Cuttthoat: A pirates tale

[uNdEaD pRiEsT]

im now working on a pirate adventure game
it will obviously be inspired by monkey island and its kin

ive ababdoned work on my planet of the apes game, so if anyone read my recent forum and saw some screenshots then i dont know, i gave up

[Minimi]

screenshots, plot??  Can you give some more information than that?

[GarageGothic]

What is it with pirates? Sure, Monkey Island was a great game, but everyone and their mother is making a pirate game.

Looking back at the last few pages of the Games in Production forum I find Pirate Fry 2, Skurvy Dawgs: A Pirate's Tale (which was recently cancelled) and The Island of Shadows. Not to mention Buccaneer 2, which although not exactly a pirate game, is a swashbuckler adventure. I also remember somebody suggesting a Pirates of the Carribbean game.

Did you consider finding an original idea before posting your two-sentence announcement? Or did you notice the READ BEFORE POSTING thread? If you have nothing to say, then keep quiet and work on your game, instead of wasting our time with brilliant topics like: "discuss wot the best adventure game is".

NOTE: I would never attack somebody like this if I actually thought they had a serious project (Buccaneer and Pirate Fry are fine games, and I mean no offense to their creators). Judging from uNdEaD pRiEsT's last posts though, I'm beginning to think that the registration quiz is too easy.

"Just because you're a newbie doesn't mean you have to act like one."

[Snake]

Yes, I wish everybody would read the rules thread before posting. It gives some very good insight on what the hell you're supposed to be doing with this forum

--EDIT--

What is it with pirates?

I find nothing wrong with pirate adventures, but I think there are too much detective adventures. everytime I think some game is gonna be cool I read tghe post and read, "...you're a private I who's...". I'm not really big on detective games. The only ones that really appealed to me with AGS are PB: Dark Ages, Jake Dibble and Underwater Adventures.
I don't know, that's only my opinion, but I'm just sick of seeing so many games where you're a detective.

--Snake

[GarageGothic]

Not sure if I shouldn't rather let this thread die, but we might as well get something useful out of it

First of all, as I said, I have no problem with games like Pirate Fry or Buccanneer. They are original enough to stand apart from the obvious inspiration of Monkey Island.

I agree that there are also far too many detective games around. Especially the kind who thinks that putting a Bogart-like PI and a dangerous dame in a story makes it noir.
But I do think that the detective genre lends itself better to the gameplay of adventure games than pirate stories, which is hardly even a genre, more of a setting. My problem with pirates (in games) is that there is very little "natural gameplay" besides fencing, recruiting ship crew and digging up treasures. This usually leads to a very loosely structured plot with puzzles of little or no relation to the actual theme. Maybe this is why all pirate games I can remember have been comedy games.

I just think that detective work is by itself very similar to actually playing an adventure game. But it could be very interesting indeed to see a serious pirate game. Maybe focused around a treasure mystery, with maps and clues like those in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug" (ok, so maybe it's actually a detective game on the high seas ).

[Pet Terry]

How about a pirate game where you are private investogator and...

[Snake]

hardily hoodily doo at you Petteroo

I thought of that too... I agree that detective games give a lot more to the adventure (having to find clues, take notes and investgating)...I guess I'm just sick of seeing so many

ANYWAY....
Let's not get this topic off topic...back to the game:

Mr. Undead: You don't have any explaination about the game in your post whatsoever...please tell us about the game, give screenshots...or if you need to (which is HIGHLY recommended) read the rules


--Snake