Hi!

I want to share a small project I’ve been working on over the past year. It’s called Upstairs, a short classic point-and-click adventure that will be released soon.



It was developed in Spain by just one person  (me) during evenings and spare hours outside of my regular job. I used Unity together with Adventure Creator.

I studied Fine Arts a long time ago and currently work as a technical artist at a mobile game studio, so I had the experience and knowledge to approach this project properly. On top of that, I decided to keep everything as minimal as possible, from the art to the music, so I wouldn’t lose my mind during development and end up abandoning the project.

As a small confession, whenever I ran into design doubts during development, I often found myself going back to Octavi Navarro’s games to see how he handled similar problems. So in many ways, this project is quite indebted to his work. Not intentionally imitative, but definitely influenced by studying how he solves design challenges.

The game itself is short (around 40–90 minutes on a first run), with a lot of dark humor and some satanic vibes.



I just wanted to put it out there for anyone who might be interested in this kind of small, handmade adventure. You can find it in Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352920/Upstairs/

Thank you!

Inspired by @Karlok's comment in the Moon Logic thread about Secret Files: Tunguska, those games that are kind of terrible and stupid but for whatever reason, you can't stop playing them. 

I'll go ahead and say Black Mirror 2 and 3. I didn't particularly like either and they felt kind of terribly designed with a confusing story, but for whatever reason I kind of enjoyed them for being terrible. 

Hi everyone !

I’m Mickaël, developer/artist at Studio Arkos (an indie studio made up of two devs).

We’re excited to present our very first game: "A Lost Man", which we’ve been working on for several months.
It’s a Point & Click adventure set on the fringes of war, entirely hand-drawn.
A demo is currently in preparation.

If you feel like it, adding the game to your wishlist would really give us a boost. The Steam algorithm loves it! 
Thanks a lot, everyone! 


A Lost Man on Steam

Dorfromantik is a peaceful building game in which you place hexagonal tiles to create an ever-growing village landscape. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, unlock new building components, and complete quests to fill your game world with life! https://store.steampowered.com/app/14558...fromantik/

A very nice tile-laying game, which also inspired the board game of the same name. In Classic Mode, you have to place tiles wisely to complete small tasks such as "Add xxx houses or trees. Build xxx train tracks or waterways." The latter may only be placed on cards of the same type.

There is also an infinite creative mode in which you can build landscapes. However, it is recommended to play Classic Mode regularly, as this unlocks additional tiles.

Check this out The Dig lovers:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVRoVOXDC...Rta2lxOQ==
 
The Dig had the feel and atmosphere like no other game had back then or since! The Dig was believable, it was fantastical, it was hard core science fiction. It was CINEMA! 
 
But it was also a good game, perhaps stumbling a little bit here and there. It was short. But so are movies! And that unique movie-like point and click game genre was and is still to this day unique.
 
This was peak times of Lucasarts games and sadly, we will never have that again in human history. We cannot go back to the time when we were technically limited, but still have no bounds in creativity. It was Lucasarts! A company responsible for the most popular and profitable movies ever! 
 
This 2:26 long video took two weeks to make. I know, I know, it’s AI. But the amount of steps has to be taken when you put a video this long together is massive.
 
First you need to decide which scenes are memorable and beautiful. 
 
Then you will have to recreate the images you have screenshot to realistic versions, and then you start iterating the animation part. And prompting and re-prompting, to get the feel and ambience  of the game. It is fun and rewarding, but it can take hours even days to get one particular shot perfect. 
 
Finally you are in the timeline and the editing starts. That is fun, but still takes a lot of brain work, cutting, adding effects, matching the soundtrack with the clips. Eventually you have a finished video, which has taken more of my manual labor and creative decision than the ”fast” AI part. 
 
I appreciate if you give your oppinion, good or bad, Against AI or for it. 
 
I love how it finally looks. I can image a remaster back then would have looked like or a movie!
 
Cheers,
johnny

Not sure if this is the correct place for this but… I like this type of game.   And this week it’s free on Epic.  Go check it out.

As someone who plays 100% more games than he creates but is endlessly curious about the process of adventure game creation, I thought this was a very interesting documentary.
It's 97% spoiler free, so don't worry if you haven't played The Phantom Fellows yet. But also, if you haven't played it yet, why not? It didn't get the buzz of games like The Drifter and Foolish Mortals but I think it's one of the best adventure games of the past bazillion years.

Sudoku basic rule: Fill numbers in the board such that every row, column and region contains one occurrence of each number.

Features:
- Beginner, Easy, Moderate, Hard and Expert difficulties for every game type
- Tons of puzzles guarenteed to have only one solution
- Easy note taking
- Autosave the process of unfinished levels
- Record best completion time for each level
- Hint feature
- Achievements

Current Game Types:
- Basic
- Gattai-3
- Gattai-3 Diagonal
- Gattai-3 Anti-Diagonal
- Butterfly
- Sohei
- Flower
- Samurai
- Samurai Jigsaw
- Samurai Diagonal
- Samurai Anti-Diagonal https://store.steampowered.com/app/85181...ollection/
- Cross 


I really like this Sudoku collection and I bought all the additional content for a few euros.

The font is clear and you can check the completed fields for errors at any time. I am very satisfied.

It’s been awhile since I was here and it took me a moment to figure things out, but Hi everyone… good to be here.

Let’s talk about the nominees.

https://adventuregamehotspot.com/feature...l-nominees