I was able to do some Steam Deck testing this weekend. I'm sorry to say that Steam Deck is not a recommended Hadean Lands experience right now. The problem is the on-screen keyboard. It wants to pop up and obscure the lower half of the text window -- which makes it hard to play. You could manually open and close the keyboard every turn, but that's no fun. Anyhow, the keyboard tends to get confused; sooner or later it either flickers or gets stuck. I tried the "Web Browser" controller template, but that doesn't help. It might be possible to improve the screen layout and lock the keyboard in place. However, you'd then be playing on the top half of the Steam Deck's landscape-oriented screen. It's just not a lot of space for text. (Bluetooth keyboard? I couldn't get mine to pair. If you succeed, let me know if it works.) The upshot is that parser-based IF support is not a priority for Steam Deck right now. Apologies! I'll let you know if that changes.
[ 2022-07-26 00:44:53 CET ] [ Original post ]
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- Hadean Lands - Solo Adventurer Pledge Certificate
Hadean Lands is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
(Keyboard controls only. Because you have to type everything. Get it?)
Hadean Lands is a game of alchemy and exploration, with an intricate structure of interlinked puzzles. Every ritual you learn adds a new ability to your toolkit. But every ritual requires a different combination of ingredients, and some ingredients are in desperately short supply.
The game's sophisticated goal-tracking system permits you to experiment freely! Any ritual you've learned can be performed with a single command. Any puzzle that you've ever solved can be re-solved automatically. Click on the in-game map to travel to any room you're familiar with; the goal system will even find known keys and re-solve intermediate puzzles to get there. But beware: many puzzles have multiple solutions. If the ones you've found don't fit together, you may have to go searching for alternatives...
Repairing an alchemical starship single-handed? Not easy; perhaps impossible. You’ll have to discover the rituals you need, and then search for ingredients, and then improvise and substitute. You’ll have to calcine, distill, dissolve, and precipitate. And somehow, somewhere, you’ll have to figure out what happened and why.
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04
- Processor: 1GHzMemory: 256 MB RAM
- Memory: 256 MB RAM
- Graphics: Any
- Storage: 60 MB available space
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