@AlexLeone
Regarding time limit, I agree with @JaceK.
I was thinking about it as something for the player to choose as an option.
For example, Flexible Survival is supposed to be time limited game.
Time limit can be removed using cheat menu in the game.
There are also ways to expand the remaining time in game, which are no cheats, just opportunities present in the content.
Now, answering time.
I tried to look for the key after I tried to open the chest and was told it was locked.
I searched only in the tower, on each floor, after getting rid of the wraith for the highest floor.
It was the final day of the game and I had little time.
Regarding the Magician, the one from the previous playthrough liked bandits and hated everyone else.
Meaning the goblins and the wraith.
Since I dealt with bandits and everyone else was at large, the Magician was not happy.
The second Magician liked goblins and was unhappy they were gone, but was pleased the wraith was banished.
Speaking of goblins, I had no option to do anything when I approached them, I just was thrown in a cell.
When I found the Hermit, she told me some story about frogs in the fen.
She also said she was very old.
By lore I mean every bit of information I can get about the world and its inhabitants.
So the stories in the mounds or things NPCs say would count.
The map was also useful in that sense, because it gave me the name of the ranger.

@AlexLeone
I sent the feedback.
Could you let me know if you got it?

Good I asked here, then.
What could be wrong?
I tried sending it again.
The page opened and I filled out the form.
After that I understood from the text the feedback was sent.

Hello. I got the game just now and I am trying it out. I like it so far, but what is the commands for reading the output line by line? I have nvda if that helps.

Hey everyone, Upheaval version 0.0.6 is now live, which I've named the Goblin Update. I completely rewrote a lot of the underlying goblin code, which ended up solving a ton of bugs and janky-ness that I think contributed to the goblins being previously less fun than they could have been. @Dark and @Luel, I know you had problems with the goblins before, I'm very interested to hear what you think of the changes!

You can download the latest update on the itch.io game page using the download button near the top, or try out the demo which has all the same content as the full game, just shorter. I hope you enjoy!

Here's a summary of some of my favorite changes and fixes in version 0.0.6:

- New encounter in town after you defeat the Goblin King
- Goblins spread into the forest if you leave the Goblin King alone
- Fixed a bug where goblins were sometimes invisible
- Fixed SO MANY goblin bugs! D:
- You can steal keys from goblin belts to escape from prison and to use inside the goblin cave
- Lots of little tweaks and improvements in the goblin cave
- You get more information now if you go east, foolishly, into goblin territory (I don't recommend it)
- You can store your Map of the Area at home
- You can throw a rock at the vultures (anonymous request from the feedback form)
- Changed the location "East Edge of the Burial Mounds" to "Field East of the Burial Mounds," which should (hopefully) make the location easier to find and identify
- Added more ways to deal with the undead when you have no items
- Fixed the "exit" command in Windows Console version not working
- Fixed rare crash bug when multiple undead hordes were in the same location - Thanks @Luel!

If you want to, you can read the full change log here

Please keep letting me know what you think about my game. Your feedback is super helpful, especially while Upheaval is in alpha!

Thank you!

This is great to hear! Did you play the demo already, or are you mainly excited about the descriptions on the store page?

Thank you for the question! I do have a development Trello board where you can see content and features that I'm planning to add or working on right now. You can vote on the things you're excited about and comment on the ones you have questions about. Right now, there's not much detail in there, but I'm happy to add more detail if people like seeing my future plans for Upheaval laid out like that!

In sort of an overview: When Upheaval is complete, I want to have six different main "factions" to help or hurt (three of which are at least half finished now): the bandits, the goblins, the wraith, the ranger, the lovers (that is, the prisoner in the goblin caves and their lover waiting at home), and a sixth "faction" I plan to add fairly late in development. I want you to be able to help or hurt each of them, and I want helping or hurting the factions to change the way the rest of the world evolves around you. Also, I know I mentioned this in an earlier post, but I'd like you to be able to meet the Magician at the end of each adventure (if you want to), rather than interact with them through a sort of disconnected series of choices. Also also, I want to add one more magic item, also planned fairly late in development (I want to have the six main factions ironed out before I add it, since it would affect all of them).

Those are my plans for this project, anyway! Thoughts? Questions? Thanks!

Hey everyone, Upheaval version 0.0.7 is now available! You can download it on the itch.io game page using the download button near the top, or try out the free demo, which has all the same content as the full game, just shorter. As a reminder, the Windows Console version is the one that you can use with any screen reader you like (I've tested it with NVDA).

Version 0.0.7 includes a new map that you can use to get your bearings better (type "map" to use it), and "Relaxed mode" to essentially remove the time limit, requested by @Luel and @JaceK.

I hope you enjoy!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS UPDATE:

- Use the map to orient yourself, figure out where you are, and figure out where you want to be! Type "map" to bring up the map.
- Relaxed mode: Type "settings" to open the settings menu to enable Relaxed mode. When enabled, new games will have the Magician come in 999 days, instead of of 30 days. End the game by making camp on the North road out of town.
- Made "inv" command also open your inventory. Thanks BlindLife Gaming!
- Poems now display each on their own line, rather than with the lines separated by slashes. Thanks BlindLife Gaming!
- An empty inventory now says that you have "Nothing," rather than having a blank screen. Thanks BlindLife Gaming!
- Fixed a bug where sometimes your game didn't save after you loaded a new one.
- Made it MUCH easier to steal keys from goblins. Thanks BlindLife Gaming for hashing this one out with me!

If you want to, you can read the full change log here.

Please keep letting me know what you think can be improved. Your feedback is super helpful while Upheaval is being developed!

Thank you!

hate to say it, I just went to try the demo and it don't work, the screen pops up and nothing not a thing. so I think the demo is broken or the game don't work with screen readers.  I got the consle version as well as the normal and neither worked.

The windows version useing jaws.

I'm sorry the game didn't work for you!

I tested the Windows Console version with NVDA, and it seemed to work okay for me. NVDA is free, so maybe you could try that and see if it works for you?

The "normal" version doesn't work with screen readers, so that's fine. I plan to add audio narration to it, so that's something you can look forward to in the future, I guess!

To try to reproduce your issue, I just downloaded and tried to use JAWS, and I had a very similar experience to you. Nothing was read out when I started the game, and I couldn't navigate the game using the JAWS shortcuts. One solution I used was to press 5 and hit Enter when the game starts up, after JAWS is done talking--that brought me into the Settings menu, and JAWS started reading the game normally again, and I could play okay from there. However, when I Alt+Tabbed out of the game and then back in, JAWS stopped reading everything again. And I couldn't figure out how to make JAWS go back and read something it had already read.

I'm much less familiar with JAWS at this point. Maybe someone else has a solution or a configuration that works for them? How do other players play console games using JAWS?

I really ough to try this game out. I just followed this topic from the beginning and i must say this without playing the full game yet, i checked the demo when the topic got posted but trying the game to its fullest just went back and back in my todo list. Thanks for being committed to accessibility.

I know this game is text based, but does it have sound effects too?

@AlexLeone, In my personal opinion I would like it, I can't speak for every player but I think it would definitely be useful.
You could always add an option to disable click sounds or any sound if it comes to that, at least then people can have the game the way they like it.
I also think that there should be sounds for completing quests, levelling up etc.
I always think RPGS are better with these kinds of audio queues because if someone were to miss a dialogue or some text, then at least they will still know what they've done based on the different sounds; and besides it's good for retro satisfaction