up spiders. Kittens are pretty common and you want only ever exactly 1.  Take utility items (monk, magnet, juice box) or cheap points (cow, milk, cheese, joker) early if there's nothing good. Use the brooms you buy on your gold coins ASAP.  If the kitten is the only 2-cost item you have, getting your +4$/round is basically free.

Good luck!  Also I had trouble finding this and in the process ran into another amorphous+ genre swap XD https://mismatched-socks.itch.io/untitled-gloople-demo

Lol.  I gotta say, not a fan of the controls this time, though.  But it was fun enough anyhow.  

What's the formula for after tax profits?  And why does the gambler secretly only care about 7's being in certain digits near the front of the total price?

It was fun, but it ended right when I felt like it was going to begin XD  This could be the opening sequence to a very good puzzle game

made it with 107$.  Spent too much going to the cool princess icon only to discover it cost extra movement once inside.

This was awesome.  I hope we get more some day

Pah, Pallas Athena was no match for mine eggs fried on a field of fours!  Now I shall boast to all the townsfolk, and surely nothing shall come of it.

Finished two lives and I think I've done almost everything that's currently allowed... Also the mage has significantly fewer options to explore than the farmer.  But even after just the first life I bought out everything in the meta shop except the expensive elixir thingy

no dashes, spaces instead.  Like "name X Xenobiologist Ximena Xian" or whatever

Some of the room names are annoying. The Cargo Hold isn't CH, for example, that threw me off for a bit. You have to guess the room names and then use the game's convention.  Brute forcing usually worked for me, but I had played Type Help and this uses the same guesswork logic for room names.  Sometimes things are highlighted in white that can help (they might be room names or at least start with the same letters),

There's a typo in his name (in the lore).  Try with and without the typo

Filled the bottles, let in the plastic indicator, but when the game told me it had ended I pressed shift and noticed that the void, far from remaking the world, had remade pretty much just the doormat area. Unfortunately you can't walk while zoomed out so that's still the end.

The guide is telling me to light a lantern in the deep and there's another npc who wants me to kill the king of beasts, but I can't seem to figure out how to get to the depths.  There's what looks like a zone exit to the right of the latter npc but nothing happens when attempting to walk through it, and the fog wall to the left is presumably full-game content.  There's also what looks like an elevator outside the lower village entrance, but that's presumably enabled later.

Did it.  It was quite fun!  Normally these puzzles are quite easy but this one required a bit of thought-- it took me approximately 2 hours with a significant break between the first and second hour.  No guessing was required, which was surprising given how the map's instructions were phrased.  

Specifically, not knowing the direction the path was walked in, not knowing if the route passed through the central star multiple times, and not knowing if after/before meant immediately after or if intervening elements were permitted all seem to have been intentional and the required assumptions can be found by deduction as they are the only set (at least the only set that seemed remotely plausible to me) that permits any solution and they permit exactly one.