Adventure Game Studio

You play as Lefty McBollock with the challenge to help save his home city from destruction! Who is behind the plot, why are they - and did I even program an explanation to either of those questions? Find out in this twisted tale of time travel and testes! It should have you puzzled for 30 mins plus...!

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?category=&action=detail&id=1430

The download is 176mb, and features:
» 20 playable rooms
» 40 mins of original MIDI or MP3 music
» Guest artwork
» More than 50 teh sound effect!
» Extended ending
» NPC's that don't walk

Note: I decided not to disable skipping speech, but please be aware, if you do skip speech by clicking mouse (or pressing ESC in a cut scene to skip it), you'll knock the dialogue and music timings out of kilter. For the best experience, let the dialog roll! Just so you know :)

Not suitable for kids!
There's strong language & silly puzzles - but no known critical errors. A couple of music playing errors but that's AGS 2.72's fault, not mine!

For hints and tips email: support@screen7.co.uk

Understandably, as this is just made for fun - it's not heavily polished. I'm sure you'll find some missing interactions. The whole thing is made up of pretty lackluster art. And everything I learned whilst making Lost In Paradise...I haven't applied to this game at all ;) I've used old slapdash methods and did all the testing myself so if you have any problems please let me know! NOTT was just to get me back into the mood of games design & now I'm going to push harder at it than ever before. Expect to see some more sensible games in the near future ;)

Thanks to everyone who helped make this exist! The question is - should it?  :=

Special thanks to Boob304 & Gilbert CHEEEUNG for being good sports  8) And everyone else the game abuses..

Keep an eye out for the special edition, which will be more polished, and will include the special features, improved art and dialogue.

:)
Mods

PS: For clarity - there is no sexual imagery in the game. Just a walkin', talkin', quest solvin' bollock.

Let's go! At last a philosophical AGS game. Thanks Mods.

To the city! Thanks David :)

Mods, dunno what else to say: you're a genius of crudeness.

That was an awesome explosion! Currently at the professor's.

Hehe. Because of this I finally have something under "My games" in my profile page, after all these years. :=

Igor - glad you like the Hollywood special FX!! :P Timed puzzle for you ahead... lol

Iceyboty - Yes! Finally! Your first credit! I noticed that yesterday too! :o Thanks for finding those ancient photos, Governor Cheung ;D

Ed - Thanks! I think  ::)

Incredible how much effort you've put into this - and even more that I'm currently highly entertained ;D

Heh The timer ran too fast! Took me tries to get past it.

I'm currently stuck anyway.

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I'm in the past with my previous self blocking the way and the past future governor rolling on the ground and I don't know what to do.

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I don't want hints yet though, hopefully I can find the way out on my own.

Quote from: Iceboty V7000a on Mon 09/05/2011 18:44:12
Heh The timer ran too fast! Took me tries to get past it.

I'm currently stuck anyway.

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I'm in the past with my previous self blocking the way and the past future governor rolling on the ground and I don't know what to do.

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I don't want hints yet though, hopefully I can find the way out on my own.

Ahh, a minor bug perhaps...or just bad coding on my behalf. Something I'll need to rectify in the SE.

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You'll need to stay out of his way. I didn't think about what happens if you just 'stand' there..

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Dirk - thanks! Too much effort perhaps ;)

****!!!! Gilbert's error is a bit of a showstopper. Better fix that now  :-[

Download isn't available for a couple of hours (til 6am GMT)

Fixed.

Also made some minor improvements elsewhere. Store your save games , re-download & load a saved game from an earlier point. Sorry about that  :-[

As I mentioned before though, if you still have v1.0 and saved before this point in the game, you can:

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Just move down out of 'your' way to keep the game rolling

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Great, so it's not my inability in ruling this game :=.

Re-downloading.

Edit: Beat it already. Nice ending.

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Cliff Hanger!

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Nice one Gilbert! Thanks for playing. Just one question -

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Did you bother to lay the item at the end or not?

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;)

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Did you mean the items that prevent the rolling fool to become the next governor? Is that necessary to win the game? I thought I would get a game over if I didn't do so. maybe I'll load up the save game and see what happens when the timer expires. :=

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Thanks!

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Just interested to see what path you might have taken. But yep, let that one roll for 1 min extra fun ;)

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Yep. I see it now, but the result isn't much different, unless...

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there is a way to NOT be so kind to Mr Bum. :=

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BUT:

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It seems that you don't need to really put the item on the ground. Just talk to the rolling man without laying the item could lead to the same result. This minor glitch doen't break anything though. There are several other minor glitches (which is understandable considering that the game is not supposed to be very polished, one that I can remember is that you can go to the side of Jizz Corp, even when the angry mob are still there. It doesn't break anything though.

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I see, thanks for the notes, dude. Nasty globular ints! I didn't know about that one... It was only tested by me in the end and was taking several minutes for AGS to save and run it every time. But thanks! Consider yourself an un-credited tester, too ;D

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The result is exactly the same yep

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Nice and funny, but it hung on my computer after the timed sequence (if there are more than one: the first one). Screen went black with sound only (I guess that bit was on purpose?) but then there was just silence and non-responsiveness and I had to kill the process. :( You don't happen to have a savegame of anywhere near before this point, do you?

Also if it helps for debugging: I was just about to leave the room when the timer went off, so maybe the beginning of the cutscene interfered with the ChangeRoom or something.

