blevins29 wrote : Thanks to Exlibris, Son of Odin, and others I've finished this game. Cugel did a great job but there is one place I wish changes were made. I used version 1.2 so perhaps these corrections were done in one of the newer versions. When moving from room to room playing the game on day 7 the bedroom is at the top of the up/down display and labeled Bedroom whenever you are in the bedroom or living room. But when you go to the bathroom it is no longer there - it moves to the bottom of the rectangular room display and is incorrectly labeled OUT. Later on OUT will really mean "out of the house". This mislabeling and incorrect positioning caused me not to play the game correctly for hours. I also didn't see how a tutor could be hiding in two rooms on the same turn. For instance; how can Himawari in round 1 and Jazz in round 2 be in both the bedroom and kitchen on turn 4?
Hello,
You point out a tough problem I had with the vacation house. I needed a way for the player to be able to go to any room from any room. Since the bedroom was the only room upstairs, and the stairs are visible off the living room that was the only logical up/down linkage. The player needed to be able to get to the bedroom from either the kitchen or the bathroom which were also on the first floor. So I chose to have the out direction in those two rooms take a route outside the house and up some imaginary back stairs. You may have seen the message when you clicked out from those rooms that read, "You go out and up the back stairs.". I thought that having hallways, staircases or doors would have been way too much. There may have been a better way, but I could not find one. The labels North, Northeast, ..., Out, In, Up and Down are static in the game and cannot be changed by the game maker. A single story house would have been cleaner.
I had to vary turn 4 in a round when the player did not go to the right rooms on the first 3 turns, or else the Truth Teller holding the secret would be in the "winning" room when the player did not "earn" it. Hope that makes sense.
Glad to hear you made it through.