Super Jazz Man Adventures His Way Into 2007
I think word of GSW appreciating some of the freeware and indie adventure games made using AGS is getting out, because we got a new email from the devs at Herculean Effort: "I was wondering if you would be interested in checking out our new game, Super Jazz Man, which was released not long ago."
There's actually a YouTube trailer for the game, too, which "...puts you in the unitard and cape of a musical superhero who waits tables at the Zanzibar restaurant under the cover of night.. After playing a weekend concert that revolutionizes the local airwaves, our saxophonist receives a phone call at work." There's an interesting ethnicity-related comment in the YouTube comments for the game, but I'm presuming that the trailer just presents the game unfortunately in that regard.
In any case, there's a playable demo of the game available for PC - the full version is $8.95 for download from the Herculean Effort website. In addition, the Super Jazz Man folks comment: "You may already be familiar with our freeware point-and-click games Apprentice and Apprentice 2." Indeed - both of these are high quality, free AGS games.
Comments
Ah the playable demo! Excellent!
Posted by: gnome | January 13, 2007 7:02 AM
I've played the game and am friends with Greg...
So my intentions could be valid, but generally I try to remain as fair as possible. So here goes...
Greg and Ian (Herculean Efforts) decided to go completly retro! One look at the screen shot and it will persuade you. Music is the same. Midi files. This means one thing. The whole game which lasts more than 6 hours to play, is less than 4 Mb! How often do you get that?
Now onthe game itself.
It is a very good game, yet to find any bugs, which for me counts a lot... The price is ridiculously low, at 8.95$, and let's face it with games at 40$, this is tiny!
Gameplay is there at it's glory with coherence totally EVERYWHERE! The graphics are appealing in their own way (if you're into 3-d just stay away simply put), and music is again brilliant, on the extent that midi can provide...
The story is excellent imo.
But again, I'm used to playing adveture games, so not sure if my opinion values fully! But still I try to be as fair as possible.
Bottom line.
If you're looking for mp3, or 3-d grahpics, or high grahpics, even, or fantasy killings of orcs and stuff, you won't get them here.
What you get is midi music (brilliantly made), 320x240 resoultion graphics, and 8-bit colouring (I think, I@m not sure on that... so do correct me if wrong), and a gameplay which is very interesting (for me).
Furthermore it is a game that will support 2 brothers who totally adore game, adventure games, and tyr their best to stay afloat and live. They are growing older and want their games perfected, which costs money, no matter how you try. Even a sfx can cost money nowdays... So...
Posted by: Nikolas | January 15, 2007 3:20 AM