Show HN: Dimity Jones in Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel

4 comments

• kej 14 days ago
  I've been playing with this off and on since the previous post, and it's such a cool idea. Thank you for sharing it.

  Are there any differences between the previous version on github and this version on itch.io?

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  • larryboyko 14 days ago
    Some slight edits and revisions, yes, but the substance of the story hasn't changed.

    Thanks for playing!
• derbOac 14 days ago
  This reminds me a bit of Cain's Jawbone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain%27s_Jawbone), but not quite as diabolical.
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  • larryboyko 13 days ago
    And hopefully this one won't take 85 years to find its audience ...!
  • larryboyko 14 days ago
    Perhaps I too should have offered a prize to the first to solve it!
• nmstoker 14 days ago
  It does look pretty cool, even though I'm not a massive puzzle-fan. The writing style is lively and the snippets shown do seem to draw you in.

  You mention that it was left unfinished - did you finish it or is it still unfinished?

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  • larryboyko 14 days ago
    I believe I'd call it finished now; hopefully Christine would agree. :)
• soferio 14 days ago
  Looks cool. What ages is the plaintext content suitable for?
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  • larryboyko 14 days ago
    Suitable for all ages, I think, though there are a couple of cuss words a few dozen chapters deep ...!
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    • soferio 14 days ago
      What is the character of the puzzles? Is there a variety?
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      • larryboyko 12 days ago
        Yes, there are a variety: logic problems, word puzzles, alphametics, various kinds of ciphers -- transposition, substitution, steganographic --, some coding challenges, and a whole slew of other puzzles that I don't quite know how to categorize.