More works in progress

After getting fed up with trawling the Games in Production forums in my last post on these things, I thought I'd cover just a few more games that are on their way:

The Dwarven Dagger of Blitz

Join Trevor Lostpick in miguel's medieval spoof. Latest on this one is that it is nearly finished, so lets hope we see it soon.

Dragonfall : Alucard's Quest

Nightfable is developing this alongside her Robots of Dawn game, which is great if both come out, but too many people try to do too much at once. Let's hope she doesn't overstretch herself and one or other (or both) of these gorgeous looking games makes the light of day.

Doctor Who Episode 1: The Soup of Doom

This GIP thread contains Episode 0: Tardis Trouble already to download, and both episodes feature the Paul McGann TV-movie doctor.

Conscript: The Apollyon Incident

"Space freighter captain, Jack Ferrell and his crew of nine stumble upon a derelict spacecraft from the distant past. Hoping to claim the salvage rights, they enter the ship, only to discover that they are not alone on the ship." So basically Alien meets 7 Days a Skeptic. Aiming for a summer '08 release.

STAR WARS: Knights of the Old Jedi Order

kanagon's adventure game looks to be well into development, based on the screenshots posted, but it also looks quite large. Let's hope George Lucas doesn't shut him down before the game is released!

Hot live nerd cams!

Just follow this link to get hot geek action. Yes, AGS has its own webcam chat room on Stickam where you can go and see up to 12 AGSers staring at their computers watching each other. What excitement! Sometimes we even talk about stuff. The other day there was a theological discussion!

If you prefer not to see the nerd you are conversing with, try instead AGS's IRC server and channel. Not only can you talk to real people here, but there's also Roger, our chatbot who can play thrilling word games like acro!

Two RC for his own good

CJ has churned out a second Release Candidate already, with new features despite him saying that he wouldn't add any! You just can't get the staff, you know!

GIPsy Kings

Here's another bunch of interesting looking stuff floating around the Games In Production (GIP) forum:

Craft of Evil

If a game is made by a guy with a bucket on his head, does that mean the graphics will be bad? Well, not according to the screenshots published for this first-person haunted house game which were put together with the Unreal game engine then imported into AGS as backgrounds.

ColourWise

bicilotti is making a colourful non-adventure puzzle game with Once Upon a Time's Ghost and some other AGSers. Looks like it could be a cracking bit of fun: Q-bert meets Marble Madness!

Jack Hurt and the Living Dead

Yay, Zombies! Forumite thesuitor is putting together a game where you can see if you are Legend!

NES Quest

Yolt and MrT (the real one?) have reached the beta-testing stage of their DOTT-esque game where you try and get your Nintendo fixed. Reports from beta tester TwinMoon have been good, so this is worthj keeping an eye out for its release.

Near Somewhere

Wacky French surrealist naamlock is following up his recent release Far Nowhere with this nearly-monochrome cat-murdering game.

Infection 1

After a long hiatus, a new demo is out for this Alien-esque Sci-Fi game that takes place on a spaceship with a mysterious cargo where the crew are woken early from cryo-stasis.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Using pre-rendered 3D to recreate Baum's yellow-brick vision, this ambitious project has a nice looking trailer but no doubt will take some time to be completed.

Quest to End All Quests!

Looking somewhat like Terry Pratchett's Cohen the Barbarian, wrinkled veteran hero Balder embarks on one last mission. Strange Visitor and Pijin (Dr Lutz and Robotragedy) are working together on this wonderfully hand-drawn game.

Project Hecka: Faith

Faith is trapped in her boarding school with a serial killer and the police seem to be getting nowhere. New kid on the block vertigoaddict and lo_res_man are working on this project that has a nice Yahtzee-ish style to the graphics.



Well, I'm all blogged out for now. Perhaps I'll cover some more GIPs shortly. Or not!

Adventure Con

AdventureCon is an anagram of "Adventure Con". Took me ages to work out that one. Anyway, last year it fell through. This year, Howard Sherman is trying again to make it work. By "make it work" I mean refusing to talk to any adventure game companies unless they pay him $1000 first. By "make it work" I mean booking in to a hotel that isn't even finished being built yet. By "make it work" I mean not offering any guarantees to people who book in advance that the event will even take place. But hey, look at the website and judge for yourself.

I would actually be quite pleased if the thing did work despite the whole dodginess of the set up: it would be a great thing for it to run year after year, but until they've got a couple of years of success under their belts, I doubt that most companies or people will want to shell out in advance. If I were to go, I'd want Telltale, Autumn Moon, Hothead, Wadjet Eye, Benoit Sokal, The Adventure Company and some European companies there.

Estudio de juegos de aventuras

Mis hijas y esposa (la famosa Princesa Marian!) son españolas así que pensé que debo presentar una descripciónito de qué materia de AGS está disponible en la idioma española. Ciro Duran ha hecho algunos juegos y una gran clase particular de AGS. Hay una cierta cobertura en el sitio general Aventuras y Cía de la aventuras, el Google Grupo Comunidad AGS Español y el sitio de la serie del espía del James Peris. Y hay algunos miembros españoles del foro de AGS como el maravilloso artista Nacho. Y los juegos de Princess Marian tiene un pocito de español. Y aqui esta un listo de los mejores juegos gratis de aventura ¡Déjeme por favor saber si hay la otra materia hacia fuera allí! ¡O que mi español es terrible!

Wiki worky

Looks like the AGS Wiki is back online after the server downtime.