AGS Bake Sale: Return of the Jedi

May the fifth be with you?

Yeah...no, not a good one. But the new AGS bakesale seems yummy, and that's a pun intended. With creators Ponch, Radiant, Tzachs and Baron. So, who gets the money? The AGS Server does. So it's money for the community and you get to play games. I'm not very good when it comes to promoting things I like, so I will just copy Ghost's beautiful handwriting from his web, and pretend I wrote it.

I do have to say that I love finding excuses to use the downtime label on this very blog, so, without further irrelevant stuff, Ghost's writeup on the AGS BakeSale II

2034 AC 2 by Ponch
Some time ago Ponch made a fun little "Canada after the Apocalypse" game starring brave, cute and dangerously media-aware Mountaineer Paige. AC 2 seems to be a follow-up and once more features Paige, Canada and a load of fourth-wall shattering lines.

BEER! by Radiant (of Crystal Shard)
A mixture of minigames and that bubbly stuff called "liquid bread" here in Germany. From the description it sounds like a tongue-in-cheek WarioWare "microgames" affair. We all know Radiant for coming up with highly creative coding and this title may have quite a few surprises in store.

Blue Lobe Inc by Baron
Described as "game, visual novel, and interactive comic" BlueLobe is a fundraiser indy game about... some guys launching an indie game company. If the concept doesn't hook you, it's also fully voiced and it has trendy cartoon speech bubbles.

That Damn Dog by tzachs (of Parking Goat)
In a "playable sitcom", one frustrated man faces one annoying dog. May or may not have a laugh track!

So there they are, four games ready to be yours. The minimum amount you have to pay is 1 dollar, which covers the transaction costs. But the sky is the limit- if you're feeling generous or just think the forum bill could use some of your money, just give what you like.

A little extra is the "bonus content"- if you pay over the (regularly calculated) average you'll get some goodies from the authors, mostly art, wallpapers, soundtracks and whatever they saw fit to put into the mystery bonus bundle.


So check out the site:

http://bluecupbakesale.com/

AGS Bake Sale: Let's Play

I've been absent for a longer while, and some news apparent piled up. I hope the apology is accepted with a list of links leading to all the let's plays done by WHAM and the author of the games. Having watched several of them, I suggest you do so.

Zombie Attack (With Commentary By ShiverMeSideways)

Indiana Rodent (With Commentary By Radiant)

9 Months In (With Commentary By Tzachs and Noavana)

Falling Skywards (With Commentary By Ben 304)

The Rail (With Commentary By Technocrat)

BCPI: In Search Of The Sweets Tin (With Commentary By Grundislav)

RAM Ghost (With Commentary By Ghost)

Escape The Barn (With Commentary By Cat)

Barn Runner (With Commentary By Ponch)

In case the let's plays got you somewhat pumped feel free to pump yourself by donating some buckazoids to purchase the bundle. Go here and live a wonderful life. Also the wonderful soundtrack of Falling Skywards, is here.

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Interview BakeSale: Tzachs Shabtay

Tonight, we feature none other than Tzachs. A fantastic guy runner up for last years OROW with Office Shenanigans, went to Mittens with his lovely fiancee Noa, and know made a game, along with his fiancee doing the character art and gameboy doing the background art.

GO TO THE GAME TOPIC

1) Why and how did you join the AGS Bake Sale ?

Well, I was minding my own business, reading through the forums and engaging
in pleasant discussions. And then the forums went down...

A few days later I heard scratching noises from outside my apartment. I opened the door and saw a small envelope. Inside it there was only a picture of a cow's silhouette.

Yada yada yada, and then I was recruited for the Bake Sale!

2) Talk a bit about your game (what is it about, how you came up with it).


