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well I finished my first AGS game flower girl.  there are probably some bugs and some things I could have done better.  my main focus was the graphics and had never really scripted before. I hope you like it please let me know what you think. 
story:
There is a little village atop a mountain that has been plagued with a horrible wind storm during planting season.  There seed carts have been blown away. And they have no seed to plant for the harvest.  A little girl  flower is sent down to the valley to retrieve some seed from an ancient storehouse in a cave.  When she gets there she finds the cave not as accessible as she had hoped. Of coarse she meets all sorts of creatures that can help her if she can help them.








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This is my first game using AGS, it is actually my first game ever. My motivation was really to learn more about scripting.  I really wanted to draw something that was really pop cartoon like.  It may sound weird by my game is based off of a picture I drew that I liked.  My inspiration is 1950's and 60's cartoon backgrounds.  I started the game way before I had a plot so I am kinda making it up as I go along.  But here is what I got so far.

story:
There is a little village atop a mountain that has been plagued with a horrible wind storm during planting season.  There seed carts have been blown away. And they have no seed to plant for the harvest.  A little girl who for now I call flower is sent down to the valley to retrieve some seed from an ancient storehouse in a cave.  When she gets there she finds the cave not as accessible as she had hoped. Of coarse she meets all sorts of creatures that can help her if she can help them. I have been working on it for less than a month and I am hoping to have it done in less than 2 more months.  I am also struggling with how much animation I should put into it. 






so here is the new text I am playing around compare with the above image.  I am not sure this will be the final but I think it looks neat.

this is my new character I just added yesterday. (notice my new save icon, it is supposed to be a life preserver but I am not sure how well it comes out or makes sense. I plan to post the whole bar in critics lounge when I figure out what the heck to do with the restore icon.)

update on music 4/10/08: I think I figured out what to do for music my sisters husband has some good instrumental pieces that I hopefully can use.  I just need his permission, which I am pretty sure he will give me.

My hope is to get some old comic book artist friends of mine to make characters for the game to promote themselves, and to use as promo at cons. getting their art is also slowing me up. because I don't even know what they are going to draw and I need to work em' into the story. 


update9/14/08:  well I took break for a while. and recently came back to finish my beta version of flower girl.  I expect to have the beta up soon to play and hopefully get some feedback and maybe some pointers. considering this is my first game I am pretty happy. so I guess this update is to say expect it sooooooon! 


Progress

Story: 100%
Puzzles: 85%
Dialogue: 40%
Game Screens: 99.9%
Music:100%
Sound Effects: 80%
Animation: not too sure how much I want maybe 40%
Scripting: 60%