Aaauuugh!! I was on track to a 300+ point victory, then got screwed over by the orb scroll. I had already found and marked the mimic with "11" so I could avoid it, but when I used the orb scroll it revealed the mimic's square as a chest and erased my marker. I clicked on the chest without checking and ended my run. So frustrating! I feel like the game shouldn't preserve your marker if you placed it on a treasure chest square, pretty unfair way to end the game.
Amazing game, but I'd like to ask for some help with or a README included in the download so I know how to run it without digging through the files and code?
Running the index.html brings up a frozen intro screen. I'm using Windows 11. I'm also unable to access the new version in the Developer log.
Max of 3, since for full clear you have to defeat every enemy and the other three require you to leave certain enemies alive. I don't know how realistic it is, but I don't see why you couldn't get Lovers Survive, Next Generation, and Rat Pacifist in one run
It is possible, and relatively frequently tackled. You have to scroll down a little to find it but we even mathed the theoretical highest score possible while also doing a three-stamp run. It's 325, but you need to not use a single health scroll until 9 hearts, and corner the gnome BEFORE you reach 10 hearts as well as all the chests. It is very difficult, but with some luck, possible. JUST doing a three stamp run at all, though, is still hard but doable, especially if you can luck into finding Rat King early.
Got a perfect clear with no orbs used. I suspect it’s 80% early dumb luck, 10% early rat king and 10% strategy. Plus the rat king revealed the eventual location of the bomb scroll as the other corners had rats in them. I think detonating all the bombs as soon as you get to 10 hearts is an important step to a perfect clear.
One strategic insight is that it’s best to start with the squares around the dragon, as they’re more constrained than everywhere else. One has to have the egg, and the squares that are directly North, South, East or West of it can’t contain 7s. Essentially that means if you click all the squares around the dragon and clear them, you’ve probably got a good layout for this challenge.
Early on you’ve got to expand in whatever direction you have good information for, and I suspect that if this goes in the opposite direction to the King Rat area then it might be best to restart. The rat reveal is essential for two reasons: 1. The rats give you much more flexibility in using up your hearts, 2. The information you get from killing them is even more useful in this run where you’re very constrained by not using orbs.
Finally got board clear with 13 hearts remaining, which I think is the best possible run for board clear. To do this, you need to all the free XP before using any heart scrolls (egg+chests+defused mines+gnome). You use the first scroll at 11 health.
Need good RNG in regards to getting egg/treasure chest and quickly locating slime wizard/rat king. Basically need to have as much board info as possible ASAP to remove empty squares in order to get the gnome (this also requires careful analysis of squares).
Took me about 30-40 attempts, restarting when initial RNG didn't look promising. Had about 5 serious runs before finally getting it, having to blind guess between mine or gnome (25-50% success chance) and failing until the last attempt where because of good enough RNG, didn't have to make any blind guesses.
Probably took around 4 hrs total, went slowly to avoid any mistakes and was clenching whenever I had to make completely random guesses. Fun challenge, though can't imagine trying to speedrun it, would be so stressful.
I think I encountered a bug? Spoiler alert: in 9/10 of cases gargoyles look at each other, but in this case it didn't happen. Maybe those screenshots will help you with fixing that and making your game even better?
Well yes, I'm aware that map changes and that there are patterns. One of those patterns is gargoyles looking at each other, it was the case in literally every game I played so far except this one case I posted. I posted it so the developer can see for himself what happened: gargoyle was looking at a skeleton rather than at another gargoyle. Hopefully that will give him a better of what happened when his game generated this map and fix it.
I think this is good, but I feel l like it's missing something? Like, the trouble I've been finding is that I'm often building up straight walls which make it very hard to start chipping in. Particularly when there are still mines on the table.
For the 'Clear Board' stamp, do you need to get the egg, gnome, and all the xp chests before using a single heal scroll? And for 'Rat Pacifist', do you have to spare both the king and the rats?
I just got the Rat pacifist stamp (finally). You can get the king first, but leave the other 13 rats alive. i got the king by randomly clicking at the beginning of the round, then solved the rest of the puzzle from there. It's a different challenge not being able to step on the rats lol
For the Clear Board stamp, there is no direct game rule requirement for to get all the XP before using a single health scroll.
In the current v1.1.18 version of the game, there will always be three +5XP treasure chests in the game.
The theoretical latest that one would have to use a health scroll is when they run out of HP with 11 heart containers. This playthrough would lead to 13 HP left at the end with a max clear. I've never got that much, my record is 10 HP left at the end. So the game is quite generous with extra health for the Clear Board achievement.
The gnome +9XP is very late game, getting that before having to use a health scroll would require tremendous luck. I typically get the gnome XP about the time I have used one or two health scrolls.
Typically I get the egg and one, or if lucky, two +5 XP chests before having to use a health scroll, and do so at about 8 health containers.
The mine king kill is generally easy to get immediately upon reaching lv10, to maximize the health gain there.
