The Adventures of The Black Hawk

croquetasesina · Thu 14/05/2020 19:36:55

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Hi adventurers,

I wanted to present you a new project of a point & click graphic adventure that is currently being developed in Spain. The adventure is called The Adventures of The Black Hawk. The story takes place in the south of France, during the French Revolution, where our protagonist, an unfortunate aristocrat who leads a double life, tries to help behind his mask the lower class with the help of his privileged social position.

The project started in April of last year and soon we will launch the web, in classic style too. We are trying to recall the graphic adventures of the 80s and early 90s that amused us so much trying to be true to his style in every way. This is a third person point & click adventure with a resolution of 320x200px using its famous 9-verb interface.

What do we offer you?
We assure you, a graphic style based on LucasArts with totally original backgrounds and characters, own soundtrack appropriate to the style, fun, humor with a lot of irony, bizarre situations and sword fights in the style of Indiana Jones games.

Here our website where you can find more information about our adventure! We hope you like it!

www.elhalconnegro.com

Enjoy it!!

Frodo · Thu 14/05/2020 20:03:57

Looks fantastic. Looking forward to playing it.

CaptainD · Thu 14/05/2020 20:47:36

Oh wow I love your game already!!! Looks exactly like my sort of game.

That first screenshot is a thing of beauty.

All the best with development.

InCreator · Fri 15/05/2020 03:26:17

Looks absolutely fantastic! Can't wait!

croquetasesina · Fri 15/05/2020 17:51:05

Thank you very much!! I am sure that if you like these images you will love the game. Both the graphics and the gameplay will remind you of Lucasarts in many ways. And there will be easter eggs ...

Yanek_Crispbread · Sun 17/05/2020 08:59:37

This looks fantastic, I will keep my eye on this

Matti · Sun 17/05/2020 13:27:29

Looking good!

ToeKnee · Sun 17/05/2020 15:03:42

This looks great and game play like Lucasarts will be great to re-live the dream! Seem like this is nearly done so keep at it and broadcast when done so we can try it out... (unless you need testers!)
Cheers,
Tony

BarbWire · Sun 17/05/2020 15:42:15

I absolutely Love, love, love (not enthusing too much am I ?) the look and feel
of this game and can't wait to play it. I have had a look at the trailer and it
doesn't disappoint. You can't beat the Retro games.

Well done Croquetasesina. Keep up the good work.

croquetasesina · Mon 18/05/2020 19:33:37

Wow!! What a surprise, I didnâ€™t know if such a retro game would have such a good reception. Iâ€™m really glad! I will keep you informed of new developments

Thank you for being attentive and comment.

Monsieur OUXX · Wed 27/05/2020 09:50:38

You go get them tiger! I predict this game will be super fun.

SarahLiz · Thu 28/05/2020 06:04:46

You can't go wrong with a LucasArts-esque game, ever! So excited to see & play once it's completed!!!

croquetasesina · Wed 03/06/2020 17:53:08

Quote from: Monsieur OUXX on Wed 27/05/2020 09:50:38
You go get them tiger! I predict this game will be super fun.

Thank you very much, with your collaboration it could not be otherwise!! We hope it will end up being a great game to remember many years ahead. Youâ€™ve done a BRILLIANT job!

croquetasesina · Thu 18/06/2020 09:04:26

We have a new video on our social networks where you can see one of the adventure background.

croquetasesina · Sat 04/07/2020 09:34:07

The French composer Jessca Fichot, trained at the Berklee College of Music, has composed a version of the main theme of our adventure for the music of the final credits of The Adventures of The Black Hawk. Both the original lyrics and the arrangement of the main theme are his, with a style close to that of the traditional songs of France of the eighteenth century. Â¡ We hope you like it!

VÃdeo in instagram
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CCMZvD0ovyO/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Video in facebook
https://www.facebook.com/theblackhawkadventures/posts/157838112482999

Video in twitter
https://twitter.com/blackhawkadvent/status/1279328278894055424?s=20

Dave Gilbert · Sat 04/07/2020 17:20:57

Oh i adore Jessica's music! Hung out with her at GDC a few years ago. Super cool person.

blur · Sat 04/07/2020 17:32:59

Ok, the background and character graphics look very nice, the music is formidable, but you should work over the walking animation of the hero a little bit, because it looks more like he is gliding over the ground in goose step.
I did a quick search for a video tutorial and found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QTCwiJUmmo which seems not too bad.

croquetasesina · Mon 13/07/2020 19:22:07

We appreciate your input, but the way he walks is something we had already changed

We just havenâ€™t uploaded any video with the new animation

croquetasesina · Sat 29/08/2020 16:35:00

Updated social networks! We continue with great advances

newwaveburritos · Sat 29/08/2020 19:40:27

Holy smokes this game looks legit. Watching with great interest.

croquetasesina · Sun 28/03/2021 23:54:57

We continue to make great progress

https://twitter.com/blackhawkadvent/status/1375834707347304452?s=20

https://www.instagram.com/p/CM7Wq6An0fC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

newwaveburritos · Wed 31/03/2021 21:12:01

I was just thinking about this game the other day so it's great to hear that progress is being made. Keep up the good work! I really dig the new screenshot.

