Hi there. So I am fairly new to using adventure game studio. I have a couple questions as to what is possible to achieve within ags. Let me go into detail about what kind of game I am trying to do, and a certain scene that I would like to see happen in my game - So I am trying to start production on a, perhaps, 90s styled, first person, point and click adventure/maybe horror game. I thought of an idea for a scene that could occur somewhere within the game - the player enters one room where they can see down a hallway, and on either the right or left, up close by the player, a jammed door. The objective for the player in this room is to pry open that door on the side with a crowbar; however, as soon as the player starts trying to pry open the door, I want that to trigger some sort of creature appearing from way down the hallway, and for it to slowly walk towards the player.
So, 2 main things here, when the player is trying to pry open the door, I think I would like it to be something like where the player can see a progression bar, and they have to spam click the mouse on the door to make the progress bar fill up. How would I go about doing this, and how might I adjust how much the player would have to click in order fill the bar - and then how do I make this action actually unlock said door.
2nd thing, I think I have a basic understanding as to how I might pull off the creature bit, but I don't know how to do the coding. As I mentioned, I want a creature to start walking towards the player from down the hallway. For the actual visuals of this happening, I was thinking that I would use a prerendered animation of the creature walking the entire length (I think this is possible inside of ags?) I would make the animation about 30 seconds long, for example, so that way I could set a timer for 30 seconds, and once the timer is up, player is dead. So, firstly, how do I go about coding this timer? When the timer limit is reached, I would have an additional prerendered death animation video that I would like to play, of which I am also clueless as how to code.
Apologies if this is not written very clearly, and many thanks to any and all help you guys give!
Thanks!
All of that is easily possible. Having a 30 second timer is actually the easiest part by far; all you need is SetTimer(1, 30 * GetGameSpeed()); and an IsTimerExpired(1) check in your room's repeatedly_execute event.
Opening the door will also use timing; the basic idea is that each mouse click will increase a variable while passing time will decrease it. That's really it.
The graphical side of this can be achieved with a theora animation playing in the background, below the crowbar gui for instance. And showing a prerendered video is again as simple as calling the PlayVideo() command.
Wow, thank you, that is easy! I'm sure I'll have more questions about other stuff as I go through with making this - but this helps a lot!