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I am shocked!!!! No attempts at saying that AGS is now abandoned, or that AGS is gonna be shareware.

Atleast say something like Lucasarts wanted to buy out AGS, or they are sueing for making an Engine similar to theres.

Or even come out and say that in reality you are Al Lowe or the guy that made Mean Streets..

Nothing though....

My guess is he is gonna do something like this in a few weeks where we would actually believe him... Try not to give us a heartattack Chris.


By the way, I put this here since this was talk of AGS and the engine. I figured it would be a general Adventure game topic. So I hope I didn't break the rules. Just move it if I did.

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I have known about the Zak game for a while. Its Zak McKracken Between Time and Space. Did you guys know they have a 23meg demo up?

I am still in the process of downloading it.

Check it out at: http://www.zak2.org/zakmckracken/index_e.php?content=screenshots

Also, did anyone else notice that there is a DOTT 2 fan game being made? Check that out here: http://www.dott2.de.ms/
http://dott2.dyndns.tv/assets/images/Artworks/neu1.jpg

They both seem to be made with Visionaire. Why? I dont know. Not that I dont think Visionaire is a good engine, but I still think that these types of games would be better made with AGS. I think the demo files would be smaller if it was made in AGS.

The graphics seem somewhat a bit of their own in Dott 2.

Check em out if you havent.

JD

If you guys want to sell your games that you make, and have the cover design and Jewel case design all set up for you and you dont want to pay for publishing rights etc..., then goto Cafepress.com.

Open a shop and add a CD as a product and there it will tell you how to setup everything for you to sell a game or whatever on CD.

Thought this would be good if you were making an Adventure game youwanted to sell buy didn't have a publisher or anyone to mass produce the product...

JD

I need a feature where I can change a characters Scaling per room, not every character, but an individual character. Can this be done?

JD

Ok you read it right. My modem stinks and I need to download things that I cant get. Big files basically.

So what I am asking is, is there one person who could download stuff for me to a cd and mail it to me? I will pay you $20 for upto 3 cd's and I will pay for shipping. For additional CD's you would require, I will pay 1.75 for each.

Other guidelines... You cant be offended for what I ask. Basically your conscience cannot bother you. But I just added that as a disclaimer really. I dont think anything I will ask for is offensive or illegal. ATLEAST I DONT THINK.

Anyone interested in helping me out here?

JD

I need to know how to wake this guy up. I dont know how to fill the bucket and I dont know how to wake him up. Any ideas?

JD

Chris, can you implement a feature that will allow us after we import sprites to scale them in the sprite manager.

For instance, I imported a sprite that is 140x80, and its huge. Then I have another imported at 40x32. I know I could resize the image myself in paint. But when I scale the room, the characters and images that are scaled dont go well together.

I would either like to suggest that there is an option that can be turned on and off that would allow the object, sprite or character to be scaled or not in a specific room. Or maybe you could use Scale2x or 3x in AGS and allow it to scale the sprites in the sprite manager to the required size.

JD

http://www.freewebs.com/lucaskeen/othergames20002002.htm

That website has a sequel to Maniac Mansion. I wonder if anyone knew about this...

I cant download it becouse of my connection, but if anyone wants to check it out, go ahead. Let me know if you figure out what engine they use, cause they dont say.

Here is the link again:   http://www.freewebs.com/lucaskeen/othergames20002002.htm

Okay, I dont know what I am doing wrong, but when I first bought my pc 3 weeks ago, I was able to run DVD's fine off my Computer.

Now, still being set in region 1...

I use Windows media player to play them and I get a digital copyright protection error and it wont play my DVD's. I use the Interactual player and it gives me a CSS error.

I use WinDVD and I the video it plays is choppy, extremely choppy.

I tried reinstalling the movies, and I tried to use other programs and download the mpeg2 codec and install it.

What else can I do?

And my DVD's are actually DVD's, not copies, and they are region 1 DVD's cause they play on my regular Region 1 DVD player.

JD

Okay here is the situation...

I have a friend burn me a copy of a few AVI's to CD. Unfortunatly, there is a CRC error on one of them.

I cant play it all, or else it will crash my system.

If I try and copy it from the CD to harddrive, it wont let me do that.

I have programs to fix this file, but I need to get it off the CD first. If I dont get it off the CD, for some reason my movie fixers wont copy a fixed version to harddisk. I have to copy it off CD first.

What can I do to do this? Or how can I get a fixing program that would do it right from the CD.

I think the reason my programs wont do it is becouse it cant write to the same CD.

I am currently using DivFix.

JD

If anyone likes RPG's or making RPGS and is pretty good in VB programming... RPG Toolkit is now open source (CVS).

Check it out here: www.rpgtoolkit.com

You can begin doing things to it to improve it.

I noticed two scaling libraries/tools on the SCUMMVM links page:

Scale2x/3x/4x
Scale2x is a real-time graphics effect able to increase the size of small bitmaps guessing the missing pixels without blurring the images. ScummVM optionally supports enlarging the game graphics using this scaler.
hq2x/3x/4x
The hq2x/3x/4x filters form a family of fast, high-quality magnification filters. ScummVM optionally supports enlarging the game graphics using these scaler.

Here is the link to Scale2x:   http://scale2x.sourceforge.net/

Here is HQ2:  http://www.hiend3d.com/hq3x.html

These could help you in making images.

