Aerothorn on 15/2/2009 at 01:10
Anyone here played the Karoshi games? Among the most fun I've ever had with an indie game, right up there with Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. You can get them at (
www.venbrux.com). Karoshi 2.0 is even more brilliant and funny than the first, but you should probably play them in order.
They're also great because they allow people who are usually bad at puzzles to excel, because many of them are "right-brained" puzzles that require nontraditional thinking (the height of this being the "boombox" puzzle late in Karoshi 2).
Tonamel on 15/2/2009 at 01:43
The boombox puzzle was an interesting idea, but horrible execution. Measuring the volume of the output to the sound card would have been a more player-friendly way to go about it. As I recall, he had to mess with that one so you could skip it, since half the players literally had no means to solve it.
Other than that technical issue, Karoshi's good times. Especially when it gets meta.
nicked on 15/2/2009 at 09:11
I LOVE Karoshi! Best indie game evar!!!111
The best thing about it is the wacky, morbid sense of humour. It almost resonates of an old Lucasarts adventure (of course the game is completely different, but the aesthetic...)
Like the level where there's a clock on the wall and you just have to wait.
Or the one where you can jump in a spike pit, but if you jump over the pit you find another pit with a load of guys jumping up and down cos they got stuck too! >_<
Love it!
Aerothorn on 15/2/2009 at 18:30
Quote Posted by Tonamel
The boombox puzzle was an interesting idea, but horrible execution. Measuring the volume of the output to the sound card would have been a more player-friendly way to go about it. As I recall, he had to mess with that one so you could skip it, since half the players literally had no means to solve it.
Other than that technical issue, Karoshi's good times. Especially when it gets meta.
What do you mean, they had "no means to solve it"? Are you saying half the players
don't own music CDs?Tonamel on 15/2/2009 at 20:54
Or no physical drive, or Windows' autoplay would get in the way, or whatever.
"Half" might be a little hyperbolic, but it was a common enough issue that he had to add a workaround so those people could skip it.
