The Simpsons Game Template-- 5/9/08-- Template almost done, need HELP!!!!

[AGA]

It's more likely to be either your modem/DSL modem/cable modem or your telephone line/cable line/whatever.

[Jimi]

what FTP program are you using at the moment?

[Joseph DiPerla]

Okay so Beta 1 of the new Simpsons Template has been released. Right now there are a ton of files from the actual game still missing. I had to redo the template from the Start becouse I already programmed the game and I didn't want to delete all that stuff. I did use an old backup of the game to make this Template so there might be some stuff in there that reveal codes and other stuff about the game that is going to be released.

I released this so that all of you could make your own Simpsons game based on what I release now. Have fun with what I have. The Template contains the following:

Characters:
Skinner
Bart
Lisa
Maggie
Homer
Marge
Kudos
Kang

GUI's: (9)

Load/Save
Speech
Character picking
Inventory
and more

Rooms: (28)

The entire House except for the basement and the garage.
Evergreen terrace
Front of Flanders house
Map of Springfield
Inside Flanders house
Alien Ship
Church intro
Inside Moes Tavern
Front of Kwik E-mart
Mr Burns Mansion
Mr. Burns office
Power plant
Sector 7g
Reactor room

There is also a lot of sprites to use as inventory and objects as well as other images.

All in all, there is enough to make your own game in here. I really hope I can see a series of games being made here.

Please make the game in 640x400 becouse there might be a problem if you choose another resolution.

The Template is about 2.28 mb's. Here is the link: www.masterfxgames.com/simpsons/SimpsonTemp.rar

Enjoy all, and keep waiting for those games, they will be released!

JD

[nope!]

Thanks for sharing the template! It's really cool  

[Joseph DiPerla]

In case anyone is curious, this is something I posted on other sites, and I really think everyone should see this as well:


Hi there. Sorry for not keeping you all up to date on this project, but I had lots of things to do in real life. But I do work on this game. I know everyone here wants to see this game be made.

I am making two games, one is 99% complete, and I have made a template game. Here is what I posted on another site:


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Okay so Beta 1 of the new Simpsons Template has been released. Right now there are a ton of files from the actual game still missing. I had to redo the template from the Start becouse I already programmed the game and I didn't want to delete all that stuff. I did use an old backup of the game to make this Template so there might be some stuff in there that reveal codes and other stuff about the game that is going to be released.

I released this so that all of you could make your own Simpsons game based on what I release now. Have fun with what I have. The Template contains the following:

Characters:
Skinner
Bart
Lisa
Maggie
Homer
Marge
Kudos
Kang

GUI's: (9)

Load/Save
Speech
Character picking
Inventory
and more

Rooms: (28)

The entire House except for the basement and the garage.
Evergreen terrace
Front of Flanders house
Map of Springfield
Inside Flanders house
Alien Ship
Church intro
Inside Moes Tavern
Front of Kwik E-mart
Mr Burns Mansion
Mr. Burns office
Power plant
Sector 7g
Reactor room

There is also a lot of sprites to use as inventory and objects as well as other images.

All in all, there is enough to make your own game in here. I really hope I can see a series of games being made here.

Please make the game in 640x400 becouse there might be a problem if you choose another resolution.

The Template is about 2.28 mb's. Here is the link: www.masterfxgames.com/simpsons/SimpsonTemp.rar

Enjoy all, and keep waiting for those games, they will be released!

JD

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What is a template? Well, download AGS from www.agsforums.com, then put the template file in the same directory as AGSEDIT.exe. After that, start AGSEdit.exe and make a new project. Click on the SimpsonTemp icon and type a folder name in the space below and click ok.

What this does is create a whole set of Rooms, characters and GUI's. All you have to do after that is make your own plot and program it in along with the interactions. If you have other graphics you can import it and use it in the engine. I am hoping this will start something totally awesome as far as Simpsons Game making is concerned.

