NES Quest

[Mr.T]

Hi, to get familiar with the great AGS my friend Yolt and I decided to make
a short adventure game before going deeper for a long one. Please excuse
my English if there are any mistakes in the description.


NES Quest
        a kcd production..


Story: The hero lent his NES to his cousins, unfortunately for him they
brought it back ruined. In a great desperation, he decide to fix it no matter
what it takes, and his journey begins.

Snapshots:







2d Graphics: Yolt
Script, Music: Mr.T

Progress:
- story: 100%
- graphics: 100%
- scripting: 100%
- puzzles: 100%
- music/sound: 100%
- beta checked: 100%

Beta Testers: (beta testers will be of course mentioned in the credits   bold finished testing)
-Twin Moon
-Dualnames
-CosmoQueen
-Peder Johnsen

Beta release for testers:
-During the week of 24 March, I'll pm you with the link of the beta.

Official Release:
-We decided to report the final release for April (so we don't rush too much)

Production Diary:
·Sunday, March 30th 2008
-Fixed everything testers told us, we are waiting for the last feedback form to check one
last time and release the game.

·Thursday, March 27th 2008
-Well TwinMoon warned us he would give us work when he'll finished the beta,
and he was right haha  Thank you! Starting to fix what you pointed out to us right now.

·Wednesday, March 26th 2008
-Mini game done

·Tuesday, March 25th 2008
-Beta testing launched 
Scripting mini game (load of reading.. seemed easy at first haha)

·Monday, March 24th 2008
-Beta is almost ready, checking few things with Yolt before sending to beta testers.
We decided not to implement 2 things, so beta testers will still have something to
discover in the last release. 

[Afflict]

Lol I like the look of it Awesome, can't wait to play it.

[GarageGothic]

Looks like good fun. One question: In which year is the game set? The guy plays the NES and has a Run-D.M.C. poster on his wall, yet the piggy bank has a euro symbol on it? Maybe he's just a nostalgia freak like the rest of us.

[CodeJunkie]

Nice idea for a game, and the graphics are very good.  I look forward to playing.

[Mr.T]

Thank you very much for the fast feedback, it gives us energy to finish it faster

Maybe he's just a nostalgia freak like the rest of us.

This is exactly what we were thinking, and since it's based on a true story (lol.. my cousins ruined
my NES unfortunately...) we though it would be fun. We still have our NES. (and I'm proud to own
a Maniac Mansion cartridge haha)

I hope you'll like it. More snapshots coming this week.

[R4L]

This looks awesome!

[CosmoQueen]

Graphics look amazing!!! I know I'm gonna have fun with this one

[twin-moon]

Looking good!

Just one thing: Please tell me the light zapper will be in this game?

[Ubel]

The blocky speech font ruins the otherwise good looking graphics.

[robotsquid]

Thank you very much for the fast feedback, it gives us energy to finish it faster

Maybe he's just a nostalgia freak like the rest of us.

This is exactly what we were thinking, and since it's based on a true story (lol.. my cousins ruined
my NES unfortunately...) we though it would be fun. We still have our NES. (and I'm proud to own
a Maniac Mansion cartridge haha)

I hope you'll like it. More snapshots coming this week.

haha, i still have a nes and copy of maniac too!  have you given any thoughts to music?  i'm imagineing this with an 8-bit chiprock soundtrack.  something like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO3bU_AnMQk

[Mr.T]

Thank you very much for the fast feedback, it gives us energy to finish it faster

Maybe he's just a nostalgia freak like the rest of us.

This is exactly what we were thinking, and since it's based on a true story (lol.. my cousins ruined
my NES unfortunately...) we though it would be fun. We still have our NES. (and I'm proud to own
a Maniac Mansion cartridge haha)

I hope you'll like it. More snapshots coming this week.

haha, i still have a nes and copy of maniac too!  have you given any thoughts to music?  i'm imagineing this with an 8-bit chiprock soundtrack.  something like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO3bU_AnMQk

Holy Cow! lol I didn't knew that crew, nice chip tune
I planned to digg out my old mod/xm and see if I have already some tracks for the game,
I found for the intro, and the hero's house. Since Fast Tracker doesn't work anymore on XP
I found this clone: Skale Tracker and Milky Tracker, I'll try them to see if it does the job
(skale tracker seemed to work great..)

