Links to AGS games not in the database

[TheTMD]

Hey, nice to see others are still reading this thread: i was a bit worried about the number of edits i've made on my previous post (just to not double posting  )

Still on ITCH.IO
Bloody Scream
Sweet Nightmares
Get Some Sleep or You'll Die!

Edit
America 2000
New City
Tomten

T.

[TheTMD]

Still on Itch

Smasher
(i've searched the forum, but haven't found it, still i think it could be somewhere...)

[heltenjon]

From the recent $107 Adventure Game Challenge jam there is Tony's Spaghetti, which is a fun short game about going undercover in a restaurant.

The same creator also made Magenta in Space Chapter One for the Adventure Jam 2023.

Another AGS game from Adventure Jam 2023 is  Office of the Returned, currently being updated and polished by Durinde.

Be my guest!

Done! Falling Skywards now has a permanent home here.

For those who do not know, Falling Skywards was included in the Bake Sale some years ago. It's a great game with a moving story, good and quite challenging puzzles, wonderful animation and cool sound design.

[TheTMD]

Falling Skywards now has a permanent home here.

At last!
Thanks for the link

And here another one
Annie Londonderry

[heltenjon]

And here another one
Annie Londonderry

I played this. Nice, historical graphics, and a very short game that would work nice as an intro to a history lesson about the real Annie, I suppose. Online play only. Thanks for the link!


On the site for that one, I found a link to Painted Hills, which is a fun short investigation game set in a Canadian native American village. Online play only, but very nice-looking and also using the relationships in the small village to make tasks/puzzles flow well in the investigation.

EDIT: Painted Hills has been added to the database!

[cat]

I moved the discussion about downloading online only games to a new thread:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/adventure-related-talk-chat/re-links-to-ags-games-not-in-the-database/

[TheTMD]

Hi all

Spia

Again from Itch.io

T.

[heltenjon]

Five hourgames are here.
Apple Theme - unexpected character death.
Kikme Theme - unexpected character death.
Bahx3 (May have another name) Theme - Must feature Al Lowe.
Ohno I don't know the theme. Escaping the room is the goal.
Woof Theme - animals.

Found this game in Global Game Jam, haven't played: https://globalgamejam.org/2023/games/whose-turn-it-anyway-8

This is a funny little game where the turnip leads the other vegetables to escape the goat eating them. Funny jokes, very easy.

Spia

I think this game isn't finished. I could move around, but I couldn't find anything else to do.

Smasher

This one is highly recommended! Digital Mosaic has made a shortie for a game jam, but there's great voice acting, graphics, music and writing. True, there is little room for puzzles, but there is a memory puzzle, so I'll check that box too.

I don't remember seeing this game in the DB, it was made for ludumdare: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/homunculus

Another good short game from the same people. This one is a sort of Frankenstein story.

Memochi

This one took a while until I realized that there was a game element to it.

Spoiler

Code

[close]

Quite a different experience from a standard adventure.

[TheTMD]

Never thought there was more than just pushing the button in Memochi

(I've spent 10min of my life pushing and writing)

I forgot to link these ones
deep lake mall
Senpai Getaway
drawn to the flame
Sorry but I had some problem checking the site if they are already in the forum

For this one no problem in searching
TijdTripper
This is a 2010 AGS prototype of a later flash game

For Spia: yes, judging by the itch page, the project is on hold (by 2016    )

[heltenjon]

The MAGS contest back in September 2008 had the theme "Broken Game". Reading the thread is a tad confusing. Radiant first entered Awesmoe Quest, which is on the archive. This I believe to be just a joke, as ProgZmax replied about the game crashing instantly (which the version on the archive also does), and the game is the "game within a game" found in META (which is in the database). However, when Radiant entered his real entry, KATA, this was set up to be that he competed against himself. KATA is not in the database, but can be found on Radiant's home page. It's a parody of Windows, of sorts, and basically has the player battling error messages trying to install a game. I can see this being fun for some, and mildly annoying for others.

