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Mortadelo

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Look at the picture with the colour circle in the bedroom and get a close-up view. Yellow goes with blue, green with pink in this game, red with light blue.

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I can't get the color thing working. Even if I try the above. What about brown & the lavender type color (just below brown)? Please help.

[EDIT: Hey, I tried your solution no. 2 and it works! It will solve other problems too regarding too many globalints. Thanks you soo much.]

Hi dkh, thanks for your help!

You could use:
(1) Global Ints - You said you are afraid of an error if you have too many GlobalInts? I know AGS can handle lots of them, so I assume you mean an error from your side (for example messing up numbers).

Yeah, that's what I am worried about keeping track of many globalints & for what I'm using them, what there values mean... I'm bound to mess up.

(2) Variables - Those are pretty much the same than GlobalInts, but you don't have to remember a number for those, you can give those real names (so you could create a variable called: PlayerSawIntroYet or whatever you want and then you can set this variable to 0 or to 1 manually depending on whether or not the player saw the intro yet) - read up on "variables" in the manual or bfaq for that topic!

I'll try that right now.

(3) Two rooms - Or you could just have your room 3 twice in your game, just looking exactly the same. Once it is the room for the cutscene and the other one is the one that the player will be able to walk around later in the game.

That's what I did in my first game. But in this game there are quite a lot of rooms & I'm trying to figure out how to reduce the number of rooms without distorting the story too much.

Thank you for hearing me out again.

EDIT: Hey, I tried your solution no. 2 and it works! It will solve other problems too regarding too many globalints. Thanks you soo much.

[ResetRoom]

Hi there evreyone,
I'm having a problem with my cutscene. I'm using the non-oops version.

Here's the scene:
My intro screen has 2 buttons.

'View intro' & 'skip intro'.

On clicking 'view intro' naturally the cutscene starts. Something like:

Newroom(2,9,11);

Then on room 2's "first time player enters"

startcutscene(1);
Displayspeech(EGO,"blah blah");
Displayspeech(MAN,"something something");
AnimateCharacter(EGO,3,0,0);
endcutscene();
NewroomEx(3,100,111);

Ok. No problem at all.

If the player clicks "skip intro" the game will start on room 3.
Its fine & the player can control the character progressing the game. But now if the player character goes to room 3, he has to witness the cutscene. As on skipping the cutscene, the player character never went to room 3.

I know there's a ResetRoom feature, by which you can again call the "first time player enters.." event. But what I want is the opposite of that.

Something which will tell the script to assume on clicking "skip intro'Ã,  that player has already been in room. I hope I've been able to explain properly.

There's a feature Hasplayerbeeninroom. But its a read only value. You can't set Hasplayerbeeninroom to FALSE or TRUE.

I know this can be achieved by using globalints, but is there another way? I'm already using globalints for many things and I want to avoid using them if I can, as the chance of error increases if there are many variables to track.

I've scanned the help file thoroughly, read he Bfaq and I did a search with the keywords "cutscene" but I didn't find the answer to my problem.

I'd greatly appreciate your help.
Thank you.

[Merry Christmas]

Hi! Firstly, Merry ChristmasÃ,  to everybody here.

Today, on Christmas morning I opened my AGSeditor and I got a very weird error. But this was one error I was really very amused to see and it set me on a surprised laughter spree. It said, "What on earth are you doing working on your game on Christmas day. Go out & celebrate." That was very very innovative & cute really. I just loved AGS even more after getting that. Its a program with a heart.

But I didn't know that you just can't work on the AGS editor on 25th Dec (well...without messing up with your computer clock.)Ã, 

Are there more surprises in store, I wonder.

Tower of the sorcerer
Monkey Island (all of them)
Pleurghburgh Dark Ages

I'm from India, Bombay(Mumbai) 

Hi! Congrats on making such a high class game. The screenies remind me of "I  have no mouth & I must scream".

In your order page, there is a line: "International downloadable web edition
Not yet available"

Is it going to be available soon? Is it the full downloadable english version for everyone?

Cheers!

Dear friends,

Please take part in the survey of my game"Framed"

I really need and value your comments and criticizm. Just go to the following page:
http://www.geocities.com/jhum90 and take part in my survey. It will only take a few minutes but will mean a lot to me.

I know my game is not in league with Pleurghburgh, King's Quest or the recent Ben Jordan series But I really want to improve and only you guys can help.

