I think it is a clever, and clean proof of concept. Very nice. To get started, a good stragegy is to walk up close to every character and click on the button that says "talk". That will give you a quick overall feel for the situation. There are four characters in the village. It is somewhat dark and it's easy to overlook one of them. Talk to all four, and then cooperate with their suggestions. Have fun.

I'm bumping this one because it's one of those that all the newer people should check out when they have a chance. It's my all time favorite 3DGS project, and I just learned that it's dead in the water, although a "spark" may be returning. I hope Zio continues on or makes something else of this caliber.

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It's a Lucasarts style adventure game. It's in the spirit of point & click but is direct control. Nice style and the music is as beautiful as ever.

Not downing anyone but out of pure curosity how come only a few realy follow through with a game to completion? Well there is probably many but little I know of on here..... anyways ..... this had a original style concept and to bad it is a project that is no more..... be nice to see more .

Light_Mystic.

well first: it's an amazing work! the textures are great, the models too.
and that way to talk in that game. Normally i hate this type of talking, but in this game, it's great. I'm not so good in english, but i understand this "easy" english very good.
that was the positive critics, now follows the "negative" critics, or help for doing it better:
the animations of the characters are good, but i don't like the way the "Gameguy" touches his hat. It's too "jerkily". In the first moment he moves, and when you stop, it touches his hat at once. Maybe you can do the animation "liquidlier" (the word is probably false, i used a translator... the german word is "flüssiger").
but you don't have to mind on these things, i think that's a great project anyway!

MfG,
real illusion

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Because making a game is a huge undertaking...even small ones or demos. I've been working on my own for 5+ years and have barely put a dent in it, but I've also changed genres, switched engines(more than once), had a few bouts of burnout, gone through a divorce(which is still affecting my output), and all the other mishaps life throws at you. I've recently added a team member, and I finally have my focus somewhat back, so I hope to increase the output. Since, I don't have to worry about creating textures(team member will do this), that will take some pressure off me.

Anyway, in a nutshell, that's why most quit. Crap happen...they get bored...they have no time...etc.

Maybe the authors of POCia could make the resources available so that others can try to extend the game or create a similar title ??

That is a nice idea.

Wow, didn't expect to see this thread again.

Releasing Pocia as a resource is a possibility, but I'd want to finish polishing it up with a better interface and real point & click movement before doing that though.

Tetra and I would love to release another game, either a bigger longer Pocia or something else entirely.

Right now the problem is inspiration and ideas. Whenever we try to come up with a good storyline, it ends up being a serious plot and then we come back to being stuck with stickmen characters. They're not too bad to use as filler in a serious setting, but I can barely pull off the most basic animations, so it's a real mood killer. I know it's a horrible excuse for not doing anything for over a year, but that usually seems to be what does it.

*shrug*

I've been programming a lot more than usual lately, so we'll see what happens.

hey that game is kinda cool^^
i like the music in the menu and in the game(but in the menu more =P)

real point and click movement would be great^^
and i got stucked in front of the ruins^^"