quentcomps's Comments

the white castle is a pretty good book, incidentally

pretty sure things would go more smoothly if the adviser was just put in charge...

About the scroll wheel thing - if u copy this javascript rule as a bookmark (just paste it in where a link would go) - you can click the bookmark and disable scrolling on the page. Which makes the game easier to play. javascript:var%20r="html,body{overflow:hidden%20!important;}";%20var%20mysty=document.getElementById("noscrollrule");%20if%20(!mysty){var%20s=document.createElement("style");%20s.type="text/css";%20s.id="noscrollrule";%20s.appendChild(document.createTextNode(r));%20document.body.appendChild(s);}else{mysty.remove();}%20void%200;

The mechanics are great, the controls are simple and sensible, just.. having to start over every time you run out of lives is immensely frustrating.

just a thought there's something kinda marxist about the narrative of this game. If Bushwhacking (the word itself has all sorts weird colonial overtones) is the means of production, it's a completely decentralized one. so even though there is scarcity, (usually through creative illogic - no one really needs 40 paintbrushes) hierarchical labor relations are impossible within the game's economy. And there's the whole implication that other people have different jobs and that only the bushwhacker bushwhacks. but it seems like very few of them are actually productive, and at most some of them do classically fulfilling work with the products the bushwhacker provides. which, again, sounds like a marxist utopia. I guess simulating an economy without the complexity of production is easier. It's interesting to notice, though, how capitalist micro-economies develop later in the game (pagas, alchemy), once the bushwhacker's powers of production are clearly demarcated.

that body in the fireplace is GRISLY

this feels sort of true detectivey

wouldn't it be easier to just build his own boat?