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I did enjoy the company of the kitty! It was very cute listening to the purring and the meowing while navigating the maze.

Impressive! I like the design.

I enjoyed the game! I was correct when I discovered the alternate endings, that you press the colored key, but I think it didn't register the first time because I wasn't able to let the cat go be with the owl. I was selfishly stuck in the maze, again, with the cat; but at least I had the company of a kitty.

The day and night cycling was really interesting, I was surprised how dark it got! When I went around the maze the second time, to get to the g ending, I was so fast!

The title of this topic, "Reporting Operation ... Progress", is the name of the topic in the Emacs Lisp reference manual where I got the inspiration for my game.

Everyone jokes about Emacs being a puppy, or an operating system. Well, we feed our pets, don't we? We've got to collect manna for Emacs to eat!

My game is incomplete, unfortunately, as I have started implementing it much too late. It is nearly there, at least, but not today, unfortunately. You can read the game's source code and my development blog here.

I don't want to submit an unfinished game, because nobody will be able to play it, so I'm withdrawing from the jam. Next time! I hope next time I either finish this game and submit that, with a whole lot of Emacsy polish, or that I have plans and enter the jam sooner.

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Manna is a game wherein you literally collect "mana for emacs." You collect mana/manna by killing the word manna as it appears in the Desert buffer. It is to be put into the Basket--not by you, but by Emacs--when you've collected it (it's against Church of Emacs rules to eat manna that has been collected for Emacs [it is not for you!]).

The game is currently unplayable, as core features are missing entirely. Therefore it was not submitted to the jam for consideration. Why don't you get lost (in The Maze and the Cat)? Go on, get out of here (and go read my development blog!) [with all due respect fellow LISPers, this paragraph has a joking, friendly mood].

Happy Peanut Butter and Lisp Jam everybody!

I might have secured my seat on the Council of Crowns (day sixty-seven [67]), but I'd rather have climbed the ranks of the Council of Science, or at least been entertained with Christmas Day chemical demonstrations. Y'know?