On the surface, Under Dale is a simple and small town. But what mysteries are hiding in this, it seems, peaceful town? The Stranger (you) is about to find out... In Small Town, you get to sleep one night - or many more - in a mysterious town named Under Dale. Controls are simple (LEFT, RIGHT, UP to enter houses, SPACE to jump).
-- Visit Under Dale! --
Also, tune-in to Under Dale's public radio, visit the town during the day and enjoy the view of the mountains! I hope you'll enjoy your stay in this small town!
-- Developer stuff --
Small Town was written in TypeScript (so compiled to JavaScript), using VS Express for Web. The audio was made using cgMusic. The graphics are pen and paper (also GIMP for color).
It was tested on Windows and Mac (Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari).
EDIT: It looks like the game was unbeatable for some people, due to the keyboard configuration. This really sucks, but I had to make the corrections, because you really need to jump. Instead of Z, SPACE is now the key to jump. Big thanks to people in the comments. Also corrected 2 typos.
Thanks to all the comments! The game was unbeatable due to a change I made just before submitting :). I fixed it now. Thanks for the warning everybody!
The art style and parallax scrolling were very nice. I liked the narrative style of floating text which integrated physical movement and narrative development. The enemies killed me instantly each time I walked outside, so I didn't see much of the game besides the intro.
Some minor notes: There's a typo (instead of "magnificent") in the sky text, and if you press left/right/left/right the car seems to jump ahead.
I couldn't get Z to jump either inside or outside of the car. I also got stuck after sleeping in a building and nothing seemed to let me back out. Neat style, but seems a bit buggy right now.
Thanks for your feedback everyone! I had to make the change for this Z issue. Unfortunately, it looks like it's due to keyboard configurations... I'm using the 'My game is unbeatable' exception again to change Z to SPACEBAR. SPACEBAR is the same everywhere, I hope :).
I think I'm missing some gameplay elements here? As others said, the radio joke was great.. just finding trouble to see the gameplay and theme elements in it ;( sorry
I loved the initial text where the radio speakers said 'it looks like someone's stopping all the time on the main road' or something similar - extra humor points for details like that!:D
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I couldn't get Z to jump either inside or outside of the car. I also got stuck after sleeping in a building and nothing seemed to let me back out. Neat style, but seems a bit buggy right now.
10/10.