I had an absolute blast with this! I'm impressed with your ability to "go meta" and still keep the laughs coming. And if you ask me, this art style is worth exploring more! Great job :)
I just wanted to go ahead and agree with everyone else that this is hilarious and charming. Also the collage-art is fantastic. Did you source the images from anywhere in particular?
Thanks! I’m really happy that people enjoyed it because I nearly gave up several times. I started off doing some research about public domain sources, mostly museum collections (Fridgo’s hat is J Edgar Hoover’s I think) but I ended up mostly using the Flickr Commons. There’s a lot of stuff out there that is labelled public domain that I find suspect but I reckon if you pick from official collections it’s probably safer.
This game is a treasure. It's been a while since words in a game made me laugh out loud like this one did, looking forward to playing through again and seeing the non–MAD ending. I am eagerly awaiting the inevitable BBC 4 radio play adaptation.
There’s a couple of bad endings but only really one good ending. So if you think you got that then that’s probably good enough. Most of the choices result in different dialogue, there’s not a lot of gameyness to it.
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I had an absolute blast with this! I'm impressed with your ability to "go meta" and still keep the laughs coming. And if you ask me, this art style is worth exploring more! Great job :)
I just wanted to go ahead and agree with everyone else that this is hilarious and charming. Also the collage-art is fantastic. Did you source the images from anywhere in particular?
Thanks! I’m really happy that people enjoyed it because I nearly gave up several times. I started off doing some research about public domain sources, mostly museum collections (Fridgo’s hat is J Edgar Hoover’s I think) but I ended up mostly using the Flickr Commons. There’s a lot of stuff out there that is labelled public domain that I find suspect but I reckon if you pick from official collections it’s probably safer.
This game is a treasure. It's been a while since words in a game made me laugh out loud like this one did, looking forward to playing through again and seeing the non–MAD ending. I am eagerly awaiting the inevitable BBC 4 radio play adaptation.
That’s very kind of you to say, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Very funny, I loved every bit of it!
Should I go again and make different choices or does it all resolve to the same ending?
There’s a couple of bad endings but only really one good ending. So if you think you got that then that’s probably good enough. Most of the choices result in different dialogue, there’s not a lot of gameyness to it.