Internet Avenger by Nolan C

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made by Nolan C for LD25 (JAM)
Play as supervillain Internet Explorer as you travel back in time to destroy the competition and take back the web! Featuring six epic boss battles and great music by __twc.

Press F to go full screen and experience the MS Paint HD graphics!

Ratings

Coolness 66% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.72 36
Audio(Jam) 3.62 37
Fun(Jam) 3.78 18
Graphics(Jam) 3.25 155
Humor(Jam) 4.53 1
Innovation(Jam) 2.63 217
Mood(Jam) 3.50 44
Theme(Jam) 4.13 11

Feedback

Jezzamon
18. Dec 2012 · 03:38 UTC
30 seconds in: Already 5 stars for humour

hahaha Opera HQ

Also 5 stars for theme because this is really what the theme category is about: Good interpretations of the theme. :D

Even though the jumping on platforms stuff is fairly simple and not that fun by itself, I still really enjoyed this game, because of the music and humour
scriptblocks
18. Dec 2012 · 03:45 UTC
Really Liked it. Wanted space bar to be jump though
doos
18. Dec 2012 · 03:56 UTC
Was too impatient to beat opera, but really liked the different themes and cutscenes.
zatyka
18. Dec 2012 · 04:16 UTC
Silly, simple, and very funny.
OU GDA
18. Dec 2012 · 04:20 UTC
cute story. as a fan of minimalism in game design this appeals to me
CireNeikual
18. Dec 2012 · 04:26 UTC
Great stuff! 5 for humor!
Team Tibbles
18. Dec 2012 · 04:26 UTC
As many other have said 5/5 for humor!
Arakade
18. Dec 2012 · 04:31 UTC
Fun + hilarious = Awesome :-)
Also, is it just me or was Opera hard to beat back in the day!!! Wow, don't know how many times it got me!
p.s. I've fixed my game since your review <nudge, nudge> :-D
illugion
18. Dec 2012 · 04:36 UTC
This is the funniest game i've played in this ludum dare, i started laughing before even playing the game XD that was awesome ! Blue screen of victory !
TDRGames
18. Dec 2012 · 04:36 UTC
WIN! Final score 26550 :)
Starts out looking like a crappy game with like 2 levels but it just keeps going and the music is pretty sweet.
Wait till you get to Firefox... hahahaha

-1 for not using HTML5 :-D
gregfagan
18. Dec 2012 · 04:45 UTC
Thought is was very funny!
01010111
18. Dec 2012 · 05:15 UTC
Knew I'd be giving out lots of stars as soon as I saw "100% MSPaint HD Graphics"!
Joncom
18. Dec 2012 · 06:01 UTC
This took being the villain to a whole new level. Lol
emveyh
18. Dec 2012 · 11:39 UTC
omg that's hilarious :D also 5 stars on humor, great job :)
loren
18. Dec 2012 · 16:41 UTC
haha, so good. Love the HD art and the realism achieved! Great job :)
caribou
18. Dec 2012 · 18:54 UTC
Funny game, simple mechanic and i still managed to suck. Chrome was mean :(
Lidfrid
18. Dec 2012 · 19:12 UTC
This game is awesome... I laugh so hard when i saw Safari xD
Frozen Fractal
18. Dec 2012 · 19:25 UTC
A great take on the theme! The MS Paint graphics make it easy to miss that there is actually a rock-solid game here.

The platforming bit was a bit repetitive, but the boss battles were great and really had progressive difficulty (except Mozilla who was too easy). I would really have loved to see the ending but didn't have the patience to beat Chrome, who is just mean. I didn't really notice the music until I found my head bobbing in the rhythm. Oh, and did I mention it's hilarious? The intro, the safari hat and the opera mask cracked me up.

Five out of five on everything but innovation (because at heart it's still a platformer!).
Pierrec
18. Dec 2012 · 21:35 UTC
I like how this game, just like Zed's one, manage (thanks to their humor) to make me enjoy basic gameplays that are usually boring. I also like how you didn't even try to make it hard and let us players run through the game and have fun. This is a solid entry!
Floko
19. Dec 2012 · 05:36 UTC
ahahah
great story, awesome endin!
I don`t think safari should be in south america, It should have been in Africa, I guess...
Also, when you respawn, monsters don`t respawn, so it just becomes a lonely walk to the point where you died.

still very entertaining =]
Biped
19. Dec 2012 · 19:32 UTC
My fav game so far. Love the blue screen of victory.
azurenimbus
20. Dec 2012 · 01:01 UTC
Hilarious, great interpretation of the theme :) The graphics might be misleading, cause this is actually a pretty solid-feeling platfomer.

