Avery Ten 2ndth: Savior of Cleveland by CaptainDreamcast
Cleveland in the year 2009. A good samaritan who slingshots parents across the city. A time traveler looking for the man that killed his father. A rogue AI set on Cleve-domination. Classic Cleveland stuff. In the same way Death Stranding set off the genre of strand-like games, Avery Ten Secondth will most likely kick off the Cleveland-like game genre. Cleve-like. Clevish. Finding the name will probably be the biggest struggle for the genre going forward.
So yeah, this one is a bit rough, not going to lie. It's one of those Ludum Dare games where you run out of time and put together the pieces at the end and just hope it kinda runs. It became clear after five minutes that the protagonist should be called Avery Ten Secondth (II), and everything else kinda came out of that. Not sure where Cleveland came from, it's just a funny name (Cleveland is a beautiful city on the way up, in fact it became so beautiful that I had to set the game 10 years in the past because today it would have been too unrealistic to have it a wasteland). So now that I have hopefully dodged the hexes and curses of the Clevelandian population (the Cleves as we call them), thank you for trying my LD game and thanks a lot for playing!
Dreamcast version will come later.
Update: Dreamcast version is now online on itch too. My favorite version this time, it runs pretty well.
Controls:
Arrow keys Left Right - Movement
A - Jump/Confirm story screen
A/S/Q/W - Start game
Enter - Skip story
Ratings
| Overall | 452th | 2.788⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 436th | 2.673⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 415th | 2.769⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 299th | 3.423⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 374th | 2.962⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 349th | 2.604⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 93th | 3.404⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 365th | 2.82⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 21🗳️ | 31🗨️ |
Reading and moving at the same time is tough!
I like the graphics and the balloon-tank made me smile :!
good job
The only complaint is the font was hard to read at times. Incredible work.
Edit: It's an absolute crime your game didn't score higher in Humor.
Obiously it's a gag game so making a point how some stuff is buggy is a bit pointless, you're not supposed to succed. It's witty and funny although even if it's a joke, the music is a tad bit grading and stuff is a bit too fast to appreciate the humour sometimes.
Really unique, almost satire-like of other game jams games that do similar mechanics, including one I made not too long ago.
In all honesty I did fall through the floor several times, and I had to reload the page and skip through the intro thrice, and the unforgiving speed at which the obstacles fly at you makes it near-impossible to dodge anything, but that's not why I kept playing. I kept playing because you got me hooked with a funny concept and a few lines of funny dialogue and visuals that were on the edge of mediocre and horrific, and that's really all I needed.
As an experience, enjoyable.