- Lars' Adventure
Lars' Adventure is an online
Adobe flash onlineplatform game , developed by Swedish flash developer "Raitendo", sponsored byNewgrounds and released in February,2007 . [cite web | url=http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/366341 | title=Lars' Adventure | accessdate=2007-05-06 | publisher=Newgrounds | date=2007-02-28] The game received acclaim for its "absolutely incongruous and bizarre" music and sound effects, [cite web | url=http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/03/lars_adventure.html | title=Lars' Adventure | accessdate=2007-05-06 | publisher=Game Life - Wired Blogs ] and was featured on Wired's game blog "Game| Life", Digg.com andFHM 's "100 Greatest Games" list. [ [http://www.fhm.com/site/Article.aspx?id=15869 Lars' Adventure | FHM.com ] ] [ [http://digg.com/playable_web_games/Trippy_platform_game Digg - Trippy platform game ] ] The soundtrack consisted of only one track, aThe Avalanches -inspired beat featuring voice samples from the 1950's US propaganda movie Duck and Cover called "Atomic", made by Mark "Khuskan" Jefferis. The sound effects consisted largely of seemingly random Arabic voice samples. [ [http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/view.php?id=917347&sub=68780 Khuskan - Atomic ] ] The game is playable in English, Swedish, as well as Japanese, something which helped the game get featured on some of the largest Japanese gaming blogs, such as "KotaroBlog". [ [http://www.kotaro269.com/archives/50356371.html 鍵を手に入れてドアから先へ進むアクションゲーム:小太郎ぶろぐ ] ] [ [http://revier.co.uk/index.php?itemid=3793 Lars' Adventure » REVIER ] ]In the game, you control a bean-like character called "Count Lars", who per his father's request has to rid his county from monsters.
External links
* [http://www.raitendo.com/lars.html Lars' Adventure] (flash application)
References
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