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[Trailer:]

Hey folks! I've been working for quite some time on a game with my friend BRANE, who also started with AGS (you may remember The RoboLovers).

It's a detective game in which you inspect crime scenes, find clues, connect them, and reconstruct what happened.

Trailer:

Some screenshots!

A regular car crash, or something worse...?


Was the car sabotaged? Perhaps the garage will hold some clues.


It's not a detective game without a depressing office!

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The game is made in Godot (boo!), which is a lovely engine I can barely use, but luckily I'm not doing any coding. 

We're working hard on polishing the demo at the moment! In the meantime, here's the Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2797960/Confidential_Killings/

If you like the look of the game, wishlist it there! If you don't like it, feel free to wishlist it nonetheless

[The Devil]

The Devil

A devil is the mythical personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force. [...] the different conceptions of the devil can be summed up as 1) a principle of evil independent from God, 2) an aspect of God, 3) a created being turning evil (a fallen angel) or 4) a symbol of human evil.

Each tradition, culture, and religion with a devil in its mythos offers a different lens on manifestations of evil. [...] It occurs historically in many contexts and cultures, and is given many different names—Satan (Judaism), Lucifer (Christianity), Beelzebub (Judeo-Christian), Mephistopheles (German), Iblis (Islam)—and attributes: it is portrayed as blue, black, or red; it is portrayed as having horns on its head, and without horns, and so on.

(shamelessly stolen from Wikipedia)

Theme:
Your task is to make a story about the devil.
Does it have to be literally about the devil? Or does it have to be spooky?
Of course not!

Here are some ideas, to show how freely you can interpret the theme:

- A comedy about the devil having to find another job;
- A joke about the devil being tricked by a customer to send him to paradise;
- An interpretation of the saying "the devil is in the detail"...
- ...or "the Devil's advocate";
- The devil as a representation of an evil person;
- A story about a Tasmanian devil...? Eh, that's a bit of a stretch.

Be creative! ...or not. Literal interpretations are also fine.

Rules:
- No word limit, just don't make it a 500-page epic.
- Have fun (that's a rule    )!

Deadline: Monday 25th November.

[Campfire Story]

Campfire Story

You're camping with your friends in the woods. It's night, the forest is dark, you're all huddled around the fire... it's your turn to tell a spooky story!

Rules:
- No word limit, but keep it short enough so that the others don't fall asleep and accidentally burn themselves in the fire
- If you want, you can just write a spooky story, or you can include the campfire context in the story itself: i.e. tell the story of someone telling a story at the campfire. Or have other people interrupt the narrator, if the story is too boring. Be as creative as you want!

But most importantly, have fun and good luck!

Deadline: Saturday 17th August.

[Stranger in Utopia]

Stranger in Utopia

STORY

Teleia: a self-sufficient island separated from the outside world that has seen no poverty, unemployment, or crime for 60 years.

Until now.

When a brutal murder is committed, you, Lieutenant Stevenson, are
called from the mainland to investigate. Discover the secrets of the
island, find the killer, and their motives! Not everything is as it
seems...

Made in two weeks for the Adventure Game Challenge.

SCREENSHOTS








CREDITS

• lorenzo: story, coding, graphics, animation
• Arman Mkhitaryan: music, sound effects
• eri0o: testing, technical help

DOWNLOAD!

[VACATION]

VACATION


Norman Rockwell - Family Home from Vacation

What do you like to do during your vacations? Maybe you like going to the sea, enjoying the sun and bathing. Or maybe hiking on a mountain. Or going on a bike through the countryside. Explore the ocean on a raft. Or perhaps, you just like to stay home and relax!

So, for this competition, you should draw a place you would like to visit on vacation. It could be a tropical island, a cosy restaurant, a temple on top of a mountain, whatever you want! It doesn't have to be adventurous. Just show your idea of an ideal place for a vacation.

Deadline: 26th of April 2023 10th of May 2023. Of course, with Easter in the middle and everything, if you need more time just let me know.

Voting:

Concept: your background should tell us something about the place you have depicted.
Playability: does it have clearly defined walkable areas, things to interact with, etc?
Artistic Execution: does the image convey the wanted atmosphere? What's the feeling of the place?

