Monastery
This is 2018’s assignment, a diabolical puzzle. You’re a monk who has forgotten where his cell is in the monastery, and who must walk the labyrinth in order to remember it. If you can find his room, you’ll…
31 December 2018
Monastery is a platform developed by Bennett Foddy, released 31 December 2018 on Web browser.
What Monastery is
Monastery is a platform game developed by Bennett Foddy and released in 2018. It is available on Web browser only. It runs on PICO-8.
The premise, in the publisher's words
This is 2018’s assignment, a diabolical puzzle. You’re a monk who has forgotten where his cell is in the monastery, and who must walk the labyrinth in order to remember it. If you can find his room, you’ll find out what the assignment prompt is. I was a bit worried the students would be unable to find the prompt hidden in this one, but about half of them got there eventually. (The rest were expelled from the university.) 2018’s class was 100% Pico-8 so it seemed appropriate that the prompt game should be in Pico-8 too. Pico-8 is so great for prototyping — as a case in point, it builds to a single JS and HTML file which loads quite happily in the browser from a local file, so you don’t get…
What it launched against
Monastery launched on 31 December 2018, within three weeks of Gris, Dusk, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown and Judgment.
Released around the same time: Gris, Dusk, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, Judgment.
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When did Monastery come out?
Monastery was released on 31 December 2018 for Web browser.
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