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Seriously... I just completed the spaceship sequence and I'm too mad to even react properly (per HN standards). I knew this was gonna happen and it did happen.

Seriously... I just completed the spaceship sequence and I'm too mad to even react properly (per HN standards). I knew this was gonna happen and it did happen. Shame on me.

alainbryden 13y ago
Agreed. A minute of dodging, ship goes zoom, and then a game reset. It'd be nice to at least see a summary of my resources, or a score, or anything.
- PavlovsCat 13y ago
  I guess you could call it an adventure game? Yeah, the ending was a bit unexpected, but then again so was everything else :D I enjoyed it a lot, and it reminded me how with early games the imagination did most of the work. Though I found the sudden restart pointless, and I think it took away from the ending a little. Unless the point of course was that you crash, and find yourself in a room with a fire that's nearly gone out... [kinda like that book of the guy who rhymes with Peevin' Ping haha]
  - joshguthrie 13y ago
    It was a lot of things. "Stabbing-me-in-the-back" was one of them, but "unexpected" it was not. The first time I saw that "You're not coming back disclaimer", I knew: "Oh boy, they're not gonna throw me a parade when I get in space, nor generate another level... I'm just gonna get back in a dark room and start again. All this for...this!?" "TVTropes Will Ruin Your Life"
- ghshephard 13y ago
  Thanks for this note - I just finished (after about 6-7 hours of playing, and, I was 95% certain I had managed to dodge everything - but it wasn't completely clear) Happy to know the game ends in the way that you described and I didn't miss anything.
qrybam 13y ago
--- SPOILER ALERT --- Really enjoyed the game the whole way through, but I agree with other people on this thread, the ending (or lack of) kinda ripped my heart out. Glad I took some screenshots before flying off into space. http://bit.ly/17K3a1D http://bit.ly/17K3a1D - Building Screen http://bit.ly/12tUk37 http://bit.ly/12tUk37 - Production Screen http://bit.ly/17K3ldl http://bit.ly/17K3ldl - Dusty Path Screen (After getting Compass) http://bit.ly/14Eyk4u http://bit.ly/14Eyk4u - Map Screen http://bit.ly/17sIVSm http://bit.ly/17sIVSm - Starship Screen Sorry, no screenshots of end sequence - was too busy dodging falling ASCII characters.
- codezero 13y ago
  Just as a heads up, my map screen is different so I presume it's randomly generated.

Seriously... I just completed the spaceship sequence and I'm too mad to even react properly (per HN standards). I knew this was gonna happen and it did happen. Shame on me.

alainbryden 13y ago

Agreed. A minute of dodging, ship goes zoom, and then a game reset. It'd be nice to at least see a summary of my resources, or a score, or anything.

PavlovsCat 13y ago
I guess you could call it an adventure game? Yeah, the ending was a bit unexpected, but then again so was everything else :D I enjoyed it a lot, and it reminded me how with early games the imagination did most of the work. Though I found the sudden restart pointless, and I think it took away from the ending a little. Unless the point of course was that you crash, and find yourself in a room with a fire that's nearly gone out... [kinda like that book of the guy who rhymes with Peevin' Ping haha]
- joshguthrie 13y ago
  It was a lot of things. "Stabbing-me-in-the-back" was one of them, but "unexpected" it was not. The first time I saw that "You're not coming back disclaimer", I knew: "Oh boy, they're not gonna throw me a parade when I get in space, nor generate another level... I'm just gonna get back in a dark room and start again. All this for...this!?" "TVTropes Will Ruin Your Life"
ghshephard 13y ago
Thanks for this note - I just finished (after about 6-7 hours of playing, and, I was 95% certain I had managed to dodge everything - but it wasn't completely clear) Happy to know the game ends in the way that you described and I didn't miss anything.

qrybam 13y ago

--- SPOILER ALERT --- Really enjoyed the game the whole way through, but I agree with other people on this thread, the ending (or lack of) kinda ripped my heart out. Glad I took some screenshots before flying off into space. http://bit.ly/17K3a1D http://bit.ly/17K3a1D - Building Screen http://bit.ly/12tUk37 http://bit.ly/12tUk37 - Production Screen http://bit.ly/17K3ldl http://bit.ly/17K3ldl - Dusty Path Screen (After getting Compass) http://bit.ly/14Eyk4u http://bit.ly/14Eyk4u - Map Screen http://bit.ly/17sIVSm http://bit.ly/17sIVSm - Starship Screen Sorry, no screenshots of end sequence - was too busy dodging falling ASCII characters.

codezero 13y ago
Just as a heads up, my map screen is different so I presume it's randomly generated.