The Incredible Shrinking Character is a cancelled action adventure game that was in development by Go-Go Interactive Studios and that would have been published by Cyberdreams for the Playstation, Saturn and PC in 1996. The plot involved a crazy doctor that shrinked the main character with an experimental potion. Players would had to explore the (now) huge laboratory resolving puzzles, to find a way to return to normal. As we can read at Bill Narum’website, former owner of Go Go Studios:
The year is 1959. You are a Private Investigator hired to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Julie Caldwell, daughter of a wealthy east-coast industrialist family. The subject, in her early twenties, was last reported heading to visit the home and laboratory of Dr. Warren Franklin. […]
On the afternoon of January 30th, you head off to the doctor’s castle for the interview of a lifetime. Unknown to you, Dr. Franklin has laid a trap, and you awaken in a stupor to find yourself only 3 feet tall and gradually shrinking. You realize now that finding Julie will be no simple task. […]
Another reoccurring sound you can’t help but notice is that of a female screaming, most likely the victimized Julie. The volume and intensity increases as you approach the dungeon. You must find the antidote and save Julie soon, but first you must evade becoming dinner for the doctor’s house cat, and numerous other deadly creatures, bats, rats, roaches and ants, etc. that inhabit the mysterious castle.
They planned at least 10 levels in the game, in which the main character would have shrinked more and more each hour, leaving us to deal with big ants and size-based puzzles. A short preview of The Incredible Shrinking Character with some screens were published in NextGeneration magazine issue 14 and some more info on the project can be found at Bill Narum’website. You can even download a playable beta demo for PC! Huge props to Bill for preserving some documents of this lost game!
Thanks to Celine for the contribution! Thanks to Ari for a backup of the demo!
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In general:
http://www.game-nostalgia.com/companies/cyberdreams/cyberdreams_company_history6.html
Specific ( Trailer, Demo etc. ):
http://www.gogoagogo.com/gogocom/iscg/iscgame1.htm
Trailer on youtube ( with at the end another cancelled game, Submission ):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHuFHjd3pbs
Post updated! Awesome links Celine :)
really cool the idea of the scream plus being small I wonder if that was influenced somehow by The Fly 1958 film.
monokoma can you upload the demo please
Mmmh interesting, so they removed the demo from their website! I have to check if i still have the file, i will search in my archive this weekend
thank you very much
monokoma if you find the file upload it in mediafire or rapidshare
thanks monokoma but they guved me the demo but why is in first person the demo shouldnt be 3d in third person
well the demo for pc is only a test for collision and for see what graphics have the game if you want this demo i will giveto you but the more playable is the beta for psx some curator says there is a beta with all 10 levels but ist not a beta because the beta stopped at 50 percent so level 9 10 was unfinished and level 7 was buggy but you know whatwe need to ask to continue the project for ps1 and pc for tribute to bill narum
well i am positive at the source even if isnt 3d because thi was alpha character was still in project but the bad of this everityme you get stuck and youcan get out games crash
Interesting, could you make a video of this demo? It would be nice to see :D Is there someone to contact to ask for the PSX beta? Maybe they can share it too ;P
i will do my channel on yourube is roberto 67024 and for the psx beta but i have an idea bill narum the creator of the game died so we ask to someone wo work with his project to continue it for psx saturn and pc for fans and for tribute to bill narum
monokoma i cant record but here is the new site to download the incredible shrinking character http://www.gogoagogo.com/gogonet/download/download.htm
more information cyberdreams got the final beta test version for shrinking character before scrapting it would be awesome if we can buy that build of this game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5d0G63CcPo&feature=youtu.be
Checkout i made the gameplay of the game
Nice! Thanks a lot solidsnake =)
gogoagogo links are dead
it would be great if someone could upload this demo
The demo and “subdemo” >> https://archive.org/details/Gogodemo.
A warning about this demo. It’s is completely messed up on my modern system. Your character falls through the level and then crash every time. Plan to test it on a real Win9x machine later. Forget the bat file and just copy all the texture files from the “gogotext” folder into the main game folder and then run the exe. Not much to it that I can see, but then again I keep falling through the floor. LOL
For some odd reason when you click on that link above it drops the period at the end which is part of the actual web address. So copy that link with the period at the end and paste it into a new address bar or tab and then enter. Link will work then. Cheers.