Adventure Game Studio

Some screenshots:



The Story:

This evening Hoagie and his band have a concert to do. Bernard and Laverne got invited to the event, unaware things aren't going to be as planned...

Soon they'll got to return to the Mansion, finding theirself to stop a chain reaction messing up the space continuum itself: their paths will split up again...

Development Progress:

Story: 70%
Scripting: 10%
Graphics: 10%
Sound/Music: 5%



Development Diary:

August 4, 2007
We DO need an animator!
2 backgrounds finished!

August 8, 2007
Added a music sample from the intro of the game.
We still need an animator  :P

Actually, you should choose a different name for the game, because the characters are from "Day of the Tentacles"

Otherwise, I offer my services as a beta-tester, proof-reader, basic dialogue, and storyline editor.

Quote from: dunnoson on Sat 04/08/2007 14:36:44
Actually, you should choose a different name for the game, because the characters are from "Day of the Tentacles"

Not necessarily, since Day of the Tentacle is a sequel to Maniac Mansion in a way.

The game looks pretty good. It's nice to see a Maniac Mansion fangame with original graphics for a change. Even though the main characters are obviously painted over.

This looks nice!!

Seems like an original spin twist MM/DOTT.
It's nice to see how you develop Hoagie further, for example. :)

Thanks for the comments ;)

Quote from: Pablo on Sat 04/08/2007 14:47:06
Even though the main characters are obviously painted over.

Yeah, we decided to keep the main characters as they were in DotT, to keep the spirit of the game (and because i'm lazy); anyway, there will be new characters, as well as some old character completely redrawn  ;D

WONDERFUL!!!! I can't wait to see it!

Woah the game looks really good.

Also, is that Max i see in the audience  ;)

Well, it could be something even if the style (apart from the original characters) aren't DOTT styled.

By the way, why does Laverne have a purple shirt when she usually wears green? Somehow purple doesn't fit her.
Good otherwise.

Quote from: Mats Berglinn on Sun 05/08/2007 10:04:20
Well, it could be something even if the style (apart from the original characters) aren't DOTT styled.

By the way, why does Laverne have a purple shirt when she usually wears green? Somehow purple doesn't fit her.
Good otherwise.

Do you think Laverne would wear the same shirt two games in a row?  Wait, don't answer that.   ;)  Looks like a great game, though!

You should call it 'Back to Maniac Mansion', and get rid of 'the'.

We finished the first music for the intro, you can find it in the first post  ;D

Wow, that music sounds... professional!
This game look's really interesting too, keep up the good work! :=

Wow this is gonna be the best looking of all the MM games!!! I'm very excited about this! ;D ;D ;D

The pic looks awesome, I agree Lavern has to have green on :P

What is the GUI?

we're gonna use a verb coin interface, just like Curse of Monkey Island and Full Throttle; anyway, we're stuck in deciding what the coin should be; one of our first tries was the tentacle anatomic chart appearing in DotT. What would you like as verb coin? (hope this isn't off topic)

Maybe just a figure of Puirple or Green Tentacle without any charts.

This looks unusually well put together for a fan game. I look forward to hearing about your progress, and hope that after this we'll see some original titles from you!

Looking good! If the humour and the puzzles are as good as the graphics then your game's gonna stir the hive, I think.

Hmm... how about a photo/portrait of Dr. Fred Edison for the verb coin?

Awesome screenshots. The title sounds a bit off, though. I'd rather use "Back to the Mansion" or "Back to Maniac Mansion".

--Erwin

Awesome awesomeness!

I don't know what you're planning on using on that verb gui of yours, but I've made an easy to use code about that GUI so here it is:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=32398.0

Quote from: Cyrus on Mon 15/10/2007 09:48:20
Maybe just a figure of Puirple or Green Tentacle without any charts.

We can't, since the cursor is a tentacle, it could be confusing.

Quote from: Vlad on Tue 16/10/2007 14:41:52
Hmm... how about a photo/portrait of Dr. Fred Edison for the verb coin?

We'll think about it  :)

Quote from: Erwin_Br on Sat 20/10/2007 12:34:09
I'd rather use "Back to the Mansion" or "Back to Maniac Mansion".

You know, we thought of them both, and finally chose "Back to the Maniac Mansion" because it includes them both   ;)

Quote from: Jim "Dualnames" Span on Sun 21/10/2007 20:54:19
I don't know what you're planning on using on that verb gui of yours, but I've made an easy to use code about that GUI so here it is:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=32398.0

Thanks! I already scripted part of the gui code, but i could use yours as reference ;D

Ummm... Maybe some Dr. Fred's device or even... Chuck the Plant as a GUI!

electroshokker has updated his CMI script as well so you can check that which might be better than mine.

Great graphics!!! Great colors!

mmm, we finally decided to use the anatomic chart as verb coin; thank youy all for your help anyway ;)
Here's a screenshot, what do you think about it?

(http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/9814/interfacciami3.png)

Maybe you should add some colours to the GUI or something... Anyway, looks good!

Quote from: khnum on Mon 05/11/2007 15:43:15
Here's a screenshot, what do you think about it?

Yeah, I like it.
I wonder what the function of the middle sucker is ???

Umm... Maybe the inventory?

Ir was cyrus idea? Anyway good job on that game

I'm pretty sure the function of the middle sucker is talk.

Oh, you're right of course. I swapt the middle with the bottom one. Wonder what that is for? (My biology lessons were so long ago.)

We finally finished the verb coin (Thanks to electroshoker for his module!), so we decided to post a tech demo to show it in game :D
Here it is:
Tech Demo! (http://www.mediafire.com/?4mmht9sojvz)

Let us know what you think about it!

Although pretty skinny, the tech demo was surprisingly nice. I always thought vector cel graphics (as seen on many fan art renditions of MM characters and other formerly pixelled beings) didn't suit remade characters at all. Yours looked quite nice. I would consider adding a little more shading to the green tentacle - the base 'tube' looks awkward as a ring around the torso without shading, and the body might be better with just slight cel shadowing.

The verb coin is pretty nice. I felt it was a tad slow to respond - consider what the player feels when he just wants to click around. In addition, the verb coin exits too early if the cursor approaches the top right corner of the sheet. Also, you might wanna add a little more flare to it rather than having a square sheet. You could for example fold, stack (like a flag in the wind) or rip a few corners. You could also add coffee stains and other texture to it. I would also consider lifting up the saturation a bit, so it doesn't look as bland.

I like the cursor icon, too, but the text is a bit difficult to read, because some of the letters get badly scaled and the typeface isn't anti-aliased.

I did a 5min paintover illustrating my points:
(http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2390/paintoverkhnumcc5.png)

Looks wonderful. Hope in the complete game Bernard will open his mouth while speaking. Also reccomend you to make a talkie version.

Ildu's post enlightned me, so here i am with a new version of the demo, wich feature a verb coin enchanced thnk to his advices :D
Tech Demo 1.1 ! (http://www.mediafire.com/?1cxj2jcxcyy)

(unfortunately ags currently can't antialias ttf font if they're not shown on a solid color background, that's why the font is so ugly; we'll find a solution :D)

hmm. That castle-like mansion reminds me of the Hovering Castle - an adventure game from 1992. What a ripoff :)

(http://eim.hit.bg/igri/vis_2.gif)