If any of you guys knows a great clone of FT2 working under XP I would be glad to know.

Thanks again for your feedback I really appreciate

Pablo: We could try another font, we didn't got into looking for a new one, but I have to
admit I like this one. Or maybe finding a more NES like, I found nice links there:
http://www.zee-3.com/pickfordbros/archive/bitmapfonts.php
http://www.thealmightyguru.com/GameFonts/Index.html

[Rd27]

This looks to be very funny game ! I like the graphics very much.

8-bit NES gives much good memories for me...

Good luck for finishing it!

[robotsquid]

Thank you very much for the fast feedback, it gives us energy to finish it faster

Maybe he's just a nostalgia freak like the rest of us.

This is exactly what we were thinking, and since it's based on a true story (lol.. my cousins ruined
my NES unfortunately...) we though it would be fun. We still have our NES. (and I'm proud to own
a Maniac Mansion cartridge haha)

I hope you'll like it. More snapshots coming this week.

haha, i still have a nes and copy of maniac too!  have you given any thoughts to music?  i'm imagineing this with an 8-bit chiprock soundtrack.  something like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO3bU_AnMQk

Holy Cow! lol I didn't knew that crew, nice chip tune
I planned to digg out my old mod/xm and see if I have already some tracks for the game,
I found for the intro, and the hero's house. Since Fast Tracker doesn't work anymore on XP
I found this clone: Skale Tracker and Milky Tracker, I'll try them to see if it does the job
(skale tracker seemed to work great..)

If any of you guys knows a great clone of FT2 working under XP I would be glad to know.

Thanks again for your feedback I really appreciate

Pablo: We could try another font, we didn't got into looking for a new one, but I have to
admit I like this one. Or maybe finding a more NES like, I found nice links there:
http://www.zee-3.com/pickfordbros/archive/bitmapfonts.php
http://www.thealmightyguru.com/GameFonts/Index.html

fasttracker!  that's a program i havn't heard mentioned in a long time.  does it ont run under dosbox?  my friend and i used to make simple electronic music under the name STOP! GObot, we have loads of choons and would be happy to let you use anything you want for yr game.  our myspace is http://www.myspace.com/stopgobot  if you like what you hear let me know, we can upload our back-catalogue somewhere for you.

p.s.  the graphics look great, good luck with the project.

[Cyrus]

Pity it's too short. Anyway, seems wonderful!

[Mr.T]

Robotsquid: Hey thank you very much for the offer, we really appreciate
However I already started putting some music and since it's a small game
it won't be a problem. I hope you'll like my chiptunes tho

I finally ended with Milky Tracker, amazing how close it works like Fast Tracker II,
it fully supports all effects from what I tested. ( Skale Tracker couldn't )

I did a fast theme it works great.


Cyrus: Hey mate even if it will be short I really hope you'll like it, we decided with
Yolt to go for a short one, since many times big projects got aborted because of
too ambitious story/graphics/etc.. (I have been there with a mod for half life which
got aborted and it's really a shame... )


Thank you all for your feedback!

[nikosX]

Hey dude I wanna be a beta tester on this one!

Good luck, though I don't think you re going to need any:)

[Cyrus]

Any references to classic adventures?

[Mr.T]

Cyrus: we couldn't resist and yes there is few references but I won't tell much
to not spoil it

NikosX: Hey mate when the beta will be ready I will PM you for testing

We believe with Yolt the beta will be ready on the end of the next week
if everything go as it should, I hope it will

I added on more snapshot, it's the map of the game

[Grue]

I just love the look of the game. 

[Galen]

Apart from the overly low-resolution default font it looks absolutely great. Just make sure to include a little pixelated Mario somewhere