Soviet Unterzoegersdorf / The Adventure Game / Sector 1

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where Sowjet-Unterzögersdorf is located.

Yes, ownage! Geography!
In the middle of the map you can find Soviet Unterzögersdorf -- surrounded by the 'Republic of Austria'. The village to the west is US Oberzögersdorf. Of course it's part of Austria, too... the inhabitants just think the US armed forces will protect them if they call themselves 'US'.

Greetings!
Johannes

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Thanx for your nice feedback!

Much of the speech text goes missing in translation, and some aren't same the protagonist actually said.

That's the basic philosophical dilemma of translation. Transferring cultural ideas doesn't work 1:1 ;-)
We wrote the basic story in German and one translation team finished the Russian text and one the English script.
... and we have a few technical bugs where we mixed up the mpegs ;-)
We'll fix that in version 1.1....

Greetings
Johannes

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Soviet Unterzoegersdorf / The Adventure Game / Sector 1 is finally available for Mac OSX (G4+ recommended).
Many thanks to Philipp ( http://tage.im-all.net/ ) and respect to the wonderful OSX port team!

http://www.monochrom.at/suz-game/

[lamin]

mutednoise.com interview about the game:

http://mutednoise.com/article.cfm?article=Soviet-Game-of-Future-Lost

Quote: "Trying to summarize what Soviet Unterzoegersdorf is about is as easy as pronouncing its name. The free game, created by Austrian art-technology-philosophists monochrom, starts with a straight-forward premise that quickly explodes with quirky humor, challenging stereotypes, and intriguing play. As the name implies, Soviet Unterzoegersdorf tells the fictitious story of the last USSR republic. mutednoise was able to catch up with Johannes Grenzfurthner to talk about the work."

[yona-kit]

bigger scan: http://monochrom.sil.at/suzoeg_edge112005.jpg

[TheCheese33]

The name says Sector 1; are they planning on making more?

[yona-kit]

The name says Sector 1; are they planning on making more?

yes! see the previous page of this thread... or the project's website. it's the first part of a trilogy... but don't expect the 2nd part to be released before mid 2006...

-> http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=22535.msg277228#msg277228

[lamin]

here's a very nice "underdogs" review
"two thumbs up"

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=5265

[lakerz]

Hehehe, Soviet Unterzoegersdorf had me laughing all the way to the finish.  The atmosphere with the musical selections and the graphics and the character and everything worked very well.  The dying animations are classic.    Overall, the game is a gem, although I was expecting a longer game given the size of the download.  I underestimated how big music tracks can be I guess.

[Kuzmanov]

MOLODZI!!!
Pozdravliaiu.

[Traveler]

Awesome game so far, very good atmosphere and very funny



I also found an exception:

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Illegal exception
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An exception 0xC0000005 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x7C911F52 ; program pointer is +5, ACI version 2.62.772, gtags (2,0)

AGS cannot continue, this exception was fatal. Please note down the numbers above, remember what you were doing at the time and notify CJ on the Tech forum.

(Global script line 666)


Most versions of Windows allow you to press Ctrl+C now to copy this entire message to the clipboard for easy reporting.
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OK   
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This happened when I clicked the chair next to the green gate (with the keypad.) I cannot reproduce it, so it may have been caused by something else.

[ManicMatt]

Great funny game! Could have done with some more character interaction though.

the main character's love interest is hot.

[Sanguinous Rex]

Yona-Kit, very impressive game so far!  I'm planning on designing some games, and I can only hope to make one as detailed.  One suggestion, if it is feasable - alter around a few of the main characters "action movements" - by that i mean, when he's commenting on something he *always* throws his hands around in the exact same way... it would be nice to vary the animation so he doesn't do the exact same thing every couple of seconds.

Also, is there a "walkthrough" of Soviet Unterzoegersdorf?  I searched your site, and the web, and didn't find one.  I'm stuck (embarassingly lol) trying to figure out both "what the heck do I do in Virtual Reality" and where do I get rid of the chickens? *grin*

[Sanguinous Rex]

Ok, got rid of the chickens, no need to figure that one out any longer

[Elliott Hird]

Awesome game so far, very good atmosphere and very funny



I also found an exception:

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Illegal exception
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An exception 0xC0000005 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x7C911F52 ; program pointer is +5, ACI version 2.62.772, gtags (2,0)

AGS cannot continue, this exception was fatal. Please note down the numbers above, remember what you were doing at the time and notify CJ on the Tech forum.

(Global script line 666)


Most versions of Windows allow you to press Ctrl+C now to copy this entire message to the clipboard for easy reporting.
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OK   
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This happened when I clicked the chair next to the green gate (with the keypad.) I cannot reproduce it, so it may have been caused by something else.

Typical...

[Sanguinous Rex]

Ok, questions...

Spoiler

The tied-up guy is screaming like a little girl and won't help, not sure what to do with him

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and

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I activated the Virtual Reality Sim but have no idea what to do in it.

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I'm pretty much stuck, and am basically running around with a chicken lol

[jane]

Theres already a thread on this game in the hints and tips section -
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=22546.0

you should find out your answers on there

[Uku]

seems cool. downloading

[Sanguinous Rex]

Found a spelling error in the game...

Spoiler

In the Atheist place, when you look at the robot it says "It can tell the difference between a whole in the ground and yadda yadda" - obviously, you meant hole, not whole.

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[Sanguinous Rex]

Found another...

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When you have used the Godless Machine, and it pops out a Coca-Cola, you have a mispelling: This drink has closer linked should be "this drink has closer links"

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