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Lucarelly5 years ago

No music?
However it's not bad, but there's no hint on the ingredients that you need to use in order to create a specific potion.

I unlock the mandrake ingredient and the fairy dew, but then there are 6 ingredients and 216 combination of them (6 x 6 x 6). A lot of combinations are just useless (give no potion) and you just cannot try all the combinations. So I tried some of them and then give up.

I think a drag and drop system to buy ingredients makes very difficult to accumulate a huge stok of ingredients even if you have the money ( I had ~500 gold). And this choice make even harder to buy ingredients to try all the 216 combinations. To try all of them you should buy something like 648 ingredients and every time you should click and move your mouse, this is absurd.

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Toonhawk5 years ago(+1)

There are actually much fewer combinations than it seems (the order you put stuff in doesn't matter, only what you put in). I believe 1 in every 5 combinations should result in something and I was hoping that was common enough for people to stumble into some combinations. Ideally there should've been some system to help you figure out viable combinations I agree.

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Lucarelly5 years ago

Finished the game by finding 17/30 potions

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bojidar_bg (defunct)5 years ago(+1)

Actually, there are 156 combinations with the final 9 items. With 6 items there are ((6 | 3)) = (6 + 3 - 1 | 3) = 8! / 6! = 8 * 7 = 56 combinations. See wikipedia.

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Lucarelly5 years ago

good to know, I didn't remember that the order doesn't count. But even with only 56 combination it's not so easy to try every combination. You still have to buy 3*56 ingredients one by one... I'm not complaining about the number itself, but the fact that I honestly gave up because it was to repetitive to try without an hint on the ingredients. 

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Toonhawk5 years ago(+1)

There was a plan for a while to have descriptions for the ingredients to make it more possible to figure out recipes, for instance the darkvision potion contains both rat tail and newt eye (rats can see in the dark) and flight potion will contain dragonfly wings and fairy dew (both dragonflies and fairies can fly).  however I didn't have enough time in the end to get that worked out. I also wanted to have a recipe book to show what potions it was possible to find, but that also got scrapped. Being able to buy ingredients in bulk would definitely have made sense to add as a feature.

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Lucarelly5 years ago

If you want to improve this game in the future, I think that the descriptions of the ingredients are a good idea :)

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