STORY:
It's just typical isn't it. You're planing on having a relaxing day, maybe going to the movies or having a quiet drink at home with friends and what happens? You get called up by your boss and next thing you know you're expected at work within the next 20 minutes.
Groan, so annoying. It's even worse when your boss is an egomaniacal, mad scientist (cliche? Of course. 8)) and you promised your girlfriend that you would take her out on the town. Oh no, you know that girl is crazy.
So what do you do? Get in, get it done and get out.
Well, thats the plan anyway...
SCREENSHOTS:
(http://i584.photobucket.com/albums/ss283/GreenBoy_02/Danny2-1.png)
DOWNLOAD:
Click here for game page. (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=1245)
FEATURES:
* Classic 320 x 240 resolution.
* 16 music tracks.
* Some jokes.
* 3 playable screens. Wow.
* Fun for whole family. #
* Now features 2nd language option of Italian!!! Wow, I feel so international.
# Fun not guaranteed.
CREDITS
Green Boy: Story, Graphics & Scripting.
Mods: Music.
Arj0n: Testing.
Leon: Testing.
Thollmigul: Testing.
PuNKKoMmANDO77: Italian Translation.
Thanks to everyone who helped out with the game and to those supportive ones in the AGS community.
I am going to have to check this out.
Any game with an interface button for "Kick" has got to be good.
-Bill
It's completed?
YAAAAY!
Gaaah, to many awesome games to play.. I'll play this after I finish McCarthy ep1 and aeronuts.
Congratulations on completing the game! :)
I love the clown sprite. I am going to get this one sometime this week.
Thanks guys hopefully you will enjoy playing it.
Quote from: Bulbapuck on Wed 02/12/2009 10:51:49
Gaaah, to many awesome games to play..
I know I've been too busy to play all the gaming goodness that's been coming out lately.
Not now though. Huh huh huh 8)
Awesome! I've uploaded it also to this location (http://www.screen7.co.uk/games/download/ddioc.zip) in case you want to add a mirror. Well done on release!
Congrats! Great game! Good soundtrack as well..
Dreadly funny game ;)
And congrats on your 1st release Ctn Moridin!!
Cheers fellas.
I couldn't of done it without you guys. :'( whoops getting emotional here. I'll stop that.
No time for getting emo, Cpt Moridin is On Call for making a 2nd game :P
Geez, I gotta get playing. Featherweight (still have yet to play), AeroNuts, McCarthy and now this?!
Blargh. Downloading...
Great game. I've finished this weekend and liked a lot.
You really put a lot of effort into the animations and the music is very good too.
But then I got stuck and had to "trial and error" myself through a passage
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balloon+key+lightning = string ?!?!
Also I would have liked to kick more things...
Anyway, your game has a lot of a mature maniac mansion game. I'm looking forward to your next title.
Quote from: abstauber on Mon 07/12/2009 08:32:37
Anyway, your game has a lot of a mature maniac mansion game. I'm looking forward to your next title.
Seconded
Thanks abstauber. I have to admit I was kinda worried about that puzzle because it was a little bit random, I tried to balance out the clues a wee bit but maybe I should of made it a bit more obvious. If I hadn't worked the puzzle out in the first place I'm pretty sure that's where I would of got stumped. ::)
Nice to see that other people are not that lazy with animations than I am.
Except from the animations, the game felt okay, nothing outstanding good or bad. I'm not sure why, but the game was less funny and immersive than I expected. But thats a good premise for improvements for the next title.
Cute game, nice humour but
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the poor sheep :'(
Quote from: cat on Wed 09/12/2009 18:37:24
Cute game, nice humour but
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the poor sheep :'(
It was for a good cause though. ;)
Haven't seen any comments about this part of the game:
Anyone tried to
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put more sheep, one by one ofcourse, in the machine when Danny's girlfriend has been caged to see these sheep metamorphose into welknown characters? Just fetch a sheep and put it in the machine and watch the metamorphose, then fetch another sheep and put it in the machine and watch the metamorphose, etc.
