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[Sphonx]

Sphonx lets you discover scientifically advanced technology and antique artifacts on an archaeological expedition in an ancient Egyptian pyramid.
You are Ignacio "Iggy" Dias, a young and interested archaeologist in the near future.
He helps Dr. Allan Nowicz, an experienced scientist and archaeologist who was involved in the development of some of the most advanced technological breakthroughs in recent archaeology.
He is leading the current research on the dig site and he's also managing the bureaucratic side of the expedition in Egypt today.
Dr Nowicz is very proud to have a Death Erasing Multispectral Ultrawave Mummified Material Igniter Ray Device with him on this site.
It's purpose is to revive even partially conserved cells in old, very old and even ancient Egyptian tissue and give it back its previous human form.


Of course, such advanced technology needs careful use and planned application.
So Dr Nowicz wants to wait for Dr Sebranovic to arrive, the spiritual and logical father of the very advanced tissue reviving device.
Ignacio Dias, a studious but a bit clumsy apprentice working for Dr Nowicz instead wants to finally see results and start the live study of ancient life with support of the DEMUMMI-RAY rather yesterday than waiting even longer.
Tension between the two clashing opinions escalates and late at night Iggy sneaks into the excavation / laboratory deep inside the darkest parts of the age-old pyramid only to get involved in a centuries spanning adventure.

Playtime is still manageable in one to two lunch breaks...

DOWNLOAD

https://toxic-tuba.itch.io/sphonx

Price: 3,20€ /// $3,00
You can take a look at the demo for free and see if you like the game and
then buy it for the price of a burger or a good coffee and taste all the flavors of the game.

(AGS Database entry)


CREDITS

Story
CaptainD, selmiak, Toxic Tuba

Programming
Toxic Tuba

Graphics & Animation
Toxic Tuba

Additional Character Animation
Indrek

Voice Actors
Iggy - Durq
Professor Nowicz - Captain D
Stanley Worthington Smythe - Leigh Harvey
Narrator / Tutorial - Durinde

Music
Edwin Montgomery

Sounds
Toxic Tuba and from freesound.org

Tween Module
Edmundo Ruiz & Tzach Shabtay

Testers
CassieBSG, WatchDaToast, Lorenzo, Hobo, Letch, durinde, CaptainD, Durq, Flo, Yannik


Big thanks to all the fine people in the credits, this game wouldn't be possible without you!
The voice actors did an amazing job, this adds so much more to the game, go check it out!
And thank to the testers that went through quite a few rounds of betatesting with me.

[DEMO]

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Sphonx lets you discover scientifically advanced technology and antique artifacts on an archaeological expedition in an ancient egyptian pyramid. You are Ignacio "Iggy" Dias, a young and interested archaeologist in the near future. He helps Dr. Allan Nowicz, an experienced scientist and archaeologist who was involved in the development of some of the most advanced technological breakthroughs in recent archaelogy. He is leading the current research on the dig site and he's also managing the buerocratic side of the expedition in Egypt today. Dr Nowicz is very proud to have a Death Erasing Multispectral Ultrawave Mummified Material Igniter Ray Device with him on this site. It's purpose is to revive even partially conserved cells in old, very old and even ancient egyptian tissue and give it back its previous human form.

Of course, such advanced technology needs careful use and planned application. So Dr Nowicz wants to wait for Dr Sebranovic to arrive, the spiritual and logical father of the very advanced tissue reviving device. Ignacio Dias, a studious but a bit clumsy apprentice working for Dr Nowicz instead wants to finally see results and start the live study of ancient life with support of the DEMUMMI-RAY rather yesterday than waiting even longer.
Tension between the two clashing opinions escalates and late at night Iggy sneaks into the excavation / laboratory deep inside the darkest parts of the age-old pyramid only to get involved in a centuries spanning adventure.

[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/NpZPg2p.png[/imgzoom] [imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/FjCWZ0H.png[/imgzoom] [imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/HfQheX6.jpeg[/imgzoom]

Playtime is still manageable in one to two lunch breaks...

DEMO

https://toxic-tuba.itch.io/sphonx
You can get a sneek peek on itch already and follow development there


PROGRESS:

Puzzles: 95%
Artworks: 95%
Voice Acting: 95%
Coding: 95%
Animations: 99%
Music: 100%
Story: 100%

RELEASE DATE:

Hopefully in 2022!


CREDITS

Story
CaptainD, selmiak, Toxic Tuba

Programming
Toxic Tuba

Graphics & Animation
Toxic Tuba

Additional Character Animation
Indrek

Voice Actors
Iggy - Durq
Professor Nowicz - Captain D
Stanley Worthington Smythe - Leigh Harvey
Narrator / Tutorial - Durinde

Music
Edwin Montgomery

Sounds
Toxic Tuba and from freesound.org

Tween Module
Edmundo Ruiz & Tzach Shabtay

Planet NOEGATO-BAS is controlled by FUELZ, a giant corporation. FUELZ has pipelines all over the planet and controls around 90% of the trade on the planet. Recently FUELZ shortened workers' wages on planet Noegato-Bas and also introduced a currency they pay it out in, that is only accepted in Rocket Town, the capital and spaceport of Noegato-Bas.

Dim is part of a loose cell of workers united unter the name of MOLOTOV. Their plan is to disrupt business of the FUELZ company and especially to destroy one of their pipelines in the southern district. You play as Dim and your task is to help him reach MOLOTOV's goals!

Get it here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkhSAkcp9dI

This game was originally made in a week for the Cyberpunkjam 2019. After the jam was over it evolved into this and was released a while ago, but only now the overdramatizing trailer is done
We are now working on getting complete voice acting for the game!

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[Modal AGS]

So after tangling around with AGS for some time, reading all kinds of interesting topics within the forum and seeing how creative and open minded this community is I had an idea to make this wonderful Engine even better and thought I better share it.

Modal AGS
When you are not playing fullscreen but in a window a really nice feature would be to set the window on top of everything and black out the rest. It doesn't have to be all black, 90%-95% opacity black should be enough. Setting the opacity in winsetup would be even better. And clicking into the black just resumes the normal behavior of the desktop, just like when you click on another window when running an AGS game now. This will help the player concentrate on the game better when he can't see his browser or IM behind the game all the time