AGS Awards 2016 - For Your Consideration

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shaun9991

For your consideration in the DEMO category...

LEGEND OF HAND DEMO by Cloak and Dagger Games

A quirky point and click adventure game with RPG elements set in a Far-East inspired world! Influenced by adventure classics and martial arts beat ‘em up games of the 80's and 90's. This demo features the first section of the game - the full release will be out in the next few months.






The Story

When your wise old crony masters send you on a quest to find a missing messiah known as Grandmaster Hand, it's best not to ask too many questions â€" though it's safe to say the fate of the world depends upon finding him.

Four mysterious, tight-lipped martial arts masters are said to hold the clues to his location and each is shacked up on their own island, stretching out across vast oceans, claiming to be his successors. But are they really what they claim to be? Maybe, if you can beat them in a fight they'll talk - but that's okay, you've trained your whole life and you're an absolute badass!

The only problem is you aren't too good at saying no to people... You're supposed to be a fighter, so what are you are doing in the kitchen? Why are you running around doing errands for old ladies and solving relationship woes? Yep, there's a lot to do on your adventures - travel across the unique islands and see what traditions they have on offer. There's gambling, banquets, fishing and all sorts of fun ways to spend your time - just don't forget to find Grandmaster Hand!

Features

- An epic quest and unfolding storyline that spans many years and unique lands
- A massive cast of intriguing, mysterious, bizarre, amusing and crazy characters (some utterly useless)
- Unique and retro drawn graphics and huge catalogue of animations including costume changes, disguises and drunk dancing
- Learn new moves, increase your HP and fight using a turn based RPG style fighting system that's easy to learn and fun to play!
- Expect to meet companions who will aid and follow you in your adventures!
- Get sick, fall in love, fight for the innocent, gamble, make grub for Gran - the world of Legend of Hand is varied and detailed
- Typical adventure game elements such as puzzles and dialogue interactions. Expect the difficulty to increase as your quest progresses, things may seem easy to begin with, but that won't always be the case!
- Mini games galore, including cricket fighting and fish tickling!
- Full screen animated drawn cut scenes.
- Hidden secrets for keen explorers! Mind your trousers…
- Unique and engaging original soundtrack
- The odd real world cameo here and there
Support Cloak and Dagger Games on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=460039

CaptainD

We genuinely have two really awesome contenders for Best Demo this year!
 

Mandle

I would like to include my ecosystem simulation for your consideration.

This game was an AGS pick of the month and I feel that it could be considered for a nomination in the category of:

Best Non-Adventure Game

PREDATORS PREY FOR PLANTS




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G'day,

This game was created by Ross Kevin Moffat (AKA Mandle) for the July 2016 Monthly Adventure Game Studio (MAGS) contest.

The game is a simple simulation of the predators/prey/plants relationship.

At the moment there is no way to either "win" or "lose"...It's basically just a sandbox where you can explore the various interactions of wild animal and plant populations.

Observing the fluctuations of the different populations should give you some first-hand experience with the concepts of dwindling resources, boom-and-bust in plant and animal populations, and even extinction in extreme cases.

This hidden section is a guide to the game mechanics:

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BROWN pixels are DIRT: All animals and plants CAN spread into DIRT areas.
BLUE pixels are WATER: All animals and plants CANNOT spread into WATER areas.
GREEN pixels are PLANTS: PREY need PLANTS to survive and spread. PREDATORS can also spread into PLANT areas.
YELLOW pixels are PREY: Herbivores...PREDATORS need PREY to survive and spread.
RED pixels are PREDATORS: Carnivores...Top of the food chain but will soon die without herbivores to prey on.


The panel controls are:

S or f5 to open the Save Map window.
L,R, or f7 to open the Load Map window.
Q,Ctrl-Q, or ESC to open the Quit Game (or continue) window.


The in-game controls are:

Left Mouse Click to draw on the map.
Right Mouse Click to change the draw cursor's colour.
Scroll Wheel Up/Down to change cursor size from 1-10 pixels.


The TITLE SCREEN at the start of the game is an actively running map. To change to a different map and start playing it you will need to either delete the TITLE SCREEN map bit by bit (yawn) or hit L or f7 to open the Load Map Screen where you will find a few sample maps as well as an ALL BROWN map, an ALL GREEN map, and an ALL BLUE map to start drawing on.

IMPORTANT: NEVER, EVER DELETE THE AGSSAVE.998 FROM THE SAVED MAPS FOLDER!!! THIS IS THE TITLE SCREEN AND IF YOU DELETE IT THE GAME WILL HAVE NO TITLE SCREEN ON START-UP AND MAY CRASH!!!

