Working practices...

[Technocrat]

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.

[Ryan Timothy B]

Well, I've been laid off for the past month and I've had lots of time with AGS.

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.

[Victor6]

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...

[HillBilly]

If I'm pleased with a sprite, animation or background, I usually end up masturbating to it.

[Badger]

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.