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Introducing my first complete AGS game, "Death on Stage." Created for the January MAGS competition, theme "Death."



A young magician 'dies' on stage and must re-invent himself in order to save his dreams of stardom.

Info Page + Download link: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=1397

Note: Since uploading this for the MAGS competition, I have added a music track, fixed some typos and bugs, and added a few basic functions to improve the experience based on early feedback I received. Many thanks to those who were kind enough to share their constructive thoughts with me.

Edit: Version 0.5 uploaded, 12.02.11 - a few bug corrections, extra interactions and responses added to characters and inventory items. Hopefully the final version.

I hope you enjoy it.

Edit: 700 downloads! Thank you to everyone who downloaded it so far.

Coverage of the Game:
Freeware Game Pick on IndieGames.com
Indie Games Night 6 Video
Indie Game of the Week on Gaming Mutant
Adventure Gamers' "Following Freeware" Article, February 2011

Hey all,

I'm having a go at this month's MAGS competition and having been stuck at home with the flu, I've written up the story and so on today and I've given the first background a shot this evening:



Hopefully you can tell what it is without a description, but in case you can't, it is a small theatre corridor leading from a stage on the left to various rooms on the right. Now, this has gone through half a dozen drafts today and despite a couple of potential perspective issues (that far left wall needs to be fixed), I've tested it in AGS and I'm happy with the layout. More detail will be added to everything after I get the layouts of all of the rooms finished.

The things I'm looking for some advice/critique on are the colour scheme and the lighting. As I said, these have gone through several drafts already, and I am generally happy with their current state, but I bow to those with greater experience of these things than me should there be any stark errors I've missed.

The stage is lit with spotlights - something which I think I've portrayed fairly well, but the corridor light is troubling me, especially since I've used that odd perspective on the right. Its either that, or its because the shadow cast seems to imply that there should be a shade on the light, when there currently isn't... thoughts?

If anyone could provide some help/advice for how the shadow should fall in the stairway too, I would be very grateful, as its been frustrating me for an hour now, and I'm still not happy with the tests I've done so far.

Any advice or feedback would be most gratefully received, cheers.