Controls: Use Q,K,S,P to walk around, and Space to fire your crossbow.
(Alternative movement controls are W,A,S,D, or I,O,K,L,
or T,Y,G,H, or the cursor keys.
Alternative fire keys are Control, Shift, Enter, M, N, C, X, or Z.)

If you’ve got any comments, write them below or drop me an email.  The ‘beta’ applet reports back some basic gameplay stats to me, so everyone who plays it is doing their bit to balance the difficulty level.

I’ll incorporate the new dungeon into the full game (including the Android version) in the next few weeks, fingers crossed.

Surprisingly, it’s nominated in the category “action adventure,” and not in the category “greatest number of unfulfilled promises by the developer for new game content.”  (There will be more dungeons soon, honest!)

And if one walkthrough for the game isn’t enough, I’ve just found out (thanks Dave!) that Jay is Games have one on their review page as well.

The bad news is the games are Java Applets.

Now, as much as I like Java, it’s a sad truth that Applets can sometimes be a little… cranky.  Bluntly, they just won’t work on some machines.  I’m using the Java Applet Embed plugin for WordPress, and I’m hoping that that will ease the pain a little.  But there’s still a chance you could be looking at a blank space where a game is supposed to be.

If the games aren’t appearing, the first thing to do is keep your eyes open for a message from the browser asking if it’s okay to run Applets. Failing that, you could try visiting the Java download page to make sure you’ve got Java installed already.  If that doesn’t help then all I can do is apologize.

If you know any tricks for making Applets work reliably then I’m all ears!

[Edit] And it turns out that the plugin that launches the Java Applets only works if JavaScript is enabled.  So that’s both Java and JavaScript.  But honestly, the games are worth it!

The purpose of this site is to show off the games I make to the world.  If the world wants to give feedback on those games then that’s cool too.