Super Pixel Quest

YES! First thing I thought of, especially after seeing the wizard dude in panel 12. I am very much reminded of the level in Golbins Quest 3 where Blount is eaten by the wolf and has to put the three lights into the bowl to escape death. That game is an underrated a classic, in my opinion.

I love how this comic conveys the old adventure game feel of discovery and exploration.

Works beautifully with NoScript installed, so I'm definitely a fan of individual HTML pages; although, admittedly, the experience would probably be nicer with AJAX.

I like that this old school comic is put together with old school technology.

thank you i just skipped to 164

He could map arrow to keyboard.

Also, spoiler: http://superpixelquest.com/164.html

You may be excited to learn about Lucas Pope (Papers Please) starting on a new 3D / B&W dithered game here:

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.0

Worth pointing out that this type of experiment has been playing out for years already. The most popular type, usually called an "adventure comic," borrows from interactive fiction[1] to present itself as a dialogue between the author and the audience, complete with narration in second person. Among these, the most influential/notorious is Homestuck[2], which goes completely off the rails incorporating animation, music, and different types of gameplay into its narrative. Less ambitious uses of the same format, like Prequel[3], have followed in its wake.

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[1]: http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/FAQ

[2]: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/ (NB. Homestuck is the fourth adventure comic by this particular author. It's on hiatus while he writes and animates the last few chapters.)

[3]: http://www.prequeladventure.com/

The time-slicing in particular is very clever. I've never seen anything like it before. (For example, when the knight moves at same rate, while protagonist wiggles faster and faster. Or when you click forward three turns and nothing happens to indicate the protagonist being stuck. The animations frequently represent the state of the world during each step rather than showing the literal passage of time, except for when doors open and stuff.)

Incorrect. You see a flash because the new image has't been loaded yet, but all the other images have been previously loaded and cached, so your browser can display them almost immediately.

Try going back to page 1 — each page will appear to load instantly if you have all the images cached.

Although I had a lot of work to be done, I still clicked to the end :(

Clicked on first 10, then skipped to 100 by tweaking the URL.

Then jumped to 150 (when jumping to 256 didn't work) and then finished the last few.

Very reminiscent of 1980s adventure games on the Spectrum but my French isn't good enough to tell if that's the point of it.

I clicked to the end because I appreciate this work of art.

I gave up after about 15 because the images were loading a little slowly (a few hundred milliseconds is too much) and driving me crazy. It would be nice if it prefetched the next few images.

If they are obsolete, pixels can still be represented as rectangles in your scalable format for aesthetic reasons. What's your point? Aren't quests obsolete too?

Isn't oil on canvas obsolete?

Pixel art (and pixel-based graphics) may be obsolete in the sense that you no longer need to work within the constraints of large pixels making up an image.

But content creation is still not vector based in many scenarios. And even if vector-based graphics would be the universal standard, pixel art could still be used as an art style or for a retro look or to invoke nostalgia.

Fill the modern culture knowledge gap:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/3/5865849/pixel-art-is-here-t...

It's a stylistic choice.