Cirque De Zale

Kinoko · Fri 16/04/2004 02:03:41

Not mother trouble again... it's the same as last time. The script seems 100% fine. I have no idea why this would have happened. When did you download the game? I have changed a couple of things and reuploaded it since I first posted the link. Maybe that bug exists in an earlier version.

Peter Thomas · Fri 16/04/2004 02:42:49

I downloaded it yesterday evening..... That would be about 12 hours ago.....

Kinoko · Fri 16/04/2004 04:19:29

Peter, would you care to add a little something to this thread: http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=13193;start=0#msg158010

You could explain what's happening best given that it's happening to you and not me, and it would save a lot of back and forthing. Basically we just need to know how often this is happening to you and whether it's just this one problem etc...

Peter Thomas · Fri 16/04/2004 04:28:40

ohhhhh..... don't worry about it...

I restarted the game and now it's fine.....

I can't seem to recreate the error, and I'm not EXACTLY sure what I did the first time around to make it happen, so I guess we shall just live in ignorant bliss.

Kinoko · Fri 16/04/2004 16:31:26

Alright, I'm sorry to all the people that experienced problems with giving things to the mother or to the cricket player. They shared a common problem and after hours of searching, I found the one tiny piece of code that was affecting it all. It's now fixed (along with a lot of other things) and v1.2 of the game (wouldn't it be nice to imagine that it'll be the last??) is now being uploaded as I type. If anyone wants to get themselves a copy of the game that works properly, you may now do so.

I never did experience that problem with Drew's glasses though...

Nostradamus · Sat 17/04/2004 14:26:23

I just finished the game and what a wonderful game it was. I just loved it. Loved the whole "screw you guys, I don't care" attitude Alexander has. This game was loads of fun and humor. Thumbs way up!

MillsJROSS · Mon 19/04/2004 04:36:50

I believe I'm stuck, perhaps from a walking dead.

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I am on the tropical Island, and have found everything for the Engineer except for the blue-leggo block. Now here's the problem...I only have a tin of seal, and I'm getting the feeling I needed to use that somewhere in the other part of the game, but I apparently never got around to doing it, and still moved forward. I also never got rid of the seal at the circus.

So is there something I should be looking for, on this island, that I haven't found? Or is this a bug?

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So far the game has been enjoyable. The dialog has it's moments. And I enjoy how you mock adventure games. However, until I finish the game, I can't really give a complete review on what I think.

-MillsJROSS

Kinoko · Mon 19/04/2004 06:48:21

Could you tell me which version of the game you have? (check the readme file) I'm sure that bug shouldn't still exist in the game...

MillsJROSS · Mon 19/04/2004 06:59:47

version 1.0

I downloaded it some time ago, and just hadn't got around to playing it, till now.

-MillsJROSS

Kinoko · Mon 19/04/2004 07:17:15

Ahhh. Well, if you're willing to download it again, the new version (1.2) should be free of all those bugs people told me about. I -hope- there aren't anymore... @_@ Sorry about releasing a buggy version in the first place! I thought me and my beta crew had found them all.

MillsJROSS · Mon 19/04/2004 07:26:32

You can't catch em all. As long as you recognize them and do something about them, you're okay in my book. When I have time to download the new version and play it again, I will.

-MillsJROSS

Peter Bear · Mon 19/04/2004 08:56:09

I downloaded it some days earlier, didn't have time to play it fully.

Lot's of things to do

I plan to make lengther game myself but I realize I wont play games like I will do, because I never have time to play long games, I only downloaded most of the shorter ones !

Anyway , Cirque looks fun and nice !

One little thing, that bothered me, hum didnt make me feel at ease ( I am not sure of the sentence, I am not english , so dont take it baaaad please !! ), that odd thing was this :

Looksalike may happen I must say, but it is quite the same body from foot to head except for the clothes. To build one single and original game you shouldn't have been too much inspired by this other classic.
Maybe the weird walk circle comes from this fact too, as you didnt recreate it well or something, working on your own character would have been less difficult, as you are its mother somewhere, you know it better.

Or maybe animation is just not your "thing" I won't say anything more, because drawing and animation is not really my stuff to and I really suck at it

This is only my point of view ... about this little thing, but I repeat that THAT IS A GREAT game, dont get offended please !

