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[This originality quest is about dialogs. It's the goal to write a so original as possible dialog between 2 characters.]

The second AGS Originality Quest Competition is about to be starting!
AGS-OQ is a serie of competitions that are somehow related to originality. You can read all the information you want to know about AGS-OQ at the website. You can view the rules, entry's of this and previous competitions, and see the prices available!

HTTP://www.ags-oq.tk

This originality quest is about dialogs. It's the goal to write a so original as possible dialog between 2 characters.
1- The conversation is between 2 characters, and you give info about their personalities.
2- The dialog should contain at least 5 dialog-options
3- Write the entry as shown in the example
4- Make the dialog as original as possible. Try to avoid a clichè!
5- Do not write it like one-line-question, one-line-answer style, but try making real conversations.
6- The conversation can be about anything, but try not to hurt peoples feelings with it!
7- Send your entry by email to peter@w8ff.com, or PM me, at the forum. the username is "Minimi".
8- Entry's must be in by 23rd October!



Look at this example to know how to write your entry!
EXAMPLE
SUBJECT - AGS-OQ DIALOG ENTRY
TITLE = Blinded Blindman Blindness
CHA#1  = His name is Icunot and he is a blind man. He is a really talky guy with also an alcoholic problem
CHA#2 = Her name is Nursey, who is a helpfuill young lady, that meets Icunot in the cafetaria.
PLAYER = #2
DIALOG OPTIONS :
ON#1 = Uhm, aren't you that blind guy they all talk about?
ON#2 = Hey That are some really nice sunglasses!
ON#3 = Why do you hang out in this cafetaria, instead of doing something fun?
OFF#4 = Have you ever visited a psychologist, because your mouth seems to never shut up!
OFF#5 = How I about I help you quiting the drinking?

#1 = Icunot : "No, I'm not I'm just blind and they all talk about me, you must have picked the wrong blind guy!"
Nursey : "Hmm... but they said I could find you here!
Icunot : "Who said that?"
Nursey : "They!"
Icunot : "Oooh! They... I know them... darn They! I shoulda kept it a secret!"
option-off 1
option-on 4
return
#2 = Icunot : "I know don't you like the colour they are nicely black!"
Nursey : "But you said you couldn't see!"
Icunot : "I can't but for me is everything black!"
option-off 2
return
#3 = Icunot : "Like what?"
Nursey : "I dunno"
Icunot : "me neither"
Nurney : "ok, thanks for this great explanation!"
Icunot : "Anytime!"
option-off 3
return
#4 = Icunot : "Have you ever visited the opticien, because you never stop looking!"
Nursey : "Good one!"
Icunot : "Thanks"
option-off 4
option-on 5
return
#5 Icunot : "Why do people always want to take away the things I like?"
Nursey : "Because it's wrong to drink so much??"
Icunot : "So you want to take the only part that's fun for me away, because you think it's better??"
Nursey : "Well, when I think about it, bad things can also be good in some situations."
Icunot : "Precisely! And that's why I sit here, and have a great time and enjoy life!"
Nursey : "OK! I respect that. Have a great sit!"
Icunot : "Ok, that'll be just fine, with that great poster of the gorgeous girl on the wall!"
Nursey : "What??? how you know that?"
Icunot : "OOOPS.....!"
option-off 5
end

Good luck this month!

Voting will start the 24th of October!
And the voting is the same as the last time.
You give your votes in this thread and give your top3 entry's with the names of the authors

If there are any more questions, just ask!
PS : I wrote this example myself, and it sucks, so make a better one!

Hi there. I just finished my very first tutorial ever. This tutorial is about creating a (wacky) room with the 3D application Bryce5. I made this tutorial for people that want to use bryce for creating nice backgrounds/objects for their games, but can't affort an expensive program, or just don't understand the 3D modelling. In this tutorial I'll show you, that you can easily make something nice.

The tutorial is devided into 3 Chapters.
you can find the tutorial at my solidus software website, or just click the links below to the chapters.

