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The name says Sector 1; are they planning on making more?

yes! see the previous page of this thread... or the project's website. it's the first part of a trilogy... but don't expect the 2nd part to be released before mid 2006...

-> http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=22535.msg277228#msg277228

bigger scan: http://monochrom.sil.at/suzoeg_edge112005.jpg

thanks a lot. we're currently in the early stages for the story for the 2nd part... a lot of sprites and backgrounds have to be produced, so don't expect a release before 2nd quarter 2006... part 2 will also feature a bigger "world": e.g. you will be able to actually visit the village of soviet unterzoegersdorf with its residents. part II will also feature multiple playable characters and will definitly have a longer gaming time. that's all i can say for now...

btw. the first one took us about 2 years from the first idea to the final release but we think we'll be a bit faster next time. it also was the first game we ever did... so, we'll see

seems to be some kind of misunderstanding... since steve forgot to mention to use his mac-engine...

anyway great job steve! we'll look into it, do some testing and try to find a (easy) way to make the game available for mac users soon...

I think I found a glitch. When you pick the tin plate bucket/ bucket with water, you see three buckets in your inventory.

strange, the code should be correct (as it is quite simple) and i can't reproduce the error... though i will look into it. thanks

Oh and when you go near the nuclear compost area, your character turns green.

radioactivity makes people glow in green color. that's just natural... don't you know?

@scotch & gravity: splitting the resources for dial-up downloads basically seems to be a good idea... though i really don't like the idea of removing the audio from the game since it's easily half of the game's atmosphere... you would't want to watch a subtitled movie without sound just because it got subtitles...

anyway thanks to scotch for providing the files, but please understand if we don't put the soundless version on our own servers. it would be too tempting to pick the smaller download for a tryout and miss essential parts of the presentation...

again sorry, if the game is not that dial-up friendly. i completely understand that such large downloads are a bit against the "philosophy" of AGS to provide "resource"-friendly games and downloads... anyway, i hope the quality compensates for the rather large download (though still very small compared to demo-downloads of some mainstream-bestseller-games).

btw. as we are permanently collecting feedback on the game we decided to (maybe) release a 1.1 version of it in the next weeks... next to some minor bugfixes, we'll try to optimize on sound-compression, sprite-sizes etc... to provide a more compact download also...

@mags_don: yes, the "virtual area" is completely out of place but thats what it's supposed to be... a spoof on 1980ies computer-mag illustrations and "future romanticism"...

@Rui "Brisby" Pires: you should be able to overwrite the savegames at least when all slots are full... but you're absolutely right, we will definitely try to improve on the savegame interface...

again, thanks for your comments!

thanks to all for your feedback...

@gravity: if you're really interessted in playing the game... there might be an option soon to get the game via mailorder from monochrom.at (comes with 4-colored-cover in a dvd-sleeve) just send a mail to suz-team@monochrom.at
though depending on your location the shipping costs here from vienna might expend the costs for simple downloading it with your phone modem...

@dave: don't worry... "russian with subtitles" ist what it's meant to be and it will stay that way also in the sequels... (subtitles may be available in other languages some time)
anyway, some austrian or american characters that might appear in the sequels will speak german or english of course... ultimate "hyper-realism"... sort of...

just a short "cheerio" from vienna to this lovely community...

we've just released our first full length game with the AGS engine and i wanted to thank not only chris for his brilliant work but also all the helpful people on the forums. though i didn't ask one single question during the development-time (1 1/2 years) by myself...  i could find everything i wanted to know in the archives... with great success: our game has been downloaded more than 2500 times (we've been "boingboinged") since it's release date last weekend....

although my time is very limited i will try to contribute and help in the boards as good as i can...

if you're interested in our work feel free to visit our website:
http://www.monochrom.at/suz-game/

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It is a great challenge to secure survival for the small but proud confederation. External reactionary forces put the country in danger. It's a lack of respect due to a morally corrupted and perhaps even non-existing unity of the peoples. The goal of a glorious future is almost unreachable.
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Game for IBM PC.
Windows or Linux/BSD.
Russian with English or German subtitles.
Appealing graphical game interface.
Creative Commons License.

Featuring music by 'Negativland', Jazz Dance Combinat 'Vibemaster', 'Motion Picture Expert Group', 'cccp.at', Joerg Piringer and others.

Website & Download:
http://www.monochrom.at/suz-game/



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