If you make a game, please post it here in the AGS announcement forum: http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=5

If you plan on making a game using AGS that is Simpsons based, post it here: http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=8

The official Thread on my games are here: http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=8;action=display;threadid=2667
So please post any comments or questions on my games or this template over here.

Also if you need help on AGS, goto any of the following pages to get help on customizing this template for your own games:

http://www.agsforums.com/ackb.shtml
http://www.agsforums.com/acres.shtml
http://www.agsforums.com/acres.shtml
http://www.agsforums.com/acfaq.htm
http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=6       ---This is a forum for total beginners.
http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=2     ----This is for more advanced beginners
http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=10     ----This is a technical Archive with loads of resources for AGS programming
http://swunlimited.freeservers.com/AGSTUTs.htm    -these are my tutorials
http://www.agsforums.com/ags24bmanual.htm    ----here is the AGS manual
http://xo7.adventuredeveloper.com/                 ----Script reference


Please make games from this. The only thing I ask in return is a few things:

*Give special credit and thanks to Matt Groaning and Fox and all people involved in making the Simpsons
*Make sure the game is suitable for people of all ages
*No swearing that wouldn't be used on TV
*Give Credit to Chris Jones, the creator of the AGS Engine
*Give me credit for setting up, not creating(Fox and Matt Groaning are the creators), this template.
*Give Credit to Virtual Springfield and to Simpsons Cartoon Studio.
*Give Credit to the AGS Community for their expertise and help in providing technical answers
*Any new characters you incorporate, or backgrounds, or sprites or sounds must be made downloadable for all of us to use in our games.--- THIS IS THE BIGGEST REQUEST I ASK.
*If someone creates a new character or background or other resource, proper credit with a possible weblink must given.

-----ALL CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN IN A DISCLAIMER TEXT FILE AND MUST BE PRESENT IN THE GAME ITSELF, EITHER IN THE GAMES ABOUT MENU, OR IN THE INTRO, OR IN THE END CREDITS--------

Now without further interruption, the link to the file: http://www.masterfxgames.com/simpsons/SimpsonTemp.rar
It is about 2.28 megs in its .Rar format, and about 6 megs unzipped.

Joseph DiPerla, AKA UltraRodimus, AKA UltraPrime, AKA Keibak Aruu
And checkout my awesome Transformers site(In Construction) at www.energonplant.com which is hosting Transformers Quake Files and many other things. Be sure to check out the forums also.

[Joseph DiPerla]

ReadMe File:

DISCLAIMER: FIRST OFF, THE SIMPSONS ARE COPYRIGHT OF FOX AND MATT GROENING, 20TH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION AND ALL THEIR ASSOCIATED LOGOS. THE GRAPHICS ARE ALSO COPYRIGHTED TO THE BEFORE MENTIONED. GRAPHICS ARE TAKEN FROM "SIMPSONS CARTOON STUDIO" AND "VIRTUAL SPRINGFIELD" AND ACTUAL EPISODES AND SOME ARE ORIGINAL WORKS. "CARTOON STUDIO" AND "VIRTUAL SPRINGFIELD" ARE NO LONGER BEING SOLD. "ADVENTURE GAME STUDIO" ARE COPYRIGHTED AND BELONG TO CHRIS JONES. THIS TEMPLATE IS COPYRIGHTED AND CREATED BY JOSEPH DIPERLA. PLEASE DO NOT SELL COPIES OF GAMES MADE WITH THIS TEMPLATE AND PLEASE GIVE PROPER CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS THE FANS TAKE, NOR AM I RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS THAT FOX OR MATT GROENING TAKE.


There, now that we settled that...

Well, I have update the Simpsons Template again. These are the changes/additions to it,

Update to the template:

FileSize: Unzipped its about 9 megs. Zipped its about 2.6 megs

Rooms: (added)
Krusty Studio Stage room(Must be programmed in manually if you want to reach it)
Outside the School (Can be reached by the map)
Inside a Classroom (Must be programmed in manually if you want to reach it)
Map of Springfield (Updated it so that you could go to the school)

Sprites:

Well look for yourself. Krusty has a sprite file that is not used, you might want to look at it.

