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Escape from the Dungeon of Snor

By weeping-rupee

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Humor913.64
Mood2833.44
Audio3013.33
Graphics3213.73
Overall3363.46
Theme3623.58
Innovation4793.13
Fun5233.14

Comments

varuns 2016-04-19 15:51

Interesting game. A bit too dark though (I mean the lighting.)

berserker_chris 2016-04-19 15:52

FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event0
for object obj_cursor:

Variable <unknown_object>.<unknown variable>(100003, -2147483648) not set before reading it.
at gml_Object_obj_cursor_Step_0

Clicked on a object in another part of the house.

Great Graphics

dat_not_my_game 2016-04-19 16:21

It is not Web build, it is Windows .exe file. Misrepresentation(

weeping-rupee 2016-04-19 18:12

Sorry, our mistake. Some bug fixes should be implemented now too :)

starpixie 2016-04-20 04:50

Pretty solid entry. Hard in the adventure puzzle way.

roadtosalvation 2016-04-20 05:02

Game crashed but the art and sound and humor were great. Lots of technical issues though

redpillgamedev 2016-04-20 06:18

I really liked it! Nice combination adventure + puzzle!

2bit 2016-04-20 06:20

Great game. I couldn't finish it since the puzzles were a bit too hard for me but I really enjoyed what I played. Really impressed with the art you were able to get out in the timeframe too.

medidog 2016-04-20 06:27

Really nice graphics and love the house design, I wish it can be more playable, right click did not worked for me in Firefox!

weeping-rupee 2016-04-20 07:29

Okay, the kinks should be mostly ironed out. Get back to us if you find any more but it should be mostly okay.

@ medidog: how did you even open this in firefox? This is not a web based game. It should send you to a downloadable installer for windows..

reallysketchypen 2016-04-20 15:36

It's really hard, but it's a very solid game. The graphics, music and humor were all great!

cowa 2016-04-20 18:16

The title screen reminds me of FEZ :)
But really nice graphics and atmosphere. Good job!

aaranos 2016-04-20 23:39

I tried to become the reflective mirror and it errored out. Nice graphics.

williambsm 2016-04-20 23:49

Nice adventure story! I like those kind of game

weeping-rupee 2016-04-21 00:12

@ Aaranos uploading a fix for that crash now. Thanks for the report:)

hankenstien 2016-04-21 01:52

I really liked the art, this was a fun play. Thanks for the submission.

nvrskipgameday 2016-04-21 02:03

So very cool. Right click broke for me early on, I'm not sure why, it only worked in the beginning on the first floor. I still thought it was wonderful, the look of it was great, I loved the talking skull and atmosphere of the wizard's lair. Very nicely done.

jasonalighieri 2016-04-21 02:09

Nice! That was well done.

dylanwolf 2016-04-21 03:02

Reminds me a lot of King's Quest. Great graphics and interesting puzzles.

I really appreciate having a walkthrough for LD games like this--helped when I got stuck.

nlbi21 2016-04-21 03:20

The art i love the fu***** pixel art :D hahaha i like it nice puzzles, nice game good job :D.

jungle 2016-04-21 03:29

Very good game. Nice graphics! Congratulations

phocker 2016-04-21 03:34

this was great - i loved the style, and you worked the theme in perfectly - great job

d3garcia 2016-04-21 04:47

Excellent work on game maker! you have a very good entry here, tip: on game maker there is an option called synchronization under global game setting, this is to avoid tearing ;)

fin_nolimit 2016-04-21 05:16

Very funny game and FANTASTIC art work!!! Nice concept as well. I love the fact that you provided a walkthough. I also used Game Maker so I was glad to see you did the same!

khaotom 2016-04-21 06:01

Really cool adventure game, good art and sound. Although you would have liked to make it possible to polymorph into anything, I wonder if maybe that would make the game too hard? but then I guess you'd just have to be careful to make the game solvable in more than one way! Sounds like a lot of work! Anyways, great work!

khaos_fang 2016-04-21 11:46

Don't know what to do..The graphics is very nice.

2016-04-21 14:09

Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35.
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description

ducktieteam 2016-04-21 18:24

Great game, pretty challenging, and more focused on paying attention

questionablequality 2016-04-21 20:24

Best bits were definitely the graphics and narrative humour! I found myself laughing more than once. I lost interest pretty quick though when I couldn't figure out what to do, and the noise of the skull talking was hurting my ears.

weeping-rupee 2016-04-21 20:47

@ QuestionableQUality

Walk thru for those who just wanna see content without the puzzles:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XGR9y-AlfqKV1kgilnvz3MNW6DoigK0jIt8ag8Kxkhw/edit

maymakegame 2016-04-21 20:50

Pretty good game. I love how you put shape shifting into it! =3

roland-m 2016-04-21 20:51

Really hard man, but good. =]

maekeruu 2016-04-22 07:20

WOW! the details on everything o_o great graphics man... It's an interesting game... puzzles are hard tho... i'd never progress without the walkthrough haha ... *EATS YOUR PIXELS*

fabraz 2016-04-22 14:19

Yay! Adventure games! A genre not often tackled in LD's.

lostalloy 2016-04-22 23:08

This game is great! Escape-the-room are one of my favorite genres, but the humor and mood on this one made it a new thing for me. Great entry!

the-potato-boss 2016-04-23 03:35

Great game man! Really funny and well done :)

pkenney 2016-04-23 04:25

Very nice atmospheric story puzzle game! Looks and sounds really nice and I liked the mood.

