Ebb Tide: A Jake Fisher Mystery

vurt · Sat 04/11/2006 20:09:24

Curious Yellow Productions

presents

Ebb Tide: A Jake Fisher Mystery

The Story

Jake Fisher is a medium. Reluctantly so, but it's not the kind of thing you can just turn on and off when you feel like it. After a high-profile case ends in disaster, Jake retreats to remote Ebb Island in an attempt to cut himself off from the world. Unfortunately for his peace of mind, the world has other ideas.

(NB: I began this game well before I saw anything about The Blackwell Legacy so hopefully people aren't too put off by multiple medium-themed games)

Pictures!

Disclaimer: My graphical shortcomings are legendary but I'm too proud to do paintovers. Hopefully these backgrounds won't put anybody off from playing the game...

Thrill to the classy decor of your Ebb Island hideaway!

Go indirectly to jail!

Bribe the dead to give you information!

Progress

Story: 100%
Puzzle Design: 100%
Backgrounds: 85%
Sprites and Animation: 80%
Scripting: 50%
Music: 0%

Sales Pitch

- Quite a few backgrounds of varying qualities!
- Lots of characters with talkcycles and some with walkcycles!
- Bonus animations!
- Point and click interface!
- A whole pile of puzzles involving object manipulation!
- Dialog trees!
- Global integers!
- A beginning, a middle and an end!
- Horror, romance and delinquent behaviour!
- Probably no music or sound so there better be something you like in the above points!

Release Date

I'm aiming to release early December... and definitely before 2007 hits.

ManicMatt · Sun 05/11/2006 00:38:45

I wanna see some sprites!

Maybe Jake Riker from my game can join up with Jake Fisher from your game.

vurt · Sun 05/11/2006 01:23:06

Shot where you can see a sprite...

Again, my graphical skills are lacking, but hopefully it shouldn't be too distracting in-game.

ManicMatt · Sun 05/11/2006 01:30:14

No, you're no graphical wizard but the backgrounds are better than anything I can do!

They're nice, pleasant graphics. I'll play your game when it's made.

marlamoe · Sun 05/11/2006 02:13:51

Hurry up, I wanna play

thewalrus · Sun 05/11/2006 16:03:09

Give yourself more credit. The backgrounds are simple but lovely. I will definitly put this game on my can't wait to play list! Keep up the good work!!!

Buckethead · Sun 05/11/2006 18:52:46

This looks like a lovely game. Can't wait to play it =)

vurt · Mon 06/11/2006 05:15:39

Thanks for the kind words. I've pretty much finished all the sprites now, so it's just the last three backgrounds to do and I'm done, done, done with the art!

As of today, I'm still on track for an early December release date

thewalrus · Mon 06/11/2006 16:12:26

Good to hear it! I can't wait to play, looking forward to the game!!!

CosmoQueen · Tue 07/11/2006 06:56:12

Hey that looks wicked!! I'll definetly be playing your game!!!

modgeulator · Tue 07/11/2006 08:25:05

It looks good to me. If you want help with music and sound send me a message and I'll see if I can do something.

vurt · Tue 07/11/2006 10:00:38

Quote from: modgeulator on Tue 07/11/2006 08:25:05
It looks good to me. If you want help with music and sound send me a message and I'll see if I can do something.

Thanks for the offer, but at the moment, I'd like to keep myself to the early Dec release date. It's not fair to ask/expect someone to deliver something in such a short timeframe.

However, depending on the feedback the game gets and how I feel about it, I'm considering working on a full speech/sound/music version next year.