Thanks Tomatos! Hmm, could that be the video file causing you a problem? I've not been able to re-create the error. That section is a real mess - I will have to make a new version asap. You can re-enter the building which kind of mucks it up if the timer is running, and Gilbert's comment about being able to reach the side-bit early led me to try but that caused no hanging for me when entering the timed sequence a second and third time. What sounds did you hear? I honestly haven't tested visiting anywhere else on the map during that sequence so something like that may mess up the programming. Otherwise you're probably onto something about the changeroom command having a tiz, but it's a hard one to re-create..!

Anyway, there's a save game here (http://www.screen7.co.uk/junc/agssave.005) but I'm not sure if it will work because it's from an updated unreleased version. Give it a try. Thanks for letting me know about your issues :)

Thanks for the savegame, restoring in this version works.
Now I've just waited till the timer went off without doing anything, but still the same problem, so it has nothing to do with the room change, but with the video file, as you said. Did you use a different codec for this video? All the other videos in the game worked fine.
The sounds I hear are from

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a massive, probably city-wide, explosion

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, so maybe only the audio from the video plays. It ends a bit abrupt though, after around 8-9 seconds, don't know if that's normal.

Thank you. Hmm. Yes, up to that point the videos are WMV, and from there they become "CVID" AVI video files, and that should be just like Microsoft Video 1. I'll look into this though, so thanks again. There are two more videos after that with the same format, so I guess that renders it pretty unplayable for you until I get it fixed, or try some alternative file types.

I'll upload alternative video files in a day or so :)

QuotePS: Mr Stein, haha, no idea (yet) what it says but managing to get Testicle and bald in the same sentence on an adventure game news page is no easy feat!

There is a translation link on the right side of the blog, you can use it to get a raw english translation:

http://translate.google.de/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.retroadventures.de&sl=del=en

That's German efficiency for you, following up a conversation from a couple of weeks ago ;)

Well, my komt bald bollocks appreciate your concern, Mike :) Also, the translate button on your site doesn't work for me. It just shows the same Google translate bar about 8 times and then nothing happens!

Quote from: Mods on Fri 13/05/2011 17:40:46
That's German efficiency for you, following up a conversation from a couple of weeks ago ;)

... and from a different thread. :-)

QuoteWell, my komt bald bollocks appreciate your concern, Mike :) Also, the translate button on your site doesn't work for me. It just shows the same Google translate bar about 8 times and then nothing happens!

Oh, that's non-german efficiency... I have it for about a year and nobody told me... :-P

English enthusiasm ::) In all fairness, the first time I even saw that link to a translate was two days ago. Ever since I've always just copied your text over to translate.google.com ;) But anyway, thanks, and also for the publicity! I'll try that button again tonight and let you know if it works or not. It didn't just now.

Edit - woop! Now the translate option works fine!

Quote from: TomatosInTheHead on Thu 12/05/2011 14:04:38
Thanks for the savegame, restoring in this version works.
Now I've just waited till the timer went off without doing anything, but still the same problem, so it has nothing to do with the room change, but with the video file, as you said. Did you use a different codec for this video? All the other videos in the game worked fine.
The sounds I hear are from

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a massive, probably city-wide, explosion

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, so maybe only the audio from the video plays. It ends a bit abrupt though, after around 8-9 seconds, don't know if that's normal.

Hi dude, it doesn't look like I can remake the video files without them being huge. So it's probably best you install the CVID codec. If you can't find it online (I couldn't) here's a fairly simple fix:

Download the cvid codec DLL here: http://www.screen7.co.uk/games/download/iccvid.dll

Place it in your Windows > System32 folder.

Go to Run > Regedit and then:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Drivers32\
(or similar location, with other strings including midi and aux)

Add a new string by clicking Edit > New > String value

The string name should be changed to vidc.cvid

The string value to enter is iccvid.dll

Then try again, or restart and try again :)

Sorry it's a bit long winded, seems that codec is quite out of date and not easy to just find and install. If this still doesn't work for you and other people suffer the CVID problem with my game, I may have to look at a different option for the AVI videos in the game. Thanks for pointing it out though!

Ah, I found the problem: I already had the codec (and registry entry), but I also had a third-party codec pack (K-Lite Codec Pack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Lite_Codec_Pack)) which added some missing, but also replaced or essentially disabled some of the existing codecs, including this one. Thanks for the help!
Now let's see if I have the balls to finish this game 8)

Finished it now, awesome ending! :)

Took me quite a while since this last post here because it was indeed not possible to do finish it with the savegame from the other version: one hotspot, namely

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the sidebit at Jizz Corp

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wasn't there, which I only found out after replaying it today from the beginning. Before that, I only tried every combination of items and actions and searched every pixel because I thought I'd just missed something obvious. :-\

Thanks for the comments there, sir! I'll be uploading a new version with that fix tonight or tomorrow, sorry that it slipped through. It's a bummer (or a balls up) I'm sorry I haven't sorted sooner. But I'm glad you made it through to the end :) Be sure to rate in the DB!  :=

I don't think anyone reported this yet, but I'm stuck right near the beginning from an apparent glitch...

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I'm in the 24/7 shop, Handy just led me downstairs, and now...there's nothing I can do.  I've looked, touched and talked to everything in the room, I've got the cup and the key and tried them on everything, and nothing happens.  I also can't leave, since Handy's blocking the stairs.  Is this a puzzle I'm just not getting or an error?  Please help, I really want to play more! :)

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Hi PlayPretend, that's an intentional puzzle - known as a pixel hunt, generally disliked by most :p Thanks for your comments!

Hint:

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There's a detail in that room you should look for

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Solution:

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Click anywhere on the small control panel (little black strip on the bomb), labelled "?"

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