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JDWasabi — HUNGRY WHISPERS BETA2 - PLAYABLE DEMO (link)
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Download the MAC version here.



Good morning!

First up, sorry that this submission is a little bit late. The team and I have been busy juggling many, many things and I am proud to say we can present another demo! A full year has passed and what better way to mark another milestone in the team's creative ability and to showcase what we've been up to!

Please note that this is a BETA DEMO. This is our 2nd demonstration which is (hopefully) a vast improvement from our first. To sum the new features:
- Improved overall writing
- General programming
- New tutorial
- Improved inventory system
- New music
- New artwork

This is in no way a finished product but a demonstration showing what we're currently working on.

Noted errors:
- Spelling/grammatical mistakes
- Character name errors
- Wrong dialogue
- Playing offline / fullscreen mode will enable you to see my mad Flash tweening skills. This will be fixed for the full version XD

Do let me know of any more glitches and weird errors! We can't fix it if we don't know about it!

I am aware that this is submitted under the Flash/Game category. Due to how our programmer has programmed it, the engine needs to reference external sources for the dialogue (in .XML format) and cutscenes(.swf) to work properly. The advantage of this is that it cuts loading time by miles and it makes it easier for all of us to change and tweak different parts of the game without having to go into the master Flash file. This in turn makes it easier for us as a team to work on it as well as players with slow internet connections ... and many other practical reasons that I can't quite remember off the top of my head at the moment.

If you feel that this project is in the wrong category please let me know.

About HW/Team Wasabi:
Hungry Whispers / Project Whispers is an open game project for anyone interested in a career in the game industry.
It is a stepping stone to improve our creative skill and to see whether we can make something awesome.

The original HW demo started out as my university dissertation and to help with its production I formed a small team. I wanted to focus on the music/audio side of an interactive environment so a simple point and click/visual novel styled horror game resulted.

We ended up having so much fun that we decided to work on a full version for the hell of it. I've also opened the project to new potential team members because I believe we can learn so much in the process.

That's all the rambling I can write for the moment. I'm pretty sure I'll edit this comment section when I think up of something.

It's been a small roller coaster for everyone to work on this project in our free time for a whole year but I can certainly say that it's worth it. We've got an actual project to showcase and I'm so, so grateful for my team sticking with me. Thanks guys. I'll buy you proper cake when I'm not poor .

For the guys and gals who've stumbled upon this project for the first time...hey! I hope you enjoy our work-in-progress game that we've been working on! Feel free to leave a comment and all that jazz.

I've rambled for far too much in this comment. So all I can really say is...enjoy! And look forward to Halloween!

-Wasabi

Extended credits because they couldn't all fit in the text box of FlashCS5 D: :
Head Honcho/All audio / cutscenes/sprites / interface / main story :
Programming master:
3D Items / Game design:
Backgrounds: Mongoose
Background colouring:
Editor:

Additional writers:

Culture consultant:

Special thanks (pretty certain I may forget someone so this will be updated in due time):
YOU.

Programs used:
- Adobe Flash CS5 / Actionscript 3
- Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Logic Pro 8
- MAYA 8
- 3D Studio Max
- Internet

LINKS!
Hungry Whispers Teaser Demo (original, Beta1)
is our Team group account! Feel free to watch to keep up to date with the progress of our projects. If you're interested in joining the team, do get in touch with me!

----
This is a work of fiction, any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Ghost Month/Festival is a real festival celebrated in many parts of Asian and has been a large inspiration for this work.

Project Whispers © Team Wasabi 2012

[ps Ah...new dA submit thing...can't preview this epic comment...will update later...]
[pps longest...comment...eveeeer].
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Comments: 88

JDWasabi In reply to ??? [2013-10-18 02:47:00 +0000 UTC]

Hello!


For this demo, it does stop at the low battery! You'll need to download the file to play further.  


Thanks for playing

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11WolfAngel In reply to JDWasabi [2013-10-19 02:31:53 +0000 UTC]

thanks for the tip it works now

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OceansCurse [2013-05-01 11:43:35 +0000 UTC]

Looks great, A lot of thing I wanted to mention in the first beta got fixed already in the second one. Except for maybe the inventory, which looks much better in the second one, you might just want to leave a little white bar of it at the top at all times. Makes it just a bit more present. Another idea might be having your own mouse icon. Love how it's getting along

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JDWasabi In reply to OceansCurse [2013-05-02 11:25:09 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for the comment!

A white bar is a really good idea, just to give an indication that there's something there and improve userbility. Ooooh...personalised mouse icons! I've no idea how to do that within Flash but it's definitely something I can look into soon!

