You have saved Santa! Thanks to you, we will have Christmas this year too! Ho ho ho!
The Game has been completed by 24 other adventurers already.
494 other adventurers are still looking for treasures.
You had to make 195 steps and
200 checks to win this Game.
You defeated 13 enemies.
You died 1 times.
Thanks for playing!
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You are disoriented!
You are poisoned!
You are bleeding!
Being disoriented when you need to click fast is very annoying. :D
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Woah, you managed to collect all the bad stats! :D (I need to make some achievements for such matters)
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It was a really bad moment there, first I cut myself searching the wall, that startled me and I hit my head on the other wall.
And while being disoriented from hitting my head, I trigger a poison dart trap, which of course I couldn't evade because my head was still spinning.
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Haha! :)
I guess, if I'll ever film Game of sWords: The Movie, it would be a comedy :p
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I cannot put into words how much I hate the disoriented mechanic lol. How the hek do you get rid of it?
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I found a workaround for the disoriented thingy, it was quite simple :P.
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That's not even remotely helpful, I'm just wasting energy points. :P
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Let's just say there are other ways to select what you want other than clicking. Already said too much :P
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You know, it would actually help to know the mechanics of the game, this isn't a puzzle, knowing the controls should be mandatory not a guessing game :/.
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It is an exploit in the Game, which will be fixed in the future :) And sharing information on how to exploit the Game is not very welcome.
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Well what I want to know is how you deal with it "legally". No potion worked.
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Ah, you just have to make a few steps. Click everywhere randomly.
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Oh, so I have to wait it out, I see. I also just got an Energy Vampire Staff, it says it's ready but clicking on it doesn't work. How do I use it?
EDIT: It just worked on the 1 millionth try, is that a bug or does it have a large failure rate?
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Yes, people have reported this problem. I've tried to fix it already, but seems like I need to look more into it. So it's on the "to fix" list :)
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Too bad I didn't know that before I spent half of my gold on it :P
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You have saved Santa! Thanks to you, we will have Christmas this year too! Ho ho ho!
The Game has been completed by 27 other adventurers already.
496 other adventurers are still looking for treasures.
You had to make 245 steps and
259 checks to win this Game.
You defeated 14 enemies.
You died 0 times.
Thanks for playing!
Artifacts:
Bronze Ring of Luck
Energy Bracelet
Belt of Recovery
Troll`s Heart
Amulet of The Undead King
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Hey man, just finished (27th) this dungeon and IT WAS FANTAMAZING! Thank you for this great game! I hope you'll make another soon! Can't wait! ^
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Congratulations and I'm very glad that you enjoyed it! :) The next Game is already in development.
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Just out of curiosity, did you developed other games or similar (even not related to SG)? I'm really interested in your work.
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There are a few other projects (including two games) I've been working on, but none have been published and most had to be frozen due to my current financial problems since they require some investments for further development.
So Game of sWords is my first published and running project, I'm glad it can at least partly pay for itself with a few bucks collected with ads. I have fun developing it and happy to know that other people are having fun in it :)
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"Congratulations!
You have won the Game!
Get your prizes"
just finished this as 29th adventurer :D
my god that was amazing , haven't enjoyed some game like this one for long time :D thank you very much :)
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I'm happy that you liked the Game so much! Congratulations on winning it! :)
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The Game has been completed by 30 other adventurers already.
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You had to make 268 steps and
246 checks to win this Game.
You defeated 14 enemies.
You died 0 times.
Thanks for playing!
Found 2 treasures before completing it.
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I made it! Thank you again for such an awesome experience :)
The Game has been completed by 31 other adventurers already.
498 other adventurers are still looking for treasures.
You had to make 272 steps and
240 checks to win this Game.
You defeated 14 enemies.
You died 1 times.
Thanks for playing!
I also found 2 treasures before completing the game.
First things first, I'm not sure if I was the only one but I got confused since the witch asked for 3 GIANT Rats' Tails and I thought there are some tougher and bigger rats that I need to kill in order to complete the quest, only to realise that I already have the tails but their name is not the exact same as the name of the items the witch asks for. No big deal though, I don't think that's too important of an issue.
I also really liked radagast82's suggestions but I would totally play the next game even if no improvements are made because it's fun the way it is now. I see you already have something in mind about the disoriented thing, wasn't much of an issue for me though. If you plan on making more bosses next time, you could add special skills like healing, heavier attacks/spells, summoning more enemies during the fight, etc.
