Lone Case 3: Showdown.
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STORY
The last part of the Lone Case trilogy brings the story, five hundred years after the incidents on Lone Case 2: Scars. Dave Dell was put in cryo – genesis all this time and a young female doctor by the name of Elizabeth Scobie sets him free. But Dave will have to pull himself together, for many secrets are about to be revealed in front of his eyes. And the civilized and futuristic society of Palm Springs will never be the same...
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FEATURES:
-Two loveable characters
-Speech
-Quality Music
-CMI like interface
-Akumayos Particle Engine
-Extra Bonus Content(available after completion of game)
-Easter Eggs(Including Ben Jordan, Grim Fandango, King's Quest, Monkey Island)
-Video Cut scenes.
-And more to come...
Voice Speech Samples
http://www.mediafire.com/?7zvbsiivfjn
PROGRESS: Updated 3/3/2008
Scripting 100%
Story 100%
Puzzles 100%
Music/Sound 50%(Music needed)
Art 100%
TOTAL Progress: 84%
CREW:
Dualnames - Programmer, Artist
Stevetheblack - Story/Beta Tester
Haddas - Music
Natasha Miren - Music
Haddas - Voice Actor(Dave Dell)
Natasha Miren - Voice Actress(Dr Scobie)
Visy - Voice Actor(Ben Jordan)
Vertigoaddict - Voice Actor(LeaderOfDefrostees)
Pierre HOPQUIN - Voice Actor(John Faust, Cop)
Jeremy Kline - Voice Actor(Janitor)
FSi - Beta Tester
Jon - Beta Tester
Crazy - Beta Tester
SITE:
http://ledzepforever.googlepages.com/home
DEMO AVAILABLE:
UPDATED:
http://ledzepforever.googlepages.com/LC3Demo.rar
Trailer
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJTCQ-DEQVo
Development Diary:
UPDATE 20/10/2007
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Well after talking to Fransisco Gonzalez, well known as Grundislav and well known for Ben Jordan games, I'm glad to announce that this game will be actually the very first that will feature Ben Jordan as NPC with its author approval on it. The Ben Jordan Easter Egg will be very easy to find since I'm not gonna hide it. And it took me a 200$ fee to get Ben Jordan. No, just kidding. I've added as easter eggs/cameo appearances the following Purple Tentacle Mini, Manny Calavera's Scythe, King Graham's Hat, and the diamond from Curse of Monkey Island. That's all for now.
UPDATE 3/11/2007:
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Well, Haddas has accepted my offer for voice acting Dave Dell and his first sample impressed me..
Here it is:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/890d359f-33c5-49e3-9d26-097d0fbe37a7/DaveDell
And another sample
http://www.esnips.com/doc/60fe93dd-34c4-4737-bac3-8425b41d84a9/Dave-Dell2
He is also gonna compose some music for the game as well...
I'll post something when it's ready. But for the rest of you that know Haddas you know what he's aiming for..
Also we're having Natasha Miren(N.M.Music)
on board. She'll be the voice actor for Dr.Scobie and
will help us with the music as well.
sample is here:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/d3fd65ed-7186-45e7-879b-f30fc2bdc435/DrScobie
More info on Haddas and Natasha Miren here:
http://www.myspace.com/haddcore
http://www.myspace.com/natashamiren
UPDATE 9/11/2007
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I've been working a lot.
Anyway I've made
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/HostelRecep.png
screenshot of which I'm proud of..
And for those that didn't get it the interactive hint system will be something similar to goblins
you can press space and then click on an icon if you want to see what you should do...it will be a spoiler. Whole solution will be given.. you think i should change the system to just give hints?
UPDATE 17/11/2007
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Visy Ben Jordan Sample...
http://www.lobortis.com/n/2893229373
Well, Vertigoaddict has expressed interest on the game and he is gonna voice act as well...
Here's a sample.
http://www.mediafire.com/?5myunnv1hli
UPDATE 27/11/2007
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Well, I'm actually informing that due to my great efforts on art and scripting the last five days(not that the rest of the crew is sleeping or something) we've managed to reach the finale... We're very close to the end now... In order to stop wrong posts, I'm saying that the main game will be ready very soon. However we need music, voice acting, beta-testing, dialog fixes, proof reading, the usual stuff. But it's a good thing.. also not to forget for the bonus content I've came up with the idea of putting a mini game. The mini game will be like Duck Hunt.
