By Kieron Gillen on April 12th, 2010 at 10:14 am.
Oh, piss. That’s Macbeth. Anyway, the previously discussed Indie Hamlet Adventure has been released. You can download the demo here, which allows you to play the game for an hour before you have to pay to unlock it. I guess, anyway. That’s what normally happens. This is some high quality games journalism going on here. I’ll try and recover by pointing at another Hamlet game, this one a text adventure. I played a little of this a while back, and I approve of the general Bill and Ted “she’s your mum, dude!” approach to the material. Oh – trailer follows.
Wait, The Whispered World, the Doctor Who Stuff and this. Are you trying to steal Walker’s position as resident adventure games correspondant? Are we going to get Meer covering some strange happening in Eve soon, and Rossingol talking about some strange Indie game with punk meets BDSM undertones commenting on the nature of dysfunctional relationships?
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I think he’s just keeping us updated in John’s absence, wherever John is.
And I really appreciate it, because I just don’t care to visit any other PC news site, so I rely on these chaps to keep me informed. For most other places I fear to tread, being dens of scum, villainy, and consoles.
Ah, but the Wulf doth protest too much, methinks.
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The graphics remind me an awful lot of Samorost.
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I was expecting TF2 stuff.
Is this a boolet I see before me?
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How about, “Games, Games, Games.”?
Alternatively “Alas! poor Demo.”
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To demo or not to demo, that’s the question.
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“It is I, Hamlet the Demo”.
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“The Demo’s the thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king”
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This game takes some serious liberties with the basic storyline, even past the ‘You are a time traveller’ element.
Claudius kills the King and Queen and plans to marry Ophelia, Polonius is a goblin keeping Ophelia captive, Ophelia is just a damsel in distress, and Hamlet is your stock blond hero character without a care in the world. Well, he is before you crush him with your spaceship.
In that respect, I don’t know what to think of it. Fun game though.
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To be or not to be– that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the grind
in order to unlock the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And, by correctly executing a series of quick-time events, end them….
(and so on…)
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Awesome.
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Does anyone know how to solve the sun-dial puzzle on the cage? The timer ran out before I could figure out how it works.
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The sundial puzzle: Each of the letters corresponds to a facial expression, like an emoticon. You select the letter that matches the current expression on the sun. If you get it right, it adds a new golden prong, if you get it wrong, you start again.
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Thanks a lot!
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Neither a camper nor a bunny-hopper be.
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That’s just old Stan’s philosophy.
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“Do you think I am easier to be played on than a Wii?”
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Ha! Yay! I’m currently playing The Whispered World (the demo totally sold me on it) and I welcome more adventure games. Thank ye, Mr. Gillen, I shall download this post-haste.
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“There is nothing either good or bad, until you’ve played the demo”
“a demo of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy”
“This is I,
Hamlet, the Demo”
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Please! It’s “The Scottish Game.”
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That’s also Macbeth….
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When you mentioned a Hamlet text adventure I thought it would be this one: http://wurb.com/if/game/2408
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Me too, and even more so considering that this Hamlet used to be called Gamlet. (I wonder if the reason they changed the name was that they discovered this game made by an internet troll.)
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Looks a bit like Day of the Tentacle in those outdoor scenes. I like.
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