GIAWV - Locus

joy · October 18, 2009, 07:12:34 PM

Story
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In the far future, during humanity's march into space, a disaster occurred during the terraforming of the moon, Europa. The Scientific and Colonization station, the Merkabah, was currently the control site for a new experiment that would accelerate the formation of a habitable biosphere on Europa, utilizing special, high-mutation rate organisms known as Poikilotheria. These single-celled organisms were introduced into the waters of Europa to begin building a biosphere. Meanwhile, on the station, more advanced Poikilotheria were being created as the next level of animals and plants for their new world.

But disaster struck, these multi-cellular creatures evolved at an incredible rate and soon overcame their containment and the station's control measures. Though at first only affecting small regions of the station, these subjects soon ran amok on the station and began hunting their human creators and captors. Over half of the population of the station perished before it was decided that the only hope of the survivors of the station was to go into stasis. The escaped creatures, now called Aberrations by the survivors, seemed to not notice life forms in stasis. So the survivors wait in a dreamless sleep for their rescue...

But there were those on the station still with hope of defeating the infestation. One of the scientists responsible for the development of the Poikilotheria developed a technique for inhibiting their evolution. A special type of bio-weapon which would inhibit the rapid mutations of the Poikilotheria enough that they could not adapt defenses to the control methods. However it was found that this bio-weapon would only be accepted into a subject and grow to full effectiveness if implanted during childhood and during controlled growth through puberty. So, the scientists offered his own young daughter to be the test subject, and set her into stasis until her body fully accepted and embraced the procedure...

It's been five years, and now it's time for her to awaken...

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Characters
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Nia Lyons
A young woman whom has been under suspended animation while an experimental treatment took effect. Though her memories have become faded during her time in stasis, she is particularly intelligent woman with a strong will.
The fate of the station now rests in her hands.

Sean Reid
The assistant to Dr. Lyons and a childhood friend of Nia's. He has braved the overrun station in order to awaken Nia and hopefully save the lives of the rest of the colonists and scientists currently in stasis on the station. The journey from the medical deck was not without incident, and now his life is fading as he awakens the station's last hope.

Dr. Lyons
Nia's father and one of the chief scientists aboard the Merkabah, he was amongst the team which spurred the development of the aberrations. His area of study is in mitochondrial DNA and Genetic Modification and was pivotal in his role as chief geneticist.
Perhaps out of his own guilt for helping to create these creatures, he set upon developing a method of eradicating them. In the end, he offered up his own daughter as a test subject, and none can know whether it was out of desperation or convenience...

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Screenshots
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Features
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No battles: Puzzles are your key to advancing
Gathering of notes and codes for reference later
Password input to access new information, items and unlock doors
Futuristic look, sound and feel with many custom graphics

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Credits

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Enterbrain
Closet
Nomicom
ZPU
Marshmellow
Shiro
Yanfly
Woratana
Gameclover
Kaduki
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Game Download here!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/b9d3k6

modern algebra · October 18, 2009, 08:25:14 PM

This looks really cool joy. It makes me want to harass the judges so I can play it sooner

Zylos · October 18, 2009, 08:47:26 PM

No harassing the judges, MA. ._.

Also, Joy's game is pure eye candy. :3

joy · October 19, 2009, 11:02:31 PM

Okay, lil info on what's happenin here:

I'm gonna go through and fix the bugs that were found by judges and add the cutscenes and extra puzzles I didn't have time to add in a week before releasing the demo, shouldn't take long at all.

EvilM00s · October 20, 2009, 08:58:33 AM

Please hurry! This looks like a ton of fun.

danku · October 22, 2009, 10:41:56 AM

Awesome looking game man, hope development goes well!

DarkGamer · October 22, 2009, 11:32:32 AM

looks very interesting. gl

joy · November 07, 2009, 07:41:39 PM

Alright, working on the bonus version of Locus! Adding in some new riddles, new aberrations, new zones, more story and more cutscenes to make it a more worthwhile download.

Also doing bugfixes, so! If any of you GIAW judges ran into any bugs/mapping issues/text errors, please please let me know so I can go ahead and fix them now.

My goal is to release this by tommorrow night..call me a loser if I don't!

Countdown · November 08, 2009, 12:27:47 AM

I must play this game. It looks so sweet. I started crying with joy when i saw it.

Sebastian Cool ^-^ · November 10, 2009, 04:47:56 PM

O-M-G!! Cool!!

EvilM00s · November 12, 2009, 03:33:25 AM

Quote from: joy on November 07, 2009, 07:41:39 PM
My goal is to release this by tommorrow night..call me a loser if I don't!

Loser!

[spoiler]Just kiddin' Joy.[/spoiler]

joy · November 12, 2009, 04:53:33 AM

OMG I HAVE TO GO SLIT MY WRISTS NOW!

Really I forgot that I have big exams this week and have been studying..almost done though.

Grafikal · November 12, 2009, 04:58:11 AM

no wrist cutting >:[ you still have Order of the Marten to work on lol

joy · November 12, 2009, 05:17:15 AM

Oh..I can work on that posthumously.

EvilM00s · November 12, 2009, 06:04:21 AM

Study hard, sleep well and pass your exams, we can wait for the demo... but not for long!

joy · November 18, 2009, 02:12:51 PM

Demo almost done, should be able to get it finished by the weekend, one more big test this week.

Since this game is set around the moon Europa, thought I'd post a little article about some interesting finds about Europa's composition.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091116-jupiter-moon-life-europa-fish.html

Really a fascinating moon, hence why I based my game around it. ;p

joy · November 23, 2009, 04:38:43 AM

IT IS DONE

Or at least as done as it's getting. Please let me know if you run across any bugs/missing files, I cannot bug test it anymore, brain will melt.

Back to Order of the Marten...

EvilM00s · November 23, 2009, 05:20:34 AM

YESSSS!

Um... can you tell me the font that I need to play?

joy · November 23, 2009, 02:23:42 PM

Woops...Will re-upload one including the font, meanwhile, for those who already downloaded:

http://www.dafont.com/zekton.font

Edit: Download fixed, font included now.

Grafikal · November 23, 2009, 04:55:47 PM

ooo, i'll download this is get to it on thanksgiving break. starts for me at 5pm today

EvilM00s · November 24, 2009, 01:06:04 AM

Quote from: joy on November 23, 2009, 02:23:42 PM
Woops...Will re-upload one including the font, meanwhile, for those who already downloaded:

http://www.dafont.com/zekton.font

Edit: Download fixed, font included now.

Suh-weet!

Cascading Dragon · November 24, 2009, 02:50:00 AM

Quote from: grafikal on November 23, 2009, 04:55:47 PM
ooo, i'll download this is get to it on thanksgiving break. starts for me at 5pm today

Am I allowed to hate you for that?

Nice game Joy. I like it

EvilM00s · November 26, 2009, 05:30:44 AM

I am totally impressed with the still images, and the gameplay is awsome. Very well done, indeed!
But it's missing a sound file- spacey?

Kaimi · March 22, 2012, 02:38:04 PM

Damnit! Can't download it and it seems so great from reading the outlines!

thomasbradley · March 26, 2012, 04:33:42 PM

I'm guessing you've never played Valkyria Chronicles?
The continent that game takes place in is called Europa haha
Awesome looking game though, once I get some free time I'll definitely give it a shot.