Jon Stickman (demo available)

scotch · Wed 31/12/2003 23:55:59

One of the most highly praised games previewed at Mittens 2003 is now available for the public's adoration, and before 2004 too (GMT)!

Following the adventures of Jon Stickman in his quest for the love of a girl you will experience many exciting locations, a cast of interesting characters all rendered in gorgeous stickman style! Discover the corruption in our healthcare services, the lengths one man can go for his love and the number of animations AGA can force me to do some time in the future when the game is out, for now try this demo.

Due to wanting the demo out in 2003 and it being 2004 in 5 mins this hasn't been tested, have fun!

It's 1.12MB

Chicky · Thu 01/01/2004 00:23:03

DUDE!

all ive done is soon the little guitar intro and lmfao this is great. i'l tell when ive finished.

p.s does this mean im a beta tester?

-a chicken

Timosity · Thu 01/01/2004 11:21:43

Excellent little Demo guys, the puzzles are quite challenging, it took me a while to figure it all out, but I got there, maybe a few more interactions and unhandled events.

Spoiler

just a couple of small things I noticed:
The car trunk walkbehind is a bit strange I think, it was hard to figure out what it was supposed to look like, It seemed it was behind the car, were there brown straps attached to it, cause there was some thin walkbehind even when the trunk was closed.

You could walk through the trampampoline

With the electricity box, the bottom part of it could still be interacted with the hammer after it was already open.

And a couple of big things I noticed:
The size of the breasts on the stick figure, very cute, I enjoyed playing with her bush too.

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Quite an enjoyable game, Look forward to it.

scotch · Thu 01/01/2004 12:11:21

Glad you enjoyed it.
'few more interactions and unhandled events.' - Believe me now, AGA?

Yeah the walk behind is probably a bit odd. there are loads of little problems at the moment, they'll be fixed in a day or two.

AGA · Thu 01/01/2004 15:25:12

No, no I don't.

nope! · Fri 02/01/2004 11:54:58

cool demo with clever puzzles and an "alternative" design.

however (arggg! you hate when they say "however", don't you?), I noted several bad points:

- when you interact with an item in you inventory, sometimes, a part of the text is out of the screen (at the right).

- you can build the frame without the hammer

- the text of "nope! i can't use this thing with this thing" is a little bit too long.

- when you want to "exit" from the trunk/pannel, you must interact/look the "exit" zone... i think that it will be easier if you just need to click on this zone.

- there's something wrong with the dad's stickman...some white pixels surround his head.

- when you look the sign, you see "41" and when you look the front door, you see "37"...problem?

BUT I like the demo and I'm waiting for the complete game

Goldmund · Sun 04/01/2004 10:39:08

Hey, I've been looking forward to this!
The graphics style is, most of all, very elegant! Congratulations for the guitar playing animation, as well. In fact, the visual aspect is the strongest point of this demo.
In my opinion, it lacks some kind of opening, introduction and a bit of exploring in between the puzzles - as it is extremely puzzle heavy, I would like some more exposure on the characters...

AGA · Sun 04/01/2004 18:28:30

Point taken, Gold, but bear in mind this is the first, and shortest, act. The full story, and interaction between the characters will come later in the game. However, scotch and I do plan to add a bit of an explanation of what's happening sometime later, probably when we get all the bugs and suggestions fixed.