The McCarthy Chronicles

Calin Leafshade · Sat 22/08/2009 14:21:29

A film-noir inspired, supernatural detective story.

Rick McCarthy is a private detective marred by a secretive and destructive past.
He is pulled into a world of blood sacrifice and invocation.
Can he hide his past, solve the crime and get the girl?

Development Progress
Story: 100%
Dialog: 90%
Backgrounds: 100%
Character Sprites: 60%
Object Sprites: Havent a clue.. 5% maybe
Inventory Sprites: 0%
Music: 15%
Sound: 10%

Screenies

You can see a brief teaser here

Teaser Trailer

Matti · Sat 22/08/2009 15:54:31

Looking good. I like the film noir style, good choice of colors and a cool atmosphere.

Looking forward to it.

Kweepa · Sun 23/08/2009 01:04:16

Quote from: Calin Leafshade on Sat 22/08/2009 14:21:29
When you're strung up by a man you shot between the eyes with a 38 revolver not 10 minutes earlier, you begin to wonder if, in this world, there is any reality to accompany the poetry.

I'm hooked.
This goes on my watch list!

Darth Mandarb · Sun 23/08/2009 02:31:09

Hi Calin! Glad to see this is actually in production! However, as part of the forum rules two IN-GAME screenshots are required (as cut scenes and title screens don't count!) I'm not going to lock this yet, but please add another IN-GAME screen ASAP!

Good luck.

Duztie · Sun 23/08/2009 09:22:34

Looks really great. Love the graphics. Can't wait to play the game when it's done. Thumbs up.

Find Therma · Sun 23/08/2009 12:49:11

Looks great! Hope the writing style throughout the game maintains the quality of the writing demonstrated in the screenshots (particularly the top one). If it does then this could be awesome!

Snake · Tue 25/08/2009 03:25:47

Calin, this looks and sounds like it'll be a brilliant piece of fiction. Your writing, just from the screenshot, sounds geniously delicious. I can already tell that you know how to tell a story... and not just tell it.

One downside:
I can't play your demo. My monitor doesn't support 1280x960. I've tried both fullscreen and windowed mode.

Judging by the screenshots, you're making this in 320x240? So why on Earth is your game set at 1280x960 resolution? Please tell me you're not mixing and matching screen resolutions with your graphics... I wasn't even aware that AGS now supported that res (why in hell would it?).

Will it be possible for you to fix this? What is the meaning behind this rediculous choice in resolution?

Kweepa · Tue 25/08/2009 03:56:43

Quote from: Snake on Tue 25/08/2009 03:25:47
Calin, this looks and sounds like it'll be a brilliant piece of fiction. Your writing, just from the screenshot, sounds geniously delicious. I can already tell that you know how to tell a story... and not just tell it.

Agreed!

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Will it be possible for you to fix this? What is the meaning behind this rediculous choice in resolution?

Just run winsetup and change the graphics filter from 4x to 2x (or 1x).

Another note from the demo... the voice narration is pretty good. Enough to maintain the atmosphere, I'd say. The speech doesn't exactly match the text though, which is distracting. And "i" instead of "I" should be reserved for ee cummings poetry.

Calin Leafshade · Tue 25/08/2009 05:58:44

Quote from: Snake on Tue 25/08/2009 03:25:47
Calin, this looks and sounds like it'll be a brilliant piece of fiction. Your writing, just from the screenshot, sounds geniously delicious. I can already tell that you know how to tell a story... and not just tell it.

Thanks very much. The writing will be much like that through out the series.. Its all about the whole 'film noir' thing i'm trying to pull off.. lets see how well i manage it.

Quote from: Snake on Tue 25/08/2009 03:25:47
One downside:
I can't play your demo. My monitor doesn't support 1280x960. I've tried both fullscreen and windowed mode.

firstly if you expecting to 'play' the demo you will be disappointed :p It just the opening cutscenes which i may still rewrite due to certain clumsy writing.

However, the reason i have it at a silly resolution is that i have an LCD monitor which tends to screw up if you play at a non native resolution but as the poster above says all you have to do is change the graphics filter to none to get 320x200 (make sure you use the letter boxing option or it looks stretched).

Quote from: SteveMcCrea on Tue 25/08/2009 03:56:43
Another note from the demo... the voice narration is pretty good. Enough to maintain the atmosphere, I'd say. The speech doesn't exactly match the text though, which is distracting. And "i" instead of "I" should be reserved for ee cummings poetry.

Apologies again. This is essentially because I havent proof read it and I'm still getting to grips with AGS (this being my first attempt using it, i only downloaded it about a week ago) so my attention has been drawn to technical aspects rather than presentation. I do have some experience with programming in C though so I think I've picked it up fairly quickly.

You can consider The McCarthy Chronicles to be in a state of perpetual beta for the foreseeable future.. which is essentially an excuse for me to repeatedly fuck up. :

I just wanna get more blue cups than Yahtzee....

Kweepa · Tue 25/08/2009 06:33:00

Quote from: Calin Leafshade on Tue 25/08/2009 05:58:44
Apologies again.

No need to apologise! You're supplying us with free entertainment. Thanks!

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I just wanna get more blue cups than Yahtzee....

Good luck with that.

Ubel · Tue 25/08/2009 11:26:58

Just watched through the demo. Amazing writing and very atmospheric art AND the audio is good too. All in all I must say this is the most promising project I've seen in a while.

Jared · Tue 25/08/2009 13:21:13

I'll be keeping an eye on this one - and I don't say that to all the developers!

Technocrat · Tue 25/08/2009 14:34:43

You'd better finish this, it looks like something I'd like to play!

Snake · Tue 25/08/2009 14:35:05

QuoteJust run winsetup and change the graphics filter from 4x to 2x (or 1x).

Thanks, Steve, I wish I had thought of trying that.

Calin - if you plan on keeping it this way, just make sure that you write about it in the manual so people that do not know will get the answer without having to post. Or before packaging, switch it back to what it should be at.

But anyway,
I love it so far. Nice voice acting (was it you?). I was a little put back at first, since I'm not a big fan of most voice acting in AGS games, but it grew on me rather quickly. The audio was great, it was leveled out nicely. As Steve said, I'm hooked. And I want more.

QuoteI just wanna get more blue cups than Yahtzee...

Heh, keep up the good work and you might just get them

Dualnames · Tue 25/08/2009 14:38:01

I 'm about to have a 6-cup. But stealing Leitor's Edge process was cut in the middle. Damn you Snake!!

Stee · Tue 25/08/2009 15:20:44

6-cup? Explain please?

I assumed it was the amount of released titles, but Dualnames has a lot more than 6 (you have at least 4 lone cases)

Dualnames · Tue 25/08/2009 15:22:11

Quote from: Stee on Tue 25/08/2009 15:20:44
6-cup? Explain please?

I assumed it was the amount of released titles, but Dualnames has a lot more than 6 (you have at least 4 lone cases)

The only way to get 6-cup rating is to release Leitor's Edge! But damn Snake has it!!! Let's kill him!

It's a rating system but instead of stars there are cups.

Darth Mandarb · Tue 25/08/2009 16:13:47

STOP

Take the off-topic discussions into PMs please.

Calin Leafshade · Tue 25/08/2009 16:55:49

heh you got Moderowned

Dualnames · Wed 26/08/2009 07:29:13

Quote from: Darth Mandarb on Tue 25/08/2009 16:13:47
STOP

Take the off-topic discussions into PMs please.

Geez, okay Ninja. Anyway, on-topic this time, I find the game to be really interesting, and the writting ,even that one screenshot, seems excellent. I've yet to play the demo, but will do.