Howdy y’all!
Worry not, we’re done blogging about serious things for now, and you can all relax and go about your reading with your Serious Hat no longer donned. We’re talking about games again, but in this case we’re talking about a much lighter subject: Aaron’s Aadvark Adventure Zone.
AAAZ is a text-based adventure game developed by my friend Matthew, and has been made on-and-off over the past few years, with Matt only coding it whilst drunk because…reasons. He has, however, resolved to actually make a go of a text-based adventure game with a unique goal; one that is not bound by a specific syntax, and one that updates its command database with logs of invalid commands so that they can, in future be added.
Matt has now sworn off the booze-programming, and is now Kickstarting the game in order to get funding for it so it can be released as a proper thing. If you want more details for on the Kickstarter, head over to it’s main page and read up there. Also, give him some of your money.
So, the obligatory plug done, I’m posting up a log of my first attempt to play Aaron’s Aadvark Adventure Zone. I’m not going to play it to try and win, however. I’m playing this game in the most non-sequitor based manner possible to see if I can a) get anywhere, b) get through a game as trollishly as possible and c) completely destroy my friendship with Matthew by giving him a metric fuckton of completely unnecessary commands to add.
Let’s roll!
(Note: To get the screenshots to fit in the blog’s columns, I had to shrink them down a bit, so some zooming may be necessary. Apologies)
It appears Aaron’s Aadvark Adventure Zone is not thinking with Portals. Clearly it is not a product designed with the modern Arperture Science customer in mind. Hmph!
Wait, wait, you can GO north through the water, but you can’t SWIM north. How the hell do you go north through water without swimming?
And on that fascinating cliffhanger (and because I can’t be bothered to do any more fucking about with screenshots on imgur) we leave this installment of the Let’s PLay of Aaron’s Aardvark Adventure Zone. If you want more, let me know and you may get one tomorrow. Or maybe Monday. Perhaps Tuesday. Depends.
Oh, and go give the Kickstarter some money, too. Linkage be here.
Verbal Fisticuffs 