Characters added:

Mr. Burns
Mr. Smithers
Krusty the Clown
Nelson


GUI:
Added a GUI for Bart when he is controlled
Added a GUI for Lisa when she is controlled
Added a GUI for Marge when she is controlled

Programming:

Now when you switch characters and you right click, the appropriate GUI for the controlled character will appear.

Notes:
F5 will get the load save screen
F7 will get you the town of springfield
F9 will get you the character select screen
F12 may or may not save a screenshot.

Http://www.masterfxgames.com/simpsons/SimpsonTemp.rar

Check out the site of our engine (That belongs to Chris Jones): Http://www.agsforums.com

Checkout these good simpsons links:
Http://www.nohomers.net
Http://www.simpworks.com

Also, if your a Big Transformers fan, check out Http://www.energonplant.com , and come visit our forum.

BTW, is anyone using this template?

Joseph DiPerla
AKA: KeibakAruu
AKA: UltraRodimus
AKA: UltraPrime

[Joseph DiPerla]

Ok here is info on the next template that will be released in a few days...


The Simpsons Game Template for Adventure Game Studio
Beta 3 (Coming Soon)

Changes:

Added Subrooms(All Sub-rooms are actually GUI's made to look like Sub-rooms like looking into a Locker in Police Quest games):

Barts Desk--- You are limited to only clicking in this mode
Family Portrait/Homer Portrait/Lisa Portrait --- Uses same GUI, just that when you click a certain hotspot, it changes the picture.


Rooms added:

KrustyLu Studio's parking lot

Objects/Inventory added:

Duff Beer

Programming:

You can View Barts desk in his room.
You can now get to KrustyLu studios from the Map and also get onto the Stage area, and Vice Versa.
You can now look at a few portraits in the Entrance Hallway to the house
You can now get into Flanders house
Flanders house is now walkable and has Walk Behinds setup
I eliminated the Conversation you have between Marge and Homer.
Changed About Information
Deleted Easter Eggs Script so that you could make your own. Look at previous Templates to see how you can program your own.
You can now walk from the Backyard to the Front of the house and Vice Versa.
You can now walk to the front of the door from the front yard
When saving and loading a game, GUI 6 will turn off now---Having problems, trying to fix it to work better



ToDo:
Add Moe
Add Apu
Add Kwik E Mart inside
Add Moe Storage Room
Add Flanders
Add Rod and Todd
Add Maud
Add Simpsons Character Databases
Add Krusty Burger
Add Comic Book Guy shop
Add School Hallway
Add Lisa's Class
Add Skinners Office
Add more Inventory objects
Add Town Hall
Add Mayors Office
Add Basement- Simpson Home
Add Garage- Simpson Home
Add Bathroom- Simpson Home
Program a way to get to Burns Mansion
Program The power plant rooms
Add Outside Moe's Tavern
Add Splash Screen
Program Light Switches
And More!!!!!

If you want me to release this new Beta now, let me know, or else I will wait till I add these other features. But remember, it could take a while!

Let me know.

[Joseph DiPerla]

EDIT: Whoops, sorry, I accidentally double posted. Sorry

I am just bumping this up a bit. I wanted to tell you all of the updates I have made to the Template:


FileSize: Unzipped its about 17 megs. Zipped its about 4.3 megs.

Rooms: (added)
Krusty Studio Stage room(Must be programmed in manually if you want to reach it)
Outside the School (Can be reached by the map)
Inside a Classroom (Must be programmed in manually if you want to reach it)
Map of Springfield (Updated it so that you could go to the school)
Krusty Lu Reception Area
Krusty Lu - Brochman Set
Krusty Lu- Control Room
Abe Simpsons room- Retirement Castle
Simpson Home- Bathroom
Inside the Kwik E Mart
The Back of the Kwik E Mart
Kwik E Mart Roof
Springfield Cemetary
Noiseland Arcade
Moe's Taverns back room



Sprites:

Well look for yourself. Krusty has a sprite file that is not used, you might want to look at it.
Some family portraits
Simpsons Logo was moved to "Extra"
Bathroom Medicine Cabinet
Bathroom Sink
Toilet Bowl top
Marge and Homers Dresser
Grandpa Simpson in a rocking chair sleeping. Enough for an animation. (Added a view for it too!)
Added a bunch of sprites used for Inventory.

