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Happy Birthday, Creamy!

I'm sure there are other cheerful games around

[FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: Kanji Gakusei]

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: Kanji Gakusei



Find Japanese characters in a colourful adventure part and then learn how to write them with the help of a gesture recognition system.

Download
AGS database: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2228/
Completed game announcement: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=55648.0

Possible Awards
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Short Game
Best Gameplay
Best Coding

[However]

I installed BASS Midi driver and Arachno sf. In my MIDI tool I can now select it and listen to the MIDI. The sound of one of the rather obscure instruments used sounds terrible now, but ok, at least I can run it.

However, I cannot get MIDI to run for AGS games. I don't get the error message anymore, but I also don't have audio (mp3 sfx work fine).
VLC and Windows Media Player also cannot run it.
The weirdest thing so far is: Suddenly Irfan View can play it, but it sounds like the original Windows Midi, not the Arachno. Did Irfan View find the windows synth? I'm about to give up and reinstall windows...

[AGS Awards 2017]

Have you made a game in 2017 and want it to compete in the AGS Awards 2017? This is the topic where to showcase it!
Post a database link, a brief description and some pictures (thumbnails preferred, here is an excellent FYC post from last year).

Do not be shy, by posting your game you are helping the players who will take some of their time to play/nominate/vote!

Usual remarks:

• please include a link to your games page on the AGS games database
• if you think a game deserves mention but the author isn't around, post a FYC for them! The more worthy games we get here, the better is for everyone!
• this thread is for FYC posts only, if you want to discuss the awards go here!

Post your games here before nominations start, which will be in about two weeks. The earlier you post, the more time people have to play your game!

[AGS Awards]

Welcome to the AGS Awards, the event where the you, the player, choose the best games of the year!

Step # 0 - play them games!
You have some time to play games made in 2017. Do it!
Step # 1 - nomination time!
Select games you deem worthy in each category!
Step # 2 - vote, folks!
Pick from the nominees and we get a winner!
Step # 3 - party!
Big party to celebrate the winners!

Results are revealed!

Best Programming
Last & Furious

Best Short Game
I Want Out!

Best Non Adventure Game Created with AGS
Last & Furious

Best Demo
Jorry [Demo]

Best Voice Work
Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots

Best Music & Sound
Neofeud

Best Animation
Terror of the Vampire!

Best Character Art
Terror of the Vampire!

Best Background Art
I Want Out!

Best Puzzles
I Want Out!
Black Morph
Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots)

Best Gameplay
Black Morph

Best Character
"Captain Disaster" from Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots

Best Writing
Terror of the Vampire!

Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Terror of the Vampire!

Best Game Created with AGS
A Tale of Two Kingdoms: Deluxe Edition

Lifetime Achievement Award
Slasher

Best Innovation Award
monkey0506
for his work to help AGS games reach the widest possible audience - through popular distribution platforms (Steam, Galaxy) as well as other operating systems (Android, Linux).



A bit of statistics

There were 106 games released last year
49 people nominated games
68 people voted for the awards, which is more than last year
24 games were nominated for at least one award
8 games won 17 awards in 15 categories
12 awards went to freeware games


The number of awards per game:

4 awards
Terror of the Vampire!

3 awards
Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots
I Want Out!

2 awards
Black Morph
Last & Furious

1 award
A Tale of Two Kingdoms: Deluxe Edition
Neofeud
Jorry [Demo]


See the nominated games on the wiki page: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/wiki/AGS_Awards_2017

Here is a list of the games sorted by nomination count (thanks CaptainD!):
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=55659.msg636581039#msg636581039

And here are the nomination results per category (thanks JimRead for putting them in order)

Spoiler

Best Programming

A Tale of Two Kingdoms: Deluxe Edition
Black Morph
Kanji Gakusei
Last & Furious
Terror of the Vampire!


Best Short Game

Archeos
Black Morph
Hang On
I Want Out!
Memories Fade


Best Non Adventure Game Created with AGS

AGS Cycles
Astron
Dungeon Hands
Last & Furious
Pickpocket RPG


Best Demo

Detective Gallo
Dysmaton (Formerly "Forgotten City") Demo Version
Jorry [Demo]
SRAM 2 - Cinomeh's Revenge (demo)
Stable Pete and the Joust (DEMO)


Best Voice Work

10 Ways From Sunday
A Tale of Two Kingdoms: Deluxe Edition
Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots
Neofeud
Rat Channel


Best Music & Sound

A Tale of Two Kingdoms: Deluxe Edition
Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots
Neofeud
Unexpected at the Rising Star


Best Animation

A Tale of Two Kingdoms: Deluxe Edition
Black Morph
Jorry [Demo]
Legend of Hand
Terror of the Vampire!