Good luck and have fun! Can't wait to see your ideal vacation spots!

[STORY]

STORY

A pilot descends on a planet where something strange is going on. When he arrives at a scientist's camp, there's no trace of humans. Only robots are left and their behaviour is strange. Where did the humans go?

Made in two weeks for the Adventure Game Challenge.

SCREENSHOTS


Pilot a spaceship (in a non-interactive cutscene)!


Will you be able to fix the spaceship?


Explore every building on the camp!


Visit old cars at the hospital!


FEATURES
- Be a tourist on a lonely planet with no tourist attractions!
- Explore an isolated scientist camp!
- A strange mystery you'll have to uncover!
- Fix vehicles!
- Meet more than 5 characters, but less than 10!
- 12 rooms to visit! Plus some for cutscenes and stuff!

DOWNLOAD!


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The game uses:
- The amazing TweenModule by Edmundito
- The fantastic Speech Bubble Module by Snarky

Music by the awesome Eric Matyas
www.soundimage.org

[Download it here!]

After being stuck on an asteroid with a decrepit, gabby hermit for a week, Clotilde has had enough!
She must find a way to call for help and hitch-hike a ride out of there!
Will she manage to escape the asteroid?! Only one way to find out! Or maybe two.





Meet the locals on a strange planet!


Taste exotic food, such as old cheese crusts and vegetable stock cubes!


Be amazed (?) at the sight of what future technology has in store!


Visit interstellar garages!

• Things to left-click on, sometimes even right-click!
• The sequel no one asked for, to a game no one remembers about!
• So many comic book-style cutscenes, it'll feel like reading a comic inside of a game, inside of your screen!
• Puzzle that may require entire minutes to solve!
• 33 rooms! Some of them are even playable!
• An emotional story that deals with heavy, serious themes, that will make you cry.
• Characters that talk and move!
• Jokes that may make you laugh, maybe!

Download it here!

After being stuck on an asteroid with a decrepit, gabby hermit for a week, Clotilde has had enough!
She must find a way to call for help and hitch-hike a ride out of there!
Will she manage to escape the asteroid?! Only one way to find out! Or maybe two.





Meet the locals on a strange planet!


Taste exotic food, such as old cheese crusts and vegetable stock cubes!


Be amazed (?) at the sight of what future technology has in store!


Visit interstellar garages!

• Things to left-click on, sometimes even right-click!
• The sequel no one asked for, to a game no one remembers about!
• So many comic book-style cutscenes, it'll feel like reading a comic inside of a game, inside of your screen!
• Puzzle that may require entire minutes to solve!
• 33 rooms! Some of them are even playable!
• An emotional story that deals with heavy, serious themes, that will make you cry.
• Characters that talk and move!
• Jokes that may make you laugh, maybe!

The game is entirely playable, but it still needs music and sound effects, and some more polish!

[SECOND CHANCE]

SECOND CHANCE

Since I wasn't sure about what topic to choose, this time you get to decide what to draw! You can pick any of the previous themes used in the Background Blitz, directly from this list.

Of course, you'll need to tell us what topic you chose. If you already started, but didn't finish, a background for that particular topic, you may use some sketches that you did. But I'd prefer if the background itself was all new.

Many thanks to Sinitrena from whom I shamelessly copied borrowed the topic idea (and even the title), and who also compiled the master list!

Deadline: 31th January 2021.

Voting:

Concept: your background should tell us something about the place you have depicted.
Playability: does it have clearly defined walkable areas, things to interact with, etc?
Artistic Execution: does the image convey the wanted atmosphere? What's the feeling of the place?

Good luck!

[two weeks]

Finally it's Ferragosto, a holiday right in the middle of August! Elia has prepared everything for a one-day trip to the sea. Or so he thought...

Can you satisfy every request of the family before it's too late, and then enjoy a well-deserved day at the sea?

Made in two weeks for the AdvXJam.


Visit an entire* house!


Browse and buy the latest magazines!


Enjoy quality time with the family!

