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Cavern of the Evil Wizard

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This was inspired by the movie "Big" with Tom Hanks.


Games like this started my obsession with making my own games. It's purely about nostalgia. The struggle Josh Baskin had in the movie "Big" was not wanting to be a kid (frozen in childhood, unable to overcome his perceived obstacles). But all I can seem to think about now is how much I'd like to go back to my childhood and re-experience the best, most care-free time in my life.


"During the first scene I knew that the PC game [Josh Baskin] was playing [was] a metaphor for the events ... to come. The ice-melting puzzle is a metaphor for Josh being stuck in adolescence and how he wants to break free and become an adult. The Zoltar machine is his gateway into adulthood but is also a representation of childhood and innocence. In the end when Josh goes back to work on the puzzle and finds a way to melt the ice, he has learned that being a kid isn't so bad and the puzzle has been completed, therefore he can go back to being a child."


--Kayla Lukacs


Music by the band "Melt Wizard" - available here

http://www.hieratic8.com/meltwizard/songs.html

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Amazing short game; I wonder if MS-DOS games were really like this, having so many possiblities?

Text game flash. This game was inspired by the movie Big. The graphics are basically one page. The game can be beaten by typing one sentence. This feels just like a demo.

It was a fun game. The end music helped me figure out what to type.

i thought this game was fake

BoMToons responds:

It kinda is...

Nice idea

This was a nice game and I really love the idea you have here and that movie was a great movie and that you based it off the ideas if the movie and made the game your own style was good but anyways nice job on this fine game

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
No changes as this was a decent game

~X~

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Nov 6, 2009
3:58 PM EST