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Congrats on the release!  Looks really interesting. 

I got, wait for it,
"Jedi Hair Salon Mayham".

I need to draw that. And we need that game!

Just use your current avatar...?

[Morbidly Obese Raccoon Adventures]

This idea was too fun to ignore, even though I have no chance of winning. 

I present:

Morbidly Obese Raccoon Adventures!!  (subtitle added by me - "You want fries with that?")

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Just one thing... if we do one day make a game with this name, does that disqualify it from the contest? 

3 - OceanSpirit Dennis.

Love the graphic style!  Congrats on the release. 

You'll need a handkerchief to dry your tears, and a band-aid for the pain.

Interesting... I use analgaesics for pain, not plasters!

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You have more warts then a warthog that hogs its warts...

Before the end... you will beg me to stop!

What, you mean you're going to sing?

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There are no words for the cowardice you have shown!

One of the Wallace and Gromit games?  If it is, I can't remember which episode.

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Sorry I thought I was in the "Name the Game" thread!

Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit?

[Captain Disaster in Death Has a Million Stomping Boots]

Firstly - @MattFrith, that looks absolutely terrific!!

Secondly... well this might be a bit of a cheat in a sense, but since I've already posted tons of screenshots of this game in the GiP thread, here's a screenshot from a sequence that we've ended up cutting from Captain Disaster in Death Has a Million Stomping Boots... sadly, we will have no cameo appearance by Purple Tentacle.  (Sorry!)

Eek, Ack, Chee!

So now you talk like a monkey as well as look and fight like one!

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If your muscles were as strong as your odour, you would be a fearsome opponent indeed!

[LTGiant2000]

Thanks Paul.  That was one of LTGiant2000's sprites - before working on this game he never knew before that he had a knack for drawing aliens!!

Fortunately TheBitPriest is going over a lot of my backgrounds and making them look better, so the actual game will look nicer than those screenshots - the dance floor in particular is virtually unrecognisable from my original drawing!

I was very disappointed that only one of you had a beard in real life.

Wow.  This game is teaching me that whilst I thought I had a good knowledge of adventure games, really I've only scratched the surface!!

I haven't played The Cave so I don't know much about it, but from what I've heard I'm really not sure it's particularly representative of what most of us consider to be a "typical" adventure game anyway.  But genre boundaries blur anyway, so maybe that's irrelevant.

I think the quote is a little irrelevant.  What's makes a platformer fun?  (Well I'm not really a fan of platformers, but anyway) - "Run around.  Jump.  Climb ladders.  Try not to get killed by monsters and big drops.  Collect coins."  When you just say what the basic components are, sure it sounds dull.  Sheet metal, moulded plastic, wheels, dampers, disc brakes and electronics sound dull.  If they've been put together into a Ferrari F40, suddenly they're not so dull.  (Don't moan if I've got the actual components of an F40 wrong, you know what I'm trying to say.)

It's about how the basic game elements are put together, fused into a world you can believe (or at least want to), characters that you care about, laugh at, get involved with he plot, and try to "beat" the game designers by solving their puzzles.  Well, that's my two-penneth anyway.  I'm sure someone will give a more eloquent answer, and obviously each game differs (plus I think all of us would say that we don't enjoy adventure games just for being adventure games, but for being GOOD - or hopefully GREAT - adventure games), but those are, in a nutshell, my feelings on the question.  As to truly feeling like you're embodying a character... well to me, no, that's not really how it feels nor is it something I'm looking for in an adventure game.  Like most media I want it to primarily entertain, certainly amuse and / or engross, and possibly even educate.
 

You swing that sword like a girls skipping rope!

You should know - you were in the Girl Guides!

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I've met narwhals more attractive than you...

> You have the athletic build of a legless turtle!

Whereas you have the build of a 24-stone woman I know called Myrtle...

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I've never seen someone prance around as idiotically as you...

I hold a Master of Arts in insulting!

Strange... I thought you were a Master of being revolting!

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I hear you like to wear stockings and suspenders when sword-fighting you practice...

Amerzone?

Thanks Shaun, glad you enjoyed the demo!

Did someone ask for screenshots?  Here are 20 of them from our very latest build!  (Please note some are still WiP - the smaller ones are showing only a portion of the screen.)



It begins...



CD gets assertive...



... but it was a bad idea.



The Customs Official REALLY doesn't mean this...



Uh-oh...



Alien Marketplace comedians...



Cue disgusting puzzle to get something from this alien...



There is no alien here yet... but there will be...



Ooh, an energy pool!



An inconveniently small doorway...



A cunning reference to two adventure games in one sentence...



CD wants to boogie... or maybe he doesn't.  Just wait till you see the dancing robot on this thing!



What is this?  I'm not telling you!



Don't believe a word of it, she's only after your money...



Possibly the worst joke in the whole game, though it has plenty of competition!



A retro top-down view!  Sadly no SuperSprint mini-game though.



Hmm... looks familiar...



An obelisk... but no monkeys!



Once you have explored a bit you can go back and annoy the customs official with lots of stupid questions - yay!



Look, I did not shameless steal the speeder design from Star Wars: A New Hope, ok?   Oh all right you got me, that's exactly what I did.




I'm also pleased to announce that our Beta Test Team is now fully established and ready for us to throw a meaty test build at them in the near future:

Lead Tester:    Arj0n
Beta Testers:   Cat, Tabata, LTGiants2000



More news soon...

2 - Thought?