Dungeoneer is a minimalistic game about the fate of a dungeon guide and an adventuring companion.
It's a game about playing with expectations.
Everything runs in a web browser.
NOTE: You WILL need an HTML5 compliant browser to finish the game. I recommend Google Chrome, but it will work in others as long as it is a modern, updated browser and not something like an old version of Internet Explorer.
Let me know what you think. You can find me on Twitter @protensity.
I've uploaded a time-lapse video of the creation process that you can watch here (warning - spoilers for the game):
Good text game at first with the storyline, in the next part of the game... I don't know what else to do aside from just walking and collect pieces of squares.
Best game I've played so far; I think I've played 6ish. So that's good. A quick game (which is what I was looking for), and still satisfying. Also matches the theme well. At some point I'll have to try the other endings. Bravo.
I loved that text adventure retro feeling. Nicely written scene descriptions. The second part is confusing first and maybe a bit too long. You should think about maybe either shorten it or give some kind of feedback telling the player that collecting the squars has any effect (maybe tint the borders of the screen with a vertain color or something similar). But I liked the "no interface" look. Good job :).
Interesting, particularly the text-adventure segment used to set up the second part. I was kind of hoping for something specific if you went out of the way to collect red cubes, although I can understand if they're just used to penalize the player for poor game-play.
This is my favourite entry so far (at this moment I have reviewed about 25 games). It was very clever to combine a text adventure with something else, and the strange, moody block collecting mini-game that decides your fate is perfect.
I think you could take this farther, and make a text adventure that linked to a whole ton of neat puzzles, moody scenes or activities, and information.
The text part of the game was a lot of fun. Interactive fiction is appealing to me. But I feel you let go of the concept too quickly, and that the dot collecting took more away than added to the experience. However, it was well-written, and I wish you played up on the being followed by a beast and surviving trap mechanic in the story more.
Very cool.. Couldn't figure out a way to get out of the telling-the-future dot-cloud though! I collected all the "Present" dots and the text suggested I'd escaped, but all I could do was start again..
Wow, that was amazing! I love the sense of exploration, even in the second part when you have to figure out what the hell is going on (which fits perfectly with the story).
Well written! I loved the trap-sense, a great mechanic to deal with re-reading parts of the story. Also, the way the different choices are presented in the second part of the story is just awesome!
This is one of the more innovative games I've played in this competition. The plot is great, writing quality is good to excellent, and the music is simple and beautiful, just the way I like it. While the gameplay change feels a bit sudden, it is a great way to illustrate the process going on (trying to avoid spoilers here).
The only downside is that the second part of the game takes quite a long time, and is not really that entertaining (though, like I said, I applaud the way it works in plot terms). It could be cut down to 1/4 or so of its current length and still work great. (Maybe you did it intentionally to stop the player from trying to get all the endings through all the endings, for all I know.)
SPOILER
Also, I tried for "corruption" in the "to escape" ending, but no ending text showed up. No idea whether that's a bug or a feature, but still a bit of a disappointment.
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Despite my nitpicking about the length of the second part, this is a great game. There seems to be an impressive variety of endings; I'm gonna have to come back and check them all out.
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I think you could take this farther, and make a text adventure that linked to a whole ton of neat puzzles, moody scenes or activities, and information.
Thanks for this!
I also liked the "Premonition", I thought it was a great way to handle the death due to incompetence of a character.
All in all, a really great game, I'd love to play more of this kind of stuff, the only flaw I can find it's that's it ended too soon!
I really liked the ending with the minigame.
Interesting game you've made here.
I loved the sudden change in the games' style.
I agree with some people about the ending. I had no idea what was going on. But it was amazing!
(Just as a note, I also made a game with a white square representing the main player. So I thought that was cool.)
Really cool way to tell a story, loved it!
The only downside is that the second part of the game takes quite a long time, and is not really that entertaining (though, like I said, I applaud the way it works in plot terms). It could be cut down to 1/4 or so of its current length and still work great. (Maybe you did it intentionally to stop the player from trying to get all the endings through all the endings, for all I know.)
SPOILER
Also, I tried for "corruption" in the "to escape" ending, but no ending text showed up. No idea whether that's a bug or a feature, but still a bit of a disappointment.
END SPOILERS
Despite my nitpicking about the length of the second part, this is a great game. There seems to be an impressive variety of endings; I'm gonna have to come back and check them all out.