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Here is a thread for all the little niggles in AGS games, (just so I know what to avoid)

The most annoying thing for me is very small hotspots, my mouse for my computer is not that good and I miss them, anyone share my opinion?

Tell me is it acceptable to have a small picture of say a rubber and make the hotspot larger than the picture? Because I played one game where you had to click on the wall next to the object to pick it up. how annoying.

Oh on a techical note how do I make object hotspots bigger, It's a fork and tiny on screen. thats all

Well...
Dragon Slayers, my game is near the finish, but I need one last puzzle.
heres the situation
You are an 8 year old boy who has to get toy weapons for his friends to fight the dragon. The first two weapons are a sword and a catapault, (i'll be a major spoiler if i tell you how to make them) The last weapon is made from a broom, (which you steal off Roger Wilco cameo park janitor) But...
What should be added to the broom to make it a weapon?
my ideas
Feather duster (tickle stick)
Butter knife
glue?
various articles of meat (as a lure)

last thing, do you think it is ok if I use Roger (redrawn/ reainimated) the space quest one not the default ags one.

this may be the wrong place to put this but here goes.

I'm making a game for a school project, i need to make my own music, can anyone give me any hints to start this, because i am not  musically minded, only programming and pictures.

my brother has a keybopard to plug into a computer, we also have a microphone. i don't know how to use either very well but this won't be a problem.

my game is aboyut kids of 7/8 on a quest to slay a dragon. Does it need to be of a certain style to fit.

thanks a bunch everybody

i have been sitting here doing my homework, on the computers on my own, getting away with looking at AGS forums then some B*****  locks me in the media room.

i finally got out by calling the school office from my mobile.

then guess what it's lunchtime, i'm locked in again. OMG I want a school grant for credit so i can be let out of here everyday. This is very wrong, is there a rule against this!
HELP!

EDIT: i go in the media room in school hours! it SHOULD be open, woss up with that?

i have red the manual and i can't find what i need.
if i just need to search under something else just tell me and i'll read it again.

I do not want to just control the charctor in the background.

i want to put a company logo and animation but i can only make gifs. is there a way of importing lots and lots of bmps and turning them into an animation?

or perhaps is there a free programme availibe that will turn BMPs into the format i require for cutscenes, the computer i animate on is not connected to the internet, i use a floppy to transfer.

* on a side note, is there a way of getting the game to show all speech in one file so i can record it all, or do i have to do that myself?
thanks a bunch.

Hello all  8)
I have two ideas for my game, i need to have the final ideas done by next week, could you say which is the best and why you would play that?
I would be so grateful...

1. Dragon slayers,
You play as chuck champion (thanks to the person who helped me name him) intrepid adventurer and dragon slayer, but you are 8 and wearing carboard box armour. The two big puzzles i'll use are to find weapons for you and 2 friends, then turing a little sister into a princess as bait.

2.
This is a game starring Gemma, who goes to sleep and has to navigate round her dream world to find a way to wake up from a nightmare.
a funny witty, inteligent girl who does not like pink but is still proud to be female. Based on myself   One planned puzzle is to get past a guard who is scared of mice you have to get a stuffed mouse toy and a vibrator, putting them together causes them to move round the floor scaring the guard.  

Sorry last question, is there a specific time frame for when a game was made to include it in the 'retro' catagory?

JUst another newbie question.

I have read the manual under dialogs, (conversations) and scoured the message boards and everything else before i posted.

I have a many room game so far... and two conversations.
But when i start the conversation my charactor says hello and the other responds with the first topic rather than displaying the options first.

Problems, 1 it is not the only option i also have one other and a goodbye one.
2. i did put the first topic under the @1 line not under @S

i'm a little stumped.
PS. Is the line for changing the conversation after an object is given to a charactor,
If (Item ==1) Option-off 1
option-on 2
thanks a bunch

HEllo again this is a few more doodles from me please help.



revised walking animation for katie she is going to be very evil



a bedroom of a little boy

and now the thing i've been working on for the past 3 hours



a dressing table that turns into a super computer to put in katies room, mhahahaha. i think she may contact aliens or be involved in a secre government plot.  :o
thats all for now

HI,
i'm trying to make a short animation using AGS (maybe game later) in the style of southpark

i am really not funny can anyone help me out

its called dragonslayers about kids who pretend to slay dragons (and actually find one)
My pictures aree on the critics lounge if your interested.



i also need to give this person a name! any ideas

Hello i'm rather new at this.
heres a few skeches i've animated for a project in media studies abou animation, later i may make a game, watch this space!

it is in the style of south park, and other simple cartoons so it's ment to be crude.

this is about kids who think they are dragon slayers.



This is Eddie, the leader of the dragon slayers.



This is Katie, Eddies very annoying little sister. (i know she has pencil legs)



katie walking right.



walking up, with very irratic hair, she needs some moouse to keep it down.



talking! no this one NEVER shuts up.



this hasn't got a name yet, any ideas, he is supposed to be quite thick, yet nice. yes there is a strainer on his head.

thanks to all
Gemmalah