UPDATE 30/11/2007
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Well, Pierre HOPQUIN has completed making the lines for two roles on the game.. and he was so fast I didn;t got the time to announce him ;D
Anyway few roles to go...
UPDATE 3/12/2007
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Jeremy Kline has completed voice acting as well. One more on board..
UPDATE 22/12/2007
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I've sacrificed myself. I voice acted a medium sized role... And thank god it doesn't sound much like me..
Wow working on 2 and three at the same time huh? You do keep busy! :)
I'm not working on two. Two is ready except music and beta testing.
EDIT:Added Teaser on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ9jx0WnR6c
That's AWESOME! Unlike the first two games, the graphics look wonderful. The only idea I dislike is the first side view. By the way, does Palm Springs play any role in this game? And what's about references to classics (the usual stuff ;))?
Quote from: Cyrus on Fri 07/09/2007 11:03:25
That's AWESOME! Unlike the first two games, the graphics look wonderful. The only idea I dislike is the first side view. By the way, does Palm Springs play any role in this game? And what's about references to classics (the usual stuff ;))?
I haven't quite decided of it's gonna be First Person View. I really like third person view adventure games a lot. Anyway, don't get discouraged it's not yet final. About Palm Springs, I don't know since I'm not the one's who'll be writing the story. But don't worry I'll supervise the whole deal. About references still not a clue. The demo should remind a little bit of Demolition Man(Silvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Dennis Rodman). I find most encouraging that you liked the graphics. I just read some tutorials and through observation and experimenting a lot they reached that level. Anyway I'll be bringing more in the meantime you guys could put in your suggestions and what you want to see, or what you don't want to see.
So it's still not the final game?
Are these "in-game" playable screenshots?
If these aren't the final versions of the graphics either this is gonna be locked until you have more work done and can show, as the rules require, proper "in-game" screenshots.
I still haven't played LC1 yet... maybe I'll wait until 2 and 3 are both out and play the trilogy.
Those are in-game screenshots. The first one is the menu image. I just haven't decided if the game's gonna be first or third person. I got so misunderstood here. And I don't know if it's gonna be the last Lone Case you'll see.
Stevetheblack has kind of accepted to write the story. So I don't have the full thing yet. It's under production. If I was writing the story this would be the last part but I'm not.
UPDATE 10/9/2007
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More Images. And some characters.
A room(3rd person view)
(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/Roomdott.jpg)
I've remade O'Riley. That should be good news, eh?
(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/ORileyanimating.gif)
Another character:
(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/Kinganimating.gif)
Another one:
(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/Daughteranimating.gif)
John faust from Lone Case 2
(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/Faustanimating.gif)
The characters look wonderful, especially O'Riley! But I'm not sure about the new background...
P. S. Could you answer to my PM?
---------UPDATE-------
1)Control Method from Sierra early 90's advanced to CMI style. Using and taking a lot of pain fixing and beta-testing Scumm GUI V2 by Electroshocker. Thanks to someone, for urging me to go to SCUMM interface. So this means that all of the Lone Case games have different control methods. That's something..
2)Changed due to reasons of better graphic experience the game's resolution to 640x480. From 320x240. So that's one thing in common with Lone Case 2 and 3.
3) I haven't decided whether to change the color depth and advance to 32bit. I'd like a second opinion to that.
4)Unfortunately the past 4 days I haven't work on the art. And before the story is fully written I'm not planning to. Maybe I'll just re-create the characters from Lone Case one in case they are needed.
I'll be back with more.....
Quote3) I haven't decided whether to change the color depth and advance to 32bit. I'd like a second opinion to that.
Unless you're going to use alpha'd sprites, don't bother. You won't gain much (if anything,) and those who still only have 16 or 24 bit video cards will hate you.
That said I haven't played any of your Lone Case games yet. Maybe tonight...
Update 15/9/2007
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Also here's the new version of Dave Dell. Fully animated.
I think it's very smooth. And very fun to watch.
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(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/right1.gif)
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(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/front1.gif)
(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/back.gif)
(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/back1.gif)
EDIT: I've also added my CMI GUI code free for all.(that's not making any sense) Anyway check this out.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=32398.0
That Dave Dell looks nice, but, as I suppose, you should update the Sho-Ryu-Ken corp.'s website by adding Lone Case 2 and 3 (Sorry for the offtop).
