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Congrats Bernie! It must have been a tremendous effort to do all that in one month. Well done.

Zugzwang

Best Programming - 4700 lines of code to make the chess engine and chess puzzles work + rotating sprites code (pre v2.7)

MagsicII

Best Use of Sound - No dialogue so everything is done with sfx. (over 100)
Best puzzles - Loads of unique puzzle ideas.

I downloaded the Moonmenu from your site and it's really cute but it isn't freeware. Shame, probably write own version.

7. I don't use test game anymore it's way too slow. Copy acwin.exe into the game folder, then set up a shortcut to acwin.exe in the windows quick launch part of the tool bar. And you have instant testing without waiting for sprites/game etc to save.

To add to this, if in photoshop, you select swatches and set to windows palette, starting in the bottom right corner, the colours correspond to the AGS hotspot numbers. At least for the first 8 or so.

There is no winsetup.exe file? Also why not compress the files, takes it down to approx 600K?

Easily the best moment for me was when I deleted it from my hard drive.

Easily the best AGS game of 2006 so far. Liked the raised eyebrow when he gets the grain.
And once again proving that graphics are not the be all and end all of adventure games. If only humanity could stop seeing with their eyes.

user8192,

Please hide spoilers. Use [ h i d e ] Text [ / h i d e ]  (Without the spaces)

Spoiler

The axe is not essential to getting the gem. You can 'lose' it by feeding it to the purple monster.

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Make your background bigger than the screen, e.g. add a 64 pixel border around the edge, then put
SetViewport (64,64);
in player enters room before fade in to stop the background scrolling
and have the scaled walkable area extend into the border.

Bernie,
A lovely well crafted game so far, but get a crash when I talk to Louise at castle. No frame 20 in loop 0?

Ok thanks, I assumed that since CTRL_T built the exe file it would play the game using the exe thus bypassing the old acwin.exe I had in the root dir.

Anyway all works as before except for a couple of times, when after a cutscene the cursor 'stuck' in the Wait mode when before it would go back to one of the standard cursor modes. If you need more info I can track this down to the scripts.

Just testing 2.71 on one of my games and get the following odd crash, this happened before and after I rebuilt all rooms.

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Adventure Game Studio
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An internal error has occured. Please note down the following information.
If the problem persists, contact Chris Jones.
(ACI version 2.70.861)

Error: run_text_script1: error -6 running function 'room_a':
Error: invalid instruction 70 found in code stream
in Global script (line 32)
from Room script (line 13)


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OK   
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and the innocuous offending line in global script

29  //Real Room
30  function GS_RealRoom(int RoomRef)
31  {
32    if (RoomRef==32 || //Babe Magazine
33        RoomRef==44)   //Love letter
34    {
35      return(false);
36    }
37       
38    return(true);
39  }

Do a google search for your email, spider bots crawl through the web collecting emails. Easy.

Anyway you could announce an hour competition here a couple of days in advance, giving the exact time the rules will be posted, then more people can enter. e.g. Me

Rui,

Spoiler

You need to fix the broken button.

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Well I'm not telling as it would give about 60% of the game away. Seems to high an amount for a hints tip.

futonrevolution,
Neat solution, might be a bug as there is another much more complicated way to do it...

Oct,

Spoiler

Yes you need to catch one as it flies past Ma. Stand on center of bridge and keep clicking near Ma.

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Yay, finished it! That was really hard.
Great idea well executed.
Long live Cuppit.