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There's actually two (and possibly three) games called Quest for Orgy. The one you downloaded is called "So You Want To Be A Porn Star" and indeed contains only one room and a rather lame joke. The real game that most people are talking about is "Sodom, Graham and Gomorra" and contains about a dozen different rooms, and some different lame jokes. There exists also a third subtitle which could either be SG&G again or yet another game, I'm not entirely sure.
The game is not particularly easy to find and not particularly worth playing (and, despite the name, it has less sexual content than your average larry game, in case you were wondering).

Oops. Move the 'i++' up one line.

Distance a to b = square root of ((a.x - b.x) * (a.x - b.x) * (a.y - b.y) * (a.y - b.y))
(by Pythagoream theorem)

Direction a to b = inverse tangent of (abs (a.x - b.x) / abs (a.y - b.y))
(by basic goniometry)

However, to my knowledge AGS doesn't do square root or inverse tangents. But there is a math plugin floating around the web somewhere.

Edit: your post wasn't entirely clear but maybe you meant something else... given delta as an angle from the upwards direction, going clockwise, then b.x = sine of delta, and b.y = cosine of delta. Again this needs the math plugin, or a lookup table.

Unlock trunk with the appropriate key. Then use meteor on trunk. Then use edsel with said key.

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mouse.100? Where did that come from, I'm pretty sure I wrote mouse.x and mouse.y
You forgot a lot of parentheses:
if ( GetGUIAt (mouse.x, mouse.y ) == INVENTORY)

You could put cursor changing code in rep_ex_always, for instance (if GetGUIAt (mouse.x,mouse.y) == INVENTORY ... )

Code: ags

int ovly[5], onum, otime[5], o_x[5], o_y[5];

function DamageChar (int charid, int damage) {
  string buffer;
  onum = (onum + 1) % 5;
  StrFormat (buffer, "%s hit for %d!", character[charid].name, damage);
  if (IsOverlayValid (ovly[onum])) RemoveOverlay (ovly[onum]);
  o_x[onum] = character[charid].x - 30;
  o_y[onum]= character[charid].y - 30;
  ovly[onum] = CreateTextOverlay (o_x[onum], o_y[onum], 60, 0, 15, buffer);
  otime[onum] = 80;
}

function repeatedly_execute () {
  int i;
  while (i < 5) {
    if (IsOverlayValid (ovly[i])) {
      otime[i] --;
       if (otime[i] == 0) RemoveOverlay (ovly[i]); else 
       if (otime[i] % 3 == 0) {
        o_y[i] --;
        MoveOverlay (ovly[i], o_x[i], o_y[i]);
      }
     }
   }
   i++;
}

This is a workable idea. Just be sure to check all coordinates referenced in the room script, after you put in the true graphics.

goto-dialog then option-off doesn't actually work that way.

I'd suggest

Code: ags

function dialog_request (int parm) {
  SetDialogOption (parm / 100, (parm % 100) / 10, parm % 10);
}

This way you can do stuff like
   run-script 4251
which will work on Dialog 42, and set its option #5 to state #1 (which is, enabled).
run-script 4250
would turn it off again. Etc.

Google. The game is a literal as the classic Maniac Mansion.

(the one main exception being

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the paint blotch

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where instead of just

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using the paint remover,

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you must first

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open it, then use it on the brush, then use the brush on the blotch

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Does anyone know the details on becoming a Paladin in Quest for Glory III? I am a fighter with plenty of honor and did all sorts of things like rescuing Manu and getting Yesufu out of the trap, but I must have hit some disqualifier somewhere as Rakeesh won't paladize me...

Yes, that would be very good.

It would be useful if there was a river, and the player character could wade through, but a fish would be restricted to the river only (e.g. AGI has a 'restrict-to-water' command)

I think the only class mentioned here that has sufficient potential to be different from the existing triad, is the cleric (or priest, and this could include an evil priest that does necromantic stuff. Then again if you're supposed to be a hero you shouldn't be evil)

Hi there,

all the subtle improvements are always nice...
however one thing that seems bugged is the 'syntax de-indenter'... whenever I try to insert a line after a line that has a closing brace }, the brace gets de-indented. Apparently the editor just replaces '  }' by '}' whenever convenient... is that the way it was intended? They don't get pulled back to the last corresponding {, they just get pulled back two spaces in all circumstances.

Hi there,

for a QfG'ish game,
1) maybe different classes would be fun, but it's going to be very difficult to keep distinguished puzzle solutions for more than three, not to mention the fact that QfG already allows cross-classing (e.g. fighter with stealth skill). I'd vote for three or four classes max.

2) yes. I don't like levelups at all.

3) you probably should do that just for testing purposes, not for the finished product. If it's necessary then your game is apparently too hard; maybe an easy/hard toggle would work.

4) I honestly don't care.

5) Original world is always cool!

6) Realtime just like QfG.

If you're going for a non-QfG-like RPG (e.g. plain rpg with less adventurish puzzles, I'd guess), the answers remain the same except for
1) as many classes as feasible,
6) turnbased

Excuse me, but if CPU cycles are the main bottleneck here, wouldn't a serious pruning help in greatly reducing the database seek time?
Maybe some old threads could be archived as plain html, that also has less seek time. And of course maybe some old threads are no longer relevant.

I would vote for exp needed, yes. Or at least a progress bar.

Three small bugs...

if you put the cursor on a line containing a closing brace }, and you press enter, the line will automatically de-dent itself. In other words if you add blank lines after a closing brace, the indent messes up and you have to manually correct it. Maybe you could add an option to toggle this off?

If you use 'SetTextboxFont' on a GUI object that's not a textbox, you get an error message stating it's not a label.

If you put text in a GUI text box, the vertical spacing is one pixel more than if you would have shown it with Display().

Exactly. That's why TintScreen is noticeably slower.