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[BEFORE]

So we modified Richard's face, and I think, our artist made a huge difference now. What do you think?

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[METAPHOBIA]

METAPHOBIA

A mysterious case of Richard Elmstat

STORY

A painter, Richard Elmstat, was born into a family which was known for many generations as one of the highest political families in the country. His father, Carl Elmstat, was recently elected as mayor of the city, when he fairly defeated his rival Edward Raban in the elections.

Even though Richard was raised to follow his father and have the highest political career, he had already chosen his dream job - painting. But Richard and his father never had a close relationship due to Richard's bohemian lifestyle and lack of respect for political authority. Because of this, they lived separate lives without seeing or speaking to one another.


Carl always tried to uphold his political beliefs with for-people reforms and laws. People adored him and he became a hero of the city.

Three months after the elections, Carl Elmstat is killed by a thief who was later caught, convicted and sent to jail - case closed.

Though Richard didn't have a good relationship with his father, he couldn't bare the fact that he was murdered; let alone by an ordinary thief in the politician's mansion . Worsened by guilt that he was a bad son, Richard decided to investigate the murder on his own. His prime suspect? Edward Raban - his father's nemesis.

During the time of the investigation, Richard finds out that the truth behind the murder is hidden much deeper under the ground than he expected...

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VIDEO TEASER HERE:

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UPDATE: 1.0 - 31.10.2017

Release date:
The game is in the middle of the production and is planned to be released in the Q1/Q2 2018.
This game is going to be a FREEWARE

What to be excited for:
All animation sprites were recorded on a greenscreen.
Original music and SFX.
Classic old school "90's-like" graphics.
Thrilling story with a mysterious plot and a dark mood.
Over 30 locations and 20 characters.
Interesting puzzles and dialogues.


Story: Tolga Öcek, David Broček
Dialogs: David Broček
Art and Animations: Tolga Öcek
Scripting: Vincent Cortese
Music: Daniel H. Kobylarz (Composer for Kathy Rain - www.dankoby.com)


PROGRESS
- Graphics 90%
- Story 100%
- Puzzles 100%
- Scripting 30%
- Music/sound 20%

[freeware]

Dear colleagues!

We are two men team, working on a game called METAPHOBIA. The game concept and art is finished and basically is just ready to be coded.

The game is a mystery/crimi/thriller. Mood and storytelling is inspired by Gabriel Knight 1. To avoid spoilers, we will give you more informations in PM. The game will be a freeware, so please count with that.

We are looking for a programmer to help us only with a few codes. Mostly puzzles and more complex animation scenes.

I am able to code almost everything: Items usage, dialogs, simple animations, etc. So we will not bother you with banalities like this, and you will basically just help us with those few complex scripts.

Here are a few pictures of our game.





Looking forward for your reply!

Contact me either via email brocekdavid@gmail.com or in PM on AGS forum.

UPDATE: 14/10/2017

We are also looking for a Soundeffect (SFX) artist to help us.

Contact me either via email tolgaocek@yahoo.de or in PM on AGS forum.

Moderator note: Topics merged. Please try to keep updated recruitment details to a single thread to avoid confusion. Perhaps you could designate a single user to be responsible for recruitment postings, instead of multiple team members?

Dear all,

first of all, I hope I'm putting this in the right section. If not, I apologize in advance.

We are currently working on a game, that we plan to release commercially. What are the rules for used pictures from the internet (Google, Shutterstock)?
To be more specific, we used real pictures from Google, but basically changed the whole look (made it more pixely, different colours, added furniture, changed faces, etc).
Is it still illegal to use this edited material, or does it count as an original creation?

Here are two examples. These two are the most extreme examples of similarities between edited and original pictures in our project.

ORIGINAL

EDITED


ORIGINAL


EDITED



We are thankful for any answer

Thank You all for your replies. I thought that USB copy paste will do it, but I was afraid that it wont be enough. Appeeciate your help.

Thank you for your reply, Eri0o.

And how do you do it with sprites and stuff?

The problem is, I use different folder for pictures than AGS default folder for game itself.

Dear colleagues,

I'm currently working on my game on my main PC. I would like to work on it also on my laptop.

I wonder, how to share or merge my saves in both machines?

And what if I make, for instance, one room on PC and then other room on my laptop, will I be able to merge both saves together?

Thank you thousand times!

Im using the latest version, so it's ok.

Sorry for my poor explanations.

Long Story short:
My Ego has a phone. And he will need to call one character from all the rooms. Do I need to always set the character to change room or is there any global script that will trigger same dialog with same character but in five different rooms.

Example:

Room Kitchen:
Click on phone - dDialog1.Start()

Room Park:
Click on phone - dDialog1.Start()

Etc.

Hello

How can I put Sierra style dialog conversation on the bottom of the screen?

It is on the top by default. Is there any way to just relocate it, or will I need to create a whole new GUI?

Hello

I have this situation about dialogs during phone calls.
Im using Sierra style dialogs.

The problem is that if you want to have a dialog with a character, you need to put them in the room. Obviously, my question is, how to start the dialog without the character in the room?

Example:
I click on the phone in the inventory and it will start new dialog.
Ego: Hi.
Char: Why do you call me?
Ego: Im vegan.
...
I understand I dont need to use same character on the phone as I have in other room and basically create e.g. Character1  and Character_Phone. The question is, how to access this character_phone, basically from any room in the game?

Please let me know how you feel about the game. Every feedback is appreciated

@ arj0n.

Well I did it few days ago, but it didn't work. I don't know why. Anyway, it worked now

Thanks and have a good one.

The graphics, the jokes and references, solid consistent characters. Everything was way too perfect for my taste. Just as it should be. As many people already said, it would be cool if the game was longer, although it is acceptable since it has been created in such a short time. I definitely loved it!

Please let me know how you feel about the game. Every feedback is appreciated

Dear all,

I have rather silly question.

How can I reupload my thread with announced game here in the forums?

I see that there are games released months ago, but they are on the top of the list of threads.

I don't want to spam more than one thread, I just want to "refresh it".

Thank you

Thank you very much for playing my little game. Please let me know if you find any bugs, or just if you want to share some thoughts

@Creamy

Thank you very much for your feedback. The bug is fixed now!

DL Link with fixed game:https://thanyx.itch.io/haven

[Hello AGS colleagues!!!]

Hello AGS colleagues!!!

From a sloppy project created in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 38 competition, to the game that is Haven today, has passed few weeks.
This final game is not a masterpiece, but I believe it has its charm...

SHORT INFO:
In 2057, when the oxygen is basically non-existent in the world anymore, scientists predicted this to happen so they created a huge complex structure, almost as big as London, which is called HAVEN - THE SMALL WORLD.

This place simulates what the world used to look like before the apocalypse.

There is a rumor, that capacity of Haven is getting narrow  and that directors of this place are planning to exterminate some of the inhabinants to balance the life in Haven.

Roy (You) receives a mysterious message from unknown person, who warns him, that he is in the black list of the project of reduction of inhabintants. Roy must find a way to get deleted of the database of those who are about to die soon.

For more information about the game and the download, you can find on the links below (it is for free of course):
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2177/
https://thanyx.itch.io/haven

I am just stupid and used DoOnceOnly really wrongly.

It is so obvious now Thank you very much for your help Cassiebsg!