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[SPHONX]

For your Consideration

SPHONX

AGS Database Link
itch.io Link

a short but ages spanning adventure where science fiction meets comedy on an archeological expedition researching the past but in the future...

This is a commercial Game, but also has a demo to give you a taste for the game and for voting in the awards...
(there was an earlier Tech Demo, but the current gameplay demo was released in 2022)

Please Consider SPHONX for
* Best Game Created with AGS  (why not, lemme try)
* Best Writing
* Best Character
  for Banana loving clumsy rebellious Iggy or maybe the kind of helpful but unfriendly game tutor...
* Best Animation (even the demo has the cool intro)
* Best Background Art (why not)
* Best Original Music & Sound Design (music is by emont and the sfx are really good as well)
* Best Voice Work (fully voiced and sounds great)
* Best Demo (we have a demo)
* Best Short Game (could be fitting, there are waaaay longer games)
* Best Puzzles

Almost forgot to add the game to the database since MAY!!! But that happened now as well, phew right on time for the year closing and awards nominations

Some interesting puzzle ideas, too, even if I think I may have gotten slightly lucky to get the colours puzzle right on my first attempt - I certainly wasn't 100% sure what each one stood for.

Thanks for your feedback ben, that is intentional, to make you feel like the person translating actual hieroglyphs without any clue whatsoever. Glad it worked out and you had fun. Noone really complained about that puzzle yet, not even the many testers, so it should be really intuitive on a level I cannot explain but somehow got right

I'll have to look into those folders now and fix that typo there...


and guess what, SPHONX now has a trailer!
That was quite challenging to put together, took me only half a year or so, but it is out now in all its glory, thanks to durinde for the voice and emont for the music

the 4 shows the huge leap and is easier to understand for users and all in all makes more sense to be called this. I leaves enough space for updates of the 3.6 branch. I'm all for four

[Sphonx]

Sphonx lets you discover scientifically advanced technology and antique artifacts on an archaeological expedition in an ancient Egyptian pyramid.
You are Ignacio "Iggy" Dias, a young and interested archaeologist in the near future.
He helps Dr. Allan Nowicz, an experienced scientist and archaeologist who was involved in the development of some of the most advanced technological breakthroughs in recent archaeology.
He is leading the current research on the dig site and he's also managing the bureaucratic side of the expedition in Egypt today.
Dr Nowicz is very proud to have a Death Erasing Multispectral Ultrawave Mummified Material Igniter Ray Device with him on this site.
It's purpose is to revive even partially conserved cells in old, very old and even ancient Egyptian tissue and give it back its previous human form.


Of course, such advanced technology needs careful use and planned application.
So Dr Nowicz wants to wait for Dr Sebranovic to arrive, the spiritual and logical father of the very advanced tissue reviving device.
Ignacio Dias, a studious but a bit clumsy apprentice working for Dr Nowicz instead wants to finally see results and start the live study of ancient life with support of the DEMUMMI-RAY rather yesterday than waiting even longer.
Tension between the two clashing opinions escalates and late at night Iggy sneaks into the excavation / laboratory deep inside the darkest parts of the age-old pyramid only to get involved in a centuries spanning adventure.

Playtime is still manageable in one to two lunch breaks...

DOWNLOAD

https://toxic-tuba.itch.io/sphonx

Price: 3,20€ /// $3,00
You can take a look at the demo for free and see if you like the game and
then buy it for the price of a burger or a good coffee and taste all the flavors of the game.

(AGS Database entry)


CREDITS

Story
CaptainD, selmiak, Toxic Tuba

Programming
Toxic Tuba

Graphics & Animation
Toxic Tuba

Additional Character Animation
Indrek

Voice Actors
Iggy - Durq
Professor Nowicz - Captain D
Stanley Worthington Smythe - Leigh Harvey
Narrator / Tutorial - Durinde

Music
Edwin Montgomery

Sounds
Toxic Tuba and from freesound.org

Tween Module
Edmundo Ruiz & Tzach Shabtay

Testers
CassieBSG, WatchDaToast, Lorenzo, Hobo, Letch, durinde, CaptainD, Durq, Flo, Yannik


Big thanks to all the fine people in the credits, this game wouldn't be possible without you!
The voice actors did an amazing job, this adds so much more to the game, go check it out!
And thank to the testers that went through quite a few rounds of betatesting with me.

This is totally on my watch list!