Links to AGS games not in the database

[heltenjon]

I thought perhaps such a thread could be of use, like the opposite of the Gameseek thread.

Some AGS games are not added to the database, and may fly under people's radar. If you find something that other people may be interested in, why not post the link in this thread? This could be stuff hidden in plain sight in the AGS depository on archive.org, or it may be jam games, demos or smaller games that for some reason haven't ended up in the database on this site.

I'll go first: In the Adventure Jam 2021 on GameJolt, you can find the following AGS games not currently in the database:

Nadir is a great and moody short piece set in a submarine.

Long in the Tooth is a short demo with marvelous graphics and animation.

Coffin Valley is a western game.

All Demons must go to Hell is a game announcing itself as user-unfriendly, but it's quite fun to play.

[Laura Hunt]

Lancelot's Hangover: The Quest for the Holy Booze

[heltenjon]

If someone else does what I do, and sometimes check out events of yesteryear, you will probably find out that some of those small event or competition games are missing from the database.

The 24 hours of AGS contest (from 2017) had six entries, but three of them aren't in the database:
Like a Fox
Lydia
CyberJACK

Now, there are some working links to be found in the game's thread, but you can find all (six) of them here if you want to play some fun shorties.

[eri0o]

Memochi

[heltenjon]

From an old MAGS with the theme "Jumping Jack Flash":
Memoriae
Jump! Jack! Flash!

Found by coincidence in the depository while searching for the "jump"-games above, an old non-interactive demo, probably aimed at atheists:
Preachers can't jump. (I had to dig up an old computer to run this one. Lasts a minute.)

[brewton]

If someone else does what I do, and sometimes check out events of yesteryear, you will probably find out that some of those small event or competition games are missing from the database.

The 24 hours of AGS contest (from 2017) had six entries, but three of them aren't in the database:
Like a Fox
Lydia
CyberJACK

Now, there are some working links to be found in the game's thread, but you can find all (six) of them here if you want to play some fun shorties.

Wow. I forgot about CyberJACK. It wasn't finished as the 24 hour time limit was exhausting. Maybe I will return to it one day.

[cat]

I want to use this opportunity and say a big Thank You! to denzquix on Archive.org (propably Denzil Quixode on the forums) for meticulously uploading AGS games to the archive and categorizing them. (Even though it seems he stopped doing so three years ago)

[heltenjon]

A couple more Mags entries not in the database:

Research Resident which is unfinished, but you can play the first room and walk around in the second. There's not a scripted ending to the demo, though. (From Mags March 2018 Three's a crowd.) Looks like it would make a cool game.

Gwen Darkly â€" intro to the first case which is a demo. (From Mags January 2018 Misunderstood Motives.)

[heltenjon]

Flight from the Robots is Fernewelten's entry in the ongoing Narrative driven jam 4. It's an escape the room game in a sci-fi setting.

Edit: It's in the base now, including a master mind-esque minigame not in the version linked here.

[heltenjon]

No-one Touches My Hamster is a short game from 2003 with some pixel hunting, but a charm about it.

The Unlikely Prometheus is a very funny entry in the recent $105 Adventure Game Challenge jam.

Edit: The Unlikely Prometheus won that jam!

[heltenjon]

Jonathan's Adventures is a short escape-the-room game from the $105 adventure game jam, where you need to help Jonathan escape a prison cell before the ogre makes ingredients out of him. Two endings, well suited for a lunch break.

[heltenjon]

Terror Within Hawk Manor is at
http://www.mediafire.com/file/c549h5j9o9agt1j/Hawk_Manor.zip/file
https://legendsworld.net/adventure/game/15565

Look at me, look at my face, does it look like I care about school?
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ee0liijzg2sd8q2/look_at_me._look_at_my_face._does_it_look_like_i_care_about_school.rar/file

ICBM is at https://gamejolt.com/games/icbm/57197

[eri0o]

I am not 100%, but the walking and some details look very agsy.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IN8Y992_F7w

The game is not available yet - and the rest is too french for me to understand 

[heltenjon]

I am not 100%, but the walking and some details look very agsy.

The game is not available yet - and the rest is too french for me to understand 

According to this: https://www.rom-game.fr/news/4772-Gobliiins+5.html there is currently a fundraiser to raise 3000 Euros to complete the game. It's indeed made in AGS.

[heltenjon]

I'm only Sleeping is a Reality-on-the Norm game not in the database. Get it here or here. Davy's little brother wakes up in the middle of the night and needs to go back to sleep. Not easy when Death is sitting in the sofa, watching Gilligan's Island. Fun stuff!

Murder actually has a very long title. It's probably an hour game, three screens long. It's at https://archive.org/details/murder-game

The Elegant Murder Mystery is a pretty good short detective game, as the title suggests. It's at https://archive.org/details/the-elegant-murder-mystery

An even better mystery game is Anticipating Murder, which is both at http://americangirlscouts.org/agsuploads/Lisa/AnticipatingMurder.zip and https://archive.org/details/anticipating-murder ,but strangely enough not in the main database.

(Can anyone tell I used "Murder" to search for Murder in a wheel and then just couldn't stop there?) 

