aerinde

[shaun9991]

Hi guys!

I made a very short game for AdventureJam 2016, it's called 'aerinde'.

You are G. After being given a chance at a new life by an old friend, it's time to return the favour.

It's a first person point and click adventure game, featuring adult themes. Should take 10 to 20 minutes to complete.

   

   

A bit of back story about the game -
A while back, Troels Pleimert, aka the Space Quest Historian, and I had an idea to swap photographs that would form the basis of a game. For AdventureJam 2016, we swapped pictures on the eve of the jam - giving us two weeks to each work out a story and create a game based on the photos we received from each other. This is my effort... ended up making it in about four nights due to various time constraints!

Any feedback is much appreciated. Let me know how you get on.

Warning: It contains drug references and a bit of bad language.

DOWNLOAD HERE

If you like, you can vote for the game here: http://jams.gamejolt.io/adventurejam2016/games/aerinde/148695

[cat]

Interesting one. It reminded me a bit of "A date in the park" for obvious graphical reasons but also

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because of the crazy plot twist with the two graves

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Please change the link in the post to the games page entry, not the download. Otherwise it's hard for people to find it and add their comments

[shaun9991]

Thanks for playing Cat! I changed the link

[Mandle]

Another delightful fall down the rabbit-hole from Shaun9991!

I LOVE WHAT YOU DO!!!

The balance between the hard reality of the photographic style versus the sudden feeling of being pulled into an eeire world you have to piece together the best you can has had me hooked since Mudlarks!

I really get a Clive Barker feel from your games in that something completely insane might be going on just below the surface of what we see every day...

Please keep doing what you do!

[shaun9991]

Mandle!! This gave me all sorts of warm-fuzzies. Comments like this make this whole thing worth while, thank you so much!! I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

And you've given me a hankerin' to watch me some Hellraiser tonight

[Gord10]

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I couldn't decrypt the message. I tried half of the combinations of 8, 7, 2, 3. Is there a pattern I am missing?

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[Shadow1000]

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I couldn't decrypt the message. I tried half of the combinations of 8, 7, 2, 3. Is there a pattern I am missing?

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That's actually a false lead. Look elsewhere for the code...

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Good luck

SHADOW

[Mandle]

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I couldn't decrypt the message. I tried half of the combinations of 8, 7, 2, 3. Is there a pattern I am missing?

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Shadow1000 is right in that you don't need to use that code for this puzzle, but yes, there is a pattern I think you might be missing:

If you look at the 3 sets of numbers you might notice that they progress in a certain way...Find the next progression to get the code for something later in the game...

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[Shadow1000]

My thoughts about the game:

- Just like Mudlarks and Date in the Park, the photographs used as backgrounds worked really well. Especially for a game put together in two weeks where creating a full environment with that many hand drawn rooms would not be realistic.
- Good story. I like how it unfolds. Since it's a short game, the back story is somewhat implicit but as I say, that goes with a short game.
- Decent puzzles.

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interesting that the first puzzle was the most difficult

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especially with the false lead

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Overall, well done and quite complete.

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[Two Tales]

I like games with this pixelated photographic style so I was convinced to download it straight away and yeh, I enjoyed it. I thought it was a neat idea to swap photos with someone and then try to come up with something quickly using them...and to do it in two weeks, good job!

[xil]

Great game! I did get stuck on that first puzzle for an embarrassing amount of time but I got there in the end

The vibe was great throughout and I thought the graphics worked really well!

[Gord10]

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Am I supposed to give Kasper a drug? I couldn't find anything around.

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[xil]

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Am I supposed to give Kasper a drug? I couldn't find anything around.

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Hint:

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If I were to say drugs get you 'high', where would you look?

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Answer:

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Try waking up the dude on the roof!

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[sthomannch]

Enjoyed this game a lot. Good graphics and puzzles. Took me a while though to get

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the cod for the private message. I was distracted by that other short message. Well done

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Only downside is that the nice city of Roskilde and the dome and ships are gone now :-) Really a beautiful place.

[Gord10]

@xil:

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I knew it was something about that guy, but I couldn't manage waking him up.

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[sthomannch]

If you are still stuck, open a thread in hints & tips

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the guy will never wake up, but you can force him to move a little bit

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with water

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then, examine the floor next to the guy carefully for some goodies

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[Stupot]

Just played this and it was great fun. Lots of nice touches.
Random Q. Did Troels give you the photos as they appear in the game or did you pixellate them yourself?

[shaun9991]

Thanks for playing guys! It's cool to have such feedback on this little experiment

@Stupot - When Troels sent me the pics they were all in super fancy glorious super HD, I resized them and used the same pixelation process that I did for A Date in the Park (using pixlr.com). Pixlr is a very handy website!