LANCELOT'S HANGOVER: One life to find the Holy Grail, but...

[declerfayt]

LANCELOT'S HANGOVER

A whole life to find the Holy Grail
One alcohol night to lose it










Lancelot's first beta is available!

Free! 20-minute-long!
Including knights in underwear!


http://www.lancelotshangover.com/point- ... e/download

This first beta shows you what will be the humour, the dialogs, the main characters and the graphical style of the game. A later beta, scheduled for October 2014, will introduce you the funny puzzles and the point-and-click gameplay.

Don't be shy, mate: click on the screenshots to see them bigger!

Hi everyone

First of all, sorry for not speaking German. I'm from Belgium and I'm designing a funny and old-school point and click adventure game for PC and Mac.

Here's the pitch:
After a 10-year quest, Lancelot and his fellow Gawain have found the Holy Grail! Immediately informed, King Arthur runs to meet the most valiant knights of the Round Table. While their king brings them fortune and fame, Lancelot and Gawain celebrate their victory over a few beers. The next morning, Lancelot wakes up in his underwear in a gay bar. The keeper tells him that he has lost the Holy Grail playing cards and Gawain has been kidnapped by environmental activists. If he does not want to be killed by Arthur, Lancelot has to get back the Grail and his companion in arms before the king of Britain discovers what happened.

I've started this thread on this forum to introduce you the game's developpement. I will be extremely glad to get your comments, advices and suggestions. My goal is to provide you the funniest point and click I can.

If you have questions about the sorywriting, the making of the artworks, the code stuff, the list of all psychoactive drugs consumed to craft the puzzles and the 'creative' businness plan behind the game financing (and yes, all the rumours about the offshore accounts and the ties with the Russian mafia you read on the Internet are true!), feel from to drop me a comment. I'll make my best to reply the most sincerely I can.


If you want to test the game, a beta is coming very soon. I'll give a download link on this forum. Or if it's handier for you, I'll tweet the link on @Lancelot_game

Thanks

Jean-Baptiste

Very Important (although boring) Legal Stuff

The European Commercial Court of Justice (ECCJ), held on 8th February 2014 in Brussels (Belgium), stated that:

• The author of the video game called "Lancelot's Hangover" is no more allowed to include in his playful-oriented computer program any puzzles that can be solved in a logical manner. The player, to progress through the game, must always use, one by one, all the objects in the inventory on all the different objects and characters within the game (and if possible, several times). In addition, only websites in Serbo-Croatian language will be willing to publish a text walkthrough (which must first be encrypted using the SHA-512 algorithm).
• The author of the video game "Lancelot's Hangover" will also break any contacts with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un by 23th June 2014 and will provide a urine sample, every Tuesday morning, at The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) until 1st January 2017 inclusive.

[gff]

That looks awesome duke
The medieval style is a cool idea!

[declerfayt]

Thanks a lot gff

[declerfayt]

If some of you understand Russian, a Lancelot fan have written a so kind article about the game on QuestZone: http://questzone.ru/news/EupEFuFkpVDwDgMYso

[declerfayt]

Lancelot's first beta is available!

Free! 20-minute-long!
Including knights in underwear!


http://www.lancelotshangover.com/point- ... e/download





The very first playable beta of Lancelot's Hangover is available! It's 32.7 megabytes and 20 minutes of medieval fun, including 256-color VGA graphics in 1080p for later-than-1995-Pentium users! And it's free!

This first beta shows you what will be the humour, the dialogs, the main characters and the graphical style of the game. A later beta, scheduled for October 2014, will introduce you the funny puzzles and the point-and-click gameplay.

All bug reports, suggestions, comments are welome! Don't be shy! I will be glad to hear from you!

[gff]

Okay, sire. I played through the demo now.
I still like the art style and general idea. The animations support the humorous character: Gawain with his shaky animation reminds me of Monthy Pythons somehow (or of puppets on strings). Though you should consider reworking the talking animations where the head is just moved like a paper cutout. Did you ever think of doing Speech scrolls instead of Speech balloons? This could create some extra medieval feeling.

About perspective: I get the impression that there is to much correct (from todays point of view) perspective. Before Brunelleschi and others in the Renaissance, medieval people tried...but failed. So you could try to stick more to this wrong perspective reception they had. In addition the graphics have a strong "flash vibe". Maybe you could alter it a bit to match it more with medieval codices.

One thing that bothered me was the colour of dialog options. They are so dark, that you have to scroll over them to read. So instead of the possibility to overlook all possible answers, I have to go through the "chore" of reading them all on their own before choosing.

The music is nice, but, I would assume, a bit repetitive and cliched. Then again, we don't know for sure how music sounded like at the times. Maybe make is a bit less harmonic and give it some edges, like it wasn' recorded in a studio but in a contemporary court.

I'm looking forward to get into some point-and-click gameplay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJoM7V54T-c

[realchris]

Monty Python Style.

Auf jeden Fall wird er kein Problem mit verschiedenen Auflösungen haben, weil Vektor.

[declerfayt]

Thanks a lot gff and realchris for your feedbacks

Speech scrolls vs. speech balloons, perspective, music: that's really intersting stuff. I wrote all your suggestions in my to-do list. For the moment, I'm working on the next beta (scheduled for October) with point and click mechanics and funny puzzles, but when the polishing time will be up, I'll work on your suggestions gff. So thanks a lot!

[declerfayt]

Auf jeden Fall wird er kein Problem mit verschiedenen Auflösungen haben, weil Vektor.

Indeed RealChris, all assets are made as vector graphics - but the engine I use (the wonderful AGS) imposes bitmap graphics, so the native resolution is 1920 x 1080 px. But making a super-HD remake of Lancelot in a few years in 4K won't be a problem

[declerfayt]

The whole storyboard of Lancelot's Hangover is finally finished!

Everthing is on the walls: the puzzles, the story, the cutscenes, the characters. All I need to do now is finishing all the drawings, wire the whole thing in the game engine, make a bit of code, and the game is done!



As a bonus, here's some brand new drawings from the game!

Click to enlarge the pics

[declerfayt]

Greenlight !!! Yes !!!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =340704190

[Frankie Teardrop]

Played the demo. The thing i didn't like very much was the metajokes about being in a computer game & too be honest some cheap sexjokes. I think the story is funny enough, but apart from that the game looks great, I love the graphicstyle. Voted for it on Greenlight.

Just one Question: Are there some puzzles in the game or is the whole gameplay dialoguedriven?

[declerfayt]

Thanks Frankie for your vote

The game have changed a lot since the early beta. More gameplay, less meta jokes and a more "immersive" universe will be there The next beta is scheduled for January

[Frankie Teardrop]

Thanks for the quick response. I thought the demo was released recently. But what you write sounds great. And what I forgot to mention: The game has one of the best taglines ever.

[declerfayt]

Ha ha Thanks a lot