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[SPHONX]

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SPHONX

AGS Database Link
itch.io Link

a short but ages spanning adventure where science fiction meets comedy on an archeological expedition researching the past but in the future...

This is a commercial Game, but also has a demo to give you a taste for the game and for voting in the awards...
(there was an earlier Tech Demo, but the current gameplay demo was released in 2022)

Please Consider SPHONX for
* Best Game Created with AGS  (why not, lemme try)
* Best Writing
* Best Character
  for Banana loving clumsy rebellious Iggy or maybe the kind of helpful but unfriendly game tutor...
* Best Animation (even the demo has the cool intro)
* Best Background Art (why not)
* Best Original Music & Sound Design (music is by emont and the sfx are really good as well)
* Best Voice Work (fully voiced and sounds great)
* Best Demo (we have a demo)
* Best Short Game (could be fitting, there are waaaay longer games)
* Best Puzzles

Almost forgot to add the game to the database since MAY!!! But that happened now as well, phew right on time for the year closing and awards nominations

Some interesting puzzle ideas, too, even if I think I may have gotten slightly lucky to get the colours puzzle right on my first attempt - I certainly wasn't 100% sure what each one stood for.

Thanks for your feedback ben, that is intentional, to make you feel like the person translating actual hieroglyphs without any clue whatsoever. Glad it worked out and you had fun. Noone really complained about that puzzle yet, not even the many testers, so it should be really intuitive on a level I cannot explain but somehow got right

I'll have to look into those folders now and fix that typo there...


and guess what, SPHONX now has a trailer!
That was quite challenging to put together, took me only half a year or so, but it is out now in all its glory, thanks to durinde for the voice and emont for the music

the 4 shows the huge leap and is easier to understand for users and all in all makes more sense to be called this. I leaves enough space for updates of the 3.6 branch. I'm all for four

[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.

The game is indeed released and available on itch.io on the same url as always. Get it now or play the demo to get a taste.
https://toxic-tuba.itch.io/sphonx
I'll write a proper thread in the released games forum soon enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbtHLzr1xiE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh3s5xhr92E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otmFgTjnA1c

Ladies and Gentlemen, mummies and graverobbers,
It's true, after a lot of work and some fun rounds of betatesting the feedback from betatesters is slowing down, meaning they find no more points to complain about and that means we have a round game that is very polished.
I'm proud to announce the release date for the funny Science Fiction point and click adventure SPHONX. It will be publicly available on Friday, 27th of May. 2022 that is.

more info on the devlogblog:
https://toxic-tuba.itch.io/sphonx/devlog/380342/release-date-announcement
follow me on itch to get more updates and stuff

Taking the line out of context is often hilarious.  Now I want to see a MAGS named

Spoiler

Throwing the Banana into the Darkness

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. Looking forward to the release!

lol, you just need to win a MAGS to set that theme

anyways, we have production news, the game is finally in beta... and from current testing it is becoming clear it'll be quite some work still, but it'll be a better game then, but this also means a later release...

Game development is finished. On paper. Now a few testers tear the game apart and hunt bugs and other inconsistencies so that the players don't encounter those bugs.

Stay tuned, good testing takes a while, but a release is coming very soon.
Please note how clever I avoiding giving a fixed date, but I will announce the release date of this indie adventure that has no deadline set by a publisher soon enough!

read more on the game's itch page and follow development there!

[All english voice over lines are in the game[]

All english voice over lines are in the game[/b]
Finally all the English texts are written and the voice over for them are recorded and implemented into the game.

Ignacio "Iggy" Dias has surpassed the 1000 lines of spoken and recorded text. And the 1000th is as telling as it spoils nothing.

Since it is only possible to add images to a devlog and not audio files, here is a link to that historical milestone

http://www.toxictuba.net/iggy1000.mp3

enjoy and get ready for a soon coming release!

https://toxic-tuba.itch.io/sphonx/devlog/356288/all-english-voice-over-lines-are-in-the-game


if you don't do it already... follow the game and more on itch!

that is cool Retro Wolf

I made some more stuff since my last post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSFjSwbD2m0
trippy motion graphics




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgOyTaSkurU
best of 2021 with a soundtrack by emont




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIDBv-5ClWU
animated EP cover (in case you like the sound, the full EP is here https://trippplet.bandcamp.com/album/initial-inertia )




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lutNIMSNEUY
motion graphics meets Zen Garden

Hey, I remember recording the narration for this!

Looks great! Looking forward to the complete version.

and you did really well, thanks for that. Soon the game will be done. I hope!

@heltenjon & @SarahLiz
I'm so glad you like it and took the time to comment. This means a lot and is encouragement to get this game done!

Speaking of that, there is progress, the game has now a better itch page with more colors and images and the techdemo has a german translation
there are few more words on that on the itch devlog: https://toxic-tuba.itch.io/sphonx/devlog/346067/the-techdemo-is-now-available-with-german-texts

I'm very glad you like the demo so far!
Here is a small update, the last update this year:


[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/ALMcsY9.gif[/imgzoom]

of course all expensive and advanced scientific equipment is secured with a code and you have to crack that as you are not allowed to use it.

Input of digits, deletion of number sequence and detection of the correct code works.

follow development on itch

hey creamy!
this basically is the long awaited Eternal Chrysalis Deluxe with improved graphics, higher res characters, more rooms, more dialogs and interactions, a longer intro, more puzzles and completely voiced. you could say that MAGS entry has become a game now... well, once it is complete and released... the plan is to make this happen before the 10 year anniversary!
And to answer what you probably ask yourself now, yes, of course a similar treatment is planned for Black Morph too, but this game is not even finished yet and I want to make a game with blender graphics, no idea where my priorities then are once this is done... but I should add it to the database and grab some Demo awards nominations The way this works is to make a new database entry for the demo and then another one for the full game?

shows up for me on firefox, but maybe I have cookies from my website, anyways, images should work now...

[DEMO]

[imgzoom]https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzc1MzM1NDkuanBn/original/gCzpKW.jpg[/imgzoom]

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

been busy with blender quite a bit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_PDP2uIHNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9spbs7g8an4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhXgZU_9Uf0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCPYT0zQlKo

Wow, I didn't post in a long time, here is some of what happened since then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EiKmDfnLss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KX7Dubw80o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvwshS5D3Tg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iEDLHpKMXw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_9Sxp7hmg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkhSAkcp9dI

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_9Sxp7hmg

check the video description for a message from cuterona!!!

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[please consider for]

A bit late, but that teaser trailer had to be done!





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!


please consider for
Best Freeware Game
Best Writing
Best Gameplay
Best Background Art
Best Animation
Best Short Game
Best Programming
Best Puzzles