Tom’s Surprise
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
A friend wants to pay a visit to Tom and his family, but when getting there, things go differently...
Tom's Surprise is a small point & click adventure inspired by the Carol Reed adventure game series by MDNA Games (mdna-games.com). Game development started as an experiment during a corona lockdown phase after having played the latest Carol Reed game. This first (German only) version got implemented on Wintermute Engine and was released to family and friends.
After discovering the EgoVenture first person adventure framework by deep Entertainment (deep-entertainment.de) running on Godot platform I've ported and enhanced the game and added English localization. A Russian translation provided by Vadim «Leo» Levitin has been included in 1.2 version.
I hope that you enjoy playing it and have as much fun as I had while creating it.
... and now find out whether you will meet Tom or not :-)
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Development log
- Tom's Surprise 1.2 (including Russian translation + small enhancements) availabl...Mar 02, 2022
- Tom's Surprise 1.1 (minor fixes) availableFeb 14, 2022
- Tom's Surprise is releasedFeb 11, 2022
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Thank you so much for the game! I enjoyed it very much.
Hi! I would love to talk with you about this game, we are doing an exhibition about photography based videogames and I don't find our contact info. Can we talk by email? Thanks!
Sure, you're welcome. I've contacted you via mail and Discord.
I also make those kinds of games... but maybe im already too late. heh
Hi velorond! Yes it was a bit late, but it is cool to know you for next time! :)
Ein sehr schönes Schnitzeljagd-Spielchen, in das wirklich sehr viel Mühe gesteckt wurde. Danke dafür! Die idyllischen Fotografien mit sommerlichem Flair bei stets blauem Himmel haben mich persönlich besonders gereizt - es weckt durchaus große Lust, dieses hübsche Örtchen selbst zu besuchen bzw. die Gegend zu bewandern. Die hohe Nutzerfreundlichkeit, insbesondere durch die Hilfefunktion, ist auch überaus erfreulich gewesen. Toll! :-)
Great to see, that other people are also able to master the EgoVenture Template of the Godot Engine. Thank you for showing this to the world.
I myself have built a small trial Adventure for the family based on Wintermute. So I was planning to redo that job sometime with EgoVenture.
This game of you surely excourage me to continue with that plan.
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VERY FUN C & P GAME DEV
Thanks, Tom! It is a very nice and very beautiful little game!
I have met one bug though. After solving all the puzzles and opening the door, the hero said that the door is locked - and the game has been hanged with nothing to do on the screen. I had to exit via Alt-F4 - luckily there was an auto save made before unlocking the door, so the next time everything was fine :)
Thanks Iurius for the kind words.
I was able to reproduce the bug. It happens when unlocking the door and clicking the handle while unlocking is still in process. This will get fixed in the next version.
Nice!
By the way, I have made the news of the game on our Russian site: http://questzone.ru/news/EyuuZFpyApweABPVOh
And one my friend there is asking you if you are interested in having a Russian translation of the game made :) He has translated all Carol Reed games into Russian.
Thanks for spreading the word.
Concerning a Russian translation I might consider it, I got a similar offer on another channel, but I won't promise anything :-)