Matti · Thu 01/04/2021 11:40:54

Looking good!

Creamy · Thu 01/04/2021 22:59:15

Nice graphics. I was surprised to hear a french theme song. Before reading the presentation, I assumed the hero was spanish since he looks a bit like Zorro and the game is developed in Spain.

Monsieur OUXX · Tue 06/04/2021 12:21:55

Quote from: Creamy on Thu 01/04/2021 22:59:15
Nice graphics. I was surprised to hear a french theme song. Before reading the presentation, I assumed the hero was spanish since he looks a bit like Zorro and the game is developed in Spain.

This is remotely inspired by "The black tulip" which was written by Alexandre Dumas (same as the 3 musketeers and Count of Monte Christo). Even though not massively famous, the original story and its character still had some success in Western Europe, there was a movie with Alain Delon and so on. Hence the French/Spanish vibe : The movie was mostly a French production but it's one of those things that are in the collective pop culture of non-English Europe. So much so that a Spanish team decided to make a game out of it.
And yes, he's like a French Zorro (preceding Zorro's creation by 70 years

). You could also say he's like a French Scarlett Pimpernel (except the Scarlett Pimpernel is ultra-royalist bullshit

).

In conclusion : This is a very cool project inspired by an underrated main adventure character. And they changed it enough to make it their own. Win-win!

croquetasesina · Tue 06/04/2021 15:32:10

Thank you very much for your words and explanation, Monsieur OUXX. It is just as Monsieur OUXX has said, who I know knows very well the movie and the book.

croquetasesina · Fri 22/10/2021 21:04:59

You have new developments ir our social networks

https://twitter.com/blackhawkadvent
https://www.instagram.com/halconnegroaventura/
https://www.facebook.com/theblackhawkadventures

croquetasesina · Tue 07/12/2021 21:01:37

A little advance

https://twitter.com/blackhawkadvent/status/1468315685281488903?s=20

Darth Mandarb · Thu 09/12/2021 12:51:08

We (the moderators) are having a discussion about this very thing (using social media links as updates rather than post the update here).

For the time being, while not [yet] required by the rules, it would be helpful if you could post the update to this thread (just edit your last post) so those of us who refuse/don't use Twitter (et al) can still see/follow the game's development?

Thanks!

croquetasesina · Fri 24/12/2021 15:17:40

A little Christmas promo!

On behalf of the entire team at The Adventures of The Black Hawk, Merry Christmas!

croquetasesina · Sat 25/12/2021 22:30:11

Iâ€™d like to show you a little preview of whatâ€™s coming...

SarahLiz · Tue 28/12/2021 18:34:40

Looks amazing! I can't wait--do you guys have a release date yet? (Sorry, I don't use twitter or instagram, etc., so this is where I'm following your updates...)

croquetasesina · Tue 28/12/2021 21:03:02

No!! Excuse me here, I thought it was more common than I imagined using social networks. I post you a little bit more here as previews of some scenes from the game.

No doubt the release date will be 2022;) Exact date I canâ€™t tell you yet.

Unfinished sketch (already background finished! hehe)

Looking the gallow

Home, sweet home

Monsieur OUXX · Thu 20/01/2022 14:12:13

I'm very excited by this game.
All the visuals and music are super tasteful yet not over-the-top, one can clearly sense the artistic sensitivity in this project. A real vibe of Monkey Island 1 -- except in VGA and with less shoehorned spoofs

croquetasesina · Thu 27/01/2022 07:05:42

Quote from: Monsieur OUXX on Thu 20/01/2022 14:12:13
I'm very excited by this game.
All the visuals and music are super tasteful yet not over-the-top, one can clearly sense the artistic sensitivity in this project. A real vibe of Monkey Island 1 -- except in VGA and with less shoehorned spoofs

Thank you very much for your words. It is a pleasure to read such things and such comparisons do us honour.
This afternoon I will share more content about the game, big surprises are coming

croquetasesina · Thu 27/01/2022 22:26:47

How exciting it is to do our first tests with the game box!!

EnnarGames · Fri 28/01/2022 14:59:59

This looks beautiful! Canâ€™t wait to give it a run

croquetasesina · Sun 27/02/2022 11:32:11

Evil will never reign over justice!!

croquetasesina · Fri 13/05/2022 11:02:08

Some images of the adventure! We continue to develop at a very good pace!!! We hope you like them

Hobo · Fri 13/05/2022 14:39:19

These look good! Especially love the texture work in the kitchen scene, great use of pixels.

croquetasesina · Tue 18/10/2022 21:10:54

We are pleased to present our trailer

CaptainD · Wed 19/10/2022 09:03:29

I'm getting an error message when trying to play this video, not sure about anyone else?

heltenjon · Wed 19/10/2022 11:26:39

Yes, me too. I had to choose reply with quotes, then copy the youtube url manually.

