Description
The Shortest Adventure is a small story telling “game” that relies on the player making quick binary choices in a choose your own adventure type of game. The story is about “_______” (whatever name you chose to give your character) going on a journey to find the stone of Mon Tan to revive your master. It is a very quick browser based game with simple clicking to advance the story and scenes. Its a pretty silly game that does not take itself seriously, but was incredibly fun to make.
Background
This game was developed for a story telling GMAP course by a team of four people including me. We mixed and matched art styles because animating pixel art is relatively easy, but doing detailed pixel art backgrounds was a little to time consuming for the time frame that we had. We really had quite a bit of fun with this adventure game, we intentionally styles the main character as an “apprentice wizard” so that we can keep the spells to a minimum. Usually when the character is told to cast a spell there are consequences for his actions.