Task Failed Successfully: This game is far too much fun, far too functional, and far too genuinely entertaining to be A Bad Game. It's all there though: the flailing graphics tossed together in a basic drawing program, the infuriating use of popups to provide mission info and plot, very short repetitive midi covers of Better Games' soundtracks as barely music, sound effects made from mouth noises that bleed over each other and make a cacophonous mess of noise, glitchy and broken mechanics and no real satisfying ending. Unfortunately, it all makes for a very fun game that's genuinely charming. The game has all sorts of little quirks and exploitable mechanics to make it completely broken: with enough persistence and determination you can get Deep Ones and Angels early on and spam healing to be nigh-invincible, and with the right amount of heal spamming you can use THE CURSE to spike max HP to ridiculous levels. I managed to carry the Princess archer all the way through the reset to rescue Herself and cause a time paradox, and discovered on the way there that in the first level the game won't let you progress if there are Fire Imps in your party. I had to kill the boss and then let random enemies kill my Fire Imp party member for the quest to be considered complete. This one is a good game disguised as a bad game, 9/10
Author Comments
This is a purposefully bad game made for the Game Breaker's Toolkit jam 4 (where the goal is to make the worst possible game) it took about a week to make.
Join HERO on his EPIC ADVENTURE where he will complete QUESTS and meet many FRIENDS.
Controls:
- WASD/Arrow keys: move
- Spacebar: use spells (all of them)
- Left click (hold) move friend around
- Right cick a friend to become that friend
- R: restart (very important)
Characters:
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HERO: is here to do QUESTS and meet FRIENDS -
PRINCESS: doesn't want to stay in a castle, just wants to fight. -
IMPS: they terrorize the land -
GUARDS: they guard castles and sometimes they do war. -
THIEVES: they steal your stats, so watch out! -
Tͮͬ̆̊͆ͭͧ̍̐ͨ͆̒͏̨̛̖̬͎͚̞̰̗͔̪̰̬̯͎̜̻͉̰͝ͅḨ̴̣̹̹̩̰͈̼̟͉̼̮̹̳̝̖̬̣͈̇̄̄̓̓ͭ̑̓̀ͦͨͯ͆ͪͨ̚͡͞E̢̡͗̄̉́̕̕҉͖̺̣̣̟̙̼̱̭̟̥̪͈̜ ͮͭͭ̅̆̎ͯ̾ͨͣ́͝҉̠̰̤̬ͅC̵̷͍̠̜̳̗̰̩͈̻̠̲͒͗̽ͤ̈̈́ͣ̓̉̃̍͌ͨ̀̚̕U̴̴̞̠̳̲̠̘͎͈̲̯͈̟̦͇͇̬̹͑̿ͫͩ̓ͭ̿͗͘R̡͚̺̩͉̞͔͇̩͓̳̬͓͓͙͓̬ͭ̅͋̀̿̑̀̕͟͡S̷̨̨̤̤̬̞̩͓͔̣̺̣̬̤ͬ͛̔́̅͗̓͗̌̈́ͮͮ̆̕͟E̢̠͎̮̼̦͈̹̼̻͖̫͍̦͕̟̦̹̥ͨ̑̊ͣ̃ͮ͒͋͛͆̓ͭ̇͗̽͋ͬ́͘͠: it wants you dead. Do not summon.
Sound effects by Oxane
Full soundtrack: https://soundcloud.com/adrien-dittrick/sets/endless-adventuring
glad you had fun on this one :)
Yep. this was pretty bad. In an Ed Wood sort of way.
I'm not sure how to rate this game. It's not THAT bad, which... I guess means you failed the challenge? I definitely think you could've done worse(while still having the game be, at least technically, playable and even possible to complete) and it feels like the game is lacking a certain element of... creativity? Like you set out to make a bad game, but didn't actually think to explore the concept and didn't actually do anything clever with it.
Then again, 72 hours is not a lot of time, so maybe I'm being too harsh here(although I have seen some pretty awesome jam games).
thx for the honest and thoughtful review. You can check my other games, they're usually a bit more elaborate :)
Love the sound effects <3
lost hero hero during quest 14 and now im stuck, good game
It happens. Hero is actually not important if you grind other characters!
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3.37 / 5.00
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