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Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production

Posted By: BrownEyedTigre

Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 03/21/14 03:19 AM

You can follow along the with the development on blog here.

Check out the demo here.

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Birmingham, UK, 19th March, 2014 – Indie adventure game Troll Song is back in production! The game had been in hiatus for a number of months, with original programmer / artist Tino “Knoodn” Bensing unable to commit to the project long-term. Shortly before the game’s short demo, available since January 2013, won the Best Demo Award at the 2013 AGS Awards, 2 new team members were recruited to make the trolls sing again.

Joining Writer and Game Designer Dave “CaptainD” Seaman (winner of the Best Demo award 2 years running, after last year’s win with Captain Disaster in Death Has A Million Stomping Boots) are Dimitrios "Dualnames" Thanasias-Spanos (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Remake, Downfall, The Cat Lady, Primordia, Resonance) as Programmer and Andrea “AprilSkies” Ferrara , creator of Donald Dowell and the Ghost of Barkwell Manor, which received multiple nominations at the AGS Awards 2013 - all the more amazing since it was his debut game!

Find out a little more about the new team members and see some of the graphics from Donald Dowell that made Andrea a perfect fit for Troll Song here - http://www.troll-song.com/2014/03/exciting-news-troll-fans.html

Both Dimitrios and Andrea have already done some tremendous work on Troll Song, with some of the evidence viewable here - http://www.troll-song.com/2014/03/progress-couple-of-screens.html

The game will now be developed under the Team Disaster label, as per Dave’s other games in the Captain Disaster series of titles, though the demo will remain under the LEM Studios label. Troll Song is planned for release towards the end of 2014, depending on the circumstances of the individual team members and successful (or not!) attempts to gain funding. Previously planned as an episodic game, Troll Song will now be developed and released as a full-length adventure game.

Although the full game will be a commercial release, Verse One – a short but complete game (though obviously only the first part of the full storyline) – will still be released as freeware. Troll Song aims to be a unique game while still bringing back strong memories of beloved LucasArts adventure game classics. The game uses a 6-verb interface with a trollish slant.



Happy Gaming!

Ana wave
Posted By: MaG

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 03/21/14 03:37 AM

Thanks, Ana.
Posted By: traveler

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 03/21/14 03:55 AM

"Previously planned as an episodic game, Troll Song will now be developed and released as a full-length adventure game."

I love it already. grin

Gil.
Posted By: Marian

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 03/21/14 05:00 AM

Thanks, Ana. smile
Posted By: Mad

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 03/21/14 10:00 AM

Originally Posted By: traveler
"Previously planned as an episodic game, Troll Song will now be developed and released as a full-length adventure game."

I love it already. grin

Gil.


Me too, traveler thumbsup

And thank you for that news, BrownEyedTigre smile
Posted By: CaptainD

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 03/21/14 10:28 AM

Thanks for posting about our game Ana! laugh
Posted By: Kaki's Sister

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 03/21/14 10:57 AM

Cool Ana!~ Good Luck CaptainD!
Posted By: BrownEyedTigre

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 03/21/14 02:02 PM

My pleasure CaptainD! I'm happy to hear the project is going forward. yay
Posted By: traveler

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 03/21/14 11:10 PM

Clod is so cute.
I'm really looking forward to Verse One and I'm glad F-I-I-I-N-G-S! are working out for you, CaptainD!

grin

Gil.
Posted By: CaptainD

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 04/01/14 01:25 PM

Clod is NOT cute!! laugh

Things are progressing really well, I think we'll have the first verse (which will be released as a standalone freeware game) ready in a month or possibly even less. smile
Posted By: traveler

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 04/01/14 01:50 PM

Originally Posted By: CaptainD
Clod is NOT cute!! laugh


Sez who?
Clod hurt. sad

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Things are progressing really well, I think we'll have the first verse (which will be released as a standalone freeware game) ready in a month or possibly even less. smile


Gimme!

Gil.
Posted By: BrownEyedTigre

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 04/01/14 02:55 PM

Great news CaptainD!

Ana wave
Posted By: Mad

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 04/01/14 05:59 PM

I so agree !! broccoli
Posted By: CaptainD

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 04/03/14 11:44 PM

Thanks for the encouragement everyone.

I have to say that GB has been one of the most supportive and friendly communities I've come across on the web.

Work is progressing very nicely indeed. Don't forget you can always follow the dev blog - http://www.troll-song.com/ - but I'll keep this thread updated with important updates. smile
Posted By: CaptainD

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 05/07/14 06:58 PM

Fairly major announcement - we've got a new voice actor for Clod, the game's main character:
http://www.troll-song.com/2014/05/clod-not-sound-same-now.html
Posted By: BrownEyedTigre

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 05/07/14 08:16 PM

Very cool Captain D! Thanks for the news!

Ana wave
Posted By: Marian

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 05/07/14 08:29 PM

Thanks for the update, CaptainD. smile
Posted By: CaptainD

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 11/12/14 03:45 PM

Been a while since I updated this!

So... we've been steadily working on it, Verse One is complete and fully playtested, Verse II is almost complete and partially tested, Verse III is being mapped out.

If anyone is going to Adventure-X, I'll be demoing the game there.

