Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy!

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Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy!
Studio Alasdair Beckett-King
Publisher Alasdair Beckett-King
Senior Developer Alasdair Beckett-King
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 March 6, 2007
platform Microsoft Windows
Game engine Adventure Game Studio
genre Point-and-click adventure
Subject Pirates
Game mode Single player
control Keyboard , mouse
medium Download
language German, English, French, Spanish
Current version 1.8

Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! is a point-and-click adventure by Alasdair Beckett. It was created with the Adventure Game Studio engine and published on the Internet in March 2007. In February 2014 the game was first published in German; the German translation is by Marcel Weyers . It has also been translated into Spanish and French .

action

On a fictional island, the Barony of Meeth, the player searches for the reason for the disappearance of the spoonbills (the name for spoonbills in the game). A couple of mini-games have to be solved in order to achieve the objective, for example the player has to decipher a coded message and win at duck fishing .

Characters

Nelly Cootalot
Nelly is a young pirate and the protagonist of the series.
Sebastian J. Coot
Nelly Cootalot's feathered assistant.
William Bloodbeard
Nelly's ghost mentor Bloodbeard returns from the depths to send her on missions.
Baron Breitbart
He is the Baron of the Barony of Meeth and an animal abuser who is only out for his own profit.
Baroness
The fashion victim of the South Seas. She is the baron's wife.
Winston Rackham, "the bird man"
He's a great inventor. He takes care of the legendary birds on Bird Island.
Harbor master Van Zandt
The harbor master of Groscheninsel scares honest pirates.
Bartender Friday
He's the bar tender for the "barnacles".
Captain Rehab
An old sea lion who likes to look too deep into the glass.
Professor Mary Jane Morgan
Mary Jane Morgan is a professor of piracy at the University of West Ham.

Game principle and technology

Nelly Cootalot is a point-and-click adventure game . From Sprites composite characters act before hand-drawn, some animated scenes. The player can use the mouse to move his character through the locations and use the mouse buttons to initiate actions that allow the character to interact with his environment. In this way, Nelly can find objects and apply them to the environment or other objects, and communicate with NPCs in multiple-choice dialogues . As the story progresses, more locations will be unlocked.

Production notes

Spoonbeaks Ahoy! was developed by Beckett as a gift for his girlfriend and the pirate protagonist Nelly Cootalot was modeled after her.

The end of the first part already indicated a possible successor. Beckett officially announced the development of the second part in September 2008. The second game is titled Nelly Cootalot II: The Fowl Fleet . It was funded by Kickstarter and was released on March 22, 2016.

reception

The game received praise for the story, music, and fun setting, although some of the puzzles were deemed difficult. While the game's setting and dialogue made it feel like the game was inspired by the Monkey Island series, the originality of the graphic style and gaming experience was praised. It got a rating of 80/100 in the Magazin PC format .

The game won five awards in 2007 on the Adventure Game Studio website: "Best Game Created with AGS", "Best Gameplay", "Best Dialogue Writing", "Best Player Character" and "Best Character Art". It was also voted one of the 20 “Best Freeware Adventure Games” of 2007 by IndieGames.com.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! - German translation. Marcel Weyers, February 24, 2014, accessed April 23, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Luke Plunkett: Nelly Cootaloot Is A Hoot. In: Kotaku. September 14, 2007, archived from the original on October 7, 2012 ; Retrieved October 7, 2008 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Luke Jensen: Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy. In: Adventure Gamers. July 19, 2008, accessed March 1, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! In: Future Publishing . April 2008, accessed October 7, 2008 .
  5. ↑ Alasdair Beckett: Nelly Cootalot II - Tech Demo. Chris Jones, September 21, 2008, accessed October 7, 2008 .
  6. ↑ Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet! (Retro Pirate Adventure). Retrieved June 9, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Thorsten Wiesner: Pirate Nelly on the trail of Monkey Island. In: golem.de. March 28, 2016. Retrieved May 9, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Ernie P. Barin: Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy. In: Abandonia Reloaded . Retrieved October 7, 2008 .
  9. ↑ Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! Reviews. In: GameRankings. Retrieved October 7, 2008 .
  10. ↑ AdventureGamers.com: Woah, Nelly! AGS Awards results announced ( Memento from February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ IndieGames.com's Best Freeware Adventure Games 2007. In: IndieGames.com. January 19, 2008, accessed October 7, 2008 .