Chatventures
chatventures is a text-adventure MMORPG
you travel through a fantasy world where you interact with every thing through text commands such as:
- punch, you can punch enemies and other players! you'll learn more attacks later as well
- look, look around to see where you can travel to which NPCs you can talk to or which objects you can check out!
- go to, you can go to different areas. each area is its own chat room.
- honk, play the sokpop honk sound for everyone in the same room!
features
- 50+ text commands to uncover (some are hidden in plain sight!)
- 50+ areas to explore
- 90+ different items to find
- 30+ enemies to fight
- 20+ NPCs to talk to
- 15+ quests
- character creation :D
!!warning before playing!!
the game generates a password for you so you silly people don't use your real passwords! be sure to remember what that password is!!!
made for the Sokpop Patreon
cover art made by Lisa Mantel: https://www.instagram.com/patatjes4life/
Purchase
Get this game and 7 more for $18.00 USD
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3 USD. Your purchase comes with a Steam key. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- update v1.2.1May 13, 2020
- free update v1.2 "Rime Halls" out now!May 08, 2020
- v1.1.1Mar 30, 2020
- small patch v1.1Mar 20, 2020
Comments
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I think the server is down on steam, I was trying to play last night and now this morning but its not opening. It just gives me the sokpop screen then goes to black and quits and opens a smaller window that does the same thing. Not sure if it's the servers or if it's on my end but can't find a fix
Update: I just bought the game here on itch.io and tried both the offline version and the regular version and it's still doing the same thing so not really sure what to do.
Yes, it seems the server has been down for the last two days. Steam and Itch.io-version uses the same server so there should be no difference between them. Hopefully the devs will look into it soon but there is really nothing you can do about it as a user, except maybe try out the local version, which unfortunately cannot be played with your friends and also seems to crash a lot for me.
Ya I got the offline version to work but like you said it crashed a lot and I kept loosing progress so stopped playing on it. Really hope the devs will fix chatventures so I can play with my friends.
The server is up again!
let’s goooo, thanks for letting me know
does stan the octopus come to punish you for spamming counter lol
I think the server is down, soI hope it starts up agai
usually it reboots itself in a few minutes but if it stays down let me know!
I forgot my password is there any other way to recover it?
I emailed us@sokpop.co but I haven't got a response yet ;-;. I really don't want to create a new character after all my grinding ;-;.
mustve missed the email, i will take a look today
Thank you! My email is ymensah62@gmail.com
i can’t find it, can you resend the mail to us@sokpop.co ?
okay it should be coming at 12:30
did you get it?
nope, didn't get it. are you sure you got the e-mail address correct? otherwise try to DM us on twitter
It seems that if you look at yourself, the game quits with a fatal error.
And after that happened, attempting to connect back to the game also creates a fatal error.
Getting a weird error:
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FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event0
for object oClient:
Unable to find any instance for object index '100012'
at gml_Object_oClient_Step_0
############################################################################################
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stack frame is
gml_Object_oClient_Step_0 (line -1)
Update: Figured it out! Itch.io's game client only downloads the offline version and not the online one. Just in case anyone else gets this issue, you just gotta download it from a web browser.
Spent some time with this game over the last couple of days. It's pretty engaging. Some of the touches are fun and give the game a unique feel, like the slimes being able to cover the input field and the screen-shake when you get hit, or the visual effects when you are poisoned. Fun ideas.
I do have a few quality of life / accessibility suggestions that might improve things which I suspect might be easy changes:
* Increase the contrast, at least in the console. It's a little hard to read, at least for me. Just making the background darker would help a lot. (You could put this behind a toggle if you want to preserve the current color scheme.)
* Similarly, it would be really nice to have some font size controls, at least in the console area. Increasing the font size in tooltips would be nice, too. I realize some of the screen layout is tied to the font size in some elements, but we spend so much time in the console that it feels like it would warrant an easier font size to read.
• Add "get" as an alias of "take". I find myself typing that due to so many IF games using it.
