PD- now with voices

Igor · Tue 30/07/2002 19:02:37

Here's my first little AGS game. Ok, it's not really a game- more of a little learning project, to try out interface, interaction scripting, and generaly to grasp the basics of program… however there's also one easy puzzle for you to solve (the game has its Â»endingÂ«, so you'll know when you'll done everything there is).

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INTERFACE:

-ESC brings up the menu (be sure to check it out)
-LEFT CLICK to Walk (or exit in a new room, when exit arrow is available)
-DOUBLE LEFT CLICK to Talk/Interact/Use Inventory Item
-RIGHT CLICK to Look (or if you have selected inventory item, that's how you get rid of it)
-click on little Â»iÂ« icon in the left bottom corner of the screen to bring up inventory (or press Â»iÂ« button on keyboard).

RESOLUTION: 640x400, hi-colors. I think you shouldn't have (too big) problems with speed (it runs reasonably good on Celeron 200Mhz… not great, but bearable).
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There's now new version of PD game... with voices!
Thanks to Roderick Leermakers (aka Flux) and his sexy voice (although a bit less sexy in this game

)! He did great job

Game with speech pack can be downloaded here (3,7 mb):
maniacco.tripod.com/downloads/PDvoice.zip --(copy&paste in browser)
or
http://maniac.adventuredevelopers.c...ads/PDvoice.zip
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If you have slow modem (and you didn't download game on old forum), you can still get version without speech pack (2 mb):
maniacco.tripod.com/downloads/PD.zip --(copy&paste in browser)
or
http://maniac.adventuredevelopers.com/downloads/PD.zip

jannar85 · Tue 30/07/2002 19:41:41

awsome! I'll download the voice pack when I get back home.

Privateer Puddin' · Tue 30/07/2002 22:25:43

very good

rsgortat · Wed 31/07/2002 01:47:46

Excellent! Graphics are great! Interface works very well! Good job on that! The voice is just right, is that you?

Hope to see more of your work!

Ralph

LGM · Wed 31/07/2002 02:36:51

I can't download it!!!

http://maniac.adventuredevelopers.com/downloads/PDvoice.zip

DOESN'T WORK!

Gilbert · Wed 31/07/2002 02:48:21

Read his original post, try alternative path:

QuoteGame with speech pack can be downloaded here (3,7 mb):
maniacco.tripod.com/downloads/PDvoice.zip --(copy&paste in browser)

Ionias · Wed 31/07/2002 05:07:15

Dude that was pretty cool.

Igor · Wed 31/07/2002 09:34:12

Thanks, i'm glad you like it

Rsgortat- no, the speech pack was recorded by Flux (Roderick Leermakers). He offered to do the voices for this game and of course i agreed

LGM · Wed 31/07/2002 15:52:56

OH! Sorry, I was looking for it in the link form

http://maniacco.tripod.com/downloads/PDvoice.zip

Al_Ninio · Sat 03/08/2002 01:07:25

DUDE!
this is awasome...
totally awasome...
can't wait 'till the finished game is out...
*drooling*

Opo Terser · Sat 03/08/2002 03:12:31

THE HOTEL CLERK RULES!!!1!!1

Argentinian · Sat 03/08/2002 05:09:06

Your game is really FANTASTIC!!! Really professional.
Are you working on a game now? Can you show us more of your incredible graphics?

jannar85 · Sun 04/08/2002 00:32:45

Argentinian: Try Ignac. It's great!

Igor · Sun 04/08/2002 11:15:21

Thanks again!
Argentinian- the game i'm working on is Ignac 2. It was first MMF project, but after trying AGS i found out it does almost everything i need, and is 100% easier to code than MMF (for adventures that is)... so we are now rescripting game in AGS

About graphic- you can find my online gallery here: http://maniacco.tripod.com/more.htm

Argentinian · Sun 04/08/2002 19:52:28

Jannar85: Thanks! I'll try it.
Igor: I'll check your gallery.

Argentinian · Mon 05/08/2002 01:40:34

Sorry, but I couldn't find Ignac 1. Where I can get it?

magintz · Mon 05/08/2002 16:13:33

I loved every second of it......

Great Graphics, great sounds, great animations..... great GREAT GREAT!

I just got some critisism

1. You need custom save/load boxes to fit your general layout.

I'd be more than happy to do it for you if you send me the graphics for it, i.e background, buttons etc... and i'll do all the scripting and compile it so you can just copy and paste it all..........

