Arfenhouse
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Template:Copyedit Arfenhouse is a series of Flash animations and RPGs developed by Disaster Labs. All are poorly produced, intentionally. The graphics are ludicrous, what little plot there is incoherent, etc. As such, it is doubtful if some the games can even be considered actual games, but the movies do have a fanbase as their carefully constructed atrociousness passes into comedy.
The Arfenhouse series originated as a mockery of the many newbie games being created in the OHRRPGCE community. Created in 20 minutes, the first game was so popular that it was followed by three more. The third and fourth games in the series, unlike the first two, are full and lengthy games, and are far better known. The flash movies are based off the original role-playing games, the third in particular.
The flash movies have a visual style somewhat similar to that of Animutation. The games have no style whatsoever. All characters, save exile-from-better-constructed-universe Joe, speak in highly muddled English, often like hacker (many people usually confuse leet with hacker, but leet is actually replacing letters with numbers, this sometimes contains it but Arfenhouse only contains purpose typos which is considered hacker) and often with abundant profanities. The dialog has also been called "Arfenspeak" by its producers and fanbase.
Arfenhouse supposedly revolves around the adventures of Housemaster, the man with a slice of bread for a head, as he defends the one room mansion of the Arfenhouse. What actually happens seldom bears any resemblance.
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1.1 ARFENHOUSE!!!1 (Arfenhouse 1) |
RPGs
ARFENHOUSE!!!1 (Arfenhouse 1)
Basically, this game is about Housemaster, the heroic slice of bread that guards the large one-room mansion Arfenhouse for absolutely no reason at all against evil invaders that try to take his arfenhouse away--also for no apparent reason. In this story, his long-time rival Evil Kitty breaks into Arfenhouse and takes control of it, unleashing a swarm of malevolent frogs, turnips and birds everywhere. Housemaster must defeat Evil Kitty and regain his Arfenhouse.
- From Disaster Labs game description
An exercise in minimalism. The player takes on the role of the Housemaster, a garishly-dressed character whose head resembles a slice of bread, as he travels from one end of the Arfenhouse -- simply a vast, empty space -- to the other; despite having different names, all enemies except the Evil Kitty boss are completely identical. Housemaster also has a relatively small number of moves, and the animations for each appear to be squiggle lines. It ends with a message from the creator, as a break from the previously near-gibberish in the rest of the text, saying, "No, I'm not really that bad."
The game has been remade as a flash game, available on the Disaster Labs Website.
ARFENHOUSE!!!1 TOO!!! (Arfenhouse 2)
The game takes place exactly five minutes after the events of ARFENHOUSE!!!1. Housemaster, annoyed by Evil Kitty's invasion, seeks revenge. Bringing his pet Piakchu (a mispelling of Pikachu) with him, Housemaster storms Evil Kitty's palace and eventually meets the Joseph Williams (Joe). Having no clue why he has been thrown out of his original game, he decides the best way to return is by joining forces with Housemaster, in hopes to complete the game. The task becomes more difficult with Evil Kitty's employing reinforcements in the form of Old Mahn and Dog.
While not precisely as minimalist as the first Arfenhouse, it's still fairly simplistic. Indeed, the only ways it is more "complex" than the first game is in that it has two more playable characters, two more bosses, more than one map, and a smattering of other enemies and abilities.
ARFENHOUSE!!!1 3!!!!!!! (Arfenhouse 3)
The third sequel to Arfenhouse takes place the day after the events of the two previous games. As a parody of Final Fantasy IV, A new antagonist named Billy is introduced. Housemaster must join forces with Evil Kitty and Dog to defeat Billy by kicking him in the groin, sending him into a thousand year sleep. While all this is occuring, a comet appears in the sky, threatening to destroy all life on the planet.
ARFENHOUSE! FOR!! (Arfenhouse 4)
"A year after the events in Arfenhouse 3, a new threat faces the Housefighters: Billy's dad, out for revenge against what happened to his son. Moreover, Housemaster can't find his pants. These problems lead Housemaster and the gang out of their backyard and into the world, and what the story evolves into is something that nobody could ever conceive, thankfully."
- From Disaster Labs game description
Movies
May/June 2004.
Arfenhouse: The Movie
The first Movie of Housemaster saw voice overs for the whole cast, with subtitles in hacker for all! What little plot there was revolved around Housemaster going to the moon. There is a hidden ending, in which the producers of the movie share quotes and ideas.
Arfenhouse: The Movie Too
Billy returns from the groin kick void to seek his revenge. This is followed by a collection of random scenes, including a commercial of a game called Woogie Pinball, "a game using Arfenhouse's marketing ploy", and the cast playing a game of Starcraft, with a base made consisting of corporate logos.
AHTM3: Kill Billy
Released before the release of Kill Bill vol 2, the 'trailer' contains 2% actual footage from AHTM3 (as claimed by the trailer itself).
The movie is simply a parody of Kill Bill. Housemaster takes the place of 'The Bride', and uses a Hello Kitty Vibrator as a sword, all while 'Battle without Honor or Humanity' from Kill Bill plays in the background.
Arfenhouse : The Movie 3!
The third part and conclusion of the 'trilogy', originally due in May/June 2004, was told to be canceled on April 1st 2004. This had turned out to be an April Fools Joke, but the entire project was scrapped and is now being redone. Rumors have arisen that the release of the first Arfenhouse: The Movie Tree will follow after the Second edition is completed. On April 1st, 2005, Disaster Labs released the Third Movie as an April Fools Joke. It contained two lines of dialog between Housemaster and Billy, followed by Housemaster killing Billy. After, the credits roll, containing several hundred names Misteroo found in a phonebook. According to Misteroo's devinatART journal, the actual third Arfenhouse movie is still in production, following its third production attempt.
External links
- Disaster Labs Website (http://www.disasterlabs.com)
- OHRRPGCE (Official Hamster Republic Role Playing Game Construction Engine) Website (http://www.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/news.php)