Hi CJ! Thank you very much for your time and attention. I'm truly overwhelmed.

I presume you're talking about the Ignore list under Personal Message Options? I've never used it myself so I'm not sure if it works or not, but if you're having problems with the pop-up window have you tried just typing the name into the big box on the Ignorelist page?

I didn't use the popup window. I typed in the big box in the ignorelist page and clicked on the button "change profile" but after the page reloaded itself, the box remained blank. I think it might or might not have registered what I had typed. But in case it had(as I suspect) how do I reset it to default?

between the personal text and the signature that really gives ample space for people to express themselves, I would think.

Sometimes something might seem irrelevant in signatures or too lengthy, but may seem ok in case of a comment. Is it not?
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Incidentally, I wonder why this post was locked & again unlocked.

Two number sixes!

Oops! I'll edit it right now!

But what about this followingÃ,  problem I'm facing?

1) Firstly I'm facing a problem with the profile preferences page. There is an option to add a member in the block senders list. But when I add someone, the space remains blank. Also it might be that the person's name does get added in the block sender list but I can't see it. That way I can't unblock it if I want.

(I have all my cookies enabled and TLS 1.0 & stuff too.) I think I might have done something stupid & can't undo it.Ã, 

[truth in the critic's words]

Now that's narrow minded. Most of the people here accept the critic, and try to improve regarding to to.

True. But some can't accept criticizm the proper way and hit back at the critics. Even my game was criticized and of course I felt bad. But I accepted the words with a - what do you call it- pinch of salt. Because there really was truth in the critic's words however rough I found them. I didn't run after him with an axe. But a small minority does so. So, I hesitate before commenting on a game after I finish playing it if at all there was something I didn't like in it.

If you have questions/comments/suggestions, please do post them in a thread here in General Discussion. That way, other people can give their opinions as well and we can reach a decision as a community. It also means that if anyone else has a similar question in future they can look up your thread and find the answer.

Wow! Great to see CJ himself replying to my post.

What you say certainly has a point. But I was sort of worried that what I might have to say might seem mundane or waste of forum space by other members, or might be unique for me only so was hesitant to post in a forum.

Well here goes...

1) Firstly I'm facing a problem with the profile preferences page. There is an option to add a member in the block senders list. But when I add someone, the space remains blank. Also it might be that the person's name does get added in the block sender list but I can't see it. That way I can't unblock it if I want.

2) In the main profile page, (what anyone sees when they click on a member's profile) What if the member has a provision to display a brief summary about himself/herself. It can be anything, latest news or any such info.

3) It would really be nice to have a contact us/ Suggestions?/Comments? link in the forum page or in the main AGS pages like games/reources etc. For eg: I have seen a few duplicate game entries who to report to?

4) Many times abusive, irrelevant comments are posted on the "comment on this game page'. By both people who give abusive/negative criticizm on a game which is not at all to the point. But worse still, I've seen many members whose game received negative criticizm reply abusively to the critics like a "sore loser". One can't criticize any game without unleashing the wrath of the game author. Who to turn to when such a thing happens?

5) And shouldn't there be an option to "delete this post" by the person who posts a comment on a thread.

6) Should I PM you if I have a query regarding the profile settings option which I don't want to discuss here?

7)Will I be allowed to start a thread if I have something of a similar nature to say or will it be considered abuse of forum space?

Please don't be mad. I just love the AGS community soo much. I might have died of boredom by now if there had been no AGS.Ã, 

As for the PM you sent me earlier ...

The problem with your signature was the font which said, "and the fanatic muggle".

It was HUGE!!!Ã,  It's much better now.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Harry Potter fan (maybe even a fanatic muggle) but there are forum restrictions on the size of the signatures width / height; and yours was (on my screen at least) about three times the allowed height!Ã,  Hence, the PM I sent you.Ã,  These restrictions are printed directly above where you enter the signature information (they specifically mention images, but when using over-sized fonts it's essentially the same thing)

Hi ! I sent a PM to you. I'm not answering it here since its not appropriate to talk abt that here.Ã,  Not to mention it being off-topic & I don't want yet another thread of mine locked by a mod coz' I goofed up.

This is the General Discussion board ... and since you aren't sure if/who to PM you may as well ask your question(s) in here (now that you've started a thread!)

