Mashals of Knaveland

by jorqell
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.15
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.56
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.57
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.30
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.67
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★72%
Mashals of Knaveland is an ascii-based real-time stealth game with a deep plot, advanced AI, wonderful sounds and lots of features. Well, not really.

Made entirely with QB64 in 6 hours.

Edit: added fullscreen option.

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Comments30

Fanvadar24 Aug 2013, 10:03
not even bad
Drakonid24 Aug 2013, 11:29
It's pretty cool, it took me a few seconds to realize that the yellow A where the armors and I was the white @(didn't quite see it at first).
Kapitany24 Aug 2013, 21:54
Cool roguelike game :-)
Ghostik
Ghostik26 Aug 2013, 03:44
Simple but definitely playable ;)
shohs26 Aug 2013, 03:51
This was actually pretty fun. I enjoyed the intro dialog, and when it says "You took over 10 seconds and that is bad." The controls seemed a bit too sensitive to me, but I got used to it after a little.
kidder26 Aug 2013, 03:52
Loved the humor. I think the game could have benefited without the timer - but it didn't seem to have much of a consequence anyway.
Ravetcofx26 Aug 2013, 03:53
no Linux version :(
Layl
Layl26 Aug 2013, 11:50
'had fun, cool game :D
ShellfishGames26 Aug 2013, 12:04
The description of the king was just amazing. :P As for the rest, I did enjoy it, even if just for the humor.
Riley Hume26 Aug 2013, 13:39
Funny game. I'm not really a fan of ASCII, but the game was decent.
Larzan
Larzan26 Aug 2013, 15:33
Haha, nice, reminds me of a game i made 5 years ago, love the ASCII take on it :)
Loerden26 Aug 2013, 15:42
Quite nice!
cafeine26 Aug 2013, 16:58
Clever and quite funny, neat graphics and sound effects.
TakeNapEveryday
TakeNapEveryday26 Aug 2013, 18:08
Forsooth, I admire dost fluentness of thine cave generatoror.
MadcoreTom
MadcoreTom27 Aug 2013, 11:21
Lol, "You didn't need to write anything there"
mitkus
mitkus27 Aug 2013, 13:40
Cool, another text-mode game! Loved the writing style, and taking turn-based roguelike to real-time stealth game is a really fresh idea.
almightyzentaco
almightyzentaco27 Aug 2013, 18:42
Of all the ascii based games where you collect defunct pieces of armor, this is the best.
nintendoeats27 Aug 2013, 18:45
That whole game was really just so you could write a ye olde conversation about 10 seconds wasn't it?

I enjoyed all of that.

You can't get ye flask.
LordHellMaX
LordHellMaX28 Aug 2013, 02:32
The graphics and audio style brings back memories! I'm so bad at this, I couldn't complete the 1st level at difficulty 5 hahaha!
MrAwesomeHimself28 Aug 2013, 12:54
pretty cool - quite obvious what was needed to do and challenging.
Typedeaf
Typedeaf28 Aug 2013, 13:19
"Yay!", the king retorteth in a wickedly manner

Sold, right there
pighead1028 Aug 2013, 18:55
The controls were clunky and difficult to use, but otherwise it is a fun game.
Kurisu1 Sep 2013, 17:29
The dialogue was fun and fitting and the time limit worked well with the sprawling maps and it felt fun to to just get going and hope not to die on the way. The narrow gaps were a tad difficult to navigate, but that only added to the panic.
The sounds were minimal but were enough.
Tater_hater4 Sep 2013, 23:36
Love these kind of stealth games!
jprogman
jprogman9 Sep 2013, 01:46
Feels just like an old DOS game. (If it is a DOS game, forgive me.) Only problem is the time. 10 seconds to complete the level is a little short. I have to move instantaneously to the armor without looking around for enemies.
Otherwise, nice work!
Wertle10 Sep 2013, 03:18
Nice work. One thing that tripped me up was that I had a hard time spotting my character at first - maybe some bit of feedback to draw your eye to him as soon as the level loads (a bit of flashing, a different color) would help smooth that out.
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