I'll report a couple of issues I saw:

I got a crash when got the painting to do something, here's the error:

FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event0
for object obj_painting:

Variable obj_player_treasure.fall_speed_max(100025, -2147483648) not set before reading it.
at gml_Object_obj_painting_Step_0


I also was able to glitch up into the bedroom from the starting room by turning into the mouse, running up the left wall, and turning into the guy then clipping through the ceiling.

Issues aside, loved it!

weeping-rupee 2016-04-23 04:35

@pkenney
Thanks for the crash report! We'll get on it asap :)

pestelcrew 2016-04-23 08:44

Cool entry, but it's hard to understand which forms you can take

tommyboys0107 2016-04-23 14:27

Great entry!

Nice graphics style and gameplay design!
There is a bug that I reflected the bullet but the bullet did not hit the skull... It leads to nothing :(

weeping-rupee 2016-04-23 16:36

@ Cliff Lee(CL)

SPOILER:
The bullet/fireball hits the wall to break you out :)

mike-cullingham 2016-04-23 20:21

Looks like there's a lot going on here, but I couldn't figure out how to open doors. I liked the humour and the idea of shapeshifting into stuff you find, and the fact that it's an adventure type game.

giordanno92 2016-04-24 19:41

I've only played few games of this genre, so it was very hard for me to get through the game. This entry is very complete. Also, thanks for commenting on my entry.

kiesenverseist 2016-04-25 04:41

This is an enjoyable game overall.

The puzzles were interesting and the house design was pretty cool. The audio, in general, fits the game well and the humor is nice.

I think you're using game maker so one tip is to draw the text from talking in the GUI event so it draws on the bottom of the screen instead of under the character. Use the variables from the views system to figure out the middle of the screen and draw it from there.

weeping-rupee 2016-04-25 12:51

@ kiesenverseist

thanks for the tip-- actually we used this technique for the tabbed out view (which was originally the only view in the game)

we added a 'zoomed in' view very last minute and decided it looked nicer with the high sprite resolution of some of our artists work. Suddenly, this became the default view because we liked it so much and we simply drew the text to the player object because we knew he would be in the center of the view and at the time we were struggling just to get the game working and figuring out the puzzles-- finding where the actual zoomed in view's center was wasn't a super big priority during crunch time.

Still it would have been nice, eh? Thanks for playing!

gord10 2016-04-25 17:10

Very nice work, I loved the mood.

kzdev 2016-04-26 01:00

Solid game, great graphics. I had a bit of trouble with the puzzles though, it can be a bit hard to see the keys

mayank-technical 2016-04-26 19:56

Nice game design,great concepts.its fun

pixelpotions 2016-04-27 14:32

Pretty solid entry, and I may say I got impressed with the whole amount of cool art you did for it!
Unfortunatelly I checked the walkthrough and found that I should be able to go upstairs as a rat, but I couldn't :/
Still loved the entry, did a really great work!

weeping-rupee 2016-04-27 15:22

@pixelpotions you need to be human to use doors.

mrmordem 2016-04-27 19:01

Nice point and click, good graphics and music,the humor was good as well, the puzzles feel kinda hard to figure out without the walkthrough

yet still solid controls and concept :)

rjhelms 2016-04-27 19:10

Great job! This is a really solid "mini" adventure game - good puzzle design, humour, sound and graphics.

My only criticism is that having to react quickly to the bullet at the end felt a bit "cheap" after getting used to being able to experiment at my own pace up until then.

ryannielson 2016-04-27 23:18

Neat looking game, even though I got stuck pretty quickly.

skaz 2016-04-28 12:39

Pretty impressive entry! Lot of arts and sounds here!

Couldn't get to far because of the controls, being on a AZERTY keyboard lead to difficult time.
Suggestion: think about non qwerty keyboards!
What I usually do to get inputs:
key_var = keyboard_check_pressed(ord("A")) or keyboard_check_pressed(ord("Q"))
Or simply use arrow keys over wasd.

weeping-rupee 2016-04-28 13:37

@ rjhelms

"My only criticism is that having to react quickly to the bullet at the end felt a bit 'cheap' "

Then we've done our job as character designers-- Snor is an asshole :)

thecain 2016-04-29 20:45

Pretty good point-and-click adventure game. My biggest issue with it is that some of the stuff I wasn't aware I could shape-shift into.

blackoptics8 2016-05-01 05:18

XD I really thought that was the ending but I played through it one more time and realized what needed to be done... You may want to put bounds around the top and sides of the attic.
Great entry! c'(^w^c')

rnlf 2016-05-01 20:17

Couldn't make it too the end, but your pixel style is nice!

reactorscram 2016-05-04 23:18

I had the cat eat me a couple times and I got to be a fairy which was really cool.

I got stuck after getting the sink water, couldn't find where to use it. It wouldn't put out the furnace nor the candles on the wall. There is a lot detail (like reading material by the toilet) but it's hard to tell how things interact at a glance.

I give it a good rating for graphics and overall. The dialog seemed to advance in random ways regardless of what I was doing at the time.

ellian 2016-05-08 11:20

It's a shame you can't shapeshift into more things, but the idea works. The puzzles are very obscure and hard to understand at first, but the idea is still cool!