Minesweeper adventure game in the works for OneBigGame

by Justin McElroy { Nov 9th 2009 at 9:00PM }

The neat thing about doing something as unassailable and cool as designing a game for charity is that no one can make fun of your ideas without looking like a total jackass. Take Charles Cecil, the man behind the Broken Sword series, for instance. According to G4, he's creating an adventure game based on Minesweeper. It's blogger gold, until you learn that he's making it for charity game publisher OneBigGame.

So now, instead of the hilarious gag we instinctively created -- involving making a mustache out of honey and cat hair and then putting it on a mime -- we're just going to wish Cecil all the best. Dammit.

Tags: adventure, charity, charles-cecil, minesweeper, onebiggame

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Shadow Hog @ Nov 9th 2009 9:04PM

...how does this even work, anyway?

Hafkie @ Nov 9th 2009 9:13PM

In a world filled with mines, one man must stand tall and save us all. With a flag in hand, he sets out to mark every mine so we may walk the land in peace. So maybe, with his hot babe in hand, our hero can one day put on his shades and ride off in the sunset.

vidGuy @ Nov 9th 2009 9:15PM

It seems to me that staking a flag into the ground where you think there might be a mine is an inherently bad idea.

Is this game . . . survival horror?

LaughingTarget @ Nov 9th 2009 9:18PM

Until one day he accidentally stuffs the hot babe on top of a mine and goes to kiss the flag, impaling his face. Thus ends his epic journey.

Hafkie @ Nov 9th 2009 9:25PM

And sadily, he is left there to die, with his eyes relaced by two red Xs.

Shadow Hog @ Nov 9th 2009 9:29PM

And once you die, your save is erased so you have to start all over. Kind of like a Rougelike, except it's Minesweeper.

Unless you're on Vista. Then it'll beg you to continue that saved game you continued and finished six months ago.

MechaGamerX @ Nov 9th 2009 9:16PM

I don't know how this will work, nor do I know wether or not it would be successful.

All I know is that the gameplay is going to piss you the fuck off.

WINterfang ( Now with the power to piss you off ) @ Nov 9th 2009 9:19PM

I have never won a game of minesweeper.....ever.

Anti-Villian @ Nov 9th 2009 9:57PM

it's time to learn how to set up a field my good friend, let me help you.

Height: 9999999999
Width: 99999999999
mines: 1

Special Agent Steve @ Nov 9th 2009 9:59PM

Or:
10x10 grid

with 10,000 mines.

Psssst- don't step away from your computer.

WINterfang ( Now with the power to piss you off ) @ Nov 9th 2009 11:06PM

until now =D.

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/8176/minesweeperw.jpg

But it was on the Win7 one, so I can retry the same level again, so after I failed for the hundred time I memorized all the locations.

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith @ Nov 9th 2009 11:14PM

It's always odd, seeing screenshots of someone elses desktop. Nice theme, btw.

AerialAngel87 @ Nov 9th 2009 11:20PM

I didnt even know this game could be won. I thought you just did random clicking and died.

mynk @ Nov 10th 2009 12:05AM

you should probably plug in or something soon.
but not having wireless on might last you that extra bit.

Anti-Villian @ Nov 10th 2009 4:15AM

YES! you are my prodigy!

fuzzynyanko @ Nov 10th 2009 1:27PM

Minesweeper has a cheat code as well :p

iPunch @ Nov 9th 2009 9:20PM

It would be awesome if it was like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs

Definitely the first thing that comes to mind when i see "Minesweeper"

Bobby Kotick @ Nov 9th 2009 9:26PM

Was I the only one, or did anyone else just pull up Minesweeper?

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith @ Nov 9th 2009 9:37PM

I didn't pull up Minesweeper...but Solitaire was accessed.

Anti-Villian @ Nov 9th 2009 10:01PM

I don't have minesweeper
or solitaire
;.;

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith @ Nov 9th 2009 10:06PM

That means you're either cheap and use Linux...or you're crazy and use OS X...

ChuckBartowski @ Nov 9th 2009 10:22PM

ummm most linux distros come with those games. all the ones i have used do.

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith @ Nov 9th 2009 10:23PM

I thought they did...which means hes an iBot.

Anti-Villian @ Nov 10th 2009 4:26AM

LOOK! i have minesweeper
http://www.onlineminesweeper.com/
see! screw you PC elitists! mac can game TOO

bongoes Sector 2814 @ Nov 9th 2009 9:28PM

"involving making a mustache out of honey and cat hair and then putting it on a mime"

Can we see this anyway?

chaos3346 @ Nov 9th 2009 9:37PM

It's a reference to one of the Gabriel Knight games.

