Does anybody else have any odd quirks of the way they do their AGSing? Like a certain way/place it has to be done in, or in certain conditions?
In my case, I find myself only able to do anything in the middle of the night. For some reason, nocturnality is conducive to me actually getting things done, otherwise I fidget and find other things to do. Also, I cannot stand having noise in the background, especially not televisions. Music is ok if what I'm doing it repetitive.
Well, I've been laid off for the past month and I've had lots of time with AGS. :P
I notice if I'm programming, and it's something I'm having issues with, the solution usually doesn't come to me while I sit there trying to force out the answer. I also can't have people talking in the background, or it totally destroys my concentration.
Actually my last programming issue, I had solved it in notepad. Which I've never done before. I was sick of writing a few functions in AGS to find out I wasn't thinking ahead about what needed, which I ended up deleting all the script I'd written. So I wrote the entire thing in notepad. Perhaps knowing that I couldn't try to run the game (since I was doing it in notepad), helped me focus more on what I was doing and needed to do rather than will this work.
As for actually using AGS for making Adventure games... well I haven't a clue. I've never actually finished an Adventure game yet, so I can't tell you what works for me. But I've worked on quite a few non-adventure games which remained on my hard drive for no one to see. :P
For some reason my PC's setup to run 2 versions of windows, I have AGS on one version (with the .net framework), and internet access on the other.
While this sounds annoying, it means I do all the art \ alt-tabbing on one setup, and thus cut out all my distractions when I need to knuckle down and do some coding. I'm used to it now so I doubt I'd accept it any other way...
If I'm pleased with a sprite, animation or background, I usually end up masturbating to it.
I daren't ask what a 'pleasing background' would be.
I like getting out of the house to do my artwork..just grab the lappy and tablet and set up in a cafe.