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Hello,

Is it possible to translate a game with text parser via the tra/trs file? I translated many lines in the translation file, including text commands, and everything is fine, except the commands remained in original language.
Do you know any solution to translate text parser commands?

Hi everyone,

My "team" has a finished game, but can not release it because of video(cutscene) problems.

We do not miss any video drivers. We do not miss any codecs. Videos can be played outside the game. We tried ogv, flv, avi, mpg and several other formats. Also tried Direct3D and DirectDraw rendering modes.
We tested the game with several computers. Some cases, when the cutscene should start, we get a black screen and must force close the game. Some cases we hear the sound of the video, but see a black screen. Some cases(like 1 of 10) the video plays without problem.

I must say that this is not the first time to have problems with ingame videos. Back in 2008, we released a game what was played by hundreads of people in Hungary. The game was made with ags 2.71 and had 2 cutscene videos(both in .avi) and about 50% of our player stucked in black screen when the cutscene started(not able to move forward, only to force close the game). We suggested our players to rename the video files. This way they got an error message ingame, but was able to continune the game.

Now, we use the latest version of AGS. But still we have video problems in several computers, with all possible settings.

Please tell me if it is a recognised known issue in AGS, or not. If our testers have so much trouble to play videos, we can not release the game to players.

We would happy to see a simple and ultimate fix about this video problems. We don't want 10000 questions per day about "game stucked in a black screen after the menu".

Cutscenes are important parts of our games, so if this problem can not be solved(e.g in a future ags release), we must switch to an other engine. What would be really sad, because we use ags since ages and we love it.

Hi,

I searched a lot on forums and did not find a topic about bluring backgrounds with script. I read the "Room functions and properties", and the "Drawing Surface" things in the Help, but can't find a solution.

Please tell me how to do it. I hope it's not too complicated.

I'm not sure if I made this topic to the right place...
I would like to translate 7 days a skeptic to hungarian language. I've also tried to contact with Yahtzee, but I don't know if I have any chance to get a reply from him. So I decided to post here, probably some of you know Yahtzee closer than me, and can tell me something about how these "business" works.
5DAS has already got hungarian translation, but I can't contact with the person who translated it. However, I would like to continune translating the series.

I don't understand some things in the story of Trilby's Notes. I searched some for an appropriate topic to ask, but didn't find, so I decided to make one.

so... I write here what I figured out, and please correct me where I am wrong.

Spoiler alert!!

In 1501, there was a druid, Cabbadath, who could make connection between the "world of technology" and the "world of magic". When intruders came to Cabbadath's land, he summoned a pain elemental named Chzo, because he thought he can control him and order him to kill the intruders. But Chzo was too powerful and he "grabbed" Cabbadath.
Here comes a part what I don't really understand. Why Chzo made a tree from Cabbadath? Probably because he feed with pain and he wanted Cabbadath to leave forever in pain?
Okay, so Cabbadath slowly lost his consciousness and he became Chzo's slave, the evil "Tall Man", who IS the tree, or his soul is in the tree, or something like that. The Tall Man can appear only once a year, in his anniversary.
Later a woodcutter came, and cut the tree. Then, the Tall Man appeared, and executed the woodcutter, but he didn't hurt the young boy.

Some years later, somebody used that wood to build an inn. The Tall Man appeared in the inn, and killed the innkeeper, and later the innkeeper's son. The Tall Man also killed a guest, who witnessed the innkeeper's dieing.

Later, somebody used the wood of the inn to make a harpischord. A man named Freehorn, who interested in occultism, bought that harpischord. Soon the Tall Man appeared to kill him, but Freehorn begged for his life and the Tall Man left him alive. Later, Freehorn founded a cult for Chzo.

Meanwhile somebody crashed the harpischord and made a crate from its wood. Then an african slave carved an idol from the wood of that crate. After he finished, the Tall Man appeared and executed everybody on the ship.

So finally we are here, we have an idol, what made from the tree what created by Chzo, from Cabbadath, after he grabbed him. DeFoe found the idol on the ship, and bring home. Accidentaly, he used that idol to beat his unwanted "retarded" son, John DeFoe. When he beated John with the idol, John's spirit transferred into the idol.
Inside the idol, the Tall Man gave power to John's spirit to go out and kill anybody he wants.

In 5Days, we saw John roaming in the DeFoe manor, trap and kill people. Trilby managed to transfer John's soul to his old remains and destroy him. The DeFoe manor burned down, but the idol remained somehow. John's soul remained too, and he killed Simone.

