Shooters

[bLaKe G]

Is it possible to make a shooter?

[Ashen]

Short answer - it depends.
Here is a discussion about shooters in AGS, here is Ponch's 'bare bones' shooter code, as used in this game.

There are other examples out there (just do a search for 'AGS Shooter' or something similar) but these were the first I thought of, since this question was just asked about a month ago here.

[Ishmael]

What I had written, but Ashen beat me to it : ...

Sure. Just script it.

Seriously, this is one of those questions I reckon could break Rich's back if it comes to that... Sure, someone will give you the code for it, but what will YOU learn there? To copypaster faster, if anything... If I wanted to make a shooter, I'd go work on it, and I know my talent, I'd get to a start. But if I hit a wall with something, I would have a working or almost working piece of code to represent as a base for the others to give me advice and ideas on how to make it work the way I want to.

No offence intended.

[scotch]

I think the best answer to the can I make a shooter/rpg/platformer type posts is "Yes, but don't."  Why make a non adventure in AGS? there is no reason to... especially if you're not already familiar with and attached to the engine.

We make long posts and tutorials with very kludgey inventory and npc handling scripts for RPGs or collision detection for shooters when shouldn't we really direct people to an RPG or shooter engine where they won't have to fake and hack everything in?

I am not sure what kind of shooter you wish to make, but I'd suggest Game Maker as a good general purpose action game engine.

AGS is really only a good choice for adventures and perhaps hentai dating sims, if you want to have a couple of action scenes in the game it is still work AGS scripting them, but if the majority of the game is not 2d adventure try something else.

[Ponch]

Which, or course, raises the question of why no one has ever made a hentai dating sim with AGS. Or if they have, why has no one told me about it.

As far as a shooter goes, you can do quite a bit more with AGS in that regard than I would have thought at first glance. My upcoming game The Forever Friday has a few sequences where you have to draw your gun and lay down the law before the bad guys either shoot you or run away or call for reinforcements. If you're willing to do the scripting and willing to spend hours and hours chasing bugs out of the code, then you might be surprised what you can accomplish with CJs engine.

Perhaps you could pair a hentai dating sim with a shooter. Some sort of tranquilizer gun / subway grope virtual simulator. Just throw in some of those big-eyed sailor-suited school girls (all college aged, of course) that seem to be ever so popular and it would sell like gang busters!

"Full Dose Subway Grope" or maybe "Dart Ride Secret"? Perhaps "Hentai Hunter Love Collapse"? There are just so many possibilities when you think about it.

Somebody get cracking on this right away!

- Ponch

[Squinky]

Which, or course, raises the question of why no one has ever made a hentai dating sim with AGS. Or if they have, why has no one told me about it.

- Ponch

Check out Genbus Favor or something similair, I've never played it though....heh. And hey I made a crappy shooter too man! (note the emphasis on crappy)

[Gregjazz]

I don't think I've posted this before, but here's a cool little game I made:

http://herculeaneffort.adventuredevelopers.com/mission.zip

Left-click walks and right-click shoots. 'R' reloads and F9 restarts the game. Things to try include shooting fences and windows and stuff, just experiment and play it thousands of times.

Right now I have a scrolling map and more baddies, but it has some bugs, so I figured I'd post an earlier but more stable version.

Enjoy!

[Ponch]

Genbus Favor? You mean somebody actually made a hentai game with AGS? I was just joking people!

Joking!

What people will spend the valuable hours of their life programming....

- Ponch

(Oh yeah, I'll be downloading your shooter tonight, Geoffkhan. Thanks for posting a link to it. I didn't even know it existed!)

[Squinky]

Now that I think about it, Eric made a sweet little game using rawdraw function that was kinda a shooter.....

[MrColossal]

you mean this?

http://sylpher.com/kafka/rawdraw.zip

teleport to room 2 for the shooting gallery type area thingie... 1 is AGS draw and 3 is the starting room

teleport being control x