hi everyone. i am playing this game using safari. but, i still don't know how to save and load game. can some safari users please suggest me how to save and load the game?

hmm. then how can i load my saved game?

@music097, the game saves with a cookie in your browser. I don't know how Safari handles cookies, but you might want to check that, since some browsers and some antivirus programs delete cookies by default.

Also, when you begin the game, or when you eat humble pie and go back to the start you'll see a text box with lots of code in it.
You can copy that into a text file, and then copy and paste it back into the game. This is also how to carry on your saved game on multiple devices, as well as have a handy backup save.

there are already some different areas, EG there was the winter wonderland, and now there is the spring garden, and hopefully others will come in the future. I also believe Malachi mentioned spell books at one stage and perhaps some different classes like wizard or ranger.

Ranged weapons could be fun, especially if they came as an extra to current battling rather than as a replacement, but we'll see.

Hope your conference goes well.

Tweaking xp and/or giving a max scene cap for easy and  medium difficulties might be a good idea, I just tried on easy and I was getting one hit kills at scene 149, also weirdly started at a more advanced scene relative to my highest scene reached which was odd.

50 for retirement seems fair enough to me, since it'll take work to achieve but not be insaaaaaane!.

whilst the game is dungeon crawl, I personally rather like the idea of adding more outside zones, not in terms of say generic wilderness players had to progress over, but in terms of specific other places players could enter with an evil reputation and a definite target in mind, EG the dead marshes or mirkwood from middle earth, after all how many fantasy stories have a creature living out in the mountains/forest/marsh/desert which people have to slay.

You could also consider adding a few rooms of alternative outside environments after each dungeon and before the next rather than going from one dungeon automatically to another.

As for ranged weapons, I was having a think about this myself, since if ranged weapons were essentially a free attack, they wouldn't really effect the game as much other than making your character have a slightly easier time, the way firebombs work now.

so, how about making ranged weapons a trade off system.

I'd suggest making ranged weapons an equipable item in the offhand slot, however ranged weapons don't have the same bonus attributes as armour or conventional weapons.
Each weapon, in addition to it's level also has a "reload" stat. Light weight weapons such as shortbows or slings would have a low stat, where as high damage, high weight weapons like crossbows,  bolas or arquibusses have a high reload stat.

At the start of combat, you can fire off your ranged weapon by hitting the "shoot" button, damage dependent upon the weapons' level and type, and chance to hit being calculated based on the character, enemy and weapon just as melee hits are (though i'd guess luck and air bonuses would increase it).

When you shoot, the enemy has no chance to hit back and yes you get a free hit.
If you hit the "fight" button, you attack with your melee weapon and combat goes on as normal, however You can freely try shooting a second, third or however many more times, however, for every shot you fire, the game performs a roll based on your reload stat and the enemy's chance to hit.

if you win, you get another shot off. If however the enemy wins, then the enemy closes with you, and you receive an "incombered" debuff for so many attacks based on the reload stat, to represent the fact that the enemy has closed with you you with your unloaded ranged weapon in hand, and now your struggling to defend yourself.

For every shot you fire, the enemy's chance to close with you growws.
so, ranged combat becomes a game of knowing when to quit whilst your ahead, and judging when it's best to stick at range and pepper your enemy with arrows, and when it's time to put your bow away and close in for the kill.
This would also tie in to the idea of ranged based classes such as ranger or the like, who would obviously get bonuses to their shoot rolls.

In addition, if you wanted to make things fair, enemies could also have access to the same mechanics, getting a couple of free attacks at range at the start of fights if they were lucky (and provided the player didn't shoot back of course), though losing out if the player managed to close with them by hitting the fight button.

Two handed weapons would be cool, especially if they actually had some advantages.
It always irritates me that in so many rpgs, either because of weapon weight or multiple attack skills, two handed weapons are never worth using.

If your worried about too many buttons, one idea might be to have an abilities tab from which a player could select an ability or spell, and then just a general "use" button next to the fight button, after all changing tabs is relatively easy and most of the time, players will be just using the same thing again.

also as a more miner detail, is there any chance of please changing when the low energy alert pops up?

At the moment it seems to be based on a percentage of your total energy, but since at the moment I have 51 energy and it tells me "my energy is getting low" when I have 15 left it's less useful.

