I played (or replayed) quite a lot of games on a tablet (Kindle) with ScummVM a while back… I remember that the default control thing is not great, but there is a way to change it by changing some odd setting and then it’s great.
I stuck to ones where you couldn’t die (or at least not easily) and they all played great on a tablet. I imagine playing Sierra ones would be pretty hectic though.
Ones I played on Kindle:
MI, MI2, MI3, The Dig, Sam and Max, Fate of Atlantis, DotT, Full Throttle…
Beneath a Steel Sky, Toonstruck, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2, Broken Sword…
I tried playing Indy 3, but the punching or something didn’t work…
The only recent games I’ve played on tablet are Broken Age and Machinarium, and I enjoyed both a lot…
I started Gemini Rue, but don’t know if I’ll go back to it…
I just got The Cave, so I’ll be trying that out…
I have a question about the way I’m playing the game.
When I play adventure games, my behavior is: 1) take all the objects that are not nailed down and 2) decide how to combine them. When I have all the objects in my inventory it’s easier for me to understand what combinations can progress the game. But after I find a new way to kill myself in your game, the game restarts and I have to collect all the objects again. After a few iterations on this, the first phase of the game (the “collecting” phase) feels a repetitive and a bit boring.
So, I’m asking: is there a way to avoid this repetitiveness? For example loading a previous state of the game where I already had a good amount of object?
Have you played the second chapter of the series, perhaps? I have played the first one but I’m not sure about the quality of the second game.
Eheh no. You have to replay the game because you can kill yourself in different ways, depending on whether you use a certain object, or not. Some objects must be left where they are.
As Zak said, unfortunately no. There are some combinations that make other endings unsolvable.
I could have added a flag to save which “basic” objects (that is, as you said, everything that’s not nailed down) and make you start with it again (since there is no check in the game where you should NOT have an object in the inventory, that wouldn’t bring to dead ends)… but I thought about this only now, and it’s a bit too late
However, there are not so many objects in the game, so it shouldn’t be too difficult just to remember where to find what you need instead of gathering everything from scratch again.
What I did was to add a flag to avoid already solved endings so that the game knows you’re not going to try something again and, if possible, moves the state of the game a bit further. Like the bowling ball, which begins on the floor if you already solved Strike! and another one bowling ball related death.
By the way, @seguso should scold you because you picked up everything without an in-game reason
It’s an interesting game, different from a point and click adventure, because there is not a plot that gives the character a reason to do specific actions instead of others. I would describe it as “Guess what the developer had in mind”, which is a novel approach to puzzles for me.
It reminds me of those “Alchemy” games in which you have to combine elements to see if the combination was one of those that the developers added to the list.
I’ll keep playing it to discover more ways to kill the guy.
It was actually born as a quick test for my engine. I needed some quick goals, but I didn’t want to do another “escape the room” I once jokingly said “let’s do a game where you just need to die”, and then it grew up to become an actual game.
I once jokingly said “let’s do a game where you just need to die”, and then it grew up to become an actual game.