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[Ultima Ratio Regum]

For a single night's work so far, I've made a surprisingly large amount of progress on trap generation. Should have something to show for it before too long...

[Ikaruga]

Hi, I'm stuck on a riddle :

I know where to place what but I have a problem interpreting what is what.

The singer of the early chorus : the sun, I suppose
The dark crescent : gibbous moon ?
The tusked one : the boar
The hidden moon : the eclipsed moon ?

I tried alternating the two moons but it didn't work either.

Any help please ?

[Gradiant]

I have a question about the puzzles. Does opposite just mean next to, or am I missing something. Also, sometimes I just read two nouns next to each other in a sentence, like "the dead one the several tiers", and then the rest of a seemingly unrelated clue. Is this intentional?

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

Hi, I'm stuck on a riddle :

I know where to place what but I have a problem interpreting what is what.

The singer of the early chorus : the sun, I suppose
The dark crescent : gibbous moon ?
The tusked one : the boar
The hidden moon : the eclipsed moon ?

I tried alternating the two moons but it didn't work either.

Any help please ?

All correct, except singer...

I have a question about the puzzles. Does opposite just mean next to, or am I missing something. Also, sometimes I just read two nouns next to each other in a sentence, like "the dead one the several tiers", and then the rest of a seemingly unrelated clue. Is this intentional?

There should be "is next to" or some direction in the middle. That's a serious bug. Can you tell me exactly what layout of puzzle it was, and what that and all the other clues were?

Edit: whoops, yes, opposite means next to. There's an irony here, since it used to say "next to" but I removed that because people felt it was too vague! It means it is the closest to another in any direction. Like:

OBADO

OOCOO

With a one-square gap in the middle; A is "opposite" B, C and D.

[Graknorke]

I think know what the singer is.

Spoiler: answer (click to show/hide)

Birds

It's pretty obvious.

[Gradiant]

There should be "is next to" or some direction in the middle. That's a serious bug. Can you tell me exactly what layout of puzzle it was, and what that and all the other clues were?

Edit: whoops, yes, opposite means next to. There's an irony here, since it used to say "next to" but I removed that because people felt it was too vague! It means it is the closest to another in any direction. Like:

OBADO

OOCOO

With a one-square gap in the middle; A is "opposite" B, C and D.

Thanks for the answer! I managed to solve it, but for bugfinding's sake the puzzle was set up like
ooo ooo ooo ooo

And the clues were:

• The dead one the several tiers, the snowed one rises west of the great serpent, and the several steps are built east of the flaming mount. 
• The twisting river rushes opposite the one who fires ink and the towering flame
• The pale insect drifts opposite the pale white and the mischievous one.
• The many tiers were built opposite the several tiers and the dark arc.
• The buzzing one flies opposite a coiled creature and the memento mori.

The puzzle was also the final one in the Ziggurat.

Another question: I got to another Ziggurat, and the final puzzle, which is formatted the same as the previous one, there has clues in the form of "A and B are together and opposite C and D". Does this mean that part of the solution is

XAB CDX

where X's identity doesn't matter?

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

Another question: I got to another Ziggurat, and the final puzzle, which is formatted the same as the previous one, there has clues in the form of "A and B are together and opposite C and D". Does this mean that part of the solution is

XAB CDX

where X's identity doesn't matter?

Thanks for the info! Will look into it. Must be a bug in that particular puzzle type.

As for the other, damn. It's a really ambiguous clue and I thought I'd removed all possibility for it to generate, but apparently I hadn't. Dammit. I'll make that change and upload a new version today or tomorrow. Many thanks for spotting it though . It means  CABD - so AB are touching, and the group are opposite C and D - but it's really unclear.

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

Planning to put out 0.3.1b tomorrow, all being well - a few minor fixes to a few rare puzzle generation bugs, and a couple of other things cleaned up. This TRULY SHOULD be the last update before 0.4! Also, a blog update will accompany it...

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

0.3.1b released with a few final small fixes - get it at http://www.ultimaratioregum.co.uk/game/downloads/. Devlog update approaching...

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

Uploaded a big devlog entry about URR, Cult:Awakening, Kickstarter, and other stuff. Thoughts appreciated:

http://www.ultimaratioregum.co.uk/game/2013/08/18/the-roguelike-community-kickstarter-cult-and-urr/

(Next week I'll be starting a retrospective series about a lot of the coding/design of 0.3!)

[Man of Paper]

now we’re onto something more like… I don’t know, Dark Souls meets Dwarf Fortress meets Europa Universalis meets Jorge Borges?

I am okay with all of this.

[Mephansteras]

Glad to hear you've got a good handle on what it takes to actually make your game.

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

now we’re onto something more like… I don’t know, Dark Souls meets Dwarf Fortress meets Europa Universalis meets Jorge Borges?

I am okay with all of this.

Eeeeeexcellent.

Glad to hear you've got a good handle on what it takes to actually make your game.

I think/hope so. I know it's the long haul, and that's fine.

Meanwhile:

"Trap smoke. Don't breathe this!" (WIP)



Made huge progress with traps - will be posting some screenshots of them in action soon!

[Glloyd]

ASCII?

[Neonivek]

"Trap smoke. Don't breathe this!"

Could they even do that? I mean I guess it could be an alchemical reaction between two compounds or a poisonous powder.