It would be more helpful if it showed up at a set amount no matter the max energy, say below 10 energy. or maybe stick in a "your energy is getting low" warning at ten energy, and a "you are nearing exhaustion" warning at five, after all most of the time you lose one energy per action anyway.

I'll be interested to see the food revamp, especially if it ties into crafting.
One idea i've seen used for food/resting a couple of times, but sadly not enough was giving players buffs and debuffs.
So, when a player was welll fed or well rested they'd get a buff to combat and other actions. Similarly, when a player was starving or exhausted they'd get a debuff. The debuff wasn't fatal, and the buff wasn't absolutely necessary all of the time, but it felt a good bit more realistic than having players just suddenly die due to lack of food or rest, after all you could carry on a fair ways without food or sleep, just not too well.

This also let players have crafted food items with better stat bonuses, IE more time of feeling well fed.

As regards ammo and the pack, I'm less a fan of this idea, since firstly it would mean every piece of amunition took up one pack space, which would be another disadvantage to use of a bow as opposed to other offhand items, quite apart from having to find the items when you've got a very full pack.

If it would be inconvenient to add an extra button to use an offhand item or ability, then maybe addd a "quiver" tab, with buttons for ammo in there, since then at least players would find all their ammo in one place.

I'm guessing this is how spells are planned to work, and maybe other systems like crafting or class abilities too, with separate tabs similar to the current "pack" or "gear" tabs, and buttons within those tabs to do things.

If your going down that route, another idea might be to use the area tab.
Currently you can inspect monsters within that tab, maybe you could also add buttons within that tab to do things to monsters outside the main combat display as well.

I like the idea of food advantages being percentile based, however if the effect of food is just to negatively effect a player's damage by a percentage, then all that will happen is a player will eat more often, or, if food availability is generally reduced in the game, that a player will simply live with the debuff and eat whenever they can.

It might therefore be good to include some food buffing items when this system comes into effect so players will be able to play tactically as well, and rest up before big fights etc, even if crafted food is still a ways in development.

For example, how about giving players a lootable cooking pan or other item.
When used, it works like a puzzle box, a player expends fatigue for a chance of cooking a meal.
If done correctly however, a player gets a meal item which they can use later to gain a handy buff.

Btw, just played another prestiege on medium, and yes, this definitely needs a fix in terms of difficulty tweaking. I got to scene 342 and player levl 29 thanks to a couple of handy puzzle boxes.
I mainly stopped because with the entire event log being spoken, it was taking a bit too long to speak each action, more than because I needed to bail out.

Looks like this might be a Chrome issue. I wouldn't be surprised if Google released an update that changed the way they handle aria tags. I can't find anything online about it, but I do have an idea for a work around. This might take a while to fix, if you want to play in the mean time and the log reading is too annoying, Firefox seems to be working great. Oh also, if you have the "New events at top of log" setting checked, the reader will start with the last event, then you can cancel the read back after the first event.

On a side note, is there a quick key to pause NVDA read back? I've been closing it and reopening it every time, or just mashing the shift key every time it talks.

For pausing NVDA I mean like turn it off temporarily, like put it in standby mode or something. Control just stops it from talking until the next event, but if you click on something again it starts back up. At least with the default controls. What i mean is just pause it until I tell it to start talking again.

For the log, basically, the way its supposed to work is an element that is marked with an aria-live tag of polite or assertive will communicate changes to the screen reader after the page loads. Normally, the screen reader only reads static text unless otherwise told about dynamic changes. I was using this behavior for the event log. So when I added an event to it, it spoke only that event, because that's the only thing that changed.

Well, now, it seems like Chrome thinks the whole log changes every time I add to it, where Firefox correctly identifies that only that one little part changed (I haven't tested Edge or Safari yet to see which side they fall on).

One way that I can get around this is to put only the most current event in the log and replace what is in there. When you use the reload log button to read back the contents, I'll put the whole log in (which is really just the last 50 entries, it doesnt store more than that) so that it reads everything in the order you choose based on your settings. Then when a new event happens, it'll replace the whole log again and so forth.

The only downside to this workaround is that you wouldn't be able to navigate down through the log using arrowkeys, but I'm not sure if anyone is doing that or not. I'm assuming you are though.

In firefox its alt plus shift plus access key

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for.