[WIP] Amnesia The Elder Sign (trilogy) (full conversion)

[ZyLogicX]

WE'RE LOOKING FOR SCRIPTERS!

name: "The Elder Sign: The Asylum"
team: ZyLogicX (director,gameplay,script,builder), Gunzo (tester), iron brigade (tester, voice actor)
release date: Summer 2012
engine: HPL2 mod for Amnesia: The Dark Descent

FEATURES:
[*]Story inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's stories
[*]Immersive gameplay
[*]Cthulhu Mythos (hard to follow if you're not interested in it.)
[*]Full Dev. Commentary
[*]Unique locations

I'm currently working on my full conversion mod called The Elder Sign: Arkham Asylum, which will be the first epsiode of presumably a trilogy.

"The Elder Sign" will be both indirectly and directly tell the stories created by H.P. Lovecraft, including:
"The Shadow over Innsmouth"(currently using for Episode 1), "The Whisperer in the Darkness,The Hound" (Episode 2), "The Colour out Space" (episode 3)
Locations: Arkham Asylum

The Elder Sign will take you onto a journey around 1922 as Jack Walters, a private investigator, who has been able to crack cases without direct clues or evidence.

6 years ago, though, Jack investigated a strange house in Boston, being overrun by some strange cult. As the police got his back, Jack slipped in the house. He noticed weird alien creature-drawing , something like a cosmic-horror. As Jack continued his investigation, he saw a room filled with dead people, by the looks of it it was suicide or rather, mass-suicide, but these people has strange tattoos, incarved with a knife of some sort.

He than found later that this cult has been expecting him ever since,

When he went into an secret-passage in the library-room, the cave collapsed and Jack Walters was trapped. He proceeded further to find that these pscyho's have been killing their members and innocent people for "The Shadow out of Time"....

Videos:
Reveal trailer:




Beta footage (The Elder Woods)




[video=youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMUQW-aDsQE [/video]

screens:
http://yfrog.com/o0lvzap

[skypeskype]

This is exactly like "Call of cthulhu" . The story sounds very good. We are awating screenies

[clock123]

Will there be human npc's in this story?, if human npc's are even possible to make with that engine.

[ZyLogicX]

(07-30-2011 01:27 PM)clock123 Wrote:  Will there be human npc's in this story?, if human npc's are even possible to make with that engine.

I am assuming you are thinking this is gonna be like Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of The Earth?

H.P. Lovecraft's stories never directly confronted 'humans' and I will not revamp that. This custom story is based on H.P. Lovecraft's stories on how it was written, adding a main protagonist.

[Dark Knight]

yes, love H.P. Lovecraft books!
btw, that story - Medusa’s Coil
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/text...ion/mc.asp
excellent basement for custom map

[graykin]

It sounds pretty cool. I'll keep an eye on this one.

Just as a quick question, though, was there really a place called Arkham Asylum in the Lovecraft world? I've read some of his work, and know that he created Arkham, but it sounds a bit like some OTHER type of asylum, from a comic book.

[ZyLogicX]

(07-30-2011 03:09 PM)graykin Wrote:  It sounds pretty cool. I'll keep an eye on this one.

Just as a quick question, though, was there really a place called Arkham Asylum in the Lovecraft world? I've read some of his work, and know that he created Arkham, but it sounds a bit like some OTHER type of asylum, from a comic book.

D.C. Universe created the term 'Arkham Asylum', although H.P. Lovecraft created the fictional city of Arkham, Massachusetts, and although there was an asylum in Arkham, he never used "Arkham Asylum" directly in his stories, more like Arkham or The Asylum.

I have however changed the name of the first episode already before you posted this.. Its called "The Elder Sign: The Arkham" (just because people tried to tend that Arkham Asylum a rip-off was from the Batman-game, although it isnt really.)

[ZyLogicX]

(07-30-2011 02:47 PM)Dark Knight Wrote:  yes, love H.P. Lovecraft books!
btw, that story - Medusa’s Coil
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/text...ion/mc.asp
excellent basement for custom map

Correction, H.P. Lovecraft never wrote his stories for 'a book.'
Most of his works were short stories. Most of the publishers just compiled all his major stories into a book and called it "Call of Cthulhu"

[ZyLogicX]

bump.... yeah

[ZyLogicX]

Currently working on:
Map 2 (Part of Innsmouth)
Dev. Commentary