Question about the style of games.

[Anthus]

After browsing around a bit, and reading through all the stuff I was supposed to, I still have a few simple questions.

1) Is this program only capable of "point-and-click" adventure games or can a game be done with a free movement, overhead style via Pokemon, Zelda or Final Fantasy? (Titles used are for example purposes only. This is not for a fan game)

2) Is this program capable of rendering 3D graphics (Bear in mind that it is still a simple style, like the DS Pokemon games, or remakes of Final Fantasy 3 and 4)?

3) Is the programming language used anything like GML, or Lite-C?


Thank you, to anyone willing to help.

[Atelier]

Yes to the first point. You can really abuse AGS If you make the character sprites overhead, then you can do whatever you want. You could change it into a non-point and click engine by just using keyboard commands.

I feel I've missed your point but oh well. I think there may be a 3D plugin or something, but somebody else is going to have to answer the other two for you 

[Anthus]

Thank you.

[Khris]

In theory, since AGS supports drawing lines and pixels, it can render 3D stuff, it just doesn't have built-in functionality for that since it is designed with strictly 2D in mind.

The scripting language is object oriented and similar to C++ or Java.

[Pumaman]

Well, let's be clear, AGS is not designed for RPG-style games where you walk around a large map, because the room size doesn't scale well. Also, AGS isn't tile-based, and you'd probably want to use a tile approach for that sort of game.

In conclusion, if you want to make some sort of overhead scrolling RPG, then AGS is probably not the best choice.

[Anthus]

Ah.. Well thank you. This does seem like a cool program, so I might come back to it. Thank you everyone who helped me out.

[Wonkyth]

If you want an adventure making tool that supports 3-D, then you might want to try the Wintermute Engine.
I've never used it, and I don't know anyone who has, but I know it supports 3-D characters.
I'm not trying to remove the focus from AGS, but if you really want 3-D, then it might be better to try something else.

I think there is also a commercial program called Visionary, but it's codes more designed for people who don't want to have to write any code.

[Matti]

You may want to have a look at the game Rogue Prince, which is a (almost) overhead style RPG. It's quite possible with AGS. In that game the player uses a cursor but as it's been said already, you can use the keyboard instead.

[geork]

 It's quite easy to make AGS tile based, as I found out; using 2 regions and putting them into a chess like pattern, then telling my character to stop whenever he enters a new region, to let something else happen. Although, I'm having trouble with the keyboard bit at the mo...(see other topic)