Well, I've been doing some GUI's, and I've come up with the idea to make a bonus content GUI that will be accesible to the player once he's finished the game. The bonus content will be artwork pre work sketches etc. And while doing that I've come up with SlideShow module.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=32575.msg421019#msg421019
If you have any ideas about what you'd like to see as bonus content PM me or post it here.
Err... Maybe something that can open hidden Easter Eggs.
DEMO AVAILABLE:
Check the demo(Changed a lot)
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?category=0&action=detail&id=924&refresh1189033748
The game is also using keyboard shortcuts.
Changed many things. Check it out. Actually if you could help me with the parser text part it would be good. Tell me what did you type and you expected to have an answer so that I can make this game real better.
Looks wonderul.
UPDATE 20/10/2007
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Well after talking to Fransisco Gonzalez, well known as Grundislav and well known for Ben Jordan games, I'm glad to announce that this game will be actually the very first that will feature Ben Jordan as NPC with its author approval on it. The Ben Jordan Easter Egg will be very easy to find since I'm not gonna hide it. And it took me a 200$ fee to get Ben Jordan. No, just kidding. I've added as easter eggs/cameo appearances the following Purple Tentacle Mini, Manny Calavera's Scythe, King Graham's Hat, and the diamond from Curse of Monkey Island. That's all for now.
-Deleted-
Well, Haddas has accepted my offer for voice acting Dave Dell and his first sample impressed me..
Here it is:
http://files.filefront.com/DaveDellwav/;9012263;/fileinfo.html
And another sample
http://files.filefront.com/Dave+Dell2wav/;9012256;/fileinfo.html
He is also gonna compose some music for the game as well...
I'll post something when it's ready. But for the rest of you that know Haddas you know what he's aiming for..
Also we're having Natasha Miren(N.M.Music)
on board. She'll be the voice actor for Dr.Scobie and
will help us with the music as well.
sample is here:
http://files.filefront.com/DrScobiemp3/;9012269;/fileinfo.html
More info on Haddas and Natasha Miren here:
http://www.myspace.com/haddcore
http://www.myspace.com/natashamiren
UPDATE 9/11/2007
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I've been working a lot.
Anyway I've made(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/HostelRecep.png)screenshot of which I'm proud of..
Also I like to announce that on the list of easter eggs lies an insult swordfighting mini game...
And for those that didn't get it the interactive hint system will be something similar to goblins
you can press space and then click on an icon if you want to see what you should do...it will be a spoiler. Whole solution will be given.. you think i should change the system to just give hints?
I really like that Goblins-styled hint syustem, it's one of the best things Goblins has. Don't change it.
those voice samples won't work for me... And I was just looking forward to hear Haddas' manly voice
EDIT:
oh that's cool!
You know I've never gotten to actually playing any lonecase game. I might give them a swing now
Now you can. I've updated the links.
Hello chaps. Thought it was about time I checked in on the production thread, being the writer and all :) I've been having a lot of fun writing this, so if you have any plot specific questions I'll do my best to answer them, take some of the strain off Dualnames :)
Another one has been recruited for voice acting
Visy has send me all the files for
Spoiler
Ben Jordan
Yes. That's right. I'll post a sample sooner or later.
So hold your breath.
How do you get recruited as a voice actor? I want to try, but I've never played any lone case games before and I don't know any of the characters. I will one day, when my life combs out.
You can be a voice actor by PMing me. Visy didn't knew either about the game. But this didn't stop him voice acting. Anyway if you PM I'll send you a story outline to know what we're talking about.
UPDATE 17/11/2007
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Well, Vertigoaddict has expressed interest on the game and he is gonna voice act as well...
Here's a sample.
http://www.mediafire.com/?5myunnv1hli
Quote from: Dualnames on Fri 09/11/2007 22:11:13
UPDATE 9/11/2007
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And for those that didn't get it the interactive hint system will be something similar to goblins
you can press space and then click on an icon if you want to see what you should do...it will be a spoiler. Whole solution will be given.. you think i should change the system to just give hints?
Guess you should give a limited amount of hints - just like Goblins 2.
I've put a topic if you want to comment on the hint system.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=32985.0
I've just seen the teaser on youtube : WOWWOWOWOW ! Guns and roses will do you soundtrack ? lol :p
I PM you for the voice acting
I wish I had Guns N' Roses. But I think i'll use it as credit song. Anyway I've PMed you back.
