Hatogate

[davidn]

xaq's human-parser mini-adventure game captured all of our attentions this week to the tune of 144 comments, and in return for him giving us that experience, I voiced the notion of turning it into an actual Flash game. So after the Livejournal version was over, he sent me a wonderfully programmatic layout of the possible commands and conditions for each one - and it's only through reading the whole thing that I realize just how hilarious it is, really doing justice to the weird tone that Hatoful is written in while putting it in a Shadowgate-like setup. Well done!

Therefore:


http://www.clickteam.info/davidn/games/hatogate/

This is something of a test release, as I'm the only one who's played with it so far - eventually I'd like to put a title screen and maybe some music on to it, then hopefully see what Moa thinks! It is possible that I've translated the entire thing without any bugs - stranger things have happened, but only about six ever, and they were all in Hatoful Boyfriend. So if you do encounter anything odd happening (that is, anything identifiably odder than normal) let me know. The most likely thing is text running off the bottom of the screen, as I haven't checked all the branches yet.

This was an interesting quick thing to work on, and I'll write up a technical post about it soon - thank you, xaq, for providing it!

Comments

[kjorteo]

Also, this is a Hatogate!! It is a Shadowgate-alike based on Hatoful Boyfriend!! Given the source material, ending sentences with a single exclamation point is completely inexcusable!!

[davidn]

You know, quadralien said that as well and I ignored it because nobody would possibly notice. Thank you!!

[kjorteo]

And it just had to be the sword message I found when I was looking for any random example screenshot to illustrate my point ... complete with the little caption about it being hilarious on the bottom. To me, the hilarious thing was always the fact that you got literally the exact same message if you use the hammer on yourself (except for "sword" being replaced with "hammer.")

Is your protagonist a complete idiot who will gleefully kill himself every time he has even a tiny fraction of a chance? Yes. But the man stabbed himself to death with a hammer. If I was the clearly-overworked grim reaper in that game, I'd honestly have been taken aback when I saw his case file on that one. "It's a sad thing your adv-- ... wait, really? ... Really? ... Wow. Well done!!"

(Edited for accuracy)