Edit: The link is https://youtu.be/B1RJuF0zr2U

The video looks so good! This will be a lot of fun, I'm sure of it!

croquetasesina · Thu 20/10/2022 09:39:00

I don't quite understand what is causing the playback error, the video and the URL are correctly set :/

Snarky · Thu 20/10/2022 10:14:53

Quote from: croquetasesina on Thu 20/10/2022 09:39:00I don't quite understand what is causing the playback error, the video and the URL are correctly set :/

In the new forums, embedded YouTube videos should not be the whole URL, but only the YouTube ID (the alphanumeric string at the end). I've edited your post to fix it.

croquetasesina · Mon 31/10/2022 22:31:36

Happy Halloween Night!

croquetasesina · Fri 04/11/2022 16:41:24

We show you a short video with our main theme!

And we encourage you to support our Kickstarter campaign, we need to reach 20k to translate the game!

KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN

Matti · Fri 04/11/2022 17:51:14

I love the LucasArts-vibes of this game

Good luck with the kickstarter campaign!

croquetasesina · Fri 04/11/2022 22:57:46

Thank you very much, it's a long way to go! But we will do our best to make it happen!

croquetasesina · Sat 05/11/2022 11:26:36

Here are some of the rewards we are offering with the Kickstarter campaign!!
Come and take part!

croquetasesina · Thu 24/11/2022 21:26:44

We have secured the funding, but we still have a long way to go!

croquetasesina · Sun 04/12/2022 20:04:38

From the team of Las Aventuras de El Halcón Negro, we wanted to start by wishing you a happy holiday season. Christmas is still some time away, but our protagonist has already sent his letter to make sure all his wishes come true.

Although I can tell you that one of ours has already been fulfilled. Just yesterday we announced the recent addition of what we consider to be one of the best pixelart artists and more specifically in the style of LucasArts adventures. Misja van Laatum has joined our team and is already working on a scenario, which I can tell you is going to be a real marvel.

I will keep you posted.

croquetasesina · Mon 10/04/2023 15:03:35

We continue to work hard on every aspect of the game. While we are raising money for funding, we have redesigned our website:

https://elhalconnegro.com

We encourage you through our ko-fi to help us to get the English localization, which for us is key for the release of the game.

Here is the link to ko-fi, in case you want to help us. Any help is welcome.

https://ko-fi.com/theblackhawkadventures

croquetasesina · Thu 20/04/2023 19:34:28

Some of our most important dialogues will feature close-ups. Would you like to see the design process?

Don't forget our ko-fi campaign for English localisation, please help!

KO-FI LINK

croquetasesina · Tue 09/05/2023 21:37:30

I'd like to show you a little preview. Our adventure will feature close-ups in some of the most important dialogues of the story. It will be a way to differentiate the main characters from the secondary ones, following the style of The Secret of Monkey Island.

We're slowly making progress on the funding for professional translation into English. Would you like to lend us a hand? It's the only thing we need to publish the game.

Help us with a ko-fi (or more! )

SarahLiz · Fri 19/05/2023 18:28:44

Happy to contribute. As I said before, I love the look of this game and can't wait to play it--in English!

Mark1024 · Fri 07/07/2023 11:26:29

Hi.
This game looks great!
I am looking at making a game myself, but I just want to ask, which program do you make your graphics in because they look great 👍
Cheers.
Mark.

croquetasesina · Wed 26/07/2023 20:36:16

Quote from: SarahLiz on Fri 19/05/2023 18:28:44Happy to contribute. As I said before, I love the look of this game and can't wait to play it--in English!

Thanks a million times for your support, we are getting closer and closer, although the uphill is eternal, I am convinced that we will make it!

croquetasesina · Wed 26/07/2023 20:36:50

Quote from: Mark1024 on Fri 07/07/2023 11:26:29Hi.
This game looks great!
I am looking at making a game myself, but I just want to ask, which program do you make your graphics in because they look great 👍
Cheers.
Mark.

Most of the graphics are made with Deluxe Paint

newwaveburritos · Sat 29/07/2023 04:44:41

Holy Cow Deluxe Paint lol. How do you find the workflow? Is there an advantage to using it? I only know of it as kind of a relic to be honest.

croquetasesina · Wed 01/11/2023 21:08:24

Hello friends!

Today I bring you the Steam page of the game.

STEAM WEB of The Adventures of The Black Hawk

The localization of the game is very advanced and everything points to the fact that the game will be released very soon. I encourage you to follow us on Steam and add it to your Steam Wishlist if you are interested!