February MAGS

DontTreadOnMe · Sun 06/02/2005 15:42:07

I hope that to get the spoiler thing you use the hide tag, if not im sorry for the spoiler.

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Would using the room numbers off keys that are hanging off a board be considered as using keys in a puzzel? otherwise i need to find another way to conceal the safe code but i would like to use that way

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Also i have just remebered im on holiday for a week so finishing this might be a close call, i may not even finish, but i should be fine as i am making good speed so far. Im counting on all the votes of those hardcore LEGO fans

Neil Dnuma · Mon 07/02/2005 08:34:57

DontTreadOnMe:
Hmm... like SSH's idea, it is good, but still it includes keys and is a puzzle..

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Couldn't you use another type of board, some mail-system or something... just a thought

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Can't wait to see the LEGO in action

everyone else: Keep it up!

Remco · Mon 07/02/2005 12:50:19

I`m working on a MAGS game now too. It will be my first game, and i really hope to finish it.

And for the others who participate, good luck with the game

.

Edit:

I have a question, the rules say the puzzles may not contain any sort of keys, but are keypads allowed?

Neil Dnuma · Mon 07/02/2005 13:28:10

The rule about the keys was meant to make people think of other type of puzzles, and not tons of "locked door - gotta find/steal the key" which would be the obvious clichÃ© in the setting.

A keypad isn't by definition a type of key, so that would be a way around it.

BTW, there's nothing in the rules saying you need to unlock doors in the game... but as long as you follow the rules, you can of course do as you wish

SSH · Mon 07/02/2005 15:51:22

If I win (hah!), the March MAGS will be to try and have the most original use of a key in a puzzle.... looks like people have lots of ideas. Your ban on keys is like if someone tells you NOT to think of an elephant.... you can't do it.

I will have a key in my game but not a key key...

Ishmael · Mon 07/02/2005 16:09:18

Do you mind if my game don't have a plot?

...

...oh, right...

Blade · Mon 07/02/2005 17:35:55

I'm sure I'm not gonna take part in March MAGS no matter who wins, so here is my key puzzle:

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Take a large iron key that is hollow inside, pour some powder inside, warm it and it will shoot. Buy the key will be ruined after one shot.

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SSH · Wed 09/02/2005 17:14:19

By the way, Klaus, the otherwise excellent MAGS site still has the old agsforums.com addess for AGS and the forums...

DontTreadOnMe · Wed 09/02/2005 19:17:46

One last question about use of keys...

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Can there be a spiritual key?

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its kinda stupid, but i might use it near the end of the game, but it probably wont show up in a puzzle, other than as a reward.

My game is coming along wonderfully. If i wasnt going on holiday for a week and a bit i would have it finished by the16th without too much hassle, as it is i will only have from the 19th to the 24th to finish it and im leaving on friday. I still shouldnt have any problems but there wouldn't be as much time to iron out creases. :

The graphics are rather simplistic, but i really like the way it looks, ive attached a pic at the bottom of the post. What ive really leaned though is a lot about story making (not that this story will be amazing, but im hoping people will find the characters interesting as well as the relationships between them) and how to use a single cursor, which was a steep learning curve.

If this picture is offensive to any LEGO lover and i have included custom LEGO pieces then I appologise. I've loved working with them, and may even to do so again.

Klaus · Wed 09/02/2005 20:16:56

Quote from: SSH on Wed 09/02/2005 17:14:19
By the way, Klaus, the otherwise excellent MAGS site still has the old agsforums.com addess for AGS and the forums...

Thanks for the compliment and yes - I know about the old address: I hoped for "agsforums.com" to return one fine day but it seems as if the "bigbluecup" is more than a workaround now...

Ozwalled · Wed 09/02/2005 21:04:52

Man, someone should TOTALLY make a game with actual LEGO someday, building all the sets and stuff and then taking photos. That would be SO ubersweet.

And.. um... my game's coming along okay too (I say "MY", but there are others working with me). Hopefully I'll even get it in by the deadline. What? It could happen.

Since I just KNOW someone else is going to go and snatch it up otherwise, my working title for the thing is "NO VACANCY".

...

please don't eat me.

Remco · Wed 09/02/2005 21:06:36

I am really getting worried about finishing my game on time

. I hate deadlines.

(dont say: Welcome to ags, it is not original

)

Squinky · Wed 09/02/2005 22:44:41

I''ve been working on a game for this mags too. Really digging the rules. Don't know how it will go, got the plot figured, and some swanky puzzle ideas....just can't decide on the bg's. Since I've started I've made a few isometrc ones and some iso characters, then decided I didn't like it, and have folled around with many flash-made bg's and about three "normal" 2d bgs....I just can't finish any I like.....

Mine will be called "DeadWood Hotel"

* Squinky waits for lame dead wood jokes

Maxileen · Wed 09/02/2005 23:46:14

@DontTreadonMe: That looks really LEGOesk, I'm looking forward to see the finished game.

My own game is making progress, too. Up to now I've included two NPCs, six rooms and much dialog. It'll be in a comic style (I can't do anything else $:-\$ ) and the story will be something between crime, mystery, history and SF. My working title is "Missing since Midnight" but mabe I'll change that to another alliteration.

@Squinky: When did the wood die

?

Ishmael · Thu 10/02/2005 07:11:00

I got worried of my schedules.. but in case I make it, and as the title reservation is up, mine's "Hotel Holocaust" (or the other way around, I don't remember....)

SSH · Thu 10/02/2005 09:07:08

Since everyone else is announcing their titles, mine will be called "Pixel Hunt" and will concentrate on plot, characters and gameplay rather then graphics (in other words, the graphics suck bigtime). I am also using this game to check the development of a game using AGS 2.7 beta object-oriented scripting and plan to publish the game as open-source, so that others can see how it might be done.

Game has 9 characters, 10 locations, and will have at least 4 different endings. Everyone else's games look really interesting, so it looks like a bumper crop of MAGS games might be on the way...

Ubel · Thu 10/02/2005 14:18:25

My game will be called "The Dream Hotel". It's a horror-crime mix. I'm just not sure if I can get it finished before the deadline because I'm pretty slow in this game making thingÃ,Â

. But I'll try.

Pelican · Thu 10/02/2005 22:14:32

And mine will be called....

Ha! I ain't telling until its done!

But, at the moment, I've done a few backgrounds, and I'm working on the character sprite (man I hate doing walkcycles). I've got a rough-and-ready plot, and I'm just trying to sort out some puzzles to fit it. It shant be terribly long because I'm trying to improve my scripting skills by playing around with the GUI. I don't know if I can compete with the lego though!

Neil Dnuma · Fri 11/02/2005 13:24:29

DontTreadOnMe:

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Sure, if the key - spiritual or not - is a reward and used to solve a puzzle, it's good

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Everyone:
Can't wait till the end of the month! Looks very promising! Wee!

Remco · Mon 14/02/2005 16:38:49

I am claiming (since everyone does) the name Hotel Horror. Progress is good.