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Title: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: TripTilt on Wed 01/12/2021 14:27:19
[imgzoom]https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzc1MzM1NDkuanBn/original/gCzpKW.jpg[/imgzoom]

Sphonx lets you discover scientifically advanced technology and antique artifacts on an archaeological expedition in an ancient egyptian pyramid. You are Ignacio "Iggy" Dias, a young and interested archaeologist in the near future. He helps Dr. Allan Nowicz, an experienced scientist and archaeologist who was involved in the development of some of the most advanced technological breakthroughs in recent archaelogy. He is leading the current research on the dig site and he's also managing the buerocratic side of the expedition in Egypt today. Dr Nowicz is very proud to have a Death Erasing Multispectral Ultrawave Mummified Material Igniter Ray Device with him on this site. It's purpose is to revive even partially conserved cells in old, very old and even ancient egyptian tissue and give it back its previous human form.

Of course, such advanced technology needs careful use and planned application. So Dr Nowicz wants to wait for Dr Sebranovic to arrive, the spiritual and logical father of the very advanced tissue reviving device. Ignacio Dias, a studious but a bit clumsy apprentice working for Dr Nowicz instead wants to finally see results and start the live study of ancient life with support of the DEMUMMI-RAY rather yesterday than waiting even longer.
Tension between the two clashing opinions escalates and late at night Iggy sneaks into the excavation / laboratory deep inside the darkest parts of the age-old pyramid only to get involved in a centuries spanning adventure.

[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/NpZPg2p.png[/imgzoom] [imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/FjCWZ0H.png[/imgzoom] [imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/HfQheX6.jpeg[/imgzoom]

Playtime is still manageable in one to two lunch breaks...

DEMO

https://toxic-tuba.itch.io/sphonx
You can get a sneek peek on itch already and follow development there


PROGRESS:

Puzzles: 95%
Artworks: 95%
Voice Acting: 95%
Coding: 95%
Animations: 99%
Music: 100%
Story: 100%

RELEASE DATE:

Hopefully in 2022!


CREDITS

Story
CaptainD, selmiak, Toxic Tuba

Programming
Toxic Tuba

Graphics & Animation
Toxic Tuba

Additional Character Animation
Indrek

Voice Actors
Iggy - Durq
Professor Nowicz - Captain D
Stanley Worthington Smythe - Leigh Harvey
Narrator / Tutorial - Durinde

Music
Edwin Montgomery

Sounds
Toxic Tuba and from freesound.org

Tween Module
Edmundo Ruiz & Tzach Shabtay


Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: Darth Mandarb on Wed 01/12/2021 15:21:19
I can see that you added the screenshots but they aren't loading for me.

The first image (hosted on img.itch.zone) is loading in fine but the ones from toxictuba.com are not (devtools saying "net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID").

I'm guessing your server doesn't allow remote links like that.

Either way, please find a way to make 'em show up in here!


Oh and good luck with the game's production!
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: TripTilt on Wed 01/12/2021 18:55:19
shows up for me on firefox, but maybe I have cookies from my website, anyways, images should work now...
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: Creamy on Wed 01/12/2021 23:51:54
Good to see you back.

Is there a link with Eternal Chrysalis (https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1740/)?
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: TripTilt on Thu 02/12/2021 12:50:35
hey creamy! :D
this basically is the long awaited Eternal Chrysalis Deluxe with improved graphics, higher res characters, more rooms, more dialogs and interactions, a longer intro, more puzzles and completely voiced. you could say that MAGS entry has become a game now... well, once it is complete and released... the plan is to make this happen before the 10 year anniversary!
And to answer what you probably ask yourself now, yes, of course a similar treatment is planned for Black Morph too, but this game is not even finished yet and I want to make a game with blender graphics, no idea where my priorities then are once this is done... but I should add it to the database and grab some Demo awards nominations :) The way this works is to make a new database entry for the demo and then another one for the full game?
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: heltenjon on Thu 02/12/2021 16:05:43
Quote from: ToxicTuba on Thu 02/12/2021 12:50:35
... but I should add it to the database and grab some Demo awards nominations :) The way this works is to make a new database entry for the demo and then another one for the full game?
If you want the Demo awards nominations, you should do that. Only games/demos in the database are eligible for the awards. Most people only post their demos in this (games in production) thread, though, which means they miss out on potential nominations.

I guess that Commercial games, which automatically has a "download demo" option could possibly get demo awards nominations, but they seldom do.
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: Hobo on Fri 03/12/2021 17:49:02
Great to see this in development! There's certainly some potential here, the tech demo already featured some awesome visual effects and solid voices, eager to see more.
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: Rik_Vargard on Tue 14/12/2021 19:02:48
So right now:

Great graphics and animations
Great music
Amazing voice-overs

Hopefully in 2022 indeed.
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: TripTilt on Thu 23/12/2021 00:58:40
I'm very glad you like the demo so far!
Here is a small update, the last update this year:


[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/ALMcsY9.gif[/imgzoom]

of course all expensive and advanced scientific equipment is secured with a code and you have to crack that as you are not allowed to use it.

