Adventure Game Studio

Rules: Every couple of weeks, a post will be made with a list of items and a scenario. Using your wit and skill find a way to complete the scenario with the items provided. You can only use a set number of items of your own choice. When I say use your skill, use it. I've tried to take Ashen's suggestions at the last contest, and I've also made the deadline a bit later than usual, to give people the chance to respond. If there are less than three entries by then, I'll probably want to extend it a bit.

Voting: After the deadline, voting shall begin to initiate a starting commencement!

The Grand Prize: The winner shall receive a FREE copy of the latest version of AGS! Oh wait, AGS is already free... so I guess the winner will just have the honor of hosting the next contest.

Scenario: A famous celebrity (you may pick one yourself) is staying in the local hotel for just one night - and, as a small-time reporter and would-be pulitzer winner, this is your only chance for an interview! So get up there and speak to him, or her, or it!

Problems: There are three potential compilcations that I could think of; you must use at least one of these in the puzzle (and you are free to add other compilications). One, something is wrong or missing with your equipment; two, the celebrity is guarded by someone or something (bonus points for something ludicrous as a guardian); and three, the celeb may not want to speak to you in the first place and may require some convincing.

Equipment: Use at least three of the following, and up to three items of your own choice. All of these may be in your inventory at the beginning, or picked up somewhere, or whatever, as you see fit.
camera
notebook and pen
dictaphone
wrist watch
tennis ball
blank recordable CD
miniature eiffel tower
can of shoeshine
pencil eraser
driver's license
comb
broom
chessboard
bug repellent
yo-yo

Your inventory: dictaphone
My items: diver's suit, torch, banana

There is a big guardian standing here.

walk down to hotel restaurant
order a banana
wait for waiter
eat banana
drop banana peel in front of kitchen door
wait until waiter leaves kitchen and... boom!
walk up to lying waiter
take can of shoeshine from waiter's suit
go to hotel bathrooms
take broom
look into toilet
take the diver's suit from toilet (using a broom)
go to hotel swimming pool
wear diver suit
dive
take torch
leave
go to corridor with guardian
use shoeshine on your shoes
turn on torch and place it near the wall
reflect light from torch to the guardians eyes, using your shiny shoes
guardian is blinded! enter celebrity's room
use dictaphone on celebrity!

Someone threw a torch into the swimming pool?
Pretty surprising it still works...

torch does not necessarilly mean fire torch...

Wow, JudgeDeadd wins the quick response award. And I liked the absurdism of blinding someone with light reflected from your shoes. Good job!
(it could be one of those squeeze-light torches that don't even have batteries...)

Quote from: Babar on Thu 18/11/2004 07:26:44
torch does not necessarilly mean fire torch...

I'm thinking more along the lines of water getting into the battery compartment. But I guess in a game where you take down a guard with shiny shoes it's okay to suspend your disbelief. And as Radiant said; it might be a non-battery type torch that was made with witchcraft or possibly technology...

Items: Camera, Notebok and Pen, bug repellant
New Items: A metamorphable costume, fire torch

Walk into hotel.
Ask someone where the celebrity is.
He tells you that he is in room 17A.
Walk back out and hide in a bush.
You find a metamorphable costume in the bush.
Metamorph it into something that looks like the George W. Bush and wear it on.
Walk to 17B and grab the camera, notebook, and pen. *"So that is where you left your stuff..."*
Put it in your pocket.
Tell the guard that you want to see the celebrity. *"Boy, this is going to be easy..."*
"NO!", the guardian says. "I voted for Kerry, and the clebrity did too, so you better get out of here or I am going to hurt you!"
You quickly get away. *"Ok..., how are you going to get past the guard and convince the celebrity?"*
Walk to the storage room just to find the janitors things there. Take the flame torch and the bug repellant.
Walk back to 17A.
"Oh yeah? I got this!", you say quickly and then turn on the torch and throw it at the guard.
"Haha!" said the guardian. "A little torch fire can't hurt me!"
Read the label on the bug repellant.
"FLAMMABLE....." *"Uh-oh."*
Quickly throw the bug repellant at him and duck for cover.
KA-BOOM!
The celebrity comes out and says, "Huh? What in carnation is that explosion?..... Huh?George W. Bush? The person I voted for?"
"Well, yeah, I have come to interview you, but first let me take a picture. It isn't flash though." you reply.
Interview him with your notebook and pen.
Say good-bye and shake hands, leave the hotel, and and hide in the bush once more. Place your things down. Take the costume off and leave it there. Then, pick your things back up, and leave.
THE END

Huh? People are that uninterested in Puzzle Time? Guess that explains everything. Only some people compete against each other and then just drops out at a moment?

