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The Accidental Adventure of Jim

By mattrb

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD21Ever
Humor182.7381.745.5
Innovation442.5039.014.0
Overall532.5027.86.3
Audio561.7335.14.6
Fun681.8314.61.6
Graphics712.1723.24.9
Theme722.009.42.3
Coolness418

Comments

ratking 2011-08-23 18:31

The idea of playing a mini game in order to defeat an enemy is nice, but the game itself (Pong) is just too slow. Also, the ugly endboss(?) is unbeatable, more or less. Dunno, I stopped trying, sorry.
First I thought you have to escape the dungeon, but then the ugly guy said something about a princess, so I think you missed the theme. ;)
Fazit: It would have been nice if you had some more polish in it, it just feels incomplete as a whole. Which is said, because I like Dungeon Crawlers. :)

mattrb 2011-08-23 22:23

Hey, no I really didn't miss the theme, I just didn't finish the dialogue/story :P

My plan was to do 2 more levels after this one, and Jim the titular main character was to be a random convict, misinterpreted as a hero come to save the princess. He just wanted to escape from prison, but was forced into a role, I never quite got to express this, though :P

shigor 2011-08-24 15:27

I'd add "it's too slow" to your self criticism. But you've scored with "It's too dangerous... errr" line :)

pdyxs 2011-08-26 08:21

I was so happy when the first type of bad guy was 'bat', coz it fit the pong metaphor really well... I woulda liked it if you took the use of the minigame a bit further in story.

Agreed that pong was too slow, especially once you started having to win a number of times...

angrygeometry 2011-08-27 02:30

i thought the graphics were quite charming.

fireslash 2011-09-13 00:25

Cannot skip cutscenes... text is slow, cannot skip. Combat pong is an interesting idea but gets old very fast. Loved the tie in for the old LD theme.