Jimson and the Jazz Crabs Release

sigbuserror · Sun 09/03/2008 23:37:52

I started this game a month or so ago and just got done with what I hope is a series of small games made in AGS. I wasn't intending on releasing it out to the wild originally, but I figured I would post a link here just in case someone in AGS land wants to check it out.

Link to my blog with download:
http://sigbuserror.blogspot.com/2008/03/come-in-closer-oh-my-daughter.html

*Updated at Mods request *

Here is a screenshot:
http://www.altereddreams.net/blog/JATJC_screeshot3.png

There are some more screenshots here:
http://sigbuserror.blogspot.com/2008/03/and-you-can-tell-its-just-as-well.html

m0ds · Mon 10/03/2008 00:31:07

Cool, screenshots would help though.

Leon · Mon 10/03/2008 03:41:42

Congratulations! Nice game. Good story, nice graphics. Well done!
You wanted some bugs and remarks? Here they are:

In your opening page it says Begin and Quit. I'd prefer Begin and Restore. That saves a lot of time. Being able to skip the intro and outro would be nice as well.

Error: SetActiveInventory: character doesn't have any of that inventory.
In my inventory:

Spoiler

loot, stick, milk, whistle, fruit, trumpet

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It occurs after trying to give any item to Peekers or Floyd, then trying to select the milk in your inventory.

More errors and typo's:

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- Typ'o when Jimson's talking to Floyd about the sax: I am the ulimate pirate. (ultimate)
- Typo when talking to Floyd: The Ulimate Vibe (ultimate)
- I can talk to Joe about the milk even before I've spoken to Clamps.
- Typo when looking at the automatic door in the cookie factory: when Jimson walk up to them. (walks)
- At the cookie factory you can walk too far to the left and 'float'.
- Typo when giving the last instrument to Floyd: you have recoverd. (recovered)
- When picking up the fruit, Jimson walks all the way to it, when picking up the stick it's like magic.

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I just got another crash (Illegal exception). Must see to reproduce it though... It has to do with saving and restoring though....

[update]
That has nothing to do with this game but with running the game from an USB-stick.... ?!?! Playing the game works fine except when the game tries to switch to the last part (where the band starts playing). Then it crashed. From my HD everything works fine.
Let's see if I can reproduce this with other games...

I'd like to see the others in this series...

sigbuserror · Mon 10/03/2008 04:19:21

I will certainly fix those minor issues listed. I had a strange crash once too but wasn't able to make it happen again so I figured it was just a fluke. I am glad someone liked it!

I made a mistake by putting a lot of the text in the script files because I didn't understand how messages worked originally, so it was hard to go back and find all the typo's.

Thanks again for the feedback, after working on the various screens for so long I just don't see these little things!

*Small Update* I figured out the milk issue, the milk is supposed to be removed from the inventory at that point but the script code I was using there was wrong. Ill fix that and made the icon bar pop-up if you go to the top on the main screen so you can load. I always just play it through so I never thought to have a way to restore without seeing the intro! Ill upload a tweaked version in an hour or so, just so others don't run into that nasty little bug.