I had soo many coins, soo many potions, soo many hopes...
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Hope you still liked the adventure and wish you best of luck in the next Game! :)
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Wow, very impressive game. You have some great Dungeon Master skills regarding quest structures and designing a dungeon. I had fun!
Welcome, Ruudgo
You have 125/125 HP
You have 15/35 Energy
You have saved Santa! Thanks to you, we will have Christmas this year too! Ho ho ho!
The Game has been completed by 49 other adventurers already.
527 other adventurers are still looking for treasures.
You had to make 284 steps and
248 checks to win this Game.
You defeated 14 enemies.
You died 0 times.
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Thank you and congratulations on being the last winner of the current Game! :)
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Didn't manage to save Santa, but the game was very well made and lots of fun! I'm already looking forward to the next event, I might spare some giveaways for that as well. :)
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Glad you enjoyed it! :) I'll try to make the next Game even better!
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Nooooo! I thought it was going way longer, bugger :(
I had lots of energy and potions left :/
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Keep in mind that "Game of sWords" is running overtime now. (check below comment, I just quoted this in case you missed it and wanted to keep playing)
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Yes I noticed, I've been exploring since yesterday :)
Thanks! :)
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nooooo, can you give the game back ? maybe delete links or sth, i want to get to the end :(
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There might be another Game in the Secret Castle in the future with improvements and balance fixes, so you will get another opportunity to win it :)
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its not just abouth the winning, it is fun and think about not closing it but remove the possibility to get to ga when you have full list or sth
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I might add such option in a day or two to allow everyone to continue without treasures.
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Keep in mind that "Game of sWords" is running overtime now. (check below comment, I just quoted this in case you missed it and wanted to keep playing)
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again, again.... that was amazing. i just loved exploring. Really hope there another one :)
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A little more than 2 days have passed since the Game has started, and we have already got 50 winners!
Honestly, I wasn't expecting it to finish so soon, but I have to announce, that
The Game is over now!
Thanks to everyone who joined the adventure and congratulations to everyone who won the Game! :)
Special Thanks to everyone who made a contribution for the Game!
I hope you all enjoyed it! :)
Please, feel free to share your impressions, ideas (for new scenarios, features, items, artifacts, etc.) or complaints in the Game of sWords Steam group!
See you all in the next, even bigger and better Game of sWords! :)
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Did it have to end when winners was reached?
Wouldn't it be better to keep it going for the entire 2 weeks? But after the first X(50 in this case) winners the next Y people would get a lower % of treasures(50%?) after that only 1-2 or something like that. Maybe even an extra step with 25% in between.
That way the players can still enjoy the game, even though they won't get (m)any treasures.
I admit this was a special case, since the energy was negated later in game.
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Yeah I was thinking on something like this too, but I guess it had to be designed from the beginning that way in order to be a viable plan.
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It might be an option in the future.
I think, we will return to the Secret Castle someday, improved and rebalanced :)
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It would be nice if everyone could play it as much as they wanted till the end of the weeks, but I guess you would have to have a timer on, that would actually disable or severely lower the GA treasure chances, the more time passed by and the more the winners became. It would be hard to balance, but I suppose it "could" be done.
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Of course it could be done, I need to think about it.
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maybe you could resume the game on one of next days, but by having removed the GA links from the code? Just saying, I have no idea if it's even possible to do that.
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It might be possible, I guess I'll make a poll sometime later to see how many people would like to continue without treasures.
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bump for this feature. No additional treasures required but would be nice to be able to enjoy the rest of the game even after the main event is over.
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Damn I wanted to continue playing, not regarding the giveaway... It was fun! Hope it will be up soon again!
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Did all of you find this skeleton that was bubbling in german:
Skeleton (after a google translate) :
" Morgenstern , oh, shine on the face of me, throw a warm light on my ugly face. Tell me I'm not alone ... ! "
Unfortunately some seconds later that lonely skeleton was crushed by my Hammer. :O
Note: I would probably have enjoyed an extra option, to leave the skeleton alone, or try and talk to him.
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He did want to be put out of his misery, I guess he wanted a warriors death since he attacks you.
