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Skrillex Quest
- mtgentry 14y agoI am the only one that thought the game was making fun of Skrillex? I thought all the noise cubes were supposed to represent his music..
- NathanKP 14y agoWell seeing as how the final boss is Skrillex and you have to defeat him while he throws the corrupted cubes at you, I'd say yes they do represent his music, which is "corrupting the world". It is tongue in cheek and that is part of the charm.
- laumars 14y agoTotally. I saw it more as him having fun with his image than him being the butt of the jokes.
- beemoe 14y agoI think not. If it is making fun of him, it is doing so in Some way that required active participation by Skrillex himself, because... WARNING, POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT: If you beat the game you see a video clip of him that is specific to the game.
- gee_totes 14y agoI love this guy (Jada)! Once again showing that Flash, when used correctly, can create unrivaled experiences on the web. Also of note is the Perfect Strangers game: http://nothingsgonnastopmenow.com/ http://nothingsgonnastopmenow.com/
- nairteashop 14y agoHeh, love this game. Like a time machine to the 80s.
- cnp 14y agoYeah exactly. Such a perfect use of flash.
- chroma 14y agoI hit start and 90% of the time nothing happens. The other 10% of the time, Flash crashes. I'm using Chrome stable on Ubuntu 12.04. I have no extensions besides Adblock Plus. This is the only page I've encountered that crashes Flash on my computer.
- polshaw 14y agoworks fine for me with the same setup
- thechut 14y agoHmmm, same setup and it didn't work for me in Chrome, only in Firefox. Did you install any special flash stuff? Any tips would be appreciated.
- polshaw 14y agoEverything is normal..(also have AB+ and ghostery) worth mentioning that on checking it is v20 of chromium (ie from the software center), v23 is apparently the current stable chrome version.. are you using that?
- redthrowaway 14y agoThat's rather meta, isn't it?
- jasonkostempski 14y agoJust blow on it.
- sturmeh 14y agoThe only extention you have blocks ads, and you're tying to watch/play an interactive ad.
- mappu 14y agoIt's all 3D, so likely to be a graphics acceleration issue.
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- matthodan 14y agoWell done.
- joejohnson 14y agoThis is amazing. Nice use of song samples for sounds effects in the game.
- chii 14y agoyea, it somehow fits really well doesn't it! the game was a bit simple, but have nice touches.
- pepsi 14y agoThose interested may enjoy the equally (or more) offbeat Goblet Grotto http://harmonyzone.org/GobletGrotto.html http://harmonyzone.org/GobletGrotto.html http://gamejolt.com/games/rpg/goblet-grotto/10253/ http://gamejolt.com/games/rpg/goblet-grotto/10253/
- duked 14y agoI love Skrillex and the game is awesome and pretty fast, Great work !
- Wraecca 14y agoSkrillex's music is just like broken video game!
- jorts 14y agoI got to the fairy then I couldn't control the menu. I like the idea of the game, although I was hoping it wasn't done in flash.
- alexmat 14y agoMy ex-gf always used to say Skrillex sounded like videogame music to her.. I was like "whatever, you don't GET it", but I stand corrected. Should send her some "I'm sorry you were kinda right" chocolates.
- sgdesign 14y agoThis is really awesome, definitely a good entrant in the "video games are art" category. I do wish it wasn't Flash though. Not that I have anything against Flash itself when used the right way, but I feel like it's really hard to "own" a Flash game. Unlike, say, iOS apps that you can download and come back to 6 months later, Flash games are a lot more of a flash in the pan (sorry…) and I think it's a shame in cases like this where the end result is so great and so much work obviously went into it.
- boringkyle 14y agoI agree, like this bomberman-inspired HTML5 game: http://powderkeg.artillery.com/ http://powderkeg.artillery.com/
- alexanderh 14y agoI'm confused by your comment. How is it hard to own a flash game? You cant download the .swf onto your computer?