• Colours that you can count on one hand!
• So many inventory items!
• Stuff you can look at!
• Stuff you can pick up!
• A deep, touching, heart-wrenching plot!
• Meet unforgettable characters and forget about them five minutes later!

Lorenzo Boni: plot, coding, graphics, animations.

Slasher: testing.


The game uses Snarky's SpeechBubble Module.
Music by Eric Matyas (www.soundimage.org)

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*Only a few rooms of the house are included.

[Bartolomeo,misled by circumstances,learns that appearances can be deceptive]

Bartolomeo,
misled by circumstances,
learns that appearances can be deceptive

STORY

Bartolomeo is reading his favourite author's poetry, Ponte di Sughero, when suddenly he finds a wounded man in his house. Could it be? Could that man be Ponte di Sughero himself?
(probably not, as the theme of the game jam was "A Delusion")

Made in two weeks for the Adventure Game Challenge.


SCREENSHOTS


Read poetry!*


Explore an entire** house!


Meet the local people!


FEATURES

• Two colours: black AND white!
• Characters you can talk to!
• Characters you can click on! (by doing that, you talk with them)
• A story so gripping, you'll have forgotten about it five minutes later!
• Medieval setting! Without dragons or kings!
• Visit the smallest city you've ever seen!

WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD IT?

HERE!



CREDITS

Lorenzo Boni: plot, coding, graphics, animations.

Slasher: testing, proofreading.

The game uses Snarky's SpeechBubble Module.

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*Poetry not included with the game.
**The house features only two rooms and a half.

[HOUSE]

HOUSE

Spoiler

Johannes Vermeer, View of Houses in Delft.

[close]

Your job is to create a background that features a house. What kind of house? Any kind! A cosy chalet in the mountains, a tree-house, a modern home, a futuristic skyscraper, an ancient Roman domus, a haunted mansion, a mobile home, the inside of a small studio flat, a Victorian mansion, and so on.

Deadline: 29th August 2020.

Voting:

Concept: your background should tell us something about the place you have depicted.
Playability: does it have clearly defined walkable areas, things to interact with, etc?
Artistic Execution: does the image convey the wanted atmosphere? What's the feeling of the place?

Good luck!

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Entries:

Spoiler

Sinitrena


Creamy


Mouth for war


Cassiebsg


milkanannan & son
[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/kCNyQmX.png[/imgzoom]

Pogwizd


Jack

[close]

RESULTS:

1st place: Creamy and Mouth for war
2nd place: Jack
3rd place: Pogwizd

[TEMPLE]

TEMPLE

Spoiler

Temple of Ramesses II; Pantheon, Rome; Temple of Kukulcan.

[close]

Your job is to create a background that features a temple. It can be of any religion (either real or made up) or time period (in the past, present or future -- even a ruin!). As long as it's recognizable as a temple.

Deadline: 22th January 2020.

Voting:

Concept: your background should tell us something about the place you have depicted.
Playability: does it have clearly defined walkable areas, things to interact with, etc?
Artistic Execution: does the image convey the wanted atmosphere? What's the feeling of the place?

Good luck!

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Entries:

Spoiler

DBoyWheeler


jwalt


Racoon


Jack

[close]

Results:

• 1st place: Jack
• 2nd place: jwalt
• 3rd place: Racoon

I'm stuck.

Spoiler

I need to find some tequila for the manager. But the barman is away, watching a film. I guess I have to get inside the cinema to find him, but the door is closed.

In my inventory, I have: autograph book, winner certificate, pot of glue, RC helicopter, air pump, pool supplies key, needle and thread, pool net, Deryl's autograph book.

[close]

Thanks for the help!

[Lorenzo Boni:]

Thinking about buying a used spaceship? Think again!
In this cautionary tale of great emotional impact (?), our heroine Clotilde finds herself stuck on an old spaceship, directed towards the sun!
Only you can save the ship! Oh, and her life too.




Have deep and meaningful dialogues with a huge* cast of characters!


Explore a (really) small ship! Try weird alien food and drinks!**

• One player character!
• Lots of stuff to click on!
• Comic book style cutscenes!
• 720p graphics! Lots of pixels for the whole family!
• No less than 13 inventory items!
• 15 rooms, not even a third of them playable!
• No moral choices whatsoever!
• So many puzzles!
• Several gripping minutes of gameplay!

