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The Distant Door

by Durinde

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File size: 32 MB
Downloaded: 112 times
Graphics: 320x200, 32-bit color

Operating System(s):

Windows

Game Genre:

Contemporary

Game Type:

Drama

Story Type:

Original

MAGS (Monthly AGS competition entry):

✔

Release Date:

26 Aug 2023

AGS Panel Rating:

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Short Game (can be completed within 30 minutes)

Short Game	Can be completed within 30 minutes
Medium Length Game	Takes at least 30 mins to finish
Full Length Game	As long as a Sierra / LucasArts classic
Non-Adventure Game	Using Adventure Game Studio for something else?!
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Training Game	Games made just to try out AGS
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7 people have rated this game so far:

Visual:

71%

Immersion:

80%

Puzzles & Pacing:

69%

Overall Enjoyment:

71%

This game features voice acting.

About this game

This project that was made for the August 2023 AGS MAGS competition. This month's theme is distance. You are a night shift worker who has just moved into a new apartment building. While getting ready for work, you hear your neighbor having a terrible coughing fit.

Assets used:

Duat Font One | Pixel Art 8 Bits Font | Free by LeonMSaia (itch.io)

(Modern Office, Modern Interiors, Modern Exteriors) LimeZu - itch.io

SFX:

https://freesound.org/people/Kostrava/sounds/274346/https://freesound.org/people/caquet/sounds/188478/
Freesound - "Object_Drawer_Wood_Open.wav" by Nox_Sound

Freesound - "Shower Turn On Run Turn Off Drain Water.wav" by WavJunction.com

Freesound - "Notification" by suyashjemar

Music: (From Soundimage.org - Eric Matyas)Northern
Passagesoundimage.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Northern-
Passage.mp3

Book End

https://soundimage.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Book-End.mp3

Voice Actors:
Erika Sanderson (@ErikaSanderson)
Courtney Ede (@Courtney_Ede_VA)

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Durinde

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AGS Awards Nominations

Nominated, Best Short Game 2023

AGS Panel Review

"Fully voiced, well-written and moving story about social distance and reaching out. Or not."

3 people commented on this game (newest first):

This game focuses more on story than on puzzles which require a fair amount of walking back and forth. Worth playing for both endings. I was surprised that a MAGS game has good voice acting.

2024-02-13 20:41:56 by cat

Good strong story. Which made me feel a bit god about getting ending 2... and guilty when got ending 1.
Worth playing for both endings, to see how a simple life choice can touch someone else's life.

2023-09-09 20:03:05 by Cassiebsg

This is a slice-of-life game that handles inventory items the most realistically of all games I have played. There is a short, but moving story, no real puzzles, but choices to make.

2023-08-27 02:52:09 by heltenjon

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