The Great Escape - a little game

Last year I made a little FFXI-themed game as present to Lina. It was in Finnish and just a silly little game, but now I've translated it into English anyway.



Instructions for downloading and installing

Follow the link to the site where the game is uploaded.

Link (File Dropper, updated 4.8.10)

If the link doesn't work (it will expire after a while since this isn't exactly a popular file) or if you'd like to get the game for different OS, leave a comment or /tell me in FFXI.

Among the ads there you should find a button for downloading the file. You'll need to give the number from a picture... sorry, bots, no game for you! (I know, it's a bit complicated, but it's free.)

After you've downloaded the Great_escape.exe to your computer, run it to unpack the game. A folder will come out, and inside is the icon for starting the game.

The version I have up now is for Windows, but I have it also for Mac and Linux, so leave a comment if you want me to add a link to either of those versions.

Instructions for gameplay

This is a point-and-click mystery for you to solve. There's not much to say about the controls, you'll just use the mouse to play.

One hint that comes to mind is that sometimes when there's text on the screen, the next click will make it disappear - and nothing more. So if you click A first and get some text ("This looks like A and what do you know, it is A.") and then click on B, you won't get the description of B - the text for A just disappears. Just click B again. If still nothing happens, then the game has nothing to say about B.

If you have any problems, tell me about in in FFXI or leave a comment, so I can fix it.

I made the game with Ren'Py, in case you're interested. (renpy.org) The pictures are from FFXI (Square Enix) and "music" by me.

I hope you like the game~
Please leave some comments if you play it (whether you like it or not).

Treasure hunt

Pasifika has some (many @_@) quests uncompleted that she has started ages ago, and one of them came to mind recently. It required finding some very important items in treasure chest, and Pasifika started the treasure hunt in Sea Serpent Grotto.

This kind taru helped Pasifika get the key and lead her to the chest. One down, two to go~

Next place was the Labyrinth of Onzozo, and Pasifika spent a good while trying to get the key. Finally she got one, and then searched for the chest... Of course it's always at the last place you look, there's no point in looking any further, but this chest was in the last possible place, after Pasifika had checked all others already.

A goblin seemed very interested in this treasure, but not in the least upset about some adventurer taking it. Not fighting over it was a smart choice from Mr. Goblin, as Pasifika had just done short work on a notorious gobli that had crossed her path in the labyrinth. Aptly named place, by the way.

Last treasure was in Castle Vahlz and Pasifika already had the key. The chest was sitting there in plain sight, not far from the entrance. Lucky!

Pasifika got caught up in the excitement of treasure hunting and decided she'd go find a chest in Ru'Aun Gardes, too, to get the map. Its just that... she didn't have the map and was hopelessly lost there.

Luckily, the taru guide from earlier volunteered to show her around, and Pasifika got her map from a heavily guarded chest.

The guided tour included also other highlights of the place, like the tragic Five Galka Bridge and also the place where Kirin occasionally hangs out. Kirin wasn't in this time, but some other time, then~

Shielded!

Here's Pasifika's new shield.


I can't say it's shiny, because, well, it isn't...
but it should be sturdy, since it popped out of this guy.



Here's Pasifika's new Shellra V. It's shiny enough.


(Let it be known that the first merit point was used on club skill.
The three after that on the shiny.)

End game

Sky is like this:


People running around, that pretty much sums it up. Sometimes some notorious monsters are involved. Mainly on purpose, too.

I still have no way to tell what the rest of end game activities are like, but Pasifika's first sky run was... intersting.

Here are some more highlights: