Cayanne Pepper - nearing completion

Montague · Fri 31/08/2007 15:51:47

CAYANNE PEPPER

Story/Background:

When the world wide web broke down the world erupted into full-scale nuclear war. What remains of inhabitable areas has been divided into three zones: The Safe Zone, the Unsafe Zone and the Tarnished Zone.

In the city of Flavendres Heights, Safe Zone, former criminal Cayanne Pepper (the protagonist) is trying to make it as a freelance journalist. Detective Arden is doing his best to inject a sense of integrity into the police force, while poor rich kid Leonard Perec is on the run, wanted for murder. The police department takes steps to keep Detective Arden away from the case, which only serves to entice his interest.

(Of course, the story I wrote was way too long, so I trilogized it, meaning it should have been 3x as long.)

Cayanne Pepper is my first game. It features a single-cursor interface (except inventory items) and it's mainly about walking around and talking to people with some simple use key to open door-stuff. Some adult themes. Close to 50 rooms.

Progress:

Story: 100%
Scripting: 90%
Graphics: 95%
Puzzles: 90% (or 100 - I haven't decided yet)
Sound: 40%

Couple of screens:

(Lots of black, but it couldn't be helped).

I'll have worked on it for three weeks on Tuesday the 3rd and hope to start the painful bug-testing then. Don't know when it'll be finished though.

Steel Drummer · Fri 31/08/2007 16:09:43

Looks like an interesting game, and if this is your first game, the graphics look impressive! The game is almost done, it seems, and I don't see that too often from the first post in a game's GiP thread- usually when there's a game in production that's nearing completion, the creator just waits until it's finished to post. Anyways, this looks cool, and I'll be looking forward to playing it.

Indie Boy · Fri 31/08/2007 16:42:34

Very nice

I'll be looking out for this one.

Darth Mandarb · Fri 31/08/2007 16:56:17

Now this is how you should announce your game!! Wait until you've got significant progress and then announce it. Build some anticipation just before it's release! Excellent.

** Darth humbly bows **

Game looks/sounds pretty good!! I like the names of the characters.

Best of luck.

Ubel · Fri 31/08/2007 17:30:20

I think you should change the speech font to fit the other graphics better. It's just way too blocky for a high-res game. Otherwise it looks great and the story sounds intriguing. Good job!

Radiant · Fri 31/08/2007 17:43:15

Looks good.

Are you aware that the common spelling is "CayEnne Pepper"?

Montague · Fri 31/08/2007 20:19:24

"I think you should change the speech font to fit the other graphics better. It's just way too blocky for a high-res game. "

I haven't really considered that, but I will.

"Are you aware that the common spelling is "CayEnne Pepper"?"

Yes. I originally went for Kaye-Anne, but I thought Cayanne looked better on the page.

Thanks for the comments, people

radiowaves · Sat 01/09/2007 00:20:57

This is the kind of game I will be waiting for!

stevetheblack · Sat 01/09/2007 01:11:10

This does look pretty cool. I'll have to give it a try when its available

scalad · Sun 02/09/2007 10:07:51

I like the sound of this game. Can't wait for the release and play it.

CosmoQueen · Thu 06/09/2007 08:50:41

LOL "Cayanne Pepper"? That's way too cute! Anyway, I love how this looks. I'm so going to enjoy playing this!!!

Montague · Thu 06/09/2007 11:21:02

Thanks for posting, people!

The game got to 100% on Tuesday, font's been changed and head's been banged against the wall when thinking of the things I should have thought of sooner but which is now too late to think of. I've been running through it a couple of times since then looking for errors, and one kind person has offered to help me test it. If anyone else would like to help, please don't hesitate to ship me a pm. It's my first game and I kind of need all the help I can get. I can't offer you anything except your name in the credits, though.