Nice game so far, Green Boy! I laughed right away on the title screen when he says;
"I'll be there as soon as I can."
Then proceeds to stand there and smoke a cigarette.
Just finished it then, very good, the artwork and animations were top notch (Is it just me, or the talking animations for short words are specifically animated to be mouthing the actual words, like when he answers his phone in the openning sequence?).
There were a few curveballs in the puzzles but the jokes made me laugh, especially the one about people not being objects.
The music was good, and half of the main song reminded me of Art of Theft and the other of RON.
All in all, short game, but very enjoyable. Looking forward to the next one.
I'm surprised about that to Arjon, I would of thought that would of been picked up pretty quickly.
Cheers for the nice comments Scarab and Snake, I was slightly worried that my sense of humour wouldn't work very well for a adventure game.
I used the lip sync feature feature for the talking animations, I only used 5 different frames but I think it came together really well. It's also why the clowns gestures are so random.
Music was supplied by the very talented Mods who also did Art of Theft. Very clever man that.
Quote from: Green Boy on Fri 11/12/2009 06:03:58
It's also why the clowns gestures are so random.
Heh, well his erratic behaviour reminded me of this guy:(http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/3307/230968-stan_large.jpg)
So if it wasn't a MI reference... It looked like one ;)
Heh heh. 8)
Old Stan did cross my mind when I was designing his character.
Hi, great game so far, loved the humour and graphics.
I found a dead-end bug, though:
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Start the game, look at the gap three times. Danny says "that's where I found the ping pong bat...", but I haven't found it yet. You can try and use the ruler all you want at that point, it won't work...
Quote from: tzachs on Fri 11/12/2009 18:17:12
I found a dead-end bug, though:
Ooohhh... nice find. I've tried a lot in that room, but not
that persistent... :-[
Quote from: Leon on Fri 11/12/2009 18:35:06
Quote from: tzachs on Fri 11/12/2009 18:17:12
I found a dead-end bug, though:
Ooohhh... nice find. I've tried a lot in that room, but not that persistent... :-[
Yeh nice find indeed. Tried a lot there and did found some but not that one.
Oh man that was just some plain stupidity on my part. I have no idea what I was thinking when I scripted that.
I'll fix it and re-upload.
Awesome Game mate... i Like the funny talk between the Farm kid and Danny...
:D
This game was a lot of fun. I liked all your animations, it was very entertaining to watch. The music was interesting.
It was overall a fun game, but there were a few things that really prevent the game from standing out in my mind, which were (nothing too serious, so please don't take it the wrong way. I just want you to know what I, as a player, felt you could have improved on to make a better game for everyone):
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The paddle hiding in the crack. I had no idea there was a crack there and I even rolled my mouse over it in the beginning, I guess I just didn't see it. It definitely didn't look like a crack, it should have had a darker shadow. I had to read a walk-through for that problem only, which is sad, cause pixel hunts aren't fun.
I also didn't like how when I put the second or third or infinity sheep into the machine, the dialog was always the same. I at first didn't know I had to talk to the girl, I thought it was clear I had to grab another sheep--but that's obviously not the case. So I had put 3-4 sheep in the machine until figuring out that the 'deformations' ended up repeating. The doctor doesn't even comment on the results being unexpected, which is why I never once thought about talking to him about it until I ran out of ideas. Having the doc oblivious to what is going on with the sheep in that machine really makes him feel like a cardboard cutout. I don't talk to cardboard cutouts. :)
And after the 3rd or 4th sheep Danny should be saying something along the lines of "this machine isn't working right".
Same with the clown. I gave him 2 cups of coffee thinking that Danny would ask for what he wanted the second time around. Which he obviously doesn't, but the dialog the first time made it seem like he would ask before giving the coffee the second time.
