Beyond the Fourth Wall

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.96
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.92
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.64
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.80
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★1.88
Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.00
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.25
Community★★★★★★★★★★1.80
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★6%
It may have no sound whatsoever and be low on graphical detail, but it's high on weird!
...that's a good thing, right?
This is a very short point-and-click adventure game where you escape from a series of screens.

I expect the responses to this game to be... interesting. I had to cut pretty much all the non-placeholder graphics, animation, and sound for time, as well as the last level (which I thought to be the cleverest- maybe I'll expand on this idea later), but hopefully I got the idea across well enough. In place of all that stuff is a bizarre ending that I kinda had to think up on the spot.

I originally wanted a subtle, kinda artsy thing, but when I realized that I suck too much at art to do anything like that within the time constraints, I went in the complete opposite direction and abandoned all subtlety. I tried to go for funny in a "what the hell did I just play" sort of way... though I didn't have the time to put much thought into that aspect. Did I succeed at all?

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Genres: adventure

Comments11

matthias_zarzecki22 Aug 2011, 18:00
Oh, artsy it is. I like the idea.
James Paige
James Paige23 Aug 2011, 04:23
Even though the graphics were obviously rushed, they still had nice style. This works really well. I wish there were more screens to escape from.
callidus
callidus23 Aug 2011, 11:07
nice, I liked the idea, not seen that before so full marks for innovation! graphics were rushed and no sound though ( at least for me? ). Good entry.
Andrew25 Aug 2011, 08:02
This is one of the more interesting ways to play with the theme. Well done.
wally2069
wally206925 Aug 2011, 19:01
A good series of mini puzzles that clearly involve escape in its most interesting form. A great job worth playing.
foobaz27 Aug 2011, 02:59
Despite what you said about sound and graphics, I quite like this one. Nice puzzles and some interesting story.
angrygeometry
angrygeometry29 Aug 2011, 01:22
cool idea! took me a few tries to get past the scoreboard but yeah, nice idea done well.
Tulrath
Tulrath30 Aug 2011, 03:22
Very fun to play - I also like the odd ways of getting through each puzzle, the weirder the better :)
Gjarble
Gjarbleauthor30 Aug 2011, 18:08
Thanks to everyone for the kind words (and to JohanAR for the shoutout)! The response to my game so far has been far better than I expected- it's definitely given me enough confidence to expand on this game for a later time.
snesgaard1 Sep 2011, 11:16
A fun game with a nice dose of what the fuck! Really liked the score board puzzle once i figured it out :P
Maybe next time you can induce segmentation faults in a computer or something :P

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