MAGS April: "Time" (CLOSED)

[hedgefield]

Good to hear everyone's getting along well. I've been keeping a little dev diary for my own entry ova 'ere. Code-wise I'd say I'm at about 75%, and graphics are coming up to the halfway point now.

[Diath]

I'm wondering: Is anyone here working on a point and click adventure?

Yes. Haha but you guys are gonna be over killing me with your guys 3d and more original stuff   But regardless I wanna make a game!

Edit: I have nearly all the graphics done. Starting the grind of programming. Music is being done with outside help. Ill do a wild shout out  and say if someone wants to do a walking down and walking up animation for my main character I would be ever grateful, otherwise we may hold witness to a noodle arm guy animation like my dead silence game  .

[mode7]

Ok the first demo is finished.
If you want to become a tester, send me a PM

Here's a screen from the intro to get your attention:

[Igor Hardy]

[whispers]...Another World...[/whispers]

[Matti]

Ascovel, you already had your cookie 

[mode7]

[whispers]...Another World...[/whispers]

Yeah, this is like straight from the cover, i know
Yet the gameplay and story are different.

[Igor Hardy]

Ascovel, you already had your cookie  

I dropped it between the cushions of my sofa.

Anyway, it looks lovely and I'll definitely check the game out as soon as it's released.

[Peder 🚀]

I MIGHT submit a tiny tiny game for this!

[EDIT]
Due to health problems I will not submit any games. Maybe another time though .

[stepurhan]

I love the fact that, with the topic being

Time is running out for your protagonist!

so many people are looking for an extension to the deadline. 

Whatever the final deadline, I look forward to what promises to be an interesting selection this month.

[TomatoesInTheHead]

I love the fact that, with the topic being

Time is running out for your protagonist!

so many people are looking for an extension to the deadline. 

That was my game idea at April 1st, but I abandoned work on it after the first week

[WHAM]

Status report: I didn't exactly make my goals during the weekend, so instead I decided to cut some content to have any hope of meeting any deadline. The game turned from "short" to "bite-sized", but I hope it will still be entertaining.

I just checked the list of things that are not done but should be and it's a long, slithering thing, gnawing at its constraints. If luck is on my side, I will have the game out to the testers on saturday, will use said saturday to fix as many bugs as possible (likely using bubblegum and toothpicks to patch any holes) and will release minutes before the deadline.

Graphics: 80%
Story: 90%
Gameplay: 70%
Dialogue: 10%
Event scripting: 5%
Music: Sounding good

Pushing on as soon as I get home from work today!

[hedgefield]

I'm pretty much in the same boat. Taking a few days off this week to make a little sprint to the finishline!

[Rocco]

Im also in this boat and damn, we are sinking.   
Im working around the clock on the game, 
to get a passaple game together this week.
If i had the same effort in my regular work, i would be rich.   

My starting concept is also shrinking from day to day,
(only 2 mainobjects instead of 3, no trading as i wrote above, no pedestrians, and most probably no policemans  :'()
but fortunatly i had nearly all other pieces together yet, and can start to make the actual gameplay right now,
and i'm confident i can finish the task that the game is playable from start to end during this week.

Regardless of that i need more time, cause the concept is very susceptible for bugs,
and the whole Music - Soundeffect Thing has to be done.
So i suggest a deadline extension until  Wednesday 4. May!

Great idea hedgefield with the gameblog, i will enjoy and read it after the deadline. 
Good luck to all other Maggies this month.

[WHAM]

Cripes! Just spent over 2 hours animating a single explosion!
And now I need to figure out how to animate fire! This is going to be close...

[straydogstrut]

Due to health problems I will not submit any games. Maybe another time though .

Crap, hope it's nothing serious=S

I also won't be entering this one - just in case my earlier post was misleading - but I did get started on an idea at the start of the month before I got ill too so at least this month's MAGS was in some way successful. I intend to go ahead and make a game of it but there's no chance of meeting this month's deadline.

Goodluck to everyone who's taking part. I'm really looking forward to playing these games=D

[Igor Hardy]

I also won't be entering this one - just in case my earlier post was misleading

Me and Armageddon have also postponed our 'joke game' project and it'll either become a MAGS of the future or be made outside MAGS entirely. The concept is too good to botch it.

I also realized my perfectionism won't stand any quick little games in general (only slow little games), so I need to secure some real time before I'll actually make any game at all. This month wasn't very rich in time for me sadly.

[mode7]

*sigh*
I'll probably stop developement where it is right now. I'm already far behind schedule and became extremely frustrated this morning, over a lot of small things that will take a lot of time to fix, about things not working out as planed and so on..
I should use the day to make some big progress but right now I'm just too frustrated. My social life has been suffering too, so I came to the point where I need to pull the emergency break. It's frustrating as hell to not finish a game again but this is what it is now.

The release version will feature the demo which is about 10mins of gameplay. I'll add some sound effects and ptp is doing the music and then release it.
I'm planing to finsih this up as most of the BGs are already done.

Sorry guys.

[WHAM]

Nooooooo!  :o
Your project looked sooo coool!  :'(

[mode7]

Well its not dead. there will be a MAGS version and there will be eventually a finished version

[WHAM]

Just make sure to finish it some day! Otherwise I will be a very sad panda.