These are early in-game screen shots, final results may differ.
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The Overview:
When the town's trash comes up missing one day, 13 year old Peat M. Vault is on the case! To restore peace and trash through out the town and to solve the Mystery of a Bad Guy!
The story:
When a homeless man is tired of being judged, spit on and called a monster by the children, he decides to prove himself a unique individual by stealing the towns trash to create something the town will never forget.
When 13 year old boy Peat M. Vault watches the news reporting of the town's missing trash he's on the case...well after he does his chores. When Peat questions the children at the local park, He finds out that what he is looking for is one of the creatures from the horror stories he has heard of so many times. The one about the creatures that come out at night and roam the streets hungry looking for flesh food! or is it fresh food?
- Explore the town of "Stupid Vill" and meet interesting characters
- Do Odd jobs to collect trash
- Wash dishes!
- Rap battle for some trash!
- Fully Talkie Version
- Defeat an evil foe!
Background Art - 92%
Characters&Animation - 60%
Programming - 82%
Soundfx - 60%
Voices - 5%
Music - 0%
Story - 100%
Puzzles - 66%
Public Demo Percentage - 85%
GUI&Animation game test:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxqkivldPMc
People on project:
Just my self for time being. Done the art and code. Will be doing the main character voice and several others.
Hours spent on project per day:
5 to 6 hrs.
Website:
http://games.benworkscreations.com/
This will be a commercial game and a demo will be released when voices are recorded.
Based on the characters from the comic
"stUPIDs of America"
By Benjamin Shepherd
(C)1999-2010, Benworks Creations. All Rights Reserved.
Contact information:
Other then here you can reach me at..
the_crow_20062000@yahoo.com
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=650017423
Game intro in comic strip form available here (right click, save as):
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2366/soaintr.png
Wow, looks really ambitious! So you wrote the comic first, and now you're making it a game? Sweet! I'll keep my eye on this one.
Quote from: ddq on Thu 01/07/2010 04:07:12
Wow, looks really ambitious! So you wrote the comic first, and now you're making it a game? Sweet! I'll keep my eye on this one.
Yeah I made the comic somewhere in 2002 I believe and started work on the game in 2008. Been off and on the last two years and now I'm working on it every free second.
Thanks!
I really like the color scheme; looking forward to this one. 8)
I'm really hooked on the art style! It looks really cool
working on getting the demo ready. The demo will be short but at least it will give everyone an idea how it is. I'm really excited about getting this done. My first game so I'm crossing my fingers!
Where can we find the comic?
I'd like to read the comic as well.
The one concern I have is that your story is very reminiscent of a book/movie called "The Stupids", I'm not saying you're ripping them off intentionally and obviously I haven't played the game, which looks like loads of fun and I can't wait to try it out. Good luck with the project, love the artwork.
Oh wow I didn't even know that movie existed. lol Don't worry I have a completely different plot. I will post one of my comics here shortly for everyone.
I hoping to have to have a few new things posted by Monday. Thanks everyone for the support means a lot!
again that is so weird I looked up that movie and it is so funny that their trash was stolen. Damn. It's okay though. At least my game is going a totally different direction....I hope. lol weird. I'll be posting an SOA comic by Monday. It won't be "Mystery of a Bad Guy" but will be one of the other comics in the series.
a shot of Dish Washing!
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A Glimpse of the Mysterious bad guy!
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Benny & Jairo the Get Gas employees
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Really digging the art style and you got a interesting concept overall. It reminds me of something... just can't put my finger on it... oh well, it's probably nothing. Good luck with this.
The intro to stUPIDs oF America: Mystery of a Bad Guy will be posted Monday in the form of a comic strip.
Here is the link to the intro strip. Just right click and save as.
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2366/soaintr.png
Web site is up but still in progress! I'm heading off to work. When I come home it will be updated!
new updates on the game and site soon.
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been taking a few days off to spend with the wife. Be back to work on S.O.A soon!
Cool! The characterstyle reminds me of runaway.
Quote from: NEON-GAMES on Sun 11/07/2010 13:26:27
Cool! The characterstyle reminds me of runaway.
To bad I'm not that good yet lol
Character Bio has been posted on http://benworkscreations.com/bwcsoacharbio.htm
Quote from: crowman111 on Thu 01/07/2010 01:15:44
These are early in-game screen shots, final results may differ.
How can the art style change?
After work tomorrow. I'll be working on the game again. Excited!
I'm planning on adding some more shading to the characters and more scene detail. Just to the scenes that need it.
Will be uploading a sample of the game later tonight. Don't expect much. It's just so you can get the feel of the gui and animations. Some sounds are added and some voice recordings. The story has not been implemented yet everything is written down just not programmed in yet. Some characters are not complete and same with animations. You can access most of the rooms and you will get stuck in some parts of the game cause you spawn on a non walkable area so...
