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[escape text adventure!]

i love text adventures but...

I love text adventures! Zork, Planetfall, Infidel, the list goes on. And i love that someone else is also into text adventures. Tis a dying breed.

But you have some problems. First of, Flash and AS is a horrible language to make a text adventure in. Try Java, its simple, your games will look a lot like the original Infocom genre of epicness, and you can do a lot more, more easily.

Flash is great for scripted visual games. Keyword: visual. While you can make a game like this in flash, why would you? its like buying a brand new car just because you want to listen to a new radio. ive made quite a few text games in java and it is great and easy sailing. another route you might like is that there are many many text game constructors out on the internet. basically imagine the idiot proof cookie cutter learnability of Frontpage 2003 only with text games, and with some skill (just like in Frontpage) you can actually make something worth playing.

also one last thing, and i think this would also be easier in java, you need to make your verb list a lot longer and better. not because its easy, by no means im sure it would be very tedious for you to add more verbs, but because its the only way youll get people to play this game for this reason: why would i bother to play your text adventure escape game when games like Zork (I, II, III, IV, 0, etc) and Planetfall are epic, have the same gameplay only much much more complex text parsers, and are totally shareware now?
you need to expand vastly or give up on this dying market.

good site you might like btw is: tripleW DOT brasslantern DOT org

thoughtmaker responds:

thanks for the site! seems like a pretty good place to pick up some things for future games. actionscript is all i can program right now (not terribly well, i might add) but if java is so easy, maybe i'll use that as an excuse to begin to learn it hehe :) making this game was more time consuming than i wanted it to be, but i was hoping i'd learn from it and figure out a way to make it much quicker and simpler to program the same thing.

anyways thanks again!

[Hold the rope]

is this stolen?

ok exactly like the other game that i have played and yes u did give it props but when i went to ur site (the new one and the old one) everything seems to be stolen cuz i kno u didnt make any of that stuff so im really doubting the authenticity of this game here......

mooseisloose responds:

on my site I don't claim ownership to anything that is not mine and its all just links to the content on newgrounds, yes this is mine, and i havent stolen anything on my site if its just links to them on here and i have only claimed ownership to the ones that are actually mine

[Click, Drag, Picture!]

newbs

psh the music is listed in the audio thingy under his name and profile noobs.

Also it was a kool idea. I think your animation skils sux though and all the fades and tweens look bad. Your drawings are ok. For a noob though ill give you points for originality and with some work your stuff could be much better...dare i say great? Plus try using the paint tool instead of the pen (iim guessing you used the pen) because it auto smooths. Or if you really like the pen make sure you set it on really smooth so your lines dont look so shakey (or go slower if its your hand).

BTW did you trace your NG logo (or use onion skinning?) because you either did really good besides the shakey lines or if you did trace dont flout it around because ppl will just think your a braggart who cant draw.

trekopep responds:

Yeah, I traced the NG logo. I think that's totally cheating if I say that I drew it myself. I was going to delete that "I drew it myself" thing, but as you know, I can't. Also, just so you know, I actually made this game, like, 5 months ago. I know that may not seem like much, but believe me. I've really improved since then. XD

[Actionscript Tut v1.0]

sry

i thought it was a good tutorial but im blamming it so you can fix some things.

First the transitions are slow but thats not thr real reason the real reason is cuz it gets glitched after a while and all the buttons go to the links menu. (i have the newest flash player so its not me it must be you)

I really liked it though and want you to fix those probs and then ill vote good,

thx

dan-des-man responds:

okay ill try to find what the problem was and zap it!

[Cursor Challenge!]

good

it was good but since i didnt have time to play i cheated by using play to get to the last level.
ITS IMPOSSIBLE!!!! i dont kno if uve played this game urself but its literaly gets way to hard. Also u cant change the music without leaving the box thus ending ur game, u should try and fix that by making the music button controlled maybe?

nice game overall tho

Jindo responds:

As a matter of fact, I tested every level.

You'll find thatif you start from the beginning you get used to the fast speed.

Thanks for the review!