The Chronicles of the shoe - Finally back under production (working demo)

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/mwahahaha10/tcots.jpg

Basically, in The Chronicles of the shoe, you play a strange man named Jirb who is obsessed with the cereal "Bran O's".  Upon meeting a certain celebrity at the local deli and barganing to obtain his left shoe you soon must embark on a quest to return it.  Many strange characters also must aid you on your quest, such as Nerds, the Mafia and shopkeepers in duck costumes.

I intend to have it as a 3 part series eventually with each part a new playable character.

In Part 1, "Choking Hazard" you embark on a quest to find the shoe's owner, being forced into doing the mafias dirty work in the process.

Anyway, here's a screenshot of one of the cutscenes, which I'm trying to give a Sin City-esque art style to with limited colours.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/mwahahaha10/Shadow.jpg

But the rest of the game is fairly standard.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/mwahahaha10/Cosscreen.jpg

Completion levels:
Graphics: 40%
Sounds/Music: 5%
Story: 85%
Script: 40%
Puzzles: 35%

DEMO: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=671

[GokuZ]

Sounds Interesting, um what were you smoking when you came up with this idea?

[sergiocornaga]

I hope this is finished soon, it looks ridiculously fun to play. 

[mwahahaha]

I have a rather buggy (I've already fixed most of them, but not in the distributed version) test demo of the opening working, but it doesn't even have much real content in it.Ã,  Contact me on MSN if you'd like to have a go at playing it.

My hotmail is: contipated_gnomby@hotmail.com

[AlbinoPanther]

Hey this is fun fun funny
You have quite unique style and some awesome shoeless characters


Hurry up

[vict0r]

It looks... well... weird In a good sence of the word that is!



By the way! "Cronicals" is really written chronicles... If you were interrested

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By the way! "Cronicals" is really written chronicles... If you were interrested

Yeah I realised, I should probably change it.  Meh...

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OK, to explain some of the basic storyline for the first part of the first game:

After the introduction in which you obtain the Shoe, you then bargain with the Mafia, who have captured you, to achieve you're freedom.Ã,  Basically, you have to set up some traps to try and cause the death of a guy called Domitri.Ã,  After a few ridiculous shenanegins, the Mafia get's pissed off at your lack of ability to set up the aforementioned traps and they set you on to lesser projects...

Let's just say that heads will roll, literally.

More story updates soon.

The game is around 25% done I guess.

[mwahahaha]

OK, I've got a reasonable length on the game now (almost an hour I guess) if anyone wants to test it out, just contact me and I'll get a demo organised.

Also, could anyone tell me a good way of getting sound effects? (footsteps, ect.) Thanks!

[ManicMatt]

Do you have a mic? For some of my sound effects I literally record me doing the desired effect.

or, maybe there are free sound effects on the net. Try googling for it.

Lastly, if you don't mind the potential legalities, you used to be able to buy sound effects on audio cds!

[ThreeOhFour]

But the rest of the game is fairly standard.

I would absolutely LOVE to play a game that you thought was "strange", "whacky" and/or "weird".

Looks enjoyable. Apart from the fact that my head nearly exploded when I saw the second screenshot. I can't wait.

[mwahahaha]

Do you have a mic? For some of my sound effects I literally record me doing the desired effect.

I don't, but my brother has one built into his laptop, thanks for the tip!

[Erenan]

In case you haven't found it during your Googling yet... there's www.findsounds.com, with which I've had some good luck in the past.

EDIT: Whoops, I was just looking at the name of the replies. Nevermind.

[mwahahaha]

Yeh, I've already changed the spelling in the game.

[mwahahaha]

Okay, it's sort of off topic, but I just completed a short game that I was doing for that MAGS competition, enjoy!

Search for Veteran's Rampage under mags games on the database here.

It's very short and really average, but a fun little experience with a nice "beat-box" soundtrack.Ã,  Yes, every sound effect was made with my voice.

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After working quite a bit over the last few days I am now around about a third of the way through making it, I just have a few holes in the story to fill and that should be done, graphics are about 50% done and sound is, this far, basically non-existant, however, it's coming along quite nicely.

[ManicMatt]

Could you show us another in game screenshot?

[mwahahaha]

Yeah, sure.









Sorry about the bad quality, the pics are Jpegs.

The version I got the screens off was a slightly older version, but the differences are minimal.

[ManicMatt]

Veeeery interesting! The supermarker screenshot gave the impression that the game has white minimal scenery throughout, hence why i asked to see more, and now I see it's just that shop, which is just as well...

'cos the screenies you just posted look a lot better! 

[mwahahaha]

Veeeery interesting! The supermarker screenshot gave the impression that the game has white minimal scenery throughout, hence why i asked to see more, and now I see it's just that shop, which is just as well...

'cos the screenies you just posted look a lot better!Ã, 

I'm going to redo most of the early environments a little later, because they were quite scratchy and I was still getting used to working with AGS and now I'm managing to put a lot more detail in and make them a whole lot smoother.  I also still have to work on the zoom levels in some of the environments.