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Sorry, didn't notice that it might cause confusion. There are only giant rats in the Castle :)
I still have lots of ideas for new Games (and get some new ones thanks to people like you and radagast82 :) ), so I believe each new Game will feature something new!
Thank you and congratulations! :)
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The Game has been completed by 32 other adventurers already.
500 other adventurers are still looking for treasures.
You had to make 317 steps and
256 checks to win this Game.
You defeated 12 enemies.
You died 0 times.
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Looks like that instead of the maximum 2 weeks, the 50 people mark will be reached in just a ~3,5 days time.
The supposedly powerful Castle Lord seems to have underestimated the adventurers !!
Which probably means that things will have to be somewhat nerfed the next time, or at least made in a way to last longer. xD
The Castle Lord will surely need to be avenged. :O
I can almost sense a pair of cunning Red Eyes plotting the next dungeon, somewhere in the thick darkness. xD
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You are right, there is a huge amount of possibilities to improve the Game, and I'll be working on it :)
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I have to admit that making a decent balance is one of the most difficult tasks when making an RPG Game :) But now I've got some experience and will try to improve it for sure, so that the Game would be a bit more challenging and would last a little longer :)
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It is. Keep in mind that even AAA rpgs with vast worlds, fall 90% to this exact same trap of non-balance. Very few exceptions manage to make a great difficulty balance last for a whole game. It usually gets uber easy after getting some levels/spells/equipment and then you get bored sick of the game due to that walk in the park, or at least the experience becomes much more mediocre due to the 0 danger. (yes I'm talking about you Dragon Age & Divinity Original Sin, and Wasteland 2 falls in the same -easy game- trap from what I've heard)
On the other hand, think for example of Baldur's Gate 2 if you played it. Do you truly think any other Rpg since then has ever achieved that same balance of strategy/tactics, while at the same time being epic and so fun in combat ? Probably not. Even Witcher which had a great scenario, fell to the very same trap after some point in the game. Even in the best ones, you either get bored of repetitiveness in combat, or they just fail to keep that much-desired balance for long.
You literally need community mods in almost all these games of that genre out there, in order to be able to enjoy decent difficulty balance for a whole title. And that should tell you something. Developers rarely can get it done, as good as players (community) can, at least regarding that part. That's exactly why kickstarter rocks (as long as they get the necessary funds of course). But if we have to talk about decent modern dungeon crawlers, I'd have to admit that Legend of Grimrock achieved a pretty good balance in that regard.
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I agree with your reasoning! Many great examples! This was my first experience at making an RPG and a first effort at creating a more or less decent balance. The random elements are adding some difficulty to that task :)
I listen to the community and make changes according to all the wishes and complaints. Now I've also got some experience and some statistics. The only way I go is the way of improvements ;)
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Have anyone encountered a bug in big hall connected with crystals?
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its great, a little arrow would be nice, i always get confused about witch way im facing :P
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Lower right corner - it is there, with your coordinates :)
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As adam1224 has mentioned, there is a little arrow over the minimap where it says "You are facing: ..." which shows your direction. You can also switch to Simplified Navigation mode by clicking a button at the bottom left corner in the Game.
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I finally saved Santa! It was such an amazing game, (even with the disoriented mechanic, haha). Good job!
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The Game has been completed by 37 other adventurers already.
516 other adventurers are still looking for treasures.
You had to make 258 steps and
254 checks to win this Game.
You defeated 14 enemies.
You died 1 times.
Thanks for playing!
Nice ending )))
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You have saved Santa! Thanks to you, we will have Christmas this year too! Ho ho ho!
The Game has been completed by 38 other adventurers already.
515 other adventurers are still looking for treasures.
You had to make 203 steps and
243 checks to win this Game.
You defeated 14 enemies.
You died 1 times.
Thanks for playing!
Collected Artifacts :
Silver Ring of Luck
Energy Bracelet
HermesBoots Trolls Heart
Amulet of The Undead King
Good work, really, though I had hard time with Master(damned concuss...). Now I'm going to collect treasures, yay! XD
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No one likes him :,(
Congratulations! Great job! :)
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The Game has been completed by 39 other adventurers already.
517 other adventurers are still looking for treasures.
