====================================================== Insult Duelling - Theme: "An Unconventional Weapon". ====================================================== How to Play ======================================================
Inspired by Monkey Island's insult sword fighting. Learn all the possible insult retorts by training against the IDP (Insult Duel Practice software), and then you'll be ready to face the master. Defeat the master 3 times in a row to win!
Press 'F1' or 'M' at any time to open the menu (or close it). Press 'Esc' to quit the desktop version.
NOTE: Turns out the game doesn't display well on lower resolutions, so it's best to play the web version or choose a high resolution in the Unity launcher.
Pretty tough to realize how to play, but I really liked the music and the art was pretty cute. The concept is great as well as is the use of the theme :P
The second game I played based on Monkey Island's insult mechanic - while this is better as a "mechanical" exercise, the other one was much better written and more fun, though more limited.
There's literally no way to beat the game until it randomly throws up something its used against you before. It's a slow grind to get retorts and pretty meaningless on top of that.
I like that it tries something new but it's ultimately really, really boring and pointless and doesn't make the player feel like they've achieved anything.
Sorry I didn't have the patience to learn all the insults from the machine. I thought I could skip that part by opening the menu. When I pressed 'M' I couldn't get out of it and the only options were "New Game" and "Exit Game" so I lost all my progress... As someone who has played Monkey Island a lot I found the game too close to the original, it feels like an exact copy.
Thanks for the honest feedback guys, no need to apologize! Yes, it is quite identical to the MI puzzle and in hindsight the grind was tedious (in MI there was also a grind but for several reasons it wasn't as tedious). I'll also look up the other game you mentioned Tuism, thanks.
As for the menu, that's weird, 'M' should work to open the menu on Web version, and it also closes the menu (I'm sorry I didn't make that clear, will fix the description).
Interesting how you trade insults back and forth although one gamely I kept getting the same insult back and forth for 5 times in a row, almost thought that was the whole game.... I'm just an unlucky person with random number generators haha
Very simple game, great concept, very well made. I included it in part 8 of my Ludum Dare 32 compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/Fg_0-yj__pU
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Good luck!
I can not find the menu in the web version though.
check ours too if you want http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=44367
There's literally no way to beat the game until it randomly throws up something its used against you before. It's a slow grind to get retorts and pretty meaningless on top of that.
I like that it tries something new but it's ultimately really, really boring and pointless and doesn't make the player feel like they've achieved anything.
Sorry :/
As someone who has played Monkey Island a lot I found the game too close to the original, it feels like an exact copy.
Yes, it is quite identical to the MI puzzle and in hindsight the grind was tedious (in MI there was also a grind but for several reasons it wasn't as tedious).
I'll also look up the other game you mentioned Tuism, thanks.
As for the menu, that's weird, 'M' should work to open the menu on Web version, and it also closes the menu (I'm sorry I didn't make that clear, will fix the description).
Thanks for all your feedback!
-Neith
Wasn't easy.