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Summary: In the near future, mechanical animals called PetPals have become important helpers to mankind. You play as M4X, a PetPal working in a junkyard outside the city. Every day follows the same routine—until he makes a discovery that pulls him into a conspiracy about life and death.A tribute to the cyberpunk genre, without taking it too serious.

Featuring hand-drawn art, animation, and some original music (the other from the amazing Eric Matyas).

AGS Game Site: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/game/2863/

Youtube Playthrough:

 

Hi, I am looking for playtesters for my pixelgame Cyberdog 2050. You can find the thread here: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/ags-games-in-production/cyberdog-2050/

I already let family test it, but it would be really good if someone else looked over it too, especially to see if everything in the game is easy to undestand and to check if I have any mayor english language mistakes, since I am not a native spreaker.

Have a nice weekend!

Two years later and I finally finished the game, alot later than I anticipated. I was working on it on and off, but am really happy to announce that I will be looking for playtesters now and then hopefully upload it soon    There is lots of new stuff that I did not have the time to update here, so stay tuned.

Some new stuff:







Still working on this game, even if I took a lot of breaks 

Hoping to finally find the time to finish it over the summer.
 

Hey guys, i hope you are doing well.

I am stuck with trying to find an idea to make a code board gui work without too much effort.

It looks kind of like this:



It has 72 Buttons.

Now the idea is, that there is a pattern, that the player has to push. When the right buttons are pushed they turn green, when a wrong button is pushed it turns red and you have to start over. My problem is, that making this option for each button on its own is very time consuming and I thought maybe someone can help me with finding a quicker way to do it, if there is one.

Thanks a lot! Now it works.

Also thanks for the tip, I did search for "undefined symbol GetViewportY"(+ags), but with google and I oversaw that thread, next time I´ll definitly search the forum directly too.

And I also tried looking it up in the manual, but with "GetViewport" and "GetViewportY()", which both got no match.

Even if it does not seem like it, I really did try to find a solution on my own for hours before I posted because I did not want to bug anyone needlessly.

So, I´m stuck again sadly.

I tried Khris approach, but the first problem I encountered is that the regions are overlapping and making a new region cuts the former region. So I tried to evade that with using a region, then a hotspot, then a region again and using  Region.GetAtRoomXY(player.x, player.y) and  Hotspot.GetAtRoomXY(player.x, player.y)worked.


But the character does not walk on a hotspot like on region, so I had to add

Code: ags

function hHotspot1_Interact()
{
player.Walk(mouse.x,  mouse.y, eNoBlock, eWalkableAreas);
}

But because it is a scrolling background it does not work like that in the extended side of the background and I found a thread where it is explained that you need to add the viewport to the mouse coordinates when you have a scrolling background with GetViewPortX() and GetViewPortY().

I tried:

Code: ags

function hHotspot1_Interact()
{
player.Walk(GetViewPortX()+ mouse.x,  GetViewPortY() + mouse.y, eNoBlock, eWalkableAreas);
}

but I get the error "undefined symbol GetViewPortY" every time. Am I using it in the wrong way?

Thanks for your thoughts. Both ideas seem promising. I´ll try to make it work tomorrow

Hi,

I am trying to implement something in my game, but I don´t really know how.

I have an animated object as some form of surveillance system and I want something to happen if the animation and the character are touching/overlapping. But this should not happen if the player is hiding behind an object.

To better show what I mean I made this Gif:



I was thinking of using IsCollidingWithObject or AreThingsOverlapping, but I don´t know how, so I was hoping maybe somebody here can help me get an idea of how it could work.

Thanks for the kind feedback

These backgrounds really caught me eye - they look awesome. Especially the daylight one. However, I wouldn't make the project dependent on the response to the thread. Carry on only if you feel like it.

Also, a pet as a protagonist? Cyberpunk setting? Feels like a canine response to Stray

Oh, I did not want it to come across like I dont want to carry on with this. I do want to complete this and I think I will be proud and happy when its done. But sometimes there are pretty frustrating struggles while developing where I feel the progress seems so slooowly and I was in this kind of mood when I posted I think.

As for Stray: Believe it or not, but I was developing this story and game before I ever heard of Stray. It resulted from the idea that I wanted to do a "cyberpunk lady and the tramp".Then I saw an article about the game and was amazed at the similarities. I do have to play that game as it seems like it may really fit my taste in games

The thing is though, while most people are saying things like "Could this replace artists?" or "The dangers of using this!" I'm instead thinking "How can I use this as a tool to aid me?"

I am thinking all of this. For now it is a great inspiration and can make an artists life easier when it comes to finding colour choices or composition ideas etc. But as it is getting better, like all technology, I think it could become a valid concern that it can replace artist to some extend. A lot of artists also make money with social media like with posting new artworks on instgram and creating a following. Now instgram is already getting flodded with midjourney art that was done in seconds and (almost) looks like done by a professional. Does that create a false picture of how much work a "real" artwork takes?

