Dumbass/smartass is a short pixel-art point & click adventure made for the $108 Adventure Game Challenge. It's a surreal, somewhat existential story about language barriers, holograms, and cognitive bias.

No AI has been used in the development of this game. Made by humans for humans and/or donkeys.

How to play

The game can be played with a mouse (and optionally keyboard for extra shortcuts) or with touch controls. The web version can be played on phones and tablets!

The state of the game can be saved at any time outside of dialogues and cut-scenes.

Mouse controls

• The game uses one button only, both left and right mouse clicks behave the same
• The cursor changes shape on objects that can be interacted with by clicking on them
• Clicking on non-interactable objects will make the character move towards them
• Clicking on an inventory item will select it and change the cursor into the item. Click on other objects in the game to use the selected item on them

Keyboard shortcuts

• F1: open menu (can be opened with the mouse using the cog icon on the top right)
• I: open inventory (can be opened with the mouse using the icon on the bottom right)
• . (period key): skip a line of dialogue (skipping with mouse clicks can be enabled from the settings)
• ESC or SPACE: skip cutscene (only available when logo is flashing on the bottom left corner)

Touch controls

• Swipe with two fingers to skip a line of dialogue
• Hold down three fingers to skip cutscenes
• By default the touch controls are relative: drag a finger around to move the cursor relative to its current position, tap to click
• If relative mode is disabled from the settings, tapping once will move the cursor to the finger position and a double tap will click
• Inside the menu a single tap is always considered a click!

Credits

• Andrea Cerbone (cerbo) - writing, art and animation
• Paolo Cotrone (shamisenorchestra) - writing, original music
• Giuseppe Sellaroli (apicici) - writing, programming, art and animation
• Audio engine: FMOD Studio by Firelight Technologies Pty Ltd.
• High resolution font: Oxanium (Severin Meyer)
• Third party libraries:
  • binser  (Calvin Rose)
  • tween.lua (Enrique García Cota)
  • compat_env (David Manura)