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GG on completing all the puzzles, and I'm so happy to hear that you enjoyed it! 😄

I totally hear you about having the cursor not overwrite existing fills/Xs! It's a feature that I really appreciate in a nonogram game, and I can clearly envision the programming logic for it, but I'm worried about how I would implement it in a resource-efficient way. Sometimes there were things I thought would be really straightforward but ended up taxing the engine, and maybe now I'm kinda wary, lol. (For example, in the first TaiFab, I used to use a while loop to set up all the squares in the puzzle area, but it ended up being a bit slow to load puzzle scenes. I unraveled that loop, and the puzzle scenes loaded almost twice as fast!)

Surely, if I were writing these games in C and ASM, I would happily be able to fulfill your request. Maybe someday I'll get good enough to dig into the guts of the GB Studio engine and optimize it for my particular games' needs. 🙂 (I have definitely made improvements to puzzle architecture in the second game, but most of that is useful for me as the developer. The major QOL update for players is larger puzzle sizes and the ability to cross out numbers.) At any rate, I really appreciate your feedback and thoughts. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for playing my game!

I'm really glad you enjoyed the game! Thank you so much for your kind comment! I'm making a sequel right now. 😄

That's a really useful tip, thanks for sharing it here!

Thanks so much! It's cool to meet a fellow classical chiptune enthusiast! I'm thinking that I'd like to try sequencing Debussy soon. 🙂 I recently heard Arabesque No. 2 for the first time, and I think it would be great in a game.

Thank you for your comment! I'm so pleased that you enjoyed the game! I'm working on a sequel now. 🙂

Thanks so much! I'll look forward to checking out your stream! 😄

Thanks, I'm relieved to hear that! I hope you have enjoyed the game.

Thanks! It was tough for me because I'm not a professional musician, but I did remember how to read music a little bit from when I was in high school choir. It's helpful that there are interactive transcriptions of classical music out there, such as on flat.io.

I guess my best advice is just to give it a try! I was dreading the prospect of sequencing music for my game, but it became easier as I worked on it more. Best wishes for your games and music!

Thanks for your comment! Have you tried talking to the innkeeper behind the counter? 🙂 There's different dialogue if you talk to her in front of the counter and behind the counter.
Sorry for the trouble! I was trying to reward players for being extra curious, but it ended up causing some confusion. (In the past, I played some games in which a shopkeeper has different dialogue behind the counter, and I thought that was funny, so I used it as an opportunity to hide a puzzle.)

Thank you so much for your kind words, and I'm glad you found your missing puzzles!

Thanks for getting in touch! Here's a hint: Do you remember talking to anyone who was thirsty? 🙂

Thanks, and also, big mood! I'll look forward to your projects as well. 😄

Thank you so much for your kind comment! I'm happy to meet a fellow nonogram fan and GB dev. 😄

This project was a really helpful starting place for me to make a nonogram game in GB Studio: https://dionofspice.itch.io/gb-picross (You can see DionOfSpice in the Special Thanks section in my credits because of that. 😄) Maybe it will help give you some ideas too!

Through the course of building TaiFab, I learned a lot about GB Studio, and I'm already building a bigger and (hopefully) better puzzle architecture for my next game. 🙂

Thanks for your kind comment! I'm glad you're enjoying the game, and I'll be sure to check out your video. 😄

I am always happy to meet a fellow nonogram fan! I'm so glad you're enjoying the game, and I really appreciate your kind comment. 🙂

Thank you so much!! You're very kind, and I'm really happy that you enjoyed the game!

Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm excited to bring my next game to the world, and I was working on it today. 🙂

Oh dang, glad you found it! Sorry I didn't see this message until now. I hope you were able to enjoy the game despite that devious anglerfish. 🙂

I'm probably not going to make any further changes to this game unless someone finds a bug that I need to fix. However, I'll keep your feedback in mind on my next development project. I hope you were able to figure out how to start the game even without that text. 🙂 Thanks for your comment!

Oh, I'm glad you found out what happened! I'm still sorry that you lost some progress. Thanks for letting me know, and I hope you can still enjoy the game. 🙂

Normally, if you saved by talking to the floppy disk at the Looong Gallery, the title screen has a 'continue' option.

I'm not sure if you're playing in the browser or with a downloaded copy. If the browser didn't save your game, you might have some browser setting that is clearing your cookies. 

I really recommend downloading the game and playing on your own emulator. I'm sorry to hear if you lost some saved progress.

Thanks! Can you show me a screenshot of what happens when you talk to the innkeeper behind the counter? 🙂

Edit: I didn't need the other screenshot, so I deleted the other post. Thanks for sending it. 🙂

Oh my, that's a new one! If you still have that save, can you send me a screenshot of your completed puzzle albums and the dialogue from the innkeeper? I will take a look at the code for the innkeeper's puzzle when I have time later.

The last bubble has one final 12x12 puzzle. If you need, I can send you a screenshot of it. 🙂 Thanks so much for your kind comment, and I'm sorry that you ran into an issue!

Hmm, like Sanji from One Piece, or a different one?

Thanks so much! Glad you're having fun!

Thanks so much, I'm really glad you enjoyed my game! There may be more in the future. 😉

That's legit. 🙂 Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Thanks so much for your kind comment! I also wanted to provide some darkened dividing lines, but I was having a tough time managing the tile constraints of GB Studio. 🙂 I wish I had deeper knowledge of the hardware and knew how to do this stuff efficiently! At any rate, thanks for your feedback, and I'm really glad you enjoyed the game.

Thanks for helping out a fellow player! Good on you for figuring it out, and sorry if it was a pain to find.
I tried to signal the location of the item with a couple of cues: it has the most complex puzzle in the area, and the outline of the sprite on the wall is the darkest color in the palette, unlike the rest of the display items. (In fact, I use the darkest color in the palette throughout the game to signal interactivity, except in underwater areas, where I use the lightest color in the palette.)
That clearly hasn't been obvious to everybody, and I will absolutely keep that in mind on my current development project. Thanks so much for the helpful feedback!

I'm really glad you're enjoying the game! clansing has got the answer: you should definitely read signs after you solve puzzles, especially one sign in the museum. 🙂 Thank you so much for your comment, and let me know if you need any more hints!

Sure! Do you remember meeting anyone who was thirsty? 🙂

My favorite nonogram game is Picross DS, which just has a bunch of puzzles to solve. If you want something that mixes nonograms with other gameplay, I heard that Murder by Numbers is good (but I haven't played it myself). I also enjoy Luna Story on mobile. 🙂

Wow, I'm excited that TaiFab got to be your introduction to nonogram games! If you want to play other nonogram/picross games, I can happily recommend some. 🙂 Thanks so much for your kind comment!

Let me know if you have trouble finding anything--I am happy to give hints! 🙂 I am so glad you're enjoying the game and I really appreciate your comment!

Thanks for your kind comment! I hope you enjoyed your time with the game.

Thanks! I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's art jam entries together. I see that you did a cool piece with the Homework palette.

Hey, thanks so much to Usman and all of you! I'll look forward to reading your thoughts on the game! 😄

I'm really glad you had a good time, and thank you so much for commenting! As for the ducks, have you visited the Looong Gallery after you beat the game? 🙂

Thank you so much! Your comment means a lot to me and I'm so pleased that you enjoyed the game.

Thanks so much for your kind comments! Sorry I didn't see them until now. Please let me know if you need help with anything else, and I hope you enjoy the rest of the game! 😄