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Awards
Nominee, Best Individual NPC - 2014 XYZZY Awards
Commended - ShuffleComp 2014
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A dreamlike tale of a Monkey and a Bear, June 26, 2016This game follows fairly closely the story of a song called Monkey and Bear, whose lyrics you can look up online.
You play as a dancing bear, muzzled and wearing dancing clothes. Your compatriot monkey helps you escape and run away to the hills.
This is a shuffle comp game, which means it was created in a fairly short time period. However, most of this time seems to have been used to take a short concept and make it very polished, with innovative setting and writing, an XYZZY-nominated NPC, and text effects.
A short game, and an interesting one. I had some trouble guessing commands, but that was my only hangup.
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Recommended Lists
Monkey and Bear appears in the following Recommended Lists:List of games with 'forced input' by dutchmule
This is a list of games which use a specific text effect, which I call "forced input" here (don't know if it has a better name): it's when the game shows you a command prompt, but regardless of what the player types, the command that...
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The following polls include votes for Monkey and Bear:For Your Consideration: Games from 2014 that should be nominated for the XYZZY Awards by Molly
There were a lot of great games released in the past year, and now that the XYZZYs are coming up, it seems like a very good idea to take a poll of all the games from last year people would like to see nominated. The management has asked...
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