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Thanks Barbarian, that's a really helpful post to me I didn't code it to make him walk to objects even if nothing happens, he just does it anyway. I guess to stop it I would have to remove the "walk-to spots" from each hotspot and use a manual move character command on every item?

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Your idea about the glint on the items in the shed is a good one, which I'll try to do. I thought it might frustrate people a bit actually, but I thought that was all part of the genré, heheh.

With the tennis ball I forgot to uncheck the "display next message after this one" box, oops. Sometimes when I'm creating messages, it is just randomly clicked for no reason, and I forget to check.

The hand shaped thing is just a random foreground item. I saw forground items are used a lot in other games, Lucas Arts ones especially, so I thought I'd just throw it in for effect

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Yeh I do have plans for the other items which aren't needed, is it common practice to remove all such items from demo versions and only include them in the full game?

Wow what a great looking background! How did you get it looking so good, and how long did it take you?

Just a quick little note to say I've updated the demo with unhandled events and some cheesey background music, hehe

I was raised on Adventure Games by mere chance chance (Our first computer came when I was 5, and it came packaged with Space Quest 4 and King's Quest 6)

Kings Quest 6 was one of my first ever games too, along with Lemmings and Zool - Ninja of the Nth Dimension. Ahh the good old days

If I put in an extra one in it says:

Unexpected "}"

I've tried loads of different combinations or braces and stuff, but none of them seem to work

Thanks

I tried editing it and adding a section for inventry combinations,

#sectionstart unhandled_event
function unhandled_event (int what, int type) {
Ã,  if (what == 1) { //if Hotspot
Ã,  Ã,  if (type == 4) { // if Talk To Hotspot
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Display ("That can't speak, duh.");
Ã,  Ã,  }
Ã,  Ã,  if (type == 2) { // if Pick Up Hotspot
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Display ("I can't pick that up!");
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  if (type == 3) { // if Use inventry with Hotspot
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Display ("That wouldn't do anything useful.");
Ã,  Ã,  }
Ã,  }
Ã,  }
Ã,  if (what == 2) { //if Object
Ã,  Ã,  if (type == 2) { // if Talk To Object
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Display ("That can't speak, duh.");
Ã,  Ã,  }
Ã,  Ã,  if (type == 5) { // if Pick Up Object
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Display ("I can't pick that up!");
Ã,  Ã,  }
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  if (type == 3) { // if use inventry with Object
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Display ("That wouldn't do anything useful.");
Ã,  Ã,  }
Ã,  }
}
Ã,  if (what == 5) { //if Inventry item
Ã,  Ã,  if (type == 3) { //if inventry item on another
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Display ("Those two things wouldn't work together.");
}

#sectionend unhandled_event

When I click test it says "unexpected if on line 148", which is this line:

if (what == 5) { //if Inventry item

Whats the problem with it?

Thanks for the feedback guys, I'll look at the issues you mentioned. Did anyone get round to completing it? If so did you find it too hard? Too easy? I would be interested to know because I can't test that aspect, knowing exactly what to do and everything

kotoftherings: Hmm this might be the wrong forum, but I consider it a full game as it stands. It has a beginning and an end, and isn't a work in progress. I guess any additions I make in the future carrying on my storyline could be considered sequels They will of course be much longer. I have a very long period of free time coming up, so if I can do this, with 6 scenes, in 2 days around school, I should be able to do a fair bit of work during the holidays

Hi all! This is my very first game. I only downloaded AGS 2 days ago. I've just completed making the demo version and I would love to know what you guys think. Is it worth me carrying on? I have a pretty good plot in my head, much better than what you get to see in the demo. unhandled_event will be used as soon as I figure out how to do it.

Thanks for any comments!

Download:
http://www.konador.com/bensadventure.zip

Screenshot:

I'm in XP. Thanks for the tip, that's a great help! I don't know why I didn't think of that before actually

Hi. I've found it very difficult to get the walk-behind areas to join up with the background pixels they should be on. I always end up with the character walking behind a couple of pixels background, or in front of part of the outline of the object. I can't seem to find any way to zoom in to make drawing the hotspots easier so I was wondering if anyone had any useful tips and tricks?

Thanks.

(I'll post a demo of what I'm making soon 8))

Hi, Thanks for the reply. I've read all the material on this but I still don't know what to do. Is it something like:

#sectionstart unhandled_event

unhandled_event (1,7) "I'm not picking that up!"
unhandled_event (2,5) "Why would I want to pick that up?"

#sectionend unhandled_event

Ah okay, thanks. Just to help me understand what it is I'm using, is the "True" bit what tells the game to wait for the movement to finish before starting the dialogue?

Hi. I have read the help files for unhandled event, but I am really new to this and I still don't understand how to script. I even tried copying the unhandled_event code from the demo game but it comes up with errors when I try to test game. I changed the character name from EGO to my character but still get an error. The code is completely meaningless to me, and I have no clue how to customise it. Is there a plugin which will let me do it in a similar way to programming in dialogues? Or is there someone out there who can explain it to me step by step? I'd like to have a rotation of 3 or 4 "I can't do that" type things, so that I don't have to program every single hotspot and item combination.

Thanks for any help you can give,
-Ben