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It seems to me that the object of the game is to find the little ducks...

Perhaps you should put the singular and plural of certain words as synonyms (caterpillars, leaves, bugs etc.), as it is sometimes confusing:
ON TREE:
SEEING: leaves, clouds.
>X LEAVES "Seeing many caterpillars here."
>EAT CATERPILLAR "No caterpillar here!"
>EAT CATERPILLARS "Doesn't work."
>X CATERPILLARS "Nothing special"

Maybe the way I play is bad, but I try a lot of things and almost never get rewarded.
What to do with the caterpillars, bugs, fishs... They're there but not really there!
How I play:
ROSES:
SEEING: rose bushes, small footprint.
>X BUSHES "ouch, thorns there!"
>X THORNES "Nothing special"
>X FOOTPRINT "They go towards bush"
>SEARCH BUSHES "Not understood"
>FOLLOW FOOTPRINT "Doesn't work"
>ENTER BUSHES "can't go"
>Q**** (spoiler) "*bush piips hungrilly*"
>GIVE corn "Dropped"
And what else?

Bastian4 years ago

Maybe a hint will help? A new verb is needed. Read this carefully. Duck are natural hunters.

Try droping on ground something that lives in water. Corn is just too big. Caterpillars or other possible food is a scenery type object because the game allows to create it again and again after eating it. But you only can have each object one time in inventory. It is set so for the hunger system. So use that new verb to obtain an actual item object that you can eat or use somewhere else.

auraes4 years ago (1 edit)

I had decided to take a snorkel, a harpoon and flippers to go and remind this fish of its place in the food chain, but that is no longer useful now.
I finally have a fish! But admit that the verb to use is unusual.

auraes4 years ago (2 edits)

I brought Lui back to the nest; I don't know how to take Hui, and I took Piggy to where, I think, he was supposed to go...
Time passes...
She's a picky spider! I don't understand how to get what she wants. I thought Piggy was gonna help me in the manure...

Bastian4 years ago

When you do not know what to do try duck sound. :) It is like talking or giving commands. On Hui try to use verb that involves both wings around the little scared duckling.

auraes4 years ago

I didn't finish your game, but I don't regret the time I spent there. If you come up with a simpler version, without giving up your initial ambitions, I'll play it again and finish it, because it will be a damn good game. Maybe uncommon verbs should be synonymous with a more common verb, and I don't really like randomness in games.
But you're the one who knows.

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