Ask someone to moderate my post if you were, I didnt want to be rude

Kinoko · Mon 19/04/2004 14:39:06

No, no, that's fine. It's no secret, I used the exact same pixels in the face as the original Guybrush. It was completely contrived (if that's a good word to use) so that the game really did have that original feel. When you're working with so few pixels, it's very hard to try and achieve the same "look" without doing it exactly. ^_^ I used Guybrush as a "muse" for the height and stance but it's not copied. The only thing copied pixel for pixel is the face, the rest was like sketching.

I didn't want to create a completely original game, I wanted to create my own story that was nostalgic of the old Monkey Island (and another game that absolutely noone has mentioned so I won't say it myself).

The walk cycle had nothing to do with the original, it was like the first thing I ever animated. I know it looks a little weird, I don't think it's bad though... @_@ How many people are amazing animators off the bat with no training?

I truly hope this doesn't ruin too much of the game for you. It was supposed to be like this, I wasn't trying to create a game for the commercial market - just for fun and as a tribute to my favourite game(s).

magintz · Mon 19/04/2004 16:18:09

Good so far but i have some bugs

Everytime I try to use the basket of goodies it crashes

I cant escape the old witches shop, whers the exit?

Kinoko · Mon 19/04/2004 16:38:34

Could you give me some more information? Use the basket of goodies on what?

You just have to click at the bottom of the screen towards the centre to get out of the witch's...

Duzz · Tue 20/04/2004 06:46:52

I'll just add my Congrats on a really great game Kinoko.
The attitude of the main character really reminded me of "The chronicles of Thomas Covanant" well, except for the leprosy. (actually I've only read half of the second book actually, so my impression of it is probably pretty scewed. )
The lack of motivation for the main character made for a truely refreshing adventure.

ElectricMonk · Tue 20/04/2004 09:18:14

Just finished playing it... ah, 'twas a thing of beauty.
I really liked Alexander's attitude and the way fate treated him... sort of a mix between Simon the Sorceror, Eric Cartman and Cerebus the Aardvark.

Oh, and Crazy Meg's dialogue ruled. Hahahaha. Hahahahaha!!!

Kinoko · Tue 20/04/2004 12:08:33

Yes!! YESSSSSSS!!! Someone SAID IT!

You are truly a Monk of Electricity. I was really hoping -someone- would mention a link to Simon -_- Thankyou for making my day!

AGA · Tue 20/04/2004 15:44:17

I love this game. Great graphics, great characters, great humour. Its only real failing was the easy puzzles, but it more than made up for it in awesomeness in other areas. Definitely in my top two favourite AGS game so far this year. Are you working on another game yet? I look forward to seeing more of your work.

EDIT: here's my review of it for Adventure Gamers. It basically says the same thing as this post, only in slightly more detail

sunshinegold · Tue 20/04/2004 21:39:17

Quote from: Kinoko on Thu 15/04/2004 12:16:23
OK, as for the bug reports... most of the stuff had been mentioned earlier, ie. Drew's glasses. I honestly have no idea about that one, I'd like some more specific information about when it happens because I just can't make it happen myself. Believe me, I -want- to fix this stuff asap.

The wolf head thing - I think that's a general bug, not related to the scripting because it makes no sense whatsoever. I just can't figure it out @_@ If anyone has any ideas... please tell me!

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As for the ringmaster not changing after you get rid of his troupe, unless the seal was the last one you got rid of, you have to exit and re-enter the circus tent for him to change
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The ladder bit had been fixed already. People that downloaded the game straight away will have that problem but noone else.

OK... did that address them all? I think so. I'm still checking things but there are a few things like Drew's glasses that I just can't make sense of. The script seems fine to me, I just can't find any loop hole that would cause that. Please give me as much information as you can on these things.

By the way, with the wolf head... did you get an error message? If so, can you tell me exactly what it said? Thanks ^_^

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There's no 'sunscreen' as such, but you can give him something that looks like it
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One other thing... I don't really mind but it seems like the mods might prefer us to keep hint requests in the Hints forum. I don't want to be the gang leader of a bunch of forum hoodlums or anything! ^_^

I also have received an error message. Sorry but I had posted in the Technical Forum.

After poisoning the pie and given it to the guilders, I saved my game but afterwards I keep getting this error message:

An error has occurred. Please contact author for support as this problem is cause by game rather than the interpreter.
(ACI version 2.60.693)
(Global script line 661)
(Error: SetActiveInventory: player doesn't have any of that inventory).

I reloaded the game 3 times and still get same error message.

Is there anyway to continue with the game?

Thanks and I hope I posted in the right forum.

Where is the new/corrected version? I don't mind restarting the game.