LC3: Showdown - Musician Needed and we\re off for the magic..

Dualnames · Wed 05/09/2007 23:46:36

Lone Case 3: Showdown.
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STORY
The last part of the Lone Case trilogy brings the story, five hundred years after the incidents on Lone Case 2: Scars. Dave Dell was put in cryo – genesis all this time and a young female doctor by the name of Elizabeth Scobie sets him free. But Dave will have to pull himself together, for many secrets are about to be revealed in front of his eyes. And the civilized and futuristic society of Palm Springs will never be the same...

FEATURES:
-Two loveable characters
-Speech
-Quality Music
-CMI like interface
-Akumayos Particle Engine
-Extra Bonus Content(available after completion of game)
-Easter Eggs(Including Ben Jordan, Grim Fandango, King's Quest, Monkey Island)
-Video Cut scenes.
-And more to come...

Voice Speech Samples
http://www.mediafire.com/?7zvbsiivfjn

PROGRESS: Updated 3/3/2008
Scripting 100%
Story 100%
Puzzles 100%
Music/Sound 50%(Music needed)
Art 100%

TOTAL Progress: 84%

CREW:
Dualnames - Programmer, Artist
Stevetheblack - Story/Beta Tester
Haddas - Music
Natasha Miren - Music
Haddas - Voice Actor(Dave Dell)
Natasha Miren - Voice Actress(Dr Scobie)
Visy - Voice Actor(Ben Jordan)
Vertigoaddict - Voice Actor(LeaderOfDefrostees)
Pierre HOPQUIN - Voice Actor(John Faust, Cop)
Jeremy Kline - Voice Actor(Janitor)
FSi - Beta Tester
Jon - Beta Tester
Crazy - Beta Tester

SITE:
http://ledzepforever.googlepages.com/home

DEMO AVAILABLE:
UPDATED:
http://ledzepforever.googlepages.com/LC3Demo.rar

Trailer
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJTCQ-DEQVo

Development Diary:
UPDATE 20/10/2007
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Well after talking to Fransisco Gonzalez, well known as Grundislav and well known for Ben Jordan games, I'm glad to announce that this game will be actually the very first that will feature Ben Jordan as NPC with its author approval on it. The Ben Jordan Easter Egg will be very easy to find since I'm not gonna hide it. And it took me a 200$ fee to get Ben Jordan. No, just kidding. I've added as easter eggs/cameo appearances the following Purple Tentacle Mini, Manny Calavera's Scythe, King Graham's Hat, and the diamond from Curse of Monkey Island. That's all for now.

UPDATE 3/11/2007:
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Well, Haddas has accepted my offer for voice acting Dave Dell and his first sample impressed me..
Here it is:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/890d359f-33c5-49e3-9d26-097d0fbe37a7/DaveDell

And another sample
http://www.esnips.com/doc/60fe93dd-34c4-4737-bac3-8425b41d84a9/Dave-Dell2

He is also gonna compose some music for the game as well...
I'll post something when it's ready. But for the rest of you that know Haddas you know what he's aiming for..

Also we're having Natasha Miren(N.M.Music)
on board. She'll be the voice actor for Dr.Scobie and
will help us with the music as well.

sample is here:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/d3fd65ed-7186-45e7-879b-f30fc2bdc435/DrScobie

More info on Haddas and Natasha Miren here:
http://www.myspace.com/haddcore
http://www.myspace.com/natashamiren

UPDATE 9/11/2007
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I've been working a lot.
Anyway I've made
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/HostelRecep.png
screenshot of which I'm proud of..

And for those that didn't get it the interactive hint system will be something similar to goblins
you can press space and then click on an icon if you want to see what you should do...it will be a spoiler. Whole solution will be given.. you think i should change the system to just give hints?

UPDATE 17/11/2007
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Visy Ben Jordan Sample...
http://www.lobortis.com/n/2893229373

Well, Vertigoaddict has expressed interest on the game and he is gonna voice act as well...

Here's a sample.

http://www.mediafire.com/?5myunnv1hli

UPDATE 27/11/2007
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Well, I'm actually informing that due to my great efforts on art and scripting the last five days(not that the rest of the crew is sleeping or something) we've managed to reach the finale... We're very close to the end now... In order to stop wrong posts, I'm saying that the main game will be ready very soon. However we need music, voice acting, beta-testing, dialog fixes, proof reading, the usual stuff. But it's a good thing.. also not to forget for the bonus content I've came up with the idea of putting a mini game. The mini game will be like Duck Hunt.

UPDATE 30/11/2007
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Well, Pierre HOPQUIN has completed making the lines for two roles on the game.. and he was so fast I didn;t got the time to announce him

Anyway few roles to go...

UPDATE 3/12/2007
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Jeremy Kline has completed voice acting as well. One more on board..

UPDATE 22/12/2007
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I've sacrificed myself. I voice acted a medium sized role... And thank god it doesn't sound much like me..

CosmoQueen · Thu 06/09/2007 08:41:33

Wow working on 2 and three at the same time huh? You do keep busy!

Dualnames · Thu 06/09/2007 22:00:05

I'm not working on two. Two is ready except music and beta testing.

EDIT:Added Teaser on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ9jx0WnR6c

Cyrus · Fri 07/09/2007 11:03:25

That's AWESOME! Unlike the first two games, the graphics look wonderful. The only idea I dislike is the first side view. By the way, does Palm Springs play any role in this game? And what's about references to classics (the usual stuff

)?

