Escape The Delivery by StefanHolst

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made by StefanHolst for Ludum Dare 53 (COMPO)

It's a puzzle delivery game. Figure out the puzzles to get to the next maps. Solve all puzzles to win...

note: it’s very hard.

Run Guide

  1. Please set the size of your terminal to 120x36 (min at least).
  2. Run the executable for your platform.

Controls

  • Navigate with the arrow keys.
  • Interact with stuff using the space key.
  • When submitting in dialog boxes, press the enter key.

Hints

There's a collections of hints here.

Ratings

Overall 219th 3.474⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 211th 3.361⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 103th 3.667⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 286th 3.556⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 249th 3.395⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 139th 3.194⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 194th 3.333⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 16🗳️ 16🗨️

Feedback

ZenBreaker
01. May 2023 · 11:33 UTC
On Windows 10 I couldnt start your game. It just doesnt open. Didnt want to try opening it as admin. So if you fix it, feel free to @ me.
snesgaard
01. May 2023 · 13:22 UTC
On Linux you need to install .Net 6.0 to run this:

```bash
sudo apt install dotnet6
```
aushijo
01. May 2023 · 13:42 UTC
it doesn't open on windows 11
Helen
01. May 2023 · 22:37 UTC
I played it on windows 11.
Nice idea :) - I only managed to deliver package A and B. After that I was totally lost because the other keys are missing. What am I doing wrong?
🎤 StefanHolst
02. May 2023 · 02:00 UTC
@helen there’s does marked with “x x x” that Can be opened with keys. And then there’s chests that can be solved for more keys. Solve all the puzzles to reveal the final code. You get hints for the chest when you fail them
LDJam user 243929
03. May 2023 · 02:18 UTC
The game said Get Out If You Can... and I couldn't get out :(
That said, I adore such TUI-based gameplay, wish the character would move a bit faster though. Huge kudos for preparing a Linux build! :penguin: :heart:
🎤 StefanHolst
03. May 2023 · 10:15 UTC
@pierogo I made a page with some hints [here](https://github.com/StefanHolst/LD53/blob/main/Readme.md). I realize getting the difficulty right is pretty hard. I might have made it way too hard.
Lisek Gagatek
03. May 2023 · 15:18 UTC
Download link takes me to the 404 error on github site. The donwloads only started, when I logged onto my github account, but I took me a while to figure out.
MoebiusMeow
03. May 2023 · 17:07 UTC
Wow I love this kind of puzzles.

I successfully figured out to take the key in the description text but I got stucked later. So bad that my console failed to display some characters therefore I can't solve the language puzzles.

![0230504004522.png](///raw/7bf/92/z/5b115.png)

The morse puzzles is clever and fair to player. While the trap room puzzle really trapped me XD. I tried to bring a box into the room to stop me from reseting my position, but it turned out to be a wrong answer.

Nice entry after all!
🎤 StefanHolst
04. May 2023 · 01:49 UTC
@moebiusmeow I'm glad you enjoyed the game :) I'm sorry to see that the console failed to display the characters correctly.

It was supposed to look like ![screenshot](///raw/893/c1/z/5b2e5.png).

Are you using windows? Maybe you need to change your console codepage. [Maybe this will help](https://superuser.com/questions/269818/change-default-code-page-of-windows-console-to-utf-8)

Unfortunately I don't have access to a Windows machine currently, so I can't verify :(
justslavic
04. May 2023 · 18:20 UTC
Requiring .NET for a terminal game is kinda ridiculous in my opinion
🎤 StefanHolst
05. May 2023 · 01:29 UTC
@justslavic You're right. I updated the executable to not require dotnet.
Smoky01
05. May 2023 · 06:04 UTC
Very good and interesting idea))
Richard Baltrusch
06. May 2023 · 17:35 UTC
Couldn't get out of the first box :( (full-screen or not win10)
Stephen Kyranakis
06. May 2023 · 22:41 UTC
Very interesting! I like the idea of playing in the terminal
Wakobu
13. May 2023 · 21:00 UTC
We did it! Nice little game
bentglasstube
18. May 2023 · 00:18 UTC
All the download links are 404s for me unless I log in to github which is a bit annoying. Also on windows 11 it was very laggy which made it hard to play. Still, it was a fun entry and unusual to see a text-based game like this.
island-jam-2-group-3
18. May 2023 · 21:20 UTC
All download links give me a 404 :-(
Pizzasgood
18. May 2023 · 23:18 UTC
That was cool. It took me way longer than it should have to realize why the morse code one was just repeating the same character, but it was so obvious in hindsight. :face_palm: I especially liked the counting puzzle. Would've been nice if that room had opened up a shortcut though, because navigating the non-euclidean hallway so many times got a little tedious.