I’m getting a late start this year: life has been chaotic and I nearly forgot that the Comp had been bumped forward by a month!
My first review is of Forsaken Denizen.
I also produced a map while playing:
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My second review is of Where Nothing Is Ever Named. No map here.
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My fourth review is of The Triskelion Affair, and there is a map:
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Thank you so much for the review, and I’m very glad you enjoyed it!
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You’re most welcome! It was a lot of fun.
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I enjoyed your review, but I’m replying just to note for the millionth time how idiosyncratic players are - I actually did solve the attic lab puzzle without a single hint, and knew what I was meant to be doing the whole time, but needed a solid prod to even get started with the medicine-chest and roses ones!
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For some reason, the medicine-chest puzzle seemed immediately obvious to me! I think part of it was that the dumbwaiter was something I’d spent the whole game turning over in my head: it’s obviously a device for transporting items around that can’t be moved normally for one reason or another, like the basket in the Shaft Room in Zork. Anyway, it seemed carefully implemented enough that I figured there would be multiple uses for it, so I kept trying to use it to solve puzzles
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Oh, that part generally made sense to me, though I stumbled over it a bit – I meant getting through the door into the master suite in the first place!
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Oh! I had to sleep on that, myself.
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Yes, I laughed at that too. It made me feel that surely I’ve done something like that before for a game, but I just can’t pull up a specific memory.
-Wade
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In all fairness, I’d somehow figured there would be more than the five or so hacking puzzles there were. But 90 minutes for 140 lines of commented Python isn’t bad!
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I specifically didn’t automate the binary search, because to me that was one of the more fun elements of the game—but I have no room to judge, because I wrote a Python script to automate the Wordle puzzles in The Den!
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To be fair, I have a script called wordle_helper.py that helps me pick my daily Wordle guesses, too, so I guess I’m in character for myself as well as being in character for the Focal Shift PC.
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