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Re: The Worst VN/KN Ever - 2013

#46 Post by Donmai »

AxemRed wrote:Finished my entry last night
Really cool! (Er... sorry! Terrible! Terrible!) Must be the first NVlist game I have played.
Like people use to say here "I'm quite proud to get all the endings without cheating"! :lol:
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#47 Post by OokamiKasumi »

Can we submit a Second entry?
-- Apparently the first one wasn't Bad enough.
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#48 Post by TrickWithAKnife »

If you can do it before the time limit expires, sure.
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#49 Post by OokamiKasumi »

TrickWithAKnife wrote:If you can do it before the time limit expires, sure.
Excellent!
-- May I present...?
dd01.jpg
The DEEP DARK
A Children's Story -- kind of.
There is this big old house in the woods, and you get to explore it.
There is a map! However, nothing is marked on it. :)
This is a fairly simple maze game. Once you see all the rooms, the last room becomes accessible and in it is a surprise.

Hint: Click on the box to get the final scene.

Statistics:
-- The game contains:
933 words, 28 menus, 50 images, and 14 screens.

Despite the short (and repetitive) word-count, the game takes a 'while' to go through.

Download from MediaFire 45 MB
Updated - Ver. 1.5 - Font error (finally) corrected.

Competition features:
  • Fully half of the story consist of the same two words: Deep Dark.
  • The room images are from all different angles so it's difficult to tell where you're going -- or where you've been.
  • Very repetitive music.
  • Very repetitive sound effects -- and lots of them!
  • Somewhat difficult font.
  • Lots, and lots, and lots of clicking.
dd02.jpg
dd03.jpg
Original images came from "The Library of Congress - Online Archive."

Enjoy!
-- Or not.
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Re: The Worst VN/KN Ever - 2013

#50 Post by Donmai »

OokamiKasumi wrote:Enjoy!
-- Or not.
I'm enjoying it (sortta) but... are the error messages intentional or not? :P
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#51 Post by Tempus »

That's an idea for a bad VN -- constant errors as part of the design. Bonus points if it's accompanied by that obnoxious Windows warning sound; XP's OR Vista/7's.
  • "Copying files... 1 minute remaining... 45 seconds remaini- 5 days remaini - 1 seconds remaining... 0 seconds remainin- [ERROR NOISE]"
And the errors would be inconsistent in volume to simulate the surprise you get when complete silence is utterly, utterly violated because you forgot your volume was up high.
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#52 Post by OokamiKasumi »

Donmai wrote:
OokamiKasumi wrote:Enjoy!
-- Or not.
I'm enjoying it (sortta) but... are the error messages intentional or not? :P
The error messages are Not intentional. What messages are you getting?
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#53 Post by Talann »

Hehe I finished my worst VN for this. This is actually a very entertaining competition lol XD
In fact, I enjoyed making a rubbish VN

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Talann wrote:Hehe I finished my worst VN for this. This is actually a very entertaining competition lol XD In fact, I enjoyed making a rubbish VN
What I like is the lack of pressure to make something "good." You can just cut loose and make whatever comes to mind without bothering with perfection (or originality,) in story, art, or coding tricks.
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#55 Post by Donmai »

OokamiKasumi wrote: The error messages are Not intentional. What messages are you getting?
Whenever I enter a screen with a menu there's a message about a missing font (COCKTLI.TTF). I just click on "ignore" and the game goes on.
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Donmai wrote:
OokamiKasumi wrote: The error messages are Not intentional. What messages are you getting?
Whenever I enter a screen with a menu there's a message about a missing font (COCKTLI.TTF). I just click on "ignore" and the game goes on.
I wonder if that was caused by archiving the font?
-- It's fine in my copy...

Did that happen in Poe's Cat too?
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#57 Post by unknown5 »

OokamiKasumi wrote:I wonder if that was caused by archiving the font?
-- It's fine in my copy...

Did that happen in Poe's Cat too?
i get the same error. had no problems with poe.

also, enjoyed the maze. er, i mean it was horrible. absolutely horrible! the worst ever!!!
all of these entries are a lot of fun ... i mean awful. just wretchedly awful!!!

tried making another short kn.
WARNING!!! FOUL LANGUAGE.
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#58 Post by OokamiKasumi »

unknown5 wrote:i get the same error. had no problems with poe.
Crap...
-- Okay, if you both got the same error, then it's definitely the fault of the archive.

I have uploaded a new version -- one without the fonts being archived. Hopefully, this will end the error message.
MediaFire: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/x41aaki29xz8x/DeepDark
unknown5 wrote:also, enjoyed the maze. er, i mean it was horrible. absolutely horrible! the worst ever!!!
LOL! Good, I'm glad.
unknown5 wrote:all of these entries are a lot of fun ... i mean awful. just wretchedly awful!!!
Yes they are, but for once it's okay to laugh at something terrible because they were deliberately made this way, so we are laughing with the creator.
-- By the way, I quite enjoyed 'Singularity'... Err, rather, I moaned in suffering while playing it. Who knew existentialism could be so...painfully funny?
unknown5 wrote:tried making another short kn.
WARNING!!! FOUL LANGUAGE.
I'll download it as soon as I finish uploading! Sadly the contest ended yesterday...
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#59 Post by unknown5 »

OokamiKasumi wrote:I'll download it as soon as I finish uploading! Sadly the contest ended yesterday...
no biggie. this one isn't really funny. it's just me beating myself up over my writing with some subliminal self-hatred creeping in and making an appearance as well. lol.
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#60 Post by TrickWithAKnife »

OokamiKasumi wrote:Sadly the contest ended yesterday...
Did it?

Sorry I took so long to add a link to your game Talann. I didn't realise the link was in your signature at first.
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