Matchbox by Sos
I don't know what kind of game this is.
I made a DOS game, yay! It should run smoothly on anything starting from 8MHz 8088. It's supposed to work flawlessly on any DOS distribbution or under DOSbox. It should also run pretty well on an actual old-school PC. If you have that, I'd appreciate any reports regarding that!
Features 4-colour CGA graphics and PC speaker tunes!
Mac version requires Boxer - http://boxerapp.com/
I made a DOS game, yay! It should run smoothly on anything starting from 8MHz 8088. It's supposed to work flawlessly on any DOS distribbution or under DOSbox. It should also run pretty well on an actual old-school PC. If you have that, I'd appreciate any reports regarding that!
Features 4-colour CGA graphics and PC speaker tunes!
Mac version requires Boxer - http://boxerapp.com/
| DOS | http://sos.gd/ld28/downloads/matchbox.zip |
| Windows (.EXE) | http://sos.gd/ld28/downloads/matchbox.exe |
| Mac (Boxer) | http://sos.gd/ld28/downloads/matchbox-boxer.zip |
| Bootable 3.5" Image | http://sos.gd/ld28/downloads/matchbox-img.zip |
| Website (more) | http://sos.gd/ld28 |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview&uid=1405 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 0% | 1795 |
| Overall | 3.40 | 202 |
| Audio | 3.69 | 39 |
| Fun | 2.84 | 515 |
| Graphics | 4.33 | 21 |
| Humor | 3.19 | 158 |
| Innovation | 3.00 | 427 |
| Mood | 4.16 | 11 |
| Theme | 2.56 | 676 |
The game experience is good : one click play, instant immersion in an old dos game exotic universe I missed so much, global "wtf this is so weird and cool!".
On the other side... Is there any "good" end ? If no please make clearer than the only two game buttons are "left" and "right" because I just got stuck wondering "What am I suppose to do ?". The starting screen ask you to press space button but this key doesn't seem to do anything in game => This is misleading the player you should either say "anykey" or one of the buttons used to play. If space key does something (I missed) somewhere, you should really give player a feedback when using it at a wrong place.
Thanks for the game =)
The atmosphere was dark yet fascinating.
Brings me back to the good old days.
Your game has such an amazing graphic style ! Love it.
Music was wonderful (and contextual!)
Graphics were evocative and brought back great memories.
I can't seem to find the source code for it, am I missing something?
CGA.
Never forget. :)
Thanks for that great stuff!