By John Walker on January 26th, 2011 at 12:43 pm.
I adore the internet. All I have to do is tweet that there aren’t enough games that cause me to shout, “Out of the way, duck!” and into my email comes another game that makes me shout, “Out of the way, duck!” And it prominently features poo. It’s like my birthday, Christmas and a royal wedding all rolled into one. It’s called Icarus Proudbottom In: The Curse Of The Chocolate Fountain, and it’s about a man propelled through the air by an unstoppable spray of shit from his bottom. Dodging birds.
And they say games are immature?! Take your BioShocks and your Deus Exes, and put them just behind my little pixel figure showering butt juice across the world. The opening dialogue in this epic is my favourite ever:
“Holy wow! I can’t stop making boom booms out of my bottom!”
I don’t see Chris Avellone or Ragnar Tørnquist offering that sort of poetic prose. You get two lives, the first time you hit a bird causing you to lose all your clothes, then second time, death.
It’s 20MB, it features a spirit owl as a guide, and it’s your reason for owning a PC. Huge thanks to Bas for the tip.
26/01/2011 at 12:51 kutkh says:
I once touched a duck and all my clothes fell off. Wait, no. Other way around.
26/01/2011 at 12:53 Optimaximal says:
You touched your clothes and a duck fell off?
26/01/2011 at 12:59 Lilliput King says:
No, he fell off a duck and touched his clothes.
26/01/2011 at 13:00 John Walker says:
I’m fairly sure he dressed a duck in his clothes and then made it touch him.
26/01/2011 at 13:06 Pie21 says:
I think he touched himself and God killed a duckling.
26/01/2011 at 13:32 KBKarma says:
Your clothes fell off and you touched a duck?
26/01/2011 at 13:33 DarkFenix says:
Or perhaps he killed a duck then God touched himself.
26/01/2011 at 13:44 kutkh says:
You heard me. No need to be ridiculous.
26/01/2011 at 15:24 Thecreeperskg says:
A touch clothed his fall-off and all ducked. ;)
26/01/2011 at 18:32 snitchy says:
i think you mean no need to be riduckulous
26/01/2011 at 22:12 Inglourious Badger says:
He tucked a douche and his oathes fell cloth?
27/01/2011 at 23:36 LabGnome says:
Oh great, another Halo clone!
28/01/2011 at 03:16 TeeJay says:
Oh those balmy summer nights at Hampstead ponds!
26/01/2011 at 12:54 AndrewC says:
I’m fairly sure this was linked to here last August (but I don’t know how to search by date), so I’m going to make a pre-emptive gypsey firsties curse on all the people who are about to say ‘old’ by saying ‘poooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop’.
Thanks.
26/01/2011 at 12:59 John Walker says:
From my exhaustive searching I can find no evidence for that.
But Graham “Lying Liar” Smith claims he mentioned it on a thing called “Pee Pee Gamer” or something a few months back.
26/01/2011 at 13:08 AndrewC says:
Here we go, it was the RPS tribute blog:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/08/15/the-curse-of-the-chocolate-fountain/
Old poo! Which is now making me realise you never see white dog poo anymore. Now I miss white dog poo.
26/01/2011 at 16:26 Sarlix says:
I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve seen white dog poo. You don’t forget something like that.
26/01/2011 at 16:40 AndrewC says:
Ah! I only just now realised that you subtley changed the name of their blog in your last reply. You are a satirical genius, John Walker.
And if your dog does a white poo these days, i’d suggest keeping the tipp-ex on a higher shelf.
26/01/2011 at 21:42 Sarlix says:
What do you mean these days? you keep speaking in the past tense as if white dog poo is no longer available. I know neither of us has seen it in a long time, but I don’t think we need to move it to mythological status just yet.
26/01/2011 at 12:56 DiamondDog says:
How do you turn a duck into a soul singer?
Put it into a microwave until it’s Bill Withers.
26/01/2011 at 13:10 stahlwerk says:
NoooooooOOOoooo!
26/01/2011 at 13:18 The Tupper says:
How do you make a porno star into a war hero?
Put him in the fridge until hiz Dick Winters.
Man, I have to admit that’s poor – and I made it up.
26/01/2011 at 13:00 Gunrun says:
This was made a while ago for the Something Awful Game Dev Challenge 5, who’s theme was “You can’t…”
Page for the game is here – http://labtanner.com/gamedev/index.php?title=1-2-3_Blast_On!
edit: Looks like the url thinger isn’t working right, and is ignoring the !