Chapter 1 - Setting up the room walls
Chapter 2 - Symmetric Modelling
Chapter 3 - Adding more objects

I hope you like my tutorial, and that you find it useful!
Here is a picture of the endresult of the tutorial :

I forgot to post these, about the birthday of AGS! Hope you like em. Happy birthday!

For my new game, I want to make something in the way like in Zelda, that you have a moneybag, besides your inventory, with a number besides it, wich shows how much coins you have. It's for me still pretty misty about the GUI's so I actually don't know if this should be at beginners forum.

But so I want to show how much coins I have, I guess by showing a global value, but how do I make this?

I don't know if you are interested in it, but I would like to let you know, that I have finally finished the work on my site, to rearrange it, and update it. You can now view easily wich games i've made, and wich are coming.

You can also find some of my 3D-art, and in the near future, there will come some tutorials that I'm making on my website, that are related with adventuregame-creation.

Furthermore there will come alot of free spritepacks, GUI's and midi's I'm making. I hope you will like them all, and I hope I can add through this something to the community.

http://www.solidussoft.tk

I am about to make some tutorials to help some of the community improve their drawing. There are already alot of tutorials about photoshop, psp, mspaint... and 3dmax... but I wondered if there are any more people out there like me using Bryce5? I think it's a very good 3D program and it's cheap.. only $100 ... so is anyone looking forward on learning how to make good backgrounds in Bryce for adventure games??

I was planning on making the first tutorial about "how to make a wacky room with bryce5?". Here is an example of the endresult of the first tutorial :


So please tell me if you own bryce5 or and if you are personally interested in this?! The tutorials will be hosted on my new website, wich I'm right now creating.

Should I release a demo now, of my game Sam&Moos or should I work further on the game and release it when it's all finished?

The thing is : I first told you people that I would release it very soon, but I got slown down, and now I'm working again on the game. I have right now 7 of 21 rooms finished. I'm working on this for some long time, and I figure that's it's going to take some time untill I finish the full game.

So is it worth to release a demo of only 7 rooms? Won't that screw up the gameplay of the whole game, when it IS finished? Please give your opinion on this.

UPDATE 25/11/03 - For those that couldn't reach the yeti, I fixed the bug!
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FINAL UPDATE! - Walking speed some more adjusted. Bugs with meeting the yeti are removed. Bugs at the home of Boris are removed. All other minor bugs and spelling faults are fixed.
Please download the game one more time, if you have already downloaded it!
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UPDATE! - Walking speed is increased abit, and some bugs have been solved. If there are any more bugs, do not hesitate to post about them!
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Yippeeeee!!! I finally finished my first game ever! This game is for MAGS of this month, and I really hope you like it!

Story/plot : You are the Penguin Puddy, and you live at Antartica. A monster is visiting your hometown, and your town is in danger. You will meet and handle with this monster in this little game called Puddy Penguin!

Game Facts :

16 Bit Colours
All graphics, sound and dialog made by me!
1 backgroundmusic composed by me
5 characters to talk to
10 rooms
Uses the GUI, of Sam&Moos, my game that is coming soon.
animated background, and some animations.
2 different endings
Makes usage of the awesome snowplugin!
and ofcourse alot of humor!!

I hope you like the game! As I said this is my first game, and I'm very curious about what you people think of it! I hope there aren't too many bugs in it. I tried to get them all out, so it should be fine !

Well... what can I say more than only give you the downloadlink and let you play, and judge for yourself.
One more thing. I'm never using bad language, or violence like blood in games, so you can surely let little children also play the game

DOWNLOAD LINK :

http://www.agsforums.com/games.php?action=detail&id=271

Have Phun!
Minimi




PS: IT IS VIRUS CLEAN!

I want to make that when you've talked to someone in dialog2, a line of option in dialog 1 must be set on, so it's visible. But how do I do that. I can only set the option-on command for the dialog im in. Please help me!!

When im outside some snow is falling, but when i get to another room, wich is inside a house the snow should stop falling, but it isn't. How can I make it disappear at once?!

I tried to use the srChangeSnowAmount command, but then it stops falling, but still the flakes that were already falling are finishing its way. Please help me!

