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by jethro_tell 4481 days ago
Plot twist, It's actually a 'teach yourself lua game'
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so level 38 is "figure out how to write the answer by editing the save file?"
Why not level 7? By 38 the player could be fixing bugged waypoints, profiling out bad O(n!) code, resetting time to get a specific time-based drop, tweaking character attributes to make puzzles/quests easier, etc. The savefile just becomes another interface to play with.

Gives a fresh angle on the 'open world' type game.

Reminds me of tweaking the Colonization game (1991?) by editing text files...