ROSS’S GAME DUNGEON: AIDA’S STRANGE CHRISTMAS

On 12/25/2020 at 1:53 PM, Ross Scott said:

 

Sick Burn!

Loved it, really fun episode. Merry belated christmas! 

On 12/25/2020 at 2:50 PM, Lumberjackson said:

Here are some examples of games that were also made in AGS:

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/631570/Whispers_of_a_Machine/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/370910/Kathy_Rain/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/307580/Technobabylon/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/336140/Unavowed/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/227000/Primordia/

 

I mean yeah, as far as presentation goes, they're all 2D point & click adventure games. But art direction makes a huge difference.

 

Yeah, when I saw the AGS website front page, I knew the engine wasn't at fault for the art. Tried to swerve at the end of the post, but didn't do a good job of it. I was just surprised games made by different people could have a similar look to them.

I suspect the cartoon characters Ross alluded to in this episode, buried deep in his subconscious, may have been the Aardvark antagonists in Canadian cartoon "The Raccoons."  Funny, I also spent many years vaguely recalling those weird-looking purple creatures from the show, but not remembering the show itself.  Evidently it's just one of those essentially-forgettable-but-not-completely-forgettable things that have a way of slipping out of one's consciousness but then lingering just beneath awareness, a very slightly less dark shadow among shadows...