And Yet It Hurt is played on Notepad (free)

And Yet It Hurt: How would one look to you? played in Notepad? Daniël Haazen, also known as Sheepolution, had the idea and created the game And Yet It Hurt. The final , is an ASCII art style RPG played entirely in Notepad. Let's see it.

When Daniël tried to create this particular game, he realized there was a problem he couldn't handle. Windows Notepad does not s for changes of , so to play, you would have to open them one by one text, read them, make changes and save them. The player had to close and open files after each change, which was not so pleasant.

So Daniël decided to leave Windows Notepad and deal with free but strong application Notepad ++.

Notepad ++ can instantly detect changes to files, which loosened Daniël's hands.

And Yet It Hurts

Once you run the game, you are presented with a story. You choose player and gender, but you are a guy in a medieval setting. One day, a dragon burns down your house killing your parents.

After a few days of grief, you come to the obvious conclusion. You must kill the dragon to get revenge. You take some quick combat lessons and then you are in a city to buy weapons.

You can collect weapons, armor, and "lives". The story is simple, and most importantly, the game is played in a very unique way. The source of the game is available on GitHub. You can read about the developer's efforts to make the game at blog of.

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