Another DG game: the search of the batteries

[Volcan]

My first AGS game is now out.

Another DG game: the search of the batteries

Feel free to try it.

http://membres.lycos.fr/agisite/dgsfb.htm



Robin Gravel

[DGMacphee]

WTF??? A DG game???

Am I missing something???

Why are people making games about me???

This is just like that Being John Malkovich movie...



BTW, I wholeheartedly support this game for "Best Player Character" in the upcoming AGS Awards!

[Volcan]

WTF??? A DG game???

Am I missing something???

Why are people making games about me???

This is just like that Being John Malkovich movie...

Hi DGMacphee

You'll find all my DG games at:
http://membres.lycos.fr/agisite/agisite.htm

You'll find 'DG: the adventure game' and DG: the agimouse adventure game' at My agi games section.

Another DG game: I want my c64 back in sci games section.

BTW, I wholeheartedly support this game for "Best Player Character" in the upcoming AGS Awards!

Do I need to register my game to get nominee at the next AGS Awards?

Robin Gravel

[Esseb]

And people accuse me of being a stalker?

[DGMacphee]

Don't worry, Robin... As long as you've posted the AGS game on this board, I'll register it... I'll be doing most of the updates in the next week or so...

[petaglair]

hi robin
so you are not dorcan but volcan
i like your site i laughed a lot reading it
are you from france?
i'll try your game soon...
tout les jeux du site ne sont pas de toi à  ce que j'ai cru comprendre, c'est  bien ça?

Pétaglair

[Volcan]

are you from france?

No. I live at Quebec, Canada

tout les jeux du site ne sont pas de toi à  ce que j'ai cru comprendre, c'est  bien ça?

Oui en effet. Je rassemble tous les jeux d'aventures et tous les jeux de rôles sur mon site.

Robin Gravel

[Czar]

AWwwwwww,
sweet talk.
I can do it too, Mushy kushy dolki molki kaka baka seshe.Comprende?

[Czar]

AWwwwwww,
sweet talk.
I can do it too, Mushy kushy dolki molki kaka baka seshe.Comprende?

[Volcan]

Hi Czar

AWwwwwww,
sweet talk.
I can do it too, Mushy kushy dolki molki kaka baka seshe.Comprende?

I understand English and French only.

Volcan

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Ok, so this is a very old thread. But I've been trying to play this game, found a way to make it work (which it didn't, at least not for me), and would like to share.

If you're having severe trouble playing this game (i.e., can't even see the screen before an error message pops up), here's what you have to do:

Rename "dgsfb.exe" to "ac2game.ags";
Download this 2.52 version of AGS: http://aafiles.bicycle-for-slugs.org/ags/ags_252.zip
Extract ONLY the "acwin.exe" file to the game's directory (i.e., where newly-renamed "ac2game.ags" can be found);
Make a shortcut of "acwin.exe", open the shortcut's "Properties" tab, and on "Shortcut", in the first field, where it would say something like ["C:\Games\QFBatteries\acwin.exe"] add "--setup" AFTER the inverted commas, like so: ["C:\Games\QFBatteries\acwin.exe" --setup];
Rename the shortcut to WinSetup;
And run "acwin.exe" to play the game.

Wouldn't work with previous executable engines, INCLUDING 2.50, the one the game was apparently made in, or with the latest, so I hunted around and 2.52 seemed to fit the bill. It's an old game, probably not many people remember it, but if this helps someone, I'll be all warm and tingly inside.

[Volcan]

Hi Rui

I never have problem running Another DG game or I'll never release it to the public. I use Win98.

Do you use XP?


Robin Gravel

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

I got the following message:

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Illegal exception
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An exception 0xC0000005 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x004A2AEC; program pointer is -91, ACI version 2.50.390, gtags (0,0)

AGS cannot continue, this exception was fatal. Please note down the numbers above, remember what you were doing at the time and notify CJ on the Tech forum.


---------------------------
OK   
---------------------------

Using WinXP Pro, probably SP2. Still, it's no biggie - if anyone else has this problem, they now know what to do.

[Volcan]

I see

XP released in 2004. Not only XP cannot run DOS games, it cannot  run AGS games old versions as well. That's why I'll never upgrade my computer to XP.

Anyway. I am too busy to upgrade DG to the newest version.

Thanks for the tip. It's usefull



Robin Gravel

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Oh, it can run old AGS games, ayuh. Even games much older than your own. The problem is very odd, but work-aroundable.

BTW, XP can run DOS games if you use DOS emulators, such as DOSBox or VDMSound.

[Volcan]

Even games much older than your own.

The oldest game I own is Epyx the Rogue.

BTW, XP can run DOS games if you use DOS emulators, such as DOSBox or VDMSound.

I agree 100% with you. Dos Box is an excellent DOS emulator.

Since you can run DG on your computer.

What do you think about my game?


Robin Gravel

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

It's a nice way to kill a couple of minutes. There isn't much more I can say. It's a light game, lacking in substance, graphically decent, very straightforward and easy. I liked the look of the AGI room. All in all, an average "decent first AGS game". I'm surprised you didn't keep making games, you could have gone up from this.

[Volcan]

You must understand that DG is my first ags. Don't expect a serious game in first try.

I tell the true: there is something lacking in AGS: there is no view editor unlike AGI studio or SCI studio. I mean, you cannot draw views directly in AGS. You need a paint progam to make pictures and put them in AGS.

To make a view with 14 frames in AGS, you need 14 pictures from a paint program. AGI and SCI.

Naming many pictures make me crazy.

AGS is a great engine for making adventure games.

How many AGS games are released so far?

I'm not going to tell I stopped making AGS games but don't expect too much from me.


Robin Gravel

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Oh, I understood it was a first AGS game quite quickly. Don't take my "average" the wrong way - it was not memorable, which is normal for a first game, and it wasn't bad, and so many first games are nothing if not bad. In fact, your game was polished and finished and cohese. Again, so many first games are anything but that. And it was the degree of "completeness", as it were, that would have made me think "Here's a guy that'll surprise us in the near future"... were it not that 4 years have passed without another game.

And less on-topic, but still on pleasant topic: you can't draw in AGS directly, true, but neither do you need to make a picture for a frame. You can have 100 frames in a big BMP file if you wish. Look further into AGS' capabilities. Also, it's true that AGI and SCI have those things built-in, but there is a limit to what those interpreters can do graphically. In AGS, you can use all the power of a Photoshop program, or a 3D renderer, or scanned hand-drawn images, or whatever.

I count 717 full games, short games and medium games released with AGS, plus 28 non-adventure games, 73 RON games and 58 MM games, though this counting isn't probably all that accurate. Still, those are nice numbers. And I, for one, would really like to see you adding to them. Like I said - polished first games are rare. You made one, and didn't keep going. Our loss, really.

[sergiocornaga]

"Serguei's Destiny"? That name sounds familiar...