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Title: Doors
Post by: Racoon on Sat 25/04/2020 21:37:55
(https://i.imgur.com/einSNs9.jpg)


A long corridor with 5 Doors. You ask yourself what lies beyond? Just go exploring!

Dive into other worlds and solve the puzzles to open the last door.


(https://i.imgur.com/Qqi6sVX.jpg)


'Doors' is a fantasy escape room game with at least 17 handdrawn backgrounds and original music.


(https://i.imgur.com/b7C2ttb.jpg)


Features:
- Surreal Worlds
- Solving riddles by a highly demanding bunny
- Weird combinations
- Literally baking a cake



'Doors' is the first game I started making when I found out about AGS and took a lot of dedication to make. Thanks to everyone who helped me make this game. Hope you enjoy! :)


https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2437-doors/ (https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2437-doors/)
Title: Re: Doors
Post by: sthomannch on Sun 26/04/2020 14:55:38
Nice little game, good atmosphere. It was straight forward, but I liked it. One thing
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I hoped to see more result after baking the magic pie, it just vanished...
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Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Shadow1000 on Sun 26/04/2020 16:07:08
I may have encountered a problem:

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I solved the room with the green orb but when I leave the room, my inventory disappears. It comes back when I reenter the room
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This doesn't happen with the other rooms I've done.
Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Racoon on Sun 26/04/2020 16:45:19
Quote from: sthomannch on Sun 26/04/2020 14:55:38
Nice little game, good atmosphere. It was straight forward, but I liked it. One thing
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I hoped to see more result after baking the magic pie, it just vanished...
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Thank you!
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Yeah, one of the tester also brought that up. I just thought it would be funny even it is a little underwhelming. Let me know if you have an idea for a cooler reaction :)
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Quote from: Shadow1000 on Sun 26/04/2020 16:07:08
I may have encountered a problem:

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I solved the room with the green orb but when I leave the room, my inventory disappears. It comes back when I reenter the room
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This doesn't happen with the other rooms I've done.

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It happens with all "worlds" because every worlds is solved on its own. Dont worry, your inventory should always show up again after reentering that door :)
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Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Shadow1000 on Sun 26/04/2020 17:42:33
Quote from: Racoon on Sun 26/04/2020 16:45:19
Quote from: sthomannch on Sun 26/04/2020 14:55:38
Nice little game, good atmosphere. It was straight forward, but I liked it. One thing
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I hoped to see more result after baking the magic pie, it just vanished...
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Thank you!
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Yeah, one of the tester also brought that up. I just thought it would be funny even it is a little underwhelming. Let me know if you have an idea for a cooler reaction :)
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Quote from: Shadow1000 on Sun 26/04/2020 16:07:08
I may have encountered a problem:

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I solved the room with the green orb but when I leave the room, my inventory disappears. It comes back when I reenter the room
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This doesn't happen with the other rooms I've done.

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It happens with all "worlds" because every worlds is solved on its own. Dont worry, your inventory should always show up again after reentering that door :)
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That's true but
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I can't use the green orb because it disappears when I enter the hallway, even though it's present when I'm in the room where I acquired it. The lighthouse room and rabbit queen room, by contrast, did allow me to retain the respective orbs once I left the room
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Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Cassiebsg on Sun 26/04/2020 17:46:47
Seems like you found a bug that did not happen to me.  8-0
Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Racoon on Sun 26/04/2020 18:23:28
Hm, I tested it and it worked fine for me.

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Could it be you mean the "Broken Green Orb"? You need to fx it before you can take it out of the room. But since there seems to be confusion about that I think I will change it so you can also take the broken one to the floor and give a hint when trying to put it onto the door.
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Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Shadow1000 on Sun 26/04/2020 18:23:50
Quote from: Cassiebsg on Sun 26/04/2020 17:46:47
Seems like you found a bug that did not happen to me.  8-0

If that's the case
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can I have your green orb, please?
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:D
Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Shadow1000 on Sun 26/04/2020 18:25:53
Quote from: Racoon on Sun 26/04/2020 18:23:28
Hm, I tested it and it worked fine for me.

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Could it be you mean the "Broken Green Orb"? You need to fx it before you can take it out of the room. But since there seems to be confusion about that I think I will change it so you can also take the broken one to the floor and give a hint when trying to put it onto the door.
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I put it together, glued it and it calls it "green orb". Unless you can correct me, I don't think there are more actions to take.
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Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Racoon on Sun 26/04/2020 18:44:05
Quote from: Shadow1000 on Sun 26/04/2020 18:25:53
Quote from: Racoon on Sun 26/04/2020 18:23:28
Hm, I tested it and it worked fine for me.