UPDATE 27/11/2007
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Well, I'm actually informing that due to my great efforts on art and scripting the last five days(not that the rest of the crew is sleeping or something) we've managed to reach the finale... We're very close to the end now... In order to stop wrong posts, I'm saying that the main game will be ready very soon. However we need music, voice acting, beta-testing, dialog fixes, proof reading, the usual stuff. But it's a good thing.. also not to forget for the bonus content I've came up with the idea of putting a mini game. The mini game will be like Duck Hunt
UPDATE 30/11/2007
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Well, Pierre HOPQUIN has completed making the lines for two roles on the game.. and he was so fast I didn;t got the time to announce him ;D
Anyway few roles to go...
UPDATE 3/12/2007
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Jeremy Kline has completed voice acting as well. One more on board..
I'm still alive and working on those lines. It's a tough job. I only found the time to start on it today. But I've already done some 45+ lines. Won't be many more days until I'll be ready with those. They will be a couple megs though. We're not talking about 200 lines here.
The game size without speech vox is 3.4(rar) and with speech vox reaches 6.2mb.
Regarding that in the speech a big part of N.M.Music(Dr Scobie) lines are missing and Vertiggoaddict role is missing two kinda big dialogs and receptionist hasn't been voice acted and not a single line of Dave Dell lies in that speech vox.. We're missing
35+40+42+500=700 lines of speech remaining. Which if luckily each file was 10kb that adds a well.. 7mb.. Reaching to a 10mb speech vox file. Imagine the music...
I forgot to say that this game instead of featuring some stupid idea of mine for that Grim Fandango easter egg will feature Manny Calavera himself. (I'm voice acting)
as nowadays games weight all 7,3 Gb, who is afraid of 10 Mb ?
Where are you with the drawing, scripting and so on ?
Well, the game has only
music
beta testing
proofreading
and voice acting left..
good news :) cool ! If you need some betatester ... here :)
I'm quite happy to proof-read it if you need me :)
I was thinking of using you as a proof reader.. But I'll take that later. Now I'm fixing various staff... and putting the voice lines together as well..
Dualnames id be happy to do some voice acting or beta testing or proof read
This looks really good! I'll be more than happy to beta-test, Dualnames.
Hellbeast I've PMed you..
and Jon I'll send you the beta test version of the game when I have it..
I know a guy who has the beta version
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Lol
Yeah me too but it's kind of old beta version
Contains 12 rooms.. and it's much more in the game.. :'(
Ok, recently problems have come up with this project but I've managed to deal with them. Anyway, I'm looking for someone who can do Calavera.
You know him the guy from Grim Fandango. Not many lines..
Guess no one can do manny....
Anyway still waiting for a PM...
By the way, I've added myself for voice acting..
Manic Matt would sure kill for a sample but I'm saving it...
That means roles lacking voice actors are 2..
Unfortunately for female voice actors they're both male...
I am working on your homeless voice.
I cant do manny calavera as I played the french version of the game... That wont be the same voice.
You looked like having a lot of voice actors, where are they all ?
Haddas is working out on Dave Dell
N.M.Music is doing Dr Scobie
Jeremy Cline is janitor
Vertigo Addict is the voice behind the leader
You're doing John Faust
I 'm doing the recepionist...
7 voice actors..
Just saying: I've been caught up in a lot of projects (including paid ones), real life stuff and various problems. Rest assured that it WILL get done. In a little while.
Quote from: Haddas on Mon 24/12/2007 10:43:36
Just saying: I've been caught up in a lot of projects (including paid ones), real life stuff and various problems. Rest assured that it WILL get done. In a little while.
I know you're busy.. I hope the rest of there know it.
And as Rui once said to me...
Never rush a game out..
I just have to say, it's been a pleasure working with Dualnames,
While I was so busy with other stuff and strangling myself over the fact that I couldn't get any voice acting done quick enough, he'd repeatedly said that I shouldn't worry about it (of course I'm too much of a dramatic to take note, I kept on apologizing, he probably got a little annoyed...heheheh, sorry).
I'm playing LC 1, first few minutes in, I was drawn to the game.
Good luck on LC3!
Thanks vertiggo. Really best gift I received this X-mas...
Nobody's getting paid for this game so I can't like be "Do your job or else.."
