Sphinx: a freeware, misspelled Adventure

gnome

Welll, more like a community based project with a simple goal: create a massive AGS adventure. Here's a little introduction:

"In SPHINX, you play as Ravi, a travelling puppeteer and charlatan. Ravi has come to the big city to make his fortune (or at least enough for a ticket somewhere far away from anyone he owes money to), but instead he meets a girl with a mysterious past and gets mixed up with revolutionaries trying to overthrow the government. In the middle of the city, among skyscrapers and subway stations, someone is digging up an ancient, enormous sphinx, and the statue is causing political and religious tensions to boil over. Nothing you can't deal with... until the sphinx wakes up."

Oh, and apparently we're all invited to contribute!

Just have a look at the Wiki:http://www.americangirlscouts.org/snarkywiki/.
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Snarky · Newbie Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 2

Hey, thanks for the plug, gnome! I was just working my way across the adventure forumsphere to let people know about the project. Not sure I understand the thread title, though. In what way is "Sphinx" misspelled?

I'll do my official announcement:

In SPHINX, you play as Ravi, a travelling puppeteer and charlatan. Ravi has come to the big city to make his fortune (or at least enough for a ticket somewhere far away from anyone he owes money to), but instead he meets a girl with a mysterious past and gets mixed up with revolutionaries trying to overthrow the government. In the middle of the city, among skyscrapers and subway stations, someone is digging up an ancient, enormous sphinx, and the statue is causing political and religious tensions to boil over. Nothing you can't deal with... until the sphinx wakes up.

Intrigued? Then help make this game become real! Don't like it? Improve it!

Sample background from SPHINX
(Image by big brother)

Massive Adventure Game Project
Back in November on the AGS Forums, Andail proposed a "Massive AGS Project", a game that would be developed by many different people from the adventure game community working together. SPHINX is the game project that came out of that proposal. SSH, big brother, myself, and several other people have been working on it to various extent for the last few months. Now we are ready to really start cranking up production. And now is your chance to help out!

Two of the main characters of SPHINX, Ravi and Motep
(Sprites by big brother)

Wiki Now Online
SPHINX is an attempt to create an adventure game by open collaboration. All the work is on a Wiki, so that anyone can contribute just by going to the website and posting their additions and changes. There's no easier way to join a game development team. You can contribute as much or as little as you like, as often or as rarely as you're able to.

Screenshots of the Wiki. Thanks to AGA for setting it up.

Help Wanted
The point is for this to be a truly massive, community project. So we need more people to contribute and collaborate on the game. We have an overall story, characters, some graphics and a few puzzle ideas, but there's plenty of work to go around! (Fleshing out the story, integrating puzzles, writing dialog, drawing backgrounds and other art, etc., etc.) And this isn't a ploy to get others to make our game for us: We don't own the project, and collaborators have a chance to provide meaningful input and help set the direction of the game.

So go to the SPHINX Wiki, have a look at the work in progress, and see if there's anything you can add to it.

gnome · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:48 pm Post subject:

Well Sphinx -I believe- should have been spelled as Sphynx, so I thought it'd be ...er... funny to mention this, in an ...er... funny-ish and indirect way... Anyway. ignore me Smile

Nice post, btw.
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Thaumaturge · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject:

Very interesting indeed!

This is certainly an intriguing project, both for its story (based on the blurb posted here) and for the interesting design and implementation concept - I definitely intend to have a good look at this! Smile

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Gnome, and a very nice post indeed, Snarky! Smile

By the way, "Sphinx" is, to the best of my knowledge, the standard spelling. I suspect that "Sphynx" is an alternative (and is used for one or two other definitions, including a breed of cat), based on Wikipedia's disambiguation page. Razz

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Wendy · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject:

Snarky --- I posted in the Gameboomer and Just Adventure forums with a link to this post for more information. Very Happy

Thaumaturge · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject:

Just Adventure, you mean. Razz

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Wendy · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:35 pm Post subject:

Whatever do you mean? That's what it says.

LOL. I just edited it. Very Happy

Thanks for catching that.

Thaumaturge · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject:

Heheh, my pleasure. Smile

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Snarky · Newbie Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 2

Thanks Amber! I eventually got around to posting the announcement on those forums as well. Man, there are a lot of adventure game forums to cover!

gnome · Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:03 am Post subject:

Who'd have thought ... Sphinx is correctly spelled. Amazing. (sorry)
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