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I have completed my game The Hunt For Shaun binda (Sister's edition)
This version might be hard to understand so I am in progress of making another   .

Here is my quick description of the Story.
[Story]
Is about Lisa who is obsessed with Shaun Binda who has a had a girlfriend for 5 years. But Lisa thinks he cares for her more than his girlfriend. So Lisa just broke up with her Ex-Boyfriend and decides to go out drinking and over parties till 4am and She is in this club and she is sobered up.

Hope who ever plays it enjoys my game. Which is also my first. Also being remade

Added to the Database
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?category=&action=detail&id=1281&refresh1266347283

[Download link]
http://www.agsarchives.com/download.php?game_id=1118

[Alternative link]
http://www.fileupyours.com/files/277534/New%20WinRAR%20archive.rar (Mediafire deleted the file)

This is my first game so don't criticize too much   .

Edit: Thanks a lot sthomannch for the link  

Crimson Wizard: I checked my game pictures again and the drunk effects are not the problem it is just all my animated scenes I did. I will make another plan to upload them.
Thanks a lot for replying 

In Zimbabwe (we're I live) Internet is like new here in Africa.
So It is slow as hell you think a connection of 1/mb s is slow.
Here it is 5/kb's or slower even. So uploading is a lot slower.

That's why I need it smaller.
But I think you guy's are right I got no chance on getting it smaller i will just
wait till next month and try to upload it on a faster connection.
Or I might just split the files

Thanks for replying.

 I just updated my screenshot I forgot to change it to my edited background.

OK I am at home to experiment. and I compressing to sprite. Helped but
When I compress it with Winrar it is still 15MB. But the music is about 7mb all uncompressed.
I have now cropped all the sprites and deleted unnecessary sprites and I got 14.5MB with winrar.
But it is still too big.

16bit and 32bit did no difference on game size either.(Maybe the pic's are already 16bit or something)

yeah, since your background sprites are pretty flat in terms of colour RLE compression should help alot.

What was calin talking about here

Somebody Please Help

alright so I will try downgrading to 16bit and I will try compressing the sprites.
Thursday I will give an update on my progress thanks guys really helped me  .
If you have any more idea's like the music is mp3 should I change it to another format?

That actually does matter. I don't know how graphics compression work in AGS, but in terms of plain bitmaps 32 bit image is twice as large as 16 bit one

If I change it to 16bit or 8bit will that effect any of my colors of my backgrounds or characters??

Just to make sure . I am using Ags version 3.2 RC2 beta are those options are on that? 
I will only be able to try those options on Thursday but more things to make it smaller the better.
and another thing I did put the game in 32bit if that matters.
Thanks 

Is there.  :o where is that option?? 

No I think I chose the music to compile to the .exe . Right now I am not at home to check but  I remember doing that. The exe is the biggest. 55Mb - 57mb.  There is another file audio.vox or something else that was 2Mb. But the music Is only about 10mb or so. After I did these drunk effects that were animated backgrounds like 10 frames. Then It started to get big. I might have to remove them   But there really cool effects  8) .

57MB is the compiled game folder. 15mb is when compressed.

If there is a better place for me to put this thread please tell me.
This is continuing the discussion on my game's size of The Hunt For Shaun Binda.
Has anyone got any advice on how I can lower the game size or compress to a lower size more then Winrar.
The game is 57Mb exactly i think. and I can maybe manage 5mb. Winrar can do 15mb.
any help will be appreciated and the more help the quicker you can play my game  .

Darth Mandarb yea your right I will add a thread to general discussion coz I don't know where else to put it. Thanks 


(And please if anyone wants to comment on the actual game feel free to Thanks Danman  8) )

[Edit:]

The problem why it is so big is cause I have made these drunk effects on the game which I made
with a program. Its like I think 10 frames of an animated background. and DrWhite : maybe the music is a problem too you
might have point there I there are mp3's The backgrounds are 640x400. There is quite a few animated scenes might be the issue like the start screen
and Helme: the black guy's eyes meant to be a bright red like red eyes   just to give the uh.. character and Ben304 :   . .
Peder Johnsen : I think Calin is right that AGS compresses that stuff I tested that by using .bmp then .gif and did no difference on the size. Also these pic's are all .gif anyway just to let you know   .
Thanks so far for the replies  

I can compress it to about 15mb but it is still too big. My internet is ridiculously slow I could maybe upload 5 mb that might take like the whole night. But if i get desperate I can wait till next month coz my uncle will be
getting broadband . I know its like I am from 1990's.

Edit: Just crossed out all the technical junk.

This is my first game (But made from an empty template) I have actually completed it.
But I can not upload it yet cause my internet is too slow
and so I am just editing things so here you go this is what I got.


The censored bit is just a guy in blood so I just censored it.(there is no leisure suit Larry here   )


Story:You start has Lisa ( My sister) in a night club monoko and you have to talk to Shaun Binda before you can leave. That's about it   . There is more but you can see when you play it  

This is just what I might edit.
- graphics 90%
- puzzles 100% (Cause there is no puzzles)
- scripting 90%
- music/sound 100%


I put a quite a lot of effort into this game. It is a Christmas present for my sister.  8)
If anybody can give me some idea's of turning 58Mb into 5mb or less please pm me.  
And if anybody would like to help me with the visual feel free to pm me. Thanks

Thanks a lot Jim. That sorts out my side view problem but still need help with the front and back. 

(I might actually finish this then.   )

I did this back view for my character
And this front and side



I really did not want to
do animation cause well I suck at it as you can see  :'( . But I had no choice.  
So this is my attempt  :

Please may someone help me fix all of these. And help me do the side animation's coz
I can't make them at all.
Also these are modified animations from Synthetique and scaled down well the front and side are.
Once this is done I have completed my game and I will try and upload it.    

Edit: I did all my animations. Thanks to Jim reed.

Anyway, the point is, I can see why Danman (or anyone) would be offended, that's all.

Yo snake I wasn't offended. I was just trying to innocently cause an argument.
I myself am not religious cause I believe people just believe in religion coz
their scared to die to be honest. I don't have anything against
religion I just don't believe in it that's all.

Edit: I think we all don't know what else to talk about with Xmas so we talk about religion.

So is everyone ready to celebrate the birth of baby jeebus?

Really. This isnt about religion. Just Christmas.

Calin you always got to diss Christian's all the time.
Where I am. Nobody celebrates Christmas really so doesn't really bother me
Nobody can afford presents either. But who cares I have sun shine  
Where you guys are in a blizzard