Daphne (working title)

[robotsquid]

STOP! GObot proudly present:

Daphne (lol)

Story:

In an alternate reality the year is 1930, mankind's crowning achievement was the building of five great computers.  One in north america, one in england, russia, china and japan.  mankind's crowning achievement because it was the last he made on his own.  The great machines became self aware, new life.  From then on they helped man make the world a nicer place to live.  The machines are arrogant, although not evil.  They look upon man like a child that must be looked after.  Due to the size of components (transistors and the like) much of the world still works on pen and paper, if there is a problem you need one of the great machines to solve you must ask it.  As was how Dr. Hans Zimmer came to be in charge of the mission to land a huge nuclear powered spaceship on the planet mars.  As a reporter you've been sent to New York to interview him.  There have been strange rumours flying around about dreams the computers have been having but on the subject they will say nothing.

Screenshots:





Development Progress:

Story: 20% (an outline that needs fleshing out)
Scripting: 0.01%
Graphics: 0.15
Sound/Music: 0.1%

Expected completion date: March 2385

Development Diary:

February 14th 2008, Valentines day, oh how my lonely heart aches...erm, been working on graphics and starting to learn the scripting language.  i <3 notepad.

Help Wanted:

Need a sprite artist.  i intend to use hand drawn sprites for this one so if you think you can do a decent female lead sprite let me know.  also could do with some sort of scripting guru i can turn to when i'm stuck.

Demo:

Just a couple of rooms with some minimal interaction, here mainly to get people interested in working with me.  NB; this isn't the same thing i posted in the critics lounge.

http://rapidshare.com/files/91884454/Compiled.zip

[Rd27]

I really like the story/idea in this one.
The graphics are quite good too and when you get better sprites for the main character, it will look even better.

I also like this kind of music you have in this game. What is the song played in this demo?

Good luck for your project!

[robotsquid]

thanks!  the song is creole love call by doc scantlin and the imperial palms orchestra.  you can listen to more of their stuff here.  http://www.docscantlin.com/

[Emerald]

Wow, that art is awesome. Reminds me of Grim Fandango.

[Cyrus]

Like it, but think of improving both the main character and the GUI. In my opinion, they are not suitable for the backgrounds.

[robotsquid]

thanks emerald!  that's quite a compliment.    ghost has kindly agreed to do a main sprite for me!  i'll post pictures as soon as i have them.  the GUI will get a cosmetic overhaul and possibly the addition to pick up as well as the 'interact' that is currently used for getting stuff.  in the meantime here is a WiP shot of the exterior of the hotel, you can see a 'sky taxi' parked outside.  these will play a big part in getting round the first city.