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I can't test my game in progress, the following message comes up each time:

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Illegal exception
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An exception 0xC0000005 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x004ACC3A ; program pointer is -182, ACI version 2.62.772, gtags (0,0)

AGS cannot continue, this exception was fatal. Please note down the numbers above, remember what you were doing at the time and notify CJ on the Tech forum.

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It happened directly after replacing a number of character sprites.

Okay, I'm not doing too well at this, I've figured that I need to get the artist away from his pallet and know how to do it, but I have no idea what to do once I've done so.

Cryptic is an idea for an adventure game which is hopefully rather unused at the moment.

Essentially play revolves around computer systems and the internet (which means, due to knowing astonishingly little about either, you get lots of fake "pop culture-hacker" type situations). You play a computer AI, released onto a system for reasons that your memory doesn't go into and play progresses from there, with lots of cheesy conspiracies and the like.

Being an AI, the idea of inventory has to be somewhat different. Rather than finding and collecting objects as such, you collect supplementary programmes, memory modules and pieces of data and interact with other things based on these.

Just finishing off with some screens, these are currently rather rough... they are badly scaled and much too large in terms of file size... but they should give a reasonable view of what the game will be like. Sort of. I guess (there's no visible character because I felt that giving the character a physical form would be rather redundant)

http://www.bratch.co.uk/coven/cryptic1.jpg

http://www.bratch.co.uk/coven/cryptic2.jpg