Thanks again for taking the time to look at our work! We can only get better with each upload ^_^

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OceansCurse In reply to JDWasabi [2013-05-02 12:16:45 +0000 UTC]

No problem looking forward to seeing more

Hmm don't know if you have a function to replace the cursor with a bitmap, otherwise you could just make a movieclip and give it the x and y position of the mouse . Sure there is some way haha.

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JDWasabi In reply to OceansCurse [2013-07-10 16:25:04 +0000 UTC]

Late reply is damn late but thank you for the idea! We should be releasing the next part of our demo this Sat

Thanks for the support

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OceansCurse In reply to JDWasabi [2013-07-11 09:31:11 +0000 UTC]

slowpoke :3 I'm looking forward to it give me a headsup when it's online

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JDWasabi In reply to OceansCurse [2013-08-04 15:46:31 +0000 UTC]

Late reply is late -shot-


The demo didn't happen but we're in the middle of uuhh fixing some errors lol! Cheers!

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OceansCurse In reply to JDWasabi [2013-08-04 16:02:14 +0000 UTC]

Lol seems you've been busy


Good luck debugging and keep me up to date

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JDWasabi In reply to OceansCurse [2013-08-04 16:16:37 +0000 UTC]

Yeh pretty much! Haha thank you! I'll try my best, and will do! ^_^ (are you watching my account or the JDWasabi account? Knowing I'll forget to update you haha //slapped)

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OceansCurse In reply to JDWasabi [2013-08-04 21:43:03 +0000 UTC]

only watching this account didn't know you have another :'D

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JDWasabi In reply to OceansCurse [2013-08-04 22:15:19 +0000 UTC]

Oh no that's fine! Heads up that I tend to ramble on my personal account haha but there is concentrated Hungry Whispers goodness on though! Sorry for the confusion \o/

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OceansCurse In reply to JDWasabi [2013-08-04 22:25:31 +0000 UTC]

No prob watching ya now

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JDWasabi In reply to OceansCurse [2013-08-04 22:55:52 +0000 UTC]

OH! Thank you! I wasn't asking for you to watch you if it seemed implied but yay! Thanks so much ^ ^


I've returned the favour ;D

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DaiTigris [2012-12-05 03:07:36 +0000 UTC]

Well seeings as It's not loading past the low battery section on here I went and downloaded it just to double check to see if there where any problems. The downloaded version loaded just fine after. Out of curiosity what font did you guys use for this, I can clearly tell from the missing commas (that appear as blank boxes) that it's not one currently on my computer.

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JDWasabi In reply to DaiTigris [2012-12-05 03:26:34 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the feedback! Glad to see that the downloaded version actually works (phew!)

I actually have no idea what font was used as ~flippinmental is in charge of programming. The font seems to work fine on Windows but not on Macs, definitely something for us to work on!

Thanks again for the feedback *w*

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DaiTigris In reply to JDWasabi [2012-12-05 03:36:05 +0000 UTC]

I have a slightly older computer(Win XP) so it might just not be a default font on mine.
No problem (:

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JDWasabi In reply to DaiTigris [2012-12-09 01:31:18 +0000 UTC]

That could be it! It might be something to do with using a default font on a windows language pack thing. At well, guess that's what betas are for ;D. Thankies again!

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Epiclone [2012-11-04 17:38:20 +0000 UTC]

NUooo, it seems that its not going pass the 'Low-batt' section!? T_T

and im using mac so i cant download this ver...this is a very sad day...

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jessid13 In reply to Epiclone [2012-11-20 02:56:21 +0000 UTC]

It's not going past the "Low Battery" thing for me, either. And I'm on a Windows PC.

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JDWasabi In reply to Epiclone [2012-11-04 18:39:09 +0000 UTC]

For some reason, we're having trouble exporting it into a playable mac version so...I FEEL YOUR PAIN DUDE!

I haven't even played it properly either....LOLOL.

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Epiclone In reply to JDWasabi [2012-11-05 17:18:27 +0000 UTC]

whuttt, hahaha, but you oversees the whole process right?
well anyhoo, let me know when the Mac ver is out ye. If not i'll try playin it at my mate's or sth

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JDWasabi In reply to Epiclone [2012-11-14 17:07:58 +0000 UTC]

Pretty much in a way! But all programming is all ~flippinmental 's doing so even if I were able to look at the code and see how it's exported and all that I wouldn't have a clue XD.

No problem! Are you watching ? All updates will be there ;D

Thanks for the support man

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Epiclone In reply to JDWasabi [2012-12-02 12:06:54 +0000 UTC]

I am 'watching' your studio page now . Soz for really slow turtle reply, haven't been on DA for awhile now, just been busy with uni stuff and all (i'm glad xmas break is finally comin!). Hows things goin JD?

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JDWasabi In reply to Epiclone [2012-12-05 02:40:58 +0000 UTC]

Woo!