You had to make 192 steps and
232 checks to win this Game.
You defeated 13 enemies.
You died 1 times.
Yay! Thank you, it was great! :)
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You have saved Santa! Thanks to you, we will have Christmas this year too! Ho ho ho!
The Game has been completed by 41 other adventurers already.
517 other adventurers are still looking for treasures.
You had to make 261 steps and
252 checks to win this Game.
You defeated 14 enemies.
You died 5 times.
Thanks for playing!Am I the winner that died the most times... :X
Great work server! (: That last fight was annoying though, took me forever.
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Hehe, yeah, seems like you are the one who died the most among the winners :)
Thank you! And congratulations! :)
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You have saved Santa! Thanks to you, we will have Christmas this year too! Ho ho ho!
The Game has been completed by 42 other adventurers already.
521 other adventurers are still looking for treasures.
You had to make 257 steps and
231 checks to win this Game.
You defeated 14 enemies.
You died 1 times.
Great game! Found out that I was pretty unlucky at the beginning and constantly was out of energy.. until one of the last rooms I checked safed me.. :P
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You have saved Santa! Thanks to you, we will have Christmas this year too! Ho ho ho!
The Game has been completed by 44 other adventurers already.
523 other adventurers are still looking for treasures.
You had to make 232 steps and
244 checks to win this Game.
You defeated 14 enemies.
You died 0 times.
^_^
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5 more. :O who will make it before the Castle Lord blows up the dungeon along with Santa ? :P
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Bump for completed! Thanks for the amazing adventure!
I hoarded all my potions until today and then I saw that it would end when 50 people completed... not after a week as I thought. So I just ended up finishing it in less than an hour thanks to the abundance of Energy Potions. If I had started used them earlier I'm sure I could've finished the game yesterday or even sooner :P ended up with tons of excess items too (found the shop when I had 240 coins so I could buy everything, all potions were abundant except teleportation scrolls but the energy pots made up for it) Ended up exploring the entire castle as well (though its designed so you need to visit most of it anyway).
The boss fight was so anti-climactic, I thought I'd finally get to use my 20+ health potions but he just died in 2 hits before I even realized what had happened, I'm not sure if he even hit me once.
The Game has been completed by 45 other adventurers already.
523 other adventurers are still looking for treasures.
You had to make 242 steps and
250 checks to win this Game.
You defeated 14 enemies.
You died 0 times.
Thanks for playing!
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Congrats on finishing your adventure :)
I'm starting to think i wont make it :(
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yeah that's what happens with the last boss. Unfortunately some of us could never hit him due to the flashy missy thing. For example I used more than 10 potions in order to hit him just 3 times, which was needed to kill him. And took more than half an hour to do that too. It still felt anticlimactic though. Mainly because no strategy was involved whatsoever in that fight. Didn't really "fit in" with the rest of the combat up to there. I was also hoping for maybe a boss with 1000++ HP that hits hard and you can't run away from and maybe you need explosives too to make it doable. Even so, I would still kill him with all those HP potions I had saved up. Imagine how fun it could be if most adventurers died on him. (And then he took of his mask and it was Santa !! rofl. And that would be an ending for those who died on him. :O hardcore. Always loved the idea of permadeath and alternate endings. :P )
And use spoiler tags. xD
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Not going to reveal my tactic, but let's just say, I came out of the fight unscathed. :P
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I know most did. I was probably the exception. Still didn't matter in the aftermath though. I'm actually more proud of killing the bookworm unscathed.
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Thanks for the reminder, I tried to keep the spoilers to a minimum though but I put tags up just in case.
Was the text speed different for you? I found the boss text laughably easy to click compared to those random 'hurt your head' moments and 'dodging traps' where the text was almost impossible to track. I thought that maybe the boss would occasionally hit you while you struggled to click the text, but I killed him so fast I didn't even notice if he did that or not. From your description it sounds like he did, so I guess he was potentially tougher than I thought. Still the text speed might've bugged for me to be slower.
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Indeed the text was impossible to locate on time on both hurt your head and concussion features. When you got the mouse on it, or clicked it was already way too late.
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Congratulations! Glad you enjoyed your adventure :) I will definitely work on improving the balance in the Game to make it more challenging :)
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Thank you! No worries, I know you probably wanted to make it more accessible and it's always better to have it a little too easy than too hard (at least in my opinion). It was still really fun to explore and the game never got dull thanks to the magnitude of different and varied events. Amazing work!