Final Thought - It might be better if you send me an export of all yuor gui's otherwise you won't be able to import the others into it....

All I ask in return is advice..... how did you get your graphics so crisp and clean? What programs do you use, what size do you draw your backgrounds/characters at?

Thank You (P.S please let me do your save/load, i want to be a part of something which looks good

)

Igor · Tue 06/08/2002 18:20:52

Maginz, it would be wonderful, if you could do the save&load dialogs for me!

I'll leave PD the way it is, however i wanted to use custom dialogs for Ignac2.
I didn't decided what design will i use for Ignac's save and load yet, but i'll try to put it down
as soon as possible (could you do something in style of Toonstruck, where a small picture of location was saved
along with text?)

About drawing: all graphic in PD was hand-drawn first (line work), scaned and colored on computer. All character animations were done in vectors (you can find out more about vectors in my little tutorials, here: http://maniacco.tripod.com/tutorials2.htm
).

Backgrounds in the other hand, were first converted in vectors too, after i put up basic colorsin Flash, i exported them as bitmaps and continue with coloring in Painter (to add some bitmap effects).

jannar85 · Tue 06/08/2002 21:23:46

Argentinian: http://maniac.adventuredevelopers.com/downloads/Ignac.ZIP

Argentinian · Wed 07/08/2002 17:55:19

Jannar: Thanks for the link!!

Dorcan · Wed 07/08/2002 23:35:27

I already have played you "test" game, and I found it..err...magnificent!

(can we say that ?)
For the voices, I really liked the houskeeper one !! But for the hero, I found his voice... unpleasant. I don't know, his voice gets on my nerves.

Anyway, good quality (for the voices), but it may be better, because there is still noise when the characters speak... ok ok, I know it's hard to remove it completely, it was just a little criticism.

Igor · Sat 10/08/2002 12:13:25

Nice to hear you like the game

About voices- i agree. I imagined detective's voice a bit different too (more in "Philip Marlowe" style). However we went on the first ball with this game- Flux simply recorded voices and for such a short game, there was no point in making more work for him, by going back to record different voice for Edd.

Btw, noises weren't really our fault- they were recorded in perfect quality (and saved in mp3). However, because of the bug in AGS (that chop the last half second from the Mp3 files) i needed to convert mp3s in wavs- in the worst quality (otherwise the file size would jump up drastically).

2ma2 · Tue 13/08/2002 12:40:30

Igor! I found an even better way to clean the outlines. Make your char just like you want it, and export it as a 24-bit bitmap or something to avoid loosing any detail. The only thing you MUST do is make the background black (or if you have any black outlines #111111). Now simply open this in PS, and fill the background white without any antialias or tolerance. Use the pencil, and set it to lighten. Then set the outline color for for instance the skin parts, and draw ontop of the skin outlines. If your outline is brighter instead, just set the pencil to darken. So far, this is the greatest technique I've encountered.

Igor · Tue 13/08/2002 15:38:00

Sounds great! Thanks for the info- I'll sure try it out

cornjob · Thu 22/08/2002 22:51:11

Gee, I don't know why I never downloaded this demo before (actually it's because I haven't checked out many games recently at all). Anyway, I know this has been said a million times, but your graphics are awesome. The total package: composition, color, everything just totally appeals to me.

x0z · Tue 10/09/2002 16:47:55

Damn, you are awesome!

How you can make so good pictures...? What program...
MAKE TUTORIALS!

Igor · Thu 12/09/2002 00:07:02

Thanks

X0Z- i'll make some more tutorials.. promise. Actually, "Squash&Stretch" animation tuts should be up tomorow

fidodido · Mon 16/09/2002 17:04:28

Absolutely spectacular!

The graphics and the interface remind me the demo of Runaway: A Road Adventure, the game I waited and never came (except the spanish version).

The voice acting is also superb.

I am also downloading Ignac right now, and I'm sure I won't be disappointed.

Keep up the good work!

Esseb · Mon 16/09/2002 17:41:21

Actually fido, it's COMING!"3

fidodido · Mon 16/09/2002 17:55:39

I've just visited PENDULO STUDIOS RUNAWAY PAGE.

I checked the news and the last post says that Runaway is available in spain.

Do you have more info about it that I don't know?

Esseb · Mon 16/09/2002 18:03:11

Yes I do as a matter of fact.

http://www.adventuregamers.com/newsitem.php?id=148

fidodido · Mon 16/09/2002 18:20:06

Thanks, Esseb.

I can't wait! I've played Runaway demo, and it was stunning.

