Solved: Reinstall AGS, how to salvage my work from earlier?

[johanvepa]

I recently suffered a hardware crash, but managed to salvage the contents of the harddisk. So now I have everything in a folder and need to reinstall AGS. How to go about reinstalling when I don't even know where in the folder the source code is? I saved all my artwork, and the executable, but I need the coding back on track. How do I do that?

[Crimson Wizard]

When you create a game with AGS, it makes project files in folder that you specify. AGS 3.2.1 does this in "My Documents" folder by default, AGS 2.72 and lower default was to keep projects in subfolders inside AGS editor folder (but this may be changed). All source code is stored there. Normally, uninstalling or reinstalling AGS should not make any impact on your project integrity.

If you are interested in checking that all your project is in place, these are files that matter:

Game.agf - main project file (AGS 3.+).
ac2game.ags and *dta files for AGS 2.72 and lower.
*.asc and *.ash files - script modules.
*.wfn and *.ttf - fonts.
*.crm - compiled rooms.
*.ico - custom icon.
acsprset.spr - imported sprites.

[Khris]

Provided all files were salvaged, you don't even have to reinstall AGS.

Put the AGS folder and your game's folder where you want them to be, then open AGSEditor and in there, click "Continue an existing game" (because the list of recent games is probably going to be empty), click "Continue", then open "Game.agf" in your game's folder.

[johanvepa]

And we're back on track, Wo-Hoo!

Thank you so much!