Unofficial Tex Murphy

Sadly, I had to stop the production of this... It was going to be a remake of day 1 of UAKM. I was working with people I met on a indie game dev site, but they pulled out, and i couldnt find anyone else who would donate their time

I had several things created for the day remake, including a couple new pieces of music made by Matt Heider, and also Chris Jones recorded some dialogue... It wasn't new lines, he just reread the original stuff... I'll post some of the sounds and music up for you all to listen to soon...

I am working on a little new project now, but it's not a game, and this project is going to be archieved

Bring on Three Cards To Midnight I say!

-- Chris Marsland

I ran into that on YouTube on my own once, and I was like "Don't tease me like that! "

I thought we had plenty of people on this board who were willing and able to do such things?

-Fred

Fred Buer wrote:I thought we had plenty of people on this board who were willing and able to do such things?

-Fred

Nothing ever happens though. So called "Fan Projects" have been going on for the past 10 years and every single one of them has either never left the ground of resulted in a swift demise. Heck, if game companies with big bucks would not consider the creation of an adventure game to be practical, what hope does the average Joe have when a) they have no money, b) they get no money, and c) they have their own lives to live in the real world.

This most recent project has become the latest addition to the would be if it could be's, and like every other so called Tex Murphy fan project I knew it was doomed before it even began (call it cynical foresight as a result of many previous disappointments).

I am not questioning the availability of talent, but a bunch of folks strewn across the globe are best kept doing what they best in such a situation, and that is keeping each other company and the community strong and leave the game producing up to the experts. Either that or if you are going to endeavor to make yet another fan project, don't throw up a bunch of trailers and teasers to get people's hopes up until you've actually got the ability to source those bites from an almost fully finished product, rather than assuming that we live in a perfect world where things make themselves.

Call me bitter, call me what you like. The truth: unless you are able to show me one fully complete fan project (that does not include written fan fiction becuase they are not multimedia, however I do adore them Jen, Jim and everyone else!) I will continue to believe that a fan project is beyond the scope of everyone here.

-Cub.

Frank! To the AGS-Mobile!

-Fred

Fred Buer wrote:I thought we had plenty of people on this board who were willing and able to do such things?

-Fred

The problem with everyone who is willing and able to do things is the fact that we are all so far apart... Though we might be willing and able we still have lives to lead...

Fred Buer wrote:Frank! To the AGS-Mobile!

-Fred

Go go go!

I'm willing to throw in some voice acting as well this time around!

So let's start a pool on how long it takes before life drowns this project into the proverbial sea.

Speaking of being so far apart, we still need to do this meet-up convention thingy. Sure a week-end wouldn't be enough to get a fan project together but it'd still be fun If anything we'd get people wondering what the fedora group was all about.

Edit: There seems to be an issue with the quote tags. I am not, in fact, quoting Fred's silent breathing pause between his sentences.

I shall start smoking. And breathing heavily, like Sydney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon!

Also, I shall start laughing like him! Mwuh-hah!

-Fred

As long as you don't make creepy faces like Peter Lorre.

Although this would unlock the ability to mimic emoticons at will.

THIS is what we need to spice things up! Peter Lorre emoticons!

Fred Buer wrote:I shall start smoking. And breathing heavily, like Sydney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon!

Also, I shall start laughing like him! Mwuh-hah!

-Fred

No, don't start smoking... On top of the health issues down the road, it's just getting too damn expensive...
50 bucks a carton around here... I use to smoke about a carton a week, so that turns into 200 bucks a month which then becomes 2,400 a year... That's a 10 day Cruise right there, and then some...

As for the laugh, I don't care what you laugh like, just don't smoke...

I would have to start smoking AGAIN then. Marlboro's were my thing back in the day. It had a round, smooth flavour. I tried the so-called Traditional P.I. Breakfast (The Luckies) but nah, not my bag.

I will however try a Silk Cut if it ever gets around to coming here. I heard they've a slight taste of bacon. Now THAT I gotta try out for myself.

But no. No more smoking as a habit for this ol' seamonkey.

-Fred

Cowboy Killers were my brand as well... That's what Marlboros were called by some here in the States, not sure the name ever got global or not...

I won a Trip from them a couple of years ago... Took my out to one of their Ranches and did all kinds of activities, it was great... My wife isn't a big fan of the Snow and Cold, so I took my father... We went Snowmobiling, Dog Sledding, Mountain Tubbing, a Winter Tour of Yellowstone National Park, saw a pack of wolves while we were their, a bunch of Coyotes, along with a bunch of other stuff... It was a great trip...

I have a Cabin not too far {a couple hundred miles} from where we were, so even though we were accustom to the area, the Ranch trip was by far an Awesome trip...


This here was a little Magnet Map they had in the Saloon... Everyone who went on the Trip put a Magnet on where they were from... Apparently it was an Eastern oriented gathering of guests... Along with some others, but most seemed to be from the Eastern Time Zone...




The Ranch we stayed at was on the Side of this Mountain, we stopped in a town called Livingston on our trip out to Yellowstone...




Just a breath taking landscape... I love it up there, but the wife won't move to Montana... So I have to be content with small trips out there from time to time... This was taken on our Snowmobiling trip up and down the mountain... I love Snowmobiles... I have 2 myself, I'd like to get more so that maybe I can entertain more than just my father or brother or one friend at a time...




This is my Cabin...