MonkeyWrench

Goldfish · Sun 31/01/2010 14:16:03

MonkeyWrench!

Take one Tibetan ape. Add one hot blonde with four generations of hardboiled private eye in her veins. Mix liberally.

"Why don't you pack heat?"

"Carry a gun, you mean, in English?"

"Yeah."

"I don't need a gun. I have a Monkey."

Music: 100% complete.
Sounds: 100% complete.
Sound FX: 100% complete.
Voice Acting: 0% complete. Looking for voice actors- now's your chance. Otherwise it's me, my compadres and the voice modulator software.

Script: 100% complete.
Art: 10% complete.

Game is a magic realism / private eye with a lot of cases, clues and so on.

Features telephone use by using inputbox functions. The game contains the most comprehensive list of 555- numbers I am aware of, including all of them from all known sources plus several dozen more that the supposedly authoritative sources lacked. Plus ones original to this game. Also features easter eggs, hidden rooms etc. in addition to the main narrative flow.

An interactive map updates as cases develop, clues are given and exploration is carried out.

Features masses of references to film noir, ape and girl teamups, other similar tropes, and the ubiquity of the generic in Hollywood and LaLa Land in general, but not at the expense of the main story.

Also monkeys.

Website is twofold, since the comicbook version when it comes out will be part of the Golden Universe, so in addition to that website set it will also be featured on my Inherited Tigers blog:

http://realmonkeywrench.blogspot.com

Ook.

Dualnames · Sun 31/01/2010 15:41:54

Does this have to do with Snake's MoNKeY WreNCh? Of which I've never seen a screenshot..come to think of it..

Frodo · Sun 31/01/2010 20:18:12

Looks brilliant.

I want to huggle the monkey!

Goldfish · Sun 31/01/2010 23:29:41

Quote from: Dualnames on Sun 31/01/2010 15:41:54
Does this have to do with Snake's MoNKeY WreNCh? Of which I've never seen a screenshot..come to think of it..

No connection. Never even heard of it.

Goldfish · Sun 31/01/2010 23:30:09

Quote from: Frodo on Sun 31/01/2010 20:18:12
Looks brilliant.

I want to huggle the monkey!

Then my work is complete.

Thanks for the positivity!

Snake · Mon 01/02/2010 19:26:18

Duals, it's funny that you remember how I had spelled, MoNKeY WReNCH, but you claim you've never seen a screenie??

Here
and
Here

To Goldfish
MoNKeY WReNCH was a game Squinky (old member) and I were colaborating on quite a few years back. Trapezoid (old member) was composing the soundtrack for it.
Of course it never got finished, but it is the game Dualnames is refering to. It was about a boy named, Hirum, who got transformed into a monkey by the evil scientist, Dr. Lumpkin Glumpkin. He meets up with a girl named Allie O' Leary (don't mind the perkiness) and they set off together to find this scientist and transform Hirum back to normal. This game is one of my babies and I must admit that it seems very very awkward to have found a game with the same title in the GiP forum just now...

I guess that's what I get. Maybe in another 7 or 8 years some one will post about a game they are working on called, The Legend of Leitor's Edge (heh, wouldn't THAT be a great April Fool's joke).

Looks interesting, Goldfish. Just thought I'd fill you in, anyway.

Goldfish · Mon 01/02/2010 21:05:22

Now I know.

And knowing's half the battle.

The other half is red and green lasers.

Dualnames · Mon 01/02/2010 21:06:54

Quote from: Goldfish on Mon 01/02/2010 21:05:22
Now I know.

And knowing's half the battle.

The other half is red and green lasers.

The game seems to be really bizarre!! And I love bizarre games!!

Goldfish · Mon 01/02/2010 21:27:35

I was doing inventory for the game and suddenly realised- four different alcoholic beverages, two books... no gun? Cool.

Goldfish · Tue 02/02/2010 02:33:18

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?category=&action=detail&id=1279&refresh1265077498

Added an "issue zero" game- first 6 steps of the first case for Monkey and Wrench.

Dave Gilbert · Sun 07/02/2010 19:28:42

Hah! I have to admit, this concept was awesome enough for me to download the demo. Although I can't seem to play it at all. I get to an image of "Sam Spade's" office (?), and all I can do is click on the window and get a message about the office belonging to my dad. How do you progress from here?

adoblivione · Tue 16/02/2010 15:39:10

I just played the demo, and definitely enjoyed it. I'm assuming once you've called the taxi, that's as far as you can progress for now. (For those who are stumped after the intro, right-click to cycle through cursors, and use the "hand" cursor on the window to get into the office.)

Gonna send ya a PM about voice acting.