Beating A Dead Horse With A One-Trick Pony

Beating A Dead Horse With A One-Trick Pony is a first-person RPG (ArtPG) with a narrative, mild melee combat, and some platforming elements. The game is a sequel to, Jeff Koons Must Die!!!, and is set in the same destroyed museum that the previous game ended in. The game comprises six levels and you must escape each successive area in order to progress through the story. You will enlist the help of some old friends to help along the way and, hopefully, uncover your own path.

Some Level Themes:
Art and Commerce
Art and Celebrity
Redemption
The Road Home
Revisiting the Past
The Church of Kitsch

Controls:
WASD to move forward, backward, and side to side.
HOLD LEFT SHIFT and any movement key (WASD) in order to sprint.
SPACE BAR to jump.
E to interact with some objects.
RIGHT MOUSE CLICK to pick up some objects.
LEFT MOUSE CLICK to swing melee weapon/tool, when equipped.
ESCAPE KEY will bring up main menu at any time.

Save Game Function:
This game saves access to each level as they are completed and saves information on the last level regarding lit beacons. It does not save location data or incremental progress (other than the beacon info). If you quit the game in the middle of a level you will need to start over when you reload it (other than the last level).

Note from the dev:
This game was created over a year from November 2017 through November 2018. It was a very personal project that deals with my struggles navigating the pitfalls of the art world and my realizations and epiphanies regarding the complex systems within that world. It is a love letter as well as a Dear John letter.