I have a bunch of ideas just sitting and waiting to be created. This game wasn't one of them. The thing is, I felt that what my previous games lacked the most was a compelling atmosphere. So I wanted a game which gave me the option to practice on that.At the same time I was also watching the "Extra Credits" game design shows
(which if you haven't seen, I recommend it!), and there was an episode there mentioning how few games actually had a complete woman character, that wasn't just your stereotypical princess in distress, badass Angelina
Jolie, or just a dumb blond. That inspired me to have a female heroine which has some complexity in her.
Then I thought, there are a few female characters in games, but there are even fewer pregnant females in games, and zero pregnant females in prison. Bingo! That's my game, a pregnant female, an atmospheric prison,
and let's toss in murder, because that's always fun.The basic story was created around that. Then I saw on the forums that gameboy (which I loved his artwork, just take a look at his upcoming game Roadworks)
was offering his help, and I snatched him quickly before anyone else would. My extremely talented fiancee Noa volunteered to provide the character art, and that's how work on the game started.

3) Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got yourself into game making in the first place.

I think I first wanted to create games when my parents got me my first computer. I was maybe 6 years old at the time, and it came with three games in wonderful CGA graphics. It had Digger, Space Invaders and a third game which I don't remember its name, it was about a bartender serving drinks to people. I remember thinking that there are so many other games that can be created, and my mind was set.A few years later, I learned some QBasic and after I got acquainted with the adventure games format (by playing Leisure Suit Larry secretly with
my friends because we heard that there was some pixelated goodness inside it), I wrote some text adventures, which basically were my first games ever.

As a teenager I wanted to make a graphic adventure game, and I vaguely remember being at my aunt's house (she had internet!) and seeing a somewhat old version of an adventure game engine (I think it was AGS, but who knows), I tried to use it a bit, but it was complicated and I didn't pursue it further. Later on I studied computers in the university, went to army, finished it after 3 exhausting years, started working in software, and left my game creation desires neglected in the corner of the room.

Two years after that, my company went out of business, and while I was searching for a new job, I had two months with some time on my hands, I decided to try again to create an adventure game, found AGS and the rest is history.

Oh, and then the forums went down. ;)

Bake Sale Games Announced

From the executive cow producer of the Bake Sale:

That's right! Against all odds, we, the unbearably sexy members of the mysterious Baker's Dozen, have delivered the thirteen morsels of gaming goodness we pledged to deliver (plus one more, because thirteen is unlucky).

There will be more info on the 20th day of January.

List of games follows:

9 Months In
by Tzachs, Noavana, and gameboy

Abner The Amazing
by poc301 and LocutusOfBored

Barn Runner: The Rich Dame Who Cut The Cheese
by Ponch

Ben Chandler, Paranormal Investigator - In Search Of The Sweets Tin
by Grundislav

Entrapment
by Tenacious Stu

Escape The Barn
by Cat

Falling Skyward
by ThreeOhFour

Fragment
by Kaputtnik and ThreeOhFour

Indiana Rodent and the Raiders Of The Lost Cheese
by Radiant

The Rail
by Technocrat

RAM Ghost
by Ghost

Red Volition
by Hofmeier

Retina
by Dualnames

Zombie Attack
by ShiverMeSideways

AGS Bake Sale gets some fresh coverage

Yeah, well, here's an article on INDIEGAMES.

Also Darth Mandarb, has taken a very fantastic task to keep all the games in one topic and update the links and stuff.

So. Well, here

Have a nice day!

AGS Bake Sale: The Lucky Dozen + few more

Rumors have been spreading around from some newspaper, with the absurd and uncatchy title, AGS TODAY, but dear readers, this is a serious blog. We have inside information, of what appears to be a very inspiring movement from the AGS community.


The members of a close circle called AGS Bake Sale, have decided to release a bunch of games, that will be -pay-what-you-want- in order to gather some money for a great cause, a new AGS server, namely.

I'm going to have to keep this article very short in size, but here are the links to each game.
-Calin Leafshade's - Murder on the Lady Titania
-Cat's - Escape the Barn
-WHAM's - Undead Hangover
-ddq's - SCOUT
-Grundislav's - Ben Chandler -Paranormal Investigator - In Search of the Sweets Tin
-tzachs - 9 Months In
-Ponch's - BARN RUNNER - The Rich Dame Who Cut the Cheese
-Ben304's - Falling Skywards
-Ghost's - Mythamautology