- natep 14y agoVery cool concept and enjoyable game, but it caused the Iceweasel 'plugin-container' on my laptop to use over 200% CPU, which I'm guessing is related to the circuit breaker flipping (twice). Running Crunchbang 11 on a Dell Latitude E6410... Edit: And took me from somewhere near 100% battery to 67%. Crazy
- fumar 14y agoDisclaimer: Personal Tidbit I love electronic music. But, I can not get into Skrillex or American Dubstep for that manner. I feel like im missing something...
- md224 14y agoI don't think you're missing anything, it's simply a matter of personal taste. I don't enjoy Skrillex either (dubstep to me is artists like Burial) but I can see why his more muscular approach might appeal to the American crowd.
- fumar 14y agoCorrect, Burial, on the other hand makes music I enjoy.
- andrewfelix 14y agoAgreed. I find Skrillex derivative. It's like Chicane with extra noise. Dubstep can be awesome however.
- recursive 14y agoSkrillex is derivative but Chicane is original. That's a new one. I say this as a fan of both.
- andrewfelix 14y agoNever said Chicane was original. They're both derivative.
- delackner 14y agoObviously every song is in some way building on other previous works, but there are degrees of originality and contribution above and beyond the building blocks that a song draws from. Some songs seem to be just "beautiful component" + "harmonious other beautiful component" = "pleasant synthesis resulting in more beauty", while others seem to be "beautiful component" + "rotting vegetables" = "pretty rotting vegetables"...
- luxxx 14y agowon't load for me, latest crunchbang, also tried on Mint 13, and it wouldn't work there either.....
- shaunxcode 14y agoI just upvoted something done with flash on hn for the first time ever. The zelda 1 esque levels were sheer genius. I would actually dig playing an entire game with that perspective/style.
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- runevault 14y agoOut of curiosity have you played the Binding of Isaac? It's a zelda-esque game using short gameplay/permadeath + lots of random elements. Although may be windows only I don't recall.
- corroded 14y agoBinding is available in steam and is available for Mac as well.
- shaunxcode 14y agoI have not but I am checking it out now. Thanks for the recommendation!
- teamonkey 14y agoFlash demo! http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/581168 http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/581168
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- snikch 14y agoLoving the fact there are FFVII sound effects too.
- oacgnol 14y agoI totally get the theme but I can't help getting nervous goosebumps from the artifacts - I feel like I have to reset the display cable or blow into the cartridge! Well done.
- Roelven 14y agoMe too, totally feels like the glitches are actually real, my nintendo dusty cartridges nightmares came back to life
- egypturnash 14y agoIf you have a 360 you should avoid Fez. That game does some clever things with glitches and crashes.
- ISL 14y agoHN FTW. Thank you.
- nsoldiac 14y agolove the hidden humor and classic gaming references all over...totally worth a replay
- codeulike 14y ago"All the food is poisoned, all the trees are dead ..."
- lazerwalker 14y agoWhat I find perhaps most fascinating about this is that it's almost certainly an advertisement (note the iTunes link at the end of the game, and the tagline at the bottom that the creator makes 'advergames'). If it is, in fact, an advergame, it's awesome to see folks like Skrillex (and/or Skrillex's marketing folks) willing to build something so cool and of legitimate artistic value to try to build up viral buzz.
- redthrowaway 14y agoI was going to say that Skrillex is signed to deadmau5's (of Something Awful fame) label mau5trap, but that appears to no longer be the case. Skrillex is now with Atlantic, which is doubly impressive if they had anything to do with it.
- leviathant 14y agoI noticed (c) 2012 Atlantic Records on the intro screen on my second time playing the game. At the very least, Atlantic helped bankroll this effort.
- deco 14y agoSkrillex has a longstanding deal w/ Atlantic leftover from his earlier band From First to Last. His label OWSLA is an imprint on Big Beat, which itself is a subsidiary of Atlantic. The cost of this was probably shared between Big Beat / OWSLA, Atlantic, and the artist himself (or his management team Blood Company). These sorts of deals get pretty convoluted when major labels are involved. Either way, a very cool interactive experience. The only criticism I have is that they completely ignored mobile/tablet/non-Flash -- it's a Flash-based game, but if you visit the site on a non-Flash device you don't even get an alternate "Sorry, your device is not supported" message.
