[April Fool] AGS announces partnership with Microsoft, Valve

[Domino]

What?  No way! The XBox sucks!.

:'( :'(

I love my Xbox360, even after having it replaced because of the RROD.  Now I am sad.

:'( :'(

[Afflict]

Cool for you, but ... will AGS 3.0 still be available for free?

Don't you guys listen it XNA Adventure Studio

And no it wont be free else CJ can't hang with his home boy BG.

I lol'd allot http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/ I like the new look too

[InCreator]

So that's why AGS 3.0 is so different...!

[GarageGothic]

Awesome news. As we all know, PC games are dying and this seems a great chance to jump on the console bandwagon. Of course our games will have to be dumbed down a bit to work with the 360 controller, but didn't we all grow to love the Grim Fandango interface?
I'm a bit worried about the outsourcing of engine development. On the other hand, the boys at Microsoft love adding marginally useful features to their products, so I'm sure many of my feature requests will finally be implemented. Speaking of which, it's great to see a higher resolution even if it might require a DirectX10 compatible video card, and I'm guessing we'll finally get proper 16:9 aspect ratio support since that's part of the HDTV specifications.

Apart from the cost of the product license, will it require any special devkit hardware to test the 360 code? I remember that a PS/2 devkit cost thousands of dollars when I worked at EA, and that kind of expense would probably hold many indie developers back. Of course I assume this is all in the hands of MS, so I'm not blaming you, CJ.

Congrats on the deal! I guess you'll be arriving at Mittens in a Ferrari now?

[AGA]

Congrats on the deal! I guess you'll be arriving at Mittens in a Ferrari now?

I hope not, since Ferraris only have two seats and he's promised to drive 3 of us to Mittens with him. It'll have to be the private jet instead.

[Spike4072]

What only 1024x768 :o

Aww I already have half my backgrounds done at 1680x1050. Such a waste if they are just going to get downsized to such a tiny resolution

[ThreeOhFour]

Could this perhaps mean I can get to work on the MMO Real time turn based flight simulating platformer I've been dreaming of?

[Ponch]

Sweet!

I can't wait until I get the official green light to do a Barn Runner Xtreme Beach Volleyball! I've always felt that the one thing my games were always lacking in were dynamic boob physics!

After all, I'm only a marginally competent artist and most of my puzzles are pretty easy. But once Noriko, Debbie, and The Chief are bouncing around in the background, the download counter for my games should skyrocket!

Thank you CJ for opening the doors to a brighter, bouncier, XBoxier world!

- Ponch

[Ghost]

Sweet news! Finally someone who realizes the true potential of console adventure games! Done, PC!!!

[auriond]

I love my Xbox360, even after having it replaced because of the RROD.  Now I am sad.

:'( :'(

*hands you tissues and cookies*

but first... what's RROD?

[AGA]

Red Ring of Death.

[Honeydew Huey]

This is excellent news.  I'm looking forward to major AGS games getting those little quality control touches here and there... Bruckman will benefit greatly from the changes!

Running everything with Wine in Linux is starting to drive me nuts, so this coincides nicely with my decision to finally buy Vista.  I've been interested in the XNA tools for awhile, and this'll make quite a nice addition .

[Andail]

Good stuff. This might be the little push I've needed to finally get started on my new project.

[rock_chick]

So I suppose I could just keep using AGS 3 and then it wouldn't even involve any of these new changes but then I guess it wouldn't be the same when it comes to trying to distribute them via this site because it doesn't seem like I could.

[Radiant]

Wow: made a game that features 100+ rooms and 50+ characters
RPG Creator: made a game that features 1000+ rooms and 500+ characters

Can I just say that those limits are way too low, and there should be a higher award that actually means something impressive?

[Ultra Magnus]

Oh well.
Guess I'll have to rewrite my game's credits.

"Thanks to CJ for creating AGS and making it free, simple and fun to use." will no doubt have to be replaced with "Thanks to Microsoft for making XNA costly, bloated and frustratingly counter-intuitive to use."

[Buckethead]

BJ delight haha. Sound like something else then completing the Ben jordan games 

[dirk delshire]

So can people still release games on this site that don't use Xbox 360 or do we all have to post them on other fan sites CJ?!?! Will the engine still be as easy to use or will Microsoft Fuck it up like other games they shut down because they were taking to long to make? Evidently they don't care about quality because the Final Fantasy games take many years for each game.   

[rbaleksandar]

Cool for you, but ... will AGS 3.0 still be available for free?

Yeh, and the other thing is - don't let Billy spoil everything, pleeeease Cause whatever he buys, becomes paid and/or spoiled btw If you rewrite the engine in the horrible .NET, will the games made with this engine still run under Linux...I doubt that

[rbaleksandar]

This is excellent news.  I'm looking forward to major AGS games getting those little quality control touches here and there... Bruckman will benefit greatly from the changes!

Running everything with Wine in Linux is starting to drive me nuts, so this coincides nicely with my decision to finally buy Vista.  I've been interested in the XNA tools for awhile, and this'll make quite a nice addition .

Now that's a REAL example that Billy wants to control everything
On a seconde thought - who has ever heard of a Microsoft product that is for free?! Sooner or later this will be the same with AGS