I would've entered sooner, but I had a cold, and couldn't think too good. Then I kept getting carried away, and having to restrain myself.

I present :
"Paparazzi Pete: Celebrity Stalker"

Getting into the hotel was surprisingly easy. Finding out which room she was staying in ever easier - her agent had booked the entire first floor for her and her entourage, but only one room had a guard outside. Now, the fun begins.

STARTING ITEMS:
Notebook & Pen, Camera, Dictaphone, Yo-Yo and Personal CD Player

LOOK AT notebook and pen
Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “I'm a reporter. Sometimes I need to write things down.”
LOOK AT camera.
Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “My shiny new digital camera, with EasyPrint PC connectivity.”
Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “Or something.”
LOOK AT Dictaphone.
Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “Quite why I have this AND a notebook, I don't know.”
LOOK AT yo-yo / cd player.
Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “Do you have any idea how BORING waiting around for celebrities can get?”
LOOK AT guard.
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  On close inspection, the guard is a gorgon - a mythical creature capable of turning you to stone with a glance.
Ã,  Ã,  Ã, PETE: "Best not get too close, then."
NOTE: If you attempt to approach the celebrity's room without getting rid of the Gorguard, you will get turned to stone, and have to reload and try again.

USE elevator, head to the second floor.
LOOK AT housekeeping cart.
Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “It's the cart the maids keep their cleaning things in.”
LOOK AT broom.
Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “A sturdy broom.”
TAKE broom.
IN INVENTORY:
Ã,  Ã,  USE cd player.
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  PETE: ”Nothing. Batteries must be dead.”
Ã,  Ã,  USE cd player, again.
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  PETE: ”Ah, I see the problem - I put the wrong disc in, it's a blank”
Ã,  Ã,  GAIN Item: blank cdr.
Ã,  Ã,  LOOK AT blank cdr.
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “Mmm. Shiny.”
Ã,  Ã,  USE blank cdr with broom.
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “It's a shiny thing on a stick.”

USE elevator, head back to first floor.
USE shiny thing on a stick with pot plant.
WALK TO behind pot plant.
USE yo-yo on Gorguard.
Ã,  Ã,  You skillfully flick the yo-yo towards the Gorguard, making it turn in your direction.
IF you're behind the plant:
Ã,  Ã,  Fortunately, you don't catch it's eye.
ELSE
Ã,  Ã,  Although, why you wanted to is a different matter, as you immediately turn to stone.
and have to try again.
AND IF you used the shiny thing on a stick on the pot plant.
Ã,  Ã,  Unfortunately, it catches it's own eye, and turns to stone.
Ã,  Ã,  PETE: ”Now I just have to get in to her room.”
USE door.
Ã,  Ã,  CELEB:Who's there?
Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “Reporter. I wonder if you'd mind…”
Ã,  Ã,  CELEB: No comment.
Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “Huh. Playing hard to get, are we.”
TAKE shiny thing on a stick
Ã,  Ã, 
USE elevator, and head back to 2nd floor.
USE door to room above Celeb's room.
Ã,  Ã,  GUEST: “Yeah?”
Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “Housekeeping. We need to clean your room.”
Ã,  Ã,  GUEST: “Oh, OK. <opens door> Hey, shouldn't you be in uniform?”
Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “Uh, I'm just filling in. Because of the Celebrity downstairs.”
Ã,   Ã, GUEST: A Celebrity! Hot damn!”
Ã,   Ã, PETE: “Yup. Hey, why don't you nip down and get an autograph, while I'm cleaning up?”
Ã,  Ã,  GUEST: “Wowee!” <leaves>
NOTE: You could, of course, have sent the Guest down before you dealt with the Gorguard, but that would just have been mean, wouldn't it?

