which witch - a test game

Tolka · Thu 05/10/2006 21:57:30

Last week I was poking around the internet. I don't remember what I was looking for, but I stumbled into the AGS site. I grew up playing this sort of game so I had a bit of a neat moment and downloaded a few gamesâ€¦ then a few more, then nostalgia hit and I downloaded the program and started messing around with it.

A week latter and this is the result. It's a short test things figure it out game. A mere 3 rooms and one npc. Coupled with a pointless storyline and events are random and weird. But it was a blast to make. But take it for what it is, I learned a lot about what worksâ€¦ and what doesn't work in this one. And I will use that towards my next attempt.. Something a bit more ambitious but I still have to work that out.

Also, please excuse the spelling and grammar errors. I wasn't checking them when I was typing them into the game and even though I ran the whole batch through a spellchecker latter I know from experience that there are probably still a whole slew of errors, and right spelling wrong word problems.

There is less animation in game then I like. Several events would have looked so much cooler with a little fidgeting animation, or a poke, or a take thing. I just didn't want to spend all that time on a trial game. Even the walk animations are simple layer move scales in photoshop. I do however like the style that came togetherâ€¦ with the watercolor sort of backgrounds and the character art. The backgrounds could use more refinement thoughâ€¦ anyway enough rambling. Some screenshots, and the download.

New Vershion Avalable

V 1.1: taking into account many comments I have made the following changes.
-the intro sequence is now skipable by pressing escape
-fixed the sisters room so you can no longer walk through the wall randomly
-fixed many spelling and grammar errors. (thanks name!!!)
-fixed the staircase and window at the end of the hall so you now walk towards them when clicked rather then a fixed spot. Making ending the game easier.
-Added basic, they don't work together catch all text for using items with items, hotspots on so on. Before it did nothing.

you can download the new one at
www.tfsnewworld.com/game/whichwitch1.1.zip

well, there it is. let me know whut you all think.

Mikko · Thu 05/10/2006 23:23:16

Didn't play it through all the way, but I wanted to say that you have done good work. I'd believe that not many newcomers get this far with their first attempt.

I'm quite sure I don't need to point out the little mistakes or errors here and there, since in overall I think the game worked just fine.

I wish you luck with the next game!

quest · Fri 06/10/2006 00:14:50

welcome to the ags scene;)

thewalrus · Fri 06/10/2006 03:05:15

Wow, this is a really neat game! The graphics are simple but lovely..... The animation is smooth..... This only took you 8 days?!?!? Kudos to you! I really think you have a lot of talent. I think I'm almost finished with the game but I am sadly stuck....

P.S. Welcome to the community and I really look forward to seeing something else made by you....

Tolka · Fri 06/10/2006 05:37:23

Thank you all for the welcome.

As for the game.
There's only a few places that I think someone might get stuck in the game.
I like to think I put enough clues in game so they can be figured out. But let me know if you need an extra hint or anything.

As for my next gameâ€¦ I'm not sure what it will be yet. I have a few ideas derived from the test's story. And a few ideas for things completely unrelated. I don't know yet. It will probably be a bit strange and involve magic though. It's just fun to write and draw the bizarre.

Anyway I will definitely post something when I get things underway on a new project.

lakerz · Fri 06/10/2006 22:21:51

This was a fun short game trolka! I agree that only needing 8 days to develop this, your first AGS project, is pretty amazing. I look forward to your next effort. If you're not aware of it, there is a monthly MAGS contest with different rules each time around. Might want to check that out to see if it inspires you. It's in the competitions forum.

Tolka · Sat 07/10/2006 05:18:48

thats not a bad idea. a couple of short games before getting into somthing huge might be a good idea. let me learn a bit more about AGS and all that. I'll take a look.

CMonkey · Sat 07/10/2006 12:43:33

Just finished the game.

Liked the animations of the 2 characters, very well done. And the puzzles were fairly good, but I think I fluked my way through some of them.

The big downer for me was the spelling, I'm not usually a stickler for this, but some of the mistakes really made me cringe, especially "droor", "cubord" and "beem", how these got through a spell checker I'll never guess. Please put more effort into this next time.

Oh, and I found it really frustrating that I had to watch the intro sequence every time I played the game, I didn't complete it in one sitting and every time I went back into the game I had to sit through it again while madly hitting escape trying to skip through it. A really simple menu screen at the start with "New Game", "Load" and "Quit" would fix this.

But all in all, a better than average first effort. If you made another game I'd give it a shot, but please get someone to do a quick proof read of the text before hand.

Tolka · Mon 09/10/2006 05:41:42

ok, just mentioning here that I'm putting up an updated vershion of the game with the following fixes.

V 1.1: taking into account many comments I have made the following changes.
-the intro sequence is now skipable by pressing escape
-fixed the sisters room so you can no longer walk through the wall randomly
-fixed many spelling and grammar errors. (thanks name!!!)
-fixed the staircase and window at the end of the hall so you now walk towards them when clicked rather then a fixed spot. Making ending the game easier.
-Added basic, they don't work together catch all text for using items with items, hotspots on so on. Before it did nothing.

you can download the new one at
www.tfsnewworld.com/game/whichwitch1.1.zip

I hope this clears up most of the isues. or at least helps with them. sorry about the premeture release, I should have waited till I got some more feedback.

sthomannch · Mon 09/10/2006 18:49:56

Tolka,
good thing you worked on an update. I couldn't do anything useful in your first program, now it worked fine and I enjoyed it a lot. Nice game and I hope to see more some time :-)

Rosie · Thu 12/10/2006 04:11:15

Wonderful. You are a most talented game maker. If this is your first, then we have lots to look forward to from you......

Thank you for a clean, happy enjoyable game.

which witch - a test game

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