Heh, I used to talk to Kayin, the guy who made "I Wanna Be The Guy" a bit on IRC back in the day. He lives pretty close by me but we never hung out.
Anyways, here's a plug for my modern day text-mode graphics RPG, called Kikan. It's pretty fun, has a story dealing with drug addiction, it takes place in a slightly surreal New York City, and has an edm-influenced soundtrack. STRONGLY influenced by Shadow Hearts series. It requires MegaZeux (
http://www.digitalmzx.net), a text-mode graphics game creation system, basically a far advanced evolution of ZZT if you're familiar with that.
Plot:A darker-than-usual night in NYC, a jogger is out running on the Throgs Neck bridge. She happens upon a shocking sight... a car, mangled beyond recognition into a tangled mass of metal, screams coming from the driver's seat. She manages to pull a middle-aged man from the rubble, slightly bruised but still able to move. The man introduces himself as B.D., and pleads with the jogger to not alert the authorities to his presence. The adventurous Yvonne reluctantly agrees to help him out and provide him with a place to rest, but on the way across the bridge to her apartment, B.D. is swamped with strange hallucinations....
Features:# A dark, mature story about one man's struggle to overcome his drug addiction
# 8-10 hours of classic RPG gameplay
# Judgement Line battle system which introduces an active, timing-based element into traditional turn-based combat
# Classic RPG tropes like status effects, elemental weaknesses, buffs/debuffs, and dialogue trees
# Many unique items to find and spells to learn
# Fun and challenging puzzles
# Unique electronic music soundtrack
# Stylish retro graphics
Website (has a download link and a download link to get MegaZeux):http://www.duky.org/kikan.htmlReview on DigitalMZX (It got 5/5 stars!)http://www.digitalmzx.net/forums/index.php?act=home&branch=review&gid=1539&full=yImages:
