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Please, nooOOOoooOoo to Qt. I had an entire mouse once that wouldn't work with Qt because it's mouse click events.

It was fun navigating every Qt program such as VLC player with the keyboard...or not.

I made a thread about something like this a while ago: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=43641 (thread stripped of links/images).

I'm surprised you're not going for Unity. It would take a few rudimentary scripts and editor scripts to give a very good basic adventure game engine.

Were the only issues plugins and license?

I'm interested to know why you're recreating Exile style control rather than allowing free first person movement? Revelations allowed both kinds, but I can't see why a player would prefer to move between points.

I was initially making it for myself, and I thought moving between points would make the experience easier to "puppet master". I played Darkness Within 2/Amnesia and I ended up 3D pixel-hunting in every little corner and it was annoying me. With points you know the objects have to be somewhere near there.

I do like the way you move in to a fixed camera to look at the object on the shelf. I'd prefer to have free movement, tweening in to a locked camera for conversations and other interactions.

Free movement could be added later. A few scripts would have to be tweaked to check for things like distance, that's all.

The inventory and dialogue system are also very interesting. Are you able to create branching dialogue trees?

Yes. I had a longer dialogue but I reset the script and didn't want to type it out again. I'll add a longer one now.

I've fixed the conversation distance issue, and found a good workaround so you can't pick up the same object twice.

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While I like Myst style games this would be my ideal choice of gameplay style if I were making a 1st person adventure game in Unity.

http://cardboardcomputer.com/2011/02/15/balloon-diaspora/

Can't wait to see your demo.

I don't see why styles like that wouldn't be possible, but I can't see how that game plays. Your art style is down to you. When I say Myst, I'm just talking about the point-and-click style, so you could still make a game like Scratches. When the basic features are down, it wouldn't be a huge task to allow a walk-anywhere style like Penumbra/Amnesia/Darkness Within 2, or even a third-person Grim Fandango style.

I'd be interested. I got the hang of the basics in Unity, world building is fun, I even managed to animate a few things (like a rocket launch) which was very exciting. But I couldn't figure out how to make an object dissappear when you ran over it, and add an object to an inventory or anything. Nor speech. Also importing human figures and animating them....way beyond my knowledge. But I'd certainly be interested in your demo.

I only just made my first inventory. It was easier than I thought it would be. The good thing about Unity is that the inspector can visualise the arrays for you, and you can see how it works. The conversation system I have can be typed straight into the Inspector, instead of requiring any hardcoding.

I've been working with Unity for a while. I'm not a scripter but perhaps I can help out on the art side? I also know how to get animated models (like characters) into the engine.

I do art too, but we don't need anything special for the basic gameplay elements (you will see my lame cursors soon ). Maybe we can all help out during the making of an example game.

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See original post for tech demo.

[Implemented]

In the last week I built a Myst-style adventure game system in Unity using C#. I'm no programmer, but it was easy to make, so I am hoping some of you might want to get together and build something much better.

It would be released for free, and give people a base on which to build their own adventures. And they'd be playable in a browser.

I'll release what I have so far if anyone is interested in taking a look, but it would probably be easier to start from scratch, because the way I've implemented some of the features may not be the best way.

Implemented

• 360 degree view
• Movement between points with smooth camera - Uses a trigger/hotspot system and iTween.
• Inventory - simple array.
• Dialogue system - Uses simple indexes/links, and displays character portraits, but can't flag variables etc yet.

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Demo (Requires Unity browser plugin)

[Demo link expired]

Try Google Sketchup. If you buy a good renderer for it then it's great.

[Images zip:]

I found this walkcycle somewhere and cut it up in ToonBoom. 9 frames then back again for 9 frames.

It's not perfect and the feet need some work by you to be exactly on the line. I think frame 9/10 might be doublers too.



Images zip:
http://rapidshare.com/files/376686725/anim.zip.html
Backup: http://www.sendspace.com/file/d1u8ax

ToonBoom file:
http://rapidshare.com/files/376683859/TB_Walkcycle.zip.html
Backup: http://www.sendspace.com/file/au8r04

[Image > Adjustments > Threshold]

You might want to try these in Photoshop:

Image > Adjustments > Threshold > Adjust the slider

or

Image > Adjustments > Posterize > Keep number under around 7.

These are good helpers for simplifying, but they won't do the whole job for you.

The inventory works fine, but the verb coin won't appear.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Then you're lucky I have an offline mirror of that server 
I uploaded the deluxe version here; it's the three chapters in one, playable from Windows.

You're a legend, thanks. I found that same site on google while searching too.

That's definately it. Too bad about the link.

I'm sure it had Harrison Ford's head pasted onto a body for the main character. He had a chibi body with funny simple feet animation.

It was an entrant in MAGS at some point years ago (03-06?).

Randomly, I want to find it. Anyone remember it?

The only thing for me is that web address. I misspelled it about 5 times trying to type it in manually. Isn't wegames.com available? At least the ad will be clickable I suppose.

Under a Killing Moon was one of the first adventures I played on my 120mhz PC. Downloading now.

This edit isn't perfect, but the perspective would be more like this:



The problem is you want the back of it to have almost a shell type of shape which I can't be bothered doing .
The two front "legs" would have to be like \ and / to get a sofa like that, they're straight up and down right now.

Damn, wish I had seen this earlier.

Honestly I can't see what's wrong with Leyton Hewitt. Every interview I saw with him at Wimbledon he's seemed like a perfectly nice guy.

It's exactly the same with Russell Crowe - every interview I've seen with him he seems like a normal, nice guy. Check out an interview with him here: http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/most_recent/index.jhtml?start=33

You hear/read about them in newspapers or on the internet, or judge them by who they're going out with. It's just stupid. You hear about Russell Crowe punching reporters and throwing stuff at them, then you read an article about how Russell Crowe's an asshole and it's written by the exact same people he's been throwing stuff at. Obviously it's going to be slightly biased.

They had some good bands, but the information about the concerts were embarassingly bad. I mean, there was NO information at all for WHEN WHICH band would play WHERE!

I saw "Green Day", who I almost meet in California one time by the way, and they where playing a pretty bad gig. It just didn't feel like a proper "Green Day" concert for some reason.

I would have loved to know when bands like Coldplay or Audioslave played, but there was - as said before -Ã,  no information AT ALL. So you had to watch TV all day to find out and I don't have time for that!

http://www.live8live.com/theconcerts/index.shtml

It doesn't tell you what time, but it tells you where.