Samurai Sören

The game

In a world dominated by vicious veggies and fruitless fruit, vitamins supply for humans is controlled by a greedy ruling elite. Help your daughter overcome a crippling vitamin deficiency by making your way to Banana Castle to buy a smoothie (or equivalently refreshing and vitamin-packed beverage).

Features

Sören's epic journey  features:

• A highly advanced player  controller (that doesn't always work): Arrow keys (move), Shift (attack), Space (jump)
• Very few game-breaking bugs
• A rich, narrative driven story line  (12 lines of poor narrative written by a sleep deprived non-native with no talent to speak of)
• 3 different enemy types and an epic boss battle (this is actually true, just poorly executed)
• Hours and hours of action packed entertainment (possibly up to 9 mins)
• Only self-made assets, from (awful) audio FX to (poor) visuals and everything in between
• A main menu with 3 buttons (factually correct)
• And much, much more (the above may actually be an exhaustive list of the game's features)

State of the game

This is a disproof of concept, at best. I recommend not playing it.  And if you do, note that   the  game has a completely unnecessary 30 second intro that you cannot skip. You. Are. Welcome.

But... why?

This game shall serve as minor inspiration for the unambitious. 

72 days ago, there was a man. A man of average intellect. A man with little to no developer ambitions. No previous experience. A man with  no concept or vision. He had never made a drawing -  "you even write like a drunk 4 year old", they said. 

But it was this very man who wondered what the f*  game engines do ...so he did what every man (or woman) would do: he set himself a goal he was reasonably confident he would abandon long before reaching it.  He decided to create a game.

No obstacle was too big to overcome (his daughter was only 76cm at the time so he was able to step over her to  reach his advanced workstation). He spent every waking minute (mostly 1 hour after his daughter's bed time and I wouldn't call that awake anymore) working on this project until Samurai Sören was finally the success it is today. Admired by many. Feature rich. Yet simple.