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Many thanks for taking the time to play the game and record the longplay. It feels great to have our little game featured among other AGS games on your channel.
After watching the video I realised, though, that at some point I really need to change the music to something game-ish...

OK, good to know. Thanks for your help!

Hi, I've got a question about how to script whole cut-scenes that involve changing rooms/characters and keep them in one function.

In my current code I am trying to change the room and the player at the same time and then make the character go to a certain position. So the code looks pretty much like this:

Code: ags

cSuper.SetAsPlayer();         
player.Walk(1334, characterYPos, eBlock, eWalkableAreas);

From the documentation I know that if the given character is not in the current room, .setAsPlayer() changes room to the one the new player-character is currently in. And this part works fine, however, if I add .walk() the game produces an error saying that "character not in current room".

If I display player.Room, it returns me the correct id (after the room change), so I don't really know why I am getting the error. I am assuming it's got sth to with the room not being fully loaded before .walk() is called (but this is just a wild guess of mine).
Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

AGS has been in operation for around 20 years. There are sure to be interesting games and Annkekdotes from that time.

No doubts about that. I would be interested in reading about those myself

Not sure if this is something you are after, but you can always check out a few books that were recently published, for example The Art of Point-and-Click. I've got it and I find it fairly interesting. Although, apart from a few exceptions, most of the interviewees are people behind old classics rather than modern games. I am not saying it's a bad thing - just pointing it out because I don't know which developers you had in mind?

I am really glad you enjoyed the atmosphere and the game in general. We had loads of descriptions written for this game but had to scrap some of them, because otherwise the game would be awfully long!

Spoiler

I am glad you liked the idea of having a dictionary. Every person I saw playing the game never really used it this way. So who knows... maybe you are the first to have actually noticed it 

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Yes, the title of the game is Candle and I thought Mandle guessed it. I probably gave it away a bit too quickly... but hey
I am sorry if my last post was a bit confusing.
Also, if you never played Candle you should give it a go - imo it's a perfect combination of a platformer and a point'n'click
https://www.gog.com/game/candle

Edit: I've got nothing to do with the developers of the game - I just really enjoyed it.

Actually, it's nothing nothing Candle.
Back to you.

A subtle hint: the name of the game rhymes with... Mandle (provided I pronounce it properly).

A new game for you guys:

Sea of Thieves?

Just a little correction if I may, but Fran Bow was not made with AGS, they had their homebrew engine afaik.

I think I read in one of the interviews that they made it with Game Maker Studio.

There are two Polish forum dedicated to adventure games I know of, https://forum.przygodomania.pl and http://www.przygodoskop.pl/forum/. I have never really participated in them, nor even read the discussions people have over there. However, from what I have seen, new posts are still being added, so I am assuming the forums are still alive. There might be others but these are the only ones I heard of.

A really fun game with nice graphics. As others pointed out, the fact that this game was made in 14 days is really impressive.

Bingo. But nothing special to be honest. I'm not really much of a writer .

Cool! I've completely forgotten about that show until you reminded me of it
I am not an artist, so I can't really critique your work. All I can say is that it looks really fun and would like to play the game asap.

Wow. If a small-indie game gets such a devoted audience, this means it’s a really good game. Congrats Mandle!
Did you give that person a prize of any sort for beating the game?

Brownie points for anyone who recognises the scenes

Huh? is this going to be a fan game about M*A*S*H?

I am afraid we will need a bit more hints.

It's better NOT to catch the coins.

Why not?

You guys plucking your nose hairs doesn't make my eyes water or make me sneeze. What are you talking about?!

Biology, I guess

You guys pluck your nose hairs? Doesn't that hurt?

A little bit, yeah. But when there's no hair trimmer around what choice have you got...?

Nose hair.

To add to that: plucking nose hairs. Why does it make your eyes water?

Why does it always make you sneeze, too? Or is it just me?