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Thank you so much! :) Yes, I tried to make it accessible for as many people as possible, not just for hardcore players :) But a little more difficulty still would be fine as it seems.
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While you can cut down on both types of potions (and coins and/or shop availability of potions/items) it should be fairly safe to remove most of the Energy ones, because people regenerate them anyway and it'll make people invest some more time in planning/returning to the game instead of almost breezing through in one run :) on that note I think you should make it take 8-10 hours instead of the current ~6 hours to go from 0 to full energy (at the beginning of the game at least) since that will allow people across all timezones to keep a normal sleep/school/work schedule without having to lose any advantage to the hardcore players :)
^ just some friendly advice, it's all up to you of course and I'll never complain about it being too easy :D :D
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As for the breezing through - I'm sure some people did it but I was taking my time and I think the Energy potions were good. They were scare enough so I hold onto them (too much, ineed!) and I always wanted to have some in my bag.
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I agree, I'm personally not a fan of huge waiting either, but it should at least be done in a way that makes it reasonably fair to everyone (too many potions and/or too little regeneration would be equally harmful as people investing more time and/or being online at favourable times would gain the advantage). It's hard to strike the right balance :)
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A question to anyone who can answer:
Did you actually see a relevant text when finding teleportation scrolls, phoenix blood vials & explosive vials ?
I'm pretty sure I got 90% of them when the text said that there is "nothing interesting in the area" when checking.
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I got accurate text all the time, I don't recall a single instance where I got anything different than listed.
Though I did notice that I ended the game with 4 Explosive Vials, I never bought any and I don't recall any check giving out those so I'm not sure where they came from...
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Yup some items I just found in my inventory while playing. Never got text for them that's what I'm saying. I'm pretty sure it happened for all my phoenix vials and probably most explosive ones. Not entirely sure on the teleportation ones to be honest. I think it may also have happened on a minority of HP/energy potions. Just minority though.
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I'll try to figure out why it happens. It works just like it should for me.
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Not sure about explosive one, but did not get single text with phoenix or teleport scroll. I got them when finding a few coins. Never got anything when it said nothing interesting.
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Well I may have gotten many of those while finding coins too. It's entirely possible. Maybe there's a code problem with the chances that you may find more than 1 item in the same check? (coins plus something?) That would explain why we never got text for items, when getting coins along with something else. The coin text maybe overlapped the item text. After all I do remember finding coins almost on 80% of my checks lol. I did buy everything in game, including many big energy pots.
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Hello Steamgifters! I am happy to announce that the biggest giveaway adventure has just begun! :)
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Introduction
Game of sWords is a text RPG Adventure where you can explore dungeons (or other locations), complete quests, solve puzzles, find useful items, avoid deadly traps and fight dangerous monsters while searching for treasures (private SteamGifts giveaways links) on your way and trying to reach the end to get access to a huge amount of private giveaways! Each Game (of sWords) usually has a unique scenario and a limited number of winners, so the chances will always be great.
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A lot of giveaways have been contributed by the community members, and I would like to say a big Thank You to everyone who made a contribution! :)
Important notes about the Game
In the Game, you will have Energy Points and Health Points.
Most of the actions in the Game require Energy Points. Energy can be replenished using items, which you can find everywhere, thus it is important that you check everything around you!
Energy will also be replenished over time. Normally, you will receive 1 Energy Point every 15 minutes, and that time can be reduced with special artifacts that can be found in Game.
Note, that the Energy won't be replenishing during the battles (you can only restore it with potions)!
If you lose all your Health Points, you will also lose all the energy you had plus you will have to wait for up to 6 hours to be resurrected. (Resurrection happens every 6 hours from the time the Game started - 16:00 GMT). The energy can not be replenished while you are dead!
Note: If you have problems navigating through the map, you can switch to Simplified Navigation at the bottom left corner.
It would also be useful to read this article, I give important strategy tips there :)
The treasure Game will finish when 50 adventurers will win the Game!
Time to start the Adventure!
EVERYONE is invited to play the Game and search for treasures in the adventure! :)
The only requirement is that your Steam account should be more than 90 days old.
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The current Game is running overtime, which means that no more treasures can be found in the adventure.
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