Death Ray Commander
09-Mar-09, 20:33
MS Paint Adventures (http://mspaintadventures.com/) is a website that features three web "comics" that feature simple, Paint-like graphics (although Problem Sleuth gets quite complex, artwise and otherwise) that read and pace similar to text-based Adventure games.
To date, it features three main features:
=Jail Break (http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=1), which I believe was entirely created by visitor input for every page. It follows the escape of a nameless hero from his bizarre jail. Pumpkins abound.
=Bard Quest (http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=2) is a lot more open, but it's on extended vacation. It follows a bard on his quest to rid the kingdom of The Dragon. Many paths abound, each one leading to a dead end or incomplete story. Homosexual running gags abound.
=Problem Sleuth (http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=4), a spanning 22 chapter adventure of three hard-boiled detectives - the titular Problem Sleuth, the hard-lining Ace Dick, and the disconcerting Pickle Inspector - on their quest to take down the Mobster King and, finally, escape their office.
Problem Sleuth is the current main feature of the site, easily trouncing its other two siblings in terms of content, story, art, and coherency.
It begins as a rather simplistic adventure game-like quest, with simple gags, but puzzle elements here or there make for complex and entangled story devices rather quickly.
With the advent of new characters, and three "playable" characters to choose from, and variants therein, the story can quickly bounce back and forth between a vast range of simultaneously-occurring happenings, yet remains completely coherent and only lets minor things slip memory long enough to reel it back in.
For convenience, two conveniently-placed Recaps make the more confusing parts a lot clearer.
I personally am quite fond of this website. I'm a new reader to it, started merely a month or two ago, but I've been bit by the love-bug, hard. By the time I started reading, it was already between Chapters 16 to 18. A week of skipping homework and family obligations later and they made a believer out of me.
To date, it features three main features:
=Jail Break (http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=1), which I believe was entirely created by visitor input for every page. It follows the escape of a nameless hero from his bizarre jail. Pumpkins abound.
=Bard Quest (http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=2) is a lot more open, but it's on extended vacation. It follows a bard on his quest to rid the kingdom of The Dragon. Many paths abound, each one leading to a dead end or incomplete story. Homosexual running gags abound.
=Problem Sleuth (http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=4), a spanning 22 chapter adventure of three hard-boiled detectives - the titular Problem Sleuth, the hard-lining Ace Dick, and the disconcerting Pickle Inspector - on their quest to take down the Mobster King and, finally, escape their office.
Problem Sleuth is the current main feature of the site, easily trouncing its other two siblings in terms of content, story, art, and coherency.
It begins as a rather simplistic adventure game-like quest, with simple gags, but puzzle elements here or there make for complex and entangled story devices rather quickly.
With the advent of new characters, and three "playable" characters to choose from, and variants therein, the story can quickly bounce back and forth between a vast range of simultaneously-occurring happenings, yet remains completely coherent and only lets minor things slip memory long enough to reel it back in.
For convenience, two conveniently-placed Recaps make the more confusing parts a lot clearer.
I personally am quite fond of this website. I'm a new reader to it, started merely a month or two ago, but I've been bit by the love-bug, hard. By the time I started reading, it was already between Chapters 16 to 18. A week of skipping homework and family obligations later and they made a believer out of me.