Lost on Cow Island

Started by bx83, Thu 22/08/2019 09:32:01

Previous topic - Next topic

bx83

DEMO
v1.3 added end-game state and speech-skipping on mouse click

'Lost on Cow Island' is a comedy adventure game about being on a desert island after a time-travelling accident strands you there.

You play as a nervous art-student named Julius, with drunk but reliable friend Dr Braun (pronounced Brown) diligently fixing the broken time-machine. Julius must find car parts throughout the island, and get them back to their own time...



[imgzoom]https://bluekeystudios.com/img/preview/prev1.png[/imgzoom]
[imgzoom]https://bluekeystudios.com/img/preview/prev2.png[/imgzoom]
[imgzoom]https://bluekeystudios.com/img/preview/prev3.png[/imgzoom]
[imgzoom]https://bluekeystudios.com/img/preview/prev4.png[/imgzoom]
[imgzoom]https://bluekeystudios.com/img/preview/prev6.png[/imgzoom]
[imgzoom]https://bluekeystudios.com/img/preview/prev7.png[/imgzoom]

Features:

-1366x768 (16:9) resolution of 50+ painterly backgrounds
-3,600+ lines of dialogue
-Full English voice acting directed by Ben Rich through irregular emails
-Original soundtrack by composer VanillaPear Sound comprising 18+ songs

The Team:

Ben Rich - Development, Writing, Puzzles, Coding, Project Management
MichaŠ‚ Bukowy - Art, Animation (secondary characters)
Rocky Wahyudi - Animation (Julius and Dr Braun)
VanillaPear Sound - Music, SFX, VO Leveling
and a tonne of voice actors from around the world! (but mostly America)

Story/Puzzles - 100%
Scripting - 100%
Animation - 100%
SFX/Music - 99%
Voice Samples - 90%

Notes:

Developed by Blue Key Studios.
Release due in mid-2022, or publisher schedule.

The Last To Know

QuoteJulius (sensitive English art student) and Dr Braun (scatter brained mad scientist) go exploring in a time machine built into a Delorian.
Sounds familiar ;-)

I really like the art, the only thing is that it's hard for me to read the speech font.

Good luck with your game!

Frodo

This looks brilliant.  Really funny.   :cheesy:


ManicMatt

I thought you'd painted over the Curse of Monkey Island sprite until I did a comparison! Someone likes their art style, and who can blame you!

Lovely background art!

bx83

#4
I asked the animator to ‘be inspired' by the Guybrush Threepwood - he went a little too far :p  I checked with mike Stemmle, he said it's okay, let's hope Disney agrees.
Last to Know - I may change the font, what about it don't you like?

The Last To Know

Maybe because the background color of the speech bubble is the same color as the font color...
It was just my first impression. If I saw those screenshots in full screen, maybe I could read the font better.
In general, I prefer "cleaner" fonts rather than "comic" fonts. But that could just be me.

cat

Quote from: The Last To Know on Thu 22/08/2019 11:22:06
QuoteJulius (sensitive English art student) and Dr Braun (scatter brained mad scientist) go exploring in a time machine built into a Delorian.
Sounds familiar ;-)

Very familiar. Maybe not the best idea when doing a commercial game...

Laura Hunt

The artwork is amazing, and going by the amount of posts in the technical forums, it looks like a huge amount of work has gone into this... Which is why I'm slightly baffled as to why you would use "borrowed" characters after working so long, so much and so hard on this. Wouldn't you rather have original characters and not have your game be known as some "homage" or fanfiction of sorts? I think this game deserves to stand on its own legs and I hope my critique comes across as what it actually is: a compliment! I'm loving what I'm seeing in your screenshots and I think it would be a bit of a waste to have it ride on the coattails of something else instead of being its own unique thing :)

bx83

#8
Laura true, it is a giant homage to Lucasarts games that I liked; but that's exactly what it is. I agree I could redo the car and Julius's animations - except this would cost more money, and require a lot of time replacing a lot of views.
Anyway the writing is dissimilar from Lucasarts, and also, despite the references, it so insane that it hopefully *will* stand on its out two feet, rather than being a pale comparison. And ps the 'arch nemesis controlling everything' is revealed at the end and makes the whole game make sense.
Better to ask for forgiveness than permission, at this point ;P

bx83

Last to know, the full game is 1/3rd larger, I shrunk them down to fit all the images on one screen.

Laura Hunt

Quote from: bx83 on Fri 23/08/2019 12:50:50
Laura true, it is a giant homage to Lucasarts games that I liked; but that's exactly what it is. I agree I could redo the car and Julius's animations - except this would cost more money, and require a lot of time replacing a lot of views.
Anyway the writing is dissimilar from Lucasarts, and also, despite the references, it so insane that it hopefully *will* stand on its out two feet, rather than being a pale comparison. And ps the 'arch nemesis controlling everything' is revealed at the end and makes the whole game make sense.
Better to ask for forgiveness than permission, at this point ;P

Fair enough! Looking forward to seeing the whole thing once it's done (nod)

Laura Hunt

(btw, in the first screenshot it should say "thousands of years old", not "thousands of year's" ;))

bx83

I may need a proofreader...
Anyone interested in doing 3800 lines worth?

Laura Hunt

Quote from: bx83 on Sat 24/08/2019 00:50:09
I may need a proofreader...
Anyone interested in doing 3800 lines worth?

How many words does that translate into, and what's your budget?

bx83

~38,000 words for all scripts and all lines.
Try me for cost.

bx83

#15
My other animations were looking a bit too infringing.

Which face a) do you like best, and b) could not be mistaken for a Lucasarts character associated with Monkey Island around 1997?

https://imgur.com/a/Ixo45AM

Cassiebsg

Uhm, actually I would probably be more worried about copy right issues on a certain movie trilogy, than MI, to be honest.
There are those who believe that life here began out there...

bx83

I'll change the car and remove references to these movies (which are like 2 lines).

bx83

#18
Does anyone think this *doesn't* look like guybrush?

https://imgur.com/a/HIms9TH

Jojo_the_monkey

I did not have problem with the previous graphics, but as the others said it is better to create your own style.
The overall game looks very nice!!
I should have listened to my mother---I should have practised.

SMF spam blocked by CleanTalk