WaffleQuest -- Please help us find bugs!

Sylvr · Fri 05/04/2013 15:23:35

Hello, AGS community!

I am very excited to present to you all: WaffleQuest!

This is a story about an alien whose spacecraft malfunctions in space and he crash-lands in front of our school. (The rooms are modeled after the real place!)

This game was made by me and a small group of 10-12 year-old boys at our daycare(which explains some of the graphics

). It's taken us roughly a month and we're extremely proud of our work!

We're wondering if we could have some help testing it out; everything else is done.
Some small errors were found (and fixed) this morning, but another remains unresolved: Sometimes the icon bar simply won't show up when it's supposed to, in the middle of the game. Not sure what to do about that. Also, a personal concern of mine is volume of sound effects--I'm not sure how to set them up at the correct volume. I have my speakers just under half and master volume just over half and that works fine for me.

Grateful for any feedback or advice you have.

Thanks!

--Sylvr & Co.

Edit: I've already talked to them about things like considering a more neutral/less bright GUI palette. Since this is our first attempt at anything like this, I didn't want to aim for too much perfection.

Slasher · Fri 05/04/2013 16:04:27

Hi

it's nice that the kids have an involvement and it would be great for then to see it come to life.

I have run over the game, cute

There are a number of issues that could do with re-thinking and re-applying.

It may be an idea to upload the whole games folder (not just the game itself) and give a link to people who send you a message offering to help.

I am certain you will receive what you are looking for from the many talented people here, er me included, you can send me a link.

Good luck

slasher

Sylvr · Fri 05/04/2013 16:11:44

By "the whole games folder" do you mean include the basic resources (e.g. backgrounds and sprites)?
And can you name some issues?

Darth Mandarb · Fri 05/04/2013 16:15:28

If you're having those "technical" issues you should post them in the tech-boards (this isn't really the right place for that but, more importantly, you'll get better results posting in there anyway).

Neat to see a game "team" consisting of children. Good luck.

Sylvr · Fri 05/04/2013 16:18:07

Well... I'd never encountered the issue :s I have no idea how they got it, so I can't give much in the way of thread content. And I also want to know about other issues that we haven't caught yet. Should I start another thread over there anyway?

Edit: Yeah it's been really interesting working with such a team. They're very enthusiastic. Some already want to start on WQII: Revenge of Doctor Pancake, but I've had to remind them that the first game isn't even released!

Slasher · Fri 05/04/2013 16:18:42

Issues include: No direction indication in most places, an arrow or something to show the where you can go would help.

All you do is to copy the 'actual games folder' which has probably been saved in 'my documents' and it contains all the rooms,scripts, compiled folder etc etc. That is the folder you want to copy, zip it and upload it and then give a link to download it. That way people can edit the game and correct issues.

Please ask if you require more info

PS Mod will no doubt move this to the appropriate thread.

regards

slasher

Sylvr · Fri 05/04/2013 16:20:12

If at all possible, I'd like the kids to be able to correct the issues.

Slasher · Fri 05/04/2013 16:29:01

Issues include:

No direction indication in most places, an arrow or something to show the way you can go would help.
Particularly in the kitchen, table with plates, computer.(You could draw arrows that show exits on the background.)

Volume. All the audios (look in the audio tree under music and sound) you can adjust volumes from there. 100 is high and you can set its priority. This is a basic way. Balance between background music, sounds and speech should be adjusted until everything sounds just right at the right levels.

Restore / restart GUI needs fixing,

To name but a few.

EDIT: Just seen Darth's post. He has a point.

slasher

Darth Mandarb · Fri 05/04/2013 16:29:21

It's okay to point out the issues in here (that testers might find) as that's part of testing! However; to find the solutions for those issues use the tech-boards (or PMs). That's what they're there for! Otherwise this thread gets cluttered with technical issues/solutions.

Sylvr · Fri 05/04/2013 16:31:35

Yup! Once I know the issues (like not knowing which way to go), it shouldn't be too difficult to find answers.

arj0n · Fri 05/04/2013 20:02:02

Quote from: Sylvr on Fri 05/04/2013 15:23:35
This game was made by me and a small group of 10-12 year-old boys at our daycare(which explains some of the graphics ). It's taken us roughly a month and we're extremely proud of our work!
We're wondering if we could have some help testing it out; everything else is done.

Cool little project you guy's have here. I did a test run, check your PM.