TSL Alive?

elliot87 · Fri 25/06/2010 18:56:49

What's happening at The Silver Lining website? http://www.tsl-game.com

Radiant · Fri 25/06/2010 19:36:46

They've got a countdown set to a few days from now. I guess they have something to tell us about that cease-and-desist order they got last month?

Sslaxx · Fri 25/06/2010 20:45:57

Quote from: Radiant on Fri 25/06/2010 19:36:46
They've got a countdown set to a few days from now. I guess they have something to tell us about that cease-and-desist order they got last month?

That quote on the site makes me think "re-write stripping out the Vivendi-owned stuff", actually...

GarageGothic · Sat 26/06/2010 20:58:27

Just a few moments left of the countdown. Any last minute bets? My money's on suicide pact, but I'll settle for a first episode release.

Edit: Countdown to a release date announcement? Meh. Guess I'll check back in another two weeks.

elliot87 · Sat 26/06/2010 22:02:28

The countdown is over, and TSL will see the light of day!
Head on over to http://www.postudios.com/ and http://www.tsl-game.com/ to find out all about it!

Dualnames · Sun 27/06/2010 00:14:38

Quote from: elliot87 on Sat 26/06/2010 22:02:28
The countdown is over, and TSL will see the light of day!
Head on over to http://www.postudios.com/ and http://www.tsl-game.com/ to find out all about it!

GREAT NEWS!!

CaptainD · Sun 27/06/2010 20:34:54

It's very much alive!

Press release, trailer and several screenshots in the link below (graphics are pretty mind-blowing):

http://captaind-pc-gaming.blogspot.com/2010/06/press-release-silver-lining.html

splat44 · Mon 28/06/2010 03:42:57

Yes! This great news!

As I already told to other places since 2 C.D. and with battle that took place, it seem we were playing actual game in real word to find out we won again! Yahoo!

TerranRich · Tue 29/06/2010 02:43:02

Awesome! I emailed them, offering up some of my web space to host a mirror of the TSL download.

Charity · Sun 11/07/2010 06:47:06

Sooo. They released the demo again today. Thoughts and opinions?

Dualnames · Sun 11/07/2010 06:47:54

Honestly I DON'T WANT TO REGISTER!!!

TerranRich · Sun 11/07/2010 07:01:56

Are they forcing people to register to download it? If so, that's utterly stupid. And it breaks one of the main ideals of web development: never force registration unless there's a DAMNED good reason for it.

I got an advanced copy of TSL as one of the mirror hosts for the game. I installed it the day I got it, but haven't tried it out yet.

GarageGothic · Sun 11/07/2010 07:32:36

Yeah, everybody has to register - even game journalists, as I found out from the press release they sent me. Really bad move in terms of publicity.

If you tried the demo/beta thing they released a long while back there's really not much new in the game except for a few cutscenes, as far as I could gather from their forums. The fans seem to like it though. Personally I'll just have to accept that I was never a King's Quest kind of guy, and have a difficult time taking the melodramatic and often on-the-nose dialogue seriously (plus I like being able to use my mouse wheel for changing cursor modes).

Very impressive in terms of production value though, and it's clear that lots of love has been put into this project. I'm very happy for the developers that they finally got to release it after all the setbacks. Congrats, guys!

Edit: Oh, and the narrator is a total bitch

but voice acting is really good.

Dualnames · Sun 11/07/2010 08:05:16

Terran, I really 'd love a copy of the game without registering, so if you can somehow give use/me a link I'd be really glad. I'd rather die before registering. I have no trouble registering, but not in such way. I'm glad for them, but this just pisses me off.

Layabout · Sun 11/07/2010 09:38:10

I've played it. I kinda agree with what GarageGothic said, there isn't much new additional content other than the cutscenes.

It would have been nice if they had used higher resolution textures as they look really blurry.

Gameplay is limited, as it more or less tells you what to do and where to go. This may change as it is the first episode, but there were really no puzzles whatsoever.

Camera can be annoying at times.

Animation is really good for a freeware game with the exception of Graham's walkcycle, which is poo on a stick.

Otherwise, it's good to see they got it released.

I just registered using my not for reals email address. It's quite simple but it is something they should have avoided.

Igor Hardy · Sun 11/07/2010 11:31:33

Agree with what GG and Layabout said. But there was 1 puzzle! - the same one as in the demo.

Otherwise it's cool that Graham can sit on benches, eavesdrop on dog guards, or climb a tree a bit. Also, you can go into a part of town where there is absolutely nothing to do except to listen to the Narrator's stories.

TerranRich · Thu 15/07/2010 20:39:52

So I've been playing TSL for an hour or two now, and so far I have yet to come across any real puzzle. It's just interaction after interaction, with a few HORRIBLE narrator jokes tossed in, including shameless self-promotion if you try to talk to SingSing, the nightingale. Also, fourth-wall jokes are fine and dandy, if they're done properly, and sparsely. TSL fails in that regard.

It takes so long to get from point A to point B. I'm sure there's a speed slider somewhere in the options (I haven't checked yet), but it's not just that. There's SO MUCH unused space. In the 4 or 5 screens between the castle and the dock, there's nobody around to talk to. You can't even interact with the "End is Near" doomsayer guy with the mask.

I walk all the way over to the dock, only for the narrator to tell me that the ferrymaster isn't here yet, so try searching for more clues in the castle. In the castle, however, I keep getting hints that there's nothing in there anymore, and to venture outside of it to continue. UGH.

Gravity · Thu 15/07/2010 20:54:10

I tried to warn you. Oh wait, no I didn't. Well I guess I'm glad that I never really play fan games now.

Erpy · Thu 15/07/2010 22:53:15

Terranrich, did you pick up the "clue" in the castle garden where the wedding was meant to take place? I surmise that's the clue being referred to.

TerranRich · Fri 16/07/2010 02:35:58

I had no idea that area was explorable. I couldn't find a door that leads there. I thought I tried every door.

What bothers me is the amount of wasted space that I'm encountering so far. I mean, yeah, this space will most likely be utilized later in the episode, or at worst, in future episodes, but they could've worked around that by providing something of use in those locations from the get-go.