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player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

[cross posted for seriousness]

I just got a copy of the newest Multimedia Fusion 2 and I'm thinking of starting my first game easy. I want to do a point and click adventure with a few varied point and click-y minigames - think Snatcher but smaller scale. It'll be easy to program, but I need a story. If anyone is interested in making a story or already has a story put together - PM me or IM me at blowingupcasinos on AIM. I know my stuff when it comes to Fusion, so if your story is reasonably short enough, it'll be done.

Also, I might maybe need moody music. Midi format.

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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I would actually be interested in doing this... if the magazine editing wasn't in full swing. I will be working on it now through the 18th. Hit me up with an email/PM if you don't have anyone by then, I have some ideas floating around in my head.
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:21 pm Post subject:

put me in the same boat as shaper. i don't have any ideas yet, though. but i'll see what i can come up with.
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player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

I kinda want to get started on this as soon as possible just because my game making finger is getting a little itchy. Do you guys think we could brainstorm here so I can get some characters/locations/graphics together?
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject:

man, you know i just want the hardboiled detective to be a dyke. anything else is gravy.
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player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

haha, sure. are we going for a metroid feel or a fear effect feel?
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject:

fear effect is one of the least enjoyable games i've ever played, so we should probably veer away from that direction!
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player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

you were talking about dykes.

wouldn't it be cool if the detective story was a lot like that prodigy music video?
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

"ah hah we were both women ALL ALONG"

dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

actually hardboiled dyke detective sounds pretty good.

I'm gonna be kicking this around in the back of my head tonight.

dessgeega · Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:27 pm Post subject:

player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

i actually do like the idea
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

So, wait, I thought this was going to have a sci-fi heart to it?
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

are we bad enough dudes to set this in the old west as well?

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

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player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

Wild west? Haha, that'd be cool, but I don't think I can pull it off. It takes too much research and I'm too anal to not do my research for a setting like that. Even a steampunk style Wild West (although that one SNES game that does that is fucking hot).

I do wanna do a blade runner setting game, and I do think that the hero being a heroine would be kinda slick. Maybe that'll be one of the twists part of the way through the game? Hmm... We'll see... I'm going to draw up images for the heroine right now...
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

Come on. Imagine a mysterious murder at the wealthy landowner's remote mansion in the middle of a terrible storm. A servant just manages to make it to the nearest town to bring back the law. Cue pounding on the door, anxious guests in the hall bracing themselves, weather blowing in as the great double doors creak open...

Now imagine it's a Kojima trailer.

"The sheriff...

(huge bass)

..is a woman?!" (cue game)

player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

Haha, I hate you. That does sound good.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I wrote some detective comics in high school. One of them, set in a mansion, was apparently unsolvable until you noticed the tiny chinaman hidden in the first panel. This was meant to be the clue that the man was killed by an unperceptible martial art which leaves no visible wounds on the body. Also, he was killed by the chinaman. If you want to use that it's yours for free!

Also while in school I came up with this idea for a film, which might be useful as a solution? You know how when writing mysteries you're supposed to come up with how it happened and who did it first, and work your way backwards.

"FUCK OF DEATH"

Los Angeles, the present day. 19-year-old Chantelle is a HIV positive young woman whose brother is killed by the head of the mafia. Can Chantelle wreak her sexy revenge by spreading her disease amongst the mafioso, working her way up to the evil Don? It's Kill Bill meets Debbie Does Dallas, with sexy results.'

(I wrote it into this format for screenwriting class last year, hence the Kill Bill reference)

Assuming neither of those are any good to you (which I am) I will have a proper think about possible scenarios for you to use tomorrow.

If you're doing this in the future you might want to stay away from having the solution be something like 'and then he shot her with his reverse vampire gun!' or some crazy sci-fi explanation. Because, unless you were going to rely on established genre cliches (and why would you) first you'd have to establish the new technology that did the murder somewhere within the narrative. 'Oh that? That's my reverse vampire gun don't you know. Let me explain how it works'. Then it would be obvious that it was part of the solution because otherwise why would you mention it?

(Unless someone thought it was a red herring, in which case it would be a major disappointment when it turned out to be the reverse vampire gun after all.)

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Lackey · . Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 1107 Location: Canada

I'd like to see a murder mystery game where any one of the suspects can be proven as the killer. Just throwing that out there.
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

I'd like to see a hardboiled noir starring a '50s archetypal travelling salesman. Trying to get the dame, expose the killer lurking in the shadows and sell a fine set of matching shower curtains and bath towels.

Mister Toups · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:09 pm Post subject:

I could do some midi tunes maybe. Shoot me a PM.
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Ketch · . Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posts: 420

How about a Hacker - detective game, where you have to hack computers to find clues?

Six · . Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 313 Location: montreal

As long as we're throwing weird ideas about, I started working on an first-person adventure game that takes place in complete darkness. You have to rely on audio cues and your character's narration to navigate and figure out what's going on. I haven't touched it in a while, though.

dessgeega · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject:

Six · . Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 313 Location: montreal

I have now! I really enjoyed that, but I wish there'd been a bit more to it.

What I was trying to do was free-movement, with voice narration and no visible interface. Interaction would be via old SCUMM-style verbs. Force feedback would be great too, but as of right now there are no joystick plug-ins for GM that support it.

player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

(xped bc i wanted to)

I already have one person writing a scenario for a cyberpunk noir, but if anyone else has an idea they have for a point & click scenario, feel free. Here's an example of the artwork and dialogue - the dialogue box is also what's going to deal with the menu systems to give you a clue as to what it looks like.

have at you
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

I'm going to go ahead and develop my idea you didn't use and then my game will be better than yours.

player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

Haha. I'm actually interested in having a lot of stories. Point and click adventure games are super easy to make. That image I made took me an hour and that's with two revisions. It will go even faster once there are setpieces and resources to use. If you really want to go ahead with that story, that'd be great.
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player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

By the way, my server is temporarily down. Check out this link to see what the game will look like.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Removed from any kind of context, that's like the best .exe I've ever downloaded.

Game looks pretty by the way.

player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

So it's interesting seeing this thing unfold. We have a wiki setup and we're just creating this little world. Giving characters backstories. Making locations and details. It's kinda neat. So many projects, so little time...

Btw, Toups, you're still in for making the music, right? I could maybe might want to talk to you.
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject:

hey, where's this wiki? i want in.
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Ketch · . Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posts: 420

Will this be one of those games where you can "Accuse!" different characters of the (murder, theft, kidnapping), ie. the milkman, Lady Prunella, or the handyman?