Dead Man by kakuremino

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made by kakuremino for LD27 (COMPO)
Edit: I fixed a crash (hopefully) that occured when trying to "go" somewhere at a certain place. This seems to be alright according to the rules:
"We allow you to fix crash or win condition bugs after the deadline (in a sense, like "porting" to support more players)."

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This is a text adventure with visual elements and sounds. To play, download the zip file and extract the contents to the desired location. Run game.exe.

To the people not using Windows: You might be able to run the game from source. What is needed is Ruby 1.9.2 (the game might run in previous or later versions but I'm not sure) and the Gosu gem (see http://www.libgosu.org/), which is available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Please tell me if it works (or if it doesn't).

The game was made using Ruby with Gosu and Ocra. Gimp, Paint and colored pencils were used for the graphics. Audacity and MilkyTracker for sounds and music.

Controls:
You control the game by typing commands. Enter "help" in game at any time for the following list of all available actions:
Cut, drop, eat, examine, give, go, help, inventory, listen, look, open, quit game, read, say, sleep, smell, take, taste, touch, use.

Ratings

Coolness 86% 2
Overall 3.17 435
Audio 2.98 302
Fun 2.57 842
Graphics 3.35 288
Humor 1.75 848
Innovation 2.58 842
Mood 3.18 246
Theme 2.55 1016

Feedback

GrimGary
26. Aug 2013 路 16:30 UTC
Loved text adventures back in the day. When I had a C64, it was text adventures that got me into programming. Can't say I got far, but I will keep trying =)
osthekake
26. Aug 2013 路 16:38 UTC
Very dark and mysterious!
When I was at the part with the timer, I typed "go north" and the game ended. (crashed?)
Nice graphics and audio.
Larzan
26. Aug 2013 路 16:51 UTC
Link is broken, cant download :/
Larzan
26. Aug 2013 路 17:10 UTC
Whop, forget that, was a problem of my ISP, sry..
馃帳 kakuremino
26. Aug 2013 路 17:13 UTC
Thanks for playing!

Osthekake, the game does indeed crash when trying to "go" somewhere at that part. I've fixed this bug (the rules seem to allow this). The links are updated and now point to the fixed version.

Larzan, the links work for me now. Hopefully it was a temporary problem.
Larzan
26. Aug 2013 路 17:31 UTC
Great idea, like the visuals, remembered me of the good old days :)
I didn;t get the theme connection though...
But well made..
Dark Acre Jack
26. Aug 2013 路 17:37 UTC
I get the "dangerous download" warning in Chrome, sorry.
autlos
26. Aug 2013 路 17:43 UTC
I love your textures and the game in general. If I were you, I would show the available commands all the time, so the player can't think in the command at the same time as he reads the room description and avoid typing "help".

Cheers :)
handCraftedRadio
26. Aug 2013 路 19:04 UTC
Wow I love the atmosphere to this game. Very creepy and mysterious.
skarab
26. Aug 2013 路 19:09 UTC
I enjoy the beginning. Feel to hear the dogs.
But I got stuck to the fridge, "read note" didn't work, noticed I had to type examine/look, I think those are a bit confusing. Nice game, which I'll examine/read/look again later on :)
stephan_h
26. Aug 2013 路 19:16 UTC
This is a wonderful game, although I did not finish it. I like the mood, the graphics and the descriptions.
I too often had to type "help" because I could not remember all of the commands.
Zerkruemler
26. Aug 2013 路 19:22 UTC
Somehow spooky. Although I played a lot ot text adventures back in the old C=64 days I prefer modern adventures more. I will try this later again since I did not get too far. Cool graphics by the way.
BradleySmith
26. Aug 2013 路 23:48 UTC
Very interesting take on the theme. :)
Clurect
27. Aug 2013 路 00:12 UTC
It was kind of cool, but I couldn't figure out the statue. The sound was spooky which was cool, but there were parts that were weird. The art was nice.
nikkesen
27. Aug 2013 路 01:39 UTC
Beautiful art. It suited the ambient music nicely. Interesting premise for the story.
JellyMan64
27. Aug 2013 路 14:30 UTC
Loved the game alot.
Tainted_Code
27. Aug 2013 路 22:23 UTC
That's pretty awesome, well done! :D
KhaoTom
27. Aug 2013 路 22:44 UTC
Didn't figure out how to complete it, but i really liked the journey
Joxno
27. Aug 2013 路 22:59 UTC
This is really cool, I love text adventures and this was really fun, I like it how you combined both text and imagery, works really well!
SnoringFrog
27. Aug 2013 路 23:44 UTC
Very nice looking game. I can't help but feel that I'm missing something, even though I dug through the source code after playing to see what I could fine and didn't find anything particularly interesting that I'd missed.
Kragnir
28. Aug 2013 路 00:19 UTC
Nice idea, nice implementation of the idea. Really like how you see the clock in the end.
Yell0w
30. Aug 2013 路 19:18 UTC
Very nice hand drawn images! The mix of downloaded art and hand drawn was so-so, but all in all cool! Not sure what the smooth rock and the knife was for tho ... hmm :)
馃帳 kakuremino
30. Aug 2013 路 22:01 UTC
Thanks for all the nice comments!

Yell0w, I'm not sure what you mean by "downloaded art". No downloaded images are in the game. Almost all the images were hand drawn (by me) and then digitally processed with Gimp. The rest I drew from scratch digitally (mostly Gimp again).
ellipticaldoor
30. Aug 2013 路 22:50 UTC
Good art <3
Almax27
30. Aug 2013 路 22:51 UTC
Nice mood but same problem as mentioned before : I typed help, then I couldn't see the description of the room anymore, had to restart to reread.
馃帳 kakuremino
30. Aug 2013 路 22:55 UTC
Almax27, the "look" command (or just "l" for short) will give you a description of the room.
Jupiter_Hadley
31. Aug 2013 路 20:31 UTC
Found this game very interesting but some what difficult. I featured it in my Ludum Dare 27 video compilation series, if you'd like to check it out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGdyZZ8iT10