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*ETA: My trouble was just that I was carving the wrong runes. Once I carved the right rune I didn't have any trouble with the mechanic.*

Now this is really impressive. The interface is so smooth and polished, the art is beautiful, and the premise is unique and appealing. Super professional all over! I really got drawn in.

I just couldn't get the wood carving to work, though. It's tough to draw very precise shapes with a mouse, and I don't have any sense of how precisely I have to trace the line for it to count. I tried it 5 times and he rejected them all, and I don't know whether it was the symbols, the order, or my tracing job.

It would help if you started off with a practice round where you carve just one rune and it tells you exactly which one, so you can practice tracing.

(Possible bug: When you put down "locate + fish + love", "fish" jumps from the middle to the left. Not sure whether that was why he kept rejecting my carvings.)

Cat Tale Games35 days ago

Thank you so much!! Really sorry to hear the wood carving wasn't working - did you by chance get any popup messages to copy stencils from the rune journal? We'll look into easing the grading curve, adding better signposting that copying the stencil is needed for grading, and/or changing the grading scheme so that stencils aren't needed.

Ooh, thank you also for the practice round suggestion - adding that to our feature request list! We'll look into the possible bug you reported as well.

Apologies the wood carving mechanic was causing you trouble D: Thank you very much for trying out our game regardless and your very kind words!!

G.C. Katz35 days ago(+1)

(Sorry, I had a couple of screencaps attached but Itch didn't like em. Should have saved em, that's on me.) Yep, I clicked on the runes in the book to place the stencils on the wood, and then I carved over them with the gouge using my tablet, and I thought I did a very careful job. But it's super high praise that I gave it so many tries--I very, very much would not have tried a mechanic 5 times in a row if I didn't think the game was very good overall.

(Out of curiosity, is the answer Locate + Fish or Locate + Fish + Love? And do they need to be that order on the board?)

Cat Tale Games35 days ago

Thank you!! The answer to the first puzzle is currently the Fish rune! We're discussing approaches to better signpost this to the player right now :D

G.C. Katz35 days ago(+2)

Tried it with just the Fish rune and it went perfect! Once I knew that a lot of the answers were just going to be single runes I was able to figure them all out, and I didn't have any trouble with the carving.

I'm really liking where this is headed--I like the characters a lot (the character art is so good). I'll be excited to see the whole thing!

Cat Tale Games34 days ago(+1)

Thank you so much! Your comments made our team's day! :D

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