Back to the Maniac Mansion - tech demo updated! - Animator needed!

[khnum]

Moonlight Games presents: Back to the Maniac Mansion

Some screenshots:

Tech Demo!



Tech Demo 1.1!



music sample from the intro

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 

[dunnoson]

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.

[Ubel]

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.

[m0ds]

This looks nice!!

[Ozzie]

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

[khnum]

Thanks for the comments

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 

[Cyrus]

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

[Danyul]

Woah the game looks really good.

Also, is that Max i see in the audience 

[Mats Berglinn]

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.

[Sale]

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!

[cosmicr]

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

[khnum]

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

[Mazoliin]

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

[CosmoQueen]

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

[Afflict]

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

[Cyrus]

What is the GUI?

[khnum]

Here's just one thing of our team members did when he joined us:







By the way, we'd appreciate your help:

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)

Please help us, BERNARD NEEDS YOU!

[Cyrus]

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

[Sparky]

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!

[Vlad]

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?