There's a puzzle involving colours in the game. If you have trouble with it, you can find a "colour-blind mode" option in the settings menu.



Here! Click the inconspicuous download button!


(it's on itch.io)




Lorenzo Boni: story, coding, graphics, animations.
Dave Seaman: testing, proofreading.

The game uses Snarky's SpeechBubble Module.

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*At least 3 characters included.
**Food and drinks not included with the game.

Thinking about buying a used spaceship? Think again!
In this cautionary tale of great emotional impact (?), our heroine Clotilde finds herself stuck on an old spaceship, directed towards the sun!
Only you can save the ship! Oh, and her life too.




Have deep and meaningful dialogues with a huge* cast of characters!


Explore a (really) small ship! Try weird alien food and drinks!**

• One player character!
• Lots of stuff to click on!
• Comic book style cutscenes!
• 720p graphics! Lots of pixels for the whole family!
• No less than 13 inventory items!
• 15 rooms, not even a third of them playable!
• No moral choices whatsoever!
• So many puzzles!
• Several gripping minutes of gameplay!

Soon! Our huge team of highly specialized professionals (me and CaptainD) is tirelessly working on testing and proofreading the game. Expect it in a week or two!


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*At least 3 characters included.
**Food and drinks not included with the game.

[HELP FOUND!]

HELP FOUND!

Project
Hi! I made a short adventure game set on a small spaceship. The game is pretty much finished, it just needs a few final touches.

I need some help with testing and proofreading.

Testing
Some people have already tried the game and it seems mostly bug-free. But they weren't actively hunting for bugs, just playing the game. So they may have missed some of those nasty critters!
So, I need some help with testing. The game is fairly short, I don't think it should take too long.

Proofreading
I also need help proofreading the game. Fixing sentences that sound strange to native speakers, grammar, typos and so on.

Comments
If you're interested, you can send me a PM. Thanks!

[MIDDLE AGES]

MIDDLE AGES

IMAGES FROM

Bernardo Bellotto, Piazza della Signoria a Firenze; Giuseppe Zocchi, Il Bargello.

[close]

Your job is to create a background set during medieval times. The subject doesn't matter, as long as it's recognizable as medieval. It could be a house, a castle, the town hall, an alley, or something else!

Deadline: 24th of October 2019

Voting:

Concept: your background should tell us something about the place you have depicted.
Playability: does it have clearly defined walkable areas, things to interact with, etc?
Artistic Execution: does the image convey the wanted atmosphere? What's the feeling of the place?

Good luck!

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Entries:

Spoiler

Mandle


WHAM


Alan v.Drake


Kastchey


Flugeldufel
[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/rLMhO7w.png[/imgzoom]

Cassiebsg
[imgzoom]http://ags.pics/crHj.png[/imgzoom]

Blondbraid


Jack

[close]

Results

• 1st place: Alan v.Drake
• 2nd place: Flugeldufel and Kastchey
• 3rd place: Mandle and WHAM

Love the game so far!

I'm stuck at

Spoiler

the museum. I need to get the Draconium. I have already photographed the alarm code, but I don't know what to do next.
I think I need to lure the mouse to distract the guard, but I don't know how. I tried using the cheese with the mouse hole, but the protagonist says he doesn't want to get too close to it.

[close]

[WHAT I HAVE FOUND IN THE WOODS]

WHAT I HAVE FOUND IN THE WOODS


William Bliss Baker - Fallen Monarchs

You were walking through the woods one day when you stumbled on something. What was it?
A bizarre creature? A mysterious object? A serial killer hiding the bodies of his victims? Your friend Bob going for a walk? A group of fairies having a picnic? A scary monster hiding in the bush? Or just a bush? Or something else entirely?

Your job is to create a sprite of whatever it is that you found in the wood.

Guidelines:

• No size, palette or style limitations.
• Animations are welcome, but please include a static version of your sprite (that's the one that's going to be judged).
• Feel free to add a name and a description of what you found, but it's optional.

Deadline: 4th October 2018

Good luck!