Characters added:

Mr. Burns
Mr. Smithers
Krusty the Clown
Nelson

Inventory (7 items):

Blender
Cupcake
Bat and Ball
Jar of an eye
Jar of a Brain
Beer (Set for Homer to start with this)
Skateboard

GUI:
Added a GUI for Bart when he is controlled
Added a GUI for Lisa when she is controlled
Added a GUI for Marge when she is controlled

Programming:

Now when you switch characters and you right click, the appropriate GUI for the controlled character will appear.
You can also goto the Bathroom and out from Homer and Marges room. And you can weigh Homer on the scale.

Notes:
F5 will get the load save screen
F7 will get you the town of springfield
F9 will get you the character select screen
F12 may or may not save a screenshot.


I plan on adding a few more rooms and doing a few more programming things to it. But I will release it a few weeks.

[Joseph DiPerla]

Okay, I am continuing work on this Template, so far I have released the following template with the following features on it:

FileSize: Unzipped its about 17 megs. Zipped its about 4.3 megs.

Rooms: (added)
Krusty Studio Stage room(Must be programmed in manually if you want to reach it)
Outside the School (Can be reached by the map)
Inside a Classroom (Must be programmed in manually if you want to reach it)
Map of Springfield (Updated it so that you could go to the school)
Krusty Lu Reception Area
Krusty Lu - Brochman Set
Krusty Lu- Control Room
Abe Simpsons room- Retirement Castle
Simpson Home- Bathroom
Inside the Kwik E Mart
The Back of the Kwik E Mart
Kwik E Mart Roof
Springfield Cemetary
Noiseland Arcade
Moe's Taverns back room



Sprites:

Well look for yourself. Krusty has a sprite file that is not used, you might want to look at it.
Some family portraits
Simpsons Logo was moved to "Extra"
Bathroom Medicine Cabinet
Bathroom Sink
Toilet Bowl top
Marge and Homers Dresser
Grandpa Simpson in a rocking chair sleeping. Enough for an animation. (Added a view for it too!)
Added a bunch of sprites used for Inventory.

Characters added:

Mr. Burns
Mr. Smithers
Krusty the Clown
Nelson

Inventory (7 items):

Blender
Cupcake
Bat and Ball
Jar of an eye
Jar of a Brain
Beer (Set for Homer to start with this)
Skateboard

GUI:
Added a GUI for Bart when he is controlled
Added a GUI for Lisa when she is controlled
Added a GUI for Marge when she is controlled

Programming:

Now when you switch characters and you right click, the appropriate GUI for the controlled character will appear.
You can also goto the Bathroom and out from Homer and Marges room. And you can weigh Homer on the scale.

Notes:
F5 will get the load save screen
F7 will get you the town of springfield
F9 will get you the character select screen
F12 may or may not save a screenshot.


I plan on adding a few more rooms and doing a few more programming things to it. But I will release it a few weeks.

It now has 42 rooms, 213 sprites, 14 views, 13 gui's(two of which will be used for Sub-Rooms), 63 gui objects, 7 inventory items, 12 characters. Not all of the latest rooms have been edited completely. I havent done too much work on this game and template in a while. But here is my release. A new one will soon be released, I promise.

LINK: http://masterfxgames.com/simpsons/SimpsonTemp.rar

Consider these Templates as a sort of Demo for my game as well becouse the Story is 90% done and most of the puzzles are done. Plus these are the graphics and characters of the game.

[Walrus]

SWEET!!!

[Michael]

Can you please make another demo link Ã,  the others say error pge not found and I really wanna play it :'( !

