Comments on: There’s No Other Wayfarer

By: Axiin

Axiin — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:38:07 +0000

Oh man this is addicting, it’s like castle of the winds! I’ve spent way too many hours at work today playing this! Thank you Ben!

By: BenHem

BenHem — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:52:22 +0000

Hey Terry, yeah, there will be downloads for Mac/Win/’Nux again soon. –Ben

By: JonFitt

JonFitt — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:36:39 +0000

But now she’s a creepy robot!

By: Cooper

Cooper — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:41:18 +0000

Lauren Laverne, as with Shirley Manson, is a woman who still makes me feel like an adolescent again every time I see her.

By: terry

terry — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:28:24 +0000

Is it possible to play this game offline? It’d be perfect for my netbook but I don’t have er.. net on it.

Anyway, good job.

By: BenHem

BenHem — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:18:32 +0000

Hey Lim-Dul, thanks, I fixed the warbows. The increasing hitpoints are actually just a placeholder until there is enough dungeon fauna to actually give a varied and increasingly difficult experience. Future monsters will be badasses, I promise. (Better tacticians too.) As for a goal, nope. It is “bop ’til you drop” for now.
I’ll be nerfing those arrows, you watch! For now, I will uncap monster damage at lower depths to try to bring back some challenge…
–Ben

By: Lim-Dul

Lim-Dul — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:08:08 +0000

OK – I think I have hit a brick wall that will keep me from playing until several versions later. I descended to level 11 and basically nothing can hurt me (I have 90+ defense equipment and a 80+ dmg bow, mostly because the 90+ bows are bugged, being two-handed while you need a quiver to shoot them) but the fights take veeeeeery long because the monsters have so many hitpoints. I don’t think I’ll see any reasonable weapon or armor upgrades from here on…

Is there an end to the game? Like, an end boss you have to defeat to ascend later?

Anyways – great game, I’ll look forward to the next versions.

P.S. Ranged weapons are overpowered – well, OK, they’re NORMAL as compared to melee weapons being pretty useless with all the monsters running away all the time.

By: Stromko

Stromko — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:57:33 +0000

I enjoyed playing this for a couple hours and will probably put in a few more hours at some point. The music brings me back to the proper old games of yore, gentlemanly heading down into dungeons and slaying foul beasts, needs more Olde Englishue. It’s a proper games’ game.

By: Lim-Dul

Lim-Dul — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:48:04 +0000

Hey! I like this game! Of course it seems to be in early stage of development and needs much more features but I already sat down and played for like two hours straight. Reminds me of POWDER.
Very accessible!

By: BenHem

BenHem — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:40:39 +0000

Hi folks — thanks for the nice mention! Did work on the “lag” issue (was actually the autosave feature acting up) — at least I hope that was all it was. In any case, it should be much better now. — Ben

By: Dozer

Dozer — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:20:23 +0000

“Wayfarer” is a dominant brand of bus ticket machine. Thanks for reminding me of work on my week off, RPS! And on my birthday too…

Also, is the title a reference to Blur? I love that song…

By: Serondal

Serondal — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:18:27 +0000

If you like this and you’ve never played this type of game before I also suggest Dwarf Fortress. It has a pretty funny adventure mode where you can rip off peoples limbs and throw them at children which in my book makes a game worth playing.