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Awesome! Glad it worked!

@Gal Shemesh hmm. You could try putting in Wait(1) instead of waiting for the whole sound length, and see if that starts the sound playing before the room starts to fade out?

So it would be

Audioclip.play();
Wait(1);
player.Changeroom();

My guess would be that sounds are nonblocking and change room is blocking, so change room would execute first. You could put a Wait(length of sound) in after the sound and before the change room function and see if that works.

[If you are joining us from Itch, welcome.Please remember your entries do NOT have to be adventure games but they MUST be made with Adventure Game Studio editor.]

If you are joining us from Itch, welcome.
Please remember your entries do NOT have to be adventure games but they MUST be made with Adventure Game Studio editor.

Hey @Stupot

Should this boldfaced section go in the first post too, just in case people coming from itch don't read the whole thread?

Overall I like it. Not sure what you mean by "more suggestive." If you mean you want it to have more character then maybe think about who the innkeepers are and what their personalities and habits are, as well as who tends to stay there. What is its history? Then think about how those details affect the building. What
parts would be old and neglected? What would be newly replaced and shiny? What details could suggest who is inside and what has happened here in the past?

Not sure if that's what you were asking for, so I hope it's helpful. 

Hey @AndreasBlack thanks for the ideas.    I chose more saturation deliberately because I wanted it to be more pleasant to look at. Total realism isn't the goal, just enough realism to feel not cartoonish. A sort of cleaner, touched-up reality if you will. 

At this point I think I have moved on from the piece to work on other things, so no brush tool needed. But thanks for the offer. I prefer "awesome" over "good enough" but I also prefer "finished" over "100% perfect." 

Hey mods, I hope it's OK to ask questions about a module that hasn't been commented on in over a year.

I'm trying to experiment with the module and having difficulty.

Right now I'm just trying to set a ground sprite and get it to be visible when I run the game. Nothing else yet.

I started with the blank game template, one empty room, and a player character with no sprite, set to start in the empty room. Then I imported a single ground sprite (slot 1).

I wrote this code, based on my best understanding of the script API detailed in the original post above:

Code: ags

// room script file

Mode7 ThePlace;

function room_Load()
{
  ThePlace.SetViewscreen(640, 180, 0, 0); //should cover half of screen. I'm assuming 0,0 places top left corner of drawing in top left corner of game viewport screen. Tried it at 320, 180 (center of screen) as well, with no difference in effect.
  ThePlace.SetGroundSprite(1); //some green ground
  ThePlace.SetCamera(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0); //This will turn out to be a problem, but changing it all to 1.0 doesn't fix everything.
  ThePlace.Draw();
}

First I get an error saying sprite 19 doesn't exist. I wonder where this is called from and find it in line 111 of the Mode7 script. Not sure what that's about. I import 18 more sprites, all unique, then run again.

This time I get an error saying line 222 is dividing by zero. I look there and see it seems related to the camera. Change all camera values to one, like so:

Code: ags

Mode7.SetCamera(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0);

This time the game runs but I still just get a black screen with nothing drawn. Did I miss a command?

Now that MAGS voting is over, I've uploaded version 1.1.
-Minor bug fixes
-Minor GUI and text changes
-Improvements to the "randomness" of things
-Tweaks to some of the more infuriatingly difficult achievements

Same download link works. Thank you to anyone who's played it so far. 

Looks like a tie. 

I had the pleasure of play testing this game, and it is fantastic. The art and music are amazing and the lore of the setting and story go very deep even though the game is short. The puzzles are logical and not too frustrating. Really great fun with a fascinating story. Highly recommend.

(Man, it would be fun to revive the Black Stories with some new cases again.)

That was before I joined the forums, but the thread from 2020 was still fun to peruse. I'd play if this were revived. Don't have any ideas at the moment, but I could probably think of one given a few days' time.

Done! I put in a lot of work because my entry last month was a twenty-minute pencil sketch. 

Hid it behind a spoiler so that other potential entrants can still listen to the music without having their reactions to it colored in any way by pre-existing entries. Maybe I don't need to worry about that, but why not?

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There's definitely a story here, but I have no idea what it is!

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Thanks for a great prompt, @Creamy ! It's fun to create something without having any particular game or context in mind, and to just focus purely on composition and on conveying a feeling through an image. I could see potential for re-using this prompt without it feeling repetitive if the music is very different each time. 

Got an idea and did a quick sketch in my notebook. hopefully will have time to flesh out!

This is fun!

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Was the mug already in the microwave because you had already microwaved it earlier too?

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This is a great idea! Don't know if I'll have time to enter, but I'll listen to the music and see if it sparks anything. 

Yes, sorry, I'm not as good with the technical language at this level. Perhaps I should have said the "number pointers"? I mean each character's ID number as generated by the editor.

This is a fantastically helpful answer! Thank you.  

From reading the manual all I could find was character.ID, and the only example given there was interactions with deprecated script functions, which made it sound like the number array was obsolete.

I'm glad that's not the case, as this makes several things I'm trying to do a whole lot simpler!

I'll have to take a look at your ObjectPool module too. That sounds like it has a lot of possible uses.

Huge thank you!

Hey all,

I searched the forums and couldn't find an answer to this.

Let's say, for example, that I have a zombie game with 50 zombies in a room, and when the player makes a noise, all the zombies simultaneously move toward the player.

Is there any way to do this more efficiently than using cZombie.Move 50 times, once for each zombie?

I feel like if I could access the character.ID integer array, I could do it easily with a "for" statement, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that anymore since the script now uses name pointers instead of ID numbers.

I could put all the character name pointers into an array and assign them all a number that way, but that seems superfluous if the character.ID integer array already exists.

What are my options here?

Thanks very much.

Here's my revision.

Overall, I'm much happier with it. Thanks for all the feedback! It was helpful and I feel the piece has improved a lot.

-Added bigger foreground clouds, slightly adjust shapes of medium clouds, shifted layers so that some clouds extend past edge of image.
-Darkened all shadows and added cloud shadows on the ground
-Brightened the water and lengthened the brushstrokes on the water surface
-Added smaller reeds at water's edge
-Added farm fence on the left
-Slight contouring to horizon

Thanks for your interest, @heltenjon !

Here are the achievements you haven't unlocked yet (roughly in order of how much patience it takes to unlock them). 

Best of Luck!

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Drum Circle
Detour Ahead
18 Wheeler
I Like It Here, Actually
Trash Compaction
Need A Little Pick-Me-Up
I Didn't Feel A Bump, Did You?
From The Director Of Armageddon
Radio DJ

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P.S. :

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I love that you managed to unlock I Like Enya.

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I included the peaceful music track both because I thought it would be hilarious and also because, after playing the game for a while, I myself really needed a break from the hard rock music.

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Nicely done!

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