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I've just been playing it though I'm a bit stuck at the moment. So, I'm going to sleep on it and resume tomorrow. I'll give more feedback when I'm finished but so far it's great fun.

I noticed a small error:

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when you try taking all four tyres off of Speed Buggy, you are told you can't because he needs one to balance on. But, I put the life preservers on three of the wheels and then took the fourth real tyre off. Then I was able to take all the life preservers back off, so now Speed Buggy is indeed floating in the air.

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Glad you're having fun with the game!

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Ahhhhhhhhh...That would indeed happen...

My code did not allow for anyone to do that without it noticing...

This is now on my TO-DO-LIST for the rebuild...

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Hi,

It may depend on what exactly you want copied and how you want to paste it and if its more than one block of text.

I feel like I'm looking for a simple solution in a complicated way...

And I'm probably wasting the time of everyone here but this is what I'm trying to do:

I'm trying to allow the player to take a line of text characters out of the game and into their clipboard (as if they has copied the text normally from say...here) so that they can paste the text back into the game in the near future...

What I'm trying to achieve is that the text equals their saved game data and that pasting it back into the game equals their restore game data...

I know I'm circumventing the usual SAVE/LOAD function built into AGS but it is for a reason...

Cheers!

Sorry if this has been asked a bazillion times before...

But I'm looking for a way for the player to copy/paste a block of text while still within the game or have that block of text automatically exported to their clipboard as if they had copied it...

This is for a MAGS project so sorry again for not searching properly, but I just couldn't find it in time for my first proof-of-concept build that I need to know if I'm going to do this project or not...

Cheers!

I've seen some comments from non-native English speakers asking for a slower text speed.

I can't really change it now as the contest is closed, but I would suggest as a work-around to hover the mouse over the Iconbar at the top of the screen whenever you get a text pop up which is too long to read quickly...This should pause the game so the text stays onscreen until you are done with it. Then just move the mouse off the Iconbar. I do this myself sometimes with games with ridiculous text speeds even for native speakers, or when the text contains a hint I know I must not miss etc...

I might bodge something very short together for this one...I think I can't resist the theme!!! But very limited time because of my school's Halloween Party being our biggest event of the year...

LAST YEAR WE DID THIS

...and this year we are getting even MORE ambitious with an "Alice In Wonderland" themed adventure room...

But I have a few ideas...let's see what happens

I'll have a go at this :-)
In the meantime here's a micro-horror-story I wrote for a contest Dave Gilbert had on Twitter a few weeks ago. It's not too dissimilar to the poem Mandle posted above:

The pale boy with the dead eyes looks and smiles at me on the landing every night. I think he's the only one who can see me.

DUDE! That just gave me serious broad-daylight spine-shivers. DON'T DO THAT!!!

Geez, I suck at this game even worse than during testing!!! AND...totally agree: Those damn lorry drivers should all go suck my tail-pipe, swallow my exhaust, and DIE!!!

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I almost made the tunnel on the last try and a damn lorry kept blocking me and time ran out. That was YOU driving it Andrea...WASN'T IT?!

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Cheers Tabata and Cassie (and everyone else so far) for playing. Glad you guys had fun! And yeah Cassie, that right-click feature was on my To-Do-List but I just couldn't get to it in time for the deadline. In the Deluxe Version it will be sweet!

NOT an entry, but just something I thought I'd post to try and help set the creepy mood (The poem always creeps me out)...

Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away

Just completed the game and only needed one hint I'm proud/ashamed to say! And right at the finish line too...DAMNIT!!!

TOTALLY charming game and AMAZING that you could get it done in just one month!!! I was immersed and felt motivated the whole time to get to the next stage/era....

ABSOLUTELY LOVELY!!!

Ahhhh that did the trick!

Game complete!!! Very nicely done too!!!

I also thought "Looks like a Scooby-doo rip off!" (and let's face it, it is, the only one missing in the picture is Zelda!).

There was actually a fan-quote I read during research which said: "So, they killed off Velma and turned Scooby into a car???"...

1. AprilSkies (seriously amazing work getting all the KISS guys makeup done right in that small space of pixels)
2. jwalt (fitting the hair into the shape is awesome work)
3. hobo #1 (love the soulfull expression)

Well...I've got as far as:

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I've stuck the two photos onto the wooden plank, but no idea what to do with it now...I guess it's a hint as to who my father is but...totally lost as to what to do...HELP!

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I know I'm a bit late, but it's done (sorta):

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=51067.0

Hope you all enjoy it! I had a lot of fun doing it!

WOOT!!!!!! THANK GOD AND WELL DONE MATE!!!! Now I have something to do tonight! The thing I missed most during MAGS was playing a game that I didn't already know how to beat and how it ended!

DOWNLOADING!!!

Congrats on the release!

I thought it was Scooby Doo when I looked at that splash screen...?  I never heard of this cartoon.  (Whacky Races was the one I do remember...)

Anyway, will try to find time to play this - looks fun!

Cheers mate!

Yes, the Hanna-Barbera studio also made Scooby-Doo and, following its smash sucess, brought out a slew of "Mystery-Solving Team" shows. The fact that the driver character: "Tinker" is pretty much a draw-over of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo probably added to your confusion. Luckily they mostly kept the quality high in these cash-grabs: the animation is charming, the background art wonderful, and the voice of Speed Buggy himself was even supplied by the immortal Mel Blanc.

I guess they didn't have all that many people working for them at this time and fortunately they were all people of very high talent. The kid's cartoon business paid very little to its staff in those days, so pretty much everyone involved was in it for the love of the work itself, and not the bucks.

Kinda like indie game devs, eh?

Can you tell I did a bit of research for this project before I started?

It seems the SETUP in the last uploaded version didn't work because I was an idiot...New version with working SETUP icon is now uploaded and available at same link...

Sorry!

Also fixed a few graphics things that were really annoying me, and got the whole thing uploaded just at midnight September 30th (my time zone)...

I won't be updating the upload again until after MAGS voting is finished as that would be cheating in my book...

It seems the SETUP in the last uploaded version didn't work because I was an idiot...New version with working SETUP icon is now uploaded and available at same link...

Sorry!

Also fixed a few graphics things that were really annoying me, and got the whole thing uploaded just at midnight September 30th (my time zone)...

I won't be updating the upload again until after MAGS voting is finished as that would be cheating in my book...

Oh, and of course, I still need to figure out who to add the game to the AGS games DB.

I sent you instructions in a PM....Couldn't risk missing out on your game!!!

I had a problem with my initial upload where when I unpacked the zip file onto my computer the folder never appeared. After a fresh upload it now seems to be working fine.

If anyone else had this problem too please re-download from the same link. It should be sorted.

Also: the game doesn't run from the Desktop on my computer. I've found this happens with many AGS games. It works fine when the game folder is placed in MyDocuments or somewhere.

I don't know if these issues are particular to my own outdated computer/OS or not, but thought they were worth a mention.

Now for some well-deserved sleep I'd say!