Dualnames · Fri 07/09/2007 19:40:03

Quote from: Cyrus on Fri 07/09/2007 11:03:25
That's AWESOME! Unlike the first two games, the graphics look wonderful. The only idea I dislike is the first side view. By the way, does Palm Springs play any role in this game? And what's about references to classics (the usual stuff )?

I haven't quite decided of it's gonna be First Person View. I really like third person view adventure games a lot. Anyway, don't get discouraged it's not yet final. About Palm Springs, I don't know since I'm not the one's who'll be writing the story. But don't worry I'll supervise the whole deal. About references still not a clue. The demo should remind a little bit of Demolition Man(Silvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Dennis Rodman). I find most encouraging that you liked the graphics. I just read some tutorials and through observation and experimenting a lot they reached that level. Anyway I'll be bringing more in the meantime you guys could put in your suggestions and what you want to see, or what you don't want to see.

Cyrus · Sat 08/09/2007 11:22:20

So it's still not the final game?

Darth Mandarb · Sat 08/09/2007 14:17:17

Are these "in-game" playable screenshots?

If these aren't the final versions of the graphics either this is gonna be locked until you have more work done and can show, as the rules require, proper "in-game" screenshots.

Stupot · Sat 08/09/2007 16:00:34

I still haven't played LC1 yet... maybe I'll wait until 2 and 3 are both out and play the trilogy.

Dualnames · Sat 08/09/2007 21:45:03

Those are in-game screenshots. The first one is the menu image. I just haven't decided if the game's gonna be first or third person. I got so misunderstood here. And I don't know if it's gonna be the last Lone Case you'll see.

Stevetheblack has kind of accepted to write the story. So I don't have the full thing yet. It's under production. If I was writing the story this would be the last part but I'm not.

Dualnames · Mon 10/09/2007 22:19:54

UPDATE 10/9/2007
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More Images. And some characters.
A room(3rd person view)

I've remade O'Riley. That should be good news, eh?

Another character:

Another one:

John faust from Lone Case 2

Cyrus · Tue 11/09/2007 09:34:11

The characters look wonderful, especially O'Riley! But I'm not sure about the new background...
P. S. Could you answer to my PM?

Dualnames · Wed 12/09/2007 23:27:50

---------UPDATE-------
1)Control Method from Sierra early 90's advanced to CMI style. Using and taking a lot of pain fixing and beta-testing Scumm GUI V2 by Electroshocker. Thanks to someone, for urging me to go to SCUMM interface. So this means that all of the Lone Case games have different control methods. That's something..

2)Changed due to reasons of better graphic experience the game's resolution to 640x480. From 320x240. So that's one thing in common with Lone Case 2 and 3.

3) I haven't decided whether to change the color depth and advance to 32bit. I'd like a second opinion to that.

4)Unfortunately the past 4 days I haven't work on the art. And before the story is fully written I'm not planning to. Maybe I'll just re-create the characters from Lone Case one in case they are needed.
I'll be back with more.....

ciborium · Thu 13/09/2007 02:38:12

Quote3) I haven't decided whether to change the color depth and advance to 32bit. I'd like a second opinion to that.

Unless you're going to use alpha'd sprites, don't bother. You won't gain much (if anything,) and those who still only have 16 or 24 bit video cards will hate you.

That said I haven't played any of your Lone Case games yet. Maybe tonight...

Dualnames · Sat 15/09/2007 22:12:50

Update 15/9/2007
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Also here's the new version of Dave Dell. Fully animated.
I think it's very smooth. And very fun to watch.

EDIT: I've also added my CMI GUI code free for all.(that's not making any sense) Anyway check this out.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=32398.0

Cyrus · Sun 16/09/2007 08:26:36

That Dave Dell looks nice, but, as I suppose, you should update the Sho-Ryu-Ken corp.'s website by adding Lone Case 2 and 3 (Sorry for the offtop).

Dualnames · Wed 03/10/2007 23:42:42

Well, I've been doing some GUI's, and I've come up with the idea to make a bonus content GUI that will be accesible to the player once he's finished the game. The bonus content will be artwork pre work sketches etc. And while doing that I've come up with SlideShow module.

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=32575.msg421019#msg421019

If you have any ideas about what you'd like to see as bonus content PM me or post it here.

Cyrus · Thu 04/10/2007 11:18:16

Err... Maybe something that can open hidden Easter Eggs.

Dualnames · Fri 12/10/2007 22:38:01

DEMO AVAILABLE:
Check the demo(Changed a lot)
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?category=0&action=detail&id=924&refresh1189033748

The game is also using keyboard shortcuts.
Changed many things. Check it out. Actually if you could help me with the parser text part it would be good. Tell me what did you type and you expected to have an answer so that I can make this game real better.

Cyrus · Sat 13/10/2007 12:55:52

Looks wonderul.

Dualnames · Sat 20/10/2007 00:21:35

UPDATE 20/10/2007
==============
Well after talking to Fransisco Gonzalez, well known as Grundislav and well known for Ben Jordan games, I'm glad to announce that this game will be actually the very first that will feature Ben Jordan as NPC with its author approval on it. The Ben Jordan Easter Egg will be very easy to find since I'm not gonna hide it. And it took me a 200$ fee to get Ben Jordan. No, just kidding. I've added as easter eggs/cameo appearances the following Purple Tentacle Mini, Manny Calavera's Scythe, King Graham's Hat, and the diamond from Curse of Monkey Island. That's all for now.