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i am stupid, but i keep this spot claimed for a future comment
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What do you mean by drawings? :) There is just text in the Game :)
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damn it, thst the problem when you have 15 million tabs open and don't look a second time
to wich thread you post a comment xD
sorry for that, your adventure wil be next xD
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I just had a look at the GAs of the past game of swords (in server's profile) and I somehow think that the overall quality of GAs was vastly superior during the previous game of swords. :O huge difference. (at least judging from the few I saw)
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The financial crysis helps me keep my pockets empty now...
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For those who haven't completed it, here is my almost complete map.
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Wow, great job! :) The code was unique for everyone by the way :)
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Yeah, thought that, but it's my map I created when exploring, what you best did in the first version, without mini-map.
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I actually also did the whole thing on grid-milimeter paper, yes with my pencil and rubber. xD It seemed useless though since the map feature was very well made after all. (only personal notes missing) To be fair, I'm actually used to this from old crawlers that never had maps and recently finishing legend of grimrock on oldschool mode (no map) to get it to 100%. The Real Enemy of such practice of course, are the dreaded teleporters ! (and the pits)
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This makes me wonder about the storeroom, how did you enter it? Since I haven't been there, even though I completed the game
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Indeed I thought I would never enter it. I had no idea it was the lever but that does makes sense. I actually wanted to ask about it but forgot. You see in the end I was just exploring for 100% map, and went back to the entrance of the storeroom. And behold I entered it. And I didn't even know how I did it. (lol) It had an amazing weapon in there btw. Which happened to help me in the last fight.
Also fun fact:
I managed to get the book from the bookworm through invisibility since I was not powerful enough to kill it and was certain it was guarding something like that. I had even ran away from it early in the game almost dead (5hp left) with more than 5 failed run checks. I dreaded it. Later though I came back with the Hammer from the storeroom and killed it in 3 fell swoops untouched. It really shows how subjective everything is.
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Strong weapon? Nice
Still, I won bossfight thanks to throwing explosive vials :p The miss/attack was quite annoying to do
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Actually, I tried explosives there but they never worked. Were just wasted. I guess I was never aiming good enough.
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Lol, the bookworm was my first enemy I met, and I managed to kill him with quite some ease. That was even with my dagger :p
After reading the posts here, I guess I really was lucky not to die there :p
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You probably got a bookworm that was almost always missing when attacking, instead of dealing 30-40+ dmg per hit. Not to mention that some of us did not have hp potions early in the game (or spent them on traps/poisons/bleeding or other weaker enemies), and wouldn't risk drink them all for just one monster with 250 HP. To constantly dodge an enemy in games like these, is simply pure coincidental luck. It all depends.
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How is the game over so soon, I played as much as I could, how did people make so many steps so quickly?
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It's called endless loop. :P I won't say more. xD
However stay tuned, there's a small chance the game will be back. (can't tell for sure though yet)
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The game ended in 2 days, I didn't start immediately and never stood a chance of getting there in time, people ahead of me reached a point where they could speed through it, it needed more time for the rest of us to have a chance to finish it.
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Keep in mind that "Game of sWords" is running overtime now. (check below comment, I just quoted this in case you missed it and wanted to keep playing)
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From what I see this was a game of luck. Without a single artifact and only few energy potions found I never reached the magical point where energy was not a problem and I explored and examined around half of the map. Unfortunately in a game like this, based on the energy I don't think that anything connected to it should be random especially when due to the ending conditions it was a race.Th hit and miss chance was also a bit too random. Some of the stronger mobs could be killed in few hits without loosing a single hp point while others were resisting to die even though they were supposed to be really weak.
Despite the lack of balance for multiplayer the game was very good. The only thing I didn't like was the confusion mechanic, but many people already pointed this out. I hope to see another game of sWords soon, they're a lot of fun.
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The Game required a good strategy much more than luck. Of course there are random elements, but if everything was straightforward, predictable and same for everyone, it just wouldn't be so interesting, each player's experience wouldn't be unique.
Thank you for your feedback and I'm glad you still enjoyed the Game of sWords! :)
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Thank you for the event - didn't realize it would end so soon, but I had fun playing it!
GREAT JOB!
