Until I Have You - (MAGS December Entry)

Dualnames · Thu 01/01/2015 23:54:11

Introduction:

Until I Have You, is a story driven, fast paced, retro aesthetic platformer. Sporting a weird interface, it's a game based on player skill, the better you are at it, the more impressive you can be. While you'll end up dying an awful lot, I hope you do march on, and beat this. It may be weird at first, but I find it challenging rather than annoying. This is only a taste of more to come.

Team:
- James Spanos (Dualnames): Coding, Design, Music
- Andrea Ferrara (AprilSkies): Artwork, Animation, Design
- Dave Seaman (CaptainD): Sound Effects
- aikex222, Jim Reed, Mandle, selmiak, Ghost: Beta Testing

Features:
- Cyberpunk Theme
- 8-bit Sound Effects
- Chiptunish Music
- Supposedly Innovative Controls
- 8 Levels To Beat
- Boss Fights
- Cinematic Scenes
- Slow Motion
- Parallax

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Epilogue:

Alright, while I refrained from using the lighting engine on this, even though I started production of the lighting engine on November 29th, this was created entirely from 9th of December till 1st of January. Originally craving an idea to create a videogame that features Boss fights for the past 2 months, and finally doing so feels incredibly nice. Grim told me when I released Go North, a joke game, in a disappointing manner, that he was actually expecting that it was a game, I actually put effort into. Game design has been something I gave up to about a year ago, and slowly getting to write more stuff about videogames, I forced myself into game design as well. And this is what I've come up with, and while I'm seriously thinking of taking this places, perhaps AGS isn't even the proper engine for this, I do hope you enjoy this small portion of a game, which works more like a demo/prototype.

CaptainD · Fri 02/01/2015 00:03:13

Congrats Jim!

I will forever be useless at this game (I blame my useless laptop though), but it's still very cool. The SFX are of course wonderful

Really this game is very, very slick. Kudos to you and Andrea for creating this Turricanesque slice of cyberpunk.

Stupot · Fri 02/01/2015 00:06:20

Looks freakin awesome guys. I'm having myself a MAGS day today.

shaun9991 · Fri 02/01/2015 10:44:32

Wow, this is impressive. Such innovative use of AGS, the gameplay is very fun. And those graphics, oh my god. AprilSkies, you are the man! Great atmosphere and sound too.

LostTrainDude · Fri 02/01/2015 11:42:56

Ah! My eyes bleed joy and old school frustration for this title!

...But, don't get me wrong, it's that kind of frustration that makes you want to be good at this, not the one that makes you ragequit!

Needless to say: excellent use of AGS!

Amazing graphics and mood, I also love the use of parallax. Can't wait to see where this is going

Cassiebsg · Fri 02/01/2015 16:07:45

Great game.

But... I'm useless at platformers... where are the cheat cheats? Cause I want to get to the end of the story and "save?" the girl!

miguel · Fri 02/01/2015 16:22:51

QuoteAprilSkies, you are the man!

Yeah, right.

Fantastic game guys, congrats!

Spoiler

The sound does stutter a lot when I die and restart, it affects gameplay. My PC is pretty old, so I guess that's the reason.

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Chicky · Fri 02/01/2015 17:41:51

Haha Dualnames, this is so awesomely frustrating. I'm absolutely terrible! I kept getting twitch impulses in my hand causing it to freak out every few retries.

I love the artwork and sound, the intro was super cyberpunk

All in a month - crazy!

abstauber · Fri 02/01/2015 20:54:08

Wow, it looks and sounds amazing. Yet again a terrific effort for one month.

I really want this to be entertaining, but unfortunately I struggle a lot with the controls... (this would be soooo much easier with classic controls) Anyway I beat the first two levels, yay

arj0n · Fri 02/01/2015 22:25:29

Nice, feels like a hybrid between a regular platformer and an 'endless runner'.
But the controls... seems I can't get used to it well enough not to die so many times out of all tries

So gave up after almost beating L2.

Nice game though, and always love it when a non-adventure game pops up in the running mags series (still remember andrea's team's racing game)

Dualnames · Sat 03/01/2015 01:11:26

Quote from: miguel on Fri 02/01/2015 16:22:51
QuoteAprilSkies, you are the man!
Yeah, right.

Fantastic game guys, congrats!

Spoiler
The sound does stutter a lot when I die and restart, it affects gameplay. My PC is pretty old, so I guess that's the reason.
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Try and press Esc and disable super graphic effects, that should fix it. And thanks a lot guys! The learning curve is indeed terribly steep at the moment. Me and Andrea have become terribly good at this, and it's harder for us to understand things. One suggestion that makes the controls easier, is to follow the character's position with ur mouse, so when you jump you do that, that will ensure that when the landing occurs, you'll be stationary. Anyhow, this is but an adventure game forum after all.

If anyone from the forums reaches the end, do let me know.

AprilSkies · Sat 03/01/2015 09:35:30

Dunno if it helps ... But I made a Walkthrough

[embed=425,349]http://youtu.be/ldLEZdiCUEg[/embed]

[embed=425,349]http://youtu.be/M_SD67jI-ZY[/embed]

abstauber · Sat 03/01/2015 09:49:03

Thank you so much! Now I can enjoy the visuals without the pain of mastering the "controls"

So beautiful, yet so unplayable for me

But yay, I managed to reach the first boss and I don't feel like giving up yet.

..edit: btw. the videos are without sound, is that intended?

Dualnames · Sat 03/01/2015 13:35:22

Probably, Andrea is trolling you all.

aikex222 · Sat 03/01/2015 14:34:12

like already said but i'll definitely say it again, you guys did a amazing work with this game.

AprilSkies · Sat 03/01/2015 14:56:21

Quote from: abstauber on Sat 03/01/2015 09:49:03
..edit: btw. the videos are without sound, is that intended?

Well I failed to record the sound :/

abstauber · Sat 03/01/2015 16:14:29

oh sorry, I didn't want to sound malicious. Also without sound, the motivation is high to finish this myself - now that I've seen that it's possible

tzachs · Sat 03/01/2015 17:29:34

How the hell did you manage to all this in one month?!?

Incredible!
And looks super polished.

AprilSkies · Sat 03/01/2015 18:49:07

Quote from: abstauber on Sat 03/01/2015 16:14:29
oh sorry, I didn't want to sound malicious.

ahaha no no I didn't find it malicious ^_^
this face $:-\$ was referred to me.. i'm so bumbling sometimes

btw, thanks for all your nice comments guys.. even if I'm a simple drawner.

Ibispi · Sat 03/01/2015 20:00:15

Great drawings Aprilskies!
I still haven't finished the game, I find it very difficult... but it is reminiscent of older games which were challenging and unforgiving, unlike today's games.
At first I was very frustrated at the game for just throwing you into hard levels, but then, Dualnames was right when he said in IRC yesterday how games are getting easier and easier, they are no longer fun. As much as frustrating this game may seem to be, it's actually astonishingly fun. It feels like a game.