Best Character Art

A Tale of Two Kingdoms: Deluxe Edition
I Want Out!
Legend of Hand
Neofeud
Terror of the Vampire!


Best Background Art

A Tale of Two Kingdoms: Deluxe Edition
Black Morph
I Want Out!
Neofeud
Terror of the Vampire!


Best Puzzles

A Tale of Two Kingdoms: Deluxe Edition
Black Morph
Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots
I Want Out!
Legend of Hand


Best Gameplay

A Tale of Two Kingdoms: Deluxe Edition
Black Morph
Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots
Last & Furious
Legend of Hand


Best Character

"Captain Disaster" from "Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots"
"Dr. Ego Goodmind" from "Terror of the Vampire!"
"Karl Carbon" from "Neofeud"
"Luke" from "I Want Out!"


Best Writing

A Tale of Two Kingdoms: Deluxe Edition
Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots
Legend of Hand
Neofeud
Terror of the Vampire!


Best Freeware Game Created with AGS

Archeos
Black Morph
I Want Out!
Last & Furious
Terror of the Vampire!


Best Game Created with AGS

A Tale of Two Kingdoms: Deluxe Edition
Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots
Legend of Hand
Neofeud
Terror of the Vampire!

[close]

Congratulations!



How do the AGS Awards work?
(This is information mostly for new members, same procedure as every year)

Every year, the AGS community embarks on a quest to find the best games made in the last year. All games are eligible, that were added to the AGS Database in the year 2017. There is a For Your Consideration thread where authors can promote their games and players get a good overview what might be worth playing.

The awards are a two-step process: First there is a nomination phase where all community members can nominate the eligible games in several categories (it will be the same categories as last year). The top five games of each category make it to the voting. Again, all members of the community can vote on their favourite games.
The final result is then announced in a live ceremony that can be joined either with a special client or any regular irc client (details to follow).


Party like it's 1990 in this thread!

We need a new pick for January! Since we now had three rather dark games in a row, something more light-hearted would be nice

Final call!

[The game has been released!]

The game has been released!

[Download here]

Kanji are Chinese characters that are used to write the Japanese language. There are several thousands of them. All Japanese children have to learn about 2200 kanji at school. Gakusei (pronounced "gucksay") means student.

Help our little girl to finish her homework by finding the six required Kanji.



Once you have found the characters, it is YOUR task to write them in her notebook.
An animation shows the correct writing stroke by stroke. Can you write them in the correct order?

 


Download here


The game uses Besh's MOUSE GESTURE SYSTEM script module that I enhanced a bit to support kanji.

Concept, graphics and coding: cat
Music: raeff
Testing: raeff, Mandle, Stupot, Cassiebsg, selmiak, Cornelius, Moeka, Aika, Kanade


When you have finished playing the game, please share your screenshot with us! It should be located in C:\Users\<your name>\Saved Games\Kanji Gakusei\screenshot.bmp

Did you see Open Toonz?

Considering that all documentation seems to be Japanese, this might not be for everyone. Granted, it's mostly Katakana and English and simple Japanese, but still, it's Japanese...

I already made a banner for the 2017 Awards. The golden cup could be a nice trophy.

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Congratulations! Finally it is done - I know how hard you have been working on this, with ups and downs, but you did it! I had the honour to test act 1 and 2 and the game is really great - classic puzzles, funny dialogs and hilarious references to almost every science fiction franchise between here and Acturus-1.

Don't forget to add the game to the AGS database Done

Here's one I use: the Arachno SoundFont (free download: www.arachnosoft.com/main/soundfont.php)

Which software synth are you using?

If there's one thing from this thread that I can see we all agree on (although please do correct me if I'm wrong), it's that we all think it would be awesome if ScummVM at least supported AGS 2.X games and prior.

There's a bunch of potential problems if they start supporting the newest games. But there doesn't seem to be much in the way of problems if the older games are supported. Also, it would better fit in with ScummVM since it is more or less there to help support older games so they are playable on older hardware. Something which is getting increasingly more difficult with the older AGS games.

If ScummVM at least supported the older AGS games, we could finally let go of trying to keep compatibility working with those older games.

I fully agree here. There is always discussion about how tedious compatibility for older games is in the engine. Wouldn't it be much better to declare old games as legacy and let ScummVM do what it does best - run old games? Then the AGS engine could focus on new development and features, getting rid of old version support for cleaner/easier code. Migrating old projects to the newest version could be done by external scripts or tools to keep the engine/editor clean of this stuff.

To me, this seems like a win-win situation.

The only downside I see is that we don't get the platform support of ScummVM for the newest AGS games.

When an author resizes the whole game and does not bother to check if it is still working correctly, it can't be helped anyway...

[add your games to the database]

Hello AGS community!

This is a friendly reminder for all AGS game developers:

Don't forget to add your games to the database until the end of this month!
Only games that were added to the database during 2017