Comments on: Bars of Black and White Released

By: drlemon

drlemon — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:51:19 +0000

i played (the game). i saw (the barcodes). its awesome.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:37:56 +0000

I love the ‘Sympathy for the devil’ reference. i am a man of wealth and taste/use all your well learned politics/or i will lay your soul to waste

By: micko

micko — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:31:02 +0000

This game is just awesome…
I liked the idea so much.
Maybe its the BEST flashgame i’ve ever played, but its shure one of the Top3!! Realy great THX!

By: Mage

Mage — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:54:16 +0000

this was a very intresting and well done game, and I found some entertainment on finding all of the barcodes and what they said. I also kind of see a potential for a sequal (after all, sometimes the inmates escape right?) its just a thought though…

By: Dave Holland

Dave Holland — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:24:42 +0000

Thanks for that – great little game. Arriving at the end screen with 29/30 made me go “grr” then “oh!” about one second later.

I think there may be a small bug in that some views aren’t updated when the layout changes. (Sorry to be oblique, trying to avoid giving spoilers.)

By: Thom

Thom — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:24:08 +0000

Well done, sir. Several of my Nexus War buddies played and enjoyed this. They wish for me to pass along their thanks.

By: All I Do Is Play Computer Games: Bars of Black and White « Independently-Speaking.com

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:21:11 +0000

[...] Now Weir let’s us see his other side – the slightly darker part to his brain. ‘Bars of Black and White‘ still has that sense of loneliness that Majesty portrayed, but this time around, there is no [...]

By: auntie

auntie — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:25:20 +0000

i do like arriving at the final screen with a “29/30″.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:40:55 +0000

89.54s
0/30

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:38:13 +0000

644.423s
30/30

By: Celsus

Celsus — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:21:47 +0000

The hand-drawn art style reminded me (pleasantly) of Desert Bridge. I also wasn’t too keen on the ending, but I enjoyed the rest of the game, especially looking behind your window for the first time, and finding the ‘final’ barcode.

By: Gregory Weir

Gregory Weir — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:40:32 +0000

The ending was a late-stage addition… I discourage anyone from reading too much into it. :-P

By: auntie

auntie — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:19:32 +0000

it’s an escape the room game, but i like that it’s not about searching out tiny, unlabelled hotspots. most of the things to find are optional, and are hidden in the presentation instead of an invisible layer of interface. the player learns to read everything as a set of bars, which is the idea. the ending is somewhat of a cop-out, though it makes sense to see the source of the visual motif that’s been running through the game.

(i also like that the protagonist of the game is someone who just sits around playing escape the room flash games and probably refreshing jayisgames every few minutes.)

now that i’m making flash games, i’m curious about kongregate. maybe i’ll email you.

By: Gregory Weir

Gregory Weir — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:24:04 +0000

That is allowed to happen, although I did not expect it to be easy to do. An important clue is hidden in a barcode, and a puzzle requires that you first understand the solution to the barcode-finding puzzle. I’m a bit surprised that several people have reported never finding the scanner.

By: Imani

Imani — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:19:47 +0000

Uh…I finished the game without ever finding the barcode scanner. Was that supposed to happen?