Oh du lieber Augustin
The city is plagued by Black Death. Can you, Augustin the bagpiper, give the people some comfort in these hard times?
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(http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2010/)
"Oh du lieber Augustin" ("Oh you dear Augustin") is a popular Viennese folk song that is said to originate from the Great Plague in 1679. This game tells (very loosely) the story of its creation.
Creamy: Gamedesign, art and animation
cat: Gamedesign, writing and coding
raeff: Music and testing
Eric Matyas: Free music track "Hazy Disorientation"
Made for MAGS January 2016
Download here (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2010/)
Update 28.02.2016: The game now features a French translation by Creamy and a German translation by cat. Choose the desired language in the winsetup.exe
Update 08.03.2016: The game was featured in Adventure Gamer's Following Freeware (http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/30057)!
Congrats on the release!
I played and finished it. There's a nice number of puzzles with a wide range of variety for such a short game. The graphics and animations are impressive.
Well done!
SHADOW
Just played and posted comment on database game page... ;-D
Thanks guys, I' glad you like it!
... alles ist hin, Augustin (laugh)
Almost a month after the initial release there is a new updated version of the game.
It features a few additional animations and fixes as well as a French and German translation.
You can download the new version here (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2010/).
Oh du lieber Augustin was featured in Adventure Gamers' Following Freeware (http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/30057)!
To celebrate this, there is a new version with some minor bugfixes.
Loma from the Adventure-Treff forum wrote an interesting blog post about adventure games with references to Austria and Austrian history. It also mentions "Oh du lieber Augustin".
Check it out here:
https://philostoricum.blogspot.co.at/2016/11/playinghistory-austrian-perspective.html (https://philostoricum.blogspot.co.at/2016/11/playinghistory-austrian-perspective.html)