Anokhron - horror adventure - *canceled*

Yarcanox · Fri 01/09/2006 21:35:42

This project has been cancelled because I lost all my data when formatting my computer. I made a backup of everything except this game. And I don't want to do everything again.

Just click on the logo if you want to get to the new homepage!

General Information
A game like the old adventure games: low resolution and no action sequences.
Progress: Not much is done. You could speak of about 1 %
Language: I'll try to make the game in English although my English could be better. Maybe I'll add a German translation too.
AGS version: 2.72

I'm not working alone
The man with the nice nickname "IceLink" composes the music for the game

"RotW" creates the homepage for the game.

Story
William Black is visiting his parents on the old mansion, where they live. After one night, the estate is snowed in, they are all caught on it; William, his parents James and Olivia Black, the butler and the cook Sarah.
The phone doesnt work, and mobile phones didn't arrive at this place far away from the rest of the world; the whole village, where the mansion belongs to, is in a dead spot.
And the Blacks aren't alone in the house with their employees... there's something other... forgotten and hidden in the downs of the mansion.

But when James Black was found dead, some memories came back...

Target
Stay alive and try to find out what's crawling through the house at night!

Background Art: The mansion

and snowed in:

Ingame (old cursors): First Screenshot Of The Entrance Hall
The cursor is still the standard AGS cursor. That won't be the case in the finished game.
You can see William here, the player character

Background Art: Library

Ingame: Chamber of William
I implemented the game cursors here.

Why the name "Anokhron"?
This is something you'll find out in the game!

Note
I'm from Germany, and my English is not as good as I'd like it. Tell me if there are any mistakes.

I will need YOUR help
If the developement process is far enough, I need native English speakers to correct my mistakes in the game. It should be someone who speaks British English.
And of course I'll need some beta testers...
But I'll ask you again when it's time for that.
Update: I still have one beta tester, who will correct my English too. It may be that I won't ask for yet another one.
Update: Homepage is finished. You can see there some additional screenshots!
Update: Now, the screenshots/backgrounds of the homepage are here available too. And I added a new one and changed some head lines.

MalleTheRedPhoenix · Sat 02/09/2006 10:03:08

I saw your pictures in the Adventure-Treff forum. I like these pictures. The only thing I would make better is the ground outside the house. It looks a little bit strange when a part of the stones are glued at the walls.

I wish you good luck with the project.

Barbarian · Sat 02/09/2006 10:11:52

Seems promising.Ã,Â The screen-shot of inside the house sort of reminds me a little bit of the first "Resident Evil" game - just inside the front main doors area of the mansion.

Keep us updated sometime as you make some progress, and it would be cool to see more screen-shots too.

Best of luck.

Yarcanox · Sat 02/09/2006 13:22:31

I found a beta tester and native English speaker as I searched for.

I dont want to give too much information away, so maybe I dont want yet another beta tester... or just one more.

We'll see.

Yarcanox · Sun 03/09/2006 00:13:47

I worked on a kind of storyboard... I'll need more screens as I thought. But it's still doable.
And thank you for your first comments.... I'll add some more screens, I think, but have to draw some good ones before I'll do that. Probably I will post the picture of the library. Or something of the forgotten part of the house that the player have to enter to get an answer to all questions...

But I still work on the backgrounds for the "normal" part of the mansion and there are still 5 ones left before I'll start with the secret part.

Ubel · Wed 06/09/2006 18:43:05

This all seems very mysterious. Just the way I like it. I can't wait to find out what Anokhron really means.

Good luck with this!

Sylvr · Thu 07/09/2006 01:06:50

Looks good!

Yarcanox · Thu 07/09/2006 19:03:09

Thanks for you comments!
Currently working on the library, it is taking me much time because of the many books

Will post some more screens soon. But not too many

Yarcanox · Sat 09/09/2006 18:04:31

The homepage is ready!

I updated my first post and you'll see there a new image of the snowed in mansion. On the homepage you'll see a picture of the library of the mansion.

Rd27 · Mon 11/09/2006 13:23:14

This looks and sounds guite promising. I love horror games and you can never have enough of them.

deletethisprofile · Mon 11/09/2006 13:57:02

I love the mystery genre, so you better let me enjoy this
game!

great pictures, Yarconax.

combined with (hopefully) an intriuging plot.
Looks promising.
Keep it up and keep us informed of your progress.

Yarcanox · Thu 14/09/2006 10:35:50

I just worked on the first backgrounds the last days, and now I put them all into the game.

I had success programming an easy interface: If you move the curosr over an object, it will change to a special dialog cursor or a this-object-is-to-use-cursor or a pickup-cursor. You do not need more to do than just click! And I wont use the second mouse button for something. Maybe in the inventory to look at a thing instead of taking it, but that's it. I dont want to search you for hotspots the whole time, so I decided to do it this way.

After the first day of ingame-skripting, I have the mentioned interface and a short part of the introduction, but I still have to finish it. I'm currently working on the other characters, and there are only two backgrounds left for the first chapter of the game, one of them is still begun. I hope, I will finish the first part soon.

I dont know how much chapters I'll have. Everything following the first one is a bit unclear (I know the end of the story, but not exactly how many rooms I'll need, what secrets to put in and so on).

Here the screenshot, maybe the last (as I said I dont want to give too much away):

EDIT: Oh I forgot something really important: Thank you for your comments!

They are really good to keep me motivated!

CosmoQueen · Mon 18/09/2006 06:03:35

Looks very interesting. The main character is bigger than what I'm used too. It looks like a dark game but the colors look very bight and pretty from what I see.