[Darth Mandarb]

So how about, as the rules suggest, a PM to the game's author rather than bumping a thread that hasn't had a post in 1 month?

Because you didn't read the rules?

Because non-members can't send PMs?

[Joseph DiPerla]

Actually the demo was old and I had taken it off. The template should be considered somewhat of a demo. See when I make this game, I have to AGS' running. One with the actual game being made and the other that makes the template. When I make a room in the template, I transport it over to the main game files as well. Saves me time and work and allows me to make a template and a game.

Consider the template as the demo,. The old demo was removed. If the template doesn't download, make sure your copying the link exactly. It works for me.

To Darth:

I was wondering if I were following the rules. since I have a template full of rooms and characters, do I still need to put up screenshots to the game somewhere?

[SCOOBYSD]

So how about, as the rules suggest, a PM to the game's author rather than bumping a thread that hasn't had a post in 1 month?

Because you didn't read the rules?

Because non-members can't send PMs?

I am a member but I did not notice I was not logged in. a PS Thanks for teling about the demo creator, dude!

[Joseph DiPerla]

Ok, a few updates...

First, my website provider sucks. So for some reason my site hasn't been up in about a month. And I cant get it back. I think it deleted my account and cant recover my information. I am slightly pissed off right now for that.

So I need who ever downloaded my last template to e-mail it to me at ajdiperla@netzero.net, And I mean the very last one... Look at the release notes to see if you have it or not.

Dont post before e-mailing me, or e-mail me first. Just e-mail it to me. I have 1gig space on my e-mail and I have cable internet so it wont take long to download.

But the good news is I got a new color PDA. I have been transferring my simpsons episodes over to my cartridge and ripping the sprites through episodes. So what?

Well, now with my stylus I can cut the images out much easier than using a drawing tablet or a mouse. Which means more characters that are not in Virtual Springfield or Cartoon studio will be featured in the game like the Flanders, the Wiggums, Barney, Carl and Lenny, Apu, Krabapple, Mrs Hoover, Willie, Martin, Jimbo jones and the other bullies, and more...

What else does it mean? Well, I can get to extract backgrounds a lot easier too. Which means I might be able to get all 300 rooms in AGS to be full. I can even get things that can be used as items off the show. This means endless possibilities for what the game can support.

Also this means that I can draw walk behinds in and Masks in my pda paint and transfer it over to AGS. Which means that this game and the template will be done much quicker than having me use my mouse.

Just an update. Oh and I need that template thank you.

JD

EDIT: Alright, dont send me the Template I am all set. Thanks to Candle who sent it to me.

[SCOOBYSD]

Is the game almost done??? I hope it comes out soon because I really want to play it!

[Joseph DiPerla]

The Template is about half way done. The game is a tenth done. I do have mini- simpson games that will come out soon though.

[Pizzaman]

Wow, the game looks good.  Judging from your first post... this game has been in production for a long time ya?  Oh well whatever it takes to release a quality game.

Good luck

-Pizzaman

[Joseph DiPerla]

It has been. About two years if not more. And think about the progress that has been made too.  43 Rooms, 12 characters and 13 gui's (Each player with his/her own).

Thats more than most fan games created. And they are all programmed and ready to be played.

And now even more progress is being made with the game.

I am really hoping that once this template is done, it will spawn a whole series of Simpsons games from AGS.

Joey

[Joseph DiPerla]

ok, recently I have been working more on my Transformers Sim game at energonplant.com , but that doesn't mean I havent been working on my Simpsons Template.

Anyway, here is the link to the newest download location: http://www.energonplant.com/SimpsonTemp.zip

It is still the same download as the last, but A new one will be made soon. I promise. I put this back up becouse of many requests first off, secondly, I put this back up becouse NBC Europe is doing a special on AGS and its fan games. Someone in the other thread mentioned that it would feature a Simpsons game. Now it can be one of the other games made with AGS, I can only think of one though. But in case its mine, here is an uploaded version for them and you to continue to use. Expect more updates to come within the next few weeks.