This game is one of the simplest rougelikes I have ever seen, but it still remains my favorite game of yours. But I have one idea.
Can you please add a difficulty counter on the final screen, like when you win, so you could screenshot it and everybody will know, you won on hard/medium/easy. And maybe add cause of death on the death screen. Thanks!
Also, there is a bug, if you read a book as a turn, and while you are reading, Librarian comes to a position, from where he should see you, he doesn't threaten you. So you can read a book, ignore the Librarian, make a move towards him, and only then he will see the character.
I too had scrambled text, but after disabling Brave's shield for the page, the text appeared fine.
I figured that the Shields>Fingerprinting>Canvas setting, and that alone, has to be turned off for proper text display.
As it turns out, invisible <canva ...> HTML tags can be used by sites to identify system build (so browser version, OS etc.), and the protection against these somehow screws with the canva tag that renders Book Hunter.
tl;dr — it's broken for me; all text is garbled, and I don't know why. I'd really like to give it a proper try, because it looks interesting.
Long version:
I tried it out and thought the scrambled text was part of the ambience or something, but ultimately it makes it impossible to discover the game just by playing. I guessed that “XY” is "play", “def” is "settings" (or something), and “\” must be "About." That's a little uninviting, but still pretty simple, and easy to get past… except that it turns out all of them are "play"!
Hmm… other people in the comments talked about easy and hard mode, so maybe “XY”=easy, “def”=medium, “\”=hard. Okay. That's weird, but still doable. But how did everybody else figure out how to play the game?
I never discovered the two stats (sanity and resolve?) on my own — those are displayed as meaningless non-numbers that changed randomly… I only discovered their existence by reading through all the comments. And the books… what do they do? Why are people talking about the fun title generator? It feels like it's taking the "insanity is just around the corner" schtick just a little far.
Eventually I decided it must be a problem with my browser (or maybe a bug introduced after everyone else played it and left their comments?). I was able to confirm this by finding someone on YouTube successfully playing it. What a shock to see that all the messages really display something readable!
Anyway, it's weird. Still not sure if it's a genuine bug or just an issue with my own computer/browser. I'm running Brave 1.83.118 (Chromium 141.0.7390.108) on Mac. (Additionally, I tried this in a private window and it had the same problem, though the main menu is scrambled to different letters.)
In short, I have no idea why this happens to you, I've never seen reports of anything like this. It looks like all the text strings inside the game have been scrambled, probably the downloaded js file is processed somehow locally on your computer (some special unicode treatment?). Brave is the usual suspect, so you may want to try another browser.
Thanks! I haven't heard of Brave being a problem before, but I'll go ahead and keep that in mind.
Oh yikes! I just turned Brave's shields of for this site, and it works perfectly.
Well, that's a surprising twist. It'll make Book Hunter much easier to play now. :-)
Thanks for your work on this (and all your other tools, too). Speaking of which, now I need to go try all your projects again (with the shields down) to see if I've missed anything.
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Hi Watabou,
This game is one of the simplest rougelikes I have ever seen, but it still remains my favorite game of yours. But I have one idea.
Can you please add a difficulty counter on the final screen, like when you win, so you could screenshot it and everybody will know, you won on hard/medium/easy. And maybe add cause of death on the death screen. Thanks!
Also, there is a bug, if you read a book as a turn, and while you are reading, Librarian comes to a position, from where he should see you, he doesn't threaten you. So you can read a book, ignore the Librarian, make a move towards him, and only then he will see the character.
I too had scrambled text, but after disabling Brave's shield for the page, the text appeared fine.
I figured that the Shields>Fingerprinting>Canvas setting, and that alone, has to be turned off for proper text display.
As it turns out, invisible <canva ...> HTML tags can be used by sites to identify system build (so browser version, OS etc.), and the protection against these somehow screws with the canva tag that renders Book Hunter.
How do I get resolve? I need it to read books, but it seems I can only earn it by reading books, so I fall into a trap that I can't get out of.
You can also get resolve by reading the catlogue.
Thank you I will try again, though I note I can't reread a catalog, making resolve a resource very difficult to acquire. And I'm playing on Easy.
tl;dr — it's broken for me; all text is garbled, and I don't know why.
I'd really like to give it a proper try, because it looks interesting.
Long version:
I tried it out and thought the scrambled text was part of the ambience or something, but ultimately it makes it impossible to discover the game just by playing. I guessed that “XY” is "play", “def” is "settings" (or something), and “\” must be "About." That's a little uninviting, but still pretty simple, and easy to get past… except that it turns out all of them are "play"!
Hmm… other people in the comments talked about easy and hard mode, so maybe “XY”=easy, “def”=medium, “\”=hard. Okay. That's weird, but still doable. But how did everybody else figure out how to play the game?
I never discovered the two stats (sanity and resolve?) on my own — those are displayed as meaningless non-numbers that changed randomly… I only discovered their existence by reading through all the comments. And the books… what do they do? Why are people talking about the fun title generator? It feels like it's taking the "insanity is just around the corner" schtick just a little far.
Eventually I decided it must be a problem with my browser (or maybe a bug introduced after everyone else played it and left their comments?). I was able to confirm this by finding someone on YouTube successfully playing it. What a shock to see that all the messages really display something readable!
Anyway, it's weird. Still not sure if it's a genuine bug or just an issue with my own computer/browser.
I'm running Brave 1.83.118 (Chromium 141.0.7390.108) on Mac.
(Additionally, I tried this in a private window and it had the same problem, though the main menu is scrambled to different letters.)
In short, I have no idea why this happens to you, I've never seen reports of anything like this. It looks like all the text strings inside the game have been scrambled, probably the downloaded js file is processed somehow locally on your computer (some special unicode treatment?). Brave is the usual suspect, so you may want to try another browser.
Thanks! I haven't heard of Brave being a problem before, but I'll go ahead and keep that in mind.
Oh yikes! I just turned Brave's shields of for this site, and it works perfectly.
Well, that's a surprising twist. It'll make Book Hunter much easier to play now. :-)
Thanks for your work on this (and all your other tools, too). Speaking of which, now I need to go try all your projects again (with the shields down) to see if I've missed anything.
Porfavor Watabou portenlo a Android 🙏, los quiero Chao