Stratejelly - anyone figured out how to play it?

gcewing on 2010/04/12 21:44

There is no README, and following the meagre in-game instructions doesn't seem to lead to anything useful happening. What am I supposed to do?

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mauve on 2010/04/12 23:15:

I found a problem with line endings that makes the levels appear blank:

http://www.pyweek.org/d/3301/

Is that what you're seeing?

bencoder on 2010/04/12 23:34:

I had mauve's problem and sorted that out.
Once I'm in game I'm lost though. I hit x on the grey ooze and get a little pointer but then nothing changes and button mashing causes no obvious effect.

gcewing on 2010/04/12 23:56:

Once I'm in game I'm lost though. I hit x on the grey ooze and get a little pointer but then nothing changes

That's where I'm at as well. Am I missing something, or do I need to mark it as a DNW?

cyhawk on 2010/04/12 23:59:

Mauve's post includes two fixes. You need the second one too:

> Another problem was that the levels appear blank, which was also down to line endings. I fixed it by adding the mode 'rU' to open() in map.py, line 30.

Worked for me — thanks Mauve!

bencoder on 2010/04/13 00:41:

Ah I see. I guess I thought "level appears blank" meant he was getting a blank screen, I should have thought of that. It works now. Thanks cyhawk.

gcewing on 2010/04/13 23:17:

That's got it working for me, too. Great game -- I keep discovering more depths to it!

But the last two levels (the ones with stars by them) don't seem to be accessible. Has anyone got these to work?

mauve on 2010/04/13 23:22:

@gcewing - I get the impression you have to save up stars to unlock those ones.

gcewing on 2010/04/14 00:45:

How do you get stars? I never noticed anything about that.

mauve on 2010/04/14 10:06:

I think you get them by completing levels - more stars for doing it on higher difficulties.