Adventure Game Studio

4th of October 2006
The time has become to make a production thread for point'n'click game "Clown at the Circus".

Some of you might even have played the demo which was my entry to August MAGS. Out of two games, CatC was selected as a winner! Thank you, voters.

The demo was whipped up in couple of days. After that the progress with the rest of the game has been slower, but more steady for few weeks now.

Background:
In the game you are playing as a little bit incompetent and wretched, but still sympatethic clown. The problem is that in the last town where the circus you are working in was, no one laughed at your jokes. Thus the ringmaster is about to throw you in the streets.

And, seriously, that is something we can not tolerate, can we?!

So you must do whatever it takes (preferably what ringmaster says) and save your red nose out of this trouble!

Screenshots:
Progress (last update 04/Oct/2006):

• Characters (less than 10)
  
  
  
  • Ready for most parts.
    
  • Every character is drawn, minor changes may occur.
    
• Backgrounds (less than 10)
  
  
  
  • If necessary, some changes can still be made. Otherwise ready.
    
  • Every BG is imported to AGS.
    
  • Walkable areas are set.
    
  • A lot of hotspot interactions yet to come.
    
  • Quite a lot of objects not yet exist.
    
• Animations
  
  
  
  • Clown can walk!
    
  • Part of animations are done...
    
  • ...some are still waiting. ;)
    
• Sounds
  
  
  
  • Not yet started!
    
• Music
  
  
  
  • Not yet started!
    
  • I will need help with this part at some stage.
    
• GUI's
  
  
  
  • Most in-game things are ready.
    
  • Custom save/load dialogs and text boxes not yet in ags (gfx's exist).
    
• Dialogs and scripting
  
  
  
  • Pretty much in the early stages at the moment.
    

Game facts:

• Lo-res graphics (320x200, playable area 160x90).
  
• High colour graphics.
  
• Short game, less than 10 rooms. Estimated play time not yet annonuced.
  
• Puzzles based on talking and using objects.
  
• No possibilty to die (aww, sad but true).
  
• Bad jokes, but what else to expect since you are the one telling them.
  

The demo:
Click here to download the demo. (http://koti.mbnet.fi/paajanen/ags/MAGS_CatC.rar)

The clown has had a little bit of face lifting after the demo (not enough, I know, not enough ;)).

It is still possible to bring out your ideas. Also as declared earlier, at some stage I will need help with the tunes, since I'm not capable of composing myself. Anyone who would be interested allready, please drop me a PM.

I hope it is not very long anymore that the final version is out. I will not declare any release dates, but I am optimistic to constantly have time to work on this.

Thank you for reading. Updates will follow. :)

The game looks cool. Download link doesn't work, though.

Looks interesting :) Now I'm downloading the demo.

Edit: Now I've finished the demo, it was simple and enjoying. Good luck with the full version of the game.

Skuttleman:
You were fast! I noticed it too and fixed it as fast as I could, but not fast enough it seems. ;)

Should work now.

This is just great! I could just sit here and watch those screens all day!  :D

Man I truly dig those interface graphics! :D

Heh, it's difficult to find anything that's not awesome in this game. Good luck with it, and I hope to see it released soon enough. :)

Looks really great! :)
Can't wait to see this one finished.

Not to worry.I can do the voice of your "skating-on-thin-ice" clown.Just look at my resume entitled "Hey!!I need a voice-acting job!!" and give me a script (that is,if you hire me.)

Oh, I'm sorry, but there will be no voice acting. Only music and effects. :(

Thank you all for encouragement and nice words. I'll keep on working! :)

I have been looking at the screen for some time now. And I find them great though, I don't the black stuff. It's not the size of the BG's but the fact that the border is black.  It looks so not colorfull. But giving it a circus color might draw away the attention on the actuall BG.... oh soo hard...  :P