MAGS May "Air" (CLOSED)

Stupot · Sun 30/04/2023 15:43:29

The theme for MAGS May is Air.
Set by: RootBound.

The win for this month can be claimed by 4KbShort for their game The Passenger.
https://4kbshort.itch.io/passenger

Yes, it could be literally set up in the air:

Or it could simply be a place where air is needed:

What is MAGS?
Started in 2001, MAGS is a competition for amateur adventure game makers. The idea is to create a game in under a month, following the guidelines set by the previous winner. It aims to help you work to a deadline, improve your skills, and provide a kick-start into making adventure games. Regardless of skill, MAGS is for everyone. Voting is based on "favourite" games, and not the most artistic, or the best coded. If you have bad art skills, use it as a chance to do some graphic work. If you're sub-standard at coding, use it as a chance to give scripting a go. Ultimately, people will vote for the most enjoyable entry.

Rules
Entering MAGS is simple. First, conceptualize your game following the month's criteria (see above). Second, create your game fuelled only by coffee. Finally, post your game in this thread, including:

* A working download link
* The title of your game
* A suitable in-game screenshot

At the end of the month, voting will begin, usually lasting for fourteen days, and the winner chooses the next month's theme.

Remember that this is a challenge to see what you can do in a month, so any tinkering you do after that, including fixing minor glitches, is against the spirit of the competition. The exception to this is that you may go in and fix major, game-breaking bugs only during voting. We want you to have a game that voters can actually play and that runs on their machines.

So to reiterate, during the voting period fixing major, game-breaking bugs is okay, fixing minor glitches or making cosmetic changes is cheating.

Tips
Here are some ways to make sure you have a game to submit at the end of the month:
* Make a tiny game. Plan small, then cut it in half. Find shortcuts (e.g. if making walkcycles is time-consuming, make the characters static or have it in the first person).
* Plan to have your game playable and submittable with a week to spare. This way you have a week to fix bugs, add some flourishes and maybe even get someone to test it.
* Plan to submit it a day or so early. This way, if there are any technical issues with uploading, they can be sorted out in time.

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Need a little help with graphics? Perhaps The AGS Trove has something you can use.
Don't want to go it alone? Try the Recruitment board.
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Stupot · Wed 03/05/2023 21:19:33

Any early interest?
It's a great theme.

4KbShort · Tue 09/05/2023 08:23:00

Quote from: Stupot on Wed 03/05/2023 21:19:33Any early interest?
It's a great theme.

It is a fantastic theme and it keeps coming up in my mind from time to time, but I have a bunch of other projects I think I want to work on in the next few weeks with what free time I have. Since I usually think about it for half the month then cram out a game in a weekend or when I have a few hours to spare I feel like my entries have been less game than practice demos tending to miss the puzzle part of the adventure game genre.

Still, I watched Spaceballs recently and "technically" that's a story about air... in a way.

RootBound · Thu 18/05/2023 23:19:49

Bumping this up in hopes of generating more interest. Sadly I won't be able to participate due to other projects.

4KbShort · Thu 25/05/2023 12:49:58

Getting close to the deadline and it seems like not a lot has been posted.
I've poked at this idea a couple of times throughout the month and came up with an "okay" idea and made half a single background image, but other things have gotten in the way.
However, due to a strange coincidence I have the last two days of the month off.

So since I don't want to see this month's Jam go down without a fight I'll be doing my darndest to get an entry in by EOD May 31st. Fingers crossed!

Stupot · Mon 29/05/2023 15:35:52

@4KbShort I've just seen your last post. How is that last-ditch entry looking?

If you need a couple of days extension, that can be arranged.

4KbShort · Thu 01/06/2023 09:31:19

Quote from: Stupot on Mon 29/05/2023 15:35:52@4KbShort I've just seen your last post. How is that last-ditch entry looking?

If you need a couple of days extension, that can be arranged.

Not as good as it was a week ago. Although the idea was as simple as I could make it and it follows some of the same design choices I made in "The Errand" there's more parts to it so it's taking a little longer than expected with my other projects and work getting in the way.

It could probably be finished in a day or less if I sit and just work on it and nothing else. Only downside is I start work again on the 1st and am out of the loop for 5 days save for a few hours here and there and that would put the deadline out to the 6th or 7th (my next weekend).

Who knows, I may catch a *cough cough* little bug tomorrow. It'd still be a late entry, regardless.

Stupot · Thu 01/06/2023 18:32:53

Quote from: 4KbShort on Thu 01/06/2023 09:31:19
Quote from: Stupot on Mon 29/05/2023 15:35:52@4KbShort I've just seen your last post. How is that last-ditch entry looking?

If you need a couple of days extension, that can be arranged.

Not as good as it was a week ago. Although the idea was as simple as I could make it and it follows some of the same design choices I made in "The Errand" there's more parts to it so it's taking a little longer than expected with my other projects and work getting in the way.

It could probably be finished in a day or less if I sit and just work on it and nothing else. Only downside is I start work again on the 1st and am out of the loop for 5 days save for a few hours here and there and that would put the deadline out to the 6th or 7th (my next weekend).

Who knows, I may catch a *cough cough* little bug tomorrow. It'd still be a late entry, regardless.

Hehe, well, it's looking like you'll be the only entry if you do finish it. And one entry is infinitely better than no entry, so if you need until the 6th/7th, then that shouldn't be a problem.

4KbShort · Thu 08/06/2023 03:37:56

IT IS DONE!

https://4kbshort.itch.io/passenger

The Passenger has you on a plane with a MURDERER! Or is it?
Honestly this is not the best this could have been, but there's a gameplay loop and you can finish the game. It also has "multiple endings" of a sort.

Yet another game where there's no real puzzles. Just story... and barely that, but it's done! Please enjoy!

Stupot · Fri 09/06/2023 07:21:51

Nice one @4KbShort. Thanks for your entry.

It means we don't have a hole in the calendar for May.

Also, you'll get to choose July's theme. I'll PM you about that soon.

Everyone else, go and play The Passenger.