The Accidental Adventure of Jim

by mattrb
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Fun★★★★★★★★★★1.83
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.17
Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.73
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.73
Windows and Linux binaries available, or download the source and run it with Love2d :)

The Accidental Adventure of Jim is a pong RPG... thing. It was rushed and I really didn't have time for much combat, I hope you can look at what is there, though.

FAQ:

The art sucks.
Yup.

There's no sound/music.
Yup.

The dialogue is trite and childish.
Mostly.

I wish I had been able to do a couple more of my ideas :(

Comments6

ratking
ratking23 Aug 2011, 18:31
The idea of playing a mini game in order to defeat an enemy is nice, but the game itself (Pong) is just too slow. Also, the ugly endboss(?) is unbeatable, more or less. Dunno, I stopped trying, sorry.
First I thought you have to escape the dungeon, but then the ugly guy said something about a princess, so I think you missed the theme. ;)
Fazit: It would have been nice if you had some more polish in it, it just feels incomplete as a whole. Which is said, because I like Dungeon Crawlers. :)
mattrbauthor23 Aug 2011, 22:23
Hey, no I really didn't miss the theme, I just didn't finish the dialogue/story :P

My plan was to do 2 more levels after this one, and Jim the titular main character was to be a random convict, misinterpreted as a hero come to save the princess. He just wanted to escape from prison, but was forced into a role, I never quite got to express this, though :P
Shigor
Shigor24 Aug 2011, 15:27
I'd add "it's too slow" to your self criticism. But you've scored with "It's too dangerous... errr" line :)
pdyxs26 Aug 2011, 08:21
I was so happy when the first type of bad guy was 'bat', coz it fit the pong metaphor really well... I woulda liked it if you took the use of the minigame a bit further in story.

Agreed that pong was too slow, especially once you started having to win a number of times...
angrygeometry
angrygeometry27 Aug 2011, 02:30
i thought the graphics were quite charming.
FireSlash
FireSlash13 Sep 2011, 00:25
Cannot skip cutscenes... text is slow, cannot skip. Combat pong is an interesting idea but gets old very fast. Loved the tie in for the old LD theme.
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