Stan Ames : Private Eye, Episode 1

[JRock]

Well, kids!*Ã,  It's finally here!!

J.A. Productions presents Stan Ames : Private Eye, Episode 1 - Murder Incorporated

Stan Ames, PI (for short), is the first in a series of episodes following the exploits of a seemingly washed-up detective. Each episode will put Ames on dangerous worldwide missions of conspiracy and intrigue. The pilot episode “Murder Incorporated”, introduces Stan Ames as a lowlife PI who's good for nothing more than snapping photos of cheating husbands and cleaning up what the cops leave behind. Then, a mysterious call from a woman in distress, leads him on a journey through a demented corporations evil schemes. Upon uncovering a shocking conspiracy, Ames finds himself in much deeper than he has ever been before……

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The game runs at 640 x 480 (unless you prefer 320 x 240, which will make the visuals look like sh-t).Ã,  About 40 rooms to explore.Ã,  Lot's of puzzles and shooting action, and a haunting soundtrack.

* I use the term "kids" loosely.Ã,  This game is not recommended for anyone under age 17.

Click here to download the game! (15MB)

(on the "yourfilelink" page, simply click "Download File")

Everyone let me know what you think!

The conspiracy has begun.....

ENJOY!!!

[xenogia]

Downloading the game now, I have been looking forward to this one for a while

[i k a r i]

Yeah at last!...downloading now..

CONGRATULATIONS.

I'll give you a feedback as soon as possible..

[Saberteeth]

Great, It's finally here, dude. Well the screenshots look awsm and I aspecially like the one with the first person shooting.

Dowloading 4% Complete 8)

[Hammerite]

great!
ill download when ive finished my paper round.

[quasar]

brilliant game so far, but i seem to be having problems with the save function, every time i try to save, my computer freezes up and i have to restart and then start the game again from the beginning. is this a bug, and is anyone else having the same problem?

[xenogia]

Not having this problem, but since I have been playing this on my p2 400mhz laptop it runs slooowly, i think JRock tinted whole rooms rather than actually making the rooms the specific colours required.

[ildu]

I've been playing this for a while and I gotta say I'm positively surprised. The game is really good. But yes, it lags some, especially right before a dialog line, although I have a comp that easily runs all the latest games. Anyways, really nice game and great effort. Although I haven't played it through yet, I'm excited about future sequels.

[Afflict]

Yip downloading now, looks good I like the screenies just concerned that the graphics on FPS looks completly different to rest! 10%

[Wretched]

This game is a blast. Graphics are tidy and an abundance of cool animations, liked the action bits, but felt the puzzles could have been better, too much pixel hunting.

Spoiler

Never knew a dead man could screech! Also only one small bug, if you kill the guards near end too quickly, they reanimate even though they are dead. Prob a nice feature for the Zombie fans.

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Looking forward to the promised sequel.

[JRock]

Well, I'm glad that overall, everyone likes the game.
About the lagging, I have an extremely powerful PC that runs just about anything smoothly.  I guess I should have took in to consideration that not everyone else does.     Sorry, but I will check these problems and update the download.

Oh, and wretched, (thanx 4 lettin me know how to do this, by the way) 

Spoiler

the screeching is the guard sliding across the floor in his own blood. and the regenarating guards were done intentionally.  I wanted to place a lot of guards for the final battle, but didnt want them all in different places, so i just had the old ones get back up.  (well, they are clones after all) 

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But thanks for the feedback everyone!!!!!!!!!   

[Saberteeth]

Oh, and wretched, let me know how I can create a spoiler box, cuz the smf help don't explain how and I will explain the situation you asked about.Ã, 

Here, let me explain:

Use [ hide] this would be hidden if it wren't for the space on BOTH sides of the hide[ /hide]

[Afflict]

Jrock, the game looked great but lost all facination with it in the first 5 minutes!

Heres my C&C :

* Graphics inconsistant, your backgrounds and scenery are isometric pixel. And your character is not.
* Character seems to be in some sort of higher res (Cursors too) than that to your background.
* Walk cycle well frankly sucks insert more frames and adjust the walk speed cause I think thats why I got bored with the game, It takes forever to get somewhere!
*Your map GPS thingy is unclear, outline the places you can go.
* Your rope to get over the wall is just hanging there, and nothing to grab onto? On that note your character porpotions are all out of wack! He is as tall as the wall! And in the entrance to your PI headquaters his head is taller than the doorway!
*There is an open window but you still need to break a window to get into the building, why?

Spoiler

Just type "[ hide ] YOUR TEXT HERE [ /hide ]" (Without the spaces)

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Kewl man alround will get to playing it again sometime just really bored with it now at the moment!
Hope the C&C helps in your future projects and congrats on that first game!

[JRock]

Afflict:

Spoiler

you dont need to break the window to get in the building, you need to break it to distract the secretary so you can check her computer

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[Mordalles]

looks really interesting!

downloading . . .  8)

[J's Girl]

I think its great!! Ã, If people are having a problem with it being slow I think its their computer, no problems here. Ã, You worked damn hard on this and I think it shows

Love you,
Ã,  Ã, Kathie

[Kaelem Gaen]

Yeah I just started playing it on my Windows ME computer with one of those built in Graphics drives, and I've not had any lagging problems yet, though I'm not that far in anyways.   Already stuck in the game though, and I'm only at the first new place you get on the map.

[Barbarian]

JRock! You da man! 
D-loaded the game, been playing with it for a while now.
Wow! Super job, really loving it so far.
Graphics are wonderful, interesting atmosphere, puzzles seem about right (not too easy, not too hard, though currently I'm figuring out what I need to do next). Good choice of music and sound effect.

A couple of little "graphic glitches" I noticed while playing... for example, for some of the doorways he's about to walk through, the character's height appears taller than the doorway, so it's as if his head is walking into the doorframe briefly before the screen changes. Also, at the place with the secretary

Spoiler

When you manage to get her distracted and use the computer, the "walkbehind area" of the desk seems a bit messed up and for a moment it appears he walks "on top of" the desk.

[close]

.  Also, sometimes it's hard to know when the cursor is over an interactable hotspot or item (or just what is actually a hotspot that can be interacted with, so sometimes it's trial & error of "click here, click there, hmmm no, I guess I can't interact with that area or object in anyways").

Though the game has a few "rough spots", overall I think you did a fantastic job!  Oh yeah, great job on the "intro" too, almost "movie like" effects there.  Really, you have a talent for making an enjoyable adventure game.
*Salutes*   

[Mordalles]

great work, jrock. i am really enjoying this game, and waiting for the next episode.   

[xenogia]

Ahh the game is nice, its just my shitty laptop that cant handle it, but its still a nice game.  Reminds me a bit of Pleurghburg and Ben Jordan