Sacrebleu! by Liz England

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made by Liz England for LD27 (JAM)
Dis game iz zee story of a duel in France. Zee challenger iz wounded and, unable to finish, callz upon hiz second to fight for hiz honour. Eet iz a fiction of zee interactive sort, no? You must play eet all to see zee ending, oui. Bon appetite!

Zee team apologizez to zee French, zee 'istorianz, and zee French, again, for zee inaccuracees in dis game.

Credits:
Writing by Liz England
Art by Erich Meyr
Created in Twine
Download includes the Twine source file

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Ratings

Coolness 70% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.41 158
Audio(Jam) 1.95 470
Fun(Jam) 3.17 191
Graphics(Jam) 3.42 255
Humor(Jam) 4.00 18
Innovation(Jam) 3.39 125
Mood(Jam) 3.38 124
Theme(Jam) 3.65 63

Feedback

withoutpillow
26. Aug 2013 路 15:30 UTC
great fun, and really good writing and programming! it gets a little repetitive over time, but i still had a good time with all the duels.

i ran into an error, however. in Zee Charcutier's fight, when he either waves the sausages or attacks i choosed to attack but got the other one. it seems you've mixed up the links, because when i tried it again and choose the sausages i attacked.
Wertle
26. Aug 2013 路 18:48 UTC
The writing is hilarious! I love the interpretation of the theme as well.
馃帳 Liz England
27. Aug 2013 路 03:32 UTC
withoutpillow - thanks for the catch, all fixed now. And thanks for playing!
madk
27. Aug 2013 路 03:41 UTC
Ha, those dudes are awesome. I love what you've done with the theme! One of my favorite entries by far.

"Gentlemen," zee Courtesan sayz, "I charge for zee viewing!" A dozen coinz fly into zee cloearing.

Zee baguette hitz zee villain's side! If eet were a rapier, zee villain would be awash in blood. But eet iz not. Eet iz a baguette.

"Estoy aburrido y quiero luchar. Es simple, no?" Zee Monsieur doez not understand. Zee Spaniard iz impatient to fight.

Zee Marquis goez into a defenseeve stance! He wavez hiz sword slowly, dramatically in front of him and movez hiz feet like a danze. But dis iz no danze, dis iz a duel. Zee Marquis lookz silly.

Oh dear god, my sides.
Fluffy Tigers in the Sky
27. Aug 2013 路 05:58 UTC
The writing is hilarious but also a bit tiring over time. I really like the overall graphic look and feel of the game and the point that you actually catche the eye with the interpretation of "10 seconds"!
RobotParking
27. Aug 2013 路 12:28 UTC
Adored your interpretation of the theme. Also, as someone who has just recently started using Twine, holy crap that is some awesome work with the interface. Super-impressed. Had a blast playing it.
TomSmizzle
27. Aug 2013 路 13:48 UTC
Oh this is brilliant. I keep belly laughing at the writing.
awesomesauce
27. Aug 2013 路 16:01 UTC
Great entry. The Spaniard's story is the best!
panurge
27. Aug 2013 路 18:38 UTC
Zut alors! Smartly written and plotted, this must have been a lot of fun to write and that enjoyment is infectious - I had a blast reading it.
blackotus
27. Aug 2013 路 19:22 UTC
Good writing and a great way to use the theme avoiding any relation with the time units!

It does get a little repetitive, but the writing makes up for it. Also, reading with a french accent is almost a feature ;P

Nice job!
zlowrance
27. Aug 2013 路 21:44 UTC
Great writing. Also the first game Ive played of its kind so far. Good job! :D
motty
28. Aug 2013 路 01:23 UTC
Perfectly executed silliness.

Tiniest of tiny quibbles - with that much reading being a key part of the game the font of the body text combined with the exaggerated French accent becomes tiring to read after a while.

But overall, really great stuff (and I didn't know you could mess with the look of Twine games quite *that* much.. wow :) *plots, schemes, etc*)
馃帳 Liz England
28. Aug 2013 路 02:39 UTC
Yeah, the length - of each passage as well as the whole thing together - is a pretty valid criticism, as well as repetitiveness. There's a lot I'd change about it - I think I'll write a postmortem in a couple days - but it's a big improvement over previous Twine projects of mine.

motty, Twine is just a glorified web page generator with an intuitive interface for the hyperlinks. So the look of a Twine game can be completely modified the same way you'd modify a website. I could make it look like (not act like) Twitter or Gmail if I were so inclined :)
Gremlin
29. Aug 2013 路 19:55 UTC
Best use of theme. Ever.
odeckers
29. Aug 2013 路 20:01 UTC
Funny, but gets a little repetitive
jujule
29. Aug 2013 路 20:39 UTC
Great writing, great graphic design. But in my opinion, zee bastard should be drinking Cognac.
PaperBlurt
30. Aug 2013 路 05:18 UTC
Great use of twine and graphics. I like it and gets me inspired!
pereubu
01. Sep 2013 路 10:29 UTC
omfg, dis is zee best text game I ever played.
awesome writing, this kind of ideas need a full game to be develloped D:
kibertoad
01. Sep 2013 路 22:06 UTC
Wish it had some actual gameplay, as opposed to excellent writing, but, on the other hand, it did have excellent writing! Please make more games.
matthias_zarzecki
03. Sep 2013 路 11:08 UTC
oh god the accent is brilliant
dylanwolf
13. Sep 2013 路 00:58 UTC
I like the different take on "10 seconds." The concept is really funny, though the amount of text in parody French accent is a bit tough to get through.
paulmcgg
14. Sep 2013 路 19:25 UTC
Really well written, very funny. Great portrait art too.