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General Horse and the Package of Doom is a full motion video space adventure. Marvel at the trailer! Features method acting and wigs galore. Here's a review at Buried Treasure, for a more in-depth look!
Somehow I never considered that 'raid the costume pile and throw a LARP with your friends' was a valid video game development strategy. Maybe it isn't. But it looks like a hell of a lot of fun.
Somehow I never considered that 'raid the costume pile and throw a LARP with your friends' was a valid video game development strategy. Maybe it isn't. But it looks like a hell of a lot of fun.
Here's a video with the first couple minutes of the game, which - in a lingering boot-to-wig panning shot - makes it clear that the General's awesome blue pants are, in fact, long johns.
posted by kaibutsu at 12:54 PM on December 13, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by kaibutsu at 12:54 PM on December 13, 2020 [1 favorite]
I love everything about this EXCEPT THE BAD AUDIO. I loves me some cheesey no-budget fun but it's not that hard or expensive to do decent audio anymore. It's less charming and more annoying.
Otherwise, "it may not be obvious, but we are pirates", A++++++!
posted by dragstroke at 1:05 PM on December 13, 2020
Otherwise, "it may not be obvious, but we are pirates", A++++++!
posted by dragstroke at 1:05 PM on December 13, 2020
MANAGE RESOURCES [dude trying and failing to light a cigarette]
OK, you got me. I laughed.
posted by mhoye at 2:12 PM on December 13, 2020
OK, you got me. I laughed.
posted by mhoye at 2:12 PM on December 13, 2020
Can I get it on CDROM?
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 2:30 PM on December 13, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 2:30 PM on December 13, 2020 [2 favorites]
I have to admit that I like their website with its Comic Sans and
posted by whir at 8:17 AM on December 14, 2020
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LANTERN OIL!
posted by lumensimus at 10:21 AM on December 14, 2020
posted by lumensimus at 10:21 AM on December 14, 2020
Okay, at $10 I figured it was worth a try. I've played to the first planet so far. I don't think I wasted $10?
It is most certainly everything that anyone says about it.
posted by fimbulvetr at 10:23 AM on December 14, 2020
It is most certainly everything that anyone says about it.
posted by fimbulvetr at 10:23 AM on December 14, 2020
This is, tied with the five games following Monkey Fortunetell* on Nathalie Lawhead's itch.io page, is the closest I've seen any game come to capturing the experimental anything-goes wonder of the 90's CD-ROM game/multimedia boom. This entire game is way better than it has any right to be - a bizarre balance of slapdash silliness and actual thought-out design.
*Outranked entrely because of its small size; it could easily have been a minigame in one.
posted by BiggerJ at 9:11 PM on December 14, 2020
*Outranked entrely because of its small size; it could easily have been a minigame in one.
posted by BiggerJ at 9:11 PM on December 14, 2020
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