Scene 1 Take 1 - ON HOLD, DO NOT POST MESSAGES

Etcher Squared Games · Wed 30/08/2006 18:01:39

This game has been put on hold. The artist and I have grown a little tired of it. We WILL finish it. We just want to work on something different.

Etcher Squared Games is ready to announce its 3rd game:

Scene 1 Take 1

DEMO GAME
http://www.etcher2games.com/s1t1/files/Scene1Take1Install.exe

Hollywood, CA.Ã,Â The Daniels Family is a TV show about a family of 4 and their dog.

Jimmy: the youngest child.Ã,Â He is the primary character of the game.Ã,Â
Mary: the older sister. Typical teenage girl
Mom: the overprotective mom who won't let Jimmy grow up.
Dad: The hard working, but hardly home father, who tries to be a good father
Sparky: the dog. Ever loyal to Jimmy.

The Game:
The actors of the Daniels Family are shooting a scene for their show.Ã,Â Everything is as normal. But, you control all the action in the game.

With the script that will be providied with the game, you must make the actors say, do, move correctly.

If you say the wrong thing,
if you move to the wrong place,
if you do the wrong action,
if the wrong actor does something
if you do something too soon,
if wait too long...

the director will yell CUT!
This is a continuous scene, so you will have to start over.

I intend there to be various levels of difficulty:
easy:Ã,Â no timing constraints
medium: timing constraints, but very relax
hard: timing constraints following the script exactly.

Below are 3 screen shots.Ã,Â I have the intro screen, some action just before a mess up, and action just after a mess up.

I can't provide another different screenshot, as this is the only stage this game occurs on.

Anyway, once the demo is available (not yet), you will get the game and a text file of the script, that will be your guide (and pretty much the walkthrough) of the game.Ã,Â To NOT have the script and have to guess each step didn't seem fun to me.

Once the scene has been completed, you wrap up and go home. And you complete the game successfully.

I also finally found an artist to do my graphics. His name is Peter Anderson and his personal page is:
http://www.blogger.com/profile/22163025

On a side note, the dog is a character you get to control too. But you are indirectly controlling the dog. When you select the dog, you are really controlling the lady in the front right of the screen with her back to you. This is the dog trainer.Ã,Â You give her commands to give commands to Sparky.

Progress 8-30-06
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story: 90%
coding: 60%
graphics: 40%

Progress 8-30-06 (supplemental (sp?))
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demo made available, see the post for link

Progress 8-30-06
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story: 100%
coding: 90%
graphics: 70%
New demo on website

Erenan · Wed 30/08/2006 18:51:49

Hey, this sounds really cool!! Looking forward to this one a lot.

Alarconte · Wed 30/08/2006 21:11:30

Its seems very good, Im waiting for the game or a demo!
It's original.

Nikolas · Wed 30/08/2006 21:24:55

looks cool and it's a plus that it's your 3rd game! (Which means that you finish your games and it means that this game will be finally released)

Mel_O_Die · Wed 30/08/2006 21:54:49

very good concept!

it seems to be interresting, i'm waiting for the demo now

joelphilippage · Wed 30/08/2006 22:08:02

Sound very uniqe. Id like to play it.

ManicMatt · Wed 30/08/2006 23:23:43

Love the graphics!

I am bit concerned though, your gaming structure sounds like hard work rather than fun. PROVE ME WRONG!!

Gord10 · Wed 30/08/2006 23:41:31

Wow, very nice idea! Looking forward to play.

Vince Twelve · Wed 30/08/2006 23:49:59

Wow, this has come a long ways graphically since I last saw it! The art looks fantastic. And I love your original game ideas! I'm looking forward to seeing how this one turns out!

Etcher Squared Games · Thu 31/08/2006 00:21:57

DEMO AVAILABLE!!!

http://www.etcher2games.com/s1t1/files/s1t1demo.zip

Buckethead · Thu 31/08/2006 07:44:01

Wow cool!! :o *speechless*

Mel_O_Die · Thu 31/08/2006 09:32:19

i've tried it and it looks very good graphic style!

the concept is very interesting (as i allready said) but, in game, it's a little annoying to allways have to restart all for every little mistake :s

maybe a system of "life" (or a kind of "improvisation joker") will be make the gameplay bester ?
i don't know

good luck for the rest!

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Thu 31/08/2006 14:01:04

Well, the concept is nice... I'm just worried that playing it will be like following a walkthrough. Like, having the game run windowed and the script beside you and that's about it.

Also, please make the dialogs skippable through clicks or keypresses or whatnot... it's a MAJOR turn off, even in the demo. I was having trouble just walking up to the door, but all the hassle of having to wait through everything that happened when I got it wrong just made me give up on it...

Oh, and the art is superb.

Ali · Thu 31/08/2006 14:06:44

The concept reminds me of the sitcom sequence from Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head Nor Tail Of It. I loved that sequence, so this sounds like it could be really fun.

The graphics look really good too!

Alarconte · Thu 31/08/2006 17:51:59

MMmm.... Now I played it ... I dont understand the sense of the game... Too difficult for reaching i-dont-know-what-objective.

The game will be Only make scenes in this way?

Etcher Squared Games · Thu 31/08/2006 19:31:23

This is another one of my "CONCEPT GAMES"!!!!!

the objective is: get through the scene without messing up.

And I won't have this initially, but I'll try to have landmarks that when you get to a certain point, you'll return back there...

also, on the final product....there'll be something really special at the end of the game....trust me on this one

Mel_O_Die · Thu 31/08/2006 19:53:03

Quote from: Worm III on Thu 31/08/2006 19:31:23
but I'll try to have landmarks that when you get to a certain point, you'll return back there...

it is a good initiative

a good game needs to hold the player in interest and not to weary it with too many unfruitful and repetitive trys

good luck!

CosmoQueen · Mon 18/09/2006 06:25:40

Only your third game??? WOW!! :o

I am so ready to play this!

calacver · Mon 18/09/2006 22:35:12

Those are amazing graphics! Goodluck!!

Etcher Squared Games · Sun 24/12/2006 03:15:47

Still working on the game, but I will sadly not hit a 2006 release.

The script used to be 10 pages and went on and on, and I decided that wuld just be too much for a game like this. I've shortened the script to 5 pages that get right to the point.

I'm hoping to finish this by Feb 07.