Adventure Game Studio

Story
Somewhere in the near future, a cargo ship goes missing. The owner of the ship, Augustus Goldhandle, wants to find out what happened. Looks like a job for a private investigator, right?

Well, apparently something goes wrong, and soon just an ordinary guy, called Mike Night, finds himself looking for the lost cargo ship, in the tourist trap of Pearl Island. At first it looks like a piece of cake, but eventually Mike realises that it probably wasn't such a bright idea pretend being a private investigator.

Screenies
(http://personal.inet.fi/surf/presents/gl/01.png) (http://personal.inet.fi/surf/presents/gl/02.png)
Inventory GUI show-off & cozy cottage.

(http://personal.inet.fi/surf/presents/gl/03.png) (http://personal.inet.fi/surf/presents/gl/04.png)
Familiar looking band(?) & bookstore by the cliff ("Wouldn't you like to sit on that bench?" -Helm).

Music
Listen a quick sampler including some tunes that will appear in Goldlagoon. (http://personal.inet.fi/surf/presents/gl/gltuney.ogg)


Features:
- A mysterious case to solve.
- Different ways to solve puzzles.
- Colourful low-resolution art.
- Lots of animation and sound effects when appropriate!
- Neat character close-ups, drawn by loominous.
- Digital atmospheric soundtrack inspired by Pleurghburg: Dark Ages and Boards of Canada.
- Cutscenes including voice speech!


Updates:
***25th of September - The post-Mittens update***
Holy crap, it's been a while. I had to redo the whole thread, as there was some old information in there. And I thought I'd update you with progress, as I need your opinions.

First of all, the project is going rather slow, for now. I've got other things to finish first. But I'll hope to have those things finished before the end of the year.

Second, Goldlagoon was shown and told at Mittens. I got good comments on it from various people and I've got some ideas. Now let's see...

At Mittens, I had a chat with m0ds, regarding Goldlagoon. I mentioned most of the graphics being finished for the first "part" of the game, and m0ds asked if I was going to release Goldlagoon in parts. Even if that wasn't my intention at first, it made me think. Lately, I've been thinking about releasing Goldlagoon in five or six short episodes. That way I could get stuff out instead of people having to wait for years to get to play the full game. And I want to get people to play this game some time, you know.

Another thing, voice acting. At first I was thinking of including full voice speech. But that would require hell lot of work, and many people would turn it off anyways. So instead, I'm thinking about including voice acting to the main cutscenes only. You see, I once made a small demo to show off at Brittens 2004, and I wanted to include voice acting. So the demo had voice acting, and there's especially one part that sounds about 100 times better with voice acting, than without it. So, cutscenes will have voice acting.

Righto, that should be all for now. I hope I didn't forget anything important, as I kind of rushed with this thing. Now people, tell me what you think. Especially, tell me what you think about releasing the game in episodes. Just, write something and make me happy.

Thankees
Chrille, loominous, Helm, custard, Al_Ninio, strazer, Geoffkhan, Mikko, Neole, Azure, m0ds, eVOLVE, Grundislav, Rui, Mr. Hyde, Vel. If I forgot someone and they know I did, slap me with a adorable kitten.

Goldlagoon?
You get Goldmund's seal of approval.
The last screenshot reminds me of Boss' office in Zak. We always get lousy bosses in adventure games. Designers trying to tell something?

Check update from the first post.

I'm glad to see you're waiting my game. Anyways, I check first post, there's a BIG update. Also, listen new medley I made.

Looking good - especially the first background!

yeah...looks great!!!!

Mike Night, huh? He needs a talking indestructible black car.

Oh, no he doesn't, he's not Michael Knight ;)

Anyway, thanks for the comments, I hope you would listen those music samples :)

Looks great!

Hyvä että suomalaiset tekevät myös AGS pelejä, itse en osaa niin hyvin AGSsää mutta piirtää kyllä paremmin. Toivottavasti saat hyvän pelin aikaiseksi.

EDIT: What program you use? Photoshop or paintshoppro?

Looks excellent, can't wait!

Those pictures look very good and music isn't bad either!

Thanks a lot! Great to see you like it :)

Hey hey hey! First post updated!

