Project Hecka: Faith

[vertigoaddict]

I want to try and make my first game on/with AGS. 'Faith' was the result of trying.

Okay, Faith is a story about this girl, Faith. She attends an all girls boarding school where currently about 4 murders had already been committed. Who is the killer? Why did he/she do it? Will the detectives ever find out? And what of Faith and evey other girl in school?Is everything really as it seems?

okay...I think that went well...heheheheh... this is aimed to be a short- medium game; peferably short. NB, the backgrounds that I will show you are not in-game...yet.

The common room


The bedroom


I'm planning to do atleast 5 backgrounds...yeah, this game is gonna be fairly short.

picures of characters, you can see in the 'recruit a team' thread; i don't wanna crowd the whole forum by repeatedly posting the same pictures.

I'm still in the very early stages so...

Plot= 100%
Story= 100%
Backgrounds = 100%
Music= 0%
Scripting= 2%

I was gonna write the story with my sis, so that we could do a collaboration, but she's really busy and won't do anything until around june; she's not doing much in story actually... just biographies...so that'll count as BG story? Anyway I told her, I'll wait for her.

I've asked Raggit to do the music, again, quite a busy guy, but I'll have to be patient.

I need voice overs and someone really good at scripting, I've asked a couple (2) people but they haven't replied to my PMs yet.

There isn't an actuall deadline as I am also quite busy...we all are these days. I just want to finish it and I have devoted myself quite a little bit more than my studying (bad vertigo! bad, bad boy!) Please anyone! Check the recruit a team thread, if you think you can do the voices please reply! I want to get as much as possible while I wait for my sis; god, I even took 36 pictures of the school hostel to get 'the feel of it'.

Crew:

vertigoaddict- story/art

lo_res_man- co-art (re-vamping of portraits and posters)

Raggit- music

theatrix- voices (not yet casted)

Brentimous- scripting

Progress Diary:

My sister got too busy and she quit. So, I'll be writing up the whole story. In a way that's much better and quicker.

Still, I cannot do much until after the 15th of June.

I'm adding a few more touches to the old rooms.

Back to school. Have 3 other projects. Was ill for 2 weeks.

GOD I HAVE A TON OF HOMEWORK!!!! I really should be doing them, oh well. I started this first, I'm confident that I can actually finish this project! Root for me guys! You are my strength.

10/1/08 (it's the tenth of January here)

Apparently this will not be my first game. I'll be creating a variety of short games while I make this game, so I can get used to AGS and keep my motivation up.

All there's left to do for this project is the; animations, scripting, voices and music. (Most likely in that order. As soon as I get this scripting/coding thing down, it's good to go (for beta testing).
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31st March here in Brunei...

All that I need to do now is animations, pixelating images, and adding etra dialogue before sending them off to theatrix.

Brentimous will work on scripting

Joze' Luiz is working on a rectavio.

Raggit will work on music after everything else is done.

I think ThatOneChick would like to beta test for me, of course, I'm only assuming, along with Joze' Luiz and Raggt will of course be playing through the game anyways, to enforce certain moods in the music.

I haven't got a response from Lo_res_man yet. My patience...it hurts...

[Nacho]

Very effective style. Seems to be a nice project, I like short games, there will be time for more ambitiousprojects. Good luck.

[vertigoaddict]

To tell you the truth, I observed the style of 'Clock Tower First Fear' and I'm also hoping to be able to copy their GUI style. Clock Tower FF is not an AGS game though, but it does use point and click intrferance.

About the interferance, I really want to concentrate on the GUI, but I have no scripting knowledge... after my exams, I'm prepared to learn a few basic this and that.

[Gamer_V]

I thought I recognized clock tower. Guess I was right. Clock tower was really kind of scary, so if you know how to bring the scary over to your game too, I hope to see this finished soon. 

Is the face in the bottom supposed to be Faith's face? Because it looks rather .. manly?

[vertigoaddict]

Yeah, I love clock Tower... but I don't think this game will be that scary than sick or twisted...I don't wanna spoil it...

And faith looks manly? MANLY? hmm... maybe I should put her in the crittics lounge... but maybe it's because the picture is really small; it makes her look kinda wierd. If you look in this thread:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=30347.360

you'll see enlarged versions of all the most of the main characters.o.o manly...manly...manly...

[KittenInPyjamas]

She is not manly, she is ugly! 

[vertigoaddict]

Oh, okay. She's not meant to look perfect, just average.