Add it yourself or go to http://labtanner.com/gamedev/index.php?title=SA_GameDev_V and then find it on the page.
26/01/2011 at 13:03 chakraist says:
I signed up to comment on what an amazing thing this is. I are new. I feel like I want to say ‘what a shame’ at some point, but I’m not sure if I’m allowed.
26/01/2011 at 13:05 Lilliput King says:
What a shame.
26/01/2011 at 13:22 Teddy Leach says:
What a shame.
26/01/2011 at 13:55 Triangulon says:
What a shame.
26/01/2011 at 13:57 Groove says:
What a shame.
26/01/2011 at 14:00 KBKarma says:
What a shame.
26/01/2011 at 14:09 Ergates_Antius says:
All you base are belong to us
26/01/2011 at 14:35 Combat says:
What you say!?
26/01/2011 at 14:44 Teddy Leach says:
How are you gentlemen?
26/01/2011 at 15:01 Jerricho says:
A BOMB!
26/01/2011 at 15:32 chakraist says:
All your base are belong to ME!
26/01/2011 at 19:26 Shazbut says:
You are not allowed to say that
26/01/2011 at 19:33 chakraist says:
What a shame.
27/01/2011 at 11:51 JackShandy says:
I spill my drink!
26/01/2011 at 13:12 Pie21 says:
I bet this crap would fly off the shelves if any retailer would take it.
26/01/2011 at 15:26 Thecreeperskg says:
Keyword: crap.
26/01/2011 at 13:16 Initialised says:
That’s class, a perfect match for my sense of humour, had me in stitches.
I want it on iPhone and Android (with funding from adds for bog roll).
26/01/2011 at 13:19 Quintin Smith says:
Ah, I get it. That’s where I’ve been wrong with these interesting indie games I’ve been posting. Not enough shit-propulsion systems.
26/01/2011 at 13:28 Wilson says:
It’s an easy mistake to make. Don’t worry, you’ll get the hang of it.
26/01/2011 at 13:37 Jonathan says:
See also: Osmos. Amoeba shit is still shit.
26/01/2011 at 13:38 DeanLearner says:
Well duuuuuuuh!
26/01/2011 at 22:15 Inglourious Badger says:
Less iron, more shit
27/01/2011 at 13:29 bildo says:
Someone needs to mod the Starship Simulator to include “Shit propulsion” among the choice of speeds like Impulse and Warp. Do it!
01/02/2011 at 22:42 Agrona says:
Double-post; I fail.
01/02/2011 at 22:43 Agrona says:
Speaking of shit-propulsion, this buggy little gem was posted on auntie pixelante’s blog a while back.
http://klikscene.com/flash/daphny.html
26/01/2011 at 13:23 DevilSShadoW says:
I hereby sue RPS for making me spray coffee on my monitor as a result of an involuntary audible expression or appearance of excitement caused by the current post I’m writing in.
Or. Not.
I seriously lol’d tho’
26/01/2011 at 13:36 AndrewC says:
There’s also ducks in Divinity 2 and they’re, like, 3 feet high. They’re not monsters, but they’re just milling about in a village, being all slightly-too-big. I found them quite scary.
26/01/2011 at 14:19 PhiIl Cameron says:
Was it a form of anatidaephobia?
26/01/2011 at 14:59 AndrewC says:
Megalophobia? Prorataphobia? Poorqaphobia?
26/01/2011 at 15:04 Jerricho says:
That article had a moment of comic transcendence when the ad had a picture of a duck in it. I wish I’d screen-capped it.
Update: thank you, internets. http://failblog.org/2009/10/23/ad-placement-fail-4/
26/01/2011 at 16:38 Sarlix says:
I actually got attacked by a duck once. I was on a school trip to a bird park and I got too close to a herd of baby ducklings. Next thing I knew the mother duck had attached herself to my elbow and I started flapping my arms and running around in a circle. All the onlookers just laughed as I was being savaged. True story – you don’t forget something like that.
I don’t have anatidaephobia though.
26/01/2011 at 14:48 Wilson says:
This was great, but somewhat marred by the final battle for me. Having three irritating bits where you are in no danger, then one tricky bit, then attacking your enemy, and repeating that cycle three times, was not quite thought through in my opinion. I almost gave up, which would have been a shame.
