Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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I know, I haven't been around much lately, but I *have* been a busy lad.

This month, with the help of qptain Nemo I built a little MAGS game. We didn't start until the 13th, and got distracted by a load of things in the middle, but still somehow managed to have a basically finished game of some description.

There's bound to be bugs, for we simply didn't have the time for a beta test, so do let me know if you find any.

If you'd like to try playing <3, you can do so here.

23 comments:

Jonathon Wisnoski said...

The link to qptain_Nemo shows just a page with a single small image on it.

Ben304 said...

Indeed it does - and that is his site currently.

Perhaps at some point he will put some more detailed content on there :)

gnome said...

Lovely writing, lovely music, lovely graphics and a brilliant take on RPGs. Sadly and quite shockingly though, I'm ridiculously stuck at the beginning.

Ben304 said...

I am willing to provide hints if you give me an idea of where you are up to :)

gnome said...

Well, I've got four daggers and one of them seems to make me quite insightful, but I don't seem to be able to use it properly and am thus stuck. Stuck, stuck, stuck.

gnome said...

Hold on, I think I got it!

gnome said...

Done! And, yes, it is excellent!

Ben304 said...

Ah, glad to see you managed to figure it out and enjoyed it! Thanks for playing :)

gnome said...

Thanks for making it. Blogging <3 as we speak...

Jonathon Wisnoski said...

And done, and I see gnome is probably going to beat me to the blogging as well...

Great game, I liked the dialogue and RPG themes.

Bugs (some of these are obvious bugs but some of them very well might be intentional):
Dialogue: Inspect glowing rune on floor: ..."glowing room onto the floor?"

Small glowing object called a "dagger" under the greatsword of halum. Only thing you cannot inspect. And for some reason even though he will try to pick up other things including another dagger he will not try interact with this one. (would make sense to disallow interacting with all other objects until after you allow interacting with this one)

Edme appears as "New character" when moused over.

********SPIOLERs**********

Holding rogue dagger "something strange about that instrument over there" (there is more then one instrument and it seems weird to not know what the protagonist is talking about, also I was clicking on things with the dagger in hand thinking that made the most sense when the solution was to first put down the dagger) [overall that puzzle might work better if you had to click on the object with it to find the hidden object]

Marco said...

Nice game with "soul"...Keep up with good work...

Ben304 said...

Jonathon: Ah, thanks for those! Will look into those issues :)

Glad you enjoyed yourself!

Marco: Thanks, and cheers for playing :)

Ben304 said...

Thanks for all the bug reports, I've now updated the game's files with a fixed version! Let me know of any others you find.

jkohen said...

Ben! You've one upped your previous games with this one. Thank you so much for the opportunity to get another glimpse at one of your magic worlds.

When will you do more than just tease us with the wonders of these worlds of yours, and show us more? :)

Ben304 said...

Haha aww thanks! I had lots of fun with the writing here :)

I am laying out plans for bigger worlds, but these things do take lots of time! I am pretty certain it will happen at some point though!

Pnume said...

I love how you make stories with characters so endearing (in particularly Eternally Us and now <3).
The music is very good.

Keep up the good work !


PS : just noticed a little bug : when I try to destroy the magical barrier with the knives, Othello stabbs... the other side, in the air :D

Ben304 said...

Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for pointing out that bug, hah! I will look into that :)

Николай said...

What should i do with a chaotic dagger.
I already hit myself by this but nothing has been changed.

Jonathon Wisnoski said...

SPOILER

There is something in the room that only people of evil alignment can use.

Ben304 said...

Tiny correction: Chaotic alignment.

(there's a *big* difference!)

Another spoiler:

You've not collected all the daggers yet. ;)

paolo (AGS) said...

*gurgles and claps hands like a one-year-old*

Delightful graphics as ever, Ben. Only thing is: GAME, Y U R SO SHORT? Probable answer: because it's a MAGS game. Anyway, thank you for giving us all our fix of loveliness.

Ben304 said...

Heh, thanks Paul!

Actually, I didn't start making this until 2 weeks into the mags month, which hopefully excuses the length a little.

Thanks for playing anyway :)

snejks said...

Awesome game.

But I'm stuck with chaotic dagger, and dunno how to get the dager of dispelling ( i know you have to be chaotic and thats what the chaotic dage is for).