So Adventure Guy is all done, and I owe you guys some thanks for helping me finish it. The original point of this game was to improve my drawing abilities (I started AG later the same day that I bought my tablet with no idea how to use it) while seeing what I could whip up storywise simply by throwing in lots of ideas at the start then pulling a coherent plot out of it, so I guess that worked out (well, arguably, from an art angle). Then again I didn’t expect the game to take over seven months to complete (seriously, I expected four, maybe five if things got drawn out), so whether starting this game and then proceeding to spend all that time killing my back drawing this thing was a good idea or not remains debatable.
Nevertheless, Adventure Guy was a great experience for me and I have newfound appreciation for suggestion-based games. I’ll certainly be running something else eventually, though not right away. I’m going to take a while and workshop a bit until I have a solid setting. Going to do something a bit more open and less backstory-centric, preferably without the stereotypical amnesiac protagonist who begins the game by waking up. I’m going to keep using this thread to post anything relevant to that, I think. And maybe AG art test dumps when I get bored.
Some fun facts: Adventure Guy ran 231 days and 1189 panels (give or take a few, considering some panels were outside the numbering scheme and others, like inventory screens, I only sometimes counted). That’s about five panels a day. Round 16 makes up about 20% of the game, while being nearly twice as long as Round 15 (the second longest by far) and about 3-5 times as long as any other round (seriously,
look at this monster). It was also by far the hardest and most time-consuming to draw. Thanks a lot,
me.
I think I’m going to archive this on a site somewhere (eventually!). I don’t actually have a copy of any of this saved to my computer except a dump of the ‘print’ of the thread which I just grabbed and saved right now, so using a forum thread is not really the greatest place to leave it (especially seeing as how there’s a good chance I’ll be inexplicably banned within the month). I’ll come back with a link when I do. The rounds are all weirdly sized in relation to each other so I’ll probably break things up into more sensible chapters. Maybe 10? I dunno.
That’s it from me. Thanks again. If anyone has any lingering questions feel free to ask.
e- I just took out the 'thanks for playing!' from the last panel because it looked awkward. But I want to stress it again - Thank you for playing.
Buuut didn't the whole core explode?
The reaction rapidly froze the entire planet. Later it thawed (mostly). Wasn’t super clear, but the dangerous effect of the rushing wave of energy was, so I figured it was fine to not explicitly clarify off the bat.