WALK TO room.
LOOK AT luggage.
Ã,  Ã,  Hm, what have we here…”
TAKE shoe polish and comb.
USE shiny thing on a stick on window.

CUTSCENE:
Reaching down with the shiny thing on a stick, you tap the Celeb's window, pulling back in before they look out.

USE shiny thing on a stick on window, again.
CUTSCENE:
As before.
AND AGAIN
CUTSCENE:
As before.
AND AGAIN

CUTSCENE:
As before, except this time the Celeb looks out quicker, sees you, screams and calls for the manager.

IF you try to leave the room now, you'll be caught be hotel security (the Manager, and his brother Frank), your things will be smashed up, and you'll be thrown out of the hotel never to return. You'll also lose your job, for failing to get the interview. This would be the ‘Bad' ending.

IN INVENTORY:
Ã,  Ã,  USE shoe polish on comb.
Ã,  Ã,  USE polish-y comb on self.
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  PETE: ”A crude disguise, but effective.”
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “(I hope.)”

WALK TO 2nd floor hallway

USE elevator, back down to 1st floor.

USE door.
Ã,  Ã,  CELEB: “Who's there?”
Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “Police, ma'am. The hotel called us about your intruder.”
Ã,  Ã,  CELEB: “Oh, OK. <opens door> How can I help, Officer….”
Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “Uh, Smith. I just need to ask a few questions.”
Ã,  Ã,  PETE: “Maybe take a few pictures, for the .... report.”
PAT SELF on back. You got the interview, got the pictures and fame and fortune (or at least continued employment) await. Well done you.

Sorry I couldn't be bothered giving the celeb a name.

Whhohoo! That's great! I love the Gorgon puzzle!

That's a great one Ashen!

If I wasn't feeling so lazy and tired and stuff I would whip your Gorgon Guard with a Ninja Lemur protector thing of Doom, but I feel tired and lazy....

 >:(
Right. You and your Ninja Lemur protector thing of Doom! Outside! Now! I'll show ya how we whip it in my town.

Seriously though, enter tomorrow, or as soon as you've caught up on your sleep. The more entries, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

Okay, one day till deadline, and thanks for the submissions so far! I'm glad to see that this PT did better than the previous couple.

Ashen -> :D very funny! I like it!

So, are we voting?

Yep, let's vote!

My personal vote goes to Ashen, whose response i found the funniest to read, and I like the (twisted) logic in there. Second goes to JudgeDeadd (who also wins the quick response award :) ). Third place goes to Edwin, though I must add I found the not-so-subtle political statement was uncalled for.

Of course these are my votes, feel free to add your own.

I vote Ashen. His solution has a flaw however, you can just talk to the guest on 2nd floor before getting rid of the guard. Sure, that would be mean, but since when do adventure gamers be good?

I vote for JudgeDeadd, because it feeds my distrust of people with overly shiny shoes.

And it's not a flaw, so much as ... well, OK it's a flaw. The original version was about twice as long, but I cut a lot out which is why you can send the poor Guest to his stoney doom. I'm kind of tempted, however, to re-write the full version (which I deleted, for some bloody stupid reason), and make a short game out of it. What does anyone else think?

Ashen -> sounds like a cool idea! Wouldn't that be a first, too, that a contest like this turns into a real game? Sw33t.

I propose that this saturday is the last day of voting, and that by midnight (forum time) the winner gets drowned in champage and caviar. Ok, make that virtual champagne and caviar, considering my budget these days. But lots of it, anyway.

I vote Ashen

Hmm, I actually though of making games out of Puzzle Time winners.

Ashen Wins!

Flawless Vic - oh wait, wrong game :)

Anyway thanks everybody for their entries, and for proving to me that Puzzle Time is not dead. Click HERE (http://www.chocoladeletter.net/) for some free virtual Dutch candy, for your troubles. Winner gets to click twice. And Ashen, good luck with the december edition of PT! *cheer*

So I won? Yay!
Thanks to everyone who voted, congrats to the losers other entrants.
Look for the next installment of Puzzle Time later today.