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Community => Adventure Related Talk & Chat => Topic started by: Iris on Sun 21/12/2008 21:28:22

Title: Is There a Guide to Creating a Game?
Post by: Iris on Sun 21/12/2008 21:28:22
Hey, I've recently been considering making an Adventure Game. I found plenty of very useful guides to using AGS, but does anyone know of any guides to creating a game in general? By that I mean a guide to creating the scenery, plot, setting, characters (not the actual model but personality) and things like that. I have a pretty good idea of what I want to make a game about, if I make a game about it, but I'd like to go through as many steps as possible to make sure the plot it as well developed as possible.
Title: Re: Is There a Guide to Creating a Game?
Post by: Babar on Sun 21/12/2008 21:34:21
There probably isn't one complete homogeneous guide, but I hope this will help:

http://www.lumpcity.co.uk/~babar/tut.htm
Title: Re: Is There a Guide to Creating a Game?
Post by: Iris on Sun 21/12/2008 21:35:20
Wow that was quick, I wasn't expecting anything till tomorrow. Thanks a lot, I'll give it a try.
Title: Re: Is There a Guide to Creating a Game?
Post by: Stupot on Mon 22/12/2008 02:37:43
Woah, Babar, you rule.
How come I never came across this before?
Title: Re: Is There a Guide to Creating a Game?
Post by: Babar on Mon 22/12/2008 13:30:33
Thanks Stupot!


The basic text for it was taken (with permission) from one of Rodekill's old tutorials, but some sections (like music and programming) are not complete, so I haven't spread it around as much. If you know of any game-oriented music tutorials, or a good place on these forums I can link to for programming tutorials, I'd appreciate it.
Title: Re: Is There a Guide to Creating a Game?
Post by: on Thu 25/12/2008 16:37:35
Some other articles here, but some, like the all important puzzle theory, are not working at the moment :/

http://screen7.adventuredevelopers.com/agdzine/articles.htm
Title: Re: Is There a Guide to Creating a Game?
Post by: Snarky on Fri 26/12/2008 12:21:24
Yeah, but I was able to dig up the puzzle theory article on another site (http://www.adventuredevelopers.com/featuredetail.php?action=view&featureid=30&showpage=1).

Also check out this thread (http://www.adventuregamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23156) for plenty of other articles on puzzle theory.
Title: Re: Is There a Guide to Creating a Game?
Post by: Oliwerko on Fri 26/12/2008 13:05:32
Quote from: Babar on Sun 21/12/2008 21:34:21
There probably isn't one complete homogeneous guide, but I hope this will help:

http://www.lumpcity.co.uk/~babar/tut.htm

Bookmarked.
Excellent.
Title: Re: Is There a Guide to Creating a Game?
Post by: on Fri 26/12/2008 20:47:14
Graphics, particle and story tutorials can also be found at

http://www.barnettcollege.com/tutorials.htm
Title: Re: Is There a Guide to Creating a Game?
Post by: Trent R on Sun 28/12/2008 08:29:38
No tuts or guides, but the AT&C discussions on the Wiki are good reads (most of them).


~Trent
Title: Re: Is There a Guide to Creating a Game?
Post by: limeTree on Sun 28/12/2008 18:59:29
you might consider playing couple of games too ;)
Title: Re: Is There a Guide to Creating a Game?
Post by: Trent R on Tue 30/12/2008 02:02:02
Also, I like to imagine how I could recreate certain puzzles and interactions from other games. Even though I don't bother to script anything in AGS, it helps me get in good mindset.
Then when I am scripting, I have multiple ideas on ways to script a problem or puzzle.


~Trent