And most of the entries from the first MAGS ever:
Highly Hip Hendrix is at https://archive.org/details/highly-hip-hendrix
Tiny Green Piece of Crap is at https://archive.org/details/tiny-green-piece-of-crap
Philip Illinilings and the Murder at Fish Hotel is at https://archive.org/details/philip-illinilings-and-the-murder-at-fish-hotel
They even had a Ceremony at the end, which is at https://archive.org/details/mags-2001-06-ceremony
(Some of these old games won't run on modern computers without some fiddling. I have an old PC lying around for such occasions. )

[heltenjon]

Most of the games from MAGS 2001/07 (One Room/Celebrity Photo):
I Want Candy is at https://archive.org/details/i-want-candy
Pixely Pete is at https://archive.org/details/pixely-pete (Note - probably unfinishable)
Adventure Noir is at https://archive.org/details/adventure-noir (Note- demo game)
The Dog Kennel ia at https://archive.org/details/the-dog-kennel
Fad of Devil's Hash is at https://archive.org/details/fad-of-devils-hash
And a ceremony is at https://archive.org/details/mags-2001-07-ceremony

Another old MAGS game:
The Treasure of Monkey Peninsula is at https://archive.org/details/the-treasure-of-monkey-peninsula

Seek, and Ye Shall Find is at https://globalgamejam.org/2021/games/seek-and-ye-shall-find-3 This is a short game where you play hide and seek with your daughter. Not puzzle oriented, but well worth a play. Tells a nice story.

Lassi Quest Remake Demo is at https://archive.org/details/lassi-quest-1-remake-demo Unifinished and unfinishable, and not worth playing for other than historical reasons, I guess.

Major Bummer Dude: Lassi Quest RON is at https://archive.org/details/RON-major-bummer-dude-lassi-request-ron This may be the only Lassi game that's decent.

Night of the Plumber is at https://archive.org/details/night-of-the-plumber This is a decent MAGS game if you can tolerate the toilet humour and one Osama bin Laden masturbation joke (!). (Okay, so maybe "decent" was a poor choice of words.)

[heltenjon]

The author of Lance the Penguin also made a couple of demos that work as standalone short games:
Persephone's Diary: Secrets of the South is at http://www.mediafire.com/?567kocrya42ianj
Jimmy Goodlove: Serial Killer Fugitive is at http://www.mediafire.com/?h32y9z5pm4l3td1

These are a bit of an aquired taste, as the graphics are, to put it mildly, not the strong suit of the games. Play Lance the Penguin first and see if you want more or not. The Jimmy Goodlove game has some humour I found in a bit of poor taste, as you may expect when the protagonist is a serial killer. Note that I don't exactly recommend these games, but I think they belong in the thread for the purpose of complete AGS availability.

[heltenjon]

Matti's MAGS entry with the theme "time", RunAway is at https://archive.org/details/mags-runaway It's a clever concept  where the player chooses the best route to run through enemy lines.

Another arcade game is Invasion of the Floating Death-Orbs, which is a surprisingly addictive shooter in limited space, with steering like Thrust with constant full pedal. It's at www.vanwijst.com/games/invasion.zip and it's by master funny scribe, the Baron. Please add it to the database, my lord!

Then there are the AGS entries from the recent Adventure Jam 2022 which are not in the database yet:
The Witch's Lullaby by Honza (overall winner!) is at https://hvavra.itch.io/the-witchs-lullaby
Ghost V by Akril15 is at https://akril15.itch.io/ghost-v
Flight from the Robots chapter 2 by Fernewelten is at https://loquimur.itch.io/flight-from-the-robots-2

There may be more. I've only scratched the surface of this jam so far.

Edit: Honza's game is in the db now.

[heltenjon]

From a MAGS back in 2004 with the theme Outdoors:
Smiley's Quest 2 is at https://archive.org/details/smileys-quest-2
The Mushroom Man is at https://archive.org/details/the-mushroom-man

Beard Beverage is at http://www.mediafire.com/download/omxlvccckvy39dz/BeardGame.rar This is a short and cute game about a guy who wants a beard.
As far as I can see, The Marvellous Birthday of Princess Marian (or Princess Marian III) isn't in the database. But it's at https://archive.org/details/princess-marian-3 This series is very cute and charming.

[heltenjon]

At the recent $106 Adventure Game Challenge game jam, there is an entry called Interdimensional Community Service. Funny short sort of investigative game.

This author's also made two more games not in the database: The Gardner's Heist and 12 Hours a Slave, which were entries in the $103 and $101 Adventure Game Challenge, subsequently. 12 Hours a Slave won!

Vampire Wombat has made a few MAGS entries that aren't in the database, probably because some of them are somewhat unfinished/in demo state. Nevertheless, at https://vampirewombat.itch.io/ you can find Ka and Da, Lygophilous, The Summoned, Mystery Meat Mayhem, Research Reservations, Goat Burn, Shamrock High: Graduation, Flukie, Captain Carver's Carnival Curios, Sweet Mythery, Vacant Bodies, Pizza Calls, Comet Collision and Dr. Muttonchop. (My favourites among these are probably Lygophilous, Research Reservations and Comet Collision.) The real way to play MAGS games is of course to read the old thread of the competition and play all the games with the same theme. At least I find that more rewarding than playing them out of context.


Return to Candle Cove is at https://archive.org/details/return-to-candle-cove This is a "not-serious" entry and default not-winner of a MAGS with the theme "Legend" back in 2012. (It's an animation/joke game. For completeists only.)

The Object of all Dreams is here