Lighthouse of Doom
Games
text adventure
SHOW HN2024
63points
9comments
#1,145of 3,515 in 2024
Top 33%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
4 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.47.
Performance: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun, nostalgic adventure that is short to solve
From 2 comments
Best adventure solvable in 12 turns I ever played. Nicest part was being thrown back to a nostalgic ZX Spectrum BASIC prompt after finishing, and remembering that LIST is under…
tromp on HNThis was great! Fun little adventure :)
nathan_douglas on HN
Objections
Emulator drops keypresses at normal typing speed
From 1 comment
For me, that emulator seems to drop about 1/3 of all keypresses at normal typing speed, making it basically unusable.
o11c on HN
Requests
Word-wrapping for text output
From 1 comment
Thank you, that's very kind. I tried to make it more playable via the tiny-font, working around the narrow width of the Spectrum display, but I think I need to add word-wrapping…
stevekemp on HN