Shades of Greye

discordance · Tue 26/01/2010 22:04:07

You are Montmorency Greye, a private investigator, gun-toter and name-taker. One fateful night you are sent to investigate a series of mysterious disappearances in an isolated whaling town. Before long you're fighting for your life. That's right, YOUR LIFE!

This is a shooting game featuring a variety of exciting and challenging puzzles, such as "How much lead must I pump into this shambling monstrosity before it dies," and "Oh crap what is that in the dark behind me?!" If you like shooting at things until they fall over, this is the game for you!

MAGS entry for January, and so far it seems the only entry :'(

Here is the game itself!

Crimson Wizard · Tue 26/01/2010 22:52:51

Well, as I said in MAGS thread, it's nice, but graphics could be larger in size. Also controls feel a bit stiff.
I'll tell more when I finish it.

Helme · Wed 27/01/2010 10:37:21

I think this leads into the wrong direction.
Mankind should seek for dialog with monstrosities instead of fighting them.

discordance · Wed 27/01/2010 20:46:51

Actually that is a possible strategy for completing the game. Just start it up and walk up to the monsters and ask them how they feel about your relationship. And continue to do that until they finish eating your lungs and spreading the rest of your internal organs across the city block.

And Crimson Wizard, may I recommend...

Crimson Wizard · Wed 27/01/2010 21:36:23

lol, actually I played it in window. Now I will play it only fullscreen. It's much better.

Jide · Sun 31/01/2010 03:31:46

Downloading..... playing.....

I love it

the music is cool as but i must be missing something coz when I pick up new ammo nothing happens??

Crimson Wizard · Mon 01/02/2010 01:36:39

Quote from: Jide on Sun 31/01/2010 03:31:46i must be missing something coz when I pick up new ammo nothing happens??

Are you sure you pick it up? This game requires pressing "Up" arrow to pick items up. By the way, discordance, I think this is not really good.

Jide · Mon 01/02/2010 01:46:30

i sure am picking it up. i step over it, press the up arrow, the ammo on the ground dissapears... but i still have no ammo???

Crimson Wizard · Mon 01/02/2010 01:49:05

Quote from: Jide on Mon 01/02/2010 01:46:30
i sure am picking it up. i step over it, press the up arrow, the ammo on the ground dissapears... but i still have no ammo???

Do you reload your gun?

Jide · Mon 01/02/2010 01:56:28

so there you go i was missing something haha
thanks

Rocco · Mon 01/02/2010 16:09:10

congratulations really great game, i love it.
outstanding atmosphere, very good graphics and music.

2 little problems:
game crashed as i try to load a saved game in the cemetry.
now im stuck on the sea, cause im very low on health and after going to death (3rd tentacle)
i start again with the low health.
maybe theres a way to get over the tentacles without being harmed, but i didnt manage this.
The 1st and 3rd always hitting the boat from below, without a chance to avoid it.

discordance · Mon 01/02/2010 19:07:58

I'll probably try to upload an improved version soon where easy mode is a bit easier. In the meantime your best bet with the tentacles is probly to run like hell from the ones behind you and shoot down the ones in front of you from a distance.

Ethan D · Mon 08/02/2010 01:53:36

I really like the atmosphere in this game. I have yet to complete it though mainly because I for some reason always choose to do the hardest difficulty in any game that I play and I'm stuck.....

RedTalon · Mon 08/02/2010 03:14:22

Fun little game. Well done!

discordance · Mon 08/02/2010 20:43:03

Quote from: Ethan Damschroder on Mon 08/02/2010 01:53:36
I really like the atmosphere in this game. I have yet to complete it though mainly because I for some reason always choose to do the hardest difficulty in any game that I play and I'm stuck.....

Whoa, so you started on "Death becomes me" mode? Even I haven't yet been able to beat it that high. It may actually be impossible. I recommend going down one level at least

Ethan D · Mon 08/02/2010 23:59:25

How many times exactly do you have to kill the giant grasshopper thing at the end?

discordance · Tue 09/02/2010 00:35:50

About a jillion or so.

Or five.

Ethan D · Tue 09/02/2010 01:52:40

Yes!! Just finished it on "Death becomes me." Fun game.

discordance · Tue 09/02/2010 02:55:12

noooooooooooooo.

well congratulations, you are now about fourteen times better at this game than me. you are amazing. you are a hero.

:O

bicilotti · Sun 14/02/2010 00:21:12

Let me say I really enjoyed it! There's not much space for story in these kind of games, just shoot, shoot and shoot again: Shades of Greye does it really good!
The stages I enjoyed the most where the one requiring the lamp! I wanted to write a small comment on the game page, but I usually vote only after finishing and I am currently stuck

Spoiler

I'm on the wrecked ship, and there's this giant thing wanting me dead (how original of it

). I killed it 5 times (1 front of ship, one left, one right, 1 front again, 1 left again) and I've got like 3 healt and 1 bullet. I thought after 5 times it was over! Am I wrong?

[close]

edit: ok, found a spare bullet box and the bitch went down with just two more. This one made remember what a Doom syndrome actually is. Nice ending.

edit II: skippable dialogue & key remapping <-> two simple things that could improve the game.

Shades of Greye

bicilotti