Another but subtle change in recent versions (current is the same 1.1.18) gives you way more hearts to play with as rexact points out. Took me a while to realize having been conditioned from earlier versions. Some spoiler space for hints...
When does the game end? ...
No really, how many clicks until the game ends...
Killing the dragon is not the last action you take.
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I finally managed to clear the board and get a perfect score!
And finally the Rat King!
it took me 157 trys but I did it
I'm not sure what to do after downloading the game. There's no .exe file?
You have to serve the files with some sort of HTTP server. For example, install Python and then run this from the unzipped folder:
then go to http://localhost:8080 in your browser and the game is playable.
Wow it's very nice game 💯🔥🔥
Absolutely loving this, have been playing it on and off for 3 days and I think you've struck gold with this one.
Could I humbly request a keyboard shortcut for leveling up?
I humbly request that do so you must type out "J O R G E"
Amazing game!!!! Took a few days to get all stamps :D
Aaauuugh!! I was on track to a 300+ point victory, then got screwed over by the orb scroll. I had already found and marked the mimic with "11" so I could avoid it, but when I used the orb scroll it revealed the mimic's square as a chest and erased my marker. I clicked on the chest without checking and ended my run. So frustrating! I feel like the game shouldn't preserve your marker if you placed it on a treasure chest square, pretty unfair way to end the game.
Amazing game, but I'd like to ask for some help with or a README included in the download so I know how to run it without digging through the files and code?
Running the index.html brings up a frozen intro screen. I'm using Windows 11.
I'm also unable to access the new version in the Developer log.
You have to use the terminal to launch your browser with all permissions
Incredible game! Anyone know how many stamps it's possible to get on one run?
Max of 3, since for full clear you have to defeat every enemy and the other three require you to leave certain enemies alive. I don't know how realistic it is, but I don't see why you couldn't get Lovers Survive, Next Generation, and Rat Pacifist in one run
Would be interesting to see if it's possible!
It is possible, and relatively frequently tackled. You have to scroll down a little to find it but we even mathed the theoretical highest score possible while also doing a three-stamp run. It's 325, but you need to not use a single health scroll until 9 hearts, and corner the gnome BEFORE you reach 10 hearts as well as all the chests. It is very difficult, but with some luck, possible. JUST doing a three stamp run at all, though, is still hard but doable, especially if you can luck into finding Rat King early.
Level XPBank XPGain Extra XP2Lvl
1 0 +5HP -4
2 1 +5HP -5
3 1 +6HP -7
4 0 +6HP +5chest -9
5 2 +7HP -9
6 0 +7HP +5chest -10
7 2 +8HP +5chest -12
8 3 +8HP +9gnome -12
9 8 +9HP -12
10 5 +9HP +9HP -15
11 8 +10HP +27mine -18
12 27 +10HP -21
13 16 +11HP -21
14 6 +11HP +11HP -25
15 3 +12HP +12HP -25
16 2 +12HP +12HP -25
17 1 +13HP +13HP -25
18 2 +13HP +13HP -25
19 3 +14HP +14HP -25
20 6 +14HP -20(-25 to level up)
Total 325
This is an example of a 325 Three Stamp Run giving as much room as possible for the chests/gnome. You see its still REALLY tight.
How did you get this report?
It's definitely possible to get Lovers and Next Generation in one run, I did that.
it's not clean, but here is a finished "no crystal ball" run. it's probably possible to full clear if you get lucky
we are just making up runs left end right.. i love it
Got a perfect clear with no orbs used. I suspect it’s 80% early dumb luck, 10% early rat king and 10% strategy. Plus the rat king revealed the eventual location of the bomb scroll as the other corners had rats in them. I think detonating all the bombs as soon as you get to 10 hearts is an important step to a perfect clear.
One strategic insight is that it’s best to start with the squares around the dragon, as they’re more constrained than everywhere else. One has to have the egg, and the squares that are directly North, South, East or West of it can’t contain 7s. Essentially that means if you click all the squares around the dragon and clear them, you’ve probably got a good layout for this challenge.
Early on you’ve got to expand in whatever direction you have good information for, and I suspect that if this goes in the opposite direction to the King Rat area then it might be best to restart. The rat reveal is essential for two reasons: 1. The rats give you much more flexibility in using up your hearts, 2. The information you get from killing them is even more useful in this run where you’re very constrained by not using orbs.
this is so cool
Minor issue report:
the timer starts on game load; I'd make it start from the opening of first square.
Nice game BTW! ;)
That was ridiculously fun! Trying to do the board clear achievement now
great game
Thanks. Please return the original soundtrack, this ... long-pause-then-dubstepped-remix isn't doing it for me.
amazing way to procrastinate for an hour
Very Fun!
This game makes my brain feel very good
Finally got board clear with 13 hearts remaining, which I think is the best possible run for board clear. To do this, you need to all the free XP before using any heart scrolls (egg+chests+defused mines+gnome). You use the first scroll at 11 health.