• If you're fighting "gus the slime", allow "punch slime" as well as "punch gus". This might make for an ambiguity when there are multiple slimes, but I think it would be fair to just choose the first one if the player doesn't specify in such cases.
• Maybe automatically "look" when you go to a new area?
Also, I've noticed something that feels like a bug. Sometimes, I will type something and it won't "take", displayed in all gray and not recognizing the verb. It seems to happen when I use delete to correct something I've typed, but not reliably.
But really, none of these get in the way of enjoying the game. Some interesting ideas for games like this. Thanks for making it (and maintaining it on the server!). It's a fun little world.
thanks for playing! i really like the suggestions, i even think the ambiguity of punch slime when there are multiple slimes could translate into punching a random slime, like, if you don't specify that's your own fault, but would be useful if you can tank the enemies anyways or if there's only one enemy to begin with. should've thought of this earlier haha.
Just downloaded this game, and the Mac client is just showing a window that says, "Unable to find game!!:"
copy the file and paste it into a different folder and it will work
Thanks - that worked!
hey i didn't realize the game gave you a password. Is there anywhere I can see mine? My account name is adishpan.
it should auto fill in the password, if not, send us an e-mail to us@sokpop.co and we'll help you from there!
Looking at the patch notes you are supposed to keep inventory on rebirth. I lost my inventory and coins when I rebirthed.Items were invisible in inventoryAlso when turning in a quest with a full inventory rewards are duplicated on the ground. And when buying an item with a full inventory materials are not consumed, and item is dropped to ground.
thanks! i will try to address these issues in the next update
Just an FYI - Looks like there may be some potential bugs with the suck spell (heals the target, not the user) and the Getting Ripped quest (no push up counter, never gets assigned/ can't accept)
thanks. you shouldn’t be able to have suck but it might have something to do with itch version..
push up 2 quest will be fixed next update!
just discovered your game and love it so far!!
the getting ripped quest is still broken tho :( any chance it will get fixed?
Hello Sokpop!
I send an email to us@sokpop.co becouse i wanted so much go back to chatventures but i had a two accounts nastymoose and nastymoose2 (if i remember) and i stopped playing months ago so i forget my passwords.
Is there any option to restore it or make another?
<3 i hope so we can do that.
no problem! just send you the passwords
Wait, you're storing passwords in plaintext?
yeah but you cant choose your own password; the game generates a password for you
Hi, i got a new computer hard drive and i just redownloaded this game, however i forgotten the password, is there anyway I can recover it?
hi, send an e-mail to us@sokpop.co and tell about your account and we can retrieve your password
im trying to run this game but i dont know how to run the server? was it supposed to come with the download or something?
you don't need to run the server unless you want to play the offline version. in that case there is a separate download called Chatventures_LOCAL_OFFLINE.zip however it's only for windows and it's an older version right now (has some bugs)
hi, send an e-mail to us@sokpopo.co and i will take a look!
Just a small question, how do you get thick pelt? I'm lvl 37 and still can't get winter boots because of that
winter wolves in glacy pass?
Oh, yeah. I finnally got to kill one at lvl 45. Thanks! The reason I thought winter wolf couldnt be the monster to drop that is because winter boots are for lvl 20 and they are sold in big town along with other items that are easy to get, and to kill winter wolfs or even to get to glacy pass you need to be high lvl
yeah that's probably kinda misleading haha
sent you an e-mail!
Thank you so much!
hi! i just bought this game and i got an error that ive seen in the comments - you told someone else to run the server first before opening the game to fix it. i tried figuring out how to do that, but i am having trouble understanding. i am on mac if that helps. thanks <3 luv u guyz
are you trying to play the game online or offline with your own server?
online
For some reason, when I try to hit play in the steam menu to play chatventures, it runs and then the screen closes out after playing the sokpop animation.
the server was down, but should be up again!
Hi! When trying to run the offline version, I keep getting a loop of the splash screen and then this error:
___________________________________________
############################################################################################
FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event0
for object oClient:
Unable to find any instance for object index '100012'
at gml_Object_oClient_Step_0
############################################################################################
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
stack frame is
gml_Object_oClient_Step_0 (line -1)
Hi! did you run the server as well? you have to run the server and then boot up the client.
