The Adventures of Bean

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A nice little keys, crates and platforms AGD game. The Adventures of Bean.

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Has anyone managed to complete this? I've come across a few bugs where it keeps restarting unpredictably (though not the very first time you play it).

How do you get this key?


And what's the crack with the santas? One says hello, then nothing, and I don't know how to reach the other.



I'd persevere, but I'd like to know if there are solutions yet to be found or if the game is fatally bugged.

[Andre Leao]

There are a lot of (fatal) bugs, and some keys can be collected twice...

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There are a lot of (fatal) bugs, and some keys can be collected twice...

I've had a key not appear at all too! There are some areas that I can't figure out how to access. Does anyone know the author? Is this a completable game?

[marbo]

hello!
sorry about the bugs, hopefully they’re fixed now
also i didn’t even know about this forum until like 5 minutes ago so it’s pretty wild to see a post about my crap game here lol

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hello!

Hello!

sorry about the bugs, hopefully they’re fixed now
also i didn’t even know about this forum until like 5 minutes ago so it’s pretty wild to see a post about my crap game here lol

Not at all. I like these oldschool platformers and I like 'programmer's graphics'*. It plays pretty well, the screens are well designed, and the use of crates and trampolines are fairly fresh in AGD games.

So can I make sure:
-how many keys are there to collect?
-it's definitely possible to get the key I mention in my post above?
-when I see Santa, he just says 'Hello'. Is more meant to happen? Say if I have all the keys?
-are we supposed to reach the other Santa at the top of the other screen I posted?

Sending you a PM by the way.

*though I must say that Bean's walking animation is crap

[marbo]

there’s 5 keys, it’s 100% possible to get the key on the chandelier (u have to go around to the top where the ladder is) the wizard just says hello, i just put the other wizard there cuz i thought it was kinda cute

[PeterJ]

I didn’t even know about this forum until like 5 minutes ago

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[R-Tape]

there’s 5 keys, it’s 100% possible to get the key on the chandelier (u have to go around to the top where the ladder is) the wizard just says hello, i just put the other wizard there cuz i thought it was kinda cute

Aah! I didn't realise you could go up and down the yellow ladders, because the redefine keys doesn't offer the up/down choices. If you can face it, I'd recommend fixing that.

Either way I've just finished it with kempston. Good bit of fun that. Ta.

[JasonUK]

Okay there were bugs initially and the game is like many other platformers (with a few added features as R-Tape has said) but I thought it was a pretty decent effort. Animation of Bean needs to complete though when moving sideways or character is left doing the splits, hovering above the ground which is a bit disconcerting

PlanetaSinclair just reviewed it, with bugs, as 3/10 but with most of those resolved I think that's a little harsh.

[Andre Leao]

Okay there were bugs initially and the game is like many other platformers (with a few added features as R-Tape has said) but I thought it was a pretty decent effort. Animation of Bean needs to complete though when moving sideways or character is left doing the splits, hovering above the ground which is a bit disconcerting

PlanetaSinclair just reviewed it, with bugs, as 3/10 but with most of those resolved I think that's a little harsh.

Probably, but the review was scheduled almost a week ago and I just played a version with loads of bugs. Some not even reported here. I cannot afford to try several versions, unfortunately. When a game is released and if not mentions it is a beta version, I take it as final version.