Hey, why won't you try out my new (and first) adventure game:
The Next Curse (1.7 MB).

(Then you'll understand my avater image, and the "Go Lanterns" slogen).

Esseb · Mon 16/09/2002 18:29:42

If you can tell me how the heck you managed to get the demo running I will.

fidodido · Mon 16/09/2002 19:21:57

Hello again, Esseb.

The english version of Runaway requires some sort of codec for Windows Media Player.

This site has a link for this codec:
http://www.actiontrip.com/files/demos/runawayaroadadventure.phtml

If it doesn't work, you can still play the demo without the movies.

To do this, follow these steps:

1. Find any AVI file in your computer (one that works - let's call it TEST.AVI).

2. Find the Runaway folder where the movies are stored in.

3. Back up those movies.

4. Copy TEST.AVI to the movies folder, and rename it as one of the movies' name.

5. Repeat step 4 with all the movies' names.

6. Now, play the game, and notice that every time that a movie should be played, your TEST.AVI will be played instead.

It really worth the hard work (even with no movies).

jrp · Mon 16/09/2002 20:10:44

or you can download the truemotion codec from the same site where you got the demo

Igor · Tue 17/09/2002 16:46:45

Wooo, people are still downloading PD! How cool is that

Thanks Fidodido. Agree that Runaway look very promising and i'm really looking forward to play it.

Esseb · Tue 17/09/2002 19:10:51

I've looked everywhere, and every site either had it at one point, but it's gone now, or they link to one of those pages. Bah :/.

I'll check the avi replacing method.

jrp · Thu 19/09/2002 04:01:36

I actually couldn't fin the codec either. But I noticed you can load games (the demo comes with several loaded games)
I found particulary interesting the algorithm by which the character appaers well drawn when scaled. That one blows my mind.

Also, I think the characters are done in 3dMAx, and rendered using "toonrayes" o "illustrator" (the render plugin called "illustrator").

Esseb · Thu 19/09/2002 09:22:15

Yeah, the chars are 3d models rendered with toonshaders.

ratracer · Fri 20/09/2002 16:41:34

Well, Runaway is a good game, but unfortunately a tab bit small...

Butcher · Sun 22/09/2002 10:39:33

it's a demo dude!

HEY IGOR! this is REALLY COOL! it seems very very promising! the graphics are pretty much the coolest I've seen on AGS (you should really stick to AGS 'cause it's the coolest) and I'm planning to get into your tutorials as fast as possible! YOU ROCK!

On the other hand ...GO TO HELL YOU ARTSY BASTARD! WE DON'T NEED TALENTED PEOPLE USING THIS ENGINE! Damn! this game makes me want to quit ags for ever! i can't ever reach that level of gamemaking! DAMN YOU TO HELL!

well just kidding about all those damnations...although after playing wtii,PD,and revenants demos I seriously thought to myself...what the hell am I doing here? I could never compete against that kind of adventuregamemaking...still I'll make RR3 just for the heck of it!

GOOD LUCK WITH EVERYTHING! can't wait to see the complete game!

-------edit
oops! just realised there isn't going to be a complete game...silly me...though there should be...I'm downloading Ignac right now...

Igor · Mon 23/09/2002 00:06:27

Butcher- thanks

PD was really just a short testing game for me to get used to AGS... and that's all. Ignac2 is where all the really hard work goes

Oh, and i'll stick with AGS. It rocks!

Visti · Mon 23/09/2002 16:29:02

Damn, dude!
That's gotta be the best original stuff I've seen in a very long time. Superb animation/graphics, excellent atmosphere, feel and style. To describe the graphics without using superlatives is like describing Samatha Fox's ...(Well, you know) ... without using both hands. The menus also work out so well that this one has to get a freakin' high score on my personal Demo review list. After seeing this i can't wait for Ignac II...Well, In fact I've been waiting for that since Ignac. Keep up the fantastic work. (Can't tell you to stick with AGS because it's the best, because I've only just started using it. Seems brilliant so far)

Igor · Wed 25/09/2002 11:17:42

Visti: appreciate it!
And as a fan of Samantha Fox's... things... i'm flattered someone compare my graphic to those two big... natural... pieces of art

danny* · Wed 25/09/2002 17:04:31

Simply,THE COOLEST (demo) GAME I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!
Thanks!!!

Leisuresuitpim · Wed 25/09/2002 20:57:31

SMASHING BASIL!!!!!

PD- now with voices

rsgortat