Freeware Game Pick: Life of D. Duck II (Audunsoft)
Life of D. Duck 2 is a full-length AGS adventure game which has taken nearly three years to develop, featuring a wacky cast of characters to interact with, numerous screens to explore, multiple GUIs, and more than twenty chiptunes for your listening pleasure. The unusual art style and meticulously-animated sprites are the contribution of Bjørnar B, an artist who happens to have an unhealthy obsession with drawing popular Disney characters.
As different as the game looks when compared to other AGS releases, there are only two notable drawbacks to be found here. The graphics will put off many people from even downloading it in the first place, especially when taking the large file size into consideration. The odd font choice can be difficult to read at times, while text descriptions and conversations are riddled with many spelling and grammatical mistakes. But these so-called problems are actually intentional design decisions, evidently demonstrated by the colorful inventory items in your possession, the well-written text manual, a complete walkthrough with zero typos, and the inclusion of a reverse text feature in the options menu. Use the F1 or F5 function key to access this menu or view game statistics.
The full walkthrough can be found in the extras folder, should you require hints on how to solve a particular puzzle.
Name: Life of D. Duck II
Developers: Audun R, Bjornar B
Category: Adventure
Type: Freeware
Size: 70MB
Download page (MediaFire mirror)
unzip instructions
Comments
Jesus, you spend 3 years on a game only to have 50% of people turned off by your shitty graphics. But honestly, there are a thousand ways that you can have an artistic art style and not have it look like a piece of crap.
"But these so-called problems are actually intentional design decisions"
Lemme guess: "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
Jesus Christ, that is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. This game reeks of shit.
Posted by: Coded One | November 16, 2008 1:01 AM
I have no idea what you're talking about Coded One. I think the game looks pretty damn cool, and the animations are really nice. It's a very nice change from the flat pixel art you usually see in AGS games. That and the music is great, but I'd play it anyway just to see what could possibly going on with the story here.
Posted by: Quetz | November 16, 2008 1:17 AM
Whoa... Calm down.
I really enjoyed Life of D. Duck and think this looks both awesome and hilarious.
I think the naive, adolescent art style looks a lot more deliberate and successful then plenty of indie games.
Posted by: Pita | November 16, 2008 1:23 AM
This game looks absolutely awesome. The donald duck design is amazing, and the gameplay looks pretty advanced for an AGS game.
Posted by: cactus | November 16, 2008 1:31 AM
Coded One, you need to get out of Mom's basement and get some fresh air. Holy crap.
The story behind the development of the game is that there is a child named Bjornar B. who wants to be an animator for Disney, and loves to draw Donald Duck-like characters, so he does, horribly. He also writes insane fan-fics which make up the plot of the games.
The first one involves having to make a bowl of porridge so he can become strong enough to win a race of some kind. The first scene involves him being born from an enormous egg fully grown. The games are insane and incredibly fun. (Especially the second one.)
So yeah, calm the fuck down.
Posted by: Chinook | November 16, 2008 12:19 PM
The shitty art is intentional (and hilarious), not some kind of lazy design decision.
It's that horrible child-art that everyone used to draw, which looked hideous on so many levels. I love this.
Posted by: Mark | November 16, 2008 12:21 PM
this one looks brillant and hilarious.
i enjoyed the trailer very much.
the lovely avantgarde style and the brillant music makes this game pretty insane interesting.
great.
gonna check it out next.
this is art!
Posted by: AuthenticKaizen | November 16, 2008 1:39 PM
I think the style is brilliant! I love the visuals. Thought indie-game fans would be more open minded..guess its not cavestory enough for a few.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 16, 2008 2:08 PM
Looking cool. I agree with the comments above that the art style fit's really well.
Posted by: kevin | November 16, 2008 5:46 PM
I visited Bjornar's website and it's so funny how people in the guestbook keeps saying that his drawings are great, seriously?. It says in the website that he is like 17 but his drawing skills SUCK.
Posted by: Greender | November 16, 2008 5:55 PM
There's skill and successful (and hilarious) trolling behind that facade.
Have to try this one out. Looks ace.
Posted by: Kvalsternacka | November 17, 2008 9:44 AM
I chose the first game in this series as an AGS Pick of the Month and it seemed like some people "Got it" and some didn't. Personally, I love these games: the Marmite of AGS!
Posted by: SSH | November 17, 2008 4:03 PM
First adventure game I played in years and I'm actually madly in love with it. Every little detail is just so effing crazy and there's so many little hilarious contradictions in there.
Posted by: P.F. | November 23, 2008 9:23 AM
This is the funniest game i've played in years. Everyone should play this.
Posted by: haowan | November 29, 2008 12:50 PM
D.Duck Owns if you can't handle it get out of the kitchen.
Posted by: blobman | December 5, 2008 1:23 AM
you're a rotten human coded one.
Posted by: butt | January 4, 2009 11:57 PM
I kinda pitty people who can't see the child like drawings as a funny point unique on this game.
Probably the same idiots who thinks only triple A suberb graphics games are worth playing.
Posted by: XSportSeeker | June 13, 2009 4:40 AM