tesseract 2025-10-07 02:07
Haven't played it far yet, but the ldjam.com embed cuts off the "To stream" button which lets you get past the opening scene. The web link does work.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD58 → Runestone Alchemist
By good-enough
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 684 | 3.00 | 25 | |
| Fun | 696 | 2.71 | 25 | |
| Innovation | 355 | 3.30 | 25 | |
| Theme | 511 | 3.47 | 25 | |
| Graphics | 642 | 2.91 | 25 | |
| Audio | 419 | 3.04 | 25 | |
| Humor | 448 | 2.85 | 23 | |
| Mood | 678 | 2.93 | 25 |
Haven't played it far yet, but the ldjam.com embed cuts off the "To stream" button which lets you get past the opening scene. The web link does work.
A challenging puzzle game. It took me a while to figure out how to complete an order - I expected it to complete when I left stones on all the platters, but you need to pick them all up and take them to the castle.
The long delay getting hints made things harder - even after completing the first order, the inspector sometimes tells you he doesn't have time for you. After finishing the game, I looked at the source code to see what was actually going on, and I appreciate the logic behind it.
Nice graphic and audio
a bit confusing but fuun
Nice game, but I haven’t managed to finish it, the inspector didn’t want to help me :(
For all you who don't manage to finish the game, I should have explained a bit better, but I don't really expect you to. I have only actually completed it once without using the cheat code, and that took way more time than I'm expecting anyone to put into this. If you graduate past Court Alchemist, I'm proud of you and really thankful that you stuck around with my hard game so long! The main point of the game is to mess around with an overcomplicated combination puzzle until you go crazy. I intentionally obscured the mechanics so that you could get that "aha!" moment when you figure something out. I like that kind of game.
I collected all the runes, but I don’t understand what’s supposed to happen next :) Overall, it’s a fun puzzle — I really enjoyed figuring out the stone connection patterns.
@melomaner You have to take them in to the castle and talk to the guy.
Interesting puzzle game! I think giving me a couple hints for the first combination would have helped me get started instead of just clicking. I liked being able to throw stones back into the stream.
First I didn't know what to do and throw all the stones into the river :D. But after I figured out nice puzzle game. ^
I spent a (very - as in "litteraly hours") long time on it, but gave up with the order needing a blank stone. I understood very less of the alchemy process, just decoded the numbers and the use of some colors in the process (f.ex blue catalyst = sumup origin+right pigeon), got 5th blankest stone, and then… Even with the (light) help of the inspector I couldn't get further. The pixel-select on the place holders at the borders were neither of help. Good job anyways, I saw that you got an intersting idea and made it with deep thinking, but way to much difficult to understand
Interesting work, like it!