This is the point, where the Trilby's Notes begins. Trilby saw Simone was killed by the same machete what John DeFoe used, so he start searching the idol. He go to the Ministry of Occultism, and he found that the Clanbronwyn Hotel bought some artifacts from the DeFoe manor after it burned down.
"Accidentaly", that hotel is the place where Cabbadath summoned Chzo, and where the "magic tree's" stump is still there underground! And more "accident", Trilby arrived to the hotel in the anniversary of the Tall Man, so he roamed the Hotel! Also, near the stump, people who are depressed fall into a "reality shift" and from the "world of technology"(thats our world) they go to the "world of magic" what looks weird.

Trilby met Lenkhman, who is a man from the Ministry of Occultism, and Lenkhman gave Trilby some tranquilizer pills. The tranquilizer pills and the caffein helped Trilby to travel between realities anytime he wants(more or less), so he solved a lot of puzzle and learned the tale of the "wood" by touching different artifacts, and read the notes what Lenkhman left him.

In the end, after Trilby figured out the full story of Cabbadath and Chzo, Lenkhman admitted that he is a bad guy and he is from the cult that Freehorn founded hundred years ago. Lenkhman and his order want ... .... want what? Here I lost the thread, even if I played the game multiple times :/ Probably they want to bring the Tall Man to our world and they need Trilby to do that(don't know why him). And if they bring the Tall Man to our world, that's probably good for Chzo(don't know why). In the end, Trilby died before the Tall Man could use his body, so Lenkhman failed, and the Tall Man killed him. Siobhan brought Trilby back to life, and everything okay, except Trilby can't destroy the idol, because that would be good for Chzo(don't know why).

So, please explain me some things what I couldn't get, and correct me where I was wrong I like the story, so I would be happy if I could understand it

[John Harris and the Treasure of the Pharaoh]

John Harris and the Treasure of the Pharaoh
Original title: John Harris és a Fáraó Kincse


Hello everybody,

I would like to share my first completed adventure game with you


Story:

In the game, we can take the role of John Harris, an archeologist from Arizona. He travel to Egypt, to investigate an ancient pyramid. But first, he should get there somehow, because the bus dropped him somewhere else... The rest of the story is up to you to discover


Lenght, puzzles:

The game itself is not so long, contains about 25 rooms.
Some puzzles are hard to solve, so you will probably stuck here and there
As I said, this is my first game, so please don't kill me if some puzzles are too mean
(Don't worry, none of the puzzles are impossible, my testers could solve everything with some thinking)


Screenshots:

 

Additional notes:

The game's original language is hungarian. I spent several hours with the translation and I managed to finish it today. But I'm not an expert. To be exact, this is my first game translation, so I'm sure I left some mistakes. I deeply apologize if you face with translational faults. But I hope the overall gameplay will be as "good" as in the original language version

The game is also avaiable in the AGS Games page, here.


Download link

John Harris and the Treasure of the Pharaoh - Download


Enjoy!

Hi,

One of my friends has problem with displaying video cutscenes. If he uses direct3D 9, the video has only sound and no picture in fullscreen mode(in windowed mode, its ok).

If he uses DirectDraw5, the video works fine, but in that way, the engine does not "smooth scaled sprites".

So, we need the video to work with direct3D. He tried tons of video formats, and all has the same problem. Audio ok, no picture. He also tested on 2 different computers, and the problem remained.

Anybody has any idea?

I want to scroll left-right in my inventory...
The scrolling left is working(stop scrolling when TopItem = 0).
But I can't set up the scrolling right part... I want the inventory to not scroll right anymore, if the last item is showed.

My script is like:

Scrolling left:

if (invCustomInv.TopItem > 0) {

 invCustomInv.TopItem -=1;
}



Scrolling right:


if (? ? ? ?)
{
invCustomInv.TopItem +=1;
}


Please help!

Thanks.

Hello everybody,

I would like to implement one of my favourite puzzle into my game, as a lockpicking-minigame.
I don't know what is the common name of this puzzle, I think "Klotski". But you can try the game here: http://silverlightgames.org/game/klotski/play/

I'm sure everybody have seen a puzzle like this. Last time I met this puzzle in the Broken Sword: Director's Cut, and it was really amazing!

First of all, is it possible to make a minigame like this in AGS? If so, I need your help. I searched a lot in the forum, but didn't find anybody who did similar things.

I'm not so good in advanced functions of AGS, so I don't even know how to start it 

I hope somebody can help