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Glad you're enjoying it. You're actually the second person who's written about being confused by my little bug-doubling-as-a-feature. Guess that's what I get for not having any play testers. I'm working on a fix, and I explain what's going on here:

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=54435

Also, you mentioned the dungeon, did you figure it out, or were you stuck there?

JadeLombax363 days ago

Okay, a fixed version is up. The offending area is now blocked off, though still visible for the sake of intrigue ;). The cave entrance is also slightly repositioned, but still on the same screen.

pancelor362 days ago(+1)

alright, I beat it! I mayyy have cheated by using a well-placed stop() to look at the map (I was stuck in the dungeon – funny solution in retrospect! should have found it)

ahh the softlock makes sense now – cool to see the raw code peeking through like that! but fixing it seems good, much nicer now

JadeLombax362 days ago (1 edit)

Yeah, the dungeon does rely pretty heavily on trial-and-error since there wasn't space for complex mechanics, and storing two copies of one sprite and using tile properties was cheap. The entire map is shown for a frame at startup when it's being drawn, so your cheating isn't entirely unprecedented. Glad you had fun, and thanks for the feedback!

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