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Thank you for testing and the grammar corrections. The grammar is really a weak spot. :-).

Look closer at the screen. There are 4 ducklings, but you still find 5 treasures on it. It is not hidden in the screen, it is fully visible.

Added HELP command that shows hints in various places or situations. Try use it when you are really frustrated and can not progress. It is closer to a spoiler than a hint i quess.

MOVE, SHOW are used as verbs for buttons you think? Never seen it in that situation. Maybe i don't understand what you mean?

Each duckling has a specific trauma that must be solved by quessing the word. Food is required only on one duckling which you found. I can point out that the game tries to show some sort of love based solution to that kind of trauma for each duckling.

Garry Francis4 years ago

Thanks. That explains a lot.

Re SHOW, it can be used to show an object to another character to get their reaction. Just a suggestion.

Re MOVE, this can be used to try to move an object. It can be synonymous with PULL and PUSH, but these are normally treated differently, as you've done. If it's not needed, perhaps provide a suggestion such as "Try PUSH or PULL".

Garry Francis4 years ago

I worked out the 5th treasure in the title screen and have now got it. Very tricky. However, I'd suggest using ME, MYSELF and DOODLEY as synonyms for SELF.

I see that you've done an update, but you forgot to update the version. It's still 1.0.2.

I think you might have broken something. You can no longer go SOUTH from the horse stable. Can you check this? I can no longer get to piggy.

Bastian4 years ago

Thank you i make some changes as you suggested. I also tested the SOUTH direction from horse stable and it is working. Did you played from restored game state? Maybe something in the engine is not working good when there are changes in code i quess. But i did not change anything in location connections hmmm.

Garry Francis4 years ago

It could be that. I'll start again. I've now got 4 treasures. I'm stuck at the spider. I feel like I need to get the candy from the old female, as that's the only thing that's sweet. I can't dig manure, do anything with young female or the horse and the flies. I'm not sure if piggy is useful, but I wanted to give him the corn. I'll try that after I restart.

In the meantime, here's some more comments:

X NAIL: It holds dog's chain.

X CHAIN: Not here.
GET CHAIN: Not here.
PULL CHAIN: Dog is now free! [Huh? How can I PULL a chain that I can't get and can't see?]

If you POOP, then POOP again in a different room, the first pile disappears and reappears in the second room. You can do this ad infinitum, thus moving your poop pile from room to room, yet you can't get it yourself. You should only be able to poop once so that it doesn't move around.

"dog chasses" should be "dog chases".

"Hui is scared strongly" should be "Hui is very scared".

On initial entry to manure pile, after dung beetle disappears, something's missing. It says, "CLOUDS, , MANURE", i.e. double comma (possibly related to the save game state as you suggested above?)

"anytime" should be "any time".

If you quack at roses after rescuing Lui, it still says "*Bush peeps hungrily*".

X THORNS: Pointy and dangerous.
GET THORNS: Not here. [Should say "Too pointy." or something similar.]

"Dui shakes from fears" should be "... fear".

HELP hasn't been overridden at farm.

Also, there's still a few sentences without a full stop at the end. Perhaps do a quick search of your print statements and check that they all have terminating punctuation.

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