Kill Yourself

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This is a very bizarre game that not everyone will understand (it certainly has plenty of injokes), but I wanted to make it. Once again time restrictions reared their ugly head and I had to cut two features that would have made the game a lot better: changing the game world and achievements.

Changing the game world would have made the game a lot more complex and involved. As it stands right now, you basically flounder around until you come across an ending – it’s not possible to have any effect on the world until you finish the game, at which point you start again with a blank slate. Changing the game world would have added support for locations changing according to your actions, people saying different things, etc.

Achievements would have been good to show you how many endings there are and to keep track of your progress in finding the different endings. There are currently nine endings to find.

The other main thing that this game suffers from is a lack of recognised commands. I put in as many as I can think of, but inevitably there will be plenty I missed! Amusingly, I use MochiServices to track the commands people tried that were unrecognised. Here are my favourites: Drink Toilet, Mastrabate, Get in Fridge, Strangle Sheets.

Ultimately, text adventures are a very clunky way of playing a game and a definite relic of the past. I don’t see a resurgence of them or anything like that; in fact, as soon as the ‘regular’ adventure games starting showing up (such as Monkey Island and the Lucasarts games, etc), I think those games outclassed old text adventures for simple playability. Text adventures were just a product of the poor hardware of the time, though they do have the nostalgia factor.

Maybe I’ll try and do a Monkey Island style game!

5 Responses to “Kill Yourself”

  1. Stuart Childs 6 July 2010 at 20:36 #

    damn those were some good pilz

    lold at the solid wardrobe.

    nice

  2. Emma 7 July 2010 at 09:30 #

    Awesome game – I want more! More! MORE!

  3. jordan 17 March 2011 at 18:36 #

    i am stuck on what to do first and typing help doesnt help.please someone tell me a phrase to start me off.:(

  4. Leigh 22 December 2011 at 22:05 #

    I miss these games! I haven’t seen one since I put away my Commadore VIC 20. Where can I find more of them with the guess-a-phrase controls?


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