Freeware Game Pick: Strangers (JW, Jonathan Dijkstra)
Strangers (direct link to game file) is a short experimental game about the adventures of an astronaut and his faithful dog, who had just landed on an alien planet with no data whatsoever about its inhabitants. There's quite a bit of text to read here, although your mission pretty much reaches its climax in the space of five minutes or less. (Windows, 5.34MB)
Comments
Just played it through. I like the visual style. It's very short, it's like 2 minutes of gameplay tops. Also it's very buggy. The game bugged up at the ending 2 times, it worked properly the third time.
Anyway its a great tech demo and i'd like to see more of this.
Posted by: captain_duck | January 24, 2010 4:27 AM
The ending didn't work for me either, and honestly, I didn't care enough to try again.
Posted by: Anthony | January 24, 2010 4:54 AM
Worked fine for me. Cute, though kind of pointless.
Posted by: guy | January 24, 2010 5:41 AM
Oh, tried the "genocidal" path and got the same ending...
Posted by: Guy | January 24, 2010 5:49 AM
Ending seems to work if you walk up against the creature for the entire time, until he talks to you.
I didn't shoot anyone, and he still said something about some of his children being missing.
Charming little game, though. Art style is cute.
Posted by: FishyBoy | January 24, 2010 7:18 AM
Nice little game, the art style really is cute.
Posted by: Nikica | January 24, 2010 8:26 AM
Thanks. I will fix the bug asap.
Also, I made this game together with a friend: Jonathan Barbosa Dijkstra
could you add his name?
Posted by: JW | January 24, 2010 9:56 AM
Bug fixed! Same file.
Posted by: JW | January 24, 2010 10:01 AM
Yeah, I get the same ending regardless of whether I kill no-one, everyone or just a few. Shame as I would like to see what happens...
Also, best gun evAr!!!
Posted by: Keith | January 24, 2010 3:57 PM
this was very nice
Posted by: jonte | January 24, 2010 4:39 PM
The engine is really good, I would love to see a longer game with this visual style.
Posted by: Cerv | January 24, 2010 5:27 PM
Great tech-demo, I too would like to see this expanded into a bigger game - it worked fine for me.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 24, 2010 10:18 PM
I loved the graphical style, the idea and the engine. Would make a cool full game. I really want more out of it.
Posted by: HermanSmith | January 25, 2010 4:06 PM