- jarin 14y agoWait, what did deadmau5 have to do with Something Awful?
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- eminkel 14y agoSaw this link on Twitter earlier, didn't click through though. Flash ran fine in Chrome, pretty fun game, love the sound effects. I'm only 23% apprentice... if anyone made it to the end.
- jasonkostempski 14y agoI touched a chest. It took me a long time to get there. I can't move and horrible noises are coming out of my speakers. I'm tearing up at the beauty of it all.
- sheraz 14y agoSuch a good example of how to market music today. Not a Skrillix or dubstep fan myself, but I can respect this.
- sneak 14y agoUgh, when I was a kid, electronic music didn't suck and you only started out with two heart containers. Get off my lawn.
- criswell 14y agoYeah, I didn't die once. Unacceptable.
- mrcharles 14y agoLink electronic music that wasn't repetitive and wasn't released on Warp Records. Oh, and then go back and play The Legend of Zelda all the way to the end, and then come back here and say it was good. Also, you have a lawn? Lucky bastard.
- deveac 14y ago>Link electronic music that wasn't repetitive and wasn't released on Warp Records. I personally don't believe that repetition in electronic music even implies a sub-par track, but that's highly subjective of course, and we know where you stand. Some of the most groundbreaking and beautiful music to me is found on the Basic Channel and Chain Reaction labels, with tracks that are extremely minimal and would probably sound repetitive to many listeners. Plus 8 has a long history of incredible and innovative artists and tracks. It really depends on how you define electronic as well. If Chain Reaction is repetitive, Plus 8 less so, Warp less so, but even less are labels like Wax Trax! that had much more dynamic and traditional song structures from their artists (industrial). Do you consider them electronic? Subjective. Labels like Mo Wax delivered far less repetitive offerings than Warp artists, and just as compelling. Ghostly International takes takes us back to more traditional electronic offering if Mo Wax and Wax Trax! aren't 'electronic' enough for one's definition. Really, there are just too many to name, even with the constraint of stripping out electronic music subjectively deemed 'repetitive'. But I take your point though. Warp Records, especially at a particular time in electronic music's history, was one of those special and legendary labels that every genre seems to have one or two of. They were home to some of the most compelling and innovative artists of their generation, and rather than having just one or two, they were home to many. Might be the best electronic music label in history for strength of talent and how deep their roster went. And I too have a lawn, but you don't need to get off it, -instead you can hang out on it and bring your vinyl. I've got a few crates of some incredibly good and rare discs and a 1200 on which to play them ;)
- sasfasfasffas 14y agoSaved the world Ranking Apprentice %23 and I got to watch someone blow fuzz out of a painted gold NES cart. Awesome.
- jasonkostempski 14y agoEntering THE code actually did something. I'm seriously in love with this thing.
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- msg 14y agoI saved the world with a 28%, first time. :oD I might have done better if I'd noticed the timers. I figured this was for an album or something. I hadn't heard his music before, but it is now on my radar. Well done and spotted.
- cnp 14y agoDesperate to learn who the developers were behind this!
- cnp 14y agoI hope this site brings a little boost back to the Flash world, especially with Stage3D and all of it's possibilities. Actionscript 3 was such an enjoyable language to code in, though I haven't been able to use it professionally in over a year due to demand; the extent of my 'interactive' work has been hacky, ill-performing CSS3 transforms, and WOW are they limited. It's been all JavaScript, all the time, and I do love the community but then again I really (really) miss the rich immersive creativity that used to be so inspiring on the web.
- ronyeh 14y ago+1 to this. These days I do Objective C, but I still love AS3 & the Flash API. I just wish browsers would implement it natively (a JS version of the API), as opposed to the HTML canvas and (currently) flaky support for audio.
