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Lifepuzzler posted:Loving this game, I just purchased the OST because its fantastic. Reminds me a lot of FEZ in some of the more ambient songs. You're on the right track, but you've gotta sneak in at night
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Arrrthritis posted:How the heck do I enter The mines? So far i've Gotten the card from the CEO's office, and dug up all the dead bodies in front of them. I want to use the flute-ish looking thing or combine it with something but idk what and I wanna rescue my doggie There is someone in the city that seems to be somehow involved with the mines. He can help you with the "flute"-thing.
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Arrrthritis posted:How the heck do I enter The mines? So far i've Gotten the card from the CEO's office, and dug up all the dead bodies in front of them. I want to use the flute-ish looking thing or combine it with something but idk what and I wanna rescue my doggie read the guy before me's hint first, mine just basically tells you :P you have to to bring the mine protester guy near the record store the broken handle thing found in the mine exterior, and he'll help you out. also, he has a missing loved one who may also be able to help. look at all of his pictures and things in his area.
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Sep 11, 2015 04:06
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Gaspy Conana posted:read the guy before me's hint first, mine just basically tells you :P Ahhh okay. So I think if I know what i'm supposed to do then. I need to find the dude's loved one for the other lever, who is probably at the island anti-vampire cult, who I probably need to collect all the book pages to talk to. Or maybe they're somewhere else in the world. Dropsy best be searching. e: Or I could just fix the boat. That too. Arrrthritis fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Sep 11, 2015 |
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Sep 11, 2015 04:20
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Does anyone know how to get the vampire mask? I've gotten pretty far and I have the locket but I can't seem to do much or anything with it.
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Sep 11, 2015 04:49
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:Does anyone know how to get the vampire mask? I've gotten pretty far and I have the locket but I can't seem to do much or anything with it. I was stuck without it for a while, so no hint, just the simple one step process of: go to the graveyard at night
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Sep 11, 2015 05:24
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I forgot what I ordered, just that I think it cost $25 and it was bought after the kickstarter. How would I find out what I picked up?
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Sep 11, 2015 05:47
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Lifepuzzler posted:I was stuck without it for a while, so no hint, just the simple one step process of: Sick. That was easy. Now I'm stuck on finding a bone for the soup. I can't even remember where one might be ugh.
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Sep 11, 2015 05:51
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^^^ mineRandomPauI posted:I forgot what I ordered, just that I think it cost $25 and it was bought after the kickstarter. How would I find out what I picked up? Do you know if you used paypal or humble? If humble, they should be sending you a key. You got two soundtracks and a 100 page book of sketches/charts/other scribblings of mine. 
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Just a warning for all of you completionists out there. Going to The Circus after your travels in The Mines is the game's point of no return, so do whatever you can during that time. Ending spoilers Overall I loved the game. Wish I could have spent more time to figure out the stuff going on with the side characters/mini-dropsy in the game. I feel like you did a fantastic job with the lack of dialogue and speech, and provided an incredible in-game explanation for it as well. I laughed for a good 10 seconds at the big dramatic reveal of your adopted mother's note to you being completely incomprehensible, and I kind your father was a bit more vague about Dropsy being an alien. That's just my preference, however, the scene works great on its own and complements an already fantastic game. I did enjoy the bit at the ending where everyone you did help was talking to the police and playing dumb. ofc I did see the church lady sitting down smoking cigs at the playground to remind me of my own failures, but w/e, I'll be going back into the game and 100%ing it at some point. I did get a bit of a pan's labyrinth feeling from the end of the game, where you had the sense that maybe everything going on wasn't quite what it was on the surface- especially when Dropsy's animal friends are back in the ship, unharmed. I think that was a good call of leaving the ending open to interpretation. Also, hoped that translating the note on the computer would yield more than a thank you letter to a Doctor, but hey w/e it's cool that there was a consistency behind all the scribblings in the game. Does the ending change depending on how much of the side stuff you complete? What if you assemble the statue?
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Gaspy Conana posted:^^^ mine Hmmmm but how do you get the dog back? I got the bird to send the cart the Area 1, which I assume is the junkyard. Or did it do something else?
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Sep 11, 2015 06:00
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I was mistaken, I didn't order it like I thought. Doh! Which way of purchasing the game gives you the biggest cut of money?
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Sep 11, 2015 06:02
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Reminder that you can pre-order the Dropsy soundtrack on limited edition vinyl. Looks like the release date for it got pushed back though, and won't be out until late October-ish? I love this game and I love this soundtrack. Chris Schlarb did real good.
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Sep 11, 2015 06:33
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:Hmmmm but how do you get the dog back? I got the bird to send the cart the Area 1, which I assume is the junkyard. Or did it do something else? yeah you sent him where you thought you did. you just need to gain access to the junkyard now
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Sep 11, 2015 06:43
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Potential spoilers I guess Does Dropsy ever learn how to read, or do I have to try to bust out cryptoskillz or something to read the note in the abandoned gnome home?
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Sep 11, 2015 06:56
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Wow. Managed to figure it all out and got to the end. That ending...jesus christ. I'm kinda sad it's over already.
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Sep 11, 2015 06:57
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heh heh. did you predict any of it at all?Lifepuzzler posted:Potential spoilers I guess that would've been neat, ha, but yeah you just have to translate everything if you really want to know. it's just an english glyph replacement thingy. if you look at some obvious things like the hopsital (the front sign reads HOSPITAL) it's pretty easy to parse
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Sep 11, 2015 07:08
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Gaspy Conana posted:that would've been neat, ha, but yeah you just have to translate everything if you really want to know. it's just an english glyph replacement thingy. if you look at some obvious things like the hopsital (the front sign reads HOSPITAL) it's pretty easy to parse Cool, just wanted to know if it'd be worth my time after I beat it for some of the more odd pieces of art around the game. Edit: Also I am really impressed with the game so far, I finally found my point-n-click 8 year old inner self that used to exist when I played Secret of Atlantis back in the day. Lifepuzzler fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Sep 11, 2015 |
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Sep 11, 2015 07:21
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I feel REALLY dumb, but I beat the game with some missing things. I'm running it again to try and catch whatever I might have missed. where is the horn and how do I get it? I feel like I missed something super obvious here.
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Sep 11, 2015 07:35
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This game is the most feel-good game I've played in ages. Last night I came home after a really long day, found that I'd received my Dropsy activation code, installed it and played it for a couple of hours. I love everything about it. As a person who played through most of the classic LucasArts adventure games as a kid but got really frustrated with some of the more obtuse puzzles, I love the fact that the game doesn't have any puzzles that require lots of gamey thinking. I did get stuck in one part but while I was trying to figure out the solution I was happy to just roam around and do a few of the so-called Hug puzzles, and even in those there was a really nice feeling of flow when I could simply figure the puzzles out by figuring out what the person in question wanted based on their dialogue bubbles. My favorite was stealing the sandwich from the church by blasting metal on the cassette player to distract the weird preacher woman so I could give the old lady a sandwich. Although I wonder how I'm supposed to help the preacher woman: she spends every night smoking on the slide, her dialogue bubbles suggesting that she's sad about the lack of people at the church. I tried playing cool dance music on the cassette player to attract people to the church, but that sadly didn't work. I take it I might have to find a way to spread the word about her church somehow? However, I also love that there's a dark edge to the game's feel-good nature: some of the dream sequences are genuinely creepy.
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I am sorry, are the kickstarter keys completely sent yet? I have yet to see mine. Then again I may be just impatient.
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Ratpick posted:Although I wonder how I'm supposed to help the preacher woman: she spends every night smoking on the slide, her dialogue bubbles suggesting that she's sad about the lack of people at the church. I tried playing cool dance music on the cassette player to attract people to the church, but that sadly didn't work. I take it I might have to find a way to spread the word about her church somehow? That one was kinda tricky for me too. I didn't figure it out until I started this second run. There's a set of keys in a mouse hole behind the church. they go to locker latch on the inside of the church.
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Gaspy Conana posted:heh heh. did you predict any of it at all? The only thing I was able to get was Beardo being the primary antagonist of the game. It seemed to make sense that in a place where everyone is initially openly hostile, the guy who comes across as understanding would be the one most out to harm Dropsy. That he was Dropsy's alien older brother I didn't get until the big reveal. I also figured there would be a moment where everyone you helped would stick up for you but hey that's pretty much a necessity in feel-good stuff. My initial thoughts were that Dropsy's dad was going to die 2/3rds of the way through the game, and by the end of the game Dropsy would have found a place in and be accepted by the community that feared him in a way that turns him self-sufficient. When Dropsy's dad got better everything was thrown for a loop and I was just along for the ride. All in all I thought the game had a pretty great ending.
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Oh man, good, that's probably the optimal response to the ending. Also, I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it everyone!Unlucky7 posted:I am sorry, are the kickstarter keys completely sent yet? I have yet to see mine. Then again I may be just impatient. Nah, I totally messed up a spreadsheet I uploaded to mailchimp so I've been brute force sending chunks of them because I'm not sure who actually got theirs. I'll hit ya up directly.
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Sep 11, 2015 08:13
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Okay I am stumped again, been wandering around for far too long How do I send the cart back to the junkyard? I sent the cart to point 2 really early on the first time I was at the junkyard, but now the bird goes into the room with the monitors and it doesnt look like it can do anything.
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Lifepuzzler posted:Okay I am stumped again, been wandering around for far too long you have to send it from the inside of the mine in the northern part of the map
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Colon Semicolon posted:That one was kinda tricky for me too. I didn't figure it out until I started this second run. There's a set of keys in a mouse hole behind the church. they go to locker latch on the inside of the church. Oh, cool! I was just joined by the little rat buddy and had already noticed the mouse hole, so I was going to do that next anyway!
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Arrrthritis posted:That he was Dropsy's alien older brother I didn't get until the big reveal. Wow, I completely missed that somehow. In the ending sequence it made sense that he was an alien too based on the weird experiments plus the whole alien baby crib extras but I didn't catch that. Then again I played it start to finish with no breaks so... The ending was pretty loving awesome. I think this is one of the only games with a twist ending like that I really enjoyed instead of getting angry and yelling out a "this is bullshit!" in the gooniest voice I can. A+ Will be playing through again alongside my friends when they wake up.
