Barn Runner 5: Chapter One

[Frodo]

I just played the game again, and I found new things.   

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Earl the ghost had already mentioned moonshine, and said I could take it.  So I went back to logbridge, and used the stick on bridge to get moonshine, and it was still there, after all these years.   

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Outside RitzPlex, I used control panel to ask the bot to let me in.  But instead of going in, I decided to walk left to look at newstand.  The front door closed, so I had to ask to be let in again.  The bot said 'Uhh, didn't I just open the door for you', and Prick replies 'Yeah, but I forgot to walk inside'.

That just cracks me up!   

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Thanks again for such a great game.   

[Ponch]

I just played the game again, and I found new things.   

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Earl the ghost had already mentioned moonshine, and said I could take it.  So I went back to logbridge, and used the stick on bridge to get moonshine, and it was still there, after all these years.   

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Thanks again for such a great game.   

Who knows? The item might prove useful when chapter five rolls around!

Thanks to everyone for the nice posts. And thanks to ProgZmax for the review. 4 cups!

- Ponch

[Play_Pretend]

The entire

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firing/innuendo sequence

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had me cracking up uncontrollably!

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Way to go Bill! 

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[Nostradamus]

Congratulations for a very well made game. Very professional feeling game. It's obvious it was thought out and planned really well. Rich story, rich dialogues, great cutscenes, great animation, interesting puzzles at just the correct level of difficulty, cool style of humor. This game is a masterpiece. Will be very much looking forward to the next chapter.
My favorite parts was the dream which was phenomenal (especially with the adult patch). It had a very thrilling story.
I liked the

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Duke Nukem Forever joke at the end

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Now I have a VERY important question about the ending:

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I played through the ending twice, in the first I bought the monster food and answered all questions truthfully. In the second I got the burgers and lied in all the questions. That resulted in getting two different codes at the end to use in chapter 2. It syas there are side quests and so on. So, exactly how different will it be for me to play with the different codes? should I try a few more approches int he end to get more variations in chapter 2?

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[Ponch]

I have a VERY important question about the ending:

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I played through the ending twice, in the first I bought the monster food and answered all questions truthfully. In the second I got the burgers and lied in all the questions. That resulted in getting two different codes at the end to use in chapter 2. It syas there are side quests and so on. So, exactly how different will it be for me to play with the different codes? should I try a few more approches int he end to get more variations in chapter 2?

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Most of the unlocked plot bits are just throwaway jokes to give a sense of continuity as the story unfolds over the chapters.

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If you managed to get a perfect score on the gun range, then the trophy Prick receives will appear in his apartment in chapter five. It doesn't do anything, it just fills out the world a little.

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Some of the bits are very important and will make your progress much easier in later chapters. For example:

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How much battery life is left in the nite lite. If you spoke to Earl. Whether or not you gave the air bag to Roy in the police station. How much of her rather kinky personal life you got Dr. Noriko to reveal. And bunches more stuff.

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Some of these bits unlock content in subsequent chapters right away. Other bits are like pieces of a puzzle you don't know you're collecting. If you also unlock the other, not-too-obviously related bits in later chapters, then even more content is unlocked down the road, assuming you collected all the pieces of the story puzzle.

And, just to make the codes harder to crack, there's also a randomizer built in. Some of the letters may mean nothing if you unlocked nothing related to that particular slot. It will just display a random letter or number.

Thanks for playing and posting such a nice review. Next game comes out in October!

- Ponch

[Nostradamus]

Well Ponch after all 5 chapters are released I hope you do a mega-walkthrough that includes everything to do in all chapters in order to see EVERYTHING there is to see.

[Ponch]

Well Ponch after all 5 chapters are released I hope you do a mega-walkthrough that includes everything to do in all chapters in order to see EVERYTHING there is to see.

That's the plan. Next year marks my 5th anniversary of the Barn Runner games (and using AGS), so I have a special game in the works to celebrate that particular milestone, along with a few other things (full walk throughs amongst them).

That's assuming I'm not hit by a truck or something before then, of course.

- Ponch

[Crimson Wizard]

I decided to play all the existing Barn Runner series, since they seem to be popular and I haven't tried them yet before. So, sorry for bumping this old thread up, but I found a small glitch in the game.

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When you open "kleaner's" truck on parking lot, there's some bag inside with words "Delicious Poison" on it. When you look at it, you get following message: "My finger is not a lockpick", which is actually a message you get when tying to interact with the truck's backdoor lock.

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Another thing that I should mention is that when you are in the Food Court before the end of the game, that ghetto-burger seller speech is realy difficult to read because it has white speech colour on mostly white background.

[Ponch]

Thanks for playing, Crimson Wizard. And thanks for letting me know about that little glitch. I'm making a list of little gaffes like that and will address them in the next version of the game.

And regarding the font color, it was meant as a joke. The whitest white kid ever working in a white restaurant, speaking in a white font. Maybe a little hard to read, but I figured I could get away with it since it was a one shot character right before the end of the game.

Hope you liked the game otherwise.

- Ponch