Absent: The Game
Click here for the trailer!!
http://www.youtube.com/embed/zFV8vfTD1S4
Absent is a story which follows the character of young-adult and college student, Murray Schull. He and his two best friends, Eve and Steve, attend a college in which students are disappearing daily. It's up to them to find out how this is happening, why this is happening, protect their other friends, and to put a stop to it once and for all.
Steve's girlfriend, Crystal, has mysteriously disappeared on her way home from college. But further into the investigation, and through Murray's new-found paranormal visions, Murray realises that whatever caused Crystal's disappearence was not anything from this earth. Alongside his vision, Murray is confronted with puzzles, with friends turning against each other, and all for one reason. The Reaper.
Special Features:-A point/click, easy to use interface.
-Approximately twenty NPC's to interact with.
-Around forty playable rooms in the whole game.
-A completely original story with original art and characters created by myself.
-A game so varied, I flipped a three sided coin to choose it's genre!
-Full Voice Acting.
-Full MP3 Soundtrack.
-It's completely free!
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UPDATE (25/08/2012):So, there's a trailer out now! Hope you all enjoy it! I'm aiming for a release this year for the (now) full length adventure game, and the casting is almost complete!
UPDATE (29/09/2013):Hi all! Hope you're all doing well!
And finally, after all this time, "Absent" will be released within the week! It's been in the works for a very long time and I'm very proud of the final result!
Here's a series of promo videos for the game giving you a new series of samples of the voice actors and newly composed soundtrack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raDsUQ7sEto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Teelt_OF14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yItvAqt_9aY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4LVApR8sMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFLqQ82mW1I
The game will launch very soon.
Stay tuned!
-Fenton
EDIT: It's here.http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1731/ (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1731/)
that's great :)
I played part I and already enjoyed it
one question though:
Spoiler
Why did Murray have to send his friend into the elevator, even though he knew he would die there?
Impressive schedule, encouraging promo, and the screens look really good. I'll definitely will try out this series.
Quote from: david on Sun 10/10/2010 17:36:55
one question though:
Spoiler
Why did Murray have to send his friend into the elevator, even though he knew he would die there?
Thanks for the feedback, hope you stick around for the rest of the series! :)
And in answer to the question...
Spoiler
Murray locked Lloyd to hide him from the reaper, he realised Lloyd was marked for death so he shielded him off from any contact with the reaper. Murray was also influenced to put him in the lift because of the future vision he saw of him in the mirror (vision, not ghost). If that doesn't answer your question, you may or may not get the answer you're looking in in Episode 2. ;)
Hope you all enjoy the rest of the series, guys!
;D
Whoo! It's been a while! Hey everybody!
If you still remember this game, I'm just letting you guys know that it's not dead! However, production was moving slowly a while back. I spent the majority of Summer 2010 working on the game...then Uni began and production stopped. THEN I continued production throughout Summer 2011...then Uni began production stopped. Now, it's started again! And it's closer to being finished than ever before!
Don't get excited yet, it's still quite a few months away, but just know that it's still coming!
The most important update is that not only will the first episode (which to be honest, can now be classified as the demo) be given this deluxe treatment, but you'll also be getting the entire game all at once! However, I will need some assistance with the voice acting soon, given that I can't voice every character by myself! Especially when the main character currently has 4,000 lines of dialogue and counting!
Anybody care to help with voice acting? If so, check out this page, see if any of these characters suit you and drop me an email!
http://www.fentonfilms.co.uk/voiceactors.htm (http://www.fentonfilms.co.uk/voiceactors.htm)
Soon, I'll hopefully have a trailer put together too! Anybody know of a good free screen capture software?
I'll keep you guys updated! Talk to you later!
-Fenton
Bump!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFV8vfTD1S4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFV8vfTD1S4)
Hello loyal fans! I've made a trailer for the game! :D
Particularly revealing many of the voice actors that I was able to cast! Hope you all enjoy watching it! :)
The project is going great, by the way! Not too long, and I'll be able to play through the whole thing start to finish! Then it's just filling in the blanks from there! :D Really excited about having this done!
Talk later!
-Fenton
Great to hear the reminder of the story is still coming. The original release was very interesting.
This looks very interesting, its really got my attention and best of all is free!!!! I love everything that have to be with fear, mystery, psychological etc...
Btw, the animation looks pretty good.
BUMP! See the first post for updates! :D
-Fenton
This game looks very interesting. I'll give it a go once the game is released :).
Aaah - good news! :cheesy:
I am looking forward to play this!
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It's here!
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1731/ (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1731/)
Congrats on finishing!