Great stuff, this! The style is wonderful... I love the characters and the backgrounds, they go together perfectly.

The music sounds good. :-)

i just love the style Petteri!!!!

This sounds GREAT!
I LOVE your art,
CAN'T WAIT!


--Snake

great looking screens! makes me wish i were more proactive on my game.
adding this to my "can't wait to see it finished" list. ;D

Ooh, this looks promising! The art is really splendid, man.
Keep us updated!

Impressive! Keep up the good work! My favorite picture is the top one, with the city skyline. Great work.

--Erwin

:o

Thanks, I'm really glad you like it! It makes me want to work with this more! Thanks again :D

Update in the first post! Added game will feature and development contributors!

This game is looking very good. GREAT job!
Keep up the good work!

Glad you like it agsking :) BTW, small update in the first post.

Critic from the pictures.

In the street picture (with the text) the trees looks bit weird, kinda out of place.
And in the room where a man is sitting behind the table, the on of the buldings in the horizon looks kinda weird.

But I am waiting this game a lot. And I like that you have redrawn the hero char.  :)

Hello!
I've changed the plot so it's a bit more original now. I hope it's better, at least I like it :P And of course, see the first post for updates.

Looking good Petteri, I love the music and the screenshots and concepts are great. The music seems to fit the locations well. keep up the good work and I look forward to playing it.

Just a small update, check the first post.

w00tily w00t!

Can't wait for the new screenies, Pete...er...Pette, Pet...PettingZoo...!?!


--Snake

Hello all! I made a small update in the first post. Nothing big really, but atleast you know that I'm working on this game (really!).

oooh neat! When I get time I'll record an audition for you.
You can find my Va credits and some clips at http://www.btinternet.com/~yukino

That's really cool, azure :)

I updated the first post with new look of main character Mike Night, because the old one was too big compared to other characters. I'll update the screenshots with new character... soon, I hope.

Nice bgs, but I think the music is great! I can make some spooky voices, but judging from the characters above, u won't need me.

Looks cool^_^like the art work ;)

Woh, never noticed this thread before. That's looking/sounding great, Petteri. I like the graphic style and use of colours too. I'm looking forward to it.

-Michael-

Thanks guys! Oh, and I forgot that there's couple new screenshot on my website, find the link in my signature ;)

okies my clip wasn't sure what type of ovice you wanted so I went deep & snoby
http://www.voiceacting.co.uk/azure/azure_cafegirla.mp3

OMG AZURE!!!!! IT'S JAYV FROM VOICEACTING.CO.UK!!!!! XD HOW ARE YOUUUU!

Hey Pete!

The game is looking great!  I can't wait to try it out.  :)

Hmmm... I've been thinking about trying my hand at voice acting... so once I get home on Monday, I'll be sending you a PM.

Keep up the excellent work.

Hello Jay XD thought I'd run into someone from VACU one of these days.

The game is looking very good too! Glad to see it's still going

Whoo, thanks guys and gals! I've been working with this one pretty much lately and I've been thinking about updating this thread soon when I get a couple more new screenies to show. Sorry that I haven't sent any lines for you to record yet, I have lots of dialog ready, but I haven't scripted it in the game yet.

Sully: I'm waiting :)

Hey, if you have some short lines, for some peeps in the game, I can do some of them.

How much sound effects are you going to use btw? Like opening door, footsteps, birds singing etc?

*bump*

Long awaited screenies are here! Check the first post, please.

Awesome screenies!

I look forward to this big time!

~ d

Excellent, Petie!  I love the new screens!  Can't wait to see more.

Dude, that game is gonna KICK ASS!!

*bump*

Ouch, that fall hurt.

...oh, I updated the first post with a little progress report.

by the way i wanna audition for vocals or something.

http://www.jasonvoiceover.tk is a place to get some REALLY BAD samples. and then if you want you can try me out with an actual audition

Jay V, I emailed you with an address I got from your website.

Pom. 1st post, ok?

Nice you got screen7 to help with the music, they were going to help me too. never came throughÃ,   :-X

Wowies! I think I recognize those guys in the band... ;)

I think that speech would be good if it was throughout the whole game but, meh, your decision.

that's weird. there is an update now... yesterday i was going to email to ask how it were going.
strange...