26/01/2011 at 21:35 Gpig says:
I don’t think the final boss was intended to be hard. For the lasers just do what you did before and then when he glows and does the nearly screen filling laser just go to the opposite side of the screen. When he starts shooting balls you just sit in the bottom right of the screen.
26/01/2011 at 14:53 somini says:
“http://www.kongregate.com/games/nagnazul/you-have-no-legs”
This is the game that won Something Awful Game Dev Challenge 5. The chocolate fountain came third. Hilarious!
EDIT:html tags FAIL for me…
26/01/2011 at 15:05 LozTaylor says:
I think Boom Booms might be the new Bag of Milky Ways.
26/01/2011 at 16:34 Oozo says:
Ah, childhood flashback! This might be the true story of Nils Holgersson Saturday morning cartoons didn’t dare to tell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzCygWJD4Og
Also: Is that the crunchy Battletoads-sfx ringing in my ear whenever I touch one of the pretty birds?
26/01/2011 at 17:01 po says:
Reminded me of this little flash video, which features more poo-powered-propulsion.
26/01/2011 at 18:32 tonweight says:
You win the thread. Weebl’s awesome.
26/01/2011 at 18:17 Ba5 says:
Oh wow internet credits go to me! Wait until I mention this in the pub, I will go home with one woman on each side.
26/01/2011 at 18:40 espy says:
I bet you wish you were a dodecahedron.
26/01/2011 at 23:58 Sarlix says:
haha excellent, you both win 10 RPS tokens. Each!
26/01/2011 at 18:40 DJ Phantoon says:
Boom boom? No, that’s not what Boom is about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT5AQIlmM0I
26/01/2011 at 19:38 djvecchitto says:
Whoa, hey, wow, I casually head over the RPS and there’s an article about the game I made! Thanks for the mention, this is totally unexpected since I made the game around 6 months ago.
We made this entire game in one month as part of the Something Awful game competition, and due to the time constraints a lot of features I wanted to include were cut. We’re working on an unrelated new game right now called “Star Gods,” which is a metroidvania that takes place in space. Once that game’s complete, we’re going to release it in a bundle with an updated and hopefully-much-improved Icarus Proudbottom (“Turbo HD Remix”), which should have a lot of difficulty fixes, new enemies, and generally a higher level of polish.
Once Star Gods is finished I’d love to make a new game starring Icarus and Jerry… I have a concept in mind in which he is now a starship captain. Stay tuned!
26/01/2011 at 20:05 Hydrogene says:
Thank you Mr chocolate fountain game creator but your game is too difficult. I can’t get past the geese. Damn geese!
PS: will star gods feature poo propulsion starships?
26/01/2011 at 20:16 djvecchitto says:
The game is too difficult, I apologize… when you make a game, you spend so much time playtesting it that you completely forget how hard it is for someone who’s never tried it before. That being said, stay at the top during the goose part.
Star Gods takes place in a totally unrelated universe. You play as a really lame set of villains who always get their asses kicked, kind of like Team Rocket (or any villain from a 90s cartoon).
I don’t mean to break your heart or anything, but I don’t think the next Icarus Proudbottom game will feature poops at all. I’m sorry, but I just can’t let myself make another game all about poops. That can’t be my legacy. The real question is – what is funnier than poops?…
26/01/2011 at 21:46 Gpig says:
Really enjoyed that. I thought the dialogue was really good and kept thinking “this is amazing/clever” throughout it. I expected to just play for a couple of minutes and be bored with it, but I really wanted to read more lines and see what happened next. Plus killing the ducks was fun. Really surprised at how good this was. I’m not interested in an HD remix but I’m not interested in those in general.
I played Space Funeral this week and can see why it was on the 25 games of Christmas last year, but if the hivemind had known about this sooner it should have made it instead. It’s celebratory in the way games like World of Goo and Just Cause are.
26/01/2011 at 21:47 fuggles says:
That was amazing- game of the year so far for me! Game wasn’t too hard asides from those geese…*shudders*.
Next game should be about a pooping horse racing in a grand prix.
26/01/2011 at 22:41 pipman3000 says:
finally a protagonist i can relate to
27/01/2011 at 11:02 GameOverMan says:
So essentially, it’s a crap game.
27/01/2011 at 13:26 bildo says:
“it’s about a man propelled through the air by an unstoppable spray of shit from his bottom.”
Could it have come from anywhere else?
27/01/2011 at 18:45 MinisterofDOOM says:
A great man once said:
“Somebody get this freakin’ duck away from me!!!!”