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[Alec S.]

Temple of the Spear is a Pulp Sci-Fi Action-Adventure game using a Gameboy-style palette. 

Generations ago, your people fled inside a temple and went into hiding from the Iron Soldiers. Now, a splinter tribe seems to have brought back this ancient evil. You are sent to investigate.

You are armed with spears. You can stab with spears, and also throw them (which uses them up). You must therefor be careful with how you use your spears in solving the challenges of this action-adventure game.

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[Theon]

Played for a bit.
Music and graphics are absolutely lovely!

That said, it could benefit from a little more variation, but what I think would really make it a great experience is if you make a somewhat open world, letting the player explore and live out the adventure himself, rather than just trudging through linear dungeon after linear dungeon (not that the dungeons were bad in any way; I just want to discover them myself ).

Also, the spear's hitbox seems kind of off at times... Might be mistaken.

[Alec S.]

Thanks for the feedback.  I made the choice to make it more of a linear puzzle/challenge based game rather than exploration based, partially to try to appeal more to a flash game audience, and partially to make the project more manageable.  I may at some point in the future make some sort of expanded commercial version that would have more exploration.  I've got a lot of ideas that didn't make it into this version.

[Alec S.]

The game is now also on Newgrounds and Kongregate:
Newgrounds:  http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/591988
Kongregate:  http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/malecs2b#gamesby

If you liked the game, make sure to rate it highly.   

[brettchalupa]

Temple of the Spear is a lot of fun, I enjoyed it!

It is also the first game covered on Free Where.  

[Alec S.]

Thanks, man!   

[Alec S.]

An Italian blog did a write-up of Temple of the Spear as well as a

[Geoffrey]

Played it, finished it, liked it !

( Though I was a bit sad that it was over when it began to become hard :x )

[Alec S.]

Glad you enjoyed it.

Temple of the Spear featured on IndieGames:  http://indiegames.com/2012/03/browser_game_pick_temple_of_th_1.html

I've also just uploaded a new update to the game.  The update mainly increases the difficulty, most prominently adding enemies to the destroyed town.  It also fixes some small issues with room transitions.

I'm using Mochi Live Updates, so the update should spread to all the sites the game is on, but usually it doesn't occur right away.