On the 7th of June 2010 Jolly Rover was released to the public!
Jolly Rover is a comedic pirate-dog-themed 2D point and click adventure, with casual game mechanics that attempts to cater to hard-core and casual adventurers alike.
Jolly Rover boast a wide array of distribtors:
- Brawsome: Brawsome.com.au
- Steam: Store.steampowered.com
- Direct2Drive: Direct2drive.com
- iWin
- Real Networks (GameHouse)
- Pogo
- Oberon
- Mac Game Store: Macgamestore.com
With the following distributors to come
- Greenhouse
- Club Casual
- mygameIQ
- Adventure Store
Jolly Rover is currently reviewing well, with an average review score of 8/10. Pretty good for Brawsome's first original title. With their staff of 1, Brawsome was responsible for all design, writing, production, programming, voice casting and direction and marketing. Art and audio was outsourced.
A summary of reviews can be seen below:
Good Game (15.5/20)
"... I was finding myself really amused and having a good amount of fun with this."
Abc.net.au
Gamezebo (4.5/5)
"solid gameplay, hilarious writing, and gorgeous visuals".
Gamezebo.com
Adventure Gamers (3.5/5)
"...humor is strong, with a dash of pathos for depth: unfulfilled clown dreams, voodoo priests clamoring for your soul, cannibals that want to eat or marry you, what more can you ask for?"
Adventuregamers.com
JustAdventure (B+)
"Jolly Rover, is a charming, at times challenging and even (for a casual game) fairly long adventurous cartoon romp o'er the 19th century's bounding main in the great tradition of The Secret of Monkey Island."
Justadventure.com
More news and reviews can be found on the developer's website: Brawsome.com.au
