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Snakes and Ladders: A Texted Based Adventure Game

By argowen

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall10872.8121
Fun11592.3421
Innovation9882.8421
Theme7203.4221
Humor3803.2321

Comments

argowen 2018-04-20 22:09

Long time since i been here but am in.

milo87 2018-04-24 21:56

I actually had a lot of fun with this :smile: The descriptions of the squares, coupled with the console output added a surprisingly existential feel to the whole game.

Plus major props for a well implemented theme - text adventure + boardgame is a pretty incompatible mix!

joe-cowman 2018-04-24 21:59

Ha! Funny idea. I liked the descriptions on the tiles.

jcsirron 2018-04-24 22:04

Interesting take! I never thought text-based snakes and ladders would be so funny!

bhavin 2018-04-27 19:40

Very classic!!

spiffy 2018-04-27 19:40

You've chosen two exceedingly incompatible genres and made it fun. Congratulations!

visumecadroide 2018-04-27 19:42

Unfortunately it's not working on my computer. Windows 10 here.

Keep working on games to make even better ;)

[My game](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/engine-in-shadow)

artiko 2018-04-27 19:53

Simply genius, good work! Since english it's not my primary language i didn't understood immediately what i was playing , but after a little while of playing all was clear! Nice work, both of idea and of implementations!

lost-dutchman-software 2018-04-28 19:09

I won without cheating but it was a long game, Henry almost won thanks so some snakes!

superpokeunicorn 2018-04-29 02:56

This is quite a funny premise. I love the hilarious writing. Many other games like this would probably repeat lines quite a lot, but every square here seems to have a different line, which is impressive. It did get repetitive after a while with how many snakes I landed on, but I made it eventually. Also, I'm not sure if the examine function works; it never seemed to do anything. That aside, I had a really fun time with this game. Nice work!

mektidas 2018-05-01 15:45

really enjoyable, very good game!

jonas-michael 2018-05-02 18:08

I just LOVE this game! It follows an Approach that I had in mind while Brainstorming for this LD, but I threw it away because I didn't dare to try. It is hard making such a board game in text-based form interesting, but you did it really well. Nothing really to improve (unless you want to bother with Sound some time), so Keep up the good work!

aditya-shukla 2018-05-02 19:06

Wooww!! Could never imagine such a concept myself... really well done brother! Loved the art, gameplay and everything... Overall it is a nice entry! Well Done!

Just in case if you havent, then do try my game too... Cheers!

argowen 2018-05-02 23:14

Thanks guys for the feedback; I really wasn't too sure about this one and as I stated I really started to not like it while I was finishing up I guess more so than my last LD entry I'd guess due in part to the theme being a tough one this time around. I know for a fact that the code in this is really bad too as I was trying to rush to get it working and complete before the submission time for jam. I might actually go back and re-write the entire thing a lot more cleanly and add a few extra random features, I did like the idea of adding some sound into it potentially voice work for the room descriptions and/or dice roll sounds for well you guessed it the dice rolling. I like the idea of making it a bit more Dungeon's and Dragons-esque also but I guess we'll see what happens as so far of all the entries that I have submitted over the past few years I've not actually gone back to a single one of them LOL.