Rain of Blood - a detective game! ( Demo now available! )

[OnlyOneKenobi]

Hey everyone

I've been working on an Adventure Game this week and have done enough to complete a demo... I'm pretty excited about it, I have a good storyline, etc. I'll upload the demo to a website when I get back to work, it's quite hefty so far at 21MB, but it's not even nearly complete, there is still a LOT of work to be done.

It uses a lot of still photos and I use real photos for backgrounds and inventory objects etc, some of them are modified a little - my aim was mainly to create a detective game in the spirit of the Tex Murphy games by access software - but it is not a clone thereof. My cutscenes are mainly inspired by the comic booky type panels one would see in Max Payne, since I don't have the resourses to do full blown animation and cannot really include FMV movies.  It takes place in today's times and does not feature mutants, etc. I took more of a Sierra \ Lucasarts approach in terms of exploration and inventory - you see your character onscreen in 3rd person when travelling and walking around, but mainly talk to characters in 1st person.

I've even taken some screenshots for your viewing pleasure...











And here is a general description of what it is about  

Take on the role of hardened P.I. , Johnny Danger in a mystery that starts out as a routine missing persons case, but turns out to be much bigger and much more dangerous than expected.

Rain of Blood is an action \ comedy \ thriller story with lots of exploration, character interaction and puzzle solving elements in the vein of the adventure games by Sierra, Access Software and Lucasarts entertainment.

Travel to many locations, interview many witnesses and suspects, and solve multiple cases and mysteries that tie in with the overall plot of the game.

Featuring original music, sounds and graphics to immerse the player in the dangerous world of P.I. Johnny Danger. 8)

[Czar]

hmm... looks very interesting, especially the Sean Paul on hte menu

[Darth Mandarb]

Please, please, please tell me I get to kill the guy with the white headband??

This has an interesting look, but I really want to kill the 'eminem' look-a-like.

:: DM takes a chill pill ::

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PS
Forgive me if that is a picture of you

[OnlyOneKenobi]

lol! No it's not me, but you will enjoy "interacting" with the dude... I used a pic of Sean Paul for the character.  

[Gilbert]

I like the screenshots, looks good (but should looks at the real game to draw a conclusion of course).



Heh the close up talking reminds me of Mean Street.

[Nine Toes]

Where did you get the sprites for your main character?  I kinda think it looks like Mr. Spock from Star Trek.

[OnlyOneKenobi]

Here's some new screenshots - I've even been able to make rain possible within the game, as well as night time locations of the same places that were visited during the day...

I used a model from Jedi Knight as a place holder for the player character in all the screen shots - I just took screenshots of a walking animation from all the different angles and imported them, but that's not what the final Player Char is going to look like.

[OnlyOneKenobi]

Ok I know I should really do this, but I do have a demo version of my game available and I'm dying for some feedback... it ends very soon after day 2 starts so please keep that in mind. And the player character is a work in progress - it's just a placeholder right now. Rain of Blood v1.2 Demo

It's a 30Mb download so you'll need a fast connection.

Check it out and let me know what you think!!

Once again I state that it is a work in progress, has a couple of bugs and is far from complete but I'm dying for feedback!!  

[OnlyOneKenobi]

Does nobody care?  

[Squinky]

People may be put off by the gigantic download....

[OnlyOneKenobi]

Well it's quite large but I wouldn't say it's gigantic...  

[Czar]

maybe you should split it in more pieces or something

[superfetus]

From what I played, the game seemed fun. Some cons: The walk animation was too slow and the music was repetitive. There were some things that seemed a little buggy (I picked up the remote twice). Other than that, it shows promise. I'll be excited to see the finished product.

[sergiocornaga]

I'll try to download. I have a slow connection, so it will take err..... 5 hours for me. That can't be right....

The background on that title screen looks familiar.... Do you use rio?

[OnlyOneKenobi]

From what I played, the game seemed fun. Some cons: The walk animation was too slow and the music was repetitive. There were some things that seemed a little buggy (I picked up the remote twice). Other than that, it shows promise. I'll be excited to see the finished product.

Thanks for checkin it out, I'll make sure to fix the bugs you mentioned, I'm going to replace the player character animations anyway, it's just a placeholder until I can come up with something better    8)