Noisy Mountain - Demo released...!

[Fightmeyer]

Hello everybody!
At first I want to apologize for my poor english.
And now lets switch over to the topic.
I'm very new to AGS and Noisy Mountain will be my first game. So don't be to hard please:-)




(I tried to post some screenshots, but i guess, i'm to stupid, for the right syntax. Anyway. The links to the images work, so i hope the forum admins will be satisfied.)

It's some kind of hommage to Silent Hill, with a bit more of humor. I liked the athmosphere in Silent Hill and that the player do not know whats really happening in that town. I tried to catch this feeling. I hope i get some feedback about the athmosphere, gameplay and graphics. So please let me know, how you like it or not.
You play a character with no name, who wakes up in a hospital without knowing how he got there and why.
It would be good, if you understand a little german. Maybe i make a translation to english if the game will be complete one day...
Here is the link to the download:

I addes new locations an riddles. You will have completed the demo when You get the condom.
Please try and report any errors or bugs You may find while playing.
If You do not want to download the Music, then do not download the music4demo.rar file otherwise extract the stuff of both archives in one folder an play the game.

http://mitglied.lycos.de/hagegregor/NoisyMountain-Demo.rar
http://mitglied.lycos.de/hagegregor/music4demo.rar

Can hardly wait for your answers.

Gregor

[jetxl]

Cool. Lost of  blood!.

Are you planning it in german or english?

to get the active inventory in the black screen read the manual under Inventory.

The default option is the Sierra-style pop-up inventory window, which is popped up by clicking on the Bag icon on the icon bar (which uses the text script InventoryScreen function to display it). You can also have the current inventory item displayed in its own button on the icon bar by creating a button on the GUI and setting its text to (INV) which stretches the item picture to the button size, or (INVNS) which draws the inventory item picture straight onto the button with no resizing. Finally, (INVSHR) , probably the best option, will draw it at actual size if it will fit, or shrink it if not.

Lots of people (including me) forget this.

[Fightmeyer]

Thnx! I really forgot it. While creating the game, i will use German. But as soon as it is finished, i will make an English translation. I will also add sounds and music.The full game will have about 8 Locations with about 30 rooms.
I'm still working on the story a bit. But the idea is already complete.

[LucasFan]

kind of hommage to Silent Hill, with a bit more of humor.

Nice graphics and good puzzles but I think some of the funny comments destroy the horror feeling. Maybe you should make it more serious.

Btw.: Does the saw have a function? I tried to dismember some of the dead bodies but without much success.Ã, 

[Fightmeyer]

I know. You're right. The athmosphere gets a little destroyed by some comments of the character. Maybe i change it, to make it more tense.

For the Demoversion, the saw has no function. But the player will need it later.
Btw. Is it possible to make some kind of standard message, for the whole game if you try to use a inventory item on sth.?
Sth like: I can't use this here. or This will not work!

[Bernie]

I'm not sure what an 'sth' is, but anyway, for standard messages when there's no action defined, use unhandled_event.

Example:

function unhandled_event (int what, int type) {

if (what ==1) {if (type ==1) {DisplaySpeech(GetPlayerCharacter(),"That's not really interesting.");}} //look at hotspot

if (what ==1) {if (type ==8) {DisplaySpeech(GetPlayerCharacter(),"It lacks handles and door-knobby things.");}}Ã,  //cursor mode 8 on hotspot

}

Check the manual for all possible 'what' and 'type' combinations.

The game looks nice so far, keep it up!

[Darth Mandarb]

Please review the FORUM RULES and update your first post.

If you cannot provide at least 2 screenshots, this thread must then be locked.

[Fightmeyer]

@ Bernie.
Where do i have to inster that script? In the Room Script or in the Global?