My latest MSX game: Westen House

Haha, thanks!

My music skills are indeed average at most haha. But indeed, ignoring the intro and ending songs there are 3 in-game songs (although the 3rd just just a 15 second loop for some "special" rooms ).

As for jumping for stairs. I know!! That makes me feel weird as well! I had it on my to-do list (together with trying to figure out a way to add a shadow on the character, and a few other things). I still want to tweak a few details that people have been reporting, so, maybe I have the chance to fix it before the final, final version

edit: about the pinball. Not a bad idea! I loved Pinball Dreams/Fantasies in the Amiga and played lots of hours of them

Very cool. I do find the controls a bit awkward/clumsy (keyboard use). Some gripes & ideas/suggestions:

• consider to enable the N key next to M (easier to reach, for me at least) (I recall at least a couple of Konami's that have both keys enabled as well);
• although graph would have been more convenient altogether perhaps;
• it's kinda annoying you have to pick an empty spot first when picking something up;
• sometimes by accident you move the inventory cursor when trying to interact with the environment.

As far as moving the character goes, it's just something to get used to, but I think I would have preferred up == NW / right == NE.

Cheers!

Great looking game =)
I agree that the character walking direction is a bit awkward(that's subjective i guess). If the game is still WIP, you could make those it optional. So, a settings screen where you can change to +45 or -45degrees rotated directions, and some other settings you can come up with?

Another thing that could be helpful to players: when switching inventory to another item, you could post the description to the message window, eg. "front door key".

Well done! I also really like that everything is open source I took a quick peek and already saw some interesting ideas for code formatting (e.g. indentation levels for stack operations).

As for the controls, maybe adding an alternative control scheme like I/O/K/L makes it less confusing which direction you'll move. (Or better yet, full freedom of movement where Up = North, Up+Right = North East, ... but that might not be so easy to implement)

@Latok (hardly a spoiler, but anyway):
                           
[spoiler]you might have missed a certain doorway (look carefully)..[/spoiler]