Johnny Rocket Adventure!

[Pixelton]

Hey Guys

Here is the Johnny Rockett Space Adventure! my FIRST EVER AGS GAME!
This little game was really more of an exercise in learning AGS rather than creating an amazing narrative and I've really learnt alot...mostly how NOT to do do things, but it has been great. I hope atleast someone finds this enjoyable and as this was a learning tool I'd also be happy to share the actual source folder with all my code and art...although I'm not really doing anything amazing with the code.

www.blacktreeuk.net/download/JohnnyR.zip

I'd like to thank everyone on the forum that helped, especially Khris who put up with my constant questioning of things. There are two player deaths in the game too so save often.

[Leon]

This looks great. Downloading now... further comments later.

[update]
Great graphics. Good dialogs and loads of interactions. Great stuff! The font size could have been a bit smaller, the dialogs not all in uppercase, some typos but other than that, well done!
More soon!

Love this game! Another note: while restoring a game, you can't see the black text on a black background.....
And if you want to remove the textual errors and typos, just PM me.

Ahh.... I just crashed the game!
While re-entering the cargo room where the bot was and trying to select the crate:

in "room8.asc", line 15
Error: MoveCharacter: Character not in current room

Finished. Short, but sweet. The end is a bit sudden and cuts the story (very) short. But potential for a much longer version. Keep it up!

btw, In the end line, Johnny is called Rockett, instead of Rocket.

[Pixelton]

Ah thanks Leon

Fonts are an area of AGS I'm still yet to explore I used to always get lumbered with localization and fonts in my last job so I should be good at it

Word of warning - dont expect too much from the story :p It really was just..."How does AGS work???" quest.

[markbilly]

YES! I was really looking forward to this... Back in a bit.

[Calin Leafshade]

Looks excellent, huge fan of pixelly games

will give it a go.

learn form sentence must

[Pixelton]

Cheers Leon!

I've fixed that nasty crash! You always think you've tested something pretty thorough but you always miss something when you've been working on something for so long.

A new file is uploaded with that fix. The character's name is actually Johnny Rockett so if I've refered to him as Rocket thats wrong lol, I'll go back and look over any references with his name!

Cheers again. I was alittle unsure what the best way is to end an AGS game, code wise so I just stook a restart function at the end. Not sure if this was the best thing to do there. Thanks for playing it Leon, means alot

[Leon]

Johnny Rockett

:o :o Look at topic, look at game title... 

[Pixelton]

Yeah...thats probably me just going nuts over time...it happens all too easily to me   I don't think its a bad try for my first game.

Fixed one other crash, it should be pretty damn stable now anyway

Cheers guys.

[bicilotti]

Finished it 5 minutes ago, found it very interesting and would like to play more.

Crashes sometimes (mainly for the Charcater not in current room thing Leon reported), plus

Spoiler

you can easily pass past the freezing leak without the help of the bot, just to get another crash if you actually try to stop the vent fan.

[close]

Debug mode is still on, too!

Apart from those minor things, great stuff!

[WHAM]

Awesome!
I'll download tomorrow and try this out.

Congratulations for completing the game!

[Pixelton]

Thanks man, despote a few mingling issues with it I'm proud of it

Can't wait to start the next one!

I'm also loving your new sprites Wham!

[SarahLiz]

It's really here?!?  ***does the happy dance***  I am so excited...between this and nanobots, should be a very satisfying week.      Ohh Yessssss.  More later...  


~Sarah

Edited to add:  ok, so I finally found a teensy problem.  The game crashes on me in the room with the huge fan and whatever that spraying liquid that turns you into solid ice.  BTW--I am stuck here and not sure what to do next, any ideas of a possible hint?  Pretty please?  ;P

Anyway, the scripting error says:
in "Room 7.asc," line 153
Error:  Move character:  character not in current room


--Hope this helps a little.  Or pisses ya off, whichever...   

[blueskirt]

I'm currently playing it, it looks awesome so far, my sole complain is the game deceptively make you believe you can save on more than one slot but actually overwrite the same slot.

Enough posting, I head back to the game.

[Leon]

I'm currently playing it, it looks awesome so far, my sole complain is the game deceptively make you believe you can save on more than one slot but actually overwrite the same slot.

But you can. Just give the entry a new name and it will become a new slot. You'll only see the first one because it's white text. The others are black text on a black background. The sliders are also in black so...
Just click to the left of the red vertical line on the right. You'll see more entries.

[Pixelton]

Nothing pisses me off sarah! 

Thanks for pointing out the save slot problem to Leon, I'll fix both issues and upload a new zip (that helped alot Sarah!. I'm really happy people seem to be enjoying it despite some small issues that it has, there were alot of different puzzles planned originally and the whole Bot puzzle was actually completely different but due to my lack of coding skills it changed...but I think for the better.

From making this I'd approach doing the graphics alot differently and certainly wouldn't run into the same kind of coding brick walls as I did with JR! But it's all a learning curve!
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Edit-
Theres a new zip online now - on a side note the crashes Sarah found didn't stop the player from finishing the game you'd be glad to know....they're just annoying crashes! I also changed the font colour for the save and restore GUI windows! yay we can now see our other saves! I'm very sorry Blueskirt - that must have pissed you off

As for a hint. You have to make Johnny Rockett indistructable to get past that Trigenon gas!

[Matti]

Will check it out within the next days, looks cool.

Don't forget to add it to the game database, so more people will play it

[Pixelton]

yup, its now in there, I'm having some problems linking it to my forum profile, it doesnt accept my password but I'll get that sorted eventually

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Yeah for some reason its my password....bizarre lol nevermind

[Matti]

From the bottom of the add game page:
"Note that you MUST use the original forum name that the user registered under, not whatever their current nickname is"

I think that's the problem..

[SarahLiz]

Hmmm...indestructable, indestructable...  Got any more hints of the "obvious" kind for this dense girl?   :o


Thanks for fixing the bug--you're right, I didn't think it was anything that would prevent completing the game, just wanted to point it out.  I'll download the new zipfile now!


~Sarah

Edited:  I figured it out!!  I'm not quite as slow as I give myself credit for.     Now, back to the game!  I am really enjoying it, and although you say you don't want to use those kind of graphics again for your next AGS game, I love 'em!  Very pretty.

[Pixelton]

Thanks hun, every bug found makes it better (ideally I should have found these things before I released it :p but I'm abit of a one man army at the moment).

I don't think my artwork will change too much...improve hopefully :p for some reason the graphics are alittle blurry when the game is run at full screen but I know how to sort that now

Cheers Sarah!