Hello everyone, I’ve made a game.
The Delivery. Available for free for Mac, PC, Linux and the web. How cool is that?
Before you dive in, just to be forewarned, it exists in the ironic dystopian world of Arnold Ziffel, a pig gone bad. It is a bit dark. If there was a unicorn in this story he’d be smoking, have a black eye and a tattoo.
Why is this important and/or interesting? This game is quite short, intended as a demo or as we say in the biz, a PoC (Proof of Concept). It is built in a tool I was recently introduced to – Ren’Py “A Visual Novel Engine”. Those of us of a certain age will remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books which presented the reader with the option of making choices in a branching narrative instead of simply reading along as we do in a standard narrative. Ren’Py makes building these kinds of things quite simple, including adding graphics and other A/V assets. The secret sauce is that it can be extended with the Python programming language to do… basically anything you want.
For this demonstration I’ve implemented a simple combat system, so you can beat-down the bad guys. But it can be much more. The game could reach out and put bitcoin in your bitcoin account. It could know what the weather is right now. Instead of the author writing every line of dialog, it could be fetched from one of those AI things you’ve heard so much about.
Perhaps an even more important detail is all this can be done with rather minimal staff. The typical game you’ve played requires a team of people, a stack of cash and months of time. As long as you don’t mind some “low fidelity” a rather modest budget can turn out a fine product.
Well, enough yakking, more attacking!
The Delivery – Download for Windows and Linux: https://mars.tikimojo.com/share/The_Delivery_game/TheDelivery-1.0-pc.zip
The Delivery – Download for Mac: https://mars.tikimojo.com/share/The_Delivery_game/TheDelivery-1.0-mac.zip
Live on the web – https://meow.dbcgames.com/the_delivery/. No download needed. As this is a demo we’re stuck with the default loading image which has nothing to do with the game itself.
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