BARN RUNNER KISS 1

Fashionably Late
Version 1.1
Released August 1, 2024
 

The Chief finally gets her own game (and it's very retro)!

For those of you that weren't around in the very early days of the interwebs, KISS dolls were a big deal for certain online anime fans. KISS stands for Kiseake Set System and began in 1991 as a way for otaku in Japan to make digital "paper dolls" of their favorite characters from anime and manga. I never understood the appeal of the KISS dolls -- they're not really a "game," you know? But I was brainstorming ideas for puzzles and mini-games for upcoming Barn Runner games, and I suddenly remembered those quirky artifacts from the early web, and so this game was born!

This game was made for the February 2019 MAGS (Monthly Adventure Game Studio) contest with the theme "dressing up." Like so many MAGS game I've made, I did not finish it in time for the deadline, so it got stuffed onto a hard drive along with all my other unfinished MAGS projects. But in April of 2024, the MAGS theme was "finish your MAGS," so I picked this game out of of the big pile and finally completed it.

Like many of my MAGS games, this one was built around a mini-game mechanic I wanted to explore -- in this case, I wanted to see if I could build a KISS game to use in a future Barn Runner game (The Forever Friday part 5, in case you were curious). Due to sitting in the pile of unfinished games for 5 years, the game I had hoped to use this code in actually came out before the game I made to create the code in the first place. Nevertheless, I thought some of you might get a kick out of seeing where that part of the larger Forever Friday project began. Plus you finally get a chance to play a game with The Chief as the main character. It's a KISS game, granted, but I still tried to tell a story using that mechanic as the framework for a narrative.

So are you ready to see the world of Barn Runner through the eyes of the very first supporting character to appear in the series?

System Requirements

* Win 7, 8, 10, or 11
* 1 Gb of Ram
* 1 GHz Processor
* DirectX compliant sound and video cards
* 49 MB Hard Drive Space

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(5.8 Megabyte)

(This game is compressed with WinRar. If you don't have that utility, click HERE to get a free program to unpack it.)

MAGS Entry For "Finish Your MAGS" April 2012

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