A Vampyre Story

[Fawfulhasfury]

Discuss A Vampyre Story here, the upcoming point and click adventure game by ex-LucasArts employees.

The story:
Mona is a generally nice person who has a bad temper when people cross her. She is also driven and will not let anyone stop her from achieving the goals she has set for herself. So when Mona gets spirited away by Shrowdy to his castle in deepest darkest Draxsylvania, she is determined to get back to Paris and continue her promising opera singing career. But Shrowdy, her vampire captor, has complete control over her ever since he turned her into a vampire, so Mona is trapped. But, as fate would have it, two professional vampire hunters stake Shrowdy through the heart one night, and Mona then finds herself free. The problem is she has no clue how she got here or how to get back, and she isn’t hip to the whole vampire thing. Mona thinks Shrowdy has cast a spell on her; she is in full denial that she is a blood sucking corpse who feeds off the living. She thinks it is red wine that Shrowdy brings here every night, and she doesn’t notice that the vintage on the bottle says O positive and O negative. This is where Froderick, a wisecracking bat who hangs out with Mona, comes in. He is a bit savvier about the world than Mona, and does his best to guide her in the right direction. Froderick generally likes Mona and has adopted her goals as his. Beside he has nothing better to do, and guano fights in the belfry can only stave off bored for so long.

And a couple of exclusive screens I found online. A storyboard and a screen of the verb coin interface.
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/avpstoryboard.jpg
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/verbcoinavp.jpg

Thank you

[feminista]

Ooh, cool, a Monkey Island 3/Full Throttle style interface. That was always my favorite interface for adventure games. Simpler than early games, more complex than King's Quest 7, Legend of Kyrandia 2, etc.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to it. The story reminds me a bit of Christopher Moore's Bloodsucking Fiends, which is a wonderfully funny book.

[The Fifth Horseman]

When/where will we be able to buy it?

[Fawfulhasfury]

USA, Italy, UK, France, Mexico, and many other countries, check http://www.bad-brain.com then go to the distributers page :ok:

[DeathDude]

Looks like a very cool game, when I first heard the premise of the game, I was very interested, can't wait till it comes out.

[Fawfulhasfury]

Yes, its directed by Bill Tiller, the director of Monkey Island 3 and the rest of the team worked on many famous LucasArts adventure games. The team behind it are also negotiating rights to Sam and Max : Freelance Police.

[Fawfulhasfury]

I guess Mona learns new abilitys every part, and they get added to the cross every part. Notice the fly ability icon at the top. Or the bite and talk icon to the left.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Old-school adventure games = what the horsemen love most.

[xoopx]

ill wait to see what people think of it first. it does look like its going to be good

[Fruit Pie Jones]

I like my women slender, but that's just not healthy.

[Fawfulhasfury]

LOL, I think shes supposed to be COMI-styled. If she gets crossed, she gets angry. Like the part in Paris where she sucks the life out of a mime who was annoying her.

[Fruit Pie Jones]

Originally posted by Fawfulhasfury@Jan 17 2005, 05:11 PM
Like the part in Paris where she sucks the life out of a mime who was annoying her.
That alone should make the game worth buying!

[gildedgirth]

Hey, since we're all sad that Lucas Arts doesn't make adventure games anymore and that the new Sam & Max game that has been in developement by another company may not ever see the light of day due to licensing issues.

Well there's still hope for Lucas Art adventure gamer fans. I was surfing and found some references to a new Adventure game created by former Lucas Art employees. The art looks fantastic!

http://www.adventuregamers.com/gameinfo.php?id=395

Check out the gallery:
http://www.adventuregamers.com/gallery.php?id=395

And check out the interview where he talks about Lucas type adventure games and how this game is created by starving, but dedicated artist who love adventure games:
http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,402

There home page for the company, while just launched is pretty bare at the moment, but you can see a pretty good splash page of thier art.
http://www.amegames.com/

[feminista]

We already have a topic on it actually. I'll see if I can rustle up the link for you.

EDIT: here it is, off in the off-topic forum. http://www.abandonia.com/forum/index.php?s...2628 (http://www.abandonia.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2628)

Probably could be moved here, this being the logical place for discussion of such things.

[gildedgirth]

Ah cool. Glad someone else mentioned it. Thanks for the heads up on the other thread.

[wormpaul]

Great game..

Love to see the release of it :ok:

[BlackMageJawa]

More great news for Lucasarts fans-

Monkey.

Island.

Remake.

DS.

I haven't yet found a totally reliable source (the forum I found it on cites a magazine that I subscribe to, and I haven't seen this article in it), but apparently Lucasarts has Curse of Monkey Island running on Nintendo DS hardware, and is considering remaking Secret of Monkey Island and LeChuck's Revenge with Curse graphics and interface.

Needless to say, the DS' touch screen would be awesomeness itself when it comes to point & clicks, and if they got Dominic Armato to add his voice to the first two MI games... I would be in Adventure heaven.

Meanwhile, on topic- Yeah, I'm looking forward to this one. As a rabid P&C fan, it's nice to see a new classic style game with a sense of humour.

[Fawfulhasfury]

Well, check out this concept art for a bg from AVS. Also, some more storyboards from the game.
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/sb1.gif
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/sb2.gif
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/c1.jpg

[gildedgirth]

wow thanks for posting this Fawfulhasfury.

I love seeing pencil art. If you come across any more art, post more! =)

[Tulac]

Well here's a heavy bump, but the game producers have found a publisher and the game will be released in early 2008.

Official site: http://www.vampyrestory-game.com/
Interview: http://news.filefront.com/gaming-today-qa-...-vampyre-story/ (http://news.filefront.com/gaming-today-qa-bill-tiller-on-a-vampyre-story/)
Trailer: http://www.vampyrestory-game.com/cms/downloads.htm

[Fawfulhasfury]

It's planned for release in January 2008 for those who want specifics.