Shoot, I Got Abducted!

[ThreeOhFour]

Shoot, there ain't nothin' Bob Cornhusk likes more'n sittin' on his truck and watchin' the sunset with a few beers after a hard day's work.

But dangit, a feller can't even sit down fer a quiet moment without them UFO critters suckin' yer up fer a bit o' probin'.

But heck, Bob Cornhusk ain't a feller to be takin' a probin' if there's some way he can be stoppin' it. Time to get escapin'!



This game was created in just 3 days for the first Adventure Developers design competition. It is rather short in length, however you should get a few minutes of fun out of it .

My special thanks to Sebastian, who only got my email requesting music yesterday and came back with a cosmic hoedown quicker than Uncle Leroy can load up his raccoon gun.

A quick note for the easily offended: The game does, on rare occasions, have elements of toilet humor in it. I doubt anyone will find it overbearingly crude, but if jokes* about bottoms and their associated functions are incredibly offensive to you, you may wish to give this game a miss.

Play the game!

*Note: “Jokes” not guaranteed to actually be funny.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Wheee, a playable version of "Bob gets abducted!" ;D;D

[ThreeOhFour]

Heh, I aim to please

EDIT: One big ol' game bustin' bug squashed like a cockroach (hopefully). Big thanks to Inkoddi and Akatosh for pointing it out, and Akatosh for his suggestions on fixing it .

[kaputtnik]

Heyhey, not too many people down for this virtual shindig yet - maybe them's still out to hoe the corn and prod the cattle.

Anyway, here's a more convenient link than the kitty counting one on rapidshare: Shoot!

Was a pleasure to fiddle some music together in my dusty ole cabin with nothing more but a dusty ole midi keyboard and a kind of dusty old computer, you know the kind...

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Nice work, Ben.  I like the visual style and the humor.  I spotted two bugs so far, though:

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When you talk to the alien on the monitor, you should do a FaceLocation(x-1,y) first, since I was facing right for the whole thing.

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and

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you can still go through the force field by clicking on the gun.  A really simple way of fixing this would be to create a walkable area in a rectangular zone by the field and turn it on only when the field is disabled, or just have the gun check to see if the field is on.

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Edit:  I played through the rest of it and found it most amusing.  Well done!

[TwinMoon]

*finished it* Nice one, Ben! Everything is better when said in a southern drawl. Also, I's would like ta meet yer cousin Sally

A quick note for the easily offended: The game does, on rare occasions, have elements of toilet humor in it.

If this isn't a recommendation I don't know what it

[WHAM]

Played and finished... and liked!

The game itself only got me smiling, but as I recognized the song in the credits... I burst into real laughter! ^__^

Great job!

[Buckethead]

Anyway, here's a more convenient link than the kitty counting one on rapidshare: Shoot!

I'm usually alright with rapidshare but Damn those kittens are getting on my nervs! 

[markbilly]

That was amazing, a really great little game!

Not too easy, not too hard...

Your art is really impressive, and I hope we see more stuff from you really soon!

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Aw, ben...

Non-skippable introduction AND no save/load?! Killer combo!

Especially since I had to restart because you left debug mode on and I'd accidently given myself all inventory items.

[TheJBurger]

Anyway, here's a more convenient link than the kitty counting one on rapidshare: Shoot!

I'm usually alright with rapidshare but Damn those kittens are getting on my nervs! 

Agreed. Those kittens are evil. Maybe you should put this alternate link in the first post?

I played the game and I liked it! A plus for the graphics and the nice walk-cycle.
Two things I didn't like:
- When you already have an inventory item equipped, you can't select another one until you de-select your current item.
- Some items don't give interaction messages. For instance, I was trying to use everything on the tater, but I wasn't getting any feedback, so it discouraged me a bit.

Overall though, it was a nice game! 

[Ryan Timothy B]

Ben for a 3 day game, you've got skill! (can't wait to see LODE)

Only noticed one dialog bug:

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it's when you ask the green fella how to open the force field -after- you have been given the 'object' that allows you to open it.  He goes through the dialog of saying he has the 'object' and will give it to you if you do the task for him (meanwhile he already has given it to me, and you've already done the task).

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[ThreeOhFour]

ProgZ: Thanks for the bug reports. I'll see what I can do about putting those changes in. Also, glad you like the humor - was not 100% sure on how that'd go down.

TwinMoon: Glad to see I'm not the only one around here who likes a bit of toilet humor . Thank you for the nice comment .

WHAM: Thanks for playing . I'm glad the music got you laughing - Sebastian often manages to get a chuckle out of me, and he got the music for this together ultra fast, so it's nice to see his music catching people's attention.

markbilly: The puzzles are something I consider myself rather bad at, so it pleases me to hear people don't find them too easy. Thanks for the nice words about graphics.

Rui: Yep, my big fears releasing the game were about the Save/Load thing and the non skippable introduction. I guess I'd better get around to learning how to script these things up 

JBurger: I think I will be working those two points out of the next build. Thanks for pointing them out. Also, thanks for compliments on the visuals. I really was rather pleased with the walk animation.

Ryan: Thanks for pointing out the bug. I'll get onto to that . Glad you liked the game.

It seems as though there were a bit more bugs than anticipated, but most of these things seem easy enough for me to fix. I am very grateful for all of your comments. The AGS games page is working now, so I have uploaded it. If you have the inclination and the time, I would be most grateful if you'd mosey on down there and put up a rating for the game .

[Peder 🚀]

Brilliant!

Funny little game!

[ThreeOhFour]

Thankyou for your nice comment, Peder. I am pleased you enjoyed the game

[Dualnames]

Here's a mirror link hence you need it.

http://ledzepforever.googlepages.com/Shoot.zip

I will keep mirroring it for eternity provided you need it for so long..

[Frodo]

You made this in just 3 days?   :o  I am impressed!   

Lovely wee game.  I love the graphics and the humour.  I can just imagine his southern drawl.   

Do you have any plans to extend it, and...

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find a way to rescue the other 2 aliens   

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Excellent work Ben   

[IndieBoy]

Lovely little game and also was great to break up my studying 3 days you say! :o Wow!

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Ah geez, I totally forgot to comment after my lil' issue with save/load and non-skippable-intro.

Great game! Logical, fun, eye-pleasing, really, what more could we ask for?

Now go and enter MAGS! If you've done this in 3 days, who knows what you'll come up with in 30!!!

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Yeah, yeah, I know, Trance-Pacific. Great game, too. But that line was just too good not to say!

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[ThreeOhFour]

Dualnames: Thanks for the mirror link. I don't plan on being around for eternity - you can probably get rid of this in 60 years or so

Frodo: No plans for a sequel just now, but I will keep the possibility in mind. Thanks for your kind words .

IndieBoy: Thanks for the nice comment

Rui: Who does know what I'd come up with in 30 - probably something I got halfway through and then didn't feel like finishing . I would enter MAGS more if I didn't have bigger projects I am rather keen on getting finished. Thanks for the lovely comments