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Monster1

By mcfood

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness365
Innovation1293.61
Mood1923.43
Overall2203.47
Fun2853.28
Humor5222.58
Graphics6172.80
Theme7322.93

Comments

twixtortitan 2015-08-24 09:41

Fun game but would have been better if it was written in native html/webgl. Unity is to slow for this.

chromebookbob 2015-08-24 09:52

Great mood, and amazing story. You cracked the command line feel, good job

gaga 2015-08-24 09:53

Had a good time, sadly I got stuck after the network thing.

Ligh7zIncrement 2015-08-24 09:57

Very interesting concept, the game was very difficult to follow though. I still enjoyed it however!

mcfood 2015-08-24 09:59

Twixtor: Yeah, Unity wasn't the right choice. I had plans to use graphics at some point. Didn't get around to it in the end.

Chromebookbob: Thanks! I'm glad the feel came across =)

Gaga: Thanks for playing, and feedback! I think typing "help" or "network" again might have helped, but I definitely had trouble getting the right hints across in places.

nonentheless 2015-08-24 10:10

The idea is nice. You could evolve it into sth really interesting. Great job! :)

darkcart 2015-08-24 12:05

Love the console-based mechanic.

somfunambulist 2015-08-24 12:53

Fantastic game! I have always wanted to play something like this; an incredible use of the theme.

flygamer101 2015-08-24 13:05

Really cool game :D Thoroughly enjoyed it. Like hack run.

g_o 2015-08-24 13:23

Nice game! Reminds me of what portal done in their website with Glados before portal 2 came out.
Story's intriguing too!

nizl 2015-08-24 13:30

I'am so bad at these kind of games >.<
When I connected to maryWS the screen got black and nothing happend. I also can not go back :/
Still interesting approach to the theme.

raducumiczzz 2015-08-24 13:47

Interesting concept, had a great time playing it. Story is great. Not a big fan of this kind of games , but you added a special touch to it:D great work

somnium 2015-08-24 17:40

I love your take on the theme! The story was short, but good.

mcfood 2015-08-25 08:45

Thanks everyone!
I'm glad the console came across well. I haven't played hack run, but I guess I assumed it would be like this. I should check it out.

Sorry for the parts where the story, goals or puzzles are unclear. They were all kind of rushed. But I'll make a note to set the stage a little bit better.

Nizl, that sounds like a bug >.<
I'll take a look.

franklins-ghost 2015-08-25 13:36

Really great game and liked the way you used the theme, one of my favourite uses so far. Also liked the old command prompt like interaction but did run into a bug. I connected and spread around the world but then a bug seemed to occur where it says :
"Development Console" Canvas element contains more than 65535 vertices. This is not supported.
Liked reading the emails in the folders to find out more about what was going on too, well written.
Fun game and does make me want to go back and play an old text adventure.

mcfood 2015-08-25 13:48

Thanks for the bug reports guys, I think Nizl experienced the same bug. Basically I let the history get too long. I've started trimming it now. So it shouldn't happen again.

korvexx 2015-08-25 20:21

Interesting idea. Would love to play a fully fleshed out game with this style (Mu Complex is ringing a bell). Not sure if I beat it or what though. A tad bit confusing.

Great work nonetheless.

chrisfagan 2015-08-26 11:49

Was pretty cool, wish it was longer though. Great job!

ailin 2015-08-26 12:13

Very interesting game concept. Great job !

pixzleone 2015-08-26 12:18

Very cool, good job!

sypanite 2015-08-26 12:28

That was awesome! I also got stuck on the password part.

vladik-plays 2015-08-26 12:30

Very interesting concept. I didn't get it straight away :) but was still engaging...

keyboardmonkey 2015-08-26 12:48

Nice approach to playing a sentient AI! I enjoyed playing this one.

I saw a bug: sporadically, where instead of formatting words with colors, it displays the html tags around the words. A few commands later and the formatting corrected itself (is your game self correcting and sentient?).

Overall a great entry! A web based framework would serve you much better over unity too.

For the record, I would play a full game like this :)

strike 2015-08-26 13:21

Nice story, nice feelings. I liked it even if it was pretty easy and short. My only complain goes to Unity ignoring the rich text from time to time, leaving me with all the color tags around the place.

mcfood 2015-08-26 13:26

Thanks for the feedback guys! Yeah, the rich text thing only happened briefly on mine, so I figured it was livable, but I guess it's happening worse than I thought >.<

I will definitely engineer a bit better next time. Writing character by character with rich text was always going to be hacky.

mintarcade 2015-08-26 23:11

Like it. No, It is fantastic!

peecestudios 2015-08-29 01:10

this is so interesting, love it lol.

jeasonfire 2015-08-30 10:55

Didn't finish it, but it was very cool.

crucknuk 2015-09-13 11:23

Your game is a little gold mine in term of interaction :)
i'm not a programmer so i liked to have my hand dirtying on this, i just felt monstruous manipulating command. :P
I may be mistaken, but you putted a lot of effort into it, well done.