okay, day two: the cauldron! WTF!
100psec is the max by putting in lollipops. I think a potion will let you do more.
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
.-/| 22 ~~**~~ \ / ~~**~~ 23 |\-. |||| : |||| |||| Turtle potion : potion ! |||| |||| ----------------- : |||| |||| A turtle ! : When you will be |||| |||| A turtle ! : a turtle, you |||| |||| Do you want to : will resist a lot |||| |||| become a turtle ? : more to physical |||| |||| : damage. But you |||| |||| You'll be able to : will be slower, |||| |||| become one with : too. |||| |||| this fantastic : |||| ||||___________________ : ___________________|||| ||/====================\:/====================\|| `---------------------~___~--------------------''
bah
oh, forks
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
I can't beat this stupid Necromancer.
― emil.y, Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
avidly awaiting coming home from work to see how many lollipops and candies have accumulated. i hate this game
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
wait what the shit how do i load my game
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://candies.aniwey.net/index.php?pass=XXXXXwhere XXXXX is the five digit code for your playeror you can just save the bookmark
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
imp potion and fire potion help with necromancer
oic
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
i'm still on the dragon, sad face. i know what i need to do (teleport + invulnerability + maybe a turtle), but when it comes down to it i choke every time.
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that dragon is a pain in the ass
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
finally beat the fucking whale, not looking forward to the dragon
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
the excuse i'm using is that the summoning sword doesn't work very well against the dragon (or against bosses in general) because your summoned creature is usually destroyed by the boss within a second.
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
did i lock myself in by getting the Sword of Life, or can you still upgrade?
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
i think you are locked into whatever upgrade you choose
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
you can still power it up tho, not that it seems to be doing me any good, still stuck on bloody castle entrance
― jabba hands, Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
hint: pay attention to the asterisk on castle entrance
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
i can be less cryptic obv but i dont want to spoiler
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
super mario crossover is my favorite thing right now (but so hard)
― shit tie (Jordan), Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
beat the dragon and unlocked SPOILERhellSPOILER
― Mordy, Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
________\o/COWCOW__________COW____________COW__________________"The cow king ! It looks like a normal cow, but it isn't..."
"The cow king ! It looks like a normal cow, but it isn't..."
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 2 May 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
the cow stage is more than a joke! lots of candy, and you can get the horn of plenty which gives you triple lp production.
i can beat the dragon easily using invincibility, teleporting and the seed. but hell is hell.
― abanana, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
p.s. never buy "more candies" from the witch, at least not at this point. she never gives you more than you give her in lollipops.
― abanana, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
i can't beat this fucking dragon.what's the seed good for? You stop and cast attacks behind it? oh waiti think i just got it
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
does dropping candy on the ground do anything?
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
not that i can tell
― abanana, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
booooooooooooo ok
no i haven't got it.
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
teleport, use the seed, use health potions while chopping
― abanana, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
ohhhhhh. let me try that later
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
aw thought for sure the dragon was the final boss. now you have me coming back to this game again
― chilli, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
Number of saves which killed the devil : 8709Number of saves which finished the game : 3996
looks like hell isn't the final stage either
― abanana, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
this is awesome, i'm avoiding reading y'all's comments for spoiler fear as i'm still very early. Love how it works completely well as a time-wasting whatever-tab, and simultaneously as a parody of RPG grinding, children's lessons in deferred gratification, and god knows what else. First trick I've picked up: keep hitting up the peaceful forest, it's worth it.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
you're going to leave that peaceful forest behind preeeetty quickly!
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
i love hate this game
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
pretty minor spoiler for those who have beat the dragon already: there's a rly good item randomly dropped by a certain type of enemy in the castle keep level + you might wanna go back and beat that a cpl more times until you get it if u haven't already
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
ain't that the way: i finally beat the dragon and didn't get shit to show for it
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
i've crossed the threshold and this game has turned me into an actual insane person, keep an ear out for me, rambling about candy and the government, coming soon to a streetcorner near you
You have 9940016029 candies! | | Candies converter VYou have 37355537 lollipops!You have 7 chocolate bars \o/ (a bug ? Oo)You have eaten 2401693790 candies!You threw 0 candies on the ground.
You have eaten 2401693790 candies!You threw 0 candies on the ground.
_.-^-._ .'''. .-' _ '-. | cnd | / |_| \ '._.' / \ | /| _____ |\ | | |==|==| | ||---|---|---| |--|--| | ||---|---|---| |==|==| | |^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The lollipop farm Lp planted : 1737211Production : 10000 lp/sec
― sleepingbag, Friday, 3 May 2013 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
i beat it.... but it never ends.... the numbers just keep going UP
― sleepingbag, Friday, 3 May 2013 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
you haven't thrown ANY candies on the ground?
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 3 May 2013 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
without giving anything even a little bit significant away, there's some function later that retrieves all those candies.
i cannot type sentences about this game without feeling like a schmuck -_-
― sleepingbag, Friday, 3 May 2013 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
i feel ya
― Nhex, Friday, 3 May 2013 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
I can't beat hell. :(
You can't get any more berserker potions other than the 5 that the frog gives you, can you?
― Dan I., Friday, 3 May 2013 05:40 (eleven years ago) link
don't need them for hell, though. hell requires invulnerability
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 3 May 2013 05:44 (eleven years ago) link
I am also stuck on hell
Right now I am rly into making a shit ton of invulnerabilities and buying a ton of teleport scrolls and beating the dragon over and over bcz you'll spend like 13,000 candies on supplies but then get like 50,000 candies every time you beat the level!
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 3 May 2013 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
Feeling like I've hit a wall with this - the dragon just seems impossibly out of my league and I don't seem to have access to anything that will upgrade me in any really useful way. Also feel like the "Frog Fractions" expansiveness/unpredictability has faded a bit, though that's enhanced it as a parody of RPGs and old-school BBS door-game good times. At first it seemed really open-ended, like, oh, there's nothing on the screen, now I have the candy salesman! Now there's a quest mode! Now I'm farming resources! But all those things start to lock together as an actual grinding mechanic, and while there may be more surprises around the corner, there hasn't been anything really crucial in a while, although maybe it's just that I'm underwhelmed by the cauldron.
Another, maybe related challenge - not necessarily a flaw in this, but maybe something to chew on - in these kinds of 'expanding' games, how do you signal the player that a certain thing is a dead end, that there's nothing more to find, that the candy salesman isn't going to offer something new for sale if you only throw enough candy on the ground?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 May 2013 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i was stuck on the dragon for a while, it's much too difficult unless you know to use abanana's strategy
i got past hell by spam-clicking healing potions while moving around enough to avoid most of the fights, then invulnerability against the boss. it helps to have the healing item from the previous level and the summoning sword is great for clearing paths in the golem waves.
― chilli, Friday, 3 May 2013 07:16 (eleven years ago) link
i'm with Doctor C more or less, losing interest now, even as the tab sits away in the background stacking up lollipops
― we're up all night to get relegated (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 May 2013 09:52 (eleven years ago) link
I beat hell. Get a decent amount of HP (500+) and use both hands. Use invulnerability and health potions. Use a seed to heal before the boss, then use invulnerability. Took me a few tries because I kept trying
Now I'm stuck on the developper's (sic) computer.
― abanana, Friday, 3 May 2013 13:05 (eleven years ago) link