The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Remake

[Dualnames]

Cyrus, I was in fact referring to all the sprites/backgrounds/GUIs everything art related. I could do a collaboration of many artists,but well, no chance of not having this slapped in my face.

Wonk

[Ponch]

Finally got a chance to download this game yesterday. Not too far along yet, but nice work Dual. This game is bringing back a lot of memories of the original version. Nicely done. Thanks!

[Dualnames]

Ahem, here's a mention at the RETROREMAKES!!


SEE IT HERE

[Sslaxx]

Ahem, here's a mention at the RETROREMAKES!!

SEE IT HERE

Good one!

[BiggerJ]

I think I've found a bug on Damogran where

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the guards catch me when I run for this ship even after I've destroyed their guns.

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[Dualnames]

Hey BiggerJ, of course they do. But that's no bug.

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You haven't fulfilled all the purposes of the Damogran scenario, that's why. The solution is what you have there for the podium/dais part of the planet, but you have missed something essential inside the rowboat. It says "The conditions make you lose your fluff", now I assume you have the key, the toolbox and the fluff, all you need to do is:

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Use the key on toolbox and place the fluff on toolbox

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[BiggerJ]

Thanks! Now I've got to message Leon (who messaged me concerning the 'bug') and tell him everything's okay - at least concerning the end of the Damogran section. In response to his message, I also told him about another possible bug - an apparent bug (but a survivable one) in the boat section.

Edit: Message sent.

[Leon]

No worries, I read the threads as well. 

I just didn't realize

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you missed the fluff part.

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[Joseph DiPerla]

Hey DN, I added a mirror to my site as well, over here: http://adventurestockpile.com/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Details&sobi2Id=19&catid=0&Itemid=77

Errr... I think you might need to register to see the actual listing. But the mirror link is http://adventurestockpile.com/agsgames/h2g2remake.rar

[Dualnames]

Hey Joseph, I'd be glad to host any of my games at your site, who wouldn't really, but Peder Johnsen and Xenogia, are already hosting this file.
I made an account though, and if it's fine with you, I'd love to have another games page like the one in AGS.

[Joseph DiPerla]

Of course its fine with me. I just figured I'd add another mirror for you and also archive the game at my site.

Hehe... The archiving of all games, engines and such goes a little slow at the moment, but its getting there... By the way, love the game. I've been waiting for this one.

[Dualnames]

Of course its fine with me. I just figured I'd add another mirror for you and also archive the game at my site.

Hehe... The archiving of all games, engines and such goes a little slow at the moment, but its getting there... By the way, love the game. I've been waiting for this one.

Great then! So far very impressive!

[blueskirt]

Is an update to your game currently in the work?

I'll need to restart the game from scratch a third time because the autosave feature saved me in a walking dead situation and my previous savegame got corrupted for some reason, at which point I'd rather wait 'til the game is in a more stable version before I try again.

Also, other than making inventory management and navigation a chore, what's the point in having a limited inventory in Strag mode if you can simply drop everything you carry to store it in the Thing?

[Dualnames]

The thing existed in the original game, but not all of the guys notice its use, and it's not stated nowhere in the original. Some people thing they should constantly get rid of it.

I think it's quite stable as it is. What dead-end situation was that blueskirt? Also the corruption of the save-game, beats me.
You seem angry and for a reason I cannot argue with. Sorry if I kind of break the fun to you. It wasn't intended in any way.

The game has lots of code lines. The auto-save is supposed to save your life in a good way. Just some situations we didn't check. And that's no excuse,but on the beginning of May I almost gave up on this game for a third time, and then some great guys pushed to finish this on the 25th. The game was barely ready for that day, but I had to stop making excuses for stalling it.

I will have a huge beta-test right now, checking all possible situations in the game. So if you want to wait for a couple of hours be my guest.

Okies, done, I've fixed some small thingies.

[blueskirt]

Nah, I'm not angry, and I intend to finish the game one of these days.

