Dastard's Dungeon by MattDahEpic
Play as the Dungeon Master in the final battle of a long(?) running campaign. The twist is that you'll be doing it over email.
Brought to you by:
MattDahEpic (Master of Code)
Stempy (Weaver of Story)
Starring:
Big Bad Evil Guy, Warlock, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue
| HTML5 (web) | https://play.octolopagon.games/dastards_dungeon |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/dastards-dungeon |
Ratings
| Overall | 320th | 3.7⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 532th | 3.35⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 18th | 4.3⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 200th | 4.075⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 21🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
It's a really interesting experiment
Just a small niggle, the emails weren't consistent between "new turn" and "next turn" - which caused gmail, at least, to not thread them properly.
It'd be cool if this could be done entirely by email, ie your moves were done by replying to the email like 1991 intended.
The play through email is a neat concept, but I can't help but feel it would have flowed better if it were all email or all web browser text adventure. It was a bit odd having to go back and forth between reading the text on the page and the text in the browser.
It might have been cooler if to take the next turn you could reply "Option1", "Option2" etc to the email. So you could play completely in the email.