To rent a motorcycle you needed a form of ID (A passport)
To get a passport you had to steal one from a gentleman's room
To get into his room you had to make yourself look like him to trick a bellhop
To trick a bellhop you had to, among other things, give yourself a mustache
To give yourself a mustache, you had to (this is where it gets weird) get hair from a cat
To get hair from the cat, you had to use scotch tape
To get the cat to run into the scotch tape, you had to chase it into a hole in a shed, above which you had to affix the scotch tape
To affix the hair to your face, you had to use a packet of maple syrup that you had stolen from the gentleman's room earlier in the game

All to rent a motorcycle. Imagine how logical THIS was to figure out.

People point to this when discussing why the adventure game died off.

I got these steps from an article I read a long while ago on my internet journeys, I don't have the link, sadly.

chaos3346 @ Nov 9th 2009 9:46PM

Oh, and I failed to mention that the man you must imitate doesn't EVEN HAVE A MUSTACHE. You have to draw one on his passport with a marker.

I know some of my steps are off, it's been a long time since I read about it, but the whole affair is roughly that... insane.

Anti-Villian @ Nov 9th 2009 10:03PM

my god! this sounds marvelous =D

WiredKnight: Keeper of Threads @ Nov 9th 2009 9:31PM

Hm, looks like he took care of them all...

*puts on sunglasses*

..in one fell sweep.

YYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith @ Nov 9th 2009 9:41PM

I'm surprised. That meme is holding up far better than Kanye, Picard, Cake, or the Rickroll...

Special Agent Steve @ Nov 9th 2009 10:00PM

Eh, not the rick roll or cake.... sadly.

Courtney @ Nov 10th 2009 2:39AM

Darth, that's probably because a good usage of it actually involves coming up with something slightly clever, rather than just repeating other people's words, hence the whole thing stays fresh longer.

Fragmonky @ Nov 9th 2009 9:41PM

please tell me this is going to be installed to every school computer in the U.S.

Sandmonkey @ Nov 9th 2009 9:46PM

"Sir, we found him dead without any legs, in a minefield, this dog is also presumed to be his."
"I guess he should..........."
*puts sunglasses on*
"have brought a baggie."
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith @ Nov 9th 2009 9:50PM

You're killing it.

I would know. I murdered Picard, The Emperor, The Cake Is A Lie...

Sandmonkey @ Nov 9th 2009 10:12PM

@Bradwart
I guess you could say.............
*puts sunglasses on*
successful troll is successful.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

ChuckBartowski @ Nov 9th 2009 10:20PM

dude your overdoing it. and if your gonna do it, make it funny. Please dont kill it. I like this meme alive and i think it likes to be alive too.

Sandmonkey @ Nov 9th 2009 10:23PM

I will state this once more.
Successful.
Troll.
Is.
Successful.

WiredKnight: Keeper of Threads @ Nov 9th 2009 11:23PM

Mmmmno I don't think so. Especially since you were late to the party.

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith @ Nov 9th 2009 11:28PM

Me. The founder of the Anti-Troll Defense Force...being called a troll.

Now I know how Batman feels...

Hooded Miracle @ Nov 9th 2009 10:05PM

I don't even think I know how to play Minesweeper.

I feel so naive.

JeezWhiz87 @ Nov 10th 2009 5:35AM

Minesweeper 2010: A point and click adventure.

krash411 @ Nov 10th 2009 7:28AM

X,Y,Z,Z,Y,shift FTW!

Mr Mobius - the wandering artist @ Nov 10th 2009 7:57AM

Minesweeper was for some reason my game of Summer 08. I somehow managed about 10,000 games of Minesweeper over the space of 4 months.

Drew -- PS360: uphillbothways @ Nov 10th 2009 10:07AM

Anyone else notice that the game pictured isn't possible? Some of the numbers have fewer spots for mines adjacent to them than they should.

Drew -- PS360: uphillbothways @ Nov 10th 2009 10:14AM

Imma go ahead and correct myself here. I was wrong. The edges of the shown pic isn't the edges of the board, so everything does work.

And for those wondering how to play this game, here's the idea:
Each number tells how many bombs are adjacent to that square. You have to decide if a mine exists at a spot by looking at the numbers surrounding it and ...I don't think I can explain this game without demonstrating, so forget it.

hhhenryhhh @ Nov 10th 2009 10:15AM

you mean like this game? http://www.faeriewarsgame.com/game.html

NumbN8 @ Nov 10th 2009 10:27AM

There is an adventure game with a minesweeper feel. It was called Betrapped! and it was a very good game.

I'm noticing more and more on this site that any game that isn't halo or CoD gets slammed constantly by the bloggers. Are they ignorant, uneducated, or do they only consider it a true game if they get to yell obscenitys while killing other people? Expand your horizons once and a while.