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Lost Discoveries

By tb0o

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics104.0011
Innovation1422.5511
Fun2381.4511
Theme1552.8211
Audio553.0011
Humor1751.758
Overall1942.2711
Community1142.8211
Coolness201

Comments

pireninjacolass 2010-12-20 14:59

dislike

bmfs 2010-12-20 16:03

tldr

toadfrogs 2010-12-21 08:15

not much of a game... since I only see a lot of story lines...

endurion 2010-12-22 18:11

Very ambitious. However quite lengthy, and of course I don't know any details about American history :)

cosmologicon 2010-12-24 03:09

The Linux download link isn't working for me. The mediafire page comes up but the download fails. I'm going to try the Windows version under Wine....

cosmologicon 2010-12-24 03:29

I kind of like the idea. It reminds me of Carmen Sandiego. Except the world doesn't end in that if I you one question wrong. But I agree it might have been too ambitious for a first try, since you clearly ran out of time. There's no replay value, so that limits the fun. A trivia game really needs dozens of questions to make it interesting.

hdon 2010-12-24 10:27

> Lost Discoveries is a Visual novel ,mixed with quiz/riddle game, the idea is that the hero Hal have strange power called " The internet" ( yeah i know ..) ,that power can give him instant access to unlimited amount of knowledge.

That really made me LOL -- very clever

thristhart 2010-12-26 18:08

okay, I found the plot rather interesting, but I really couldn't take it seriously with the grammatical errors. I don't have an issue with improper spelling or awkward grammar, but you hit a pet peeve of mine when you put a space before punctuation, and use multiple punctuation marks. "The guys must be waiting for me and I am already late!" is how that should read.

Picking on your English aside, I was surprised at how engaging the plot was, but the trivia was rather difficult. A bit more ambitious than you could manage, but good effort!

mirroar 2010-12-27 01:26

It's a decent idea, but people who are not familiar with graphic novel games like this one might struggle with the controls.
It's a lot less painful if you know that you can just right-click at any time to save.

philomory 2011-01-08 00:45

A very ambitious game and, leaving aside the fact that it's incomplete, quite well done. The art style is very unique and interesting, and the sounds nicely atmospheric.

Only a few real complaints; one is that autosaving would be nice; two is that Pierre Curie is just as valid an answer to the final question as Marie was, but it's not counted as correct; three is that the presentation of text is awkward, in that it is sometimes hard to read on the background; and finally, the scene often fades in and out in the middle of conversation, which seems unnecessary.

But anyway, this gets very high marks. It is certainly the most innovative game I've judged so far, and spot on for the theme. Congratulations.

tb0o 2011-01-11 11:19

Thanks to everyone who rated and commented on my game :)
Thanks for the feedback, it's great to hear!
Also I'm working on upgrading the game using your remarks, and will try to re-release this game .
You guys are all awesome!)