Input of digits, deletion of number sequence and detection of the correct code works.

follow development on itch (https://toxic-tuba.itch.io/sphonx/devlog/327562/the-science-fiction-apparatus-has-a-control)
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: heltenjon on Sun 09/01/2022 03:24:49
I played the demo, and although short (tutorial length), it shows good promise. The game looks and sounds good, and the characters are getting on each other's nerves in an entertaining way. So far it looks more like you are going to play with the known tropes than trying to be extremely original, but the title of this thread tells me there may be more to come.  ;) Good job!
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: Durinde on Sat 15/01/2022 15:34:55
Hey, I remember recording the narration for this!

Looks great! Looking forward to the complete version.
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: SarahLiz on Mon 31/01/2022 18:48:15
Just "played" the demo...my only complaint is that I wish it was longer!  Looking forward to the release of the full game!  Looks really good...
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: TripTilt on Sun 13/02/2022 14:23:01
Quote from: Durinde on Sat 15/01/2022 15:34:55
Hey, I remember recording the narration for this!

Looks great! Looking forward to the complete version.

and you did really well, thanks for that. Soon the game will be done. I hope!

@heltenjon & @SarahLiz
I'm so glad you like it and took the time to comment. This means a lot and is encouragement to get this game done!

Speaking of that, there is progress, the game has now a better itch page with more colors and images and the techdemo has a german translation
there are few more words on that on the itch devlog: https://toxic-tuba.itch.io/sphonx/devlog/346067/the-techdemo-is-now-available-with-german-texts
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: TripTilt on Thu 10/03/2022 21:32:37
All english voice over lines are in the game[/b]
Finally all the English texts are written and the voice over for them are recorded and implemented into the game.

Ignacio "Iggy" Dias has surpassed the 1000 lines of spoken and recorded text. And the 1000th is as telling as it spoils nothing.

Since it is only possible to add images to a devlog and not audio files, here is a link to that historical milestone

http://www.toxictuba.net/iggy1000.mp3

enjoy and get ready for a soon coming release!

https://toxic-tuba.itch.io/sphonx/devlog/356288/all-english-voice-over-lines-are-in-the-game


if you don't do it already... follow the game and more on itch!
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: heltenjon on Fri 11/03/2022 12:41:02
Taking the line out of context is often hilarious.  :-D Now I want to see a MAGS named
Spoiler
Throwing the Banana into the Darkness
[close]
. Looking forward to the release!
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: TripTilt on Wed 16/03/2022 14:27:32
Quote from: heltenjon on Fri 11/03/2022 12:41:02
Taking the line out of context is often hilarious.  :-D Now I want to see a MAGS named
Spoiler
Throwing the Banana into the Darkness
[close]
. Looking forward to the release!
lol, you just need to win a MAGS to set that theme :D

anyways, we have production news, the game is finally in beta... and from current testing it is becoming clear it'll be quite some work still, but it'll be a better game then, but this also means a later release...

QuoteGame development is finished. On paper. Now a few testers tear the game apart and hunt bugs and other inconsistencies so that the players don't encounter those bugs.

Stay tuned, good testing takes a while, but a release is coming very soon.
Please note how clever I avoiding giving a fixed date, but I will announce the release date of this indie adventure that has no deadline set by a publisher soon enough!
read more on the game's itch page and follow development there! (https://toxic-tuba.itch.io/sphonx/devlog/357241/we-are-in-beta)
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: TripTilt on Sun 15/05/2022 13:24:17
Ladies and Gentlemen, mummies and graverobbers,
It's true, after a lot of work and some fun rounds of betatesting the feedback from betatesters is slowing down, meaning they find no more points to complain about and that means we have a round game that is very polished.
I'm proud to announce the release date for the funny Science Fiction point and click adventure SPHONX. It will be publicly available on Friday, 27th of May. 2022 that is.

more info on the devlogblog:
https://toxic-tuba.itch.io/sphonx/devlog/380342/release-date-announcement
follow me on itch to get more updates and stuff
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: CaptainD on Mon 16/05/2022 19:57:27
Yay! The game is round! What does that mean though?!?  :shocked:

Grats on getting to release stage mate, roll on 27th May  :cool:
Title: Re: Sphonx - Science Fiction meet Ancient Egypt
Post by: TripTilt on Sat 28/05/2022 22:23:29
The game is indeed released and available on itch.io on the same url as always. Get it now or play the demo to get a taste.
https://toxic-tuba.itch.io/sphonx
I'll write a proper thread in the released games forum soon enough :)