Will the local offline be available on steam? Just curious!
probably not, for itch it's easy to just upload extra files, but for steam it's a bit more work.
Is there a way to play this offline for times when there's no wifi? Like tricking the game into thinking the local network from my computer is the chatventures server?
hm no you actually need a server version of the game that needs to be run. I could make a local server build available?
That would be awesome!
If you make it available through itch though, I'll have to ask for it to be emailed to me because I only own the Steam version.
I can provide those details on twitter dm's if needed.
Hey! I got the game and when I start I seem to be locked in a loop of sokpop splash screen coming up then the game going windowed and doing the splash screen again before going fullscreen again.
This message showed up when i first installed the game. could anyone help me solve this?
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FATAL ERROR in Vertex Shader compilation
ShaderName: sh_overgang
D3DXCompile failed - result
at gml_Object_obj_intro_Draw_77
############################################################################################
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stack frame is
gml_Object_obj_intro_Draw_77 (line -1)
you’re missing a directx driver:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=35
Thank you!
How can I update the game? I keep getting the error 'unable to find game' when launching the client app on Mac.
copy and paste the file into a different folder and it’ll work!
Great! Thanks!
I can't get the MacOS client to run. "Apple cannot check it for malicious software."
Figured it out. Needed to control-click, choose open, then choose open again.
does anyone know how to get to where the ice golems are?
Hello, go to Bigtown east gate > mountain trail > moutain foot > mount glacy and here you are
thank you!! ^_^
Hello! I played this game last night and found it very fun, but when i woke up, i typed in my username and the password didn't show up. I was planning on writing down the password today since i did so much grinding that night. Please, how do i recover my password so i can play again on that account. Btw my username in that game is also broskie64.
Thanks, Broskie64.
hi do you still need your password? if so, send us a private message somewhere and i'll look it up for you.
pro tip, you can by weapons from eli in small town
an update! It just gets better and better.
Love it, would be amazing if this was on mobile
are you sure? typing on mobile sounds like hell to me!
Nah Ai dungeon does that
can you change your username at some point
you can't!
awwww
Hello! If I bought the game via patreon when it came out, how do I download the latest version?
(Also this game is awesome and I love it!)
go to https://sokpop.co/patreon_access/
Lovely, thank you!
Sadly now I'm back to where I was before, stuck in bogtown getting repeatedly murdered by snakes in the marshlands :(
lol
[edit] wow serpents are hard to kill
Hi! Will this game release on Steam soon?
yes!
Nice, thanks! :)
if we bought it here do we have to buy it again? edit:on steam i mean
should esc close the app? that seems slightly abrupt to me
I agree , going back to the connection menu would be great
The game crashes when you `check` yourself.
Anyway that game is so fun my fingers hurt.
Where is the password generated? I made a character and didn't get any sort of password. Now I can't log in :( Just to check, I made a new character and still didn't get a password.
if you can’t find it, you can always try to retrieve it from local savefiles. Go to C:/Users/<username>/AppData/Local/Chatventure
There should be a file named <username>.ini
Open it in notepad and look for a line that says ww=
it’ll tell you the password behind the “=“
Thank you!
where might this file be on a Mac? I looked around in the package contents of the chatventures_client and didn't find anything like <username>.ini seems like you'd want to see this on the character creation screen or an in game menu
i tihnk it should be at Library/Application Support/com.sokpop.chatventures
also wondering how to access this on a Mac! I've gone to Show Package Contents --> Contents but I'm not sure where to go beyond that
i think it should be at Library/Application Support/com.sokpop.chatventures
Hi! I bought the game last night, i'm really enjoying it!
How can I talk to my friend which is also playing and online ?
make sure you’re in the same area and you should be able to interact with each other!
I rech 100
Playing it get me a lot of fun
I still not finnished stopping the dam becouse my earlier comments but its great
If you let us rech over 100 lvl i will come back to chatventures with pleasure
Great job <3
Regards