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Gunnar Clovis5 years ago

I always love to see a Cthulhu game, and the visuals/color palette for this look excellent!

However the repetitive chanting audio is insanely annoying; I had to mute the game within like 10 seconds of opening it. I tried to just lower the volume but I could not handle it until it was muted. And unfortunately the game text kinda got smashed together, I couldn't read most of it, didn't understand the game. There were X amount of days until something or other, through process of trial and error I found that you could click the buckets that say Action and Patience. I could also click the one in the middle but it was almost always covered by the newspaper. The days remaining started just ticking down over time very quickly without me even doing anything, I don't know what caused anything, it didn't make sense, though I guess that's because I couldn't read the messages at the top due to the bug with the text. Sorry to see that.

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Gameljne Games5 years ago(+1)

Hey there, thanks for stopping by and trying our game :)

We now added some instructions below the game if that helps - if it is still unclear,  it must be a bug, I'm afraid. Could you provide us with a screenshot of your problem? We've now also added bug-free screenshots of our own for comparison.

We agree the audio is maddening, which is sort of the point with C'thulhu... Then again the guy who does our audio is awfully fond of looping short songs for hours on end.

The smashed together text in newspaper is supposed to be the fine print without any relevant details, there is nothing to read. However, right above it is the event location in lighter text and the newspaper headline in darker, larger text. These two should be readable, as per our screenshots, as should be the newspaper header*. These three pieces of information is how you play the game - judging settlement size and event complexity versus your cult strength/progress.

If you pick the correct events to intervene, you will be successful, your cult will grow and eventually you will wake C'thulhu. :]

*if any of these are unreadable, please let us know

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Gunnar Clovis5 years ago

Yeah I wasn't talking about the newspaper, I was talking about the main game text at the top of the screen. In your screenshots it looks how I figured it was supposed to, but when I tried all that text overlapped and bugged out making it unreadable. Maybe it's a bug related to the HTML5 window size?

And yeah... I figured as much with the audio, but at a certain point it's just too obnoxious that I can't stand it and have to mute, overriding the experience of Cthulhu maddening.

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Gunnar Clovis5 years ago

Alright! Now the game is working correctly, I have no idea what changed, but in all respects it's being less buggy now and I was able to finish it and awaken Cthulhu :D

But as 7ko noted, the game pretty immediately just turns into reading the Success rating and hitting Patience when it's anything but Likely, or I hit Action when it was Likely or Possible (and I always succeeded even with only Possible ratings), not reading the newspapers at all. And I'm still not a fan of the fact that the days tick down automatically like seconds... I feel like it could work better if you actually had to read/analyze the newspapers to make an informed decision, and the days remaining didn't tick down until you chose an option. But then it would have to reduced from 180 days so the game wasn't too long/slow, or skip over longer chunks of time each action, etc.

The art and color palette still looks fantastic!

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Gameljne Games5 years ago(+1)

We uploaded a new version that has 2 difficulties - the normal difficulty doesn’t have that helper so you have to read the newspaper titles and take the location into account as well. There were some other changes (all are listed in the dev log) so we would be happy if you tried it again and let us know what you think :)

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