Amazing work, man!
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Welp, make that a corrupted CD!
Having done a file compare between the file on the CD and the resource.aud from the GOG version, there is a difference, but only in that file, everything else on the CD matches GOG's version. The difference runs entirely from 018C3800 to 018C3FFF. Exactly 2048 bytes, which is too round a binary number to be a coincidence, and it is the sector size of a CD-ROM. So there is probably a single corrupt sector on my CD (or the master it was built from)!
In my CD's version, the 303 consecutive bytes at offset 018C3ED1..018C3FFF all have value FF, which is obviously wrong. I'll just use the GOG copy then, and apply the patch to that!
Although the date and time match, the MD5 hash of my file is 510ed31b0b3c5a33bd822f5db290e00c.
I found that very unusual, because of the matching date and time. So I also did the checksum on the original CD, thinking it might have gotten corrupted on my hard drive, but the version on the CD has 510ed31b0b3c5a33bd822f5db290e00c too.
It could of course be a dodgy CD, but I've been able to play through the game itself without issues. Have attached a photo of the CD (which has the number "S0010304" on it), just so you might be able to see if it is indeed a different release somehow (I'm in the Netherlands - perhaps there is a European version that's different from the US one)?
Really nicely done. The sudden shift in tone was really quite effective.
Few minor issues I encountered:
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- the "3 commandments" and "closed chest" are hotspots, but there are no labels for them (oddly enough, the chest has one, but only when opened)
- the "mess" and "broken pestle & mortar" hotspots are available right from the start
- a few issues with draw ordering:
- the cake coming through the opening gets drawn on top of the opening
- when the anchorite is sitting at his desk, writing on the parchment, the parchment is drawn on top of the anchorite
- the shovel does not seem to go into the ground, but draws on top of the wood surrounding the garden bed
- several "you can't do that" style messages appear erroneously (like when actually doing the thing you're supposed to do):
- when digging up the garden to plant the seeds
- when putting the clothes in the tub
- when putting the bucket under the pump
- when dropping the water into the tub with the clothes
- when using the inkwell with ashes on the water in the bucket
- Typo: I won"t be able to get all of the dirt out with just water should probably have a ' instead of a "
- restarting the game (to try out what happens when choosing a different option at the end) results in glitching out almost everything:
- I have the inkwell, quill and knife already in inventory at the start
- the cake is already in the room when the young anchorite wakes up
- Amos's blue text is by the anchorite's head, rather than by the door
- Amos's sprite can be seen drawn on top of the door and he becomes an interactible hotspot... I can actually ask him the same questions I can in the control room:
- from here the game is too glitched out to be able to get further, I had to quit and relaunch the game to be able to do a second playthrough
Quite ambitious to make a game with switchable characters for a game jam. The game is quite funny and I had several laugh-out-loud moments. Well done, Ramón! A few things could be a little more clearly signposted, but it shouldn't pose a major obstacle to reaching the end of this charming game. The ending (and post-credits bonus scene) were especially hilarious. Big thumbs up from me!
I've tried to play it twice. Both times I was unable to get the Light Step as there was no hot spot on it. The first time, in my attempts to get it, I accidentally triggered the door to the ship again and the camera got stuck in the view of the ship from the outside and stopped tracking the protagonist. In the second time I played it, I made sure to avoid that, but still couldn't get the Light Step. Took a long time to get around, but couldn't really find anything after finding the map markers and reporting back to the mayor, so I gave up :(