I'm gonna quote someone here, but I don't remember who... anyway it was:


'I'm ugly cause I'm pixelated, what's your excuse?'


forgive me for my pixel art skills, Faith was the first character that I made and I never did any re-drafts ( I also don't plan to as, from experience, if I keep on drafting, I'll never finish; besides, she looks better hand drawn)

My sister just messaged me, she'll be doing the bios of 3 people (that's the only thing she'll be doing. The rest of the story is all me) she said I'll be expecting it in about a week or so. Sadly my exams will temporarily halt production til...june 15th, then I'll start studying the tutorials so it'll take more time blah, blah. You get the pic.


I know, I know, I could just write those three character's bios myself, but I've always wanted to work with my sis since I was a little kid; I feel tha it keeps us together >w< . And later we can scratch each others eyes out and beat the cr@p out of each other and call each other hurtful names and not talk for almost a whole month or half a year and gradually speak to each other like as if nothing happened and use those hurtful events to attack each other when were having a serious fight over who was being the most b!ch-iest and repeat the silent treatment and/or do physical damage in between it all, etc. I could go on and on with details but that (the above) probably gives you an idea of our relationship when were close to each other; but I love my sis and I find her annoying, just her voice could make me stark raving mad (I'm actually serious about this, there was a time when, whenever I heard her voice I just felt like ...nevermind, just -play the game when I'm finished with it, it's more PG than what's really going on in my head)

[Gamer_V]

To come back to what I said earlier, the big version looks okay. It's just the black background that removes her hair and makies her seem bald and makes the side hair look like a sideburn.

Can't talk about the brother and sister thing though - being a single child. 

[vertigoaddict]

New background! and hopefully the last... (all the other backgrounds had to be slightly altered)

The Detective's Office


It's a shame my sister quit before she did anything, but on the bright side, it'll make the game shorter and easier to make (hooray!).

I still don't know how to script though...maybe I should ask someone to tutor me...well, when I have the time.

NB: Anyone who is a Clock Tower fan should know who the little girl in the portrait is...

[vertigoaddict]

After a long hard look at my script for the game, I thought man! I've made it too short! the length I decided on before was much better. So I'm thinking of making it longer.

here's the first in-game screenshot:



And Raggit had made a few music samples, which I haven't asked him if it was okay to post here so, I'll post the link after I PM him and get a positive reply.

EDIT:

here they are

http://www.mediafire.com/?atdundklkbn

http://www.mediafire.com/?6z3milmtyft

[Peder 🚀]

This is looking nice, though are you gonna make custom mouse cursors? or use the default ones?

Nice music samples to!
Though I wouldent think otherwise cause I allready know Raggit is a good musician (as he has made me some tunes before aswell )

[vertigoaddict]

Actually, I was gonna check the beginner's tutorials to see if I could make a cursor which animates once everytime it hovers a hotspot; if I can do that, I'll use this cursor:

[vertigoaddict]

Okay, just to show that I'm still working on this, here's another screenshot...



It's supposed to be a photograph...I think it's okay...the quality isn't as good as the original though...

[vertigoaddict]

A simple walk-cycle of one of my favorite characters; I know it's not much, but it's always so delightful to see your creations take their first steps...*sigh*

[Sparky]

Hey, congratulations on keeping up your momentum through exams! The screens and character look nice and old school, and are consistently styled.

Regarding length, I'd advise making it short for the sake of actually finishing. A complete short game is better than a thousand incomplete epics.

[vertigoaddict]

Hey, congratulations on keeping up your momentum through exams! The screens and character look nice and old school, and are consistently styled.

Thank you very much!

Regarding length, I'd advise making it short for the sake of actually finishing. A complete short game is better than a thousand incomplete epics.

True, true, but then there's the issue of the game being too short. So short it should just be a movie (which isn't a bad idea...but I want to make it a game)

There's going to be a sequel and I'm already working on a song for it (a jazz piece that my friend has been helping me with, via putting my melodies to notes, for months).

[vertigoaddict]

I'm just posting to say that my PC is in the repair shop, so it'll be there for a while (because I'm kinda busy and the shop is pretty far away).

I'm also going on a school trip to Singapore at 9th November; I'll be there for a while.

The production will be slower.

I'm glad to say that the backgrounds are 100% done.

There also will be a cameo from one award winning AGS game.

[vertigoaddict]

Lo_res_man has agreed to help

School Holidays are comming up soon

Just one more part of the story to be fleshed out and it'll be time to script.

progress is good. Look at first post to see.

[m0ds]

Looks great, nice storyline too Should be fun to play, so good luck!

[Dualnames]

I'd love to see how Lo_Res will turn this game into...