Release Something! (AGS Showcase!) The Party is Over :(

[Ponch]

These Oceanspirit tales must be told. Don't worry about conflicting continuity -- that sort of thing can't happen in the Oceanspiritverse. DDQ once made a chart showing how many parallel universe the OSD world has already fragmented into. What's one more?

[LimpingFish]

These Oceanspirit tales must be told.

Must they? Must they really?! :'(

[Snake]

I must say, I LOVE Secret Fawful's screenie. Looks beautiful and the gameplay sounds very intriguing...

These Oceanspirit tales must be told.

Must they? Must they really?! :'(

Yes.

[Armageddon]

No one commented on my stuff...

[Ponch]

No one commented on my stuff...

I liked the ridiculously tall tower. The moon within a moon seems to hint at a back story for that world. Plus, I'm a big fan of giant pixels. I love that old NES look.

Also, the high tech hallways (both the perspective one and the deeply shadowed one) were nicely done.

Lastly, what's the story with the Five Years Later guy? Did he lose his mouth in the intervening years? Or gain most of a face? I MUST KNOW!!1!

There. Feel better now? 

[Oddysseus]

Hey, Armageddon, I liked your 3D rendering of a Dan Flavin sculpture.

[Armageddon]

  Thanks guys.

The Five Year Later Guy lost his mouth in a street cleaner accident, it was very sad... You have to Murumph through the whole game.

[Grundislav]

Part of an animation I worked on this weekend.

[suicidal pencil]

I'm going to go and set the deadline for this activity as the 10th of July.

I will release 2 games I've been working on. Just for this.

(This is the first thread with >3 pages that I actually read beginning to end, and I must say that what you guys are creating is phenomenal. I wish I had even a sliver of the graphic design talent running around here)

First on the list is a game that I started a looooong while ago but eventually got bored of it and stopped. Just as recently as 3 days ago I restarted the project from scratch. Here's a first look:

There's still much to do, adding in more enemies, a shop to buy bigger/badder weapons & upgrade them, bosses, music, destroyable scenery, etc. Now, I'm terrible at graphic design, and this picture demonstrates it quite nicely :  Those turrets (and bullets) were created 100% by me, the fighters you see were not. In fact, I hate doing graphic design. This game (and the next one) is an effort in programming, with graphics attached 

Here's a taste of the music I'll be using (shamelessly ripping...programming is my strength, and not much else   )

Now, for the second game...

Now, I'm not completely certain I'll be able to finish both by the 10th but damn will I try. Plus, I'm gonna finish the first one before I continue work on this.

A bit of history about AGS-GH: This is a project I started way back in March of 2010. It would have been completed if my laptop didn't get stolen About a month ago I found one of my old USB sticks that had an earlier version of the work I did on it, and since then I've been meaning to get back to programming it. Thankfully, I had some help with the images and they're saved online so it shouldn't take longer then a few days to knock it out 

[Ghost]

AGS Guitar Hero???
Hell YES!

[Babar]

You should combine the two games so that the Guitar-Hero screen would be a jet-fighter, where you'd have to "kill" enemies in the sequence they appear to make the music

[tzachs]

You should combine the two games so that the Guitar-Hero screen would be a jet-fighter, where you'd have to "kill" enemies in the sequence they appear to make the music

Hell yeah!
Babar should be a king!

[suicidal pencil]

You should combine the two games so that the Guitar-Hero screen would be a jet-fighter, where you'd have to "kill" enemies in the sequence they appear to make the music

o.O

<_<

>_>

-.-

Ya know...that's just crazy enough to work. Looks like I'm gonna need to make that 4th pot of coffee after all. (That's how I plan to be able to put enough hours of work into this to make the deadline   )

edit: approx. 288 hours until the deadline. I'm gonna have to source a small coffee bean farm within the next 12  

[Ponch]

These Oceanspirit tales must be told.

Must they? Must they really?! :'(

Don't ask silly questions! Of course they must! And you must tell one as well. Them's the rules, buddy!  It's Oceanspirit Dennis' world and we're just living in it.

[Oddysseus]

I've kept a folder of game files on my desktop, under the delusion that I could one day return to them and untangle the mess I made of my first game. But after this thread made me go through my old 'design docs' I realized that there is nothing worth saving. Which is definitely for the best, as the game had no plot to speak of, and the puzzles mainly consisted of "wacky" item combinations of the "you've gotta be f***ing kidding me" variety.

But it wasn't a total loss - it taught me what NOT to do if I ever try making another game. It also forced me to draw my first game backgrounds, and make my first music tracks. And it was a lot of fun. Also, trying to code it was the tipping point that made me join these forums (so I could ask noob technical questions). And I've lurked here off and on ever since.

So to memorialize this very dead game, I hereby present two of the "best" backgrounds, and a sampling of my favorite jokes from the game.




