Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate
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*The Steam storefront is copyrighted as "©2023 [[Harmless Junk Inc]]". | *The Steam storefront is copyrighted as "©2023 [[Harmless Junk Inc]]". | ||
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| + | *Dangeresque's description for the street light is "just a city street light, born and raised in South Detrite". This is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Don't Stop Believin'|Don't Stop Believin']] by [[Wikipedia:Journey|Journey]] | ||
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Revision as of 21:35, 13 August 2023
Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate is a point-and-click adventure collection, gathering the previously released Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque, the previously unreleased Dangeresque Roomisode 2 and a brand new Roomisode 3. It was first teased in a November 15, 2021 @StrongBadActual Tweet, and after a few minor updates and screenshots were posted, it was officially announced on May 25, 2023 with a trailer. It was released on Steam and Itch.io via Videlectrix for $7.99.
Date: Friday, August 11, 2023
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Roomisodes
Announcement
Page Title: Please Insert Disk Tri of Ungulate!
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dangeresque: the roomisode triungulate  out now on steam and itch.io! Click here to get it on Itch.io Join Dangeresque, the world's greatest private eye/crooked cop/secret agent/celebrity pharmacist, as he puzzles his way through 3 bite-sized roomisodes in this classic-style point n' click adventure. Turn the mundane into the... um, mundangeresque as he attempts to fake-solve a cold case to avoid jail time, deals with car trouble at a seedy intersection, and takes a side-gig consulting for his worst enemy! What began as a Flash browser game back in 2008 has been remastered and expanded with all new graphics, animation, cutscenes, and full voice acting. |
itch.io and Steam Description
Join DANGERESQUE, the world's greatest private eye/crooked cop, as he puzzles his way through 3 bite-sized roomisodes in this classic-style point and click adventure.Each room is a separate, standalone mini-adventure with its own puzzles to solve, inventory items to collect, and other characters to interact with.
- ROOMISODE 1: Learn to fake-solve a cold case to prevent The Chief from sending you to jail!
- ROOMISODE 2: Team up with Renaldo to deal with car troubles at a seedy intersection!
- ROOMISODE 3: Take a side-gig doing security consulting for Perducci!
Sound mundane? No! Sounds munDANGERESQUE!
What started as a Flash browser game back in 2008 has been remastered and expanded with all new graphics, animation, cutscenes, and FULL VOICE ACTING.
Fun Facts
Explanations
- Triungulate is a rarely-used scientific term used to describe animals with three toes.
- It could be considered a malapropism of "trilogy", as this release consists of three games.
- It could also be a play on triumvirate, a group of three people holding power.
- It could also be a play on triangulate, meaning to divide an area into triangles in order to measure it or draw a map of it.
Trivia
- The shortened itch.io description (seen on Videlectrix's page) reads "Join the world's best private eye/crooked cop as he puzzles his way through this short point n click adventure."
- The shortened Steam description reads "Join Dangeresque, the world's greatest private eye/crooked cop, as he puzzles his way through 3 bite-sized roomisodes in this classic-style point n' click adventure."
- The "More information" box on itch.io lists the status as "Released", the platforms as "Windows" and "macOS", the author as "Videlectrix", the genre as "Adventure", and the tags "Comedy", "dangeresque", "homestar-runner", "Mystery", "Noir", "Point & Click", "Retro", and "strong-bad".
- The first development update on itch.io, titled "Launch em up's!", reads:
Greetings from Good Graphickateers Central! Videlectrix has just launched Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate, a remaster and expansion of a 15 year old point n' click-em-up that is playable (and payable!) on modern PCs!What better way to enter the modern age of videogamery than by dusting off an old game, dousing it with WD-40, blowing into its cartridge slot until you're blue in the face, and adding advanced graphics and 3D-rendered cutscenes!
Videlectrix has been teaching itself the latest tools and systems and the hope is that this little game is just the beginning.
Remarks
- The Steam storefront is copyrighted as "©2023 Harmless Junk Inc".
Real-World References
- The cursor resembles those of the Windows 3.1 era of operating systems.
- Dangeresque's description for the street light is "just a city street light, born and raised in South Detrite". This is a reference to Don't Stop Believin' by Journey
External Links
- "Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate" on itch.io
- "Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate" on Steam
- read announcement
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