For example, it'd be brilliant if I could take a photograph and then have it be redrawn in the style of The Curse of Monkey Island. That's not going to happen though.

Pretty sure AI tools that take in 1 image as input for the style/aesthetic and the other image as input to convert to that style/aesthetic already exist.

I think I also read about something like that being possible with midjourney, but it does not work that well because the developers are scared what pictures might be used..but I cant find the source where I saw that again.

I mean, already a couple of years ago we were playing AI Dungeon, which is basically a collaborative AI story-writing tool.

Oh, I really have to check that out, sounds interesting.


I googled AI writing and found this site https://narrative-device.herokuapp.com/, where you can give two prompts and generate a story. When you give your email adress you have five free tries. So here are my three stories about sunflowers and tradgedy:

Spoiler

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They are pretty short and you can guess that they are not written by a human mind, but it has potential I think.

By the way, the first one is my favorite!

[Screenshots]

Hello to anyone who is interested in this little game!


I made this thread to maybe bring it to peoples attention and to push through a lack of motivation and actually finish this game.


Cyberdog 2050 is a cyberpunk detective story where you play a mechanical dog trying to uncover the truth about a threat to all cyberpets.



Screenshots:

First room by day


First room by night


I have more backgrounds done, but I think sharing them could spoil a bit too much, so instead I plan to upload more things like animations or music.

Gifs:

Main character side walk



Another character side walk:





Development Progress:

Story: 90%
Scripting: 75%
Graphics: 90%
Sound/Music: 0%

Wishfull completion date: End of August
More realistic completion date: End of September or October

I doubt this will extend to (non-flash fiction, mind) writing art, though. For a plethora of reasons (mostly having to do with language not being much of a tie to formal systems, which I suppose - can't be sure of course... - the AI will not be able to overcome even with the new tech it uses for pass/fail and repeat-testing)

I was thinking about this too. While it will definitely be a challenge to make something like a AI writer, would it not be possible to feed it all kind of ebooks and make connections between how they are constructed? Then similar as with the art app you would prompt something like "scary, witch, futuristic" and would get a randomly created story.

I typed in "point-and-click adventure game background, medieval, pixel art, castle ruins in a forest".

That looks really cool and pretty! But I think the app might still have a problem with pixel art. I tried "pixel art dog" and the result was a pixel dog with high resolution ears. But maybe I did not try the right prompts. There are already videos about how to use the app to get better results.

We already live pretty much in a post-truth world. What's it gonna be like when someone could, say, create a video of a world leader or celebrity kicking their dog? I use a tame-ish example here because I don't wanna go too dark, but it doesn't take too much imagination to see how harmful the tech could be, if unleashed with no safety switch.

Hey, a video of someone kicking a dog already sounds pretty horrible to me, but yes I know what you mean. By the way, when I tested the app on discord there where a lot of people using politicians for prompts, like "Putin walking into a tardis". But with the result I always felt like it did not look too simliar to the real people, maybe the app already has a restriction on that? I know it does not show explicit stuff, someone wrote something like "husband getting murdered with a knive" and the result was very vague. But it is interesting, because it shows that people are already curious about creating images like that.

Audio and video evidence will be very difficult, if not impossible, to use in court cases, perhaps? Will we have to go back to the days of witness testimony and such? Back to the Sherlock Holmes era of crime deduction?! Or maybe we'll just have mind-reading machines soon and court cases will become pretty much obsolete anyway?

That sounds pretty dystopian to me even if I would like to see some Sherlock Holmes style detective work.

But, I'm definitely gonna be having a bit of a play with the one you mention!

Have fun! I have already used up my free images and am considering a month of subscription because I am still very curious about it and have some prompts I really would like to try.

This is a cool idea! But I guess you are in for a lot of work by painting traditional. Can´t wait to see it :-)

So I saw this video concerning "Midjourney" an app that can create images from word prompts today:

and was pretty mindblown.

Afterwards I tried it for myself and the thing is really as good as it is shown in the video.

There is a lively discussion about what apps like these mean for the creative industry and it got me thinking about that too. Of course you can not generate the precise idea you have in your head, but I was thinking that if you are looking for something like a book or album cover or an character for your board game, it may be good enough to use this and if you want to, let an artist do some finishing touches.

I am kind of divided between thinking this is a great source of inspiration and it lets the value of art drop.

I would be very interested to know what you think about this topic :-)


By the way, an similar discussion can be applied to music as there are also AI apps being designed to cover that. I tried https://www.ampermusic.com/ and created some pretty catchy tunes with it.

I just became aware of this podcast and started listening from episode 1. It really is a pleasent distraction for when I walk to work and you two make entertaining podcast hosts! :-) Too bad the latest episode is the last, but I am glad there is so many episodes to listen to.

Concept: Hannah_Banana, such a funny idea. Love it. There is nothing Stan can't make a business of.
Playability: Hannah_Banana
Artistic Execution: This was a close one between Hannah_Banana and newwaveburritos. My vote goes to newwaveburritos because its beautiful and I have been into pixel art lately and you even took the effort to animate it a little.