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You descend 17 levels…",{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},"42087148","swayvil","Hey this is pretty nice. Played it on my phone. No minimap. Got lost. Starved. Controls were surprisingly ez. Catchy music. Good ui. Pretty graphics. I dig it. I assume that you…",{"value":59,"source":7,"evidence":60},"Free first 3 levels in browser, then one-time payment to unlock the full game online.",[61,62],{"id":52,"by":11,"text":53},{"id":63,"by":11,"text":64},"42085566","Thanks for the feedback, I will update the landing page with make it clearer the full game is paid. I also added this paragraph to my post which hopefully makes it clearer: > For…",{"value":66,"source":7,"evidence":67},"Built it while bored on a break from work due to illness; wanted to reach more players via web.",[68],{"id":52,"by":11,"text":53},{"value":70,"source":7,"evidence":71},"A couple of months.",[72],{"id":52,"by":11,"text":53},[74,80,84,88],{"value":75,"source":7,"evidence":76},"HTML",[77],{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},"42087226","It's HTML, CSS, and vanilla JS (except for the ROT.js library which is fantastic!).",{"value":81,"source":7,"evidence":82},"CSS",[83],{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},{"value":85,"source":7,"evidence":86},"Vanilla JavaScript",[87],{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},{"value":89,"source":7,"evidence":90},"ROT.js",[91],{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":96,"objections":136,"requests":181,"questions":210,"alternatives":237},[97,109,124],{"value":98,"source":99,"evidence":100},"Nice aesthetic and atmosphere.","commenter",[101,105],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"42086601","debo_","I love the aesthetic. Couple nits: I have no idea how I expected the browser back button to work, but whatever it did do surprised me a bit. During gameplay, it might be nice to…",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"42087601","imp0cat","Great use of \"Jupiter\" by Gustav Holst on the main screen! Strong Bluey vibes. :)",{"value":110,"source":99,"evidence":111},"Great 8-bit Holst soundtrack.",[112,116,120],{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"42086585","jcalabro","Love the 8-bit Holst :)",{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"42090050","ktbwrestler","I love the 8-bit holst soundtrack. Great work and feel for the game!",{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"42089788","philsnow","Thanks for this! Some notes: - food clock is kind of arbitrary (I went four levels without finding any food), or else I'm just not diving nearly fast enough. - game crashed when…",{"value":125,"source":99,"evidence":126},"Fun, playable on mobile, reminiscent of classic Rogue.",[127,128,132],{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"42086587","davedx","I love rogue games and recently spent an unreasonable amount of time trying to beat Angband (and failing). This is refreshingly simple, very playable on mobile too. Good luck!",{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"42093231","AriyanWasi","I wake up, and go on hacker news to see what people are doing. With my coffee in hand I play your game, fingers still cold. I loved it. Reminds me of when I was younger. 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After a few cycles of \"let's see what I can drop to pick up the…",{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"42088656","johtso","Loving it so far! My only comment is that it feels like there are too many items for the amount of inventory space. There will be rooms completely littered with boots that you…",{"value":161,"source":99,"evidence":162},"Paywall appears too early and unexpectedly.",[163,167],{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"42085154","hmcq6","It was pretty jarring when the game stopped 3 levels in to ask me for money. I guess it technically says \"3 free levels\" on the splash screen. Perhaps OP could use the word…",{"id":168,"by":169,"text":170},"42086702","sigseg1v","I think something about the timing of it feels off to me as well. I'm no stranger to payment screens; I grew up playing shareware floppies. I think the difference is that, let's…",{"value":172,"source":99,"evidence":173},"Dropped items vanish instead of landing on the floor.",[174,178],{"id":175,"by":176,"text":177},"42089390","pmontra","A nice game. But when I drop something by clicking on the red X button, the item should drop to my feet and not become permanently lost. If the game can't stack items, it could…",{"id":179,"by":142,"text":180},"42088732","I've been Rogule-ing for so long that I'll just buy it as a big thank you. Also, why the gear cannot be dropped and only destroyed? :(",[182,189,199],{"value":183,"source":99,"evidence":184},"Add HJKL or WASD movement keys.",[185],{"id":186,"by":187,"text":188},"42087570","CatAtHeart","One suggestion is to allow for HJKL or WASD movement. Arrow keys are fine and intuitive, but not in the best location. I remember playing nethack years ago and it had the HJKL…",{"value":190,"source":99,"evidence":191},"Fix music and volume bugs on iOS and sound settings wraparound.",[192,195],{"id":193,"by":142,"text":194},"42093452","And sort of a bug report: on iPhone, if you switch from Safari to another app and then back, the music stops working until you reload the page, go to the settings, change music…",{"id":196,"by":197,"text":198},"42086652","Rhapso","Sound settings should not wrap back around to max when you hit the \"volume down\" button a lot.",{"value":200,"source":99,"evidence":201},"Offer an ad-supported or open source version.",[202,206],{"id":203,"by":204,"text":205},"42088273","dave333","Wonder if OP has given any thought to an ad supported version for the cheapskates among us :-)",{"id":207,"by":208,"text":209},"42093139","blacktechnology","I really love this game! 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What \"web tech\" did you use to build it?",{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},{"value":231,"source":99,"evidence":232},"What does the item stat notation mean?",[233],{"id":234,"by":235,"text":236},"42100477","IgorPartola","I am somewhat confused by the item stats. What does “+2 (x3)” mean?",[238,245,252,259],{"value":239,"source":99,"evidence":240},"Brogue",[241],{"id":242,"by":243,"text":244},"42088128","bryceneal","I enjoyed it, though for my taste it was maybe a little too simplistic and easy. The original rogue is before my time, but at one point I got very hooked on brogue…",{"value":246,"source":99,"evidence":247},"Jupiter Hell",[248],{"id":249,"by":250,"text":251},"42087173","jbellis","On the subject of scifi roguelikes, I've sunk 700+ hours into Jupiter Hell. I've been playing roguelikes since the original Rogue in the 80s and I think JH is the GOAT: skill…",{"value":253,"source":99,"evidence":254},"Rogule",[255],{"id":256,"by":257,"text":258},"42086619","kemotep","Chris is also the developer behind rogule[0], a daily roguelike dungeon in a similar style as wordle or tradle type games. Absolutely been enjoying it the past year. [0]:…",{"value":260,"source":99,"evidence":261},"NetHack",[262,263],{"id":186,"by":187,"text":188},{"id":264,"by":265,"text":266},"42091277","WesolyKubeczek","In Nethack, there is a command (i think under comma or semicolon) where you stand on an item and it tells you what it is. That is, what the character knows about the item. It…",{"comments":268,"answered":18,"key":269},11,[270,271,274],{"id":52,"text":53},{"id":272,"text":273},"42087068","No it is only for access to the web version at this point, sorry!",{"id":275,"text":276},"42093601","OMG I'm so sorry. 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