Chmelnica is a short adventure made by Czech one-person team Marion Software (not to be confused with our own Marion). There are translations to German and English. (The author had a game in the db called Bill DeBill, but it's gone now.) The moon logic level borders on asteroid, but I found the setting interesting, as I didn't know anything about the type of farm workers shown in the game.

[TheTMD]

From the author of The Beekeper comes 2 little game about Holmes' brother Mycroft
MYCROFT HOLMES SIMULATOR 1895
MYCROFT HOLMES SIMULATOR 1895 ExEd
I've searched the forum, but strangely enough they aren't advertised in the Beekeper thread
as always not played, i leave the joy to others

T.
(Hi heltenjon: after pressing post i got the error that another post was published just in the meantime, and i got asked if i wanted to change my text....should we rub our noses?
I'll check immediately your games, chmelnica sounds familiar)

EDIT:
found this in the forum
The Spirit of Christmas
and searching the web this one
Yahoo Groups Metadata Collection
but sadly the group nominated by the author doesn't seems to be on the list

[TheTMD]

Purpose : Retired
stating from the itch page, it's a short P&C adv, to be finished in few minutes

Edits
Zombie Train Beyond Earth: Episode 2
(the episode 1 is done with another engine)

T.

[heltenjon]

deep lake mall

This was a fun short investigation game.

Senpai Getaway

Short Slovak game that I needed Google Translate to finish. Made for a small anime-inspired jam, this is a mix of graphic assets that doesn't fit together. I found it kind of charming, anyway.

drawn to the flame

This one is a brilliant short horror piece featuring a scary elevator ride. No real puzzles, but I thought it was genuinely unsettling. Good stuff.

The same author also has a game in the database (Where No Fear Was), but on his itch page, there are also two other small games:
Grace Russell: Episode 1 tech demo, which is a taste of an investigation game. Just a demo, like the title says.
A Fool for Love (or: Finding the Right Words Beta Version), which is an unfinished game where the player control a cupid who is guiding a hopeless guy in his quest for love. Quite funny, and a great idea for a game.

TijdTripper
This is a 2010 AGS prototype of a later flash game

It's a shame the flash game doesn't exist anymore. Very cool concept where the player has to time travel to preserve the history of Utrecht. Learning history this way is very appealing.

[TheTMD]

When the game is on flash i also check
https://flashpointarchive.org/
but haven't found TijdTripper
(now i'm downloading the Ultimate version, but needs a lot of time....a lot....)

From ITCH comes
cosmo's trinket hunt
that could be categorized as joke since it lasts one click only

T.

[heltenjon]

The September Mags 2003 featured a game called Dragonscale, which is on the archive, but not in the database. This is a short game set in a future which looks pretty much like our times, and perhaps involving a dragon. The theme was "Mythological Beast".

It looks like one of Daniele Spadoni's Back to the Future fangames is not in the database, but it is on the archive. This is the one similar to the movie.

And with Adultsqualman returning, why not post the link to his production from his younger days. It's on the archive again: A Cup of Coffee is worth 1000 Bathroom Trips This may require an older pc or some tinkering before it will run. And it's made by a kid, so be warned. 

From ITCH comes
cosmo's trinket hunt
that could be categorized as joke since it lasts one click only

Joke indeed. Looks nice, but a bit disappointing.

From the author of The Beekeper comes 2 little game about Holmes' brother Mycroft
MYCROFT HOLMES SIMULATOR 1895
MYCROFT HOLMES SIMULATOR 1895 ExEd

This is the same game, but with a bit more features in the expanded edition. Absolutely delightful and funny, albeit a sort of celebration of pointlessness at the same time. I was having a good time, achieving very little. 

Purpose : Retired
stating from the itch page, it's a short P&C adv, to be finished in few minutes

This is a really nice, "slow" game about a retired cop. Good-looking pixel art, too.

