78641

Posted by Brandon "BMcC" McCartin Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:56:00 GMT


78641: A TARG ADVENTURE is “the hit Esperanto interactive simulator ‘Pato Viro Simulilo’ available in the English Language.” “Dedicated in loving memory to the late Patrick Swayze…”

In 78641 you play as a frying pan named Doug (full name: Dougleskoy Fluoride Beachanowicz) who crashes his convertible and dies, but is sent back before the accident by the Time Genie to… pay his insurance premiums?

Okay, your guess is as good as mine. I just started playing. But so far this the best adventure game I’ve seen in a long while. Definitely check it out!

Forum thread (and download) is here.

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  1. Protector one said about 1 hour later:

    Swayze ain’t dead yet!

  2. BMcC said about 1 hour later:

    And frying pans typically don’t drive convertibles. :P

  3. MisterX said about 1 hour later:

    Care to elaborate why it is the best adventure game in a long time for you so far? :)

    It looks.. interesting, but the trailer didn’t show anything I thought was great. Mainly it actually looked sluggish to me. But, giving it a try likely won’t hurt, I guess.

  4. BMcC said about 2 hours later:

    I’m not sure I should elaborate!

    The game is just super excellent, is all. Perfectly bizarre and hilarious.

  5. anothergol said about 3 hours later:

    Sounds totally dumb. I have to try it!

  6. Rockvillian said about 3 hours later:

    It looks like it was developed with the help of beer. Alright!

  7. Nektonico said about 3 hours later:

    you had me at dickorama

  8. Humus said about 4 hours later:

    This looks amazing. Downloading now.

  9. j said about 4 hours later:

    Evidently no way to save the game? I got clobbered by an action event with weird hit detection and tossed back to run through a long sequence of intentionally inane tasks again. No thanks.

  10. whaaa said about 5 hours later:

    Wow, how the guy managed to win that card game on the video? he must be cheating!

  11. ssid said about 5 hours later:

    I love the pacing of the marketing-pitch text.

  12. Briker Ed said about 5 hours later:

    Hah, this was a fun play. The only problem I had was with the font. It hurt my eyes every time I had to read a dialogue :(

  13. Chester Bum Impersonator said about 6 hours later:

    This is the best game I’ve played in my life!

  14. splotki said about 7 hours later:

    the theme song is really catchy. Can I has it?

  15. splotki said about 7 hours later:

    For real, is there a link to the soundtrack somewhere. It’s great.

  16. Rynen10K said about 7 hours later:

    Game Folder > Music

    It’s all .mod files.

  17. Fail said about 8 hours later:

    Great on the eyes, but feels overly sluggish.

  18. Theo said about 8 hours later:

    Kick-ass!

  19. superflat said about 8 hours later:

    Think this is overall one of the most satisfying indie titles I’ve played. Absolutely wicked.

  20. BackInAction said about 10 hours later:

    I’m sorry, but the Swayze joke is fucking tasteless.

  21. Rynen10K said about 10 hours later:

    I love it. I keep messing everything up. It’s like if “Groundhog Day” were an adventure game.

    And instead of Bill Murray, it’s a frying pan.

    And instead of Punxsutawney Phil, there are rainbow dicks and bad grammar.

    Has anyone finished the game? Is there a correct way to finish Doug’s day?

  22. BMcC said about 11 hours later:

    @BackInAction: True enough. There’s a lot of tasteless stuff in this game. I actually grabbed the Swayze quote from the forum post, though. :\

    @Rynen10K: Haha, totally. It’s like Groundhog Day on acid.

    Not sure how to finish the game yet. (If it can be finished!) I feel like I’ve done mostly everything, but… Hrm.

  23. Firesword said about 11 hours later:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpmILPAcRQo

  24. Dusty Spur said about 11 hours later:

    GZ is my hero.

    This is almost as good as a new Tales of Game’s game.

  25. Adam Atomic said about 11 hours later:

    The Patrick Swayze joke is absolutely NOT in bad taste. Swayze is and has always been the poor man’s Kurt Russell, and the more jokes at his expense the better.

    I commend our Esperanto-espousing friends for not taking themselves embarrassingly seriously.

  26. Nicholas Lee said about 12 hours later:

    Yeah, this game is fun, but I can’t figure out how to get to the end, either. I suspect it has something to do with the order of events.

  27. GZ said about 12 hours later:

    i am glad to hear the game has been generally well-received by those who have played it. this was a short project and we really wanted something out in the wild after a long hiatus.

    the game itself is one giant puzzle, and i am fairly certain you will have more success with the game if you post about your outcomes so that you can compare the various results of the game events. there is one fairly obvious sign of progress in the game, but i do not want to say much more than that.

    thanks for taking the time to look at our game.

  28. Zaphos said about 15 hours later:

    Hooray, I won!

  29. Zaphos said about 15 hours later:

    Also, the game is pretty sweet :)

  30. Rynen10K said about 16 hours later:

    I keep losing at NIM for some reason, I’ve dodged the Bloodmonster’s attacks for a while with no success, and so far it seems that each color car you hitch a ride with during the “toothpaste trip” has a different result (so far, I’ve got skydiving and some foreign-language-speaking guys who ended up stealing my money). And I managed to sell (read: blackmail) off one dick with evidence from the dumpster.

  31. hryx said about 18 hours later:

    This game explains my genealogy. Apparently Ukrainians come from another planet that you have to fly a guitar to.

  32. mots said about 19 hours later:

    OMG YOU HAD ME SO WORRIED ABOUT THE SWAYZE DYING!.. DON’T EVER DO THIS TO ME AGAIN

  33. Humus said about 21 hours later:

    This game is absolute win.