It might be because you don't come so often at the competition forum, or that you just don't like the competition, but I would like to bring up to you people that you may all give your votes to the best plot/story of the competition.

Untill now only members have given their votes, that actually entered the tournament, but we need also votes from people that aren't in. So if you have some minutes of spare time would you please be so nice to give your top 3 votes in the following topic?

http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=9;action=display;threadid=8202

you can find the entry's at www.ags-oq.tk

Thanks in advance!

Yours Faithfully,
Minimi

in the past days I had this illness to buy everything my eyes saw, and I figured to go search for some good pc adventure games.
I bought these titles:

Syberia - 19,99 euro
Grim Fandango - 14,99 euro
Crime Scene Investigation - 24,99 euro

Im wondering if the games are any good. Crime scene investigation is in my opinion pretty easy... and syberia is amazing beautifull, but i hadn't much time to play it.
For Grim Fandango reminded it me on lba2, and im enjoying it, but what do you think of these games, and did you played them?

I know there are some people here playing counterstrike (me2) and I was wondering if it would be fun, to make an =]AGS[= clan?! Do you think that's a good idea, or do you think its just crap??

I know counterstrike isn't really the kinda game that relates to adventures, but still its a cool game ;P ... so just let know if what you feel for AGS clan?

I just bought grim fandango today, and im kinda stuck! I need to let some papers for a driver sign by the boss, but I can't get in his office, he doesnt wants to be disrupted. How do I get in? I have some balloons, breads, carddeck, a loose Ace card... i really can't seem to find a way!

great game btw... surely 15 euro worthy!

Some old weird people are sitting around a campfire in front of my house, and im trying to work, but they have their french music superloud on. I hate these freakin music! THESE people are even clapping!! MAN !! it's 9:00pm! Should I go to them and say " PUT YOUR FVCKING MUSIC DOWN" or should I hit them with a baseball-bat??? WHAT should I do? I want my peace!! GRRRRR Those weird demonic people.... hehe.... i mean.. you must be demonic if you can even clap on this shitty french music!

I want to make one very long dialogue... like something almost as long as a book, but i was wondering if theres a limit on the length of a dialog? or should i use multiple dialogs for it?

I just finished with fruityloops my first midi for a game, its for Penguin game for the MAGS, and I was wondering what you think of it, and if you like it. I'm not that much of an music-artist, I can only play synthesizer, so I played abit Critics and comments are welcome!

http://minimi.spijbelaars.com/Penguin.mid

I have just recieved a reply from Power Unlimited (the most popular game-magazine of the Benelux!

I asked them if they could write an article about adventure games, the old ones, and review it weither adventures are dead or not. I told them some ways to write this, including the link to AGS, and I told them the power of AGS, and that many people make in there spare time free cool adventure games.

They wrote me back, and told me they were interested in this topic, and they checked out AGS, they even downloaded it, and have tested some bits of it. They told me they were going to make an article about it, wich will be published in October or November!!

Now thousands and thousands of people from The Netherlands and Belgium are going to know about AGS, and be inspired to play adventure games again!

I am really excited about this, I only hope CJ doesn't blame me, if you DO, please tell me, and I will contact them, to not mention AGS. I have asked them to pull off a inspiring article for adventures, and they told me they would!

Ok here is a fun game to play at the forum! This game is also playable at gamespy, and it go's like this. I set a sentence, and someone else replys with another sentence to make a story. Another one replys to his line also... only one sentence! Please make serious replys so we can at the end, put it together as 1 fun story!

I'll begin :

A long time ago, there was a blue cup, named CJ.

1. Today, I was working almost all the time on my game, and I managed to finish 1 background and 1 animated object. I figured that making good adventures is time-eating, and reguires lots of your time. I was actually wondering at what speed you work, say how much time does it take for you to actually finish a background, and I'm not talking about the working time, but about all time with eachother, because I have also some times, that I need to do something else, like go cycling, or EAT!

2. And second I wanted to if I should first make all sprites and then the programming or some of all through eachother. I do not talk about weither you should first complete the plot/storyline.. because thats obvious. So do you complete all your sprites and backgrounds first, or do you start at the scripting?