- Drakim 14y agoCheck out Haxe and the library NME, which is pretty much what you describe.
- 28inch 14y agoexcept its not... :) I`m mean it suppose to be but its not
- jdonaldson 14y agoWhere does Haxe fall down for you? Not many people I know have ever looked back after using it.
- 28inch 14y agoI`m not talking about haxe in genereal. I`m talking about the idea of NME which is really nice but would fail in many (higher performance visuals) cases when it comes to javascript/canvas.
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- gknoy 14y agoWow. This is tremendously well done! I was very pleased to get the Contra code right, too. :D
- jontaylor 14y agoI hate to nit pick but I think I found a bug... Seriously though this is awesome! Much better than Halo 4 A+
- tobyjsullivan 14y agoThat's the most exciting black screen I've ever seen... I'm sure it was awesome when it worked.
- lnanek2 14y agoSame here. Broken on Chrome on Windows 8. I don't know, I have a Mac next to me I can try. Don't really feel like trying the lottery. Maybe the site's just down and nothing would work. ;/
- NPC82 14y agoThis game would be a lot more enjoyable with music that matched the theme. Impressive performance for flash.
- misleading_name 14y agoNot very interesting on an iPad, black screen w dark gray writing and not much else.
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- misleading_name 14y agoNot very interesting on an iPad, black screen w dark gray writing and not much else.
- xanados 14y agoThis game reminded me of Sword and Sorcery EP[1]. It had a similar aesthetic and used music in the same way that this piece did, although it was music from Jim Guthrie who sounds completely different from Skrillex. The main character even looks like the character from that game. The gameplay is very different (SS is a two dimensional, puzzle based point-and-click sort of thing), but there is definitely a similarity. 1: http://www.swordandsworcery.com/ http://www.swordandsworcery.com/
- _pferreir_ 14y agoI agree. It definitely looks like Sword and Sworcery.
- ZeroGravitas 14y agoIt's like a cross between that and 3D Dot Game Heroes. http://www.3ddotgameheroes.com/ http://www.3ddotgameheroes.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhuhdw_9Hnk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhuhdw_9Hnk
- btipling 14y agoThe Neverending Story reference to Atreus seeing the Rock Eater after losing his friends to the Nothing was a huge flash back moment for me. Very well done.
- chris_wot 14y agoShows. Nothing on a iPad.
- beemoe 14y agoWas this created using Unity3D and exported to Flash or was it written with the usual Flash methods in the first place?
- tiglionabbit 14y agoIt feels very much like Unity3D to me. I bet that's what they did.
- beemoe 14y agoYes it does. I would be very grateful if someone could point to some more convincing proof of this.
- ari_elle 14y agoI think if this page demonstrates one thing, then how bad his music is, when i am correct in presuming it's his music that can be heard throughout the game. Here we have a modern artist, heard by millions, being swamped with prices, yet his music when in the context with a game which even was especially designed with the music in mind, can't hold up to the old classics in any way. Basically: Soundtrack of most N64/SNES Games >>> Skrillex :D To all downvoters: i personally am annoyed by the music after 2 minutes of playing, can't deal with this
- jeremyarussell 14y agoTo you: The downvoters are personally annoyed that after reading two lines of what you wrote they couldn't deal with your opinion. Out of curiosity, isn't going to a page where you already know from the start you aren't going to have anything nice to say a bit, trollish? :)
- NickKampe 14y agoA whois of the domain points to Warner Music.
- lewisflude 14y agoOh man, this is the guy who made emogame and emogame 2. Loved those games!
- heyitsnick 14y agoOkay, recreate that in HTML5.
- Roelven 14y agoI had to dig up this article again: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/142550 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/142550 On how we all told each other that blowing into the cartridge actually worked, but it didn't. I used to do it as well of course, I'm amazed by how that "technique" turned into some sort of urban legend.
