LANCELOT'S HANGOVER

A whole life to find the Holy Grail
One alcohol-filled night to lose it

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Check out the video here.

Lancelot's first beta is available!
Free! 20-minute-long!

Including knights in underwear!


http://www.lancelotshangover.com/point-and-click-adventure-video-game/download


This first beta shows you the humour, the dialogs, the main characters and the graphical style of the game. A later beta, scheduled for October 2014, will introduce you the funny puzzles and the point-and-click gameplay.

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Hi everyone

I'm from Belgium and I'm designing a funny and old-school point and click adventure game for PC and Mac.

Here's the pitch:
After a 10-year quest, Lancelot and his fellow Gawain have found the Holy Grail! Immediately informed, King Arthur runs to meet the most valiant knights of the Round Table. While their king brings them fortune and fame, Lancelot and Gawain celebrate their victory over a few beers. The next morning, Lancelot wakes up in his underwear in a gay bar. The keeper tells him that he has lost the Holy Grail playing cards and Gawain has been kidnapped by environmental activists. If he does not want to be killed by Arthur, Lancelot has to get back the Grail and his companion in arms before the king of Britain discovers what happened.

I've started this thread on this forum to introduce you the game's developpement. I will be extremely glad to get your comments, advices and suggestions. My goal is to provide you the funniest point and click I can.

If you have questions about the sorywriting, the making of the artworks, the code stuff, the list of all psychoactive drugs consumed to craft the puzzles and the 'creative' businness plan behind the game financing (and yes, all the rumours about the offshore accounts and the ties with the Russian mafia you read on the Internet are true!), feel from to drop me a comment. I'll make my best to reply the most sincerely I can.


If you want to test the game, a beta is coming very soon. I'll give a download link on this forum. Or if it's handier for you, I'll tweet the link on @Lancelot_game

Thanks

Jean-Baptiste

Jean-Baptiste and for the information.

to GameBoomers, Jean-Baptiste. Best wishes for your game, and I will check out the links.

You are nuts, Jean-Baptiste!
You had me laughing right off the bat.
Good luck with your endeavor and be sure to provide that link!

Gil.

to GameBoomers Jean-Baptiste! Best of luck with your game.

Ana

Thanks a lot MaG, Marian, Gil and Ana I really appreciate Be sure I look forward to present you the beta!

One question to the moderators: going back to this thread, watching for replies, I realized some images I've posted into the first post was removed. Is it because there were too much of them? I'm a newbie here, got to learn the do's and don'ts

declerfayt, thank you very much for the announcement! The game looks and sounds just great. I especially like its bright and medieval graphics style - it is very similar to 'The Yawhg'.

But some things in its humor makes me feel rather uneasy - is all that 'gay bar' theme really necessary, for example?

(You can look at the example of 'Al Emmo' recently released on Steam - while it is indeed a classic game following best traditions of Sierra and Lucasarts, too much innuendo and filthy humor did ruin the fun for many adventure-loving gamers...)

Well now, Iurii, your mentioning a 'gay bar' theme makes it all the more enticing for this gamer. Everyone's sense of humour and mischief is different. Not every developer is aiming for the mainstream. I applaud that.

Iurii, just like Rushes, I too enjoy the non mainstream humor and themes. It is nice to have choices. If all developers made the same thing, it would be very boring and I myself enjoy an adult or more mature theme. I also loved Al emmo! He had me laughing all the way through.

Jean-Baptiste, I did turn your video into a link to save bandwidth. Generally, we link to screens also in order to save bandwidth. I did not edit it originally but it was likely done for that reason.

Ana

Thanks Iurii for the games! I love The Yawhg's graphics and Al Emmo seems pretty fun! Gotta have to try! And thanks for the compliments. I appreciate! Don't be afraid about filthy humor (although that kind of stuff makes me laugh too), my game's more absurd-Monty-Python-oriented (you'll know what I mean when playing the beta, you'll talk to the medieval gay bar keeper - stay tune Iurri!

Thanks Rushes You got it! I don't care about mainstream indeed. I just want to make my best to develop a point and click game that whould be making me laugh the way I did when I was a teen in the early 90's. And my bet is that other players would be interrested too to play with that kind of games. I just make this game for fans like me

Thanks Ana for the humor and themes I was replying when you posted your message

No prob about the brandwidth. I understand managing brandwidth is pretty necessary for a forum, especially with video stuff. I've just realised I was able to embed YouTube links in posts, that's cool

Looking forward to your game, declerfayt Sounds like something I would definitely enjoy !!

declerfayt,

Did you know that Gameboomer's MaG is the foremost walkthrough writer in the Adventure Game world?
I am definitely looking forward to her walkthrough in the required Serbo-Croatian language.



Gil.

I think I heard her faint...

What a naughty traveler !!!!

Let's see...Google Translate says that means, "Oh, boy, I just can't wait!"



Gil.

Thanks Mad for your comment

Well, MaG, don't be afraid of the Serbo-Croatian transalation of the walkthrough. You'll only need regular day-to-day lexicon to explain the first 20 different endings of Lancelot's Hangover, but for the last 50...

Yes, there is nothing to be afraid of, as Serbo-Croatian is not a very difficult language. Such a great mind as MaG could learn it even before the game will be out.
But may I hope that the game itself will be in Walloon? Or at least in medieval Gaelic?

That would be rather easier for me in Walloon Iurri

Hi Jean-Baptiste I just love the humour & will definitely be trying your game!

Thanks a lot chrissie. I'll keep you posted

MaG's favorite kind of WT's to write! The more ending the better!

Hey Jean-Baptiste, just one concern - you've included a couple of familiar soundtracks one that I know as the song 'I'm too Sexy' - please say that you have permission to use it as I don't want to see you sued for breach of music copyright!

Well chrissie, about the copyright stuff, my lawyer told me that... Look behind you!! A three-headed monkey!!!

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More seriously chrissie, I'm more like "it's better to apologize rather than ask for permission" (not really sure you can say that in English, but you get the idea). Lancelot is a free small one-person projet. I don't earn money with it, so I don't make money with other person's work, and I respect YouTube's rules about music from 3rd party (actually, you can use music if it lasts less than 30 seconds). Anyway, if copyright holders complains, I'll erase the music. And if they sue me, well, I'm [blip] broke so there not much to take from my pockets
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BrownEyedTigre: you make me want to craft the most difficult game ever in Serbo-Croation, just to make it fun for the WT

declerfayt: you make me want to hang up my walkthrough writing activities.