Accessing AGS games background images

Started by elbarto, Tue 05/01/2021 16:06:21

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elbarto

Hi all,

for a project I am working on I need a collection of several images of "cartoonesque" games.

The first idea that came to my mind is to somehow take advantage of old point and click adventure games, as they are a perfect fit for my needs.
Once I found out about the the existence of AGS and the huge number of indie games freely available, my mind was blown away!

So is there a way to automatically save all the background images of a AGS game without having to manually play it? I know this might be a vague question, but could someone point me in the direction to start my research on how to achieve this?
I am a software engineer so coding is not an issue, I just need to know where to start  :-D

Crimson Wizard

#1
There are tools that unpack game resources from AGS games, and ofcourse you could write your own given AGS today is an open source software and formats are open ofcourse.
There might be tools for extracting resources probably for every old game/engine existing in history at this point.

It's just that if a game is freely available does not mean that its assets are free to use. Depending on the nature of your project their use may or not be forbidden by game's license.

That kept in mind,
first tools I know are these: https://github.com/rofl0r/agsutils
there may be other, and older (existing for more than decade), written by various authors, but I don't have exact links right now. Maybe these could be found by searching in web.
AGS own source code: https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags

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