- jiggy2011 14y agoThe problem with making this game in flash is that during the intro when the graphics go all fucked up I wasn't sure if that was supposed to be part of it or if flashplayer itself was having a fit.
- davidcollantes 14y agoAll I see is a dark page, with some social network links towards the bottom.
- benhebert 14y agoLove the stunt. Skrillex is the biggest thing in music right now, no one even comes close. Very nice and tiny guy too.
- ssharp 14y agoBiggest thing in music? I think that's overstating him quite a bit. He might be the biggest thing in electronic music, which is a much smaller pond.
- mrcharles 14y agoAs a long time game developer, the most impressive part of this game is that when you get to the end, and you don't have all the keys, you can simple break all the locks. That's the kind of game design that the game industry needs to learn from.
- mcgwiz 14y agoThe only reason that's necessary is because the game advances you regardless of finding the keys. This is because there is much reduced expectation of commitment from the gamer, and if they can't find the key and get stuck, there's greater chance they'll leave before the advertising message is satisfactorily conveyed.
- mrcharles 14y agoYeah I know, but 'failure' as a mechanic is something that's a weak hold-out from a time when games weren't as good. Thus, the requirement for three hearts is largely negated. Plus it's not like most AAA games nowadays punish you for anything at all to begin with, so having you actually hit a situation where you have to experience the inconvenience of loading a save that takes you back 30 seconds is ultimately just a waste of everyone's time.
- pilom 14y agoBut, SPOILER ALERT... If you don't break all the locks in time, you don't rescue the princess (though she does drop her flute)
- trg2 14y agoThis is incredible!
- slajax 14y agoI was really hoping this had something to do with dubstep. EDIT: SPOKE TO SOON THERE IS DUBSTEP! Sweet.
- nemo1618 14y agoPretty incredible what can be done in the browser these days. Anyone find out what happens if you get 100%? I only managed 58%.
- alexanderh 14y agoIts not done in the browser, its done in Flash. And it probably could have been done 5 years ago, easily. It is creative however.
- greenmountin 14y agoAFAICT there isn't anything special for high achievers except for a better "rank": 70+ = Prince, 80+ = King, 90+ = Legend, 100 = Master of the Universe
- greenmountin 14y agoI played it through a couple times and then decompiled the flash using the free demo of Sothink. The secret word is (spoiler, use ROT13) "FABJ". Unfortunately, it's just a treasure not a substitute for getting all the parchments...
- siegecraft 14y agoIs this promoting a particular tour, or release or something? Or it is just Skrillex brand awareness in general?
- circa 14y agoI always thought Skrillex sounded like a video game.
- snmcqueen 14y agoI just played this for an embarrassingly long period of time.
- imechura 14y agoPersonally, I am a fan of electronica but have not been a fan of skrillex as an old fogie who is akin to resenting anything with the dubstep label. However after playing this game I am more inclined to check out some skrillex music. Therefore, as an advertisement, this in my mind gets an A++ in effectiveness. I would also point out that being an 80s kid the sample images in the glitches evoked memories of Duck Hunt and Mike Tyson's punch out which made an emotional connection with me that is in turn associated with some great samples of the musicians catalog. Double A++. Last I will add that I am not a gamer as an adult but I thoroughly enjoyed this "game". My 5 year old daughter completed the game after I did an had no trouble whatsoever with the controls and the story line (I read the text for her). There is definable a market out there for non-gamers who would invest more time into games if the target was not as narrow. This market is likely larger than the Call of Duty/SOCOM market. So to wrap up.. This is no my cup-of-tea per se, but it is one of those things that can cross boundaries and bring new customers into a market if executed as well as this is.
- jarin 14y agoI'm with you. I've always liked Klaypex (of Dubstep Guns fame) better than Skrillex, but I'm willing to give Skrillex another shot after this. Dubstep Guns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDlif8Km4S4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDlif8Km4S4
- Techasura 14y agomy ad blocker plus blocked the site on chrome. was puzzled for a while.