The Tragic Tale of No Bones Jones

by darefus
co-authored: @jern, @lexomir
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.07
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.57
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.90
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.09
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.60
WARNING: ADULT GAMEtvcompose.png

*Controls: MOUSE ONLY*

This is an 18+ game. This is a game about making friends and helping them through rough times. You meet a young skelter with literally nothing. No job, no possessions, no significant other, no dog, no limbs, no name. Maybe you can help him??

We kinda ran out of time midway through so a lot of directions cut short, sorry!

Comments11

gSamore12 Oct 2019, 17:55
Can't find the game on itch.io!
RedHermit
RedHermit13 Oct 2019, 03:13
Nothing at that itch.io link to play :( - Love the cover art though!
gustavo.christino
gustavo.christino16 Oct 2019, 00:22
Is the dog (in Itch.io) in the image a reference to Gantz?
PopDaddyGames
PopDaddyGames16 Oct 2019, 15:26
The artwork looks great, and no bones Jones is a clever name! xD
Pegasus
Pegasus24 Oct 2019, 16:34
Amazing to think that you made this in 3 days
Phoenix Fireflower24 Oct 2019, 20:42
Great job finishing the game and getting all the artwork done even concidering you couldn't put in everything you wanted. Still had fun playing it. :thumbsup:
krx27124 Oct 2019, 21:23
Nice game!
adhesion25 Oct 2019, 02:02
Nice! The writing was hilarious and evocative and the art ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) was great too. For a game like this the gamefeel is really good too, particularly the little graphical effects and the sound design, nice work there. The unfinished stuff was a bit of a bummer, I wanted to smoke some jade :( also got a dead end at the snake lady. Would love to see more if this is updated. Nice work!
BrokenMirrorMedia
BrokenMirrorMedia25 Oct 2019, 05:07
I would like to review this game, but when I run the exe nothing happens... I can't tell if it's a problem on my end or not, but if you make any changes that could fix that before the deadline just ping me and I'll rate this game!
CaptainDreamcast
CaptainDreamcast26 Oct 2019, 13:28
During my first run I thought I'm gonna trick the doggo, what's the worst that can happen and that took a turn.

I got stuck at the snake/orc/butt lady too, the text gets stuck on "y-yes s- snake lady" and doesn't continue. Would love to replay it if you could fix that. So my comments here are exclusively graveyard dog centric. Once again I loved the writing, I laughed multiple times during playing, especially during the Jones/bone-stepper interactions in the woods and the beginning. And every time barking was involved. I think the two had great chemistry, it was the relatable buddy-skeleton drama I never knew I needed. Dog girl was very cute, I thought the art really shined at that point. Also liked how it played with some blur/color/funky background effects.
All in all top stuff, hope you can fix the butt lady so I can kick around more bo- err, I mean help Jones become complete again.

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