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You might try using characters rather than objects.

Can the objects go at fixed places or anywhere? If the former, you can make the NPCs avoid those places regardless of whether an object is there.

For the PC, you can split the room in half and use walkable 1-16 in the left half as well as in the right half, thus giving you 32 walkable areas; make the left half of the room region#1 and the right half region#2, and if the player steps on region #1 set the walkables as appropriate for the left half of the room. And vice versa.

If I recall correctly, the DisplayTopbar() function does mostly what you require.

Lovely graphics, except the inventory screen - run out of time?

Yep, I've just uploaded a new version that includes a prettier inventory screen.

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Yes, it's in the library.

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If you hang around after the second exam, Calliope will point you in the right direction.

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Other than that, it's a pixel hunt, sorry.

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Thankfully, you don't particularly need this spell anyway.

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If you want the series merged, just start a new section on the 5DAS page and add it there. If you need any of the information that was on the now-deleted 7DAS page, please drop me a PM.

Yep the point is that several things are happening simultaneously.

META!

(sorry, couldn't resist).

Lemmings was very unique when it came out, and has few clones to my knowledge. The Sims is still rather unique.

Heaven and Earth is a very original puzzler, as is Marble Drop (I think that's what it was called).

In the genre of adventure games, Bureaucracy is rather unique in its premise (you just moved to a new city and have to convince the bank of your new address without raising your blood pressure overly much...)

And, although it's not a PC game, I'd recommend E.V.O. to everyone. You get to evolve yourself from fish to dinosaur to mammal, and you get to pick your own scales/horns/fur/etc.

I am an administrator too (meaning I can block users too and delete pages too)!

No, that doesn't mean I have veto power or anything, but I'll keep an eye out for these. The rewrite by SSH should do the trick; the thing that matters is if the game has an outside review (e.g. on JustAdventure or such). Without outside review, any n00b can pimp their game and that's simply not what an encyclopedia is for; outside review proves you're famous enough. Don't bother voting if you're not already a member, because it doesn't count. But if some nasty admin kicks you out, drop me a line and I can probably help.

I see that some of the game screenshots have already been removed because they were copyrighted. Wikipedia has to be very careful with copyright since they don't want to get sued; this is mostly the fault of America's triggerhappy system of law. If you want a screenshot of your game on Wikipedia, the best you can do is upload it there yourself, and clearly state "I made this game, and I put this screenshot in public domain" or something like that. Then it won't be deleted.

The sheet is not knowledge, it's an item. Come on, you're too lazy to memorize all of that.

Spells are knowledge. You'll need spells first.

You'll need most of the following:

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Alohomora
Colloportus
Legilimens
Obliviate
Riahytniop
Tremorichter
Vanitatia

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This is where to find them:

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Calliope has one.
There are two in the library.
Two in the alchemy lab.
One in the main hallway.
One in your dorm.

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This bug has been fixed; please download the game again and it should work.

See also this thread.

Yes, I did. That's the bug that I had fixed when I started this thread. The solution is to download again

This is probably the only AGS game that you can't solve if you have a virus on your computer

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because it can infect the META.EXE file and make it larger; yes, that has happened, making META the first AGS-based virus-scanner

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Cuppit asks for kilobytes; your computer may give the size in bytes. The game accepts both division-by-1000 and division-by-1024, as well as rounding the wrong way.

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If you go back in time beyond the point where you picked up the item, you lose the item since it cannot be in two places simultaneously (which would cause a paradox and blow up the universe and so forth).

However, you do keep all your knowledge. Specifically, that includes spells. So you should start with collecting several useful spells (which requires a puzzle or two). Your second step would be analysing the day to see where you need to be at which time; the characters move around a lot but the day isn't all that complex. The third and final step is rewinding the day entirely (reversultrar!) and following the schedule you just made for yourself.

Needless to say you need a different method for each of the exams.

I found a bug: I get the global script error on line 305 - invalid character specified.

Found & fixed.

Just a note regarding last month's MAGS. December is a very busy month so it took awhile, but I've fixed Warthogs now. Enjoy

[Larry Lotter and the Test of Time]

[embed=640,390]http://youtu.be/Af9ILGe9_aY[/embed]

Larry Lotter and the Test of Time

It's time for the final exams at Magic University, and notorious slacker Larry Lotter is about to flunk all of them because he spent less time studying and more time drinking beer. But there is yet hope! Using a spell to travel back in time, he gets the chance to do his day over again and pull some tricks to pass the exams anyway! And he has to, because it's his Destiny.

Join Rob Greasley, Calliope DeRanged and Professor Mumblemore in this short Harry Potter parody, loosely based on the greatly admired books by J.K. Rowling. Watch the other characters act and interact off their own accord, and spin time back and forth to interfere.



Now available on Steam. This is the Deluxe version with improved higher-resolution graphics, a professional voice pack, and translations into into French, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Hungarian, Dutch, Russian, and Italian. It's originally a MAGS game but it's come a long way!

Thanks to Fizzii and Meerbat for the graphics; Jan Glembotzki for the music. Voice acting by Anthony Ingruber, Conrad Pallman, Dahlia Badanowski, Jean-michel Newberg, Jesse Lowther, Kristyn Mass & Michael Malconian.

Download and run Ad-aware, that should fix you up.

If you think that's bad, in the original version of KQ1 you could drop any and all of your items, thus losing them irretrievably - and that included the Three Treasures. It's kind of funny that you can drop the treasures just before meeting King Edward again, thus ending up there empty handed. Since this also causes you to lose the points you got for finding the items, I spent some time completing KQ1 with the lowest possible score, which IIRC was about 40 points.

I actually replay some of my older creations now and then. Considering I've been coding since I was twelve, some of them are quite funny in a haphazard way.

3) That whole "Avvooozzlll" bug in Quest For Glory IV! Argh! Oh yeah, it's also really fun

That's not a bad puzzle, that's just sloppy QA.