Or at least, that you remember playing?
Mine goes all the way back to 2001!
Rob Blanc I - Better Days of a Defender of the Universe by Yahtzee
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/8-rob-blanc-i-better-days-of-a-defender-of-the-universe/
Just thought it would be fun to compare notes. Probably been done before, but I don't remember seeing anything for a long time.
Unsurprisingly a Yahtzee game too, 5 Days a Stranger. It was on the front page of "The Home of the Underdogs".
Quote from: bicilotti on Fri 20/10/2023 16:12:52Unsurprisingly a Yahtzee game too, 5 Days a Stranger. It was on the front page of "The Home of the Underdogs".
Oh I remember that site - didn't they host RON games at one time? (Or maybe even now and I just haven't seen it.)
When I just found AGS I had no idea what to look for, so started playing games in alphabetic order, choosing ones that looked fine on screenshots and had average+ rating.
Naturally, most of Yahtzee's games were there, because they had numbers in titles ("1213", "5 Days a Stranger", and so forth). Then "Alien Time Zone" by Babar and "Apprentice 1,2". Then "Ben Jordan" series. And so forth.
5 Days a Stranger too. But never played the rest of the series. I also remember the first Ben Jordan, the freeware version of The Shivah, Apprentice and The Adventures of Fatman.
If I recall correctly, I think it was Bog's Adventures in the Underworld.
Although I never did manage to finish it. :~(
If I'm remembering correctly. I think I was searching for a full length game which had an artstyle and premise that I thought would be entertaining.
I think A Christmas Blunder was possibly the second. ???
As for how I found AGS. Well that was the result of it being on a list of RPG game engines I found. What kind of idiot made that list, I have no idea. But hey, I found AGS through it. :grin:
The Blackwell Legacy.
I didn't know anything about AGS at the time, so when I came across AGS many years later, I was pleasantly surprised to see it was developed using AGS.
Wow, this question made me remember games I hadn't thought about in a VERY long time.
The first AGS game I remember playing is Wet (https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/45-wet/) by Spyros. Evidently this won the very first MAGS competition!
One of the first AGS game I remember playing was Mind's Eye. I found it on Home of the Underdogs (https://homeoftheunderdogs.net/game.php?id=5317) too.
Mine was The Cat Lady, in 2016, but I had no idea it was made with AGS because I didn't know about AGS at all back then! I only connected the dots a couple of years later when I started making my own games with it.
Umm...Permanent Daylight (https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/19-permanent-daylight/).
Hm, I think it was Night if the Hermit (https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/37-night-of-the-hermit/) by Roy Lazarovich, sometime in the early 2000's. I remember looking for games similar to Monkey island online and then stumbling upon NOTH and subsequently discovering the AGS community shortly afterwards.
DemoQuest, because there weren't any completed games (laugh)
But the first proper one was also Rob Blanc (https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/8-rob-blanc-i-better-days-of-a-defender-of-the-universe/).
Not sure, probably Emerald City Confidential. Or Alice in Underland.
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Duzzquest. I went to a programming workshop some fifteen years ago and the instructor used it as an example of what AGS could do. The rest is history!
...Come to think of it, I don't know if I ever finished playing it. Or maybe it was the sequel I got stuck on. ???
I think mine might've been Pleurghburg: Dark Ages, from long before my time as an AGSer.
This is a really hard question, as I certainly wasn't aware of what AGS was back then. I suspect it may have been Rode Kill: A Day in the life or a Reality-on-the-norm game, like Lunchtime of the Damned. I downloaded games from Home of the Underdogs, and I suspect I found them from there. I also remember MAGS having its own website, ending in .tk if I recall it correctly. I may have played something from there first.
Edit: The (now obsolete) Mags site was indeed http://www.mags-competition.tk/ Probably viewable through the wayback machine, though, if someone wants to take a peek through time and see what it looked like back then.
The Fountain of Youth Demo I found somewhere on the internet. The end credits mentioned AGS and that's how I ended up here :)
For me, I'm relatively certain that it was
King's Quest I VGA* — just like
King's Quest I (SCI) was the first adventure game I played as a kid (not counting
Shadowgate for the NES, which I only ever got to play a couple of screens of).
(* Not actually VGA)
Quote from: TheFrighter on Sat 21/10/2023 11:51:22Not sure, probably Emerald City Confidential.
That's not an AGS game.
My sorry, someway I remembered it as AGS! :-[
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I'm absolutely loving hearing all of these first encounters with AGS. :-D
Mine was either Lunchtime of the Damned or Rob Blanc 1.
To be honest I can't really remember, I found AGS cause I was looking for Maniac Masion, and read somewhere. that someone was doing a remake with AGS (which I had no idea what it was back then). That brought me here, and then once I found what it was, I got so distracted learning and making my own game that I never did get Maniac Masion... :D
A MAGS game might have well been the first AGS game I did play, but not sure which one.
But I do recall playing (and enjoying) "Escape the barn", "Second Place is for Losers", "All pigs deserve to burn in hell" and "Deadly Consequences!"...
All great games btw. :D