This is a text adventure with some animated characters. You are a knight, you are in a dungeon without anything but a book containing biographies of all the monsters you will meet before you leave. Use your wit, and nastiness to make each one cry and you may see the light of day again.
I encountered a few challenges along the way, the first was that I missed about 8 hours of the jam because of school. I had to work with twine 2.0, which I have done before, but it is a fairly new piece of software so it isn’t amazingly documented. I would have liked to be able to change the background colour towards the end of the game but limitations in CSS meant I couldn’t. I also had some trouble animating my monsters in photoshop as I was live streaming and using a pen tablet which was rather taxing on my laptop. I also had some trouble with embedding the game (I lost formatting and fonts) so it's download only at the moment.
For the best experience, play the windows version, although running the html is fine too (and cross-platform).
The download links lead to itch.io, click download now at the bottom and then "take me to the downloads".
The Unconventional Weapon is that you have to be mean!
Wow, I have to say that given the simplicity of gameplay, it looks nice. Gameplay is fun but maybe a little too simple? Still, I had fun so that's was it matters, I guess :)
Also I really like the overall mood of the game.
My only complaint is that it is a little predictable so it is quite easy.
Interesting take on the theme, and interesting choice of genre. The first thing I realized was that a 40 megs download is pretty steep for a flipping text adventure, so i guess it has to do with the standalone runtime cramming ALL THE LIBRARIES into itself. But i digress. The game was a fun one and has an interesting morale. In fact, you as a player become the real monster and even redeem yourself, how nice! The graphics and music both fit the theme very much and I really enjoyed playing the game. And tears as currency/weapon? Loved it! Looking forward to the sequel :)
played until the prom queen with the twigs. here's what i liked: - the music helped the mood - the graphics are weird but they work - the dialogue is funny
how this game could be even better imho: - more still images less animation. the graphics are so abstract anyway i don't think animation helps here - more roadblocks that don't kill you. so you could go from room to room for a few rooms and engage multiple monsters without necessarily getting eaten or getting past.
Haha, this was GREAT! Short and not to hard, which is good on a last evening of Ludum Dare, the graphics I wasn't so sure about when I same them little, but I like them. Funny, nice story and most original I've seen.
And I like when people design their twines.
Good story.