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Both Gamemaker and AGS use C-style scripting languages so are similar to code for (something you won't be able to get away from if you want to make a solid game).

If you want to make an adventure game, you're in the right place. If not, there are plenty of other places to go. If you want a FPS, try tinkering around with the Unreal engine (check www.planetunreal.com). Level editing in UnrealEd is at its most convenient in respect to other engines (Half-Life, Quake 3 etc.) but you'll still need to learn a scripting language to do anything close to a total conversion.

Senriously speaking, since this website revolves around a program called "Adventure Game Studio" I would have thought it was a little obvious this wasn't quite what you were looking for and your wisest course of action would be to just move on.

There are lots of programs and engines out there for your needs, being able to identify the blindingly obvious usually helps in deciding which one to use.

Fear the day when someone genuinely releases a game entitled "6 Day Dildo Assassin." The laugh is cheap but it's brilliant in its simplicity.

Hehe, only kidding - welcome aboard Interference. I'm 19, male and from Oxfordshire too, (Wallingford to be exact), but I'm not a student anymore. I work as a temporary agency worker under the looming monster that is Didcot Power station. It's a small world out there!

Ah, its okay - you're from Yarnton. Do you reckon you could organise some sort of gig in Woodstock, because every time I see signs for it I wonder if its the actual "Woodstock."

Blimey, my grandparents used to live near Didcot Power station. Relax, that statement didn't intentionally insunuate they're dead. They're very much alive and very much barking mad.

Yarnton, on the other hand, is fairly boring at best and utterly dismal at any other time. Well, at least it looks nice. Sort of. Apparently - according to the AA Milemaster, Yarnton is nice for walking around in. That's it.

I'm currently living in Wycombe, where my Uni is. I come back home to Oxfordshire every holiday for a few weeks (should be a whole month next time I'm back).

As for Woodstock, I could see enormous pun potential should any event ever be held there. And a few people turning up to the wrong one. I'm sure I saw Jimi Hendrix around here somewhere...

It's a hideously large creature of the gastropod variety. Wearing a sock.

Absolutely brilliant. The intro is well constructed and well written, the graphics are very moody and set the tone well. The music, though: wow! This is something else! Will you/are you going to be releasing this seperately too? I have a Sonique playlist screaming for it. Very athmospheric and I'm waiting with baited breath for the release version of Byzantine.

[Posted by: Eggie Posted on: Today at 08:39 Welcome! May your loins be full of fruit!]

Eh, sorry about a lack of entertaining avatar. I only have internet access via my University and hence have to ferry stuff back and forth on a USB keyring. I'm working on something suitably entertaining to visually represent myself which I'll probably get round to uploading where I can soon.

Posted by: Eggie  Posted on: Today at 08:39  
Welcome! May your loins be full of fruit!

Working on a reply to this amazingly ridiculous statement, however, would be.. fruitless (boom, boom..).

A friend of mine moved to Wales. The whole place has an air of strangeness about it, an experience regularly compared to being duct taped to a lamp post in a busy highstreet: you're sure everyone is staring at you but there's not a lot you can do about it.

Hi. I'm new here but I've been dabbling with AGS for a few months now so I thought I'd just give myself a formal intruduction. I'm 19, from Oxfordshire in England, male, a computer-aided design student and have a variety of interests ranging from science fiction, writing, drawing, computer gaming, coding and other hobbies which regularly confuse and astound. No, not that sort.

In the short time I've spent with AGS I've actually settled in quite comfortably. The c-like scripting language is frighteningly easy for me to use and I'm already scribbling away in preparation for an adventure game I've had in mind for a few years now. I'm kitted out with Photoshop, Illustraitor and a selection of other software for making my life easier.

I'm also willing to lend my talents (if you can call them that...)
to anyone who wants them, although I imagine there's a seperate board for that sort of thing.. I do voice acting, coding, art, dialogue writing and interface design but I'm sadly completely useless at composing music.

Well, um.. I'll be going now. I've, er.. Left the iron on.. Or something.