Play Online: This is not a minimalist game
Developer: Storm Alligator
Genre: Story, Adventure
Game Review
I'm not totally sure the title works for me but yeah, don't get confused by the game title. This flash game is called "This is not a minimalist game" and it is tagged under "minimalism". I guessed you already figured out this game is made from scratch in 48 hours for the Ludum Dare #26. The previous post was another well designed entry for the competition, called XYZ. Continue reading if you don't know where to start!
In the game, you are a mighty warrior who spends his life doing quests for various NPC in a medieval fantasy setting. You start off with 99 evil wizard heads killstreak and looking for the last one to complete your quest. Lucky for you, there is one at the corner. All you wanted to do was to chop off his head but he cast a curse; downgrades your colored world into something much simpler. A world where there is no more colors, no more details. Even the way people talk has changed, only the essential words are left. Solve the challenges and get the world back the way it was.
There is no way this is a not a minimalist game. The idea behind is pretty deep when the character freaked out about the three-dimensional object when he acted so nonchalant about the square people freaking out about colors and things with no angles. It caught me thinking beyond fourth dimension, and then fifth, and then sixth... You know what? My mind can't even process it. This entire game is kind of about the human ability to understand what is less than their knowledge, yet they are unable to understand what is more than what their brain accepts.
Superb but could have been longer though. Things weren't nearly detailed enough yet. This needed more colors, content, perhaps creatures too. Another game with so much potential! Should definitely consider creating a more refined version. I think everyone would love it! By the way, this is "not" a minimalist game review. ^^
This Is Not A Minimalist Game Guide
Walkthrough to This Is Not A Minimalist Game
1) Talk to the wizards and kill one of them. The wizard will curse you and after a few moments the world will change.
2) Go right on the white plains and talk to the rectangle. Take the square quest. Ask him where the squares are, insist and he will give you the map.
3) Once you have the map, open it with “1″, and then hit “2″. You go to the quarry and unlock another location (City – “3″).
4) Pick up the 5 squares on the quarry.
5) Go back to the NPC. Talk to him until he drops two red squares. Jump on them. It will make the floor red. Talk to the NPC until he explodes.
6) Go to the City (“3″), go right, talk to the NPC. He will give you another location on the map.
7) Go to the quarry. Pick up a square.
8) Go to “signs”. Take the “this is not a square sign”. Drop a square. Drop the sign on top of it. It will generate a circle and clouds.
9) Go back talk to the NPC in the City (“3″). He will give you another location “Strange Stuff” “5″.
10) Go to “Strange Stuff”. Find the 3. Jump on it, it will make trees.
11) Go back talk to the NPC in the City (“3″) until he has nothing left to say.
12) Go to the quarry (“2″). Jump on a blue circle and on a yellow circle, it will add colors.
13) Go back talk to the NPC in the City (“3″) until he has nothing left to say.
14) Go back to “1″. Go right until you find a fruit that is different from the others. Wait next to it until you can pick it up. Pick it up, then wait, it will generate details.
15) Go back talk to the NPC in the City (“3″). He will send you to the mirror (“6″).
16) Go to the quarry (“2″) to pick a red square, a blue circle and a yellow circle. Make sure you have the strange fruit, if not, go back take one in location “1″.
17) Go to the mirror (“6″). Go right until you see your reflexion. Drop the red square, the blue circle, the yellow circle and the strange fruit. It will give you back your original appearance. Wait, you will be teleported to where you came from.
18) Go down talk to the NPC. When the NPC drops a cube, jump on it.
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