By Jim Rossignol on April 4th, 2009 at 11:44 am.
This is about as simple as games get: Super Jail Escaper was made by the splendid Jan Willem Nijman in fifteen minutes. You have to dodge the searchlights. And it’s peculiarly compulsive. The music completes it, I think. Can anyone beat 200 75,000 metres? (Not really.) Pick it up at The Poppenkast.
04/04/2009 at 12:24 TonyB says:
It appears I can – 218 metres on my first attempt, 247 on the third. I can’t see myself getting much further than that though, given how many searchlights there are by that point.
04/04/2009 at 12:46 Norskov says:
The 200 metres wasn’t very difficult, 228 on first 251 on second. But the music sure is nice..
04/04/2009 at 13:07 Not Bernard says:
Argh, 220.
I blame it on the music. I want to move all gracefully.
04/04/2009 at 14:26 Cycle says:
First thing I thought of when I saw that screen was Bonanza Brothers.
04/04/2009 at 15:26 user says:
___________________________________________ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event
for object Player:
Error in code at line 17:
dist += 1
at position 2: Unknown variable dist
buggy ;)
04/04/2009 at 16:48 JW says:
hey, unzip before blaming my game of being buggy. ;)
Thanks for the post!
04/04/2009 at 18:10 Max says:
There isn’t much to criticize about this game, but I don’t like the sound effect when you’re caught. It’s very jarring and unpleasant compared to the soundtrack.
04/04/2009 at 23:33 Andy`` says:
Not being too bothered to actually play it properly – I know, I know :( – I tried it a few times, then on my last try decided to stick the character along the right side, near the top, right at the start then left it and went off to read up on some of the other games they made in the thread (as games made in an hour go, this is good considering it was made in 15 minutes, and I wanted to see what else came out of that compo).
I got to 272 metres, through sheer luck alone. Do I be happy or sad?
05/04/2009 at 00:51 Down Rodeo says:
It’s RAR’d, so bugger that. Why do people use RAR anyway? It’s not *that* fantastic a format, and requires a closed client which is some kind of freeware nonsense. Ah well.
05/04/2009 at 01:34 MD says:
@ Down Rodeo
http://www.7-zip.org/
It’s open source, and can handle RAR files along with a bunch of other formats.
05/04/2009 at 02:30 Ryx says:
I got to 231 meters
Also, is that a kevin macleod soundtrack I hear?
05/04/2009 at 07:13 Frosty840 says:
“It’s very jarring and unpleasant compared to the soundtrack.”
Being shot dead will do that…
06/04/2009 at 00:41 Harry M says:
Reminds me of a game called Rox i got off an old amiga power cover disk…
07/04/2009 at 13:59 Pod says:
Bullethellshumpmeetspporrige
07/04/2009 at 14:18 GotenXiao says:
286 metres. Hiding in the top left corner works quite well :P