Ben There Dan That

[nath]

Remember those great classic Lucasarts point and clicks? Well a pair of British indie dev chaps have made a couple of games that are very much in the same style. The first - Ben There Dan That - is completely free and a tiny little download, I've been playing through and it's just like the classics I remember, great humour and I personally really like the wonky graphics.

There's a sequel out too called Time Gentlemen, Please which I've not tried yet but promises to be more of the same.

Anyhoo - check them out at Zombie Cow Studios.

edit: Oh and review here: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/07/17/ben-there-dan-that/

 

[Ch3tan]

Aha! That is freaking awesome. Quality stuff.

 

[Ch3tan]

Finished the free episode, going to buy the sequel later today. Well worth the paltry £3 if it is anywhere near as good as the first.

You should all try this, funny and old-school. Unlike the sam and max remakes.

 

[nath]

Yes. Exactly. Come on people, I thought you lot liked games - try it out, love it, hail me as a demigod for finding it for you all.

 

[CorNokZ]

Loved it

 

[Tom]

Cool, I'll try this tonight. 2D point and click games rock.

 

[Ch3tan]

Time Gentlemen, Please! Is even more AWESOME and also nearly FREE. Very, very nearly FREE.

Funnier if possible, and the graphics are improved -yes you can change the resolution and use anti-aliasing! You can also set the racism level! How awesome and nearly free!

 

[old.Tohtori]

Time Gentlemen, Please! Is even more AWESOME and also nearly FREE. Very, very nearly FREE.

Funnier if possible, and the graphics are improved -yes you can change the resolution and use anti-aliasing! You can also set the racism level! How awesome and nearly free!

How much are they paying you for this post

Have to peek at this at home.

 

[nath]

yes you can change the resolution and use anti-aliasing!

But don't - I found out that actually fiddling with the resolution doesn't really help matters and actually causes a problem with the fade out effect. Try switching from no filters to 2xResolution anti aliasing mode - you'll notice there's more or less no difference. The game is designed to run at 800x600 natively.

 

[Ch3tan]

If I run at 800*600 it doesn't look as good, if I run at 2x, it also increases the reolution, and looks less stretched on my monitor.

 

[nath]

If I run at 800*600 it doesn't look as good, if I run at 2x, it also increases the reolution, and looks less stretched on my monitor.

Very odd - I'm on more or less the same monitor (as far as I recall) and I can't really tell the difference between the 2x and no filters. There's a huge difference between AA mode and Nearest Neighbourhood filter though.

Are you using your LCD screen scaling or your graphics card one?

 

[taB]

This went funny for me after the starting credits. Speech bubbles just flickering once and being unreadable. Will have another shot at it tonight.

 

[nath]

I get that every now and then - shut down the game and load up again always sorts it.

 

[Ch3tan]

graphics card scaling, using AA filtering.

 

[nath]

Remind me - are you on the sammy 24" screen or something else? I've just tried going from standard 800x600 no filters to 1600x1200 with AA and I cannae tell the difference.

 

[Ch3tan]

dell 24"

 

[nath]

Oh well, I guess it doesn't really matter if it works. Are you not having the fade-out problem that I had?

 

[Ch3tan]

nah, everything seems to be working fine.

 

[nath]

Well it would appear that this entire exchange was a complete waste of time - I thought that fade out problem happened on all systems when you increase the res. Never mind then .

 

[taB]

If it helps, I was using a 32" TV but the game was just running at 640x480 and didn't see an option to change it.

 

[nath]

Ah, we're talking the sequel Time, Gentlemen Please! Ben There Dan That has the same options though - just go to the install folder and run "Winsetup.exe" to fiddle with options.

 

[taB]

Humbug

 

[nath]

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Time, Gentlemen, Please! is available for the omgwtfbbq price of £1.50 if you're quick. It's easily worth 5 times that amount, so what are you waiting for?