Don't Rust Update - 08/06/2024

Web Build Working:

Wow, now you can play a small mainly text-based game in HTML! Incredible!

New Items:

Two new key items have been introduced: the Telescope, and the Incense Burner. The latter requires different types of incense to burn.

The Telescope lets you see and choose upcoming events each day. You can buy it from a Merchant if you have enough gold, or you can hope to find one among buried treasure (but this is rare).

The Incense Burner is more mystical in its usage. Each day you can use it to give an offering to the gods of the sea, in return for certain favours (different offerings provide different blessings). Currently neither the incense burner nor the incense types are purchasable, but you can find them during your travels.

New Events:

Just one new event in this update: the Island. You might want to save before exploring it.

Customize Your Voyage:

You can now change some starting parameters in the start menu, if you want to.

Minor Graphical Improvement:

Just a piece of paper behind the stats panel on the left. Nothing amazing, but it looks a bit better now (I think).

Bug Fix:

There was a minor bug (or really just a lack of feedback in the text) in the Merchant event that should be fixed. You should now be notified when you can't purchase an item for lack of enough gold.

Where is this going?:

I'm planning to continue making small updates from time to time. But progress will likely be slow and irregular, largely because I want to get on with my next project! Eventually I do want to have signficantly more events in this game, at least one alternative ending, and a bit more graphical and audio flavour. At least a couple of the current events will probably be replaced completely.