A suggestion to make it better is to invest some time in level design to create interesting challenges as you play through. The humor itself is worth it, but some variation on the levels would be great. Good job!
nSun
20. Dec 2012 · 15:42 UTC
The appearance and taste of the graphics are quite justified from the title screen (100% MS HD Graphics, Featuring Comic Sans...)

Should we interprete in two ways : "platform game" !?

(nice music)
amidos2006
21. Dec 2012 · 09:11 UTC
Nice game I loved how every boss have unique pattern :)
epiplon
22. Dec 2012 · 10:55 UTC
Creative, funny and unexpected villain. Good job!
SirJson
23. Dec 2012 · 18:24 UTC
This game is awesome :'D
brantkings
24. Dec 2012 · 17:13 UTC
Good game!
matthias_zarzecki
28. Dec 2012 · 13:55 UTC
This is great. Love the intro. Great choice of music.

Gameplay and level-design could be tightened a bit though. Most platforms being near the top is bad, as is the player jumping out. THe projectile moving at the same rate as the player is peculiar, at least. I also didn't like the platforms and evemies being build so ou essentially blind-jump into it.

Some diversity in level-design would be fun and easy too. Not every level has to have a "chasm", some could be flat.

Still, awesome work!

(also how did this get 50k plays? Is that normal for a flash-game on newgrounds? :P )
SamoojaMies
28. Dec 2012 · 21:46 UTC
Nice parkour levels and the story line is great. Good job!
🎤 Nolan C
28. Dec 2012 · 23:11 UTC
@matthias_zarzecki It got 50k plays because it was featured on the front page for about a week. Tom from Newgrounds really likes LD games, he'll feature all the decent submissions (flash or html5) right after the compo.
zenmumbler
01. Jan 2013 · 21:59 UTC
Simple, cute and funny.
cappelnord
01. Jan 2013 · 22:44 UTC
nice variety for the bosses. the levels itself were to repetitive. But cool lil’ game!
recursive frog
01. Jan 2013 · 23:44 UTC
Nice treatment with the little safari-hat in the Safari stage. :)

Also, nice easter egg when you click the "x" button on the score view!

The fact that you're playing as one of the most reviled browsers in the history of the web really makes this much more thematically appropriate than I would have thought possible for such a simple game.
Zed
03. Jan 2013 · 11:39 UTC
Yes. Yes to all of this. SO yes. Amazing graphics, too.
AyCe
04. Jan 2013 · 17:46 UTC
Very funny game, i especially liked the graphics and music. Chrome made me rage :( But I did it! TheFridolin showed me this btw
bentog
05. Jan 2013 · 22:03 UTC
Brilliant! Simple, yet really fun. 5 stars for humor, loved the browser puns and the ending.
PIXEL^3
06. Jan 2013 · 02:14 UTC
I had fun playing this, it was very humorous, but I did find restarting from the beginning very frustrating, along with the floaty jumping always screwing me up on the bosses. Other than that, great game.
crashbanito
06. Jan 2013 · 03:48 UTC
This game is fun. While conceptually very simple, you want to continue playing just to see what crazy setting the next HQ involves. Hilarious concept all around.
fishbrain
06. Jan 2013 · 14:14 UTC
haha!... good ol' fashion anti-microsoft fun!
voidstar69
06. Jan 2013 · 14:54 UTC
Hilarious! Although the platforming gameplay is quite simple, the boss battles and the funny story make this game brilliant!
csanyk
06. Jan 2013 · 23:20 UTC
Despite being totally STOOPID, I completely LOVED this game and smiled and laughed the whole way through it. Hell level would have been trippy if you could have animated the flames. Music soundtrack was kick-ass. I really liked this one. The "intentionally crappy" genre is so underrated.
SonnyBone
07. Jan 2013 · 23:41 UTC
Don't know whether to give five stars for graphics or 1 LOL
Hilarious game with a rad soundtrack. The levels are very easy but the last 3 bosses can be a bit tough. Decent challenge and a great interpretation of the theme. Awesome ending!