Thy Dungeonman 3
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"No man slays dungeons quite like the Thy Dungeonman from the Thy Dungeonman computer game series. Hi-res graphics improve on the no-res graphics from the previous text-onlyventures. Get ye flask, fool!" - Videlectrix
Thy Dungeonman III is the second sequel in the Thy Dungeonman franchise produced by Videlectrix. The most notable feature of this sequel is the addition of graphics, with imitation low-resolution still frames accompanying each room of the game. As with the first two installments in the the Dungeonman series, the game is a text-command-controlled adventure centered around a knight's escape from a dungeon.
Page Title: Behold Thy Graphics!!
Date: April 24, 2006
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Commands
Main Commands
- north or n
- south or s
- east or e
- west or w
- look
- get
- talk
- inventory or inv
- use
- save (1-5)
- load (1-5)
- the UP arrow cycles through previous commands
Ways to Lose the Game
- Get crushed. (Don't escape from the first room fast enough.)
- Going back into the room with the monk.
- Getting lost in the woods (when you don't have the map, don't use other directions besides EAST).
- Trying to fight the troll (KILL TROLL).
- Trying to kill the bird at the monastery (KILL BIRD).
- Trying to kill the barkeep (PUNCH, KICK, or KILL BARKEEP).
- Attempting to steal barkeep's beard (STEAL BEARD).
- Attempting to steal barkeep's drink (STEAL DRINK).
- Choosing the wrong Kigalonian.
- Getting the answers wrong to the Hag's questions.
- Attempting to steal the Vegetable Cart Man's Corn. (STEAL CORN).
- Eating the fake ketchup. (EAT BLOOD).
- By typing HANG OUT.
Fun Facts
Trivia
- The game says various things if it cannot understand what you typed:
- Say who, dungeonbabbler?
- '{whatever you typed}' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
- I don't understand you. I cannot understand you. I don't understand the things you say. I can't understand a single word.
- Thou're not very goodst at thist gamest.
- Make the bad typing go away, Mommy.
- Sorry. Thy Dungeonman parser is english only. Spanish and Idiot not spake here.
- Huh?
- Say what now?
- A sound similar to a floppy disk being accessed plays before a new graphic appears, as though it's being `loaded.'
- The game says various things if you try to go in an unavailable direction from the vicinity of Westerburg:
- (north) Thou can't go that way. I guess your copy of "Lonely Dungeon: Westerburg" is out-of-date.
- (east) Go east, eh? Thou're killing me. Thou can't go east. Try again some other time.
- (west) Aren't you the king of wishful thinking. Too bad there are no exits in that direction, because I've heard life is peaceful there.
- (south) No puedo hacerlo. Lo siento, Dungeonhombre.
- You can flip over its box art on the Videlectrix website to read the back, which is a first for their games. The back cover features the Videlectrix logo as well as screenshots of the town, pub, and grabbing minigame. It also has the following text.
Out of the dungeon
and into the pile
Videlectrix has
added multi-bit
graphics to someone's favorite text adventure!
Visit LOCATIONS, get ITEMS, and interact
with PEOPLE-all in vivid monochrome color!
Short 4-page
manual! No more
novels! (Thanks
for all the letters!)
It's the final confrontation between Thy
Dungeonman and the elusive FLASK!!
Innovative FPG -first
person getter- action!
(actual gameplay-type
screenshots shown!)
Remarks
- For some reason, if you type "GO PEE" the game treats it as "EAST" or "GO EAST".
- There is a warp portal that takes you directly inside the dungeon that is accessed by typing "GO IN LOG" or "ENTER LOG" at the creepy woods; however, if you have not yet gotten the flask-grabbing glove, you will be unable to win the game.
- The "pwd" command seems to have been modified, as it now gives your location as "Wastes of Time/Dumb Games/Dungeonman 3/$LOCATION".
Inside References
- If you try to pick up the log in the woods west of the crossroads, it says "Painful memories of finishing last in the World's Strongest Dungeonman contest are dredged up." This could be a reference to The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest.
- When flicking through the hag's scrapbook, if you see the town sign for Rottenscab, it reads "If thou lived here, thou would be home by now". This joke was also made in for kids.
- When you look at the stone bridge, it will tell you that it is notorious for its knife fights. This is a reference to personal favorites, where Coach Z and Pom Pom had a knife fight on a stone bridge.
Real World References
- On mistyping, the words "I don't understand the things you say. I can't understand a single word." is attributed to They Might Be Giants' song Fingertips.
- The falling man after you grasp the flask is a reference to Myst
- The screen shown when you get the flask for the first time is a reference to the opening sequence of Myst (the image in question also being featured on Myst's original box art).
- The "internal or external command" error message is the message you get in the Windows XP console if it doesn't recognise what you type.
- While musing on thoughts of her dead husband, the hag is said to be 'ferngullying' and 'landbeforetiming', both references to popular early 90's animation franchises.
- One of the possible presents that the hag might have gotten is a: Nintendo 64 Controller (Called an N64 Paddle in this game) The controller is popular for being the first to resurrect the Analog stick having last being used in 1982, It is also popular for its rather unusual but sucessful three-handed design
- The error displayed when you type "Go West" when there is no west exit is a reference to the lyrics of two songs: "King of Wishful Thinking" by the band Go West, and "Go West" by the Village People.
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