AGI hobbits, game by klownstein

[Ben Jordan Fan]

Some guy called klownstein is making an agi game, It is based on the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
It looks very cool!Ã,  ;DÃ,  ;DÃ, 






A demo is available at his website http://geocities.com/klownstein/Klownstein

or here http://rapidshare.de/files/11237153/lotr.zip.html

If your interested you should also read this http://www.mega-tokyo.com/forum/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=8354

[MrColossal]

I moved this because it's not an AGS game but an AGI game...

However the art looks awesome... I just wish he didn't haven a Geocities account, plus when you linked to the geocities site it probably totally killed his bandwidth, not very nice to do.

Convince him to post about it here! I'm always interested in AGI games

Eric

[m0ds]

I had a little go and enjoyed it! Even though I'm not a huge AGI fan, this one was pointed in my direction by its music composer, Scorposer - and seems fun to play

[ManicMatt]

I don't understand why people want to make games that look so terribly outdated!

I could never play something that looks like a commodore 64 game, which is a shame as a LOTR game of this mould would be cool.

[MrColossal]

And that is why you'll never get to heaven...

Also, you must not be able to play a lot of AGS games

[ManicMatt]

On the contrary, I don't recall even seeing an AGS game THIS outdated in resolution.
(But I'm sure you're going to point one out to me)

Anyway lets not get into a debate about ye olde graphics!

[vict0r]

Why the hell is teletubbies, turtles, a vampire, a couple of sceletons and kermit there?

[Tiki]

Obviously you've never read The Silmarillion.

[Becky]

The second screenshot looks like the apocathery in Simon the Sorcerer.

[ManicMatt]

Kermit? Kermit the frog?? You don't mean that dude that looks like frankenstein's monster, do you? And I think there is only one skeleton, and the other is a mummy.

But it's hard to tell for some reason.. Ã, 

[MrColossal]

Because in true Sierra fashion he is also adding in awkward references to random pop culture...

Damn you Roberta Williams!

[AlbinoPanther]

Hey matt if you don't like this we will stop talking to you.
Enclosure trailer

and here is a full game.
ENCLOSURE

also an AGI game please watch trailer and than judge on it.

LD

[rodekill]

One of my games looks as outdated as this.
ON PURPOSE!!!1!!!111!!!
I think this one looks awsome. Much better than mine.
Also I am jealous that yet another person has the patience that I lack to create a true AGI game.

[Domino]

I love the KQ3 style graphics. I find nothing wrong with them. High Res, Low Res, it doesn't matter. I love today's graphics in games, but theres nothing wrong with a little bit of nostalgic graphic style to bring a smile to my face.

[Anarcho]

I think it looks great too, and I look forward to its release.  I have really enjoyed some of the AGI games released, namely Enclosure and that Space Quest fan game that came out.  The graphics are "outdated" but so is pretty much everything that's released w/ AGS.  The nostalgia factor is what gets me, I love playing games that remind me of sweet precious childhood.

[Kinoko]

People want to make games in outdated graphics for the same reason that I came to AGS in the first place - I grew up with them, I want to make my own like it.

I think this game pulls off the style VERY well, I'm impressed. But yeah... not sure I'm really into the teletubbies invading Middle Earth, but whatever.

[esper]

I'm surprised no one noticed Darth Vader... And I think there are a couple of blonde Romulans at one of the tables...

[ManicMatt]

But obviously most of you are having trouble trying to make out who everyone is in the bar!

Dam thing is, that the games I used to love back then, I'd hate now. I remember putting on a certain game and the magic memories I had of that game were destroyed in seconds. (I used to like this bag of crap? I remember thinking this game had great graphics and gameplay!) Believe me I wish I could still like them today.

(I still don't know what these c64 looking AGS games are...)

(Seems it's turned into a graphics debate. Whoops.)

[Pet Terry]

Dam thing is, that the games I used to love back then, I'd hate now. I remember putting on a certain game and the magic memories I had of that game were destroyed in seconds. (I used to like this bag of crap? I remember thinking this game had great graphics and gameplay!) Believe me I wish I could still like them today.

How very strange, because that has never happened to me yet I have heard several people saying that. Of course it's only a good thing, because I can enjoy all the games I enjoyed in my childhood nowadays as much as I enjoyed them back then.

Btw. you're missing the awesome that is http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=22171.0

[ManicMatt]

I'm curious, did you ever stop seeing the C64 etc games?

I imagine if someone never really stopped being exposed to blocky graphics whilst still playing modern things it might not effect them. But I for one went for years without seeing games I used to play. I just know that if I was to put FF7 on for the twentieth time or whatever, it's been so long since I played it that the graphics (Mostly the polygons) will seem worse than I remember.

Like I said in a post in AGS ages ago, my brother recently bought Simon the sorceror 2 and thought his laptop wouldn't display the graphics correctly. I showed it running on my PC and he said that it looks bodged up on mine too. I said that's what it's supposed to look like. Now you see he used to play C64 and Amiga games, including monkey island, so it seems he just can't recall how the graphics really looked like. I am still used to games with Simon 2's resolution so it doesn't look too bad to me. (What with AGS games and PS2 games like Metal Slug and an endless supply of street fighter remixes)