As you all may have heard of a while ago, I am creating a new Website related to Adventure Games, SCI, SCUMM, AGI etc...

I bought the web host and I also have the website almost complete.

Not only that, but you will all also have a place to view screenshots and progress on my three games:

Simpsons: Springfield Woes
Simpsons: Where's Maggie
Escape from Godzilla

In order for these games to be downloadable, I am gonna need bandwidth. And that is expensive.

Does anyone know where I can get a good affiliate program where you get paid per click that visitors do? Not just a program where the user has to sign up to a site and then you get credit for it.

Thanks in advance.

JD

I couldn't find a function that would manually set a characters scale size.

I know I could just get the walkable area's to edit it or recreate the size of my character.

But, I only need one character to be scaled. Is there anything I can do to edit his scaling? Maybe a script like SetCharacterScaling(Charid, Percent) would work, couldn't find it thogh.

JD

Is there anyway of using this to unhide a player character in a room?

I created a character where I need him not to appear in the room, but then when he goes back to the room the next time, I need him to appear.

Is there in way of doing it with this function or any work around?

JD

Hey Pumaman, been a while since I axed(I Know its spelled wrong) you for a feature.

I really needed a few simple features.

Two are GUI involved.

*Add an option for the GUI to slide in from a certain area to a certain point on screen.  EG: Slide in from right bottom coordinates of the screen to the top left coordinates of the screen. Maybe there could be a script command and an option in the GUI editor.

*I needed a way to make a button invisible in the GUI after a certain amount of time. So I was hoping you could modify a bit "SetButtonPic" to do the following: Maybe you can add a 0 WHICH Parameter  for null and for SLOT, if you put -1, it would make the button disappear and it wont be even clickable. If you put -2, it would still keep the last image it had, but it would just disable it. Sort of how VB works.

Just those two suggestions would do.

JD

I am sure most of you here know what "The Crows Nest" is. I just recieved an e-mail from the head moderator there.

He has asked me to post news regarding any new games that are released from AGS.

The Website serves for purposes just like that. So if anyone has know problem, all new games released or being worked on will most likely be announced there unless told not to.

Also the moderator has encouraged me to ask you all to register all your adventure projects at the Crows nest.

If your interested the site is here: http://www.trumgottist.com/crowsnest/index.php

Escape from Godzilla (Godzilla 1985)

This game takes place during the movie "Godzilla 1985" Which takes place 30 years after his first appearance. I wanted to make a game that wouldn't take too long to do, and I wanted to use 3D graphics in my game.

This is a fan game that I have made. I am a big fan of Godzilla. Although the latest movies that have been released are all dumb, but there were a few good ones. The original Godzilla or Gojira is my favorite as it is not stupid at all. Godzilla 1985 comes in at second. Godzilla VS Destroyah is third. I think those are the 3 greatest movies for Godzilla, as they have some solid and interesting plot lines.


You will not actually see Godzilla in this game, although you will hear his voice. If any of you have seen the movie "Signs" with Mel Gibson, you'll notice that I tried to capture a certain feel that the movie had, which was that you knew what was going on outside, but you didn't see it. You were concentrating at the task at hand, which was to board the house up and protect the family. I did the same with this game, where you know Godzilla is there, but you dont see him. Instead you try to manage an escape from a building.

Story:

Hiyoki Matsumeio is trapped in a building. He was put there by a famous Japanese gang known as the "Gold Dragons". As a police detective, he seeked to put an end to this gang once and for all. He was captured and brought here to this building. Knowing that Godzilla was attacking Tokyo, they left him there to meet his doom when Godzilla would arrive to those coordinates.

They told him that they were going to kill his wife and son after the whole mess with Godzilla cleared out and things went back to normal.

You cringe at the idea of what they would do to your family. You need to get out of here before Godzilla tramples you and before something terrible happens to your family.

Game Play:

You have 3 minutes to mix and match all the items in the room in order to get out of there. If you don't make it out, Hiyoki and family will die.


The game already has the puzzles designed already. Its a short puzzle, enough to end the game in 3 minutes. I already have the walk animation of my character, 30 frames walking in each direction. That took a while to do.

Now I just need to make the room, which is almost done, I just got to texture it and decide what angle I am gonna use, and how much lighting there should be.

After that, I am making the intro movie, and the 2 end movies. When I am done with that, it will be Released as Chapter 1 of this game.

I am gonna compress the movies into DIVX format, which will save a lot of space and upload/download time. If anyone prefers me not to use DIVX, let me know.

This game is being made in Poser 2 and Blender 2.28. I design my characters in Poser, and then I desing my objects like desks and hair in Blender (Some objects are of course already done and were just taken off the web).  I import all the objects to Poser and design my room in there, as it is easier to do it that way, especially with the animation tools it provides.

Again, dont worry about the Simpsons game, it is still being developed. This is just a mini side project. I just want to release a game badly. I have only been here like what?... Since the first release of this engine more than 3 years ago I think...

JD

I tried ripping the graphics especially the backgrounds using Scumm16 for windows and Dos. The dos versions dont do it, and the windows versions cant either becouse it crashes. I used Scumm Rev 2 and 3 but I cant get neither of them to display the graphics appropriately. Can anyone help me out here?

JD