Zombie Train Beyond Earth: Episode 2
(the episode 1 is done with another engine)

I checked out episode 1 (made with GameMaker Studio), and it was really cool. Making a flipped animation? Nope, just let the guy moonwalk (Space, you know).   Episode 2 is well made, but I didn't like the idea that much. And I can't reveal it without spoiling it.

[eri0o]

https://ludiantiqui.itch.io/oakleys-game

Found this randomly with the following quote

Inspired by the creations of Roberta Williams and Ron Gilbert, my six-year-old, Oakley, wanted to create her own little adventure game. She grabbed her Boogie Board Magic Sketch, I learned the basics of Adventure Game Studio, and we put together a one-room experience.

I just thought the idea was cute. It's just a single room someone built with their kid.

[TheTMD]

And from kids to adults (I apologize for the lame joke)

The secret of Cougar Island
Quoted from the Itch page

WARNING!!!
This game features pixelated nudity, sex, recreational drug and alcohol use, swearing, erotic talk and other things some people might find distasteful. Do not play it if you are underage or easily offended.

The girl in the House
https://paranoic.itch.io/the-girl-in-the-house
A FMV game done with AGS: how many have you seen? i don't remember any other...

[heltenjon]

Bloody Scream
Sweet Nightmares
Get Some Sleep or You'll Die!

Amazing! These are three horror adventures made by kids on some sort of art related camp. I tried to play badly in Get Some Sleep or You Will Die, but got the good ending (of eight possible). Got to try again, I guess. This is a time management game, of sorts. The voice acting is over the top and reminds me of my own kids and their friends. (I don't think I would describe this one as a horror game myself, but I haven't seen it all yet.)

Sweet Nightmares is a crazy kind of adventure/platform hybrid game with a couple of rpg-like fights. Totally surreal and changes from cute to nightmarish and back again constantly.

Bloody Scream is totally over the top with gore and corpses everywhere. Kids won't think less is more! Adventure game, escape a house where a serial killer (?) roams. Two endings (I think).

It was fun to get a glimpse into the minds of these 10-12 year olds and their ideas of game design.

America 2000

Philosophical dystopian game. I liked it, even though there is a lot of walking, some unmarked exits and the two endings could have been better signalled. Made for $102 Adventure Game Challenge.

The author also has a demo made in AGS: 99 Species Demo. This looks promising and gives an impression of yet another dystopian future.

EDIT: America 2000 is now added to the database!

New City

This looks like the wrong link. Probably it should be New City. This is an investigation game, currently Spanish only.

Tomten

This is a small piece made for an advent calendar. Looks like it has no ending, just an endless loop of Tomten (Swedish, "nissen" in Norwegian - a kind of farm-elf from Scandinavian folklore that is mixed up with Santa Claus) feeding a hungry fox. Cosy, though. I'll let my kids play it come December. 

https://ludiantiqui.itch.io/oakleys-game
I just thought the idea was cute. It's just a single room someone built with their kid.

This was so cute! I love those graphics - a six-year-old's drawings. Aaaawww!

The secret of Cougar Island

I was actually impressed by how well made and funny this demo was. Granted, NSFW stuff won't be to everyone's taste, and it does go one step further than the Leisure Suit Larry games, but I'd characterize it as a humour game with lots of lewd jokes, not as a "porn game".

[TheTMD]

Quote
New City
This looks like the wrong link. Probably it should be New City. This is an investigation game, currently Spanish only.

That's right, right title, wrong link....damn twin games


Beyond Dream and Time
for cat lovers

[TheTMD]

Bloody Scream
https://bloodyrosestudios.itch.io/bloody-scream

It only take 34pages to end the Point and Click tags from ITCH 

T.

EDIT 08/12/2023
G. Ramirez - The Missing Hat
A Room Escape disguised as P&C
may be finished in <2min

EDIT 09/12/2023
DeckHex
Not an adventure, not a puzzle game
Just a story

EDIT 10/12/2023
Ten Weeks

Ten Weeks is an experimental point & click game about memories