Messages

Hey Phil,

I have just watched your video on YouTube about Lovecraft and it's really good. I have myself just recently discovered this writer and am reading a collection of his stories translated on my language.
There are a lot of creative competitions in these forums, but MAGS (monthly AGS competition), particularly, can make you quite productive in terms of making games. You should check it out!

And, nice to meet you!

Thanks for fixing it! This is rewarded by choosing the game as "Pick of the month".

This made my day.
Thanks cat!

Congrats BSP!

We need to celebrate! I know, let's roast a pig!

It is an interesting game and it's a pity that there are those quit/load issues.
You should definitely fix these issues and release a new version of it.

@Cat, I've uploaded a newer version which resolves the problem with accidental quitting the game. You are not the first one to complain about this, and I considered it a serious issue!
The save/restore problem however, is not so much of a problem, but a bad design decision. That I cannot really fix, but I learned from my mistake, and I will make sure to not do such a thing in any of my future games (at least adventure games, since this save system doesn't work with them).

Ahhh, I always keep clicking the exit icon accidentally which ends the game. How can I load the latest autosave? If I choose a slot it starts from the beginning...

Hi, cat, thanks for trying out my game!
Your questions:
1. my future games will have a "are you sure you want to quit?" window. I might even add it to this game and upload it today. I am sorry.
2. Well if you clicked on the first icon when you first started the game, it should restore that game when you click on the same icon again. Same goes for the two other icons. It is odd that it starts from the beginning every time, that should not happen and it is a bug. It might be system related? Did you have the same problems with other AGS games? In the end, if it doesn't work, you could try to play the game from the start to end without loading or saving, since it is relatively short. Or you should not play it at all since it was badly designed. (the new game, I am currently working on, has the old AGS save/restore method)

These two things, cat, are probably the two biggest design mistakes everyone complained about. It is my first game, in a way, and humans learn from their mistakes.
But, then again, thanks for the feedback, it is greatly appreciated!

@bicilotti

Is there

Spoiler

anything I am missing?

[close]

No. Were you expecting more?

Spoiler

Even if there were more than those 3 endings the Pig would, yet again, die horribly...

[close]

But still, Bicilotti, thanks for playing my game! And thanks for the comment! (the feedback is always great)

@Problem and CaptainD, thanks for supporting me through making this little game, you are both wonderful people.

I'd just like to sit on one of those clouds and meditate. That would be the best experience ever.

Also, this photo makes me wish I could fly...

@Cassiebsg
Thanks for playing my game!

Spoiler

I went less for the gamer approach, and more for the post modernistic approach, where every person that views art, views it from a different angle. And, so everyone experiences this game differently. You are not supposed to replay it. (except if you really want to ^ ^ )

Thanks for the feedback about the GUI. Nobody complained about this before, but it is a valid issue! I will probably make it more obvious to the player that it is a quit button in the newer version.

Pig adds gems 1 by 1, mostly because that puzzle was really hard to program (at least for me ), and the script there was quite a mess. I was thinking about making it so that he adds all the gems immediately, but I was afraid of all the bugs that might arise from that, and that I might never fix them at all.
I'm glad though that you loved that puzzle!

[close]

@Fitz: thanks for the feedback and benevolent comments!

The puzzles took a minute to get used to, but they really worked well

this was, in a way, my first adventure, and I had no idea how to write story for one. The problem was, and the problem generally is, that I start with the story, and then I try to integrate the puzzles. Since, like you mentioned, this metaphysical, fantastical, expressionist world has its own "twisted logic", it was not so hard to brainstorm the puzzles, though they might end up a bit odd and illogical, they still make sense in the game world.

This is the first time I hear for Murakami (mostly because Japanese culture is far away from my home). But, from reading about this novel you mentioned, it seems he was influenced by Kafka. Most of the twentieth century and modern day writers, consider Kafka as one of the most influential writers of twentieth century.

@Arj0n 7 months!

