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Originally made for the 1 dungeon jam event.

Trouble Inspector and Discboy Search For A Vaguely Defined Lizard (henceforth now abbreviated as SFAVDI, because the title doesn't roll off the tongue as much as it tumbles like a crashing car) is a side scrolling RPG about two brothers- those being Trouble Inspector and Discboy, who scale up a tower to find a lizard in their grand quest to be able to pay rent in time!

Featuring 4 deadly levels, 5 deadlier bosses, a bestiary to read up on your fearsome opponents, alongside a warrior/mage duo in the form of the two brothers!

Features include:
- Two playable characters, focusing on melee (Trouble Inspector) and magic (Discboy)
- 4 levels
- Spectrum ZX inspired graphics & battle animation
- A bestiary

Are you a bad enough inspector (and brother) to get to the top of the tower and rescue the lizard?!

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  • Completed
  • awe_famsquad
  • RPG Tsukuru 2003
  • RPG
  • 06/10/2022 03:03 PM
  • 04/03/2024 03:16 PM
  • 11/24/2022
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I really liked this game!
The characters are really fun and memorable (especially Simowl Belmont). The writing was fun and quirky, and the ancient computer aesthetic was cool too.
The puzzles while simple were engaging enough. My one problem with this would be the combat. There's nothing inherently wrong with it, It's basically Final Fantasy, but I feel it can get too difficult at times. But the game was so charming that I came out with a smile.

Question: Is this your first game?
author=Eramicom44
I really liked this game!
The characters are really fun and memorable (especially Simowl Belmont). The writing was fun and quirky, and the ancient computer aesthetic was cool too.
The puzzles while simple were engaging enough. My one problem with this would be the combat. There's nothing inherently wrong with it, It's basically Final Fantasy, but I feel it can get too difficult at times. But the game was so charming that I came out with a smile.

Question: Is this your first game?


no, it's not my first game. that would be Awe VS Ozzy, which is a little community joke game thing that i made... a year ago? sheesh, time sure flies fast.

this also isn't my most recent game either! that honor would go to Mechanical Funnies. i worked on the first 2 levels of this game in a week for a game jam before i made that game, and then worked on it on and off for 2 months, until i got burned out.

thank you for your kind words on the game! i love Simowl Belmont as a nickname for the Owl Adventurer. i'm aware the combat really isn't the best, but i'm glad that it's balanced enough to not bother you too much.
Probably the only Misao card I'll get to do this year.
I really liked the 8-bit minimalist aesthetic, the animations
and how the characters moved in this - This is very difficult
to get right, but you were able to pull it of. Kind of surprised
this wasn't more popular, but I guess this is the type of year 2022
has been. I played this on my phone through Easy-Rpg so it's 100% compatible.
It was one of the few games I got to play this year - but from
what I played I really enjoyed it.
I really hope this gets nominated this year
Great stuff!

...I finished this a couple of days ago and I keep forgetting to post my mini review. This is pretty great actually, and I want to try and get it nominated for beetle ninja and best short game this year, but I can't make any promises.(I'm also writing this with a cold)

Vaguely Defined Lizard is about 3 hours long. it's a very short game with about 5 dungeons. The difficultly in this game is reasonable - not too hard, but difficult enough that it sort of forces you to learn the game mechanics of the game: (exploring dungeons, avoiding traps, gathering better equipment and items and fighting monsters) Without spoiling too much, the 4th boss is a welcome reprieve from these things, but keeps things interesting, by asking you to pay attention. The final boss has this really nice finality to it, with 5 forms and a really great animated transformation that follows each one, that beating it feels like something you've finally earned.

The graphics are gorgeous at what they're trying to recreate, that I can't help but wonder if this was released back in 2007, what type of reception it would receive, when all eyes were still only on rpgmaker2003 games.

Awe vs. Ozzy was good. This is better, but it's a really short event game. I can't help but be a little curious at what awe's 10th game is going to look like, because with each short game that he releases, there's small incremental improvements with each installment. There's a lot of talent and creativity here, that I kind of want to see what a full game would look like from awe - He's just barely scratching the surface of what rpgmaker2003 can do animation wise, that It's going to be really exciting to see what else he can do later on.

It bums me out that these games aren't getting more attention than it does, but this what the beetleninja award is for.
Keep your eyes on awe, he's doing some great stuff here.
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