Crtl + y = Place on walkable path
ctrl + x = Change room
ctrl + s = all inventory (which isn't much)
Right-Click to interact
Try using the key on the ground at the hill on Peat's trash can. and
try using the Happy McBurger Shack cup on the trash can also.
Remember this is a mere shell of the game. The insides have not been filled.
This will be available for a few days. I'll give an update when I come back from work and post a link.
Let me know your thoughts. Thank you!
Testing time is up... those who have not tested will have to wait for the demo.
Those who have, let me know what you thought.
Just wanted to let you all know. My Character Benny, is my best friend in real life and I've incorporated him into SOA as the "Get Gas" Gas station manager.
He has his own site up. He mostly works on writing songs but for the last 4 months he's put that off to help me out on my game.
Get familiar with him so you will be familiar with him in the game, check out the site. Go to either www.benworkscreations.com or www.protije.com
We have videos on the site of us working on his/our music. Figured I'd give you guys something to check out while waiting on the game.
I have uploaded a video on the GUI&animation if anyone wants to look at it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxqkivldPMc
New screen shot
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Peat talking to a window.
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Nice job with that video!
Quote from: Sslaxx on Thu 29/07/2010 10:38:36
Nice job with that video!
Thank you. It's not much but it's something.
Been updating the web site. Game is still going good.
Before after. I wanted to give the world more depth so this is the next step.
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Will you really be distributing the game on CD like in the picture?
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5941/dvdfron5t.png
It would be nice if some of the larger games (over 400 megs) came on CD. Of course I understand that the players would have to pay some amount for the cost of the CD.
Quote from: mkennedy on Sun 08/08/2010 16:15:23
Will you really be distributing the game on CD like in the picture?
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5941/dvdfron5t.png
It would be nice if some of the larger games (over 400 megs) came on CD. Of course I understand that the players would have to pay some amount for the cost of the CD.
I plan to. They would cost a few more bucks more then the direct download. Now I'm hoping that the game will be no larger then the capacity of a cd but if so might put on dvd instead and I'll take special orders for those who don't have dvd roms and spread it across multiple cds like monkey island 3 and such.
Well, if you go the CD route you could reasonably charge 5 dollars which seams like a fair price and should hopefully cover any distribution cost.
Hello everyone been sick latly continuing work as soon as I'm better hope to get this done soon for everyone.
Thanks for waiting and I hope you enjoy the game when it's complete. Now I got to figure out what retard messed up my website cause google is saying that it has been hacked or whatever. :)
Hi crowman, your game seems to be really amazing, I like your style and I think that you are leaving the AMATEUR adventure game category...
Hope you're gonna finish this game soon !! However I'm not really fan of BIG J, I find his shorts a bit strange...
Good luck ++
Quote from: Benjiman33 on Fri 13/08/2010 08:46:53
Hi crowman, your game seems to be really amazing, I like your style and I think that you are leaving the AMATEUR adventure game category...
Hope you're gonna finish this game soon !! However I'm not really fan of BIG J, I find his shorts a bit strange...
Good luck ++
Lol his shorts lol. Well thank you! Much appreciated.
:o Oh my God, those graphics are just.............wow! I don't think I've ever seen anything like it.
An update on the game. Lighting fixes on several backgrounds to set mood and depth.
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Oh my :o you've left me speechless again. That is absolutely astounding!
Quote from: CosmoQueen on Fri 20/08/2010 12:54:36
Oh my :o you've left me speechless again. That is absolutely astounding!
Why thank you!
...ok, the curiosity is killing me, why is a 13 year old boy without any hair? Does he have alopecia or something?
Quote from: anian on Sat 21/08/2010 10:54:55
...ok, the curiosity is killing me, why is a 13 year old boy without any hair? Does he have alopecia or something?
lol I honestly don't know that's how I've always drawn him. Maybe he shaves his head and leaves a few strands because he's got four short strands. Two on each side of his head. lol.
Quote from: crowman111 on Sat 21/08/2010 19:56:25
Quote from: anian on Sat 21/08/2010 10:54:55
...ok, the curiosity is killing me, why is a 13 year old boy without any hair? Does he have alopecia or something?
lol I honestly don't know that's how I've always drawn him. Maybe he shaves his head and leaves a few strands because he's got four short strands. Two on each side of his head. lol.
Maybe it's a Charlie Brown type of thing, I mean nobody ever asks why HE's bald!
O RLY?
http://www.google.com/#hl-en&q="why+is+charlie+brown+bald" (http://www.google.com/#hl-en&q="why+is+charlie+brown+bald")
Getting ready to promote my game on Kickstarter to get help from others to help fund the finishing bit of the game.
I'll be working on a interview video here in a couple of days. Anyone who would love to check it out I will be posting a link to it on here when it is ready to view!
Also everyone who Backs my project will be credited in the game!
Project is up on http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/322349134/stupids-of-america-mystery-of-a-bad-guy. I hope it goes well.
Did an update on the site some extra info can be found there http://games.benworkscreations.com/
My work on SOA will be on hold for the moment. Got to catch up on bills.