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I joined a few days ago but only just saw this post. I've never made a game before, though I've always wanted to, and after struggling with RPGMaker for a few weeks I gave up and decided to try out AGS. It was a pretty involved process...I run a Mac but ran into some bugs when using Parallels, so I had to suck it up and install Windows via Boot Camp. It's been pretty smooth sailing since though; I've just been fiddling around and clicking through tutorials, trying to get a feel for it. So far, I like the engine way way more than RPGMaker haha.

Chiming in to second The Last Door! It is one of my all-time favorite games.

Don't know if anyone's been following this, but here's an update: I tried running AGS Editor on VirtualBox and Boot Camp. On VirtualBox it was so slow it was essentially unusable; on Boot Camp, it works fine (so far).

Goddamnit. Thanks for your help! I can try installing Windows on Boot Camp and see if the issue is resolved there.

I typed "PracticeGame" into both fields.

Hi all,

I'm very new to AGS--so new I haven't made anything, but I wanted to spend the weekend trying it out. Unfortunately, when I installed and started up the editor, I kept running into an error message every time I tried to type in my file name, game name, and folder. Selecting any folder to save files into generated the error message "The folder name you have specified includes some invalid characters. Please use just letters and numbers." Leaving that line entirely blank, but filling in a file name and game name prompts the error message "You must type in a file name and game name to continue."

I'm running the editor on Parallels/Windows 7, 64-bit if that makes a difference.

Thanks for any help! Apologies in advance if I'm being extremely stupid and missing something obvious.

edit: I've tried uninstalling, redownloading, and reinstalling the editor, but no luck.