UPDATE
2/1/2008
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Happy New Year for starters..
Lately, I've been checking things out changing GUI's and all that boring technical stuff.
Anyway, I have to say that this game will be 32 bit instead of 16 bit since all backgrounds look better in 32 bit mode.. In the meantime, I'm running a competition. Check the adventure related chat..
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=33357.0
In the meantime I'm calling for serious or non beta testers to PM me or post here..
I'll give beta testing a shot if you want.
^Ditto.
PMed you both..For the rest of you, if you want to beta test, the more the merrier.
I'm happy to Beta Dualnames.
Beta is going pretty well, Radiant will decide for one more cameo appearance and I'm looking for another beta tester to make a beta quartet.
LAST IN LINE WILL BE:
Larry Lotter, the guy from Warthogs.(As chosen by Radiant)
No more beta testers required...We got Crazy, Jon, FSi, Stevetheblack.. and they 're doing a good job..
Well we need proofreaders and translators so contact me if you're interested. Thank you.
Trailer here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJTCQ-DEQVo
One more on board:
[Cameron] doing Manuel Calavera.
(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/1-5.png)
EDIT: As well as added/updated demo
http://ledzepforever.googlepages.com/LC3Demo.rar
Oh god, does this demo have the voice acting in it? I listen to my old work and I cringe sometimes. At least it shows that I've gotten better...
What role is Manny going to play in the plot? Will he be an ally or an antagonist of Dave?
Quote from: Cyrus on Sun 10/02/2008 15:30:42
What role is Manny going to play in the plot? Will he be an ally or an antagonist of Dave?
Mind reading some insider information?
Spoiler
He'll be an easter egg. In fact you'd need to pixelhunt like no tomorrow to see him.
now i'm downloading the first two episodes...
i'm wating for the third episode...
i'm informing that beta-testing phase is finished so we're entering proofreading phase. In the meantime, I recall that the demo has no speech vox with it. Or music vox.
FSi had no trouble finding Manny, but that's just FSi. Not to mention that he found a million bugs as well.
Merlin thanks for the interest. I suggest you play Lc1 with a walkthrough since ok the story is good but some puzzles are rather illogical. Lc2 is considered easy and I made all the puzzles logical..
I would like to offer my services as a proofreader. My language is English.
Thanks, Kenn
We're on the final stages... what I need is someone to do a couple of songs. Natasha Miren made the theme and that's about what I needed..Haddas ended up really busy and he's not replying in messages I've been sending him,for about one month.He has declared that he was working on some other projects so ok that was a little bit of expected.
Since the wpowell attack I'm sure but I have to double post since this game from third ended up second page and my previous post is of high importance. Sorry, Darth , not planning to give you more headaches than you already have.
-dd
Long time around these parts.. Anyway, you'll get your hands on speech version..
vertiggoaddict.. has volunteered to do the sum of 482 lines. So yes Dave will get a voice as well all the folks around.
Here;s the one Sample. (http://ledzepforever.googlepages.com/Rust_1_5_20081_11_42.wav)
I am working hard with the voices! Check this out:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y271/dagaran/whoah.png
That's my desktop screen...
I did it in one go (which is stupid, cause now my throat feels wierd)
Quote from: Dualnames on Wed 30/04/2008 23:21:58
vertiggoaddict.. has volunteered to do the sum of 482 lines. So yes Dave will get a voice as well all the folks around.
Wow VA, you are really going for voice acting aren't you? Great to be so ambitious but don't take too much hay on your fork ;)
Doing Dave's voice s actually really fun! I finally get to use my southern American accent. (although it's slightly obscured by the husky rough voice that goes with it).
116 lines out, 316 more to go! ^_^
Oh, well you're fast... i'll give you that. Don;t get injured in the process... 8)
well, luck has failed me... But thought is helping me more.
I lost all speech files but i've managed to retrieve them all except, that
I don;t know how to retrieve this file:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/1a1afe90-2466-4194-a1f5-6b35292ef6d4/cop_sentences_3.mp3
Always, Always, Always back up to a CD/DVD my friend.
I did. My computer died twice. Anyway managed to retrieve them all but some lines that Natasha Miren has.. so we actually will get lucky. If someone tells me how to retrieve the cop files from e-snips. I've done it again, Haddas told me how to..
Well, we need a musician we got all files there. So if anyone cares for it..contact me.