Also after getting him drunk it would be nice to see him slightly swaying back and forth instead of just standing there motionless.
I'm also not a huge fan of the fadeout to perform a certain action within the same room, especially on a game like yours with all those animations on the majority of actions. I think you would have done better to have Danny stand in front of the sheep and fence with his shoulders and arms moving like he does with everything else. Remove the sheep from scene and have the sheep reappear when you return to that farm. Much more professional. Sure you won't have the 'guybrush putting a dog in his pants' animation, but much better than a fade to black action.
Also, when you have a sheep and try to 'use' the machine door, Danny says you should talk to the Doc first. I talk to the Doc and there isn't anything in the dialog about 'hey I have a sheep'. So I click on the doc with the sheep and he says something along the lines of you putting it in the machine. So then you click the sheep on the machine and you go through the whole "hey, i've got a sheep" dialog again. Argh.. lol
You also can't skip dialog in half the scenes by clicking, it got tiring. It's nice to have the click if the same dialog pops up, or you read faster than the dialog timer.
That's pretty much it.
Anyway like I said, don't take this the wrong way. I think you've got great skill and I was impressed with your overall work, there were just certain things that could have been improved to make your game even that much better in my eyes.
Oh, and one typo I noticed:
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After putting the first sheep in the machine and you complain over and over (which was very funny, I liked it a lot), the Doc asks you if you're done. Danny says something about having more lines and the Doc says 'That's to bad. [..]'. It should be 'That's too bad. [..]'
Thanks Ryan for your frankness, I have to say I do probably agree with most if not all of what you mentioned.
The music was made to match in with the cutscene for several scenes, and it does sound fantastic, trouble is that if you click through the music will be out of sync. But I can see how that would be irritating if you have to do something more than once, I think until we have some type of iMUSE module or whatever for AGS that type of thing may have to be put on the backburner.
As for the pixelhunt, well, I did try to make it a reasonable sized area but I do probably agree some sort of visual indication would of helped. To be honest I think next time I make a game (if I can be bothered) I will have to have a much more carefull plan in place for the puzzles. This time it just got thrown together.
Next time I would love to get 4 cups, that would be a dream come true. ;D
Just finished it.. it's a funny little game.. hope you'll make another.. thanx..
This little adventure was pretty enjoyable!
The writing is good, clever, and not terribly corny. I do hate clicking through endless exchanges in conversation, but this was pretty concise. The conversations were short enough for me to not start click click clicking.
Graphics, animation, sound, all very well done.
I did read that you said the puzzles weren't really pre-planned, and while I was forced to combo click to figure some of the puzzles out, it was still a fun little adventure.
great game, nice colors and fun!
Update. Update. Update.
Thanks to the efforts of PuNKKoMmANDO77, Danny Dread is now able to be played by the Italian community.
Oddly enough us poor little kiwis are taking on the Italians at football in only a few hours, I'm hoping this will be enough to make them be kind to us. Dreams are free right?
As I see it never did get mentioned in this thread... ddq wrote a great review of Danny Dread a few months ago: http://hardydev.com/2010/02/11/danny-dread-is-on-call-review/
Nice review! I enjoyed reading. I recently made an MP3 version of the music for fun.
www.screen7.co.uk/music/midi/scores/DDIOC_OST_SE.rar
(17mb)
QuoteOddly enough us poor little kiwis are taking on the Italians at football in only a few hours
It's okay, they didn't stand much of a chance either ;)
Wicked fun, It's nice to hear that music again and this time in glorious MP3.
Thanks to ddq for his article, I loved it. Of course it was mostly positive so it's no surprise I did.
Here's another one I found, this time by Find Therma. http://jd-adventuregamereviews.blogspot.com/2010/01/danny-dread-is-on-call.html
This was a hilarious game which I enjoyed greatly! Very well done!
And Greenbody, you have a simply brilliant avatar and personal text combination @_@
Thank you very much. And to think I wa considering changing it. :o