Need good RNG in regards to getting egg/treasure chest and quickly locating slime wizard/rat king. Basically need to have as much board info as possible ASAP to remove empty squares in order to get the gnome (this also requires careful analysis of squares).
Took me about 30-40 attempts, restarting when initial RNG didn't look promising. Had about 5 serious runs before finally getting it, having to blind guess between mine or gnome (25-50% success chance) and failing until the last attempt where because of good enough RNG, didn't have to make any blind guesses.
Probably took around 4 hrs total, went slowly to avoid any mistakes and was clenching whenever I had to make completely random guesses. Fun challenge, though can't imagine trying to speedrun it, would be so stressful.
Impressive!
I’m still griding the “3 stamp run with max score”. I have had about 10 or so serious runs after a gazillion restarts. So I know what you did here!
I think I encountered a bug? Spoiler alert: in 9/10 of cases gargoyles look at each other, but in this case it didn't happen. Maybe those screenshots will help you with fixing that and making your game even better?
And here's the map after I poked the dragon to reveal it:
the map always changes so that won't give an exact replica of what it should be there are patterns though like the egg is always touching the dragon
Well yes, I'm aware that map changes and that there are patterns. One of those patterns is gargoyles looking at each other, it was the case in literally every game I played so far except this one case I posted. I posted it so the developer can see for himself what happened: gargoyle was looking at a skeleton rather than at another gargoyle. Hopefully that will give him a better of what happened when his game generated this map and fix it.
How do you know there isn't a gargoyle touching the other one from the top?
Look at their red eyes - they're pointing in the direction where the other gargoyle is supposed to be.
Lotta fun
Hit max score, but also just discovered the nice Easter egg with Romeo & Juliet. Well done game!
Love the game! Latest update doesn't seem to allow me to long press to use the labelling any longer... are the controls different now?
I've been playing on my phone primarily, so I can't right-click... hoping I have another option?
Press and hold
Yeah, that used to work for me but doesn't seem to anymore last I tried. I'll try again I guess.
EDIT: Yeah, no luck, it immediately activates instead of letting me hold it.
how low can the fc go?
Absolute gem of a game. Simple mechanics with complex interactions, great challenge level, exactly as much of it as there needs to be. Awesome work.
Fricking love it! Is there any place to find a list of acheivements?
I've gotten the egg, Lovers, 100% clear, no mice. Anything else?
Oh I found it....second page of monsternomicon. Oops.
Awesome! Do you have a twitter handle?
No, but I'm Tomangleberger on IG.
Got so close to 100% - I only needed one more heart to finish a wall rip
Numbers are way too similar, 5 looks exactly like 8
I get you, but it seems to be a web only bug. The DL version works fine
I misunderstood the Lovers Survive achievement at first, and beat the game without killing a single gargoyle. Oops.
I have all the achievements now, but thought I'd share a funny moment.
I think this is good, but I feel l like it's missing something? Like, the trouble I've been finding is that I'm often building up straight walls which make it very hard to start chipping in. Particularly when there are still mines on the table.
Can ye beat a 5:22 3 stamp run??
Super imressive!
Daniel, qué juegazo... pero qué difícil :D
He jugado mucho al buscaminas, pero esto es otro nivel.
La práctica hace al maestro. Me llega a ser más fácil (o llevadero?) que el Buscaminas.
WOW I could not stop playing until four hours later I finnaly beat the dragon! Thanks, amazing work!
Fantastic game. Purchased. Finally got a perfect score today after many games this week. Well done.
This was fun, thank you.
For the 'Clear Board' stamp, do you need to get the egg, gnome, and all the xp chests before using a single heal scroll? And for 'Rat Pacifist', do you have to spare both the king and the rats?
I just got the Rat pacifist stamp (finally). You can get the king first, but leave the other 13 rats alive. i got the king by randomly clicking at the beginning of the round, then solved the rest of the puzzle from there. It's a different challenge not being able to step on the rats lol
For the Clear Board stamp, there is no direct game rule requirement for to get all the XP before using a single health scroll.
In the current v1.1.18 version of the game, there will always be three +5XP treasure chests in the game.
The theoretical latest that one would have to use a health scroll is when they run out of HP with 11 heart containers. This playthrough would lead to 13 HP left at the end with a max clear. I've never got that much, my record is 10 HP left at the end. So the game is quite generous with extra health for the Clear Board achievement.
The gnome +9XP is very late game, getting that before having to use a health scroll would require tremendous luck. I typically get the gnome XP about the time I have used one or two health scrolls.
Typically I get the egg and one, or if lucky, two +5 XP chests before having to use a health scroll, and do so at about 8 health containers.
The mine king kill is generally easy to get immediately upon reaching lv10, to maximize the health gain there.
Another but subtle change in recent versions (current is the same 1.1.18) gives you way more hearts to play with as rexact points out. Took me a while to realize having been conditioned from earlier versions. Some spoiler space for hints...
When does the game end? ...
No really, how many clicks until the game ends...
Killing the dragon is not the last action you take.