Hey everyone! The time has come, and after all the cryptic teasing we finally present you Deadbolt is not Available in Your Country! Or DNA, if youd prefer. A one-man project by Alex Pine more than 9 months into the making, the magnum opus of our community, featuring wacky pop-culture references, community in-jokes and, rest assured, the spiciest of memes.
With 30+ handcrafted endings to explore, youre gonna find yourselves in all sorts of wacky situations, meeting different characters and getting into ridiculous levels of meta narrative, as well as maybe [spoiler](just maybe)[/spoiler] dying a lot. Though we believe that every single person who reads these is a master at DEADBOLT and needs not fret about anything.
It starts off fairly benign, with the player tasked to play Alex's latest level and review it. But as you give feedback, more and more choices unfold, until it starts getting out of hand and suddenly you're doing GoL-knows-what. Making friends with an army of household appliances? Solving the trolley problem? Ripping off a popular pixel indie game with moral choices in pursuit of the perfect level? Freezing to death in deep space? Blasting Hopoo Games through the window of a high-rise building? All that and more.
With the plethora of possibilities [spoiler](easter eggs notwithstanding, and oh boy there's plenty of them)[/spoiler] you can expect practically anything from DNA - it's up to you to experiment and uncover all of its hidden secrets. Even we haven't come close to finding everything at the time of writing, so we urge our readers to combine their powers and inspect every nook and cranny of this behemoth of a level - with a whopping amount of almost 150 .nc files in total, the combined file size of the level is more than 30MB! For reference, the combined filesize of Deadbolts entire campaign, including the hard mode variations, is just over 12MB. If that seems too much, feel free to join the DNA Discord server, where people will share the hidden details theyve discovered.
Its also something of a love letter to the workshop scene and even parts of the community outside of that. Nerds like us would recognize jabs at the edgy storylines, narratives with branching paths and we definitely cant forget memes like, well, hopoo's lifelong desire to destroy any and all memes, or the forever-haunting experience of feeling like a villain in this game. While some of these could be very minor, it shows the love and care that were put into creating this, and, alongside laughing and sitting with the widest grin the entire time, we could feel genuine heartfelt emotions while going through this exotic experience.
It feels like were running out of things to say, so lets just do a quick summary. This map is one heck of a complex project, providing a pretty rich experience, although with drawbacks like having to go through stuff all over again to see alternate routes, but the process is fairly short. It also had brilliant comedic moments that had us laughing at almost every dialogue scene, whether it be simple wit, or references to the stuff that the limited circle of us remembers.
We greatly anticipated this project and thoroughly enjoyed it while testing and writing this here MotW for it, and were sincerely hoping that youll have as much fun with it as we did. [strike]also hopoo pls play it lol[/strike]
And that concludes the 50th installment of Map of the Week! One heck of an anniversary for sure. Its kinda baffling to realize that weve reached this number over the course of, like, a year and a half now? And while there are always occasional ups and downs, we are happy to have been at your service all this time and will continue to, as we arent burnt out just yet. And as always, Play it now!