Tchernobog wrote:BEAST wrote:I like the art style you implemented with MS Paint. It reminds me of some of Yahtzee Croshaw's games, which implemented a similar art style with the same program.
Did you find out about them due to Zero Punctuation, or did you like me know about Yahtzee before he was cool?
Actually, I found out about those games from a special PC Gamer issue which covered nothing but free games. It was thanks to that issue that discovered the games of Cactussquid, The Desolate Room, Facade, and Gunlimb. Not to mention, plenty of freeware adventure games including Yahtzee's own Chzo Mythos series.
I was aware of Yahtzee's videos before, but I never watched him that much, and didn't know that the games were made by him. It was only after playing the games that I realized that he designed them, and I was impressed how he wrote and developed each game. Not only his adventure games, but his platformer games too, like 1213, Art of Theft, and Poacher. Even his Age of Evil mod for Duke Nukem 3D had its own charm about it.
I wished I played his first games from the early 2000s, but I didn't know or understand the existence of fan made adventure games at that time. From playing Odysseus Kent and the Rob Blanc Trilogy, I felt like Yahtzee and I had similar sensibilities when it came to design and experience in games (though I have yet to learn how to make my own games).
Interestingly, Yahtzee is also a fan of Blood, and cites E1M3 Phantom Express as a favorite level. In Age of Evil, his (anti)hero become undead, and tries to say Caleb's line "I live agai-(coughs). Sorry!" Makes me wonder, if Yahtzee ever did a mod for Blood, what it would look like.