I wish the choices had felt a little less like guesswork, that there were clues to guide me to making the right choice. (Although - maybe I missed them?) Interesting setting and writing, but I felt like I was just clicking through till I solved it, a little.
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Very, very good. :)
I should say more than that. I found this interesting, in that I saw what was happening reasonably fast, and so started gameifying it - keeping things in the tin in the hopes I could pass it to myself, making an assumption about what would help me the most, later. It didn't spoil it for me - it worked despite that - but did mean I wanted to play again. So, double good.
Haven't played long enough to get into trouble, but I like what I've seen. I am slightly puzzled how to make money, as I can't seem to sell the things I scavenge [edit: just found out how - but it led me to a point where there were no options (bug)!]. (I'm planting and growing seeds, however). I did encounter a bug where there were no options - but restarting did save my progress with the credentials, which was a nice touch. I want to see more of it, but am trying to play a big of every game in the jam, so a shorter grind would do it favours. :)
I found the idea behind it interesting, but it was difficult to use the code when I didn't know what options were coming up afterwards. Made it more frustrating than fun, at times - in that I was trying to do the right thing, but a previous choice stymied me. That would have been fine, but it sent me back right to the beginning each time and I couldn't speed through by clicking, I had to wait for text to load. I think all this needed to rebalance this towards interesting from frustrating was a skip or speed up function for already seen scenes.
I enjoyed it - but I don't know whether there's an ending I've not got, or it just continues in a loop once you've worked out what's going on. Could only find one word recognised by the knowledge base, maybe that's it? (Don't want to say more to indicate what occurred in case I spoil it!) I *think* I've tried all the possible options everywhere else, including the phone conversation.
Here I reveal my dark crime against IF.
This: https://github.com/garglk/garglk is terrifying. What do I? How do I? Um?
I stroll across to the install and it starts talking about jam. Now, I'm as fond of jam as any other toast consuming creature - but...
(In short, can someone point me at a foolish-person suitable inform interpreter/z-parser?)