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[** UPDATE 19th May 2016 - TALKIE VERSION NOW AVAILABLE!! **]

Now on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1305500/Captain_Disaster_in_The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon/

** UPDATE 19th May 2016 - TALKIE VERSION NOW AVAILABLE!! **



** UPDATE 7th December 2017 - now also available on Itch.io!


Hernald and CaptainD proudly present:

Captain Disaster in: "The Dark Side of the Moon"!

When CD sleepwalks through an open StarGate, he not only gets stranded on a distant, abandoned moon, but unearths a diabolic plan of The Maestro - a plan which, unfortunately, The Maestro's normal arch-nemesis The Dentist is powerless to foil!

- Featuring state of the art awful graphics!
- Excellent music, including two brilliant original compositions by our very own Viking
- Puzzles galore, some simple, some pretty darned devious...
- 16 Achievements to obtain - including attempting to defeat evil with pudding and inadvertently destroying the universe!
- Thoroughly beta testing by Arjon StrayDogStrut and LostTrainDude - so blame them for any bugs you still manage to find 

You CAN largely complete the game without LOOKing at anything (Left mouse button for INTERACT, right mouse button for LOOK) - but you will miss out on a lot of the game's storyline and humour if you do.

Using Direct3D rather then DirectDraw heartily recommended.  Unless you want the small character sprite to look like a blob.

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CaptainD, sorry if I'm being ignorant here, but is your game's name related to "Death wore endless feathers? in any way" Or is the similarity coincidental? I think the name is good because it stands out and it's also quite clearly evoking an image of goofy but intellectual comedy.

No relation at all between them - well, apart from them starting with the word "Death" I suppose.  Goofy yes, intellectual?  Not sure, I'll let others decide that (when we finally finish making the thing.

I fear that The Samaritan Paradox is a little complicated and hard to remember

I suppose it's always going to be a personal thing - I really love that game title, though I don't know if I could explain precisely why.  I guess I like titles that hint at something you're going to have to play through the game to work out the significance of.

So how does "Captain Disaster in Death Has a Million Stomping Boots" fare in all of this?  I didn't want a short name! 

I too thought Boryokudan Rue was a better title, but I also liked Gemini Rue.

Jolly Rover was a pretty good title.  "The Game That Takes Place on a Cruise Ship" was classic.  Machinarium was a very clever title.

Thanks Lewis, some real food for thought there.

Circus Attractions

Yup, that's the one!

Looks a bit like...Circus Games?

Very close!  It is "Circus... something", but not Games...

Okay, keeping to the same theme...

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I think it's a circus game on the ST/Amiga, but I can't think of the name!  Um... Fiendish Freddy?

Is it Pirates! ?

YES!  One of my all-time favourite games.  Lost many hours of my youth to it...

I hope THAT is not "young daughter" he talks about?

Ha!  There were 4 levels - this was the worst one. 

They got better... and of course harder to win over:

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The end result always looked the same on your wedding day - must have been the veil!!

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The ones in the remake were considerably bustier...

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Ah well, it was released by Loricels and simply called Disc.


Okay this one should be easy (I think) - screenshot from the Atari ST version, this game was popular on 8-bit and 16-bit systems, and a remake was made some years ago updating the game concept for modern PCs.

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Okay one final hint...

The game has a one-word title and was released by a French game publisher.

In the meantime, what do you think of the game's poster?

Very weird... in a good way! 

Thanks for sharing Dave!   Good advice and food for thought - especially about the episodic game format.

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Spoiler

Saddle / Horse's head?

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The only game this makes me think of is BASS, and I know that's wrong!

Afraid not!

It's not an adventure game - it's a futuristic sports sim.

I'm not sure posting another screenshot would help, because they're pretty much all the same... so I'll give it another day and if no-one gets it, spill the beans and try another one.

So I sure don't care about them when I see "You killed ten bosses with a single bullet fired blindly while moving the mouse with  your nose" on the list 

It's harder than it sounds 

Rats, I'm going to have to take that particular achievement out of my next game (and there I was thinking I was being original... :-P)

Ghost - I see what you mean about adventure games being - largely - linear.  I'm interested to see what you think about the ones in my (soon to be released) game though - we've tried to be inventive with what we chose, and many are things that you don't actually need to do to actually complete the game, but are - hopefully - fun. 

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Hint?

It isn't TRON.

If you're playing an adventure game in particular and it has achievements - do they make you feel more inclined to play the game again after you've completed it?  Do they make ANY difference to your gameplay experience?

Just interested in people's opinions on this.  I've got one game coming out soon with achievements, another that I'm considering adding them... trying to think whether it made me play games again after completing them, but apart from briefly re-visiting Da New Guys, I can't really think of an instance where it mattered much to me.  (Although thinking about it, some of the achievements in The Critter Chronicles were quite fun.)

B.A.T. - One of my regrets is that I've never actually played that game - it looked pretty amazing at the time!!


Okay this one is going to be dead easy to anyone who's ever played or seen it, but the game itself (16-bit era) is perhaps a little on th obscure side.  It was a great game though (at least I thought so!).

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