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Heh, reminds me of Back to the Future 3.
That guy's trying just a little too hard to blend in.

Looks great. I love the style.
There are just a few elements that seem oversaturated. Here's what I would do to tone them down:



Darkened the mat outline colour then desaturated the mat.
Desaturated the curtains.
Desaturated the blacks.

(I agree that the curtains should be longer.)

A fully texture mapped world would need just a little more work...
Presently you can only assign a texture to one face of a cube, or to a sprite (which is essentially one face of a cube). I'm not sure what the best interface would be to extend that. A fully textured cube? Texturing all primitives (but how to assign UVs?)? I want this to still be scriptable...

For the swinging out of bed, I played the game, writing out the camera positions as script commands, then cut and pasted those into script. Spline support would be a nice addition, but it's difficult to set up a spline without visualizing it. I guess I could add splines to the editor.

I forgot about 640x480.
With the module, it was all handled automatically by AGS.
I need to write specific support for it in the plugin.

[EDIT] The previous plugin called AGS functions to draw the triangles, so yes, you're right, it did support 640x480.

I could add a function to invalidate the cache for a sprite.
I could also add transparency if you need it.

Sort of. I let Allegro do it
It was painful to get right though. Texture maps have to have power of two widths and heights, so I had to create a texture cache. And, AGS's Allegro version is old, so the BITMAPs aren't interchangeable.

Thanks strazer

I worked on the plugin (not the module) some more...



http://www.steporg.com/step/ags/games/IVSpy.zip

[EDIT] Fixed url. Damn server requires capitalization.
[EDIT] Added alleg42.dll.
[EDIT] This version is using a plugin and a module combined... for extra ease of use.

While we're on dodgy error messages, if I accidentally refer to the type of a struct array instead of the array itself, I get the unhelpful message:

...at the end of the day, the compiler can't really provide a full explanation of every possible mistake you can make (though it would be nice if it did). I'll leave it for now.

Perhaps it would be better to just say "Syntax error" rather than an error message that is inaccurate or misleading.
Then users won't think there's something wrong with the compiler.

I think evenwolf is here in Austin.
We're probably going to get 30mph winds - we're way off the predicted path. Nowhere near as bad as the hailstorm that took out my roof in April.
We are getting a storm of refugees, first from N'Arelns, now from Houston, including my girlfriend's family.

(Short?) French point and click adventure in Flash.
Lovely production values, but I'm not so sure about the gameplay.
I do like that clicking on an exit results in a second of walking animation followed by an immediate jump to the destination. Sort of like MI2's escape key shortcut.

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=10301

(I was bored waiting for a disk defrag.)

My experience is that it is much harder to do if you want to have serious responses, rather than jokey ones.

I think that depends.
It's easy to write jokey responses, but hard to make them consistently funny.
It's easy to write serious responses, but hard to make them fit a style and convey a mood.

It's particularly difficult, I would imagine, to write serious responses to ridiculous player actions.
I think that's why a lot of serious games rely on default responses to random item combination, etc.

Other suggestions for the banner:
A in the G of F W
No Action Jackson
Perils of Poom

Before release, I'd recommend importing it into a clean test game to make sure it works.
That way you don't have to remember to put #ifdefs around test code. Speeds up the debugging process.

Principles of Evil, from the description.

No, most people are making free games so it makes sense to not limit their options.
Most people also don't want to footer around with non-standard file formats like ogg.

If you want to sell it, that's when you need to worry about mp3 royalties, and that's when you get the special engine.

BB, you were born 10 years too late...

Surely we can find someone to choose a pick of the month every month?
Perhaps Jozef Purdes could be persuaded?

It makes the web site look dead when the pick of the month is 6 months old...

He said 1 minute (real) == 10 minutes (game), i.e. 6 seconds == 1 minute, so I'd change the ">= 400" to ">= 6*GetGameSpeed()".

Great, more RoN!
I'm disappointed that my "foxes playing poker" has morphed back to dogs playing poker.

# frames == # colours?

Awesome walk cycles.
I think you got a little carried away with the head movement in 10...