Botos do Diabo [MAGS Nov 2024]

[jfrisby]

BOTOS DO DIABO
(aka Devil's Porpoises)
By Babar & jfrisby
A fever dream horror somewhere in the Amazon...

AGS database: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2808-botos-do-diabo/
Download: https://jfrisby.itch.io/botos-do-diabo

Botos do Diabo is a short horror fever-dream point and click set on a river somewhere in the Amazon.
Made for Adventure Game Studio MAGS monthly competition November 2024 for the theme "Body of Water".

Features:
- 8 colors!
- Dolphin!
- Closeups! Animation!
- Endless(?) scrolling background!
- Original soundtrack!

!!WARNINGS!!
- Violence
- Mild strobing/ seizure warnings (6- second lightning pixel art in intro)
- possible jump scare(s)
- starvation
- blood
- Possible dolphin attacks

[heltenjon]

Well, that was creepy!    I liked it, and I felt it was like the fever dream you announce it as.

Spoiler

The game is sort of on tracks, and it feels unavoidable to play out like intended. I had the feeling that none of it was real, and perhaps even the river might be Styx. Still, the evil dolphin (Flipper flipped!) and the baby in a basket (like Moses!) were great, and both gave me the full WTF moment. I guess the story in this game may be interpreted any number of ways.

[close]

So - good game! Congratulations on making it!

[jfrisby]

Well, that was creepy!    I liked it, and I felt it was like the fever dream you announce it as.

Spoiler

The game is sort of on tracks, and it feels unavoidable to play out like intended. I had the feeling that none of it was real, and perhaps even the river might be Styx. Still, the evil dolphin (Flipper flipped!) and the baby in a basket (like Moses!) were great, and both gave me the full WTF moment. I guess the story in this game may be interpreted any number of ways.

[close]

So - good game! Congratulations on making it!

Thanks as always for playing heltenjon!

Spoiler

Things are definitely chained together linearly in this one, which was sort of an experiment.. it was hard to make that feel ok, and I'm not sure if we did

Some other ideas like more deaths (there's one in there!.. which maybe doesnt make sense depending on your interpretation of the game..), actions sequences (wack-a-dolphin, river rafting/paddling), didn't really make it past the drawing board. 

[close]

[heltenjon]

Thanks as always for playing heltenjon!

Spoiler

Spoiler

Some other ideas like more deaths (there's one in there!.. which maybe doesnt make sense depending on your interpretation of the game..)

[close]

Well...

Spoiler

If Hell is repetition, and you have to try again after you die, then perhaps. But you're right, I didn't die. I guess the dolphin can get you, and possibly sinking the raft, as well.

[close]

[BunnyShoggoth]

Cool!!! In some way, it makes me think of an old AGS game called "Dada: Stagnation in Blue".

Spoiler

And yep, I'm pretty much sure that the river is Styx or something like that.

[close]

[Mehrdad]

It is a beautiful and great game. Well done! 

[bicilotti]

A very short and good horror game in my opinion. Simple puzzles don't overshadow the narrative part, both music and the graphic style (including the monochrome palette) help converying the distress of the protagonist.
Well done!