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Nice episode, hope you keep them up more regularly! I can't believe it took 124 episodes to discover Ben's true identity

[The Drifter]

I've just announced our first commercial adventure game, The Drifter!

I've been working on it on and off for a couple of years, and spent the last month with the team getting art/audio in to show it off at PAX Aus, so feels great to actually have nice looking stuff to share. (Though it's a good while off release still, at least a year).

Website's here, with a link to wishlist if you like- http://thedriftergame.com

Here's the story synopsis-
Mick Carter's been drifting a while now - never staying one place long, moving from job to job. Forced to return to his old home town, he witnesses a violent murder, is pursued by mysterious armed men, and killed.

And that's just the start of Mick's problems.

His consciousness ripped away, thrust back into his own body seconds before his death...
Framed for the murder he witnessed, tormented by his own past, and haunted by a feeling that something followed him back from the other side...
Follow Mick as he's sucked headfirst into a mad web of shadowy corporations, murder, and the thousand year obsession of a madman.

Thanks! I'm planning on selling it on the unity asset store once it's more stable and fully featured. Just gives me more justification to spend the time working on it. The source is all visible/editable though, and if I do stop supporting it at some stage I'd just open source it for sure.

Just updated my tool with a bunch of new features, including AGS style region scaling and tinting, video playback and camera zoom, and this auto-load script function that I'm really happy with:



There's links to download on the docs page here: http://www.powerhoof.com/public/powerquestdocs/

I have a few people trying it out but love to get more feedback 

Yeah, AGS was my intro into gamedev too. Getting into AGS pushed me to switch uni course to study Computer Science back then, which led to a job in games, now I'm full time indie!
Working on tools is a bit of a trap cause yeah, it's really satisfying, but very easy to neglect the actual project I'm trying to make. I hadn't done much tool dev before, but unity makes it really easy to extend their editor and I got kinda hooked.

Hi everyone, it's been a while! I was most active back in like 2004 I guess. Jeez.

Anyway, I've been working on an adventure game tool for Unity on and off for a while, and it's at a point I want to share it. It's built to be quite similar to the AGS workflow, since that's what I grew up with and loved using. It differs from Adventure Creator in that it's tailored to 2d sprite based games, and has a scripting similar to AGS.

I just made a crummy intro/tutorial video:

There's docs here with more info: http://powerhoof.com/public/powerquestdocs/
And you can download the unity package here: http://powerhoof.com/public/tools/PowerQuest.unitypackage

Any feedback would be really great!

Congrats on the Steam release! I bought it a while ago and that reminded me that I never ended up finishing it. Just finished then, and the ending was awesome!

I'm really psyched for the sequel, I checked it out at PAX Aus last year, are you exhibiting again this time around?

Backed! I'm totally psyched about this!

I checked mine and there's a couple with issues:

I can't edit good santa bad santa for some reason, is that something a mod can fix?
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/153/

And I fixed the link in bouncy boxing a while back but it's still marked as broken.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/468/

Great game! I love the character, and all the animation juicing up the dialog is superb. That attention to detail really pays off!

Congrats on releasing! I had a lot of fun helping you out on this.

I love the idea!  I've seen http://www.pozible.com used to raise funds for events (like the IGDAM bbq) in melbourne.

I wouldn't be able to participate directly, since I work for EA and I'm not technically supposed to work on projects outside work... But I'd totally back it, and come hang out.

I was intending to enter this month, but didn't get further than a basic idea and character sprite:


It was going to be a take on the Rapunzel story, but with Rapunzel being a strong female protagonist, rather than the hapless victim. I was imagining her a bit like Marceline from adventure time. It would have ended with her escaping by taking advantage of the prince and leaving him stuck in the tower.

But maybe next month!

Oh, thanks Dude! I've fixed it, uploading a new build now...

Thanks Guys! I appreciate it!

A new version with voices is now up!

Adrian, who did the background art and most of the voices is keen for feedback on his accents, so let us know what you think. 

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=1471

Oh what the hell...

You should totally nominate:

- The Unicated -

Join twins Bo and Mal as they struggle to escape being torn apart by a society that shuns the wicked and innocent alike.  LOL!!

Download here!


A (very) short game, winner of the August MAGS. The theme was "Evil Twin".

Unique gameplay, nice pixely graphics, original music, (newly added) voices, what more do you want?

Thanks guys.!  Nice let's play too.  Saw a couple of bugs I must have missed watching that (damn!).   The pacing at the end was a bit off I agree, it all ends really quickly. "what the heck" works for me though 

Thanks everyone!

It's been good having some spare time this week after devoting it all to mags for a month, but it's really cool getting something done from start to finish in such a short time. Having a friend doing the backgrounds made it a lot easier, doing my own always took me the longest and I was never happy with the results.  It was fun doing the character art too, haven't done pixel art like that for years.

Also, don't forget to vote! 

My entry for the August 2011 MAGS:

- The Unicated -

Join twins Bo and Mal as they struggle to escape being torn apart by a society that shuns the wicked and innocent alike.  LOL!!

Download here!

The theme was "Evil Twin". It ended up being similar in a lot of ways to my first AGS game, for MAGS in 2002. Except I've come a long way since then, and had help on this one with background art and music.

Enjoy!

Update: 29/1/2012 - Released a new version with speech and a couple of other minor tweaks.