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I'm glad to announce that Game of sWords: The Secret Castle is now running overtime!
That means that everyone who hasn't won the Game yet can now continue the adventure, but without possibility to find any treasures (giveaways).
Have fun! ;)
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All the winners now have an option to Restart the Game and play it as much as they want!
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Strange. Why does my energy do not replenishing iself :< ? Yes? This time i know why i was too slow - i usualy keep all the items untouched during whole game. Just a habbit of mine. Yes.
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I never use anything - only if i really have to. Ya know. Like hamster. I know it's bad. Yes.
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Well, That's not that bad.
I won some coins from you :)
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... I'm still 4 coins away from better sword -_-. Yes.
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Just for giggles i've tried to use some stuff i got in my inventory. During 5 minutes i've discovered more then during few earlier days. Yes :P
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Yes, all that stuff is there to help you in your adventure :p
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Sorry, it appeared that I forgot to reenable EP replenishment and resurrection after recovering the website :p (It was down for a few hours earlier today). I've fully replenished the energy for everyone now!
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Yes, it does function, but the counter is currently kind of broken, it will start showing time again after first resurrection. You will be resurrected in 1 hour.
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Thanks! Yeah, same effect with less frustration :) And impossible to exploit now :p
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Nice to hear that you found a way for those who wanted to keep playing. Maybe change the subject of the thread so that more people can re-enter the game? Also nice to hear about the disorientation too . :)
I won't be replaying this but will be waiting patiently for next game of swords. :)
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Cogratulations on your second win! :) There will be many more adventures for sure!
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I'm getting some (weird) ideas here for next Christmas so let's share... Imagine if ~half the adventurers lost to that last battle (permadeath, and very challenging fight to survive), and the final result of if Santa was saved or not, was up to the total ratio of wins/deaths of Adventurers on that last fight. xD
That way, the event gets support till the very last day (of christmas), and challengers should be more careful before confronting that last boss. (whatever that is)
If Christmas is indeed saved in the end, than gifts should be shared to all (promotes Christmas giveaway spirit, and what more amazing than this for that day??), the Castle Lord is dead after all, and Santa free to give presents to all !!!
otherwise the Castle Lord revels in the joy of sitting upon hundreds of adventurer corpses, keeps all presents for himself and Santa never visits the children for that year (hohoho). :O (well it would be up to the castle lord what to do in that case, maybe just leave the old rule of a top limit of winners of the dungeon like it was in this game of swords etc etc)
Yes I know I'm probably crazy for my thoughts. xD
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That is interesting indeed :p There is almost a whole year though before the next Christmas, some event with special rules like that will probably be held before it :)
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I actually finished it in one sitting in my next session, if only the game hadn't ended so quickly I would have finished it in time, I only needed one more session lol. The final boss mechanic was infuriating, I must have clicked Attack 100 times to register a few necessary attacks.
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Congratulations, even though you weren't among the first winners! :)
Everyone hates the Castle Master :p
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I didn't hate him, first used 5 explosive potions, clicked miss once when doing so, but he missed as well.
Then I just clicked attack once and I won. :P
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Then he must have hated you for using so many explosive potions on him :p
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Oh noes, I've explored everything but haven't seen a 3rd digit or red key...now I'll have to check every wall and pillar again, argh! :P
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Gotta pay more attention :p
Or use a map by Kuzurreesh if you'll have problems finding it :)
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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 55 other adventurers already.
552 other adventurers are still looking for treasures.
You had to make 312 steps and
258 checks to win this Game.
You defeated 14 enemies.
You died 1 times.
Thanks for playing!
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Hello Steamgifters! I am happy to announce that the biggest giveaway adventure has just begun! :)
All of us like playing games, and all of us like winning games. So, how about playing a game and winning games while playing?
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.
All giveaways have no restrictions, so anyone who finds them can join them!
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.
Will you be able to defeat the monsters, complete quests, solve the secrets of The Secret Castle and... save Santa Claus who was kidnapped by the evil Castle Master? :)
Join the official group
and
Start playing now!
The current stats can be viewed here.
The current Game is running overtime, which means that no more treasures can be found in the adventure.
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