Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Spheres

[Miez]

Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Spheres

Nazis! Floozies! And loads of spheres in this super short let's-get-into-the-mood-for-the-season game.
My first AGS coding project, but I had loads of help from the rest of the FoY team (music and SFX by m0ds, coding help and bugsquashing by DKH, animation by Nacho and Big Brother).

Anyway, download it from BarnettCollege.com and have a bit of fun.

Ok. Actually just one nazi. And one floozy (but don't call her that to her face).

[Dualnames]

Woohoo, I'm suprised this was read 8 times before me.

[Frodo]

Nice little game, Miez.  Thankyou.   

[m0ds]

Seriously funky stuff, Miez - I really like what you did with this!!! You really succeeded with your first AGS project, that's for sure! Nice job!

Here's the DB entry
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=1121

Have an extremely productive & fun year everyone

[EKM]

That was a cool short game. Congrats on your debut. The ending made me laugh. I loved the music and the design of that "set-up."

[Leon]

Nice one!

Found a bug though .. (sorry...) (or is it an easer egg?  )

When at Himavat, use the can on the exit for a very special effect...

[Miez]

Nice one!

Found a bug though .. (sorry...) (or is it an easer egg?  )

When at Himavat, use the can on the exit for a very special effect...

Whoo! no, that's a bug allright.  We'll have that fixed asap.

[Leon]

While you're at it, found another strange thing (or two)...

Spoiler

- USE the doorways or looking at them result in strange texts (like Why would I do that or I'm not going to try that...) but you'll use them anyway.
- The Carvings hotspot at Himavat isn't always visible. I haven't been able to figure out when it becomes available but most of the time it's not. Not that it's relevant for the game but still...

[close]

[Miez]

While you're at it, found another strange thing (or two)...

Spoiler

- USE the doorways or looking at them result in strange texts (like Why would I do that or I'm not going to try that...) but you'll use them anyway.
- The Carvings hotspot at Himavat isn't always visible. I haven't been able to figure out when it becomes available but most of the time it's not. Not that it's relevant for the game but still...

[close]

Hmm yes - that first one I can fix
The second one is intentional ... 

[Buckethead]

 :'(

I get this after the screen 7 logo:

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Illegal exception
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An exception 0xC0000005 occurred in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x0052F55F ; program pointer is +77, ACI version 3.11.1056, gtags (155,92)

AGS cannot continue, this exception was fatal. Please note down the numbers above, remember what you were doing at the time and post the details on the AGS Technical Forum.



Most versions of Windows allow you to press Ctrl+C now to copy this entire message to the clipboard for easy reporting.

An error file CrashInfo.dmp has been created. You may be asked to upload this file when reporting this problem on the AGS Forums. (code 0)
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OK   
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[m0ds]

Odd! To be honest though, I still haven't been able to get this game to work on my XP machine

[Galen]

Haha, that was fantastic, Miez.  :D

[Leon]

Odd! To be honest though, I still haven't been able to get this game to work on my XP machine

I used it on XP without any problems.

What I've noticed, but that was with older versions, that AGS sometimes is a bit fussy about the path you're playing the game from. If it is too long, contains too many spaces, other characters or something like that, you can get strange messages.

A suggestion is to move the game to a folder with less than 8 characters as close to the root as possible. (I normally use D:\AGSGAMES) and that works fine. Once I had this message and that was solved by moving the game from D: to C:.

Maybe this helps..

[m0ds]

That could very well be it, I'll try. But this is the FIRST AGS game I've ever played on my XP machine that doesn't work. The screen comes up black, no sound or music, the computer becomes extremely slow... Gah.

It works fine on Vista, but who am I to give Vista any credit?

[Play_Pretend]

Well, I know this is probably just something I'm not seeing, but I played for twenty minutes and gave up...I couldn't even figure out how to get out of the first set of rooms.  I literally tried every interaction on every hotspot on the main screen, and the two rooms with the god statues, and tried using the red herring can on everything.  I even slowly swept my mouse over every inch of each screen to make sure I wasn't missing a hotspot.  As far as I can tell, there's nothing I can do.  So...

Spoiler

Is this game a practical joke, and that's why he's got the "red herring?"

Or is that thing you mentioned about the Carving hotspot some random element that I just kept missing, and I can't proceed until it shows up?

[close]

I'd really like to know, because this looks really great.

[Trihan]

Strange Visitor:

Spoiler

Look at the crack in the wall.

[close]

[Play_Pretend]

Do you mean the

Spoiler

"narrow gap" in the main room?  Because if I look at it, he just tells me there's a gap, and it looks very narrow.  If I use it, he tells me he won't go in because there might be snakes.  If I talk to it, there's no answer.  And if I use the can on it, he won't because he might not get it back.  I tried repeating all these a few times, with the same results.  And I can't find any other cracks in any of the rooms...aggggh!

[close]

[Leon]

Strange Visitor:

Spoiler

Talk to Shelly again. Other options are available now. Don't be affraid to offend or challenge her a bit..

[close]

[Play_Pretend]

Heh...

Spoiler

Grrr...I'd already tried goading her about being fat, then looking at the hole again, I just didn't notice the "You might not fit" option slid in between her previous dialogs.  Gah!  Anyways, thanks for the hints guys.

[close]

EDIT:  HA!  Great ending.

[Kaio]

Wow, thanks for that game Miez! It was a pleasure to play it. Nice graphics, nice music, just like in the old days. For you and the whole FoY team just the best wishes . Keep up the great work.

- Kaio