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I've played around a bit with Roger, testing different speeds and animation speeds.
My conclusions so far:

Speed sets the amount of pixels the character moves between two walk-cycle frames.
Ideally, this number is chosen before drawing the walk-cycle; feet touching the ground should move this very number of pixels between frames to avoid gliding/moonwalking.
Values from 4 (many frames) to 8 (few frames) seem to give good results (low-res games).
Once the speed setting has been established, leave it alone! To change the character's velocity, use animation speed only.

Animation speed sets the time in game-cycles (1/40s normally) between two walk-cycle frames.
Let's say you want the main character to move at a speed of v=100px/s. (That way it'll take him 3 seconds to cross a 320-screen, which is a reasonable time, IMO.)
And let's say we set the speed (frame-to-frame-distance) to s=5.
Then the animation speed is: (s*40)/v=(5*40)/100, which evaluates to 2.
Or in general: animation speed = (speed * gamecyles per second) / desired velocity in px/s.

So: Every animationspeed gamecycles, the character moves speed pixels and the next walk-cycle frame is displayed.

Phew. Hope this helps.

Edit: It's funny that neither speed nor animation speed are actually speeds. The former is a distance, the latter's an amount of time

helppls:

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It's half buried in sand at the beach. (To the right of the village.)

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pelican:
Thanks, I missed that one has to

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put food on the ground, too.

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But, still stuck:

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After I cleared up the debris, I wasn't sure what to do. I figure that I somehow have to get the boy's rubber snake to scare away the guard. Then the iron rod will break the gate's lock, I hope.
So, how do I get the snake?

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You have to make a seperate region for each combination of color tint and light level.
I made a quick example with: dark, dark & blue, blue
Unfortunately, when I tried the same with light & blue, the result wasn't too convincing.

Here's the 'game', including a crappy char

Did you read the manual?

The file you downloaded is no executable but a zip-archive.
You'll need WinZip to unpack its contents.

Probably someone wanted to open a zip-file on your computer some time before you. If Windows doesn't recognize the file type (because there's no WinZip or another packer installed), it brings up a list of installed apps. The other guy picked wordpad, so your Windows now handles all zip-files as texts and opens them with wordpad.

Download WinZip here and install it. It's a trial version you can use for 21 days.
After installing it, you can safely doubleclick the ags-archive, as the installation fixes the handling of zip-archives.

Or:

In the Interaction Editor of the Region (found in Room Editor -> Areas), use Player - Go to a different room (at specific co-ordinates)

wannabe78: how were you able to finish the game??

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After putting the sulphur, sawdust and oil into the bowl, he still won't add the potassium...

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It's a bug not yet removed

splat44:

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I've used the jar on the ground and then the plate with food (stew) on jar. He put it in there, I even left the cave afterwards, but the animal didn't fall for the trap

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Stuck, too...

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Climb the rocks? Do you mean the debris? He says it'd be too dangerous.
Where can I use the termites? I've tried every wood there is.
What do I need to catch the pink whatever? I put the jar on the ground and some of the stew in it, but it still won't come out of its hole.

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I could do english games with the template, but the gui won't translate! Aaaaaaaah. I've tried everything...

Code: ags

JjNn
YyNn
a_button_give 5 802 803 Dd
0 1 2 Gg
a_button_pick_up 2 800 801 Ee
1 7 8 Pp
a_button_use 1 794 795 Ww
2 13 14 Uu
a_button_open 3 790 791 Aa
3 3 4 Oo
a_button_look_at 0 788 789 Qq
4 9 10 Ll
a_button_push 7 798 799 Xx
5 15 28 Ss
a_button_close 4 796 797 Ss
6 5 6 Cc
a_button_talk_to 8 804 805 Cc
7 11 12 Tt
a_button_pull 6 792 793 Zz
8 29 30 Xx

This should help you.
the parameters are: GUI obj Number, button sprite, button down sprite, keyboard shortcut

captain nemo: I can't see your pic, could you upload it somewhere else, too?

Some more things:

-the receptionist won't be able to see whoever's standing before his desk
-cables connect tower and monitor but why are there three of them and where are the other cables?
-the stairs look wrong, the yellow triangle should be red, and it shouldn't be a triangle in the first place:

wall and stairs meet at green line

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Use the computer in Bernard's room to get a hint.

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The link from the 3rd post is still working.

5. at the beach (near the big rock, and near the fishing rod) it is difficult to distinguish the possible exits on the same side

I know ... but how should I mark them? I figured that you can easily walk between those 3 screens so I didn't bother with it.

A possible solution would be to draw some bushes between the two different paths to optically seperate them.
I probably would have never found the plateau with the fishing rod if I hadn't read about it in this thread.

Like this:

Well, I thought about doing that, but I was too lazy 

But I'll include it when I release the final version.
LucasFan did a very thorough job, e.g. the GUI could be translated easily & elegantly using the english translation file.
I'm going to use a similar method to translate static portions of the backgrounds.

However, the final version won't be released until about two weeks from now as I'm quite busy at the moment.

My next 'game' is going to be longer, I promise.

When the beta-testing is done, I'll release a final version. Maybe I'll add another one or two puzzles to it, but that might take it back to beta-stage

The first episode as well as the site is the work of LucasFan, so unfortunately I can't translate either one of them.
Why don't you send him a PM and ask him to do it?

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?action=profile;u=110

Thanks!

I downloaded it, but it says "The zip file is either invalid or corrupted."

Try downloading it again, it should work fine.
The exact filesize is 1,453,906 bytes.

The german AGSers from adventure-treff.de have recently started a RON like project called Maniac Mansion Mania.

The first episode by LucasFan is available here: Maniac Mansion Mania Home (german only)

A few hours ago I did a quick and dirty translation of my contribution which can now be downloaded here (1.4 MB) for you all to enjoy/run away from.
It's quite short and took me 3 days to complete.

Two screenies:

Bernard wearing fresh undies


Yet another on-time delivery

GUI, GUI scripts & 90% of the Graphics by Lucasfan!
Music by LEC
Rest (c) me

Have fun!

PS: This is my first adventure ever released, so be gentle
PPS: Guess I needed ready-made backgrounds & characters after all in order to publish something...

AFAIK, there's is a Navigator Window in Photoshop, al least 7 and CS both have one.
You should be able to unhide it using the Window-menu.