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Hello guys.

It turned out that I took a different road after all, meaning no game programing at all. You might agree that good forums with good people are hard to find nowadays. Especially if someone is looking for constructive criticism. Always the thing I liked the most about the ASG Community. So I question myself, if it still would fit the recruitment or critics lounge section? And If not... where to go?

I can't stop thinking about the day I will leave pre-alpha state behind me. 
I wish a nice weekend.

[non-adventure learning interface of letters]

Good Morning everyone.
I was looking into AGS in the past, but never developed anything till nowadays. I have a basic understanding of what is going on with the engine or what is possible. So, I decided to give it a go and make a very simple first project. The good news is, I know what I wanna do. My only trouble is to choose the best way to do it. So here we go.


non-adventure learning interface of letters

First of all: understanding the background possibilities properly
Thanks to the editor it is easy to implement backgrounds and even to animate it with a few frames. I wanna make the best out of it and use themes like shells, flowers and so on.

I guess the very basic method would be to open different rooms and give it its theme. Than to put into every single one of them the same guis, which will start the animatins and sounds of teaching. The first room would be the gateway to choose a theme. That is not very elegant.

I rather would like not using the editor for setting up the backgrounds. I rather wanna use as less rooms as possible. Is it possible to tell a room per script language which background sequence it shell open and close by command? Can ASG do it that way, make themes switchable?


Thank you for every reply and help.

Greetings everyone.

A little about me.
Since 2008 I invest free time and money in (mostly private) social projects. The very one on which my heart lies on, is a non-profit future help center. One of the major parts is dedicated to people who are handicapted in their linguistic development. I count myself to this group and couldn't be more serious about all the further effort I'm willing to spend to make things for others easier. The first attempt founds in a online database.

My thougts are not spining around the question, if AGS is made for other material like stuff. No. More like, what are parents happy with, to give it in the hands of their kids? What is considered children save? What is a child happy with to use? Elementary questions about design, user-friendliness, no-goes and so on.

I'm interested in your general opinions as parents and ex-children. Both worlds are welcome, handicap or not.
Thanks a lot for every reply.