Innovation

The Lonely Botanist

Ethereal

Hands & Feet

If you managed to discover a newly drilled hole on one of the toilets dividers by Aziz, you might be able to obtain an inventory item in an interesting alternative way. If you're more forward, you can change Aziz's mood to alter later events in the game's story and puzzles.

Should you be anonymous? Or should you cancel the whole thing? What if Aziz doesn't create that hole, could you drill one yourself? Those are all options available with the non-linearity behavior of Tardigrades.

 

A Dark Tunnel

One of my favorite rooms in adventure games is the metal tunnel from the garbage ship in Space Quest 3. Being claustrophobic, I had to overcome my fear and stay as much as possible inside the tunnel to admire the simplicity of this beautiful background. Blacking out the outside surroundings of the tunnel is a usual technique used in art generally as seen in some other games or even comic books. But in this case it adds more mystery specially that the palette changes drastically from the previous rooms in the game. All the previous rooms had blue backgrounds with little red components. The percentage of blue pixels drawn in the tunnel is much less than the red pixels used in the blue backgrounds throughout the game.

On first entry, the player is forced to think quickly since Roger is already walking towards the darker center then the other side of the tunnel. Note that the player's mind is already setup from the background music and perhaps have seen the giant rats too. So one would definitely smash the space-bar on the keyboard to activate the text input box and pause the game.

An interesting part is Roger's shadow near the exits. The 1 pixel high walk-able area limits the walking animations used to sideways only. Perhaps this is used to minimize the number of sprites needed for the shadow animation.

Another important aspect of the room is the use of roundness. Roger seems a little sinking in the tunnel which in my opinion is a brilliant simple use of foreground. After walking for a little more and the shadow disappears due to darkness, the action begins. You can interact with the dangling wires, walk more and get one of the biggest shocking surprising moments I ever felt in an adventure game as a child. Boom! A giant rat falls from above and fights Roger. Should I type something? Should I move? What do I do? The fight doesn't last for long. You don't die but you lose a couple of inventory items as if the whole fight intends to give you an idea of what kind of smart game you are dealing with.

Intimate Space

Frozen Fall on Enceladus

Skinny Dipping

Testing a new script I wrote. Y-axis wobble across the screen to create an underwater effect.



And here's an unfortunate X-coordinate displacement...

Erum Panel

Here's a damaged computer you need to get it fixed. Is it over heating? Needs a new fuse? The output monitor is missing a light bulb? Maybe borrow a bulb from another part of the computer, but the text on the monitor would look different with each bulb color.

SpaceBike™

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Queen's Palace

Blue Screen of Death

"Achievements"

Let's Make a Wormhole

Lander Earth

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Accept/Change your fate?

Control Maciek's behavior by changing his character's mood variable mac_Mood. You can force him to be a little nicer to others or not.

The making of the Warden Control Room

Warden Control Room

Ripples

Rainy Day

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Coloring Ball: Pet Picking

This is my entry for the AGS Coloring Ball: Pet Picking by Twirlly!




This is Simon my cat... er.. he may have changed a little after all the travels in space.

Rain Test

I decided not to use the AGS rain module. So I drew the lines and splashes and used them as objects and GUI buttons. The in-game effect is much smoother and faster than the gif.

After a long wall-climbing session...

Windy Avatar

 

Sign Language Dialog

Here's an old man raking some dry leaves off the road. He has hearing problems so you'd have to use sign language in order benefit from conversation. You can also find something that'll be useful for him to listen to you though. The dialog icons will automatically change into the non sign language option.