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I have in mind a puzzle game. Not a room escape, but more of a code golf-style game. For example, those programming puzzles that say “write a computer program that adds numbers, but you’re not allowed to use the + sign anywhere in your code”.

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Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Not sure if it would be puzzly enough but if the player can wonder the halls or get escorted through them having part of the knight’s efficiency based on how well you mapped out the area you send as a note plus you could try to find info on guard rotations or over hear about other things that could help the knight

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Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
If that’s the style of game you are looking for, I could see a structure of 'do code golf puzzles to:

program robots to help the knight directly’

‘trick’ henchmen or magical castle elements (abstracted coding) into doing things that help the Knight’

write the guard’s ‘daily action plan’ so they patrol in a way that doesn’t get the knight caught’

complete abstract ‘magical haxors’ that open the dragon’s firewalls’

social engineer the dragon between runs to let you have more supplies’

give simple instructions to collections of small woodland creatures to do simple things that add up to a real goal (in the vein of Opus Magnum)’
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Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That sounds really cool. If the princess’ telepathy instructions are strangely like code because that is how telepathy works in your setting, and this is a nice frame story for a programming puzzle game… all sorts of whacko fantasy analogues and justifications for why you are not allowed to use the equivalent of the addition command. (Maybe the princess knows through her rich royalty education that the only reason her addition command could be not going through to the knight because his trip took him at a place full of this kind of magic rock with properties that somehow block the wavelength… so she has to work around that. Worldbuilding yay!)

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