Ooh nice itll be in the monthly release highlight thread for sure :D
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Point & Click Adventure Thread 2017 - Pixels Walk With Me
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Ooh nice itll be in the monthly release highlight thread for sure :D
Oooh yes!
Thanks! :)
A crazy schedule to make this one. I basically had to manage through 3 years of start and stop as I took in client work in the middle so I would stop to make some mobile game, continue again, stop to make another one, etc. etc. We actually made some cool little mobile games but hopefully we can grow a bit more and get out of this loop.
That's harsh. It's far from the best output from old LucasArts, but still a very nice game, and so much more enjoyable then most modern offerings, where devs compete about who can strip out the most gameplay and get away with it.
Even back in the day I thought it was an average game.
I love it. I wish its puzzles were more well integrated, and that the mini games were less crusty than they are, but the writing and art and overall mood of that game are, to me, still unprecedented in most ways. No game looks like Full Throttle or sounds like Full Throttle. The melancholy ending was the first like it that I had ever experienced and it's stuck with me too.
I was like 7 when I first played Full Throttle. I didn't know what a siphon was and got stuck on the gas puzzle :(
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It has some of the worst puzzles in lucasarts history, yeah.
It's a shame as with better puzzles (and an actually finished game), it would be one of the best. The story and characters and world are fantastic. I think that's pretty much par for the course with Schafer, that's where his talent lies, you can see the same thing in Grim (and from what I hear broken age, I never finished it as I was so disappointed by the puzzles).
I think if he did a collaboration with Gilbert or Grossman again you'd see something really special.
Guess if I ever feel too happy and content in my life, I know what game to turn to, to suck that all out of me.
You know, this kinda news is boring to me sadly. How about a new Monkey Island or similar games to it huh developers? Unforseen Incidents was the last good point and click adventure I played in ages. Ffs.
The game even made fun of modern digital game platforms, 4 years before Steam officially launched.
Wadjet Eye released a new trailer and the release date for their latest game, Unavowed. Comes out on PC and Mac on August 8th!
It looks pretty wild.
It looks pretty wild.
That's some serious tone whiplash in that Guard Duty trailer. I could've sworn the last trailer was a lot more slapstick than that.
Unavowed is looking great. Was planning on diving into some point & click games in August anyways, so that's going to the top of the list.
Good to see that AGS is still going strong!
Unavowed is looking great. Was planning on diving into some point & click games in August anyways, so that's going to the top of the list.
Good to see that AGS is still going strong!
This is the best thing I've seen in a looooong time.
I loved it, and I also need Tim's awesome Double Fine Tshirt.
Made me wish we could have one more outing with these characters.
Thank you for posting this! <3
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It's from the makers of Quest for Glory, which is a P&C/RPG hybrid. This is supposed to be as well, though you don't really get that from the trailer at least. I haven't been keeping up with the KS updates.
I bought Grim Fandango when it originally released, I think back in 1998 or something.
I finally beat it a week ago. Obviously I haven't been working on it the whole time. I just remember starting it quite a few times, and either getting stuck or just not being interested in finishing, or becoming distracted. Finally loaded it up and went all the way through it (I only had to look up like 3 puzzle solutions!). Such a weird feeling to finally see the credits of a game I sort-of-kind-of started so many years ago.
Wish there was a sequel. I am thinking of starting some of the other Lucasarts games I never played. Thinking of Curse of Monkey Island, even though I haven't played the previous games -- I think I remember hearing it was the best one.
I finally beat it a week ago. Obviously I haven't been working on it the whole time. I just remember starting it quite a few times, and either getting stuck or just not being interested in finishing, or becoming distracted. Finally loaded it up and went all the way through it (I only had to look up like 3 puzzle solutions!). Such a weird feeling to finally see the credits of a game I sort-of-kind-of started so many years ago.
Wish there was a sequel. I am thinking of starting some of the other Lucasarts games I never played. Thinking of Curse of Monkey Island, even though I haven't played the previous games -- I think I remember hearing it was the best one.
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imo monkey island 2 was the best one, but curse was great too. I'd recommend playing all three classic monkey island games
lucas best to worst for me:
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
Day of the Tentacle
The Secret of Monkey Island
The Curse of Monkey Island
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Maniac Mansion
Grim Fandango
Full Throttle
Loom
The Dig
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Escape from Monkey Island
Note I tend to like things with great puzzles - Grim & FT imo are superb from a story sense but terrible for puzzles. Maniac Mansion has great puzzles but has dead ends so it's hard to even justify putting it as high as I did.
I bought The Dream Machine chapter 1&2 during the Steam sale, and got a less then stellar experience trying it out now.
1. It makes the sin of immediately you out to pick up everything that's not stuck, and combining them on available on hot spots, without explaning what your goal is.
2. It uses flash, so the right click gives you the flash menu.
3. The save system seems weird. I saved three times, in three different spots, and everytime I opened the save menu, the previous saves weren't visible. And when I exited to the main menu and clicked load, it only showed one save, which seems to have been the first one.
Those who have played it, is it worth continuing with this game?
1. It makes the sin of immediately you out to pick up everything that's not stuck, and combining them on available on hot spots, without explaning what your goal is.
2. It uses flash, so the right click gives you the flash menu.
3. The save system seems weird. I saved three times, in three different spots, and everytime I opened the save menu, the previous saves weren't visible. And when I exited to the main menu and clicked load, it only showed one save, which seems to have been the first one.
Those who have played it, is it worth continuing with this game?
Hints Tab is a must. Specially if you save, log out for a while and return a week or more later.
In Case and Bot I wish I had more time or budget to do a full notebook with notes and things written down etc. That would be cool.
There was also an idea to emulate something I saw only a game or two do: if you are away from the game too long, when you come back, there is a small cutscene putting you up to speed where you were and what's happening.
It's one of my favorite pnc games in recent years. I don't remember having any issues with it being flash based or the save problems.
Killmonday games, the developers of Fran Bow, announced their next game, Little Misfortune. It's coming out next year.
https://www.littlemisfortune.com/
https://www.littlemisfortune.com/
I got the game for little under $20 over at Voidu.com a while ago.
The game is kind of a technical mess but it's beautiful and there isn't much like it, narratively. I really dig it.
I never had that save oroblem, BTW.
If I remember correctly, it's supposed to play like a Telltale game and it might be Daedalic's final adventure-y title. It's from the writer of The Moment of Silence, Overclocked, 15 Days, and, well, Mystery of the Druids.
Awesome. Fran Bow was one of my favourite games the year it came out.
Yeah, Fran Bow is a great game. But this one will be a bit different from what I understand. It will be their take on modern point and click adventures, it won't have inventory and difficult/complex puzzles but it will rely more on choices/consequences based on your choices during dialogs. And it will be more of a mystery game with a bit of humor than a creepy/horror one like Fran Bow.
Here is a Q&A they posted:
Well, that's a disappointment (that's and new art style)
We will have to wait and see how this will turn out, I guess. :)
You are very welcome. :)
Does the iOS version of the first Detective Case game not exist? I see places saying there was a version...
Yeah it really is.
Bit buggy with the interface occasionally going to sleep but I was in love with the game
Some of the backgrounds are straight out of a Moebius comic
Thanks!
There was. Then apple rolled out the 64bit update. That in conjunction with a LOT of piracy (here in Portugal) made me decide to just remove the game from the store.
I might put both games back on the iOS store but I will have to do some bullshit crap like putting the first part free and getting the rest up on the server and force people to go get it... or whatever. Don't know. Sorry. At least this way I am only focusing on the PC versions.