But that's just it! The forum is when u want a topic to be seen by every AGS member. But when I don't?... When I want it to be confidential? Forums have moderators & I can contact(PM) them if I've a problem withÃ,  a post. But there are some other issues in my mind related to the games page, the "user preferences" page, whom shd I contact abt them? And I wouldn't want it read by everyone.

Hi!

What should someone do if he/she has a question regarding the profile settings etc/ needs further help which has not been covered in any "rules" section/ Wants to complain about something. I mean is there something where AGSsers can give comments, suggestions & even complaints? Should they PM someone, if so whom? If something's not related exactly to the forum types (not even the general forum)
For eg: I have a few things I want to ask but didn't want to start a thread, but didn't know who to PM. I mean shouldn't there be something, "for suggestions, comments, queries & complaints click here".

"Tower of the sorceror" is an amazing game!

I'm playing it now, and I can't get my eyes of the screen.

Very clever...

It has rpg ellements but I think that it's more a strategy game, as it only has 3 attributes...

But AMAZING GAME!!!

If you need hints, you can contact me. I must have played this game 5000 times!Ã, 

I tried Google search but it leads to a lot of results, mostly unwanted. It'll take a lot of internet time to browse thru those. I tried image search and got some nice graphics but I'm never sure whether something is copyrighted even though I gave the keyword 'free'.Ã,  Then there was another site. Which said "cool free graphics". but when I went there it said u need to pay 1$ per free graphic. What kind of "free" is that?

for Dumbledore's sake shrink that signature! :>

Hee Hee! You are soo cute!Ã,  Is it that long?Ã, 

[(To Moderator: Please I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum for this. But I just read the rules and there was nothing against posting anything related to the content which I'm posting. But I may have misinterpreted)]

I'm looking for free medieval type backgrounds of houses, villages etc, also a castle , a scenic lush green field. Castle interiors. Are there any free BGs, free photos etc which I can use as a whole or edit them ie paint over?

I also read the post of this forum titled "post your free stuff here" but there isn't something in the nature of what I'm looking for.

Is 'modifying' and using BGs from classic sierra or lucasarts games illegal? Somewhere I read it is. But I've seen at least a couple of very popular AGS games using those BGs. So I don't know.Ã, I'm confused

Also please I'm looking for character walking sprites of a female character in a long dress similar to "Gaea fallen". I've found quite a good site with male character animations in AGS resources. Thank you guys!

I'll check this post ASAP

(To Moderator: Please I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum for this. But I just read the rules and there was nothing against posting anything related to the content which I'm posting. But I may have misinterpreted)

I'm not sure whether this should go in "Adventure related talk" forum so am posting it here.

A couple yrs ago I had downloaded a very cute little game called "Tower of the sorcerer" from gamehippo.com.Ã,  The story was about a man entering a 50 storied tower to rescue a princess. He was to collect different items , find hidden passages etc. There were certain no. of doors of 3 colors (blue, white & red). Red doors being the most important followed by blue & white were regular. The red key was the rarest & then blue. White was the common. So one had to carefully exhaust the keys because there were more doors than the keys.

One had to kill monsters too (but this is what i liked best) it didn't depend on how fast u could press the arrow key or "F" key or something. (I'm a very 'slow' person so i suck miserably at any action scene). One had to collect various elixirs & gems to increase one's offensive & defensive power. The stronger u were the less damage a monster might do to ur life. (for eg if u had life of 100 and had power of 15 then your life would reduce to say 45 or something from 100. But if u had power of 50 then maybe your life would only reduce by 5 pts only, ie 95). You could decide whether u wanted to kill a particular moster or wait till u were stronger. Though sometimes the choice would be between 2 very difficult situations. U would also get gold depending upon how strong a monster is.

The game i found quite interesting. Some sites call it rpg & some adventure. But it requires great strategic skills too which is why u can play it 20 times and still try a different approach each time. I wonder what genre it belongs to. Are there more games like these? The only game i found similar to this was Cult I and Cult II. But I liked this one better. What do u guys think of this one? You can find it at:

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA013374/game/egame0.html

The game is by a japanese guy. Gamehippo gave very good review of this game. I wonder why the maker didn't make any other games or sequels.

Cheers! Please try it. Its quite addictive.

I Just Updated the webpage, Link to the zip file and solution. Check the original post.

To add to Radiant's post:

1) No timed puzzles please.

2) A property where you can see if the cursor is over a hotspot. It's pretty annoying, when u keep clicking everywhere. (I mean the @overhotspot@ property. ) Lack of this is even worse than pixel hunts.