I enjoyed this. I liked the theme and your ideas about exploration - the game packs a lot of meaning into very simple mechanics.
One annoyance: it was frustrating the first time I played because I had too many rocks by the time I found out the required number. Which left me doomed...
Well, the theme was picked up right and the game has some nice elements (the texts and the mission and such). However, the flickering is just unreal. Why didn't you use any other method to set the cursor position than system("cls"); - I mean, you only have a windows version, anyway.
I was really impressed with the story of this, and even the graphics are very nice in a weird ASCII sort of way. It was a shame that the console graphics flash between moves. It made it fairly unpleasant to walk around, but I think you did a good job. Excellent implementation of the theme.
The game concept here is interesting. I collected some rocks, then found the scrawled note in the house. Immediately the game got more eerie, which is always good. Then I wandered around some more, found the giant eye, got told to bring him 59 stones. But I knew better! Explored some more, found a pyramid, and was told I had earned my freedom at the cost of my life... so I'm a little confused, I must admit. But it was kinda fun nonetheless.
The jitter of the console window really put me off this otherwise functional exploration game. I wouldn't have known to go in the house or the pyramid without different visual clues if I hadn't read the thread here.
Got lots of flickering whenever I moved which hurt my eyes a little. Story seemed interesting, but eventually I didn't know where to go and wandered aimlessly before quitting.
Also, you didn't include source code as mandated by rules?
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One annoyance: it was frustrating the first time I played because I had too many rocks by the time I found out the required number. Which left me doomed...
However, the flickering is just unreal. Why didn't you use any other method to set the cursor position than system("cls"); - I mean, you only have a windows version, anyway.
Also, you didn't include source code as mandated by rules?
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