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Beyond the Mountains of Madness (full conversion) (previously: The Elder Sign) - ZyLogicX - 07-29-2011

[Image: The_elder_sign.jpg]


name: "Beyond the Mountains of Madness"
team: ZyLogicX (director,gameplay,script,builder), Gunzo (tester), iron brigade (tester, voice actor)
release date: TBD
engine: HPL2 mod for Amnesia: The Dark Descent

FEATURES:
[*]Story partially inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's stories
[*]Immersive gameplay
[*]Full Dev. Commentary
[*]Unique locations

Beyond the Mountains of Madness will be indirectly based on some stories by H.P. Lovecraft, including:
"The Shadow over Innsmouth" and "The Colour out of Space"
Locations: Rhode Island

Plot is subject to change

Beyond the Mountains of Madness 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


RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - skypeskype - 07-29-2011

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


RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - clock123 - 07-30-2011

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


RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - ZyLogicX - 07-30-2011

(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.




RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - Dark Knight - 07-30-2011

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


RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - graykin - 07-30-2011

It sounds pretty cool. Big Grin 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.


RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - ZyLogicX - 07-31-2011

(07-30-2011, 03:09 PM)graykin Wrote: It sounds pretty cool. Big Grin 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.)



RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - ZyLogicX - 07-31-2011

(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/texts/fiction/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"




RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - ZyLogicX - 08-01-2011

bump.... yeah


RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - ZyLogicX - 08-01-2011

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