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Just recently played this game.

Loved it!  I got frustrated in the beginning and at one point
regarding the pipe thing, but once I got it, it went pretty smoothly.

Such a sweet story. 

Ooh, wow! I didn't know you were working on a sequel already.   

Loved the first Airwave and I can't wait for the next one. 

Hello!  

I am a 24-year-old female and I am new to making games.  
I am watching densming's Youtube videos and reading the manual and I am really enjoying working with AGS.
I also have fun drawing in MS Paint. I usually drew by hand or in Photoshop and Illustrator, so this was a different experience for me, lol.  

I do draw... somewhat passable drawings and you can see some of my older stuff in my gallery http://bunny-gypsy.deviantart.com/gallery/ and my scrapbook page: http://bunny-gypsy.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps

I'm currently trying to learn about perspective and anatomy, but I am a very slow self-taught learner and perspective is kind of confusing, so it's taking awhile, lol...

I'm working on my first, very, very, very simple "test" game and replacing the default stuff with my own graphics and learning the basic features of AGS.
I already have drawn and animated (badly, hehe!) my "test" main character and have finished my first room. Now I just got to draw the supporting characters, and keep watching the video tutorials and reading the manual to learn about Events and scripting.   I'm so excited just seeing my main character come to life on the screen! Can't wait to keep working on this project.  

I was exposed to adventure games when I was younger through my father, who bought King's Quest games V, VI, VII and VIII. He would play them while I watched and figured out some puzzles with him. (I watch for pretty pictures and the exploration and stories than the puzzles, though). However,
my sisters and I played the Humongous Entertainment point-and-click games (such as Spy Fox, Freddi Fish, Fatty Bear, Pajama Sam, Putt-Putt) A LOT. (They were easier to finish compared to Sierra games, lol.)

My fav King's Quest was VII. I couldn't figure out how to play the older ones KQ1-4, because I can't figure out what to do and I had trouble figuring out what some of pixel things are (is that a bucket?), heh. I also loved Monkey Island 3 and Indiana Jones. (The older MI games were too hard and still are difficult for me.) I also played Roberta Williams' Dark Crystal, but I always died close to the end, heh....

My most recent adventure/click-and-point games were Sam and Max: Season I and now Sam and Max: Season II.  

Ah, so that's it. So both can be animated, but (using what RickJ said) the difference is Characters are global (can appear in multiple rooms in the game), while Objects are conformed to the room they load in with. Got it!  

Thank you, Khris and RickJ for answering my last couple of questions.   These answers and advice are making things so much
clearer to me!

Now I just have to plan and decide how to lay out the rooms and what to do with the babies and stuff. (And keep reading the manual and watching the Youtube tutorials as I go, of course! )

I'm really liking this program and I love its different features. I've always loved point-and-click adventure stuff, especially Roberta Williams' King's Quest games and the Monkey Island games.   I also loved, loved, loved, LOVED those old Humongous Entertainment games (Freddi Fish, Spy Fox, Fatty Bear, Pajama Max, etc) when I was little, so I'm greatly inspired by those. (The most recent adventure game I've played is Sam and Max Season 1 on the Wii.)   

Ah, thank you so much!

So I was on the right track about the main character needing a View with the baby in her arms and about the crib being a HotSpot.
I just wasn't sure about the crib/main character interaction. It's great to hear it can be done!  

A couple more questions and I will be out of your hair, I promise (lol): I'm a bit confused about Objects.

1) Can Objects have their own animations? The manual says that Objects can be used for "things which need to animate".
So, say I want the baby to animate in the background anytime he/she is placed and left behind in the crib. Should I make the baby a Character in order to animate him/her or can he/she be animated regardless of being an Object or Character?

2) And, if I do decide to make a baby into a Character, the baby can still be considered as an inventory item (whenever the baby is in the possession of the main character), yes?

Again, thank you all so much!   I'm excited just seeing my character moving on the screen! (She looks funny walking with my horrible animation skills, lol.)

Hello. I'm new to AGS and working on my first "test" game.   I hope this is not a dumb question, but I can't figure out
how to search for this kind of thing and I'm not sure if I'm asking this right...

Anyway, I am currently using the default game setup and have already made my own character. I am following the very useful
Youtube tutorial videos.

I am now drawing a background. However, I am not sure what to do about this particular interaction, especially since
it's something my character will do a lot in different rooms. (She's a babysitter/caretaker of various alien babies).

My character will pick up a baby/child from the crib (or playpen) at some point and then put the baby back into the
crib (or playpen). I am not sure how I should approach this in a technical sense, though.

I checked the manual on Hotspots, Objects, and Characters, but I'm not sure which one would make sense for the crib and
the baby.  

And I'm not sure how to search for this kind of thing, so if someone could point me to the right direction or thread, I
would greatly appreciate it.  

So, here are my questions:
1) I'm guessing the baby will be either a Character or Object (since the baby will be picked up and held by the player
and has its own animations)?  

2) Should the crib/playpen be drawn into the background and be made a Hotspot from there or should it be something else?

3) I'm guessing the actions of putting baby in and out of the crib/playpen could be considered an Event, yes?

Any suggestions would be great, please and thank you!