08-30-2005, 08:56 PM | #1 |
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Now Available: Nick Bounty 2 - The Goat in the Grey Fedora
It's official! The new Nick Bounty mini mystery is now available to play online or to download for the PC and Mac!
"Detective Nick Bounty sets out to find a missing ceramic goat for the neice of a recently deceased lawyer. He soon finds out, however, that he isn't the only one looking for it! " FEATURES: --Beautiful pre-rendered 3D graphics. --Black & White, "film noir" atmosphere. --Original music and soundtrack. --Fully voiced by professional actors! --Available to download or play online! The Goat in the Grey Fedora
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08-30-2005, 09:19 PM | #2 |
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Congrats on the new one. I liked what I played during the beta. Good luck with it.
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08-31-2005, 01:25 AM | #3 |
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Either I am stupid or there is some kind of bug:
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08-31-2005, 06:18 AM | #4 | |
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The better news is that the bug is now fixed! For some reason the online version wasnt accessing the cut scenes. It's all good now! Enjoy!
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08-31-2005, 07:58 AM | #5 |
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Cool, I really enjoyed A Case of the Crabs. Downloading The Goat now - screenshots look good. Cheers .
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Anyway, having finished the game, I must congratulate you on your splendid job. The graphical style put me off at first, but after a couple of minutes I didn't really mind. Everything else was an improvement over the Crabs (which was already very good!): the puzzles, the interface, the general polish. But for me the winning feature was the game's humour - I laughed out loud when Spoiler: And the whole plot, despite dabbling into absurd more than once (the scene in the dark room was my another favourite moment), is very close to noir stories it pays homage to in that everything tightly falls into place at the end. As Nick Bounty would put it: "Niiiiice."
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08-31-2005, 09:02 AM | #7 |
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I am so glad you you enjoyed the game! I and the other volunteers have spent alot of time trying to add polish and humor to the game to compensate for it's relative shortness. I really appreciate all the support!
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08-31-2005, 09:26 AM | #8 |
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Can't wait to try this. I love the Film Noir atmosphere.
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Apart from that, great game! I liked COTC very much and was really looking forward to the 'Goat'.
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09-01-2005, 08:32 AM | #10 |
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When you download the game you get 3 files in the zip file. You MUST make sure that the bounty2.exe file AND the cutscenes.swf file are in the same folder on your hard drive (The other file is a readme.txt file that states this). If they are not then the game will not access the cutscenes
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09-01-2005, 10:21 AM | #11 | |
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Anyway, I finished the game now and I still think it's great. I hope we will see more of Nick Bounty in the future. Keep up the great work!
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09-01-2005, 12:22 PM | #12 |
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just played it, was a wonderful game, the style the story the humour, the music were all perfectly executed.
if i had to be critical at all i'd say it's downsides were the main guy's voice was a bit awkward in places and there could have been more useless objects scattered around the place to look at, there were a few rooms that were empty and that made it feel a tiny bit rushed. but nevertheless i was very happy with it and the end made me feel all gooey inside like good movies, books and games should |
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I so glad we could make you all gooey! I really really wanted to put more items to interact with into the game, but because we were primarily designing for web-based play, we had to severly limit some of the content (Thats why the cut scenes were not as animated as I'd like). We contemplated adding in the extra content to the download version, but since we werent adding extra gameplay, just useless items (And opportunities for more jokes), we decided against it because it would have meant extending the development time. Still, glad you enjoyed the game!
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09-01-2005, 01:00 PM | #14 |
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i dont think it actually needed anything more graphically, of that there was plenty, but perhaps a few more of the depicted objects could have been hotspots, even if it was only to tell you a few words. but enough of the complaints,
edit: oops forgot you had voice too =p another aspect you get 10 points for is the puzzles, i really enjoyed the puzzles in the game, they made you think but they didnt get frustrating. perhaps the small amount of objects helps for this i'm not entirely sure. Spoiler: very well done, i am now going back to play the previous one, hope you keep at it because you do a great job Last edited by thesleepless; 09-01-2005 at 01:10 PM. |
09-02-2005, 12:46 PM | #15 |
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I have just finished the game a few minutes ago on my Mac mini and all I can say is: Wow!
I love the artwork, great voice acting and the great humor! I found myself laughing out loud more than a few times - the dark room made my day! To all the guys at Pinhead: Thank you for the joy and keep up the good work! |
09-02-2005, 03:57 PM | #16 |
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And you get to hear my voice first thing in the game too .
Great game love playing it .
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09-03-2005, 09:43 AM | #17 |
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Just played it then. Great job. As AFGNCAAP said, an improvement on all fronts over the already highly entertaining Case of the Crabs (although the puzzles were a bit easier this time around).
Great interface, excellent presentation, good humour. The dark room scene was my favourite bit (didn't realise it was an MI homage until I read the very funny hints). Nice work. Thanks for all your efforts. I look forward to seeing more of Nick. |
09-30-2005, 02:12 PM | #18 |
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Guys,i´ve been trying to download the game,but the studio´s website just seems to be offline forever!!
Please,help! |
09-30-2005, 02:18 PM | #19 |
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The link at the top of this thread is working just fine for me.
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09-30-2005, 04:44 PM | #20 |
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I must be doing something veeeeery wrong,because i just tried it and couldn´t download the game.Actually,the Internet Explorer doesn´t even find the page of the Pinhead Studios and the http://www.otterarchives.com just doesn´t exist for me!!!!
What´s going on??? Is there a mirror for this game?! I don´t understand what is wrong,please,somebody help! |