[Plot:]

Inspired by Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis"

Plot: Main character(whose name we never get to know) wakes up one day transformed into a pig. Once he leaves his warm house, he is confronted by a different world. On his journey to investigate the chaotic happenings around him he comes across the true meaning of it. No, it is not a dream.

What to expect: A very simple, point and click adventure game, with minor horror elements. Puzzles are fair, make sense within the game world and are not hard.

Click here to download!

(In this newer version 1.1 a warning window appears every time the player decides to click on the "X" icon in the inventory UI, so that he does not accidentally quit the game. If you have already played the game, and downloaded this new version, the old saves will not work on this newer version. You will have to start the game from the beginning.)

Hey, pig! Don't be so pessimistic!

I'd like these fellow blue cuppers who play tested the game: Arj0n, Adeel S. Ahmed, Tramp(online), CaptainD, Problem and Anian.



This game was originally supposed to be made for a MAGS competition in January, with a theme "Something Cold, Something Burrowed, Something Pink".

I use ESET NOD32 antivirus program. Like I said, I've no clue why that happens. Maybe it's just my antivirus?

@faerieevenstar I've tried twice to enter your blog. And both times my antivirus did not let me and found a Trojan virus and quarantined it. I don't know how or why that happens, but just letting you know or warning the others.

[EDIT:]

Hi Rhimwill,
Sorry for late reply (I have been quite busy recently, with something private in my life being more important than game making). I don't have a Mac version available, and I doubt I will ever have one, since I think AGS is not made for Mac computers and I don't have one myself. I'm sorry.

Everyone else,
who is interested in testing, or was a tester, or is waiting for a new build of the game, I am currently still working on it, and hopefully, now that I am finally free from my busy life, I will be able to finish it at last. Thanks for your patience.

EDIT: The game is finished. I am looking for testers. Preferably people who are good at English language, because of a lot of dialogue related mistakes, rather then bugs and glitches. Thank you.

Hello ladies and gentlemen
Finally, I managed to make a fully playable version of my game: All pigs deserve to burn in hell. If anyone is interested in play testing, send me a PM (or post in this thread, whatever you prefer)!
PS. It would be more preferred if you were a native English speaker, because of a lot of language related mistakes.
PS2. The only thing that is also missing is sound, and that will be added later. All in due time.
Thanks for your cooperation.

I used this site http://converticon.com/ to convert a png 32x32 file into an icon file.
And I have renamed it into USER.ICO like the manual says.

Maybe I should've used some other program to convert my file?

EDIT: It seems I have solved the problem by just naming it USER, and not USER.ICO. How silly of me! Thanks Rulaman for trying to help!

Hello everyone,
I am working on a game(which is almost finished now) and I decided to make a custom icon for my game. I did that.
I made an 32x32 icon file and put into the folder of my game(as the manual said), though it is not working. I compiled, saved, restarted ags a plenty of times, and it still doesn't work. I've tried 64x64 icon as well and it didn't work.
I'm using Windows 7.
And my game is roughly 5 megabytes. AGS version 3.2.1.
Thanks in forward!

I've just played the game, and I wanted to say that I am really impressed by all the puzzles you created within that one small room. The graphics, music, characters, dialogues are great, but the puzzles are even greater, I must say. Well done!

It was quite an interesting discussion on the latest podcast episode. I'm not an avid listener of your podcasts, but when I do listen to them I don't regret it. ^^

I agree with everyone else; from the screenshots the game sure looks creepy. The very peculiar graphic style helps that as well.

I had no idea that ".Clickable" function existed, and that is what I was looking for!
Thank you Khris, you rock!

Code: ags

//I'm trying to do:
oSnow.MergeIntoBackground();
/*,where oSnow is an object I want to merge into the background.
I have a problem though;
Since the background is animating, the object is merged only into a one of four backgrounds that exist in the room.
I'd like to merge it into all four of those backgrounds, but I don't know how.
Help! */