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You can get some nice renders using Sketchup and Keyshot, Keyshot has a bunch of materials you can assign to your Sketchup model and they will emulate the specular maps etc for you.

3D modelling isn't something you can generally learn half-assed as the texturing pipeline is heavily reliant on the quality of your modelling and UV Unwrapping. I use 3DS Max but it has taken me years (on and off) to get to a good standard with it. The modelling to UV Unwrapping stage is the biggest hurdle but you can skip that by using colour ID maps in Sketchup and sending your model through to a renderer like Keyshot.

I can't speak for Blender as I've never used it but a lot of people sing it's praises.

Hell yeah, a new WHAM game! I will check this out asap dude

Hey KyriakosCH, Lovely work here. I checked out your Youtube link too, the piano adds a nice eerie atmosphere to your animation. I like how the light floods in at the end but wasn't too keen on the dips to black between the character's standing frames.

As for the graphics style, it gives me a vintage film feel, despite being 3D rendered If you keep up this standard for the whole game I think you'll be onto a winner!

This looks really cool Mandle! Great idea, i'll be sure to check it out when I get a chance.

Old wounds guys! let's keep it safe for work

Well done on all the hard work Jack, looking forward to a fun drunken ceremony

Ponch, your behaviour is completely unacceptable! All hail the bovine overlord!

I agree with cat, if we could nail down a date and update the forum header that would be great, the forum header announcement is kinda essential and needs to be done asap once a date is decided. The client is a lovely novelty but I've been to enough AGS awards to know that it can be just as much fun when held in the IRC room.

Thank you to Mark and Jack and everyone else who is working to get this sorted, let's hope we can rock this before I have to return my suit

Aww, bummer. I have a wedding to attend next weekend, maybe I can jump on IRC on my phone

Super lovely fonts! The anti-alias trick is spot on. Could we have a mini how-to on your process for making these? Its been a while since I've dabbled with making fonts

*edit: I've had a play around with the fonts (thanks for sharing!), I may have ran into a snag. Correct me if i'm mistaken but wouldn't the anti-alias layer need to be semi-transparent for this effect to work fully? I've found that it looks great when the text is over a dark background, but when displayed over a light background the darker anti-alias pixels are more striking than the main font pixels. I have a hotspot indicator label tethered to my mouse cursor so maybe this neato trick isn't suitable for text outside of dialog boxes?

Going to try my hardest to make the ceremony, life has been particularly manic this year!

Really chuffed Bitstream got shortlisted, let alone in so many categories! Did not expect that, big thanks to those that voted

[Game and sound design by Chicky]

First year that I've had a half decent game to post here

Hack your way through complex folder structures in an attempt to bring down a mysterious organization,
set in a hostile world where the vast majority of it's inhabitants are completely reliant on respiratory breathing aids.

Created for the August 2015 MAGS competition.

The game has permadeath, but it's (hopefully) not too annoying.

Game and sound design by Chicky

Music by LostTrainDude and Alfonso Gordon

Thanks to Mandle and LostTrainDude for some last minute bug tests

Download Bitstream (332MB)

Dualy that was really cool! Props on the beard, I had no idea what you were saying but I presume is was 'I want a big fluffy beard like Chicky'. I liked the detuned guitar, I mostly listen to grungy and psychedelic stuff so you get an A* from me.

TV though, how is it now you're rubbing shoulders with the stars? Is the cocaine and hookers lifestyle all it's cracked up to be?

Well done guys What a result, all the entries were great and it was super fun taking part.

Gutted, don't think I'll be coming this weekend. Some family troubles have cropped up and with general life responsibilities I've not got the time to travel up to London.

Have fun everyone!

Billbis, thanks for giving it a try. If you set the sprite cache in WinSetup to 100mb it runs a lot smoother.

I was under the impression everyone else was rushing their entry too, but it seems like you guys nailed it! Ace games this month, I particularly liked Eggie and Mandle's entries, haven't had a chance to get stuck into Freak Chic yet.

I'm a bit gutted that my entry turned out to be such a bore, but you live and learn

Wow Eggie... This is freakin' awesome, the animations are so dang lovely I don't even... Did you ever leave the house last month?

I'm totally hitting you up for personal message secret animation talks.

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Mandle: Left click interacts, this does pretty much everything. If you have an item it will show when you hold left click on a hotspot, keep holding and release your click when hovering over one of the inventory items you have picked up (these will show alongside the brown circle).

Thanks for all the input Happy to see so many people giving it a go. I was pretty rushed on this one and spent every spare minute I had last month trying to get something put together, I had to cut a lot of bits that would have made the lengthy backgrounds a bit more interesting, timed events being something that I wanted but was a bit beyond my coding abilities. I will definitely take the time to make a version 2 with a bit more sparkle

The first room suffers because I forgot to update the background images, originally I had long 3000px wide layers with alpha transparency, I ended up having to cut out each tree and add them individually. Looks like I missed the background layer on the first room.

Eggie: Hell yes, vote ahead I didn't mean to give that impression! Just giving my two pence, it would be a shame if MAGS entries ended up needing their own advertising campaigns Anyway, there are enough politics going on in the UK today already

Mandle: It looks like Stu posted that just under 24 hours after voting was opened, 8 votes is quite a few in that case!

I was under the impression that voting was generally kept within the forum, after the last MAGS I had lots of friends wanting to vote but I told them it was more of a community competition and that it would be unfair if they voted (despite having played all the entries).

Maybe voting should be tied to an AGS forum login? Or is it already? Either way, I don't speak French but the translation of that tweet seems to read something like 'Vote for France, vote for Chic!' :p

I guess they forgot to add the 'y'

How does everyone else feel about this Hopefully this is just a misunderstanding

The Man That Only I Can See

I've updated the download link again, the save/restore bug is now fixed. If anyone's not cool with this i've kept the original upload on GoogleDrive, so I could revert back to that link if need be