I'm at the part where you can hop in 3 or 4 different scenarios, one with Ford, one with Arthur, one with Zaphod... First thing I notice about that part is during the black screen moment where you gotta look, touch, listen, etc, your way out of the darkness, the game randomly crashes when I try to interact with the triangle, the huge spiky tail and sometimes with the circle.

I mess around a bit in Arthur and Ford's scenarios, I'm quickly led to believe I did something wrong or forgot to solve a puzzle at the start of the game, so I decide to restart from the start, this time paying closer attention to the small details. It pays because I solved a puzzle I didn't solve earlier. I reach the part where I was before I restarted, instead of getting Arthur or Ford's scenarios, I get Zaphod's one instead, the game autosave in the boat, auto-save during the ceremony, I spend close to 40 minutes trying to figure out a way to escape without success, a quick glance at the hint thread reveal I should be having

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the fluff and a key

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to proceed further, which I don't. Since the autosave is in Zaphod's scenario, I try to reload my previous savegame, which I saved in the Heart of Gold, just before the scenarios splitting moment, but that one got mysteriously corrupted and my last savegame is in the pub, at the start of the game.

I'd restart right away but right now I'm a bit tired of replaying the same part, I'll give it another try later this week, when I'll have changed my mind with something else.

As for the inventory, if it was just a matter of limited inventory, it wouldn't be that bad, where it is problematic is that you can't select items when they're in a container, you must first make some free space in your inventory by cramming items into other containers, then remove the items you want to select from their current containers before you can select or use them.

When I realized I was spending more time micro managing my inventory than I did exploring the HOG or solving puzzles, I just stopped wasting my time with all those containers, I dropped every single object I had and began to use the Thing like a limit-less extension of my inventory. And in bonus, I always have free space whenever I encounter a new object I can take, and my items are all in one place which make it more convenient when I'm looking for something. And since I doubt dropping everything in the Thing is the way H2G2 was meant to be played, even if it's more convenient this way, one can wonder what's the point to the containers and limited inventory.

[Dualnames]

I'm at the part where you can hop in 3 or 4 different scenarios, one with Ford, one with Arthur, one with Zaphod... First thing I notice about that part is during the black screen moment where you gotta look, touch, listen, etc, your way out of the darkness, the game randomly crashes when I try to interact with the triangle, the huge spiky tail and sometimes with the circle.

Weird no one actually crashed the game on that part of the game. Are you playing the game using some filter (HighQuality2x ecc?)

EDIT: Okay, crashed it. It says Game has been modified since SAVE. Okay. That only used to happen when I scripted the game. It's a thing that happens when you change something and try to load an old savegame. There's nothing in-game that should cause this. I'm bringing Chris attention to this.

That one got mysteriously corrupted and my last savegame is in the pub, at the start of the game.

When you say corrupted can you be a little specific? Cause I'd definitely love to investigate on that.

I do get your point on the thing matter, and it's something i thought very thoroughly, the whole dropping items was a part of the game I reconsidered many times. The thing was decided as the best measure on how to solve certain issues that would have had me abandon this game.

I'm really sorry you had to play the game over and over again. It's what I was afraid at the first point. The bugs.

[Grim]

Weird no one actually crashed the game on that part of the game.

I crash there constantly.... And also got stuck on the fluff from the boat thing.... sorry.... 

[Dualnames]

Okay, guys fixed. Re-uploading in a couple of hours. I did a workaround.

[Sslaxx]

Okay, guys fixed. Re-uploading in a couple of hours. I did a workaround.

What thing(s) have been fixed?

[blueskirt]

When you say corrupted can you be a little specific? Cause I'd definitely love to investigate on that.

The error message I get in the dark room and the one I get when I try to load my previous savegame are the same: Game has been modified since save; unable to restore game. The thing is, I never changed anything in the game settings (the setting.exe file) and the only option I ever messed with from the options menu was the Skip Style to "Timer Off". And every other savegames works perfectly, all but this one.

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Currently downloading the latest version, I'll try to take a break of Curse of Monkey Island tomorrow to give this new version a try.