Garfield: Attack of the mutant lasagna - FINISHED!!!!

[earlwood]

Why not just keep it on the site..but not make it directly accessable?

So when people go to your site, they don't see a link to your game..but
if they alter the link a bit to something like:

www.someplace.com/monkey.zip

Then they will be able to enjoy your fruits of labor..

[Kairus]

Yeah, and then the guys at PAWS would really have a reason to sue me. They have told me not to do it once, I don't think they'll be that nice next time.

[sergiocornaga]

pssssst. your link doesn't work.  

[earlwood]

...I suppose, if you think they would waste further time tearing down your site...or perhaps someone thought you were the creater of monkey quest and then reported you to PAWS.

Don't worry Surge, I'm working on that.  

[Kediri]

I hate anything that smacks of injustice and it's not like you were doing the game for cash.

So I wrote an email of complaint and sent it to everyone that I could on their website!
Their games incidentally are rubbish by comparison.

I hope that it helps!  

[Wormmaster]

Have you even thinked about my suggestion?
I CAN upload it to my site, so someones, who wasn't fast enough, can download it...

So...
Think about it.

[Czar]

Ask Butcher ( or I think it was him ), what he did when he got the letter from the maker of the original Hugo house of horrors, because he made a remake...
Man it's really too bad that it ain't on the site, but you know that AGS has now a DC++ (for sharing) channel....   >hint hint<

Good thing i downloaded it the first day  8)

Oh yeah, btw my Icq is displayed, so if anybody wants to contact me about ANYTHING, feel free  

[Larien]

I'm very sorry to hear that you had to take your game down.  You did a lot of hard work and you have to be really disappointed.  
Czar is right.  The same thing happened to Spyros's "Hugo's House of Horror Remake." (HHH Remake.)  I think for awhile he gave the game out privately if someone sent him an email and requested it but I don't know if he does that now.  Maybe you could consider doing something like that.
This is really a great game but I, too, am having problems with the walkable areas.  I'm going to try to figure out a way around them but it would be great if you could find a way to fix the little stuff like that and redistribute the game.  There's a way out there for redistribution, I'm sure of it but you may have to do a little sneaking to get around it.  You didn't do anything illegal, I assure you, and you were trying to do the honorable thing by telling PAWS.  They shouldn't have reacted the way they did.  
What did they say to you anyway?  Do you still have the email?  If you do, I'd like to read it and I think a few others have mentioned they would too.  It'd be great if you could post it.  Maybe that way we can help you figure out the best way to fool the experts.  

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Yes, this whole-business is a shame - supposedly, fan-games are automatically free from this nonsense, because they exist for non-profit reasons, and they've been a labour of love - like Night of the Hermit. In fact, if this were an issue, many great games out there wouldn't exist at all.

Anyway, let me tell you, great work on the game! (Although, whatever possessed you to add the Pipes puzzle??? Wonderful scripting, though) It's well worth fighting for.  The only flaw is that hateful-bug-you-can't-reproduce, but apart from that... well, let's just say you've got Garfield's spirit perfectly. It's there! That's Garfield!

[Nostradamus]

Kairus:

Spoiler

I got the flower to Airine, now I can't get the stuff for the other 2 cats. I got the hat, but can't enter the store. What do I do next?

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[Kairus]

Ok, Czar gave me this idea. It doesn't sound too coherent but maybe it's something I should've stated in the readme file or something.

In this game Garfield does not walk by default, that it, if you are not in Walk mode the cat will probably not move to most of the hotspots. He will only walk to the places that are useful. For example, in Action mode, if you click on a door he will probably go and open the door without you telling him to move towards it, but if you click on something that hasn't been assigned an action he won't move. Now, Czar told me he didn't realized that he had to be in walk mode to walk and then he thought he had the same effect about Garfield getting stuck everywhere, until he found out he only had to set to walk mode again and everything would work fine. Are you sure isn't it this what's happening to you?

There are several ways to switch to walk mode, press 'w', press escape, click the right button of your mouse or select "walk to" from the verbs gui. Please try that out and if still doesn't work, try switching to action mode while Garfield is stuck and then open a door or something. If Garfield is really in a non-walkable area then the door would open without Garfield getting to it. Otherwise, he will walk to the door and open it.

I would also like to know if absolutely everyone is having this problem, I can't believe it's only my computer the one that can make this game work fine!!

Nostradamus:

Spoiler

When you're outside the store, try to wear the hat (action mode then click on hat) and Garfield will tell you more or less what you need to make a disguise to enter the store.

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[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Here's something weird for you to think about -

In the late stages of the game

Spoiler

(I only had to get the hat, and then I could go make the lasagna and the proceed to the TV station with all the other cats)

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I found myself stuck on the park, What happened was, I'd walk ANYWHERE and then, after he took a few steps, he'd freeze in a place. Always after the same amount of steps (I had saved my game. I'm sorry, I overwrote it, otherwise I'd give it to you). He'd keep animating, but no matter what I tried, he'd never walk. Yes, I tried setting the cursor mode to walk, and like I said, he animated. But he was stuck.
Also, if I tried to climb the tree at that point, the game would be waiting for Garfield to get close to the tree (this whether I had already moved or not). But since he'd stop moving after that SAME NUMBER OF STEPS, the game would hang, as it was STILL waiting for him to get close.

Other areas prone to this behaviour are outside the TV station, the barn and the alley. These are the areas that I remember as giving me the worst trouble.

[Czar]

hmm, too bad kairus. looks like you'll have to do some fixing, if not for us, then for yourself...

And what if there is and action/bug that triggers the number of steps that are to be walked before it freezes?

[Nostradamus]

Kairus:

Spoiler

Where exactly is the money for the shop?  I understand from previous hints that it should be in the bathroom but I can't reach anything in there!

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[CittyMom]

Spoiler

Look a little harder in Tom's clothes on the bathroom floor

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[CittyMom]

Nostradamus-

    A bit more to previous post of mine:   Tom will not be in the bathroom until you have had an unsuccessful attempt to leave the market with all the goods.   The guard tell you that you must have some "bucks"

[Larien]

I don't know if this'll help anyone else, but I thought I'd share in case it does.  
For a little while the game kept freezing up on my computer.  Things were just getting worse as time went by.  So I decided I'd try something and deleted all the files from the game I was currently battling with and reinstalled it from the original .exe file.  I didn't redownload or anything, just installed again from the same file as before.  And it worked.  I haven't had a freeze up with it at any of the places they kept happening before.  Now, this solution does mean you'd lose any progress you'd made, but I personally didn't think it was that hard to remember what I'd already done, and I've progressed a lot farther now because I can do things I couldn't before.  
It seems a little weird but it worked for me, maybe it'll work for some of you too.

[autowil]

How to find Jon's Mother and where to find the shoes?

[nope!]

autowil: you don't need shoes.
.............


I re-install the game and I managed to finish it without problems/bugs....Maybe, the problem starts with a interaction (likethe crash in the kitchen).

Anyways, it is a good game!  

[Kairus]

Has anyone found out a specific interaction that makes the game crash? I have tried with all you have mentioned and it didn't happen on my computer.

I have sent another mail to PAWS asking for permission on sunday, I haven't received any reply yet. I hope I can fix this bug some day, but it won't be possible if I am not able to re-upload the game.