Is There a Guide to Creating a Game?

[Iris]

Hey, I've recently been considering making an Adventure Game. I found plenty of very useful guides to using AGS, but does anyone know of any guides to creating a game in general? By that I mean a guide to creating the scenery, plot, setting, characters (not the actual model but personality) and things like that. I have a pretty good idea of what I want to make a game about, if I make a game about it, but I'd like to go through as many steps as possible to make sure the plot it as well developed as possible.

[Babar]

There probably isn't one complete homogeneous guide, but I hope this will help:

http://www.lumpcity.co.uk/~babar/tut.htm

[Iris]

Wow that was quick, I wasn't expecting anything till tomorrow. Thanks a lot, I'll give it a try.

[Stupot]

Woah, Babar, you rule.
How come I never came across this before?

[Babar]

Thanks Stupot!


The basic text for it was taken (with permission) from one of Rodekill's old tutorials, but some sections (like music and programming) are not complete, so I haven't spread it around as much. If you know of any game-oriented music tutorials, or a good place on these forums I can link to for programming tutorials, I'd appreciate it.

[m0ds]

Some other articles here, but some, like the all important puzzle theory, are not working at the moment :/

http://screen7.adventuredevelopers.com/agdzine/articles.htm

[Snarky]

Yeah, but I was able to dig up the puzzle theory article on another site.

Also check out this thread for plenty of other articles on puzzle theory.

[Oliwerko]

There probably isn't one complete homogeneous guide, but I hope this will help:

http://www.lumpcity.co.uk/~babar/tut.htm

Bookmarked.
Excellent.

[m0ds]

Graphics, particle and story tutorials can also be found at

http://www.barnettcollege.com/tutorials.htm

[Trent R]

No tuts or guides, but the AT&C discussions on the Wiki are good reads (most of them).


~Trent

[limeTree]

you might consider playing couple of games too

[Trent R]

Also, I like to imagine how I could recreate certain puzzles and interactions from other games. Even though I don't bother to script anything in AGS, it helps me get in good mindset.
Then when I am scripting, I have multiple ideas on ways to script a problem or puzzle.


~Trent