Canonsmire
Synopsis
In 1776, Washington's forces retreated after their defeat in Brooklyn. One scattered unit found themselves in uninhabited territory; one which even the Iroquois refused to set foot in.
Canonsmire is a historical, text-based horror adventure. Find a way out of the swamp while avoiding a vengeful spirit from Native American folklore.
This game was created for Orifice Jam.
Controls
- Number keys – Actions
- Arrow keys/WASD – Movement
- Escape/Backspace – Cancel action
- Shift/Ctrl – Skip text
- Del – Hold at flag screen to erase saved data
The current version has no music or sound. If anyone can make DOS-style bleeps or eerie MIDIs, let me know!
Development log
- WalkthroughAug 28, 2023
- Post-jam postmortemAug 28, 2023
Comments
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Reminds me of the old BBS games I used to play like Usurper. What was this coded in? Also MF? :)
It was made in Clickteam Fusion. :) Ooh, BBS was before my time - like Trade Wars, right? I was mainly inspired by Infocom and PC-88 adventure games.
Do you do requests for games sorta like your last two? Small games that would be in a jam style. Also, why multimedia fusion? Is there a ASCII text or text book object that makes this easier?
BTW: Usurper (my fav. ASCII game from that era is here to play https://serionbbs.com/usurper-info)
I'm too busy to take requests right now, sadly. :(
There's no reason for Fusion, it's just what I've used for years. The text is just an IBM VGA font, no special object. There's nothing authentic about it, I just superficially made it look like an old ASCII game.
I imagine using an engine like Twine or Quest would probably have been easier, but I'm not familiar with them.
I'll check out Usurper!