Book Hunter

I think the game is bugged. When I read “helpful” books, I get the pips, but it doesn’t make the final book any more likely to appear, only catalogs do (played on Hard). It came to a ridiculous point where my top was full of pips, yet no book in sight (also I believe these may increase difficulty of levels as well? Like more librarians).

medium over. fascinating game,and i'll see if i can conquer hard.

So i was trying to get a better spawn with the librarians by leaving and reentering the room, but i kept getting them in spots where they were exactly one away from walking into my line of sight. curios i decided to forfeit the run and see what was going on and discovered this cursed room

Finally managed to beat medium. Overall, fantastic game and pretty good to kill some time. One request I want to make, though, is if you could please provide the name of the specific track that plays throughout the game? I must admit that your selection in music for this was right on point, but the artist's music archive is very hard to browse through. Again, great game and concept.

what do the dots on the top of the screen mean?!

I'm clicking the catalogue but my resolve isn't going up

the game has a wonderful idea, and i quite enjoy it however i find that the ghosts and spawns of them can be a little unforgiving. (can't think of a better word but there is one) they very often are stuck in a long hallway next to either your objective or entrance. and personally i have yet to even complete a game .... even on easy .....

then again i may just be garbage at the game. either way it is a wonderful concept and lovely music to go with

I have finally beaten the game on hard mode! I will release a vid soon, and I'm also curious if there is a downloadable version of this game? 

Great Game! Although I don't understand how many rooms must I wander to get to the book I'm looking for?

Very nice. I enjoyed a lot the graphic and sound design (enough to write a fan semi-article about made-up theory surrouding the place ). However, there is an "exploit" that lets you click your own place once you are in L-space and just wait that the Librarian ghosts go away. You can do this as many times you want without any loss of sanity , and the game becomes too much of clicking yourself and waiting for their random movements (and potentially very easy). If this is unintended clicking your same space should be invalid. If its intended it should cost 1 sanity like moving. If not, perhaps another difficulty where you can't just wait still would be nice. I stopped playing because once you know this you cannot ignore it and you spend over half the game clicking yourself for free advantage.  (well at least, if your resolve is already at 0)
Anyways, overall good job.

I don't understand how to play ? I know how to move and skip a turn but what are the books used for ?

you can't really win this game can you?

Sanity/Resolve stats are not changing in Chrome  80.0.3987.163, which makes it a bit difficult to gauge risk.  Working fine in Firefox 74.0 however. 

Soundtrack is great, love the concept, L-space is really well executed in terms of color, sound, and mechanics!

I couldn't figure out how to play and then realised my sanity counter wasn't going down. I think the counters aren't working in the latest version.

Ran into a very unfortunate bug for the first time today.  On hard the book I was searching for was called "The First Month of Druid".  When I found it it required 46 resolve to read.  The max is 40.  I left the room and went elsewhere and then regained the lost progress from despawning the area to respawn the book but the new book also required the same 46 resolve to read.  Never happened before but also the title generator seems to have updated so maybe the update introduced this bug? Is the book name also the random seed?  

Lots of fun and a good challenge.

I notice the librarians don't become alerted to your presence if your last action was to confront a book... is that a bug or intentional? I kind of like it either way!

Nice game!  I like the title generator. 

I think there should be some sort of score system for the books (it looks like maybe there is one already half in place?) so you can review your collection and their rarities after a successful escape.  Obviously the primary target is the most important, but picking up some other very rare books along the way shouldn't hurt ;)

I also think being able to choose your target from a list might be good.  I definitely suicided a lot in the first room just to refresh the titles for my main quest target.   I'm a magic thieving specialist; I pick my contracts, thank you very much! XD;

I didn't have any problem with the difficulty-- the game is a bit challenging on hard but not too bad.  I liked that most of the strategy comes from learning how L-space/The Library works, and that the best strategies require a bit of patience.  I think those both fit the theme well. 

For those struggling: 1) Once you've seen part of the Library you can always see what is there.  You've got, like, magic library vision.  This means that peeking around corners and then retreating will create large areas  you will be able to see Librarians approaching from. 2) Librarians reset position and course when you re-enter a room.  You can thus juggle a screen transition to get a spawn that works for you. 3) Librarians will never chase you outside of their room(i.e. through a screen transition).  This means that juggling screen transitions is relatively safe, and that if you are being chased you can move, effectively, one space further in a straight line if that space transitions you. 4) Helpful books (literally and otherwise) may well lie off the beaten path.  If your path from a catalog to its exit takes you past another exit it is probably worth checking for freebies on the side exit before continuing 5) When exiting the library, you can't use catalogs, but *every* transition you didn't just come from gives you the catalog bonus.   This means if you can juggle two screen transitions near each other in a room you will accrue progress extremely quickly and safely and easily be able to exit, even if your targeted book has drained practically all your resolve (it gives you a massive hit on hard).  6) Enlightening means +sanity.  Inspiring means +resolve.  Helpful means +progress. Maddening, Dull, and Confusing are the respective opposites.   

You need Sanity to not die.  Librarians murdering you sets it to zero, obviously, but you also lose 5 sanity for entering L-space by walking into a not-interactive bookshelf and another 1 sanity per move you make after the initial entry. You can also lose tons of sanity by reading a book while in a bookshelf-- don't do this. On hard, once you reach 4 Librarian rooms you will be burning through sanity like crazy even with very friendly spawns, so be sure to conserve it as much as you can and explore side rooms for enlightening books and refresh rooms for good spawns.  You need Resolve to read books.  You need to read books to maintain sanity, which you need to not die.  You also need to read your target book to win, and it can have a really big resolve minimum.  You do not *lose* resolve when reading books, it is just required to be at a certain threshold based on how difficult/rare the book it. You lose resolve every time you pass a turn without doing anything, which you can do with the spacebar.  If you do this in L-space, you lose resolve but *not* sanity.  Resolve numbers are always lower than sanity-- 20-30 is pretty good.  You'll want 40 which might be the max when you read your target on hard, though. Pacing back and forth, when it is safe to do so, can save you resolve when you want to wait.  Obviously waiting is vastly better than pacing when it comes to L-Space almost always-- Sanity is super important!-- but usually if you are in L-Space you are moving somewhere else anyways.  You gain 2 resolve every time you read a catalog, but you can't do that anymore once you have your primary target and are trying to escape.  Progress determines when the target book will spawn and when you can leave the library.  The library is magic so you can leave it from wherever-- you don't need to try to trek back to where you came in.  You make progress by reading helpful books and by taking the indicated exit after reading a catalog.  Note that you do NOT *have* to take the indicated exit-- the library is magic and there are plenty of other catalogues with other routes to the target book.  This is important because not every exit is worth trying to get to.  Some are just too far down a long hallway with nothing to hide behind.  Note also that you will *lose* your catalog progress if you double back through the entrance it indicated after using it.  You can just go back through to regain it, but essentially you have to take a new exit from the linked room to make real progress.  Progress seems also to determine how dangerous the Library is in terms of how high level the books around are and how many there are and how many librarians there are.  Once you get your target book progress resets to 0 and then every exit you take gives you progress as if you used a catalog.  This new progress makes the game get easier, rather than harder, though, and eventually the game will return to the initial levels of difficulty and lighting and you can win by leaving the Library.

Lovely game but very hard. I beat it on easy in my 7th trial.  That maybe strongly related to that it doesn't have a tutorial. I was aware that I need to push twice to read a book only in my last 2 trials.

I really like this! Feel like it could use a max limit of one Librarian per room on Easy though.

Fun game, but there is a problem where multiple info messages stack up on the bottom and you can't read any of them.