Starting a new game, need feedback on something

[guest]

 Ã,  Hi all. I am going to start creating a game soon, however before i begin I must ask something. The general background of the game is quite dark with some dark rooms and areas and I was planning on being able to have the character use a flashlight. Now I am only going to use MS PAINT for the graphics, and I know Revenants, the game chrille blomqvist is working on (think I spelt it right) has the flashlight plugin. Anyways, I have very limited knowledge as to using AGS, but I am getting there and know how to do basic things. Anyway is it possible for me to like download a flashlight plugin and the character can use the light? Please give detail as to how this can be done, if it can be done. Thanks.

[Scummbuddy]

perhaps download the plug in a read the read me file that it comes with that are its instructions on how to use it?

[guest]

right, where can I go to download the plugin?

[Scummbuddy]

on the ags main page, you go to download ags, and then from there, scroll down and youll find a "page of user written plug ins' which will take you here:
http://www.agsforums.com/games.php?category=21

[guest]

   Also I have another question. I want to start creating the character templates for the characters in my game. I've seen completed ones before and they all seem to be done on bright pink backgrounds and they also all seem to be very small and lines up to eachother for each frame for each side of the characters walking animation. I have MS PAINT so where should I start in drawing my characters and how?

[Blade]

The colour of your background is not important, but you cannot use this colour in the character's sketch.
As to where and how...
First thing, your character should match your backgrounds, probably the best way is making him as tall as 90% of your average door. Then you just have to drwa it and then redraw a few times for animations - this is a rather monotonous task, cause you're just changing the previous picture a bit to represent characters movement.
My advice is to make pictures as small as possible - get borders of the picture close to the character, but don't worry if you have to make it bigger for some of the loops.