Need advice on software to use

[powersmoker]

Hi all.

Im planning on making a game in the style of Kings Quest. Most important is the teks typing system. Later I'd like to include experience points, money, multiplay, chat.

I have no experience whatsoever.

Can you guys recommand any software?
If you recommend AGS please name one or two others too. EXPLAIN your choice.

[GarageGothic]

If you mean King's Quest 1, 2 and 3, I would recommed using AGI, the engine which Sierra themselves used to make those games.

However, you would be hard pressed to find ANY adventure game engine which supports multiplayer (LAN/Internet) and chat.

[Gord10]

If you want to mean "being able to control multiple characters" by "multiplay" and "being able to talk with the NPC's with a text box" by "chat"; let me say AGS can do them. But if you want them to be internet relayed things; then you would have to find an adventure game engine supporting TCP/IP (and it would be a hard search, as there is no such an engine I know for now).