Sebastian's Quest
In Sebastian's Quest, you have to shove gems and find the cheese.
Play using a gamepad or the X, C, and arrow keys. PICO-8 cart available here.
In Sebastian's Quest, you have to shove gems and find the cheese.
Play using a gamepad or the X, C, and arrow keys. PICO-8 cart available here.
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Can anyone beat 5088 appetite? I ate all of the accessible green and brown tiles and only ate grey ones as necessary to access the upper left screen.
Then I ate through 5 blue tiles trying to get out. I almost had enough for one more, but that still wouldn't have gotten me close to escaping.
https://imgur.com/a/PDjOJ4m (There is one unmarked grass tile in the bottom right)
It appears that there are in total
27+21+22+
30+68+82+
185+30+96 = 561
brick wall tiles and
39+56+101+
28+62+45+
0+58+34 = 423
grass tiles. These total to 5472 hunger.
In addition to these, there are
33 tier 1 gems, 4 tier 2 gems, 1 tier 3 gems, 3 tier 4 gems, 6 tier 5 gems, 1 tier 6 gem, 2 gems of tier 7 and 8 and 1 more of tiers 9 through 12.
When we merge gems we get the following payouts
1,2,4,8,14,23,32,41,50,... and so on, increasing by 9 for each subsequent tier. Therefore, as the brick walls merge into tier 5 gems, we should receive
(423+33)/2 = 228; (228+4)/2=116; (116+1)/2=58; (58+3)/2=30; (30+6+423)/2=229; (229+1)/2=115; (115+2)/2=59; (59+2)/2=30; (30+1)/2=15; (15+1)/2=8; (8+1)/2=4; (4)/2=2; (2+1)/2=1.
The payouts are thus 228*1+116*2+58*4+30*8+229*14+115*23+59*32+30*41+15*50+8*59+4*68+2*77+86=11635. Substracting the hunger, we should be able to get 6163
I've managed this score, lower I think due to inefficent gem placement next to this east wall. So I'd think the 5088 is indeed the maximum, maybe can be pushed up to 5090 but not much higher. The main source that can be optimized is this upper-left puzzlebox
I have managed to extract everything from it save for these three grass tiles. Nothing is theoretically stopping it from having a better solution. I have then merged the 1-gem in the corner with a leftover from somewhere else
Pug eats all kinds of things... What a cute puzzle game!
The rules are not explicitly stated, but it was fun to understand more and more as we progressed, and to experiment and discover new rules, meow~!๐ฑ
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wow so lovely and surprising!
NO! WHY!? AFTER ALL THAT WORK!
Hi! We played your game on stream and really enjoyed it!
this made my day !! ใใใใจใใใใใพใใ!
I'm shocked! I cleared 90% of the brick and spent all of my money mining metal just to get to the blue square. I can't believe you were that close to getting 2 green squares!
I imagine the dev planned for all the resources to max out there, so you can never find the 2 green square combo.
Not that close I'd say. I've managed to get to here (also grey rock is more appetite efficient as it takes only 640 appetite per white gem as compared to 900 from a metal)
There was 1 gem from eating all bring and grass, and two more from spending the appetite. To merge two greens we therefore need one more blue gem, and that is a lot; it just appears to look much less due to all of these compressions
It felt like the journey was more rewarding than the victory by the end. I think that makes it a good game?
I really want an "escape the box" secondary ending.
Oh, that is so true, the game is extremely satisfying. Such a simple design leads to a nice and pleasant to complete sequence of motions. Looking through the code there is just one ending counter that is triggered by the cheese. It would be cool to see some expansion of this idea, though
Bravo! A new type of 2d game mechanic that works well and has emergent gameplay properties. Super cool!
Graphics aren't bad either!
What a delightful game. At first you think you have made many mistakes, then it turns out all mistakes were just temporary!
Great puzzle game! So much fun! Very addictive.
Delightful!! the cheese shall be obtained
A wonderful and surprising game! I eat all the things
Reached 777, anyone know how much appetite is needed to get the cheese>:P
that should be enough, I was able to get it with 800 or so
2000 shokuyoku and I CANNOT STOP HELP,
I got third tier green gem and stopped
I had so much fun with this! The moment when you start to realize how much the game opens up is really satisfying.
this is TOO satisfying! when you get to 500 shokuyoku you know youโre cooked
This is deeply satisfying!
Hey!! I pooped a lot of big diamonds for that!!
My cheese! MY CHEEEEESE!!
Fun game.
Really clever! I got to 223 appetite
Very nice game!