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An RPG about surviving a shipwreck on an unruly and outlandish island.

Plot:

A pepper merchant is shipwrecked in a remote island. Remote, but far from desert. In fact, the island is filled with various factions controlling their territories, some content in going about their business, others scheming great destinies for the island.

Survive the lawless island: fight, trade and explore. Gather scrap to trade, improve your shelter and build yourself the means to escape; or meddle in the affairs of the island and realize a vision for its future.

Features:

-Enter a Quirky and Unexpectable World. Encounter anything from a sad pile of leaves to a giant copy machine made of stone.
-Awesome Pixel Art; explore every nook and cranny of a colourful tropical island.
-Try Your Luck; each area of the island includes a set of randomized events and battles.
-Turn Based Battle.
-Peace or War; use physical force or influence the emotions of your enemies through literature to resolve matters peacefully.
-Multiple Endings
-An OST of Surreal Exotica

You may visit the ITCH.IO page if you like!
Or check the AGS Database







Progress (very roughly):

Graphics 100%
Writing 100%
Scripting 99%
Sound & Music 90%

Let's GO!

For Your Consideration:

Melon Head

Melon Head is a fantastical point and click adventure set in a delirious imaginary world.

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FireFlower

In the hedonistic capital of His Majesty's Realm a faceless king commissions a local sculptor, Melon Head, our protagonist whose head is shaped like a melon, to craft an extension to His Royal Staff.

Melon Head precipitates to a strange adventure across His Majesty's Realm. He must use cunning, questionable morals and sharpness of intellect to succeed in his task and choose between allegiance to his perceived benefactor and the rising forces of dissidence seeking to overthrow the balance of power.








Please consider for:

Best Game of the Year
Best Audio
Best Visuals
Best Writing
Best Programming
Best Gameplay

The demo for Melon Head was also released last year so if you'd like you may consider:
Best Demo

That's it, Happy Voting! And best of luck to participants!

This game has such a classic vibe and I love the graphics! Gotta keep an eye on this thread 

Woo! Island of the Giants looks lush! Beautiful graphics and looks like there's going to be some strange creatures too. Lovely

Well, you got 3/4 correct! So it's down to the last one:

Spoiler

'The Room of Agony' has a number. You can find that number in a poem in the kitchen. Multiply that number by the amount of plants in the top floor ('top plants').

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Great! @lapsking

@lapsking Did you get ahead in the game? I'll give you another hint, if you got past the part already you can ignore it:

Spoiler

The number five in carved on the tree refers to the number of symbols in that room. Look farther.

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@Rik Vargard Thank you!

@GooseKult That's great to hear! 

Melon Head got an awesome REVIEW by our very own The Last To Know!

If your german is rusty you can use an automatic translator in the upper right corner of the page. 

Lovely! Thank you for the buy!

@lapsking Okay! Card payment should work now. Tell me if you run into any issues. 

Those rotten imperialists! I'll try to fix my payment settings, I think the problem is there. Thanks for noting someone else might have the same issue.

Yay! Thank you!

[Melon Head is Released and Unleashed!]

Melon Head is Released and Unleashed!

ITCH PAGE
AGS DATABASE

Story:

In the hedonistic capital of His Majesty's Realm a faceless king commissions a local sculptor, Melon Head, our protagonist whose head is shaped like a melon, to craft an extension to His royal staff.

An extraordinary vision reveals an object of rare composition: A Crystal Iris Distillate. Pursuing the parts needed to craft the object essential in fulfilling the royal request, Melon Head precipitates to a strange adventure across His Majesty's Realm. He must use cunning, questionable morals and sharpness of intellect to succeed in his task and, ultimately, to choose between allegiance to his perceived benefactor and the rising forces of dissidence seeking to overthrow the balance of power.

PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING:

This game contains flashing lights that may not be suitable for people with photosensitive epilepsy.

Player discretion is advised.



Features:

-Strange characters of undefined species.
-Puzzles to intrigue the mind (item puzzles, dialog trees and other stuff).
-A built in hint system if you get stuck.
-Exploration of different areas of His Majesty's Realm.
-Three endings depending on choices.
-Colorful and highly saturated pixel art on a 16-color palette (an original art style using the EGA palette).
-Psychedelic visions.
-An out there jazzy original soundtrack.

Here's a picture of Melon Head himself:

@RootBound I'm happy you like it!

It's nice to show it to people so it's not just in the dark crevices of my computer.    It was worthwhile and exciting to practice drawing from that perspective and who knows if I'll make a smaller scale isometric game in the future!

The release is close at hand so I got all nostalgic. Imagine this, Melon Head started off as an isometric project! I took a little gameplay vid of the prototype:

I thought it would take ages to craft detailed graphics for an environment like that so I switched the art style, but it looks kinda cool. 

Let's gooooooo!

Congratulations on the release! This has been a long time coming 

Thanks so much for the compliment @ThreeOhFour ! 

The saturation of the EGA-palette is so off the charts that it really brings to life all the patterns adorning the surfaces around the game, the buildings especially. I suppose the limitation encourages unconventional choices in coloring too which likely adds to the surrealness that's already in the world of the game.

A new trailer!

I've been testing and fixing a few issues that came up from switching to AGS version 3.6 mid production. I'm confident enought to say that I'm planning for release in October!

Just a couple of weeks... 

This looks so classy! The faux-3D definitely has a charm of its own.