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For all you AGSers who like to post in the forum MSPaint thread or enter the other comps to keep your skill up. Check out this site:

http://www.paintcontest.com/

Month to month they hold comps to draw in MSPaint a particular subject.
Winner gets $10 via paypal

Alot of the entries frankly suck, so you guys should have no problems, i won last month (tho i did do 3 entries) but people dont seem to make too much effort. AGS pplz will clean up.

Good Luck
Fenix.

Well, i want to get my Nephews into the old point and click adventure games.

Unfortunatly most games appear to be made for us older folk who grew up with them.

Im looking for a few games for 5 - 7 year olds. Somthing with simple writing they can understand and puzzles that arent too hard for the kiddies.

I guess some action to keep them interested wouldnt hurt


Any Suggestions??

Cheers
Fee

MY BOYCOT OF SYMANTEC PRODUCTS!

Since the early days of my messing around woth PCs, when i owned an 8088 with 640k Ram, ive pretty much never gone without Norton Utilities installed. Every util came in handy at some stage or another and they never failed to do their jobs. For me, Norton Utils was one of the must have Applications for any PC user. Microsoft even made their own version of Speed Disk (Defrag) and Norton Disk Doctor (Scan Disk) and included it with DOS 6, maybe even DOS 5 i cant quiet remember, it was long ago

Norton Performed flawalessly untill around 1995 when the long filename system brought its popularity to a screaming halt untill the next version was released. I continued to use Nortons (Now Symantec) products with no problem. That was untill about 4 years ago. We were running a games server for a game called Helbreath. Making updates on a regular basis and having to compile and pack the client in such a way that hackers couldnt unpack it (well easily).

No sooner would i pack the client, NAV would report to me it was a virus and delete it. No matter what, with NAV 2003 there was no way to stop it from deleting a file i know for a fact isnt a virus. At this point i Stoped using Symantec products. Their quality seemed to be getting worse since Norton was sold to them and hell, there was other things avalible everywhere that did the same job.

Ever since ive used various differnt Antivirus and other utils by many other people / companies. 3 days ago just out of interest i decide to Run Symantecs online scan. 2 hrs later, it reports to me that i have 7 viruses. A fact i found strange since VET, AVG, Adaware and several other orpgrams failed to find them. 4 of them were packed Helbreath Clients ok easy enough, however 3 were reported as trojans.

Since im taking a nice long break from HB i thought screwit ill install full NAV 2007. I go and pay $90 for it and install it. Virus scan runs and guess what.. NO SIGN OF A VIRUS. Seems to me the online scan lied to me and i was duped into paying for NAV07.

Later that night u shutdown the PC. In the morning when i boot up, Norton springs to life and tells me "Koos.exe" is attempting to access the internet. I look in take manager, it doesnt exist. I search all files no sign of it. I google it and it informs me it is some sort of nasty ass Trojan so i set Norton to block it.

I attempt to browse the internet after i block it and guess what.. Norton cut off all internet access. I was unable to get it back. In hardware manager every network device had a yellow !  next to it as if the drivers are missing. So i set about reinstalling them. No help. I use system restore to go back a few days. No help. Eventually i crack the shits and uninstall Norton. My internet returns. HOWEVER i reboot and guess what... Blue screen and an instant reboot, PC wouldnt even go into safe mode.

Using a PreInstall Envoronment i boot up and backup all important stuff to a USB HDD.

Format, Reinstall Windows (with the network unpluged) First thing i install is Norton 2007. Then i activate the network and resinstall all my drivers ect. Everything seems fine. The PC has had no chancee in hell of coming into contact with a virus. But notran Now constantly reports that my PC is being attacked.. Where from?? MY ROUTER. It constantly issues popup messages stating my router is attacking my PC. So much so that attempting to run anything in full screen is impossible.. it always pops back to display the message and of course there seems to be no option to switch it off.

So in summary... I just paid $90 to have to format my HDD for no reson and to be told that my router is a hacker attemting to infultrate my system. Thanks alot. SCREW YOU SYMANTEC, you can Join EA on my boycot list for releasing such dodgy untested shit and not replying to my Emails.

Rant over

Fee

Ok.. so another annoying noob question frorm the noob king Fee...  :

So.. In the fight sequence, im trying to make it so when you click the enemy with a wepon, the main character will walk over to him and then take a swing.

Is it possible to make him move to another character and  swing? the character[FEE].Walk command only seems to accept co-ordinates. The Follow Command makes you walk around behind the Enemy. So if hes facing you, the character swings at nothing, then walks around the enemy. On the second attack they swing at nothing as they have their backs to each other.

So.. is there some other command that will make him move next to the enemy no matter what way hes facing? Can i use the character.walk command to do so?

The Follow command isnt too bad, i was goint to make them follow each other around in circles and fight for some reson he Swings at the enemy from a screen away, then procedes to follow him insted of follow then swing :/

Some1 wanna gime a hint here plz?

I have a few ideas i can do IF i cant get it to work like that, but they are crappy work arounds... then again, im pretty sure all my scripts are crapy work arounds lol

player.ChangeRoom(Character[FEE].PreviousRoom, GetGlobalInt (50), GetGloablInt (51));

It says "undefined symbol" GetGlobalInt

Im assuming I'm confused about somthing between versions :/

Having a minor problem in some of the rooms.

I have some rooms at 2800x2800. The walkable ares seem to be pretty much spot on, they are SLIGHTLY off, but its barely noticable.

However. with some rooms at 640x480 my character is able to walk above the walkable areas. I do CTRL-A to check out the area and I am standing outside where it is set.

I redraw the rooms and i still get the same problem :/

I could draw the walkable areas off center. But it took me 3 hrs on 1 of the maps to actually draw it out in the first place  :'(

Before you ask.. i checked the forums, the manual, the FAQ and the Wiki.. I cant find what im after....

Fee

[QUEST FOR JUSTICE]

Fee is ashamed to present...

QUEST FOR JUSTICE
The Story: After many years of peace with your once sworn enemy, you take a trip of cultural exploration only to return home and find the peace is over. Can you save your town from certian distruction? Can you reunite the 2 kingdoms into 1 great nation?

Screenshots

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Progress
Story: 95%
Scripting: 70%
Graphics: 75%
Sound/Music: 10%

Comment
OK.. so this is my first game (well second if you include the one i made just to check out AGS) so dont expect too much from it, but I'm sure by the time i finish i will have learnt a hell of alot and can make a much better game. Game will contain a fait bit of borrowed material.

In the demo you can basically only complete the first quest. Theres a few of "walkbehinds" i have to fix up, but ill do that at the end when I'm touching up everything. You can explore some up and coming places also.

Game will feature alot of comedy and crazy style characters, as well as other guests from other games. Its set in the Helbreath world and several players from my server will make an appearence.

UPDATE: Demo updated with 99% Complete Fight engine.

Demo URL: http://72.36.253.218/PUBLIC/JQ.rar

ETA: well i first estimated a month, but then i got more and more ideas and went from a small game to a biger game so i dunno now. I estimate late June Release.