  34. Malefact said about 22 hours later:

    Really enjoyed this. The awesome style is what carries it up and away beyond your average “kooky” adventure game; the slightly unsettling and very hilarious mock-poor dialogue, the random switches to lo-res art, the joyful strangeness of everything. I mean, you’re a frikkin’ walking frying pan. YES.

    78641 actually reminded me quite a bit of Giddy 3, in the whole over-arching puzzle of “learn how to do everything in the right order”, except that it is a lot less frustrating, being as it is an adventure game (that single action sequence aside). Also, it’s actually a lot more sophisticated as a sort of groundhog day teach-yourself-what-to-do-to-win which you can end at any time than as a series of simple “fetch item X to get Y” puzzles embedded in a platform game.

    A couple of things I think would be nice additions: 1) if there was a more obvious indicator that what you were doing was right (maybe in the text when you’re driving away from town? If that was there, then I must have missed it). As it stands I’m guessing this game is going to frustrate a few people into not completing it, which’d be a shame. 2) if there was some sort of bonus or alternative ‘stay in the city’ ending if you manage to shift your dicks (so to speak).

    @Rynen: Once you’ve got the knack of predicting what’s going to happen depending on how many sticks you take, the trick with NIM is who goes first ;)

  35. BMcC said about 22 hours later:

    Aah, I gotta beat this today.

  36. superflat said about 22 hours later:

    So have I, BMcC, so have I.

    This game is a shining beacon of light in an ocean of mediocrity.

  37. Rynen10K said 1 day later:

    Ok, I figured out NIM after a while, and quite a few other things, but I’m trying to figure out what the purpose of:

    a) The toaster’s function in the FBI building (why do I want it to do that?)

    b) Flooding the apartments with the Roast Pork Gum

    I have a feeling I’m getting pretty close, though.

  38. Rynen10K said 1 day later:

    Also trying to figure out if there’s something behind the random 8-bit-ification of everything.

    Speaking of which, I somehow got the “8-bit” version of the “toothpaste trip”, but right after doug finishes his dialogue, the screen goes black for me. I can still hear the music playing, though.

    This is the only bug I’ve encountered so far.

    Also, it would have been nice if there were a way to save.

    PROTIP: Hold the Action Button down to skip through crap you’ve already read a zillion times.

  39. yuma_5:5 said 1 day later:

    I’ve had THE TIME OF MYYYYY LIIIIFFFE……

  40. BackInAction said 1 day later:

    Yeah… fuck all of you making Swayze jokes. My nephew just passed away and he’d been fighting it for years.

    But hey, go ahead and laugh.

    Because after all, cancer is FUNNY! Watching someone’s body slowly and painfully waste away is FUNNY!

  41. Malefact said 1 day later:

    Wait, Patrick Swayze is actually seriously ill? Oh hell no. I find that immensely distasteful.

  42. BMcC said 1 day later:

    Yeah. I don’t think most people joking here were aware of that, though.

  43. Zerael said 1 day later:

    I must admit that I had a pretty good time with this… but at the same time, I really missed a save-system.

    But, you know… there are lots of memorable moments. That thing with David Lynch… XD Or the surreal trip to the moon ^^U

    By the way, I’m impressed: There IS a WAY to beat the game :S

  44. HurpDerp said 1 day later:

    But cancer IS funny, as is any potentially dark and touchy subject.

    I’m missing an eye due to an accident and I joke about it constantly.

  45. Dusty Spur said 1 day later:

    I wasn’t aware about Patrick Swayze. I don’t really keep up with celebrity shit though.

    If I heard him make a joke about cancer, then I’d be cool with joking about it. But I highly doubt he makes jokes about it so that’s kind of awful.

  46. Rynen10K said 1 day later:

    To be fair, Patrick Swayze is “dead of the AIDS” in the game, not cancer.

  47. Nicholas Lee said 1 day later:

    My mother died of cancer, and yet I’m not offended. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I seem to have this amazing “sense of humor” that prevents me from being grossly over-touchy.

  48. the bopster said 1 day later:

    pretty sure the patrick swayze joke wasn’t a reference to cancer and you’re all just a bunch of reactionary and humorless nerds.

  49. the bopster said 1 day later:

    p.s. i’m patrick swayze.

  50. rz. said 2 days later:

    thanks BMcC, i love you. this looks tits, downloading now

  51. anonymous said 2 days later:

    here’s what i’ve got so far -

    1. get the dicks
    2. get the square from the garbage in the alley
    3. talk to the guy in the apartment and make him buy a dick
    4. beat george in a game of nim to sell him a dick
    5. go on the toothpaste trip
    6. get 10,000 greenbacks by going right until you find the suitcase, take the yellow taxi back
    7. get 10 bucks from the parking lot
    8. talk to the 3-card guy for information in exchange for the 10 bucks

    and after that i’ve got a bunch of little weird events, but nothing that will necessarily lead to the ending -

    -use the toaster on floor 66 to destroy the moon. -kill the old guy in the denture place for his dentures, then trade that to the guy in the alley for gum, then use the gum in the apartment to make it filled with cockroaches. -talk to the leaf, go to floor 100, climb up the ladder, push theodore off the roof, get brass card. -get random stuff from ze russian on the moon.

  52. hyperdragon said 2 days later:

    woo, this game looks almost as good as Barkley: Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley Saga from the same maker!!

  53. BMcC said 4 days later:

    rz.! You madman! I’m glad you like it. :)

    @anonymous: You’ve almost got it. You’re missing a certain challenge on the moon, and you’ve gotta do one more thing in the FBI building. (Also, I’m not sure, but maybe you shouldn’t push Theodore?)

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