New game by Yahtzee! 'The Trials of Odysseus Kent'

[Punch]

My computer locks up completely whenever I try to run this game It works fine until I click on a dialogue option, and then freezes, not even responding to ctrl-alt-del. I've had problems with the computer freezing in the past, but they stopped when I changed the soundcard options to default wave out. Any ideas anyone?

Thanks,
Punch

[Gilbert]

Try to set it to "no sound" and see if it still locks up, if not, then it's prolly some DirectX compatibility problem.

[Toefur]

The 'im the player and you're controlling me' thing at the start was entirely too unoriginal... but other than that, so far it seems pretty cool...

... wait... it stopped responding for me as well until I tried clicking on a dialogue option.

[JD]

The blackscreen thingy happens to me when I try to run my game in window-ed mode. When I run it in full screen it works perfectly. Oh by the way, nice game. Nice animations. Too bad Yahtzee is a nob jockey.

[Nostradamus]

There's a win version and a dos version, if you're having troubles with one vesrion,try the other

[KANDYMAN-IAC]

UPDATE....

Yahtzee didn't steal this game idea from a book, this time he stole it from Sarah. She says she was shocked when she played it. She didn't know about the games existance until it was finished. And then right there on the screen were characters that seemed almost ripped from stuff she had been making...

i noticed the sarahishness of the game and asked if she had been involved... upon finding out  she wasn't she explained this....

yahtzee is a bad person

[Esseb]

Yeah, I'd hate it to if someone stole my perverted character with a blowup doll design.

[Sarah]

No, no, no... KANDY got it wrong... he said that the game SEEMED a little 'Sarah-ish', and I replied that I had been shocked to see that the game was so much like my style (slight sarcasm/irony there) but that I'd had nothing to do with it from start to finish. Yahtzee/Ben ripped nothing from me...

I admit I was a little annoyed that the character was Victorian, since I write a lot of stuff (or used to) about a Victorian guy, but Ben says this guy is Regency... which to me doesn't make a huge difference, but never mind...

Maybe I was an influence, I dunno...

[Andail]

Allright, we're back to square one: "Yahtzee is not a bad person anymore".

Kandyman, on the other hand, has earned a few spanks

[KANDYMAN-IAC]

yay... spanking is fun....

ummm i'll just shut up now

[Gonzo]

Well I'm enjoying this game quite a lot. Great sense of humour and atmosphere to it. It feels kinda like Melée Island from MI1, a feel he admits he was going for. It's good, one of the best AGS games I've played I must say.

I e-mailed Yahtzee to say I like this game and he thanked me (briefly).

[Goldmund]

I liked it, it was really smooth, although the story wasn't too appealing for my wicked tastes. Entertaining dialogue, though.
One huge disadvantage was that the only two "puzzles" I had trouble with, and spent most time on, unfortunately were a technical fault. One was caused by the fact that the shovel was too big to deduct its hotspot - I've thought of digging up this cross loooong before I tried once again and finally aimed correctly. The second was that the presence of the alley on the right was rather unexpected, with no graphical hints.

I didn't e-mail Yahtzee.

[Butcher]

Wait...now he ANSWERS E-MAILS?
  that's pretty much one of the reasons he got so much hatred from the community (not answering mails)...It certainly is why I didn't like him. He seemed arrogant in everything I asked on the board and then when I did something stupid I mailed him an apology e-mail and never got an answer...and that's my story of what I was pissed off about with Yahtzee...

  And also I didn't ever really like the Rob Blank series, but now I can see why he is a trully great gamemaker:
   Odysseus Kent is a top game , and very true to the MI spirit. Graphics, music, gameplay, story ,dialogs...it's all there! some pretty funny lines too (although it could be a LITTLE funnier I think).

    and yes I'd like to see Yahtzee back on this community...why not? controversy is a good thing...
but I'd advise him a little more patience with newbies

[Gonzo]

It wasn't exactly an extensive e-mail, but yes he did reply.

Anyway, from what I've read I'd guess that Yahtzee doesn't want to come back to the AGS community, I think he left for good. A shame as this game proves he can really make a kick-ass game - I'd like to see a friendly Yahtzee return probably, but it's unlikely. I wasn't overwhelmed by his other games (except a RON one he did was okay I think) but this one's super.

[Helm]

¨I e-mailed Yahtzee to say I like this game and he thanked me (briefly).¨


Haha, I emailed him too, to tell him I liked his newest effort, but no reply!

I suppose bad blood goes a long way

[evenwolf]

there's always misinterpretation.

For instance, I'd be hesitant to reply to an email If I knew it would be posted on a forum...

or maybe he still fears being interpreted as egotistical. Just don't form sound opinions based on silence is all I'm saying.

[Esseb]

Or maybe he's just done with adventure developing. There's a novel idea.

[Frogman]

Neat game, but why the heck does everyone do that annoying thing where the character always walks over to what you click on, even if there's no interaction when he gets there??  It's very annoying, and not hard at all to avoid!

[Las Naranjas]

Although, in classic Yahtzee style the backgrounds leave something to be desired (And he says he prefers to concetrate on narrative and puzzles), the character art is superb for the feeling he's trying to create.

And the humour is more restrained. Before it could get annoying in a Douglas Adams, Discworld games kind of way.

[MonkeySpank]

Yay, Yortzee made a new game.. I told him that you just CAN'T quit ags...