Fester Mudd

Val · Sat 06/07/2013 11:17:04

I'm currently playing this game called Fester Mudd, stumbled on it this morning while reading game news.
Turns out it's in the Games-in-Production here in this forum, but the author (Tarantula) said they changed engine from AGS to Unity.
Here's the link: Topic: Fester Mudd: Curse of the Gold

I'm curious, why not AGS? IMHO it looks like it can be done in AGS.

Ali · Sat 06/07/2013 11:28:01

Probably because Unity offers more flexible resolutions and easy portability to Mac / iOS / Android?

It looks nice, but I can't understand why people keep coming back to the Scumm GUI.

Val · Sat 06/07/2013 11:52:35

Nostalgic reason, I guess?

The game doesn't really use high res images or wide screen (only 640x480) so that means the portability reason then.

Ali · Sat 06/07/2013 12:24:35

640x480? The screenshot looks widescreen. Either way, perhaps Unity allows 640x to play fullscreen on modern devices more flexibly than AGS?

Khris · Sat 06/07/2013 14:44:48

It's free btw: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.replay.festermudd1

Tarantula · Fri 23/08/2013 09:43:33

Quote from: Ali on Sat 06/07/2013 11:28:01
Probably because Unity offers more flexible resolutions and easy portability to Mac / iOS / Android?

That is correct. We switched to Unity because of the portability.

Quote from: Ali on Sat 06/07/2013 12:24:35
640x480? The screenshot looks widescreen. Either way, perhaps Unity allows 640x to play fullscreen on modern devices more flexibly than AGS?

That screenshot was cropped by someone. The game was designed in the good old 320x200 resolution. Of course, we had to fiddle around with resolutions a bit to make the game run on different platforms, but the aspect ratio is always the same.

Paul Franzen · Tue 27/08/2013 20:08:26

Aww. Poor AGS. The new version's totally gonna have a "save to iOS" or "save to Android" or "save to Super Nintendo" button, right?!

Myinah · Wed 28/08/2013 09:01:26

It's a free demo, the full game isn't free. I downloaded it and it takes you to the google play store to pay for it when you try to go into a certain room.

Peder 🚀 · Wed 28/08/2013 20:24:09

That sounds really annoying Myinah.
But I guess it's to effectively work as a demo but in case you do want to buy it, you already got the whole game downloaded and can continue where you left off right away.

Dave Gilbert · Wed 28/08/2013 20:45:49

Quote from: Peder Johnsen+ on Wed 28/08/2013 20:24:09
That sounds really annoying Myinah.
But I guess it's to effectively work as a demo but in case you do want to buy it, you already got the whole game downloaded and can continue where you left off right away.

That's fairly common, and worked really well in the age of 50-MB-or-lower downloadables, when you could download the full game very fast. Now in the age of indie games that are over a gig? Not so much.

Myinah · Thu 29/08/2013 07:38:13

Just a mild inconvenience. I deleted the file and will wait till the other episodes appear. It's an episodic game, which I personally don't like to invest in until the series has actually been made. I've been burned before

But in all seriousness it would be nice if they made it clear it's a demo on the play store. It's kind of misleading to not mention anywhere that you eventually have to pay. I don't resent paying, I'm happy to pay for a full game, but I don't like feeling like someone tricked me into the download. If it had said Â£3 to begin with I may well have just bought it anyway. And if this game had been significantly bigger than 26MB it would have been super annoying to wait, like Dave said, and then find I couldn't access the full game (assuming I had no idea it was a demo and had no desire to pay for the full game) but the reviews on the play store say it's pretty short anyway so probably why its a small file.

frenzykitty · Thu 29/08/2013 08:08:12

Quote from: Ali on Sat 06/07/2013 11:28:01
It looks nice, but I can't understand why people keep coming back to the Scumm GUI.

It may also have something to do with the portability to touch surfaces? No right click issues (everything can be done with a single, "click" as it were)?

Dave Gilbert · Fri 30/08/2013 10:49:20

Quote from: Myinah on Thu 29/08/2013 07:38:13the reviews on the play store say it's pretty short anyway so probably why its a small file.

The lack of voice acting helps! The VO files for my games take up a few hundred megabytes by themselves.

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Fri 06/09/2013 18:56:23

I was rather interested in this game when the screenshots first appeared. Is there a pc release anywhere, and is there a projection for when the series will be complete?

Paul Franzen · Wed 25/09/2013 17:04:38

Quote from: Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens on Fri 06/09/2013 18:56:23
I was rather interested in this game when the screenshots first appeared. Is there a pc release anywhere, and is there a projection for when the series will be complete?

In case no one else jumps in--Episode 1 is available on the company's website here!: https://www.replaygamesinc.com/store/index/products/item/fester-mudd-curse-of-the-gold