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Could it be you mean the "Broken Green Orb"? You need to fx it before you can take it out of the room. But since there seems to be confusion about that I think I will change it so you can also take the broken one to the floor and give a hint when trying to put it onto the door.
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I put it together, glued it and it calls it "green orb". Unless you can correct me, I don't think there are more actions to take.
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Yes, sounds correct to me. I really wish I could recreate that bug, but I dowloaded the game and it works fine for me.
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There is only two ways to put the orb together, either combine glue and or or orb and glue and both turned out to be fine for me.
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I know its much to ask, but maybe you could download the game again and see if it works now? I updated the version sometimes today and maybe it was something that was left in an older version of the game, but I don´t know.
Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Shadow1000 on Sun 26/04/2020 18:54:30
Quote from: Racoon on Sun 26/04/2020 18:44:05


Yes, sounds correct to me. I really wish I could recreate that bug, but I dowloaded the game and it works fine for me.
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There is only two ways to put the orb together, either combine glue and or or orb and glue and both turned out to be fine for me.
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I know its much to ask, but maybe you could download the game again and see if it works now? I updated the version sometimes today and maybe it was something that was left in an older version of the game, but I don´t know.

Ok I'll give that a spin.

If you don't mind pushing me here
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I am stuck in the Egypt room. I see the room to the left has symbols and I assume those are a guide to the ones on the wall. However not all symbols on the room on the left have corresponding symbols on the wall on the right. In addition, I'm not sure what the connection is. The one on the left are in 4 columns of 6-5-6-4 whereas the room on the right has 4-4-4 and then 4-4-4. I'd prefer a hint than a solution, please
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Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Racoon on Sun 26/04/2020 19:08:15
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Its hard to give a hint without spoilering, but think simple and maybe think about why some have more symbols than others and what similarities there are.
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Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Shadow1000 on Sun 26/04/2020 19:15:29
Quote from: Racoon on Sun 26/04/2020 19:08:15
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Its hard to give a hint without spoilering, but think simple and maybe think about why some have more symbols than others and what similarities there are.
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hmm..ok,
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why do some have more symbols than others?
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Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Racoon on Sun 26/04/2020 19:22:40
Quote from: Shadow1000 on Sun 26/04/2020 19:15:29
Quote from: Racoon on Sun 26/04/2020 19:08:15
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Its hard to give a hint without spoilering, but think simple and maybe think about why some have more symbols than others and what similarities there are.
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hmm..ok,
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why do some have more symbols than others?
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Because they stand for longer words ;)
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Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Shadow1000 on Sun 26/04/2020 19:30:33
Quote from: Racoon on Sun 26/04/2020 19:22:40
some have more symbols than others?[/spoiler]

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Because they stand for longer words ;)
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um...words...?
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Ok, never mind. I solved it!

I don't understand what happened
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despite not having the green orb in place, once I inserted the Egyptian orb (I can't remember the colour), the handle appeared and I completed it
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Overall, really nice game. I liked the backgrounds and puzzles. It looks like a lot of effort and the result was definitely worth it!

Cheers
Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Cuiki on Mon 27/04/2020 21:01:23
Hey, I loved this game. The music was great and really added to the immersion, the graphics were cute and the puzzles were creative and offered at least a little bit of challenge. Please make more. :-D
Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Racoon on Mon 27/04/2020 21:34:17
I am glad you were able to finish it Shadow1000! :)

Thank you Cuiki, that makes me really happy.
Title: Re: Doors
Post by: lorenzo on Wed 29/04/2020 09:42:19
Lovely screenshots, I really like the dreamy atmosphere of the one with the lighthouse.
Downloading it now!
Title: Re: Doors
Post by: lorenzo on Wed 10/06/2020 22:28:58
That was a lovely game!

Clean, easy to understand backgrounds with some really nice, atmospheric scenes (like the lighthouse). Logical puzzles that made sense, but were neither too easy nor too hard.

I really like the fact that the game just starts: no explanation, no lengthy cutscene. Just go and explore each world. Also, the non-linear nature of the game means that if you get stuck, you can try another door and tackle other puzzles.

The ending is really nice, with some lovely images.

Anyway, thanks for the game, I really enjoyed it!
Title: Re: Doors
Post by: KyriakosCH on Fri 12/06/2020 21:58:18
Well done on releasing the game! :)
Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Snake on Sun 28/06/2020 01:40:41
Looks really good! I'm going to download and play momentarily. I'll be back with my response as soon as I can, but I'm looking forward. I like games like this and everyone keeps mentioning the atmosphere, which I'm a big fan of, it sounds really good. 
Title: Re: Doors
Post by: milkanannan on Thu 13/08/2020 03:31:31
I really enjoyed this game! I love the different vibe you get in each of the worlds, and the music is a really nice accompaniment. Everything loosely reminds me of INCA II (one of my favourite games) in that you explore different worlds and solve problems that are sort of localised only to that world (i.e. you can't take items between worlds).

What's the story behind the music? Did you pull it together yourself?
Title: Re: Doors
Post by: Racoon on Mon 31/08/2020 21:58:44
Some very nice comments added up while I was gone :) Thank you guys!

@milkanannan: I will look that game up, you made me really curious about it. And yes, I made the music myself with the free version of Fruity Loops (and some free plugins). I just tried to create some simple melodies to fit the rooms. If you asked because you are interested in making music yourself, I can share some videos that helped me.