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The Phoenix Wright games are incredible.  I'd find myself running crime scene scenarios in my head to try to figure out what would and wouldn't work with the evidence presented.  The presentation of the game didn't matter in the least to me, slideshow or not.  As for linearity, sure... but that doesn't hurt the first playthrough.

I also love Hotel Dusk.  The character dialogue was some of the best I've seen in a video game.  While it truly does play more like an interactive novel than a video game, the novel was definitely good enough to warrant continued play... and though few the puzzles were, most of them were well executed.

Trace Memory was a blast to play as well.  The story elements, as mentioned, were not up to par with Hotel Dusk, but it shined in the "puzzles" department even though there were several that came across as clumsy.  I refer to pretty much anything that required the use of the stylus in order to "throw" an object.

Touch Detective... did not thrill me.  It has its merits, but I found them to be seriously outweighed by the very sketchy puzzles, most of which required that you wander around talking yourself blue.  You may rightly wonder how I could love Hotel Dusk if I hated Touch Detective for that particular reason, and the reason is that Hotel Dusk did it successfully.  Hotel Dusk was a game that was built around the concept... Touch Detective pretended to be a graphic adventure, but used that technique excessively within its own formula.  And the graphics, while colorful and fun, were largely cheap.  The pre-rendered characters had the lo-poly look (not really forgiveable for prerenders) and were minimally animated.  That being said, my wife loved it.

joel, while in edit mode in blender, have the "edit" context active and look for a button that says, "draw normals" and make sure it's activated.  This should cause blue lines to appear on the faces of the object that you're editing.  You need to make sure that those blue lines are all radiating in the same direction off of your walls, and that they are radiating inward toward the scene.

I was showing MI3 to a younger friend of mine who had never been introduced to adventure games, and that gave me the itch to play through Grim Fandango again, and by the time I got to the end, I had decided that I was going to make my own adventure game or go nuts.  I wracked my brain for a puzzle scenario and started thinking about characters.  The wheel stopped on "robot."  From there, I started developing a premise.

It then occurred to me that I'm not a programmer.

I knew that there were some clever folk out there hacking SCUMM, but after some Google work it became apparent that this wasn't for me.

Some last-ditch, desperate Googling finally led me to AGS.

Its a well don person, but its not THAT person.

It's almost as if you tried to perfect the girl in the photo.  By doing this, you have omitted the details that make her beautiful.  You need very little shading to recapture her, in my opinion.  She has a pronounced divot between her nose and her lips (it's called a rhinostrum.  Isn't that interesting?).  Also, her two front teeth are slightly protrusive.  Look at the corners of her mouth... the photo has heavy shadows between the front teeth and the corners of the lips.  Your image does not.

Just my theory... that would seal the deal.  I could be wrong.

Dude.  Not that I'm offended... I'm not...

But "whatever" means "please assume that I have discarded your words entirely," not "Okay."

You're not going to start an argument with me; of that I can assure you.  If you have a problem with anything I said, tell me.  We can discuss things rationally.

It works now, THANKS!

You're quite welcome

I'm not sure where it's getting the singular opening brace.  I can only guess that it's from someplace before in your script.

As for that code, you should change Character[Engel] to cEngel, so that it now says:

cEngel.Say("You already have the bandana!");

Perhaps AGS thinks you have a variable called "[" because you mistakenly used that type of notation (which is used for arrays, not class instances) beforehand.

How can there be a "trick" to an animation competition?  The point is to be creative and make a good production, not to stumble onto something out of luck.

Gosh... what's the point of starting an argument if you've just had one with yourself?Ã,  I think you're safe.

get 'immersed' in the game. Get juiced up by the colour.Ã,  Find the real adventure in it. Find the mystery...Get into the game!

Well, here's the problem... that's not going to happen. Ã, I know that everyone has come off as harsh, but in honesty, they speak wisdom. Ã, Don't take any of this personally.

You're excited about the world that you've created. Ã, That much is obvious. Ã, Your excitement isn't enough to sell the idea to us, though. Ã, You speak of Paint graphics as if the idea is revolutionary; as if it's your selling point. Ã, Well, the brutal truth is that it's hardly that.

Paint is the program that people whip out when they want to crank out a picture of something without investing anything in it. Ã, See the MSPaint game in the Competitions forum... it says it all.

Nothing about this game matches your enthusiasm here on the forum. Ã, That main character should be the link between us and the world, but the truth is that it's just too generic and uninspired design-wise to make us care about how many dragon jewels we can find. Ã, I realize that character design is not easy, but tell the truth... did you spend more than ten minutes on that drawing and the walk cycle combined?

Rushing your ideas out of your head past your hands so quickly will not do them any service. Ã, I'm sorry... that's just how it is.

Am I crazy, or did those MI2 screenshots have the MI1 Guybrush?

Must have been WIP photos, eh?

I found myself tapping arrows and f3 and such trying to recall the last command I typed.Ã,  Since retyping it all over again because of a typo,Ã,  or if you need to run the same command a few times, like the dossier command,Ã,  it can get a little tedious.

That's a very good point.  I can't believe I didn't think of that.  I think I have an idea of how to make that work... I'll give it my best shot.  Thanks!

You can do this by changing the object's graphic number to a different sprite slot.  For instance:

Code: ags

oDoor.Graphic=25;

Obviously, the "25" is just for example.

Ehhh....

I'm not really sure what you're asking... my best guess is that you want to turn off a GUI.  The way that this is done is by using:

Code: ags

gGuiName.Visible=false;

Elric, that was an excellent formal critique.  I'm impressed with your knowlege of design.

However, you should keep in mind that this is a functional piece.  It's a representation of someone's home; therefore, it's a representation of someone's mind.  An old Chinese hermit may well have a deep longing for such symmetry.  The odd spot of red is certainly a design problem in terms of keeping the background in the background, but this will probably be settled by the contents of the bookcase and the table.

In terms of focal point, that's going to be the player character, rain or shine.

Wow, that's looking all kinds of better.  I like the recall function, and I like that you tell me when it's been activated.  It's works as a little hint to keep you moving in the right direction.  Keep up the good work!  It's looking really nice!

Thanks!  And thanks for the kick in the right direction.

Studying art will be much more fulfilling.

I suppose it depends on the person, because I found the opposite to be true of myself.

My studies in art were great for fine-tuning technique and learning the basics of various media, but all of my great "Eureka" moments came while I was experimenting on my own or lost in thought attempting to solve a problem.

First post updated.

Let me know what you think, please!

Or, you can install the DivX codec, if you so desire. They do have a version for free, but it's a rather big and messy piece of bloatware.

This is just a heads-up:  I have a laptop with DivX only, and the video plays back very poorly from AGS on that computer.  It plays just fine in Media Player, but the colors are drawn incorrectly from AGS itself.  I'm not sure if DivX is the problem there, just thought it was worth mentioning.

I've actually had people who definitely have XviD running into video errors.  I have no idea what's up with that.

I understand.  No big deal.  At least his name is on there.  I don't think he's too broken up over the lack of linkage