Bob Smith in The Mystery Case

CoffeeBob · Wed 25/05/2005 17:38:13

Hello everyone! I know my MAGS-game, Bob Smith in The Unsolved Case of Mystery wasn't really good. At all. So, I'm remaking the whole game into hi-res SVGA.
Here are a few pictures from the game (please note that these pictures are taken in early state of progress, so the backgrounds and especially the characters might change in the final version):

The title screen. Nothing too special, but it works.

And here we have Bob at the beach. And *gasp* the new GUI!
There's not much made on the game yet. But here are some planned features:
* More puzzles
* 8-direction sprites
* Better sounds
* Original music
* Voice actors
* Custom Save, Load and Exit screens
I was thinking about doing the voice for the narrator myself, but I need people for the other characters. So, if there's any good voice actor that's free from work at the moment or if he/she can do voices for my game as well, please contact me through this thread or through PM. Here's some info about the characters for those who are intrested in doing voices:
Bob Smith: American accent, a tiny bit dark (voice)
Officer Storm: American-spanish accent, normal light-/darkiness
Zachary: Jamaican accent, late teenage-voice
Lieutenant Laffer: British accent, half-dark
Matt: American accent, normal light-/darkiness
Officer Lily: American accent, woman in her mid 20's
That's all for now, there'll hopefully be more info in a week or so.

Abisso · Thu 26/05/2005 09:14:45

For a moment I thought this to be another of those "Bob!" games announced so often in the last month! (The ones always locked by Dart, eheheh!)

Luckily, this is a real game.

Your idea, anyway, must involve some serious improvements in the storyline and puzzles, otherwise you don't really need to upgrade your game.
But just my opinion, though.

Ishmael · Thu 26/05/2005 09:18:09

Looks nice, I'll be looking forwards to playing this

I like police themed games......

Quote from: Abisso on Thu 26/05/2005 09:14:45
(The ones always locked by Dart, eheheh!)

That was DARTH. Dart ain't locking no threads, she's not a moderator, atleast not here.

Mozesh · Thu 26/05/2005 09:22:06

Looks good, I played the original game.
But like Abisso said you do need to improve it more than just the graphics & sounds.
By the way if you need a voice actor just PM me.

Ishmael · Thu 26/05/2005 09:33:55

Hmm.. Is the third cursor mode "Break"? Because the GUI button looks like a warhammer of sorts to me

Abisso · Thu 26/05/2005 09:37:41

QuoteHmm.. Is the third cursor mode "Break"? Because the GUI button looks like a warhammer of sorts to me

Yeah, and is the fifth one "throw cans in the air"?

Mozesh · Thu 26/05/2005 09:40:53

Quote from: Ishmael on Thu 26/05/2005 09:33:55
Hmm.. Is the third cursor mode "Break"? Because the GUI button looks like a warhammer of sorts to me

Lol.
No it isn't a war hammer. It's a judge's hammer, so he can condemn people right on the spot!.......or hit people if he doesn't like them

CoffeeBob · Thu 26/05/2005 11:49:21

I thought having a hammer for interaction-icon was a good idea.

And, yes, I have plans to evolve the puzzles. And to add more puzzles, of course. There really wasn't any puzzles at all in the original.

And, no, it is not a 'throw cans in the air'-icon, it's the inventory-icon.

Haddas · Thu 26/05/2005 11:53:25

But certainly, the right-most button must be.. THE MYSTERY BUTTON!!! ...right?

Abisso · Thu 26/05/2005 11:57:35

T'would not be a mistery anymore, if he told us, right Haddas?

Anyway, now that I notice, I also suggest (but probably you are planning this too) to change the graphics of the man and the car to fit the BG (or vice-versa, improving the man and car, and downgrade the quality of the BG a bit).

CoffeeBob · Thu 26/05/2005 15:46:29

Quote from: Abisso on Thu 26/05/2005 11:57:35
T'would not be a mistery anymore, if he told us, right Haddas?

Anyway, now that I notice, I also suggest (but probably you are planning this too) to change the graphics of the man and the car to fit the BG (or vice-versa, improving the man and car, and downgrade the quality of the BG a bit).

Yes, I am going to do that. I'm getting help with the characters and I will change the car's shading.

CoffeeBob · Sun 05/06/2005 14:11:46

Take a look at this new super-cool 3d background! OMFGLOL!

Nah, just kidding. It's not a real scene, just something I made in TerraGen and then tested using it in an AGS game.

But here's the scene of crime with a few changes:

Changes:
Bob Smith in Darth-style (thanks for helping out, Darth)
Car now has colored outlines instead of all black ones.
What needs to be changed:
Car needs to be resized.