The game cannot be paused while running and you can draw on the screen at any time regardless of the scanning progression of the calculations.

You can pause the game if you need to step away from it for a moment by opening the save game, load game, or quit/confirm window, and then hitting the CANCEL or PLAY button when you are ready to continue.

If you leave the game running it will run forever. You can come back an hour, day, week, month, or year later and it will still be running your map.

As this game was made fast and rough in only a few sittings it is lacking many features that one would probably expect, such as population counters, graphs of growth and decline, etc etc. but even in this crude state I feel it could be useful in a classroom situation where cycles of boom-and-bust in nature, and/or extinction are being studied, or even just for your own personal study of such.
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The game is 100% FREEWARE and was created on the also free ADVENTURE GAME STUDIO engine, which was created by Chris Jones.

I, Ross Kevin Moffat (AKA Mandle), give full permission to you to freely (but only for free) redistribute this game as you see fit.

I hope you have a fun, interesting, and/or learning experience.

Cheers!


Paul Franzen

I hope I'm not too late!! Here's my game, for your consideration:

The Beard in the Mirror







"Don't you remember me? After all we've been through..."

What do you want to be when you grow up? Paul thought his life would be set after college, but at 22 he's toiling away in a job he doesn't like and coming home to an empty apartment every night. He doesn't know who he is, where he's going, or how he fits into his world.

But then on one dark and stormy night, a mysterious woman appears to him, and everything changes...

The Beard in the Mirror is a throwback to when adventure games came in giant cardboard boxes and if you didn't have the hintbook, that was it; you were stuck on that puzzle for the rest of your life. It's a labor of love from a husband-and-wife team from two different worlds (she's a Sierra fangirl, and he's a LucasArts diehard) who have been working on it together since before they even started dating.

AGS:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2102/

Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/385840/

itch.io:
https://oharock.itch.io/the-beard-in-the-mirror
The Beard in the Mirror (formerly testgame) - Out now on Steam! http://store.steampowered.com/app/385840
Other games I've worked on: http://paulmfranzen.com/games/

Cmdr

#24
I guess I'm a bit late, but I also want to include my two games added last year for your consideration:

The Tale of Lonkey Island

This game is a parody on the classic adventures of LucasArts. Everything in this game seems to be very similar, but also very different than in the original games.
The presentation is well-known, but there's a fully new game under it, including strange puzzles and humor.
Note that this is a full-length game, at least the size of a MI2, so probably you wouldn't manage to finish it until the 4th of february.
I request you to not just play the start of the game, which is very very MI1ish, but follow the plotline at least into part 3, to conceive your opinion about the game.




The other game is
Maniac Mansion Mania 90: Packing the suitcase
An Episode of the Maniac Mansion Mania Series, I made a few years ago, but just was added to the AGS-Database last year.
This is a short game where your only task is to find some things, which Britney wants to put into her suitcase (and of course this isn't as easy as it seems).



Game-Site of Tale of Lonkey Island: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2100/
Game-Site of MMM90: Packing the suitcase: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2027/

Thank you for nominating my games  :-*.

JSH




Set in the 90's, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her own troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather. Armed with her motorcycle, a pack of cigs, and a notepad, Kathy begins to delve into a local mystery surrounding her hometown that will take her on a harrowing journey full of emotional and personal turmoil.

As she follows a trail of clues he left behind, questions emerge... What was Joseph Rain really looking for that night all those years ago? What turned him into a mere shell of a man, confined to a wheelchair? What secret did a suicidal young artist take with her to the grave, and why are so many people in Conwell Springs going mad? The truth is dark and sinister...

AGS Database Entry
Steam Demo
GOG Demo
Official Site

WHAM

I humbly propose, for your consideration:

GNRBLEX

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2074/

A short adventure where you are tasked with saving the "adorable" (though some might say "terrifying", don't listen to those people, they're biased) Grblexian mind-maggot from extinction.
Just make sure it doesn't eat YOUR brain, okay?

Wrongthinker and anticitizen one. Pending removal to memory hole. | WHAMGAMES proudly presents: The Night Falls, a community roleplaying game

m0ds

Thank you for considering Tales!



https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2106/

And please also consider Downfall remake :)



https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2009/

You might consider these games for Best Game, Best Music, Best Sound, Best Writing, Best Voice Acting, Best Art and Worst FPS'. Thanks!

Good luck to everyone and all the games!


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