Dungeon Escape!

Hello! And welcome to Dungeon Escape, my very silly and very low-budget flash tribute to the classic laserdisc games like Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, and Super Don Quixote (well, that last one's not quite so famous, but it holds fond childhood memories for me). At the moment there are many rooms missing, but I'm constantly adding more, so check back from time to time.

Anyway, wait for it to load up, have fun, and let me know what you think of it! Thanks for playing, and good luck!
Timeline:
(9-11-07) Holy crap! It's been over a year since the last update, and I didn't even add any rooms then! Fortunately, this update MORE than makes up for it, because it includes four and a half new rooms, a cinematic intro, and a whole bunch of other minor tweaks! I actually made the Zipline and Yellow Ninjas rooms several months ago, but didn't want to do an update with just two rooms, so I waited to add them with this update. Also, I wasn't happy with the Mallet room, so I changed it to the Sleeping Skeleton, although it's only half changed... you'll see when you play it. Last but not least, the game progresses to the next room even if you fail, forcing you to replay failed rooms at the end a'la Dragon's Lair, which is something I've been wanting to implement for a long time. Only four more rooms left! Maybe I'll be extra ambitious and get the whole game finished by the end of the year, or maybe I'll get distracted as usual and take another four years to finish it! (Zipline, Yellow Ninjas, Bedroom, Red Ninja, Sleeping Skeleton)

(7-18-06) Oh no! Too much love!! Somehow, even though it's not even finished yet, Dungeon Escape has become obscenely popular, and my host went squish last night when apparently ALL of Korea tried to access it at once. I'm overjoyed that people like it so much, and I've now moved it to JayIsGames's server to take the strain off of my host. Thanks to Jay for helping out, and to my host for not killing me! :)X To everyone else, I promise more rooms soon!

(1-22-06) Woohoo! Another year, another room! At this rate, I'll be done right after I'm dead. This last room has been a real sticking point, though; every time I thought "I'll take a break and work on Dungeon Escape..." for the past year I've opened it up, taken a look at this room, considered how much work it would take to finish it, and promptly closed it again. Now that I've finally buckled down and finished it it will no longer be staring me in the face, so maybe I'll be able to get more done now. (Rolling Room)

(1-2-05) Added two new rooms, and also made it shuffle rooms 1-9 and 11-19 every time you play. One of the new rooms is kind of goofy, so I'm not sure if it'll stay in the game. (Crusher, Mallet)

(12-28-04) Holy crap! Has it really been over a year? Oh well. I get distracted easily, and apparently it's been about 14 months since the last time I was interested in laserdisc games. Two more rooms, for anyone who checks this page these days, and/or for posterity once I finally finish this. :)X I think that makes 20 rooms total. I have a lot more rooms that will be much quicker to make than these last two were, so hopefully I won't get too distracted again and they'll be up shortly. (Magnet Mage, Face)

(10-2-03) Two more rooms! Also moved the Chess room to a later point in the game, since people were complaining about its difficulty. I'm worried that the new Collapsing Floor room is too much like the Vestibule room; let me know if you think so too, and I'll add some more to it. If you don't know which rooms I'm talking about then I guess they're not too similar after all. :)X (Crumbling Floor, Mummy)

(9-21-03) Only one more room, but it's one of the best. Also cleaned up a few details that were bothering me about other rooms, and added a feature that lets you start playing once the first set of rooms is loaded, instead of having to wait for everything to load. (Shield)

(9-16-03) After an incredibly long series of distractions, including but not limited to Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, DDR, The Chronicles of Amber, and a few colds, I've finally gotten back to working on Dungeon Escape! Four more rooms have been added, including the dreaded "Dragon" room, which is incredibly difficult, but no more difficult than it's supposed to be. As you'll notice if and when you reach that room, you get something there that you'll be able to use in all of the remaining rooms. Also, in case you care, the dragon room will mark the 2/3rds point of the game (the wand room is at 1/3rd). Good luck! (Dragon, Grates, Topiary, Rising Muck)

(4-8-03, later) Finally created a decent loading screen, after lots and lots of hair-pulling. Sorry it loads the whole thing before playing, that'll be fixed in future versions.

(4-8-03) Added 2 more rooms, and a fake loading screen (that just loops until the game is loaded), after spending an hour trying to make a working loading screen when I badly need to go to bed. 2 rooms in one night, and that was after going to a birthday party right after work! Scary. Current room count is 11. 1/3 finished!! (Crushing Walls, Pendulums)

(4-7-03) Added 3 more rooms. Over 1/4 finished! Any more rooms and I'll need to break down and throw together a loading screen! (Vestibule, Blue Ninja, Chess)

(4-2-03) Added another 3 rooms, for a grand total of 6. Yay! 1/5th of the way to my goal of 30 rooms! (The same number as Dragon's Lair.) (Falling Rocks, Mine Cart, Giant Armor)

(3-15-03) Put up first version, with only 3 rooms.(Cell, Giant Skeletons, Wand)

(3-8-03) Project started
Special thanks to The Dragon's Lair Project, an awesome repository of all things laser-disc-gamey (except roms and full-game mpgs, of course), and A1 Free Sound Effects, the site where almost every sound in the game came from.