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AGS Games => Completed Game Announcements => Topic started by: shaun9991 on Fri 20/05/2016 19:12:23

Title: aerinde
Post by: shaun9991 on Fri 20/05/2016 19:12:23
Hi guys!

I made a very short game for AdventureJam 2016, it's called 'aerinde'.

You are G. After being given a chance at a new life by an old friend, it's time to return the favour.

It's a first person point and click adventure game, featuring adult themes. Should take 10 to 20 minutes to complete.

(http://s32.postimg.org/pkoo4kcg5/scr1.png)   (http://s32.postimg.org/kol1cvcat/scr2.png)

(http://s32.postimg.org/nwpipwykl/scr3.png)   (http://s32.postimg.org/iewx243d1/scr4.png)

A bit of back story about the game -
A while back, Troels Pleimert, aka the Space Quest Historian, and I had an idea to swap photographs that would form the basis of a game. For AdventureJam 2016, we swapped pictures on the eve of the jam - giving us two weeks to each work out a story and create a game based on the photos we received from each other. This is my effort... ended up making it in about four nights due to various time constraints!

Any feedback is much appreciated. Let me know how you get on.

Warning: It contains drug references and a bit of bad language.

DOWNLOAD HERE (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2054/)

If you like, you can vote for the game here: http://jams.gamejolt.io/adventurejam2016/games/aerinde/148695
Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: cat on Fri 20/05/2016 21:19:45
Interesting one. It reminded me a bit of "A date in the park" for obvious graphical reasons but also
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because of the crazy plot twist with the two graves
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Please change the link in the post to the games page entry, not the download. Otherwise it's hard for people to find it and add their comments :)
Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: shaun9991 on Fri 20/05/2016 22:38:41
Thanks for playing Cat! I changed the link :)
Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: Mandle on Sat 21/05/2016 10:35:06
Another delightful fall down the rabbit-hole from Shaun9991!

I LOVE WHAT YOU DO!!!

The balance between the hard reality of the photographic style versus the sudden feeling of being pulled into an eeire world you have to piece together the best you can has had me hooked since Mudlarks!

I really get a Clive Barker feel from your games in that something completely insane might be going on just below the surface of what we see every day...

Please keep doing what you do!
Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: shaun9991 on Sat 21/05/2016 19:06:00
Mandle!! :D This gave me all sorts of warm-fuzzies. Comments like this make this whole thing worth while, thank you so much!! I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

And you've given me a hankerin' to watch me some Hellraiser tonight :)

Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: Gord10 on Sun 22/05/2016 18:57:01
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I couldn't decrypt the message. I tried half of the combinations of 8, 7, 2, 3. Is there a pattern I am missing?
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Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: Shadow1000 on Sun 22/05/2016 19:29:01
Quote from: Gord10 on Sun 22/05/2016 18:57:01
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I couldn't decrypt the message. I tried half of the combinations of 8, 7, 2, 3. Is there a pattern I am missing?
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That's actually a false lead. Look elsewhere for the code...
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Good luck

SHADOW
Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: Mandle on Mon 23/05/2016 01:05:00
Quote from: Gord10 on Sun 22/05/2016 18:57:01
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I couldn't decrypt the message. I tried half of the combinations of 8, 7, 2, 3. Is there a pattern I am missing?
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Shadow1000 is right in that you don't need to use that code for this puzzle, but yes, there is a pattern I think you might be missing:

If you look at the 3 sets of numbers you might notice that they progress in a certain way...Find the next progression to get the code for something later in the game...
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Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: Shadow1000 on Mon 23/05/2016 01:39:47
My thoughts about the game:

- Just like Mudlarks and Date in the Park, the photographs used as backgrounds worked really well. Especially for a game put together in two weeks where creating a full environment with that many hand drawn rooms would not be realistic.
- Good story. I like how it unfolds. Since it's a short game, the back story is somewhat implicit but as I say, that goes with a short game.
- Decent puzzles.
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interesting that the first puzzle was the most difficult
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especially with the false lead
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Overall, well done and quite complete.

SHADOW
Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: Two Tales on Mon 23/05/2016 06:49:31
I like games with this pixelated photographic style so I was convinced to download it straight away and yeh, I enjoyed it. I thought it was a neat idea to swap photos with someone and then try to come up with something quickly using them...and to do it in two weeks, good job!
Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: xil on Mon 23/05/2016 18:39:20
Great game! I did get stuck on that first puzzle for an embarrassing amount of time but I got there in the end ;)

The vibe was great throughout and I thought the graphics worked really well!
Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: Gord10 on Mon 23/05/2016 18:54:03
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Am I supposed to give Kasper a drug? I couldn't find anything around.
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Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: xil on Mon 23/05/2016 21:34:27
Quote from: Gord10 on Mon 23/05/2016 18:54:03
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Am I supposed to give Kasper a drug? I couldn't find anything around.
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Hint:
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If I were to say drugs get you 'high', where would you look?
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Answer:
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Try waking up the dude on the roof!
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Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: sthomannch on Tue 24/05/2016 18:20:55
Enjoyed this game a lot. Good graphics and puzzles. Took me a while though to get
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the cod for the private message. I was distracted by that other short message. Well done
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Only downside is that the nice city of Roskilde and the dome and ships are gone now :-) Really a beautiful place.
Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: Gord10 on Wed 25/05/2016 19:30:58
@xil:
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I knew it was something about that guy, but I couldn't manage waking him up.
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Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: sthomannch on Wed 25/05/2016 21:56:12
If you are still stuck, open a thread in hints & tips
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the guy will never wake up, but you can force him to move a little bit
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with water
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then, examine the floor next to the guy carefully for some goodies
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Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: Stupot on Thu 26/05/2016 02:54:18
Just played this and it was great fun. Lots of nice touches.
Random Q. Did Troels give you the photos as they appear in the game or did you pixellate them yourself?
Title: Re: aerinde
Post by: shaun9991 on Sat 28/05/2016 21:24:01
Thanks for playing guys! It's cool to have such feedback on this little experiment :)

@Stupot - When Troels sent me the pics they were all in super fancy glorious super HD, I resized them and used the same pixelation process that I did for A Date in the Park (using pixlr.com). Pixlr is a very handy website!