(examine KEY) This is a key. It goes into the little hole under the knobby thing that you turn to open a door.
(lick KEY) "Oh yeah, I often lick things I find in the middle of the street. It's part of my quirky charm."
(use WEED on FLOWER) Weeds and flowers don't get along together. It's a gang thing.
(use BEER) "Woo! Slurred speech and questionable decision-making, here I come!"
(lick TOILET PAPER) This is the worst Fruit Roll-Up you've ever tasted.
(lick PORNO MAG) Oh, no. You learned your lesson about licking things when you got ink poisoning from your Keira Knightley poster.
(smell EAR) It smells very eerie. (drum sting)
(smell SOUP) It smells like burnt octopus farts.
(use DILDO on NOSE) "Ow."
(examine DEAD RABBIT) Look- it's four lucky rabbit's feet, attached to one very unlucky rabbit!
(use STICK on DEAD RABBIT) Poking dead things with a stick; isn't that the official leisure activity where you come from? "No, marrying your sister is the official leisure activity where I come from."
(use BEER on DEAD RABBIT) Shouldn't you be solving puzzles or something?
(use LUBE on PORNO MAG) You show off your lube to the girls in the magazine. Being seasoned veterans with battle-hardened vaginas, they are unimpressed.
(use SOUP on itself) Even your soup wouldn't eat your soup.
(use BEEF JERKY on CRAB) The crab tries to take a bite, but it hurts its... mouth-parts that crabs have that chew things.
(use BEEF JERKY on SEAWEED) Jerked beef and dehydrated seaweed go together like marathon running and diarrhea.
(use BEEF JERKY on FEATHERS) Generic Joke #39 not found. For technical assistance, please bang your head against the wall until blood starts to leak from your ears.
(use CRAB on DEAD RABBIT) If you wanna play Pokemon, do it on your own time. We're adventure-gaming here!
(use CRAB on SOUP) You try to jam the crab into the boiling soup, but its stupid will to live is too strong.
(examine AFROMAN TOY) He has a sexy frown that says "I'm a badass muthafucka who's also sensitive to a woman's needs, bitch."
(use LIGHTER on CASH) You set fire to the pile of cash and feel powerful and free ...for about 2 seconds. Then you feel like a dumbass who just burned all her money.
(use LIGHTER on PORNO MAG) Setting the magazine ablaze will have a negative effect on its collector's value.
(use LIGHTER on WEED) As you light the marijuana on fire, you feel a sudden urge to abandon all your earthly responsibilities and become a Ghostbuster. Which is totally a real career choice.
(examine UNICYCLE) "What am I supposed to do with one-half of a bicycle?" Pretend it's one-third of a tricycle? (drum sting)
(use UNICYCLE on SOUP) You're just about to stir the soup by pedaling the unicycle in it, but then you realize that it's a stupid idea, and anyone who says otherwise is a communist.
(use PAINTING on CRAB) The crab shows its opinion of your artistic work by chewing off a corner and spitting it at you.
(use PAINTING on DILDO) Your dildo is more of a Georgia O'Keefe fan.
(use LIPSTICK on DILDO) You draw a little smily face on it.
(use LIPSTICK on CASH) You draw an eyepatch and a ballgag on George Washington's face. I swear, modern art just keeps getting worse and worse.
(examine CASH) Did you know that if you flip a huge stack of cash like a flipbook, you can see... everyone around you grow bitter and resentful?
(use GLOVE on DEAD RABBIT) You pet the bunny on its fuzzy-wuzzy head. The head then falls off, and you smoosh it back in place.
(use LIPSTICK on GLOVE) You draw lips and eyes on the glove, and then start making out with it. "I do not! Stop making shit up!
(examine Hooker) Why can't hookers ever look like Julie Roberts in Pretty Woman? This one looks like the Olsen twins- if you smashed them together at high speed.

[Icey]

These Oceanspirit tales must be told. Don't worry about conflicting continuity -- that sort of thing can't happen in the Oceanspiritverse. DDQ once made a chart showing how many parallel universe the OSD world has already fragmented into. What's one more?

When did he do that?

[Ponch]

These Oceanspirit tales must be told. Don't worry about conflicting continuity -- that sort of thing can't happen in the Oceanspiritverse. DDQ once made a chart showing how many parallel universe the OSD world has already fragmented into. What's one more?

When did he do that?

Sometime last year. I clearly remember studying it, trying to divine the secrets of the OSD universe(s).

[gameboy]

Another screenshot.



It's a shame I won't be able to release anything playable during this epic release something.

[Ryan Timothy B]

That looks fantastic, gameboy. Looking forward to playing it.
Hopefully that top default GUI is just temporary. It's so tacky looking with those backgrounds, and obviously doesn't have a purpose.

[gameboy]

Thanks Ryan! Right, the GUI is only temporary.