Freeware Game Pick: Umbrella Adventure - The Castle of Cake (HiVE)
Umbrella Adventure - The Castle of Cake is a monotone-coloured platformer created by the developer of the popular Game Maker RPG, Ark 22. The story is about a gopher who was rudely awakened by the smell of sulphur to find his stash of a hundred cakes stolen in the middle of a rainy night. Curious about the disappearance, he sets out on a quest to find his cakes, even if it means travelling all over the land to retrieve every single one of them.
There's an umbrella outside the house that you can use for a number of purposes, although you're restricted to utilizing it mainly for whacking enemies and blocking their attacks until new tricks are discovered. The game does take a while to beat, but a helpful save system is included so that players can keep track of their progress and resume the adventure later on.
Comments
I am checking this out, ark22 was fun.
Posted by: mots | November 7, 2009 6:04 AM
the amount of detail is impressive...
nice that is finally completed. great work!
btw i made a 2 min gameplay video that shows a bit more than the teaser ;)
Posted by: PixelProspector | November 7, 2009 3:38 PM
The scaling doesn't seem to work too well, and I occasionally get slowdowns, despite my system being rather strong.
Apart from that, though, I think this is just great. Atmospheric, creative, great looking and fun.
Posted by: MisterX | November 7, 2009 3:44 PM
Love the design and atmosphere, but restarting from the save point after a single hit was just too frustrating.
Posted by: Andy Baio | November 7, 2009 10:29 PM
For the amount of detail in the backgrounds and layout, I'd have liked to see maybe twice the number of animation frames for characters.
All in all though, a very good work.
Posted by: mrpeach32 | November 7, 2009 10:42 PM
You don't restart at the save point when you die, you simply get set back to the level entrance where you came from. You only restart at a save point when you go on playing after you quit.
Posted by: MisterX | November 7, 2009 11:08 PM