SeethingSwarm, Valerofond, TinyStuffz, and ZStriefel have flexed their muscles and combined their considerable talent to create retro-tastic point-and-click adventure Theropods in just 14 days for Adventure Jam. In it, you play a cavewoman whose fireside relaxation with her friend one night is disrupted by the arrival of some voracious dinosaurs. Even once you've figured out how to deal with the one menacing you, you'll still need to rescue your friend! To play, just click on the screen... your cursor will gain a white border when you can interact with someone, though our heroine will shake her head if she can't do anything with it right now. Click the arrow in the upper-right corner to access your inventory, and then click on items to pick them up to use them. Theropods is on the short side, which is understandable given its small development window and how polished its presentation looks (and sounds!), making it feel like an animated short you might see before a movie. For the most part, it's fairly straightforward despite a smattering of adventure game logic that requires you to make leaps of deduction in using your items that you may not immediately think of. Still, with its lack of dialogue and bright, beautifully rendered world, Theropods still manages to tell an engaging story (albeit one that feels like it just sort of... ends), and is a concept that would make a fantastic fleshed-out adventure later on down the road. Spare a few minutes to give it a try, and then make sure to vote for it on the competition page if you enjoyed it!
Walkthrough Guide
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Most of it is fairly straightforward. If nothing else makes sense, just start clicking everything on everything. Here's a combined hint-through/walkthrough.
Firepit scene:
Just keep kicking
Climb the tree, retrieve the spear, use it to knock the nest down, then just keep kicking the branch until it breaks
Walking through the forest scenes:
Not too much to see here
Pick up the feather, move the giant leaves, take the section of intestine from the dead dinosaur
Beehive:
Combine everything
Get the rock, kick the tree, dip the rock in the honey, feed it to the small dinosaur, collect the spiky fruit. Wrap the guts around the stump, launch the fruit at the triceratops.
The Pit:
You can do things while other things are happening
Leap to the branch, collect a piece of whatever that crap growing on the wall is, combine it with the feather. Kick down a vine for your friend. Just after the adult triceratops stomps, tell your friend to climb, then as he's climbing click the vine again. Tell him to kick over the fruit. Then tell him to give you the bone. Combine the bone with the feather-fruit-dart. Shoot the adult triceratops.
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May 15, 2015 11:54 AM