Chiaroscuro
A downloadable game for Windows
Chiaroscuro is a short experimental text adventure game, in the vein of Colossal Cave Adventure (1976). I made it over the course of ~2 weeks; I hope you enjoy it!
CONTROLS:
- Type a POINT OF INTEREST to examine/go to it.
- If you can't go to it, type the POINT OF INTEREST and an item's name to use them together.
- Type STUFF to view your currently held items.
- Type FULLSCREEN to toggle fullscreen.
-Type NO SOUND to toggle sound effects/ambient noises.
-Type CREDITS to view the credits.
-Type END GAME to close the game.
-Type BACK to go to the previous screen, or to exit menus.
-Type SAVE/LOAD to save and load your game respectively.
-Type HELP to review controls at any time.
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Trying to solve the hands puzzle but my solution doesn't seem to work. Have tried putting 2 Yarrow, 1 heather 3 hyacinth in hands 1/2/3, and putting 1 heather in 2, then 1 yarrow in 1 , then 1 hyacinth in 3 (in case the 2,1,3 clue on hand 4 means that) but neither work. Have also translated all the stones on the island, but am unsure if this gives enough hints to guess the sphinx's name. (sorry if this is too spoilery but I can't figure out do spoiler text on itch.io) Great game so far!
iirc the hands puzzle is about the order you give the flowers, not the amounts, though in hindsight I can see where the confusion came from! Might have to tweak the hints for that... Also, I think there's enough to go on with the stones re: Sphinx's name hints, but I might also be misremembering.
Yes I did try that order, but the 4th hand was still closed, do any of them need more than one flower? (Also, bit of a bug, whenever I try to use the teleport word now, the error /null is shown and I have to reload a save game in order to do anything)
Oh weird! I’ll look into it…
Still stuck on both puzzles.