The Dev Blog has also had a bit of a facelift - http://www.troll-song.com/
Posted By: BrownEyedTigre

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 11/12/14 05:24 PM

Sounds like you have been making a lot of progress! Well done!

Ana wave
Posted By: Mad

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 11/12/14 08:38 PM

Great !! So good to hear, thank you !! happydance happydance
Posted By: Marian

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 11/12/14 09:03 PM

Thanks for keeping us posted, CaptainD. wave
Posted By: CaptainD

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 11/13/14 06:00 PM

Thanks guys and gals!

Some of you may be pleased to hear that we've announced today that there will be a native Linux version.
Posted By: BrownEyedTigre

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 11/13/14 06:36 PM

Awesome CaptainD!

Ana wave
Posted By: CaptainD

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 11/15/14 12:56 AM

I should have done this ages ago... given the devblog a proper revamp, including a nice selection of screenshots from most of the areas currently in the game build:

http://www.troll-song.com/p/screenshots.html
Posted By: BrownEyedTigre

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 11/15/14 01:23 AM

Thanks CaptainD, Looking good!
Posted By: CaptainD

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 11/25/14 12:36 PM

DO feed the Trolls!

Er... only in this specific case, I mean.

We're hosting a poll on the Troll Song Dev Blog to see when people would like us to release the freeware "Verse One" of the game. It will essentially replace the existing demo - which no longer represents the quality of the game as a whole - and common publishing wisdom says to wait until about a month or so before the full game's release before putting the demo out there. However, we've decided to let the people who actually want to play the game the choice rather than go with conventional wisdom. laugh

So please head over to http://www.troll-song.com/ and cast your vote!
Posted By: Marian

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 11/25/14 04:05 PM

Thanks for letting us know, CaptainD. thumbsup
Posted By: BrownEyedTigre

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 11/25/14 05:15 PM

lol It's a reminder to myself to not let the trolls get the better of me.

A Troll Song on the other hand is a thing of goodness! grin
Posted By: Mad

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 11/25/14 10:42 PM

laugh laugh laugh
Posted By: CaptainD

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 12/02/14 03:48 PM

LAST DAY TO VOTE!

Looks like "As Soon As Possible" is going to win with currently 57% of the votes... (Considering the entire Verse One has been ready to roll for a while now, "ASAP" should really be pretty soon.)

http://www.troll-song.com/

If anyone's going to Adventure-X, I'll see you there! laugh
Posted By: CaptainD

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 12/04/14 02:15 PM

The people have spoken! (And the trolls have been fed...)

http://www.troll-song.com/2014/12/the-vote-is-in.html

Verse One is going to be released as freeware soon. I can't give you a definite date right now, but it will definitely be before the end of January 2015, possibly before the end of December 2014.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H3VjspxeR6M/VH18v3-I6JI/AAAAAAAAeIM/YBuaqCajq84/s1600/CLOD.png
Posted By: BrownEyedTigre

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 12/04/14 04:18 PM

Sounds great CaptainD!

Ana wave
Posted By: CaptainD

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 12/11/14 11:09 PM

A little bit of news...

- G+ Page Launched
- New Teaser Trailer imminent
- Game presented at Adventure-X, not many there unfortunately, not sure if the camera got a decent recording for AdventureTreff yet...
- Freeware Verse One being polished ready for final testing
- Work continues on Verse Three!
- Music for the rest of Verse Two should soon be delivered
Posted By: BrownEyedTigre

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 12/12/14 02:08 AM

You've been busy!

Ana :wave:
Posted By: CaptainD

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 12/30/14 03:29 PM

We are now in full testing for the freeware release of Verse I: Completely Stoned. Not long now!!!
http://www.troll-song.com/2014/12/test-build-ho.html

Concept art for Verse III:
http://www.troll-song.com/2014/12/verse-iii-concept-art.html
Posted By: BrownEyedTigre

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 12/30/14 04:09 PM

Excellent!
Posted By: CaptainD

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 01/21/15 01:53 PM

Okay, quick update - it's taken a little longer than expected because we decided to add a short tutorial section (after all, some people are weird and have never actually played a point and click adventure game before! Yes I know, it's hard to believe...) - designing, scripting and debugging this has proved to be rather more involving than we'd expected, but it's basically done now and once we're happy with it we'll give the testers one final chance to try to break the game.

Verse One should definitely still be here on time! (We only promised it for by the end of January! laugh )
Posted By: BrownEyedTigre

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 01/21/15 05:39 PM

Sounds great!

Ana wave
Posted By: CaptainD

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 01/29/15 10:45 PM

Greetings once more, Troll Fans!

We promised you the complete freeware game (which also, unlike the existing demo, serves as a proper taster of the full game which is curently in development) by the end of January 2015 - so we've just about done it!

http://gamejolt.com/games/adventure/troll-song-verse-one/16925/

Just make sure you download "Troll Song Verse One - Completely Stoned" not the Demo build from the Downloads list laugh

Hope you enjoy the game! It's not very long but it should take you a while to work out all the puzzle solutions, and certainly you get a little flavour of the overall storyline.
Posted By: BrownEyedTigre

Re: Indie Adventure - Troll Song is Back in Production - 01/29/15 11:08 PM

Thanks CaptainD!
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