We've set up base on various social media sites like FB etc XD You can always catch us on there too! How's uni going for you?!

I've been mega busy on my end with my new job so I've not had time to even work on HW for the past few weeks. *Weeps* but now that we've a deadline out, I don't want to stop my momentum of working on something ^ ^. Really great to hear from you again

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KrissSpore [2012-11-01 12:51:36 +0000 UTC]

well, its not working on the end of the intro

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JDWasabi In reply to KrissSpore [2012-11-01 14:19:40 +0000 UTC]

Yep! You need to download the game for reasons rambled in the comments section There's only a windows version up I'm afraid.

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Interela1000 [2012-10-29 18:08:43 +0000 UTC]

Awesome!^^

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JDWasabi In reply to Interela1000 [2012-11-01 14:36:08 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I hope you enjoyed it!

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Ugh-first-aid [2012-10-25 03:03:51 +0000 UTC]

O AO absolutelly GORGEOUES! MY GOD I WANT TO FIND OUT MORE! > w 👍: 0 ⏩: 1

JDWasabi In reply to Ugh-first-aid [2012-10-28 00:20:38 +0000 UTC]

Eee thank you!

Glad to hear that you're enjoying the story! I just need to finish writing it out fully XD.

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Ugh-first-aid In reply to JDWasabi [2012-10-28 05:47:44 +0000 UTC]

O A O it's seriously going to be amazing!!!! >///< <3 I can't wait to see more!!!

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JDWasabi In reply to Ugh-first-aid [2012-11-02 06:00:22 +0000 UTC]

Thank you...for all the love

Your support means so much maaaan! >ww<

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MysteryCJGamer [2012-10-25 01:12:19 +0000 UTC]

Why!? ;A;
This is in the way from having my game being number one best game on da in the last 3 days...
It's number 2...

Oh well...

at least it good!
Because if this wasn't as good as mine then I would be jeoulus...

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JDWasabi In reply to MysteryCJGamer [2012-10-25 02:44:47 +0000 UTC]

Eh? Really?!

That's...kinda cool! I didn't know that, thanks for telling me!

Aah you make games too? What have you been working on?

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MysteryCJGamer In reply to JDWasabi [2012-10-25 03:19:21 +0000 UTC]

Yep! ^w^

I was working on this!-->[link]

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JDWasabi In reply to MysteryCJGamer [2012-10-25 12:21:37 +0000 UTC]

I've had a go and made a comment

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MysteryCJGamer In reply to JDWasabi [2012-10-25 16:14:14 +0000 UTC]

Ok! Thanks! ^w^

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JJmyster22 [2012-10-22 23:01:10 +0000 UTC]

I love it, but is it supposed to be just a black screen after the first few slides?

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JDWasabi In reply to JJmyster22 [2012-10-22 23:42:57 +0000 UTC]

In this upload, yep! I've just uploaded the opening sequence.

There is a download link for the actual demo in the comments section, it should take you to Mediafire where you'll download a .zip. In the zip is a .exe file where you can play the playable demo .

Any problems, don't hesitate to let me know.

Thanks!

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JJmyster22 In reply to JDWasabi [2012-10-23 02:46:37 +0000 UTC]

I have a Mac

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JDWasabi In reply to JJmyster22 [2012-10-23 03:17:03 +0000 UTC]

A mac download will be coming soon, I'll update the comment section when it is available. Thanks!

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JJmyster22 In reply to JDWasabi [2012-10-23 21:53:04 +0000 UTC]

Alright, you're welcome!

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JDWasabi In reply to JJmyster22 [2012-12-05 01:46:36 +0000 UTC]

So sorry about the delay! We've a working mac version now! [link] I hope you enjoy when you get a chance to play it

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JJmyster22 In reply to JDWasabi [2012-12-06 01:00:33 +0000 UTC]

Definitely!

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acewalker04 [2012-10-22 11:33:34 +0000 UTC]

Wow this will be one of the awesome games in DA.
I can't wait and am pretty sure same for the others!

Good luck with it~!!!

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JDWasabi In reply to acewalker04 [2012-10-22 23:40:53 +0000 UTC]

Really?! Wow thanks for the comment! I'm really happy you enjoyed it!

Comments like yours really keep myself and the team in high spirits so thank you again

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Rope-Shrine-Maiden [2012-10-22 11:32:36 +0000 UTC]

This is so awesome so far I love this kind of stuff! I look forward to more ^^

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JDWasabi In reply to Rope-Shrine-Maiden [2012-10-22 23:39:39 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much! Little baby steps at a time XD

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LilyNion [2012-10-22 11:15:58 +0000 UTC]

DD;< MAKEE IT FOR MACBOOOOKK -yell- I really really wanne try it out QQ

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