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 Why not just write the dialog like that?

- "qcfhd skfnuk  jenf b elfk?"
- "What?"
- "Do skfnuk jenf to elfk?"'
- "I'm not really understanding you."
- ""Do you jenf to elfk?"
- "Oh... do I what?"

Just use gibberish to what he doesn't understand, and replace the words as he learns them. You can even throw some "miss understood" words in the mix to add to the confusion. That can give you some funny dialogs (and eventually frustrating for the character) while he tries to speak using or understanding a wrong word here and there...

Ps - I would not use any recognizable language for the gibberish, since there's always the risk that a player will know that language, and then you lose the effect.

It never does.

Anyway. thanks for the mirror... now to try it.

Ah! Good job Haggis!
I'll let you formulate the solution, cause now it's obvious you are right.

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Damn it, Stupot! Take it your new sentence to ruin a perfectly good solution...

Avast has some problems with AGS games... just search for it, and you'll find plenty to check.

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Ufff!!! Glad he managed to grab Simon!

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Great stuff there!

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I think it's simpler than that.
This sentence will pay dividends.

1st is like what you get in FPS games... like Doom, Quake... or Myst is you want an adventure game to compare. Basically you never see the main character, you just watch the words thru the players eyes. If you go this way, you can just design a GUI to be your "bubble" fixed at one point and display your pictures on it, instead of text. Saves you the all bother to figure out where the character is and where the bubble will display.

I haven't used the DrawImage stuff yet, so try the manual or someone else will give you pointers.
Here's a game that uses speech bubbles with icons instead for text: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=52632.msg636520100#msg636520100
Play test it, and if that's what you going for, try asking WHAM for help.

About importing sprites: When you import "only one sprite" you'll get an option window. there you can choose from the roll down menu that you wish it "leave as is"... Think the default is set for "make transparent the first pixel to high left", so that's what's happening.
Importing more than one sprite at a time will use the last option you set it to. So import one, set it like you want, then you can "mass" import the rest.

Your Grace!

Could you provide a mirror to thee humble servants?

Don't think so, since 1) you are re-coloring it, hence remaking it, and 2) it's just a logo... otherwise you also need to change your name, since it was "made before the comp started"...

Keep in mind that doing a game can take a lot more time than you seem to have. However, if you look at MAGS or even OROW, you'll also notice that it's possible to do it in a very short time.
So, the question here seems to be how fast you are doing BGs and how many you thinking about; if you going to use 1st or 3rd person perspective; how many NPCs, animations and such you thinking about.

Not sure any other engine will be better for this than AGS, so can't help you there. If you going for a 1st person view, than you save on a lot of animations just for the main character.
As for speech bubbles, try using the search function above . But here's one thread about it not too old even: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=52225.msg636514418#msg636514418

Ah, sounds about right! Good spotted!

i=I = 1
c=C = 100
m=M = 1000

Guessing V is 5...

Just finished episode 1 and.... meeehh... not impressed really (story wise). Not sure what I was expecting though. Probably shouldn't had watched the little "x-files re-open" documentary first... lot of spoilers there.

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And smoking man is back? Really!? The only safe bet that he won't be in it, that that chapter was closed... and they just bring him back from the dead!?

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Still, am sure I'll watch all remaining 5 episodes... and more if they decide to do more. But will always miss the feel season 1 to 3 gave me, that was ripped and steeped on afterwards... the "we don't give answers" at the end of the episode, "you figure it out", type of feeling. Guess that is dead and buried.

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