I was at Borders today and I saw this book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596007140/qid=1120412229/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_ur_1/104-0951343-8393544?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
There is a subsection in this book about AGS!!!
They mention 5 Days a Stranger, Fatman, and apprentice in the book.
They give a mini-tutorial on the system (I don't remember seeing a version).
Just thought it was neat, check it out.
The rest of the book talks about things like how to play older games (emulators, dosbox, etc)
Then there's a section on online gaming etiquette and such.
Really, they mention Apprentice in the book? Can anyone find that page please? :)
Yes, worm, you must scan those pages in. It is now your duty to do so. I could pay the 10 bucks for the book, but when you already have it...
If you don't have a scanner, you will be ridiculed and laughed away from AGS... or something.
It sounds like he didn't actually buy the book.
And who could blame him, when it's $15 cheaper on amazon?
How dare they call AGS game creation "hacking"?
It's a craft and an art, I tell ye.
(Unless they mean hacking in the original sense... I don't think so though.)
I think using the term "hacking" is just to get people's eye :P
The book seems to be about everything game-related from creation to playing to minor hardware modifications.
You call bringing a 400 degree soldering iron dangerously near your $300 gaming console minor?
sounds cool. when i saw the topic of this thread i thought it meant "old men who use computers".
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groovy
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Well, -someone- needs to go out and buy this book so we can all see.
Quote from: Scummbuddy on Sun 03/07/2005 20:14:40
If you don't have a scanner, you will be ridiculed and laughed away from AGS... or something.
I don't have a scanner, so I'm quiting away from AGS, NOW!
02.59: Blake searches through catalogues to find a decent scanner.
03.00: Blake sees how much they are.
03.02: Blake's eyes pop out of his head.
I went ahead and placed the order on amazon and I should get it late this week.
I have a scanner so I can get those pages on (hopefully not too illegal since it was only like 3 pages where AGS makes an appearance)
[edit] a link I found on the net...
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/gaminghks/inx.html
Quote from: [lgm] on Mon 04/07/2005 02:33:06
You call bringing a 400 degree soldering iron dangerously near your $300 gaming console minor?
Yes. I mean, pff, who can't solder!
That and we don't pay such extortionate prices for game consoles in the UK.
QuotePleughberg: The Dark Ages, 298
..what?
Hehe the creators of that game made the name too complicated to be spelt correctly anyway (that includes themselves), the correct name should be:
Pleurghburger: Da Dork Edges
Hey, Smokin' Weed is covered, too. Looking at the other games it's probably used as the bad example, although there are far worse p3n1s award winners.
But nonetheless, Smokin' Weed! Way to go! Oh well.
Quote from: Hotspot on Mon 04/07/2005 10:10:10
That and we don't pay such extortionate prices for game consoles in the UK.
That's because you just steal them.
Quote from: [lgm] on Mon 04/07/2005 16:16:29
Quote from: Hotspot on Mon 04/07/2005 10:10:10
That and we don't pay such extortionate prices for game consoles in the UK.
That's because you just steal them.
They do not! They win them at raffles on campsites in Laleham!
...in which case they steal the tents.
OK, hoping the FEDS don't find me out...
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be a doll and scan the rest about pinball tables please :'(
The AGS section is too short to give some details. Also:
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Of course, the 16-color mode provides that true-retro feel.
16-color mode? When?
Has CJ seen this thread yet?
Perhaps he should read over the book and send in updates to the author.
Perhaps they meant 16bit mode, but that's not retro.
The Space Quest I generation of games was EGA right?
Or did AGS used to support a 16 color depth?
Yeah unfortunatly it's very short on AGS stuff. It was really a joke to myself to see if AGS was even in there. But AGS appears to be the only adventure making software on there.
AGS never supported 16 colour modes (you can of course, use only 16 colours for your graphics).
I can get away with the agsforums.com links not working part though, since I assume this book was published before the move.
Nevertheless, they should have linked to www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk, which has always been the official address, and which redirects...
They had put in that link, the problem is, if you're referring to a specific page you have to put in the exact url. You can try using http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk, click a page from the left menu, watch the brower's url firld and you'll know what I meant. A better choice, of course, is not posting those direct links, but write explicitly like "click the download page from the left menu".
Hehe that's pretty cool. It is a pity about the direct links to pages on agsforums.com that no longer work, but it's no biggy since I'm sure people can work it out for themselves from the front page.
QuoteHas CJ seen this thread yet?
Perhaps he should read over the book and send in updates to the author.
I don't think there's any point. It's a book, it has been printed, it's too late. The only point of correcting the author would be if the book was going to have a 2nd edition, how likely that is here I don't know.
Yes but after printing thousands of copies how bad would it make them feel to have all these errors :D
Anyway nice to see AGS is making more of a public apperance.
yeah, i mean if more people get to see it, more people will get in to gaming and hopefully it won't be such a "geeky" thing. You'd be surprised how many people think that it is really really hard to make a game, even an amatuer game.
The more people interested in adventure games the better, which means more commercial adventures and more amateur ones too :D
i foresee the return of the adventure genre!!!! :D
I don't. For a start, if I was reading that book I'd skip over AGS and get straight to the pinball tables :P
it does give AGS a pretty good rap though.