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Gaspy Conana posted:Oh man, good, that's probably the optimal response to the ending. Also, I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it everyone! Thank you so much! I think I will buy an extra copy at one of the other online stores out of appreciation!
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There's probably lots of examples of games that do this glyph replacement thing, for one most recent example of a game that did it in a cool way without requiring taking notes was Homesick (homesick spoiler: you basically find glyph toy cubes which you assign them to the letter you think they represent, and then all text in the game has this glyph replaced by the character you assigned I am now going around the game translating stuff I missed or thought they were just flavor text  . And I did completely miss the note in the rickety trailer house.Also, I had previously finished the game without using the skeleton hand, so just for funsies I tried giving that to the soup lady at the junkyard instead of the glowing yellow (duck?) bone, and I was surprised to see that she was happy to use it anyway! Hahah!. Though, I tried something similar earlier, as a possible alternative solution to a puzzle and it didn't work. Basically, it is possible to visit the junkyard site with your dad before giving the old homeless lady a sandwich; at which point you can get an extra creamy fudge thing from the fridge at the junkyard. I thought I could give that to the homeless lady... but that didn't work And, I hadn't noticed before, but apparently Dropsy will randomly choose one of the tapes he has in his pockets to play while traveling with the car! AbstractNapper fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Sep 11, 2015 |
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:Wow, I completely missed that somehow. In the ending sequence it made sense that he was an alien too based on the weird experiments plus the whole alien baby crib extras but I didn't catch that. Then again I played it start to finish with no breaks so... Yeah, I only had a hunch about it when You're going underneath the abandoned trailer, and you see two pods that are similar to Dropsy's, and a picture of both Dropsy and another clown with blood coming out of their faces. My suspicions were confirmed when I read the Book of Secrets. I feel like so much of this game is open to interpretation that it's fair game to draw your own conclusions from the ending. A friend's interpretation of it is that Dropsy is as developmentally disabled as we think he is, and the fact that things get more surreal the more you stray away from home is his disability and inability to comprehend the environment making itself manifest- we are seeing the world through Dropsy's lens, after all, and him going to unfamiliar places can give everything an incredibly alien vibe. He also thinks that Dropsy's dad actually did die and everything after that was Dropsy coming up with a rationalization for why a stranger would want to hurt him and his friends, with the spaceship sequence being Dropsy's afterlife. It's very clearly not what was intended, but I think a lot of the fun of this game is seeing what conclusions people come to with the evidence provided. Another thing about the Book of Secrets. On one of the first pages There is the entire glyph alphabet in a small blue font. Arrrthritis fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Sep 11, 2015 |
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Sep 11, 2015 08:58
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Gaspy Conana posted:^^^ I'm brute force sending all of the keys today. It may take a while, but you'll get it soon enough. I you've finished sending them, I haven't gotten it. I'm on Humble, under my usual email address.
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BiggerJ posted:I you've finished sending them, I haven't gotten it. I'm on Humble, under my usual email address. If you preordered through Humble the email you got confirming your order should have a link to your personal download page.
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Beautiful. Beautiful game. I never figured out how to help the little girl though 
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Ratpick posted:If you preordered through Humble the email you got confirming your order should have a link to your personal download page. I backed via Paypal during the Kickstarter. The Humble Store talk confused me. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Sep 11, 2015 |
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Sep 11, 2015 09:26
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On a similar note, Jay, how are the beta testers getting the extra stuff such as the Book of Secrets and the soundtrack? Will our copy on Steam be upgraded?
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There's a few things bothering me as I play through it again with my friend: Where do you use the bracelet with all the religious symbols on it? I haven't found any applicable situations for that. Goddamn alien chaser dude. I can't figure out where to get the whistle/flute to get rings from the alien. and finally: What's up with the hospital? Is that location locked with no way in? edit: Forgot about this one! The purple bead things you get from the miner redhead. Nobody seems to want them! Horrible Smutbeast fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Sep 11, 2015 |
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Sep 11, 2015 11:06
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:There's a few things bothering me as I play through it again with my friend: Inside the church. There is a locked window. The bracelet used to have a combination to the lock and you would have to put it manually, but this was dropped during the beta. A lot of puzzles changed for the better, but I think I liked this one better as it was originally. quote:Goddamn alien chaser dude. I can't figure out where to get the whistle/flute to get rings from the alien. quote:and finally: quote:edit: Forgot about this one! The purple bead things you get from the miner redhead. Nobody seems to want them!
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AbstractNapper posted:A lot of puzzles changed for the better, but I think I liked this one better as it was originally. Ah, cute! It's neat seeing the leftover bits of the older versions of puzzles like that. As for the whistle, would you happen to know where it is? I can't seem to get one. edit- oh no, did that one coin I pick up and give to the homeless guy glitch me out??? Horrible Smutbeast fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Sep 11, 2015 |
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:As for the whistle, would you happen to know where it is? I can't seem to get one. You can get a whistle from the guy in an alien costume in a trailer north of the city - close to the junkyard. You'll have to pay for it.
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