After a Shadow (link updated)

Canardo · Mon 30/04/2007 22:17:44

After a Shadow

Keith Night woke up in a gutter. Having no idea how he wound up down there, he had to trace his steps from last night so that he would be able to remember what he had been doing and most importantly, who had thrown him in the mud like an empty box of cigarrettes and for what reason. But Keith had no idea of the events to come...

Features:
- A short comic noir -style of game in the vein of Grim Fandango and Discworld Noir
- Beneath a Steel Sky -GUI with some modified graphics, plugin by BuRRe
- Rain effects, plugin by Scorpiorus
- 3D-rendered background blended with hand-drawn sprites
- Original acoustic soundtrack composed and recorded by yours truly

Author`s notes:

So, after two months of hard work, it`s finally done and I can put my mind in rest for a while. My deadline came forward faster than I thought so some things were left unfinished and thus I`m not 100% happy with the final product. But the game being my first baby, I think it`s a good one for a medium-sized game.

Download it here: http://www.teekoo.org/afterashadow.exe (44mb)
Alternate download: http://batman.jamk.fi/~c1984/Afterashadow.zip

Have fun!

Petra · Mon 30/04/2007 22:55:18

Looking good!
Reminds me of "case of the crabs"
I like those black-and-white adventures.
Downloading now!

EDIT : does not work

Sorry, under maintenance and temporarily unavailable. Please come back later

Canardo · Mon 30/04/2007 23:00:27

Quote from: Petra on Mon 30/04/2007 22:55:18
EDIT : does not work
Sorry, under maintenance and temporarily unavailable. Please come back later

Blimey! That`s what you get by using these free hosts. Hopefully it gets fixed soon or else I have to re-upload it tomorrow.

Petra · Mon 30/04/2007 23:12:53

I'll keep on trying

Really would like to play your game.

Cheers, Petra

TassieDevil · Mon 30/04/2007 23:27:26

Hmmm - under maintenance.
Is there an alternative link?

Fleshstalker · Mon 30/04/2007 23:34:57

Shame. I was looking forward to today.

Canardo · Tue 01/05/2007 07:00:42

Okay, I put a mirror up since Rogepost wants to keep on maintaining. It`s the same .exe -file but zipped so you`ll have to kind of double-unpack it, sorry about that. This one should work, however

TassieDevil · Tue 01/05/2007 22:50:03

Quote from: Canardo on Tue 01/05/2007 07:00:42
Okay, I put a mirror up since Rogepost wants to keep on maintaining.

Thanks, playing it now. I guess I seeya later in Hints&Tips

Guest · Wed 02/05/2007 00:43:39

Pretty good game. Nice music, some nice graphics, nice atmosphere, maybe the puzzles are a bit too easy, and the story somewhat thin.

Canardo · Wed 02/05/2007 09:08:33

One thing left to mention: the game is a part of a study of Film Noire's aesthetics and narrativity in game-art. Therefore the focus for me when making the game were the visuals and the way the story is told. I would like a few comments from you about this. Just how noir do you feel the game is?

I would`ve loved to make this a full-lenght game with better puzzles, but my time was short

Trust me, this won`t be my last effort and whatever comes next, it will be much longer. Oh, and I am well aware that Casablanca is not a Film Noir, the gag just screamed to be placed there

Fee · Wed 02/05/2007 14:02:16

Nice game

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Error: run_text_script1: error -6 running function 'on_mouse_click':
Error: Array index out of bounds (index: -1, bounds: 0..300)
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It crashed a few times randomly on me and i was wondering why, so i played around. Turns out i was accidently brushing my ultra sensitive mouse wheel wich crashes it.

ida · Wed 02/05/2007 19:49:46

Great music, very atmospheric game. Loved the character sprites. They seemed very different. Made a refreshing change to see them. Thanks!

Stupot · Fri 04/05/2007 15:37:22

Cool, I remember you announcing this bad-boy.
...downloading now...

Canardo · Fri 25/05/2007 21:14:08

Got an e-mail from Czech Republic today and it seems that AaS will be appearing on the cover-dvd of "Level" some time soon. Even if it is just a space-filler on the disc, it`s great to see that the game has been noticed and I`m both surprised and honored by the request as I really didn`t think the game would draw much attention.

Even though it`s pretty unlikely, but IF the game gets mentioned by anything more than just the title in the magazine, it would be fun to read a translation of it as I can`t speak czech as a finn

proximity · Sat 26/05/2007 14:15:12

Congratulations Canarado. As far as i know, Heartland Deluxe demo was also published in Czech Level. That means your game is as good as it is. I also want to thank Czech Level for supporting AGS games.

Canardo · Wed 06/06/2007 17:46:12

Just a quick heads-up: the website for Keith has been opened at http://www.teekoo.org/KeithNight

The site is still pretty much under construction and it is buggy but the main reason I put it up a bit early was the fact that I`ve uploaded the game to that server and am fixing the links here so the obviously still defunct RogePost link can finally be put to rest. I also added the original soundtrack of the game to the site, if someone is interested.

Canardo · Wed 20/06/2007 15:42:41

Heh, still bugging you with this but after trying out a few alternatives I ran out of choices.

The game got sort of reviewed here: http://pc.hrej.cz/plne-hry/adventura/2d-adventura/after-a-shadow/
Now the problem is that I can`t understand heads or tails of czech language so basically I have no clue what they were writing.

In a normal case, I don`t think I would see this much trouble to this but since the text is pretty much something I could use with my thesis I have to ask some of you native czech-speakers around to translate the text into english, or at least the crucial parts of it. I tried the internet-translators already, what I got was pretty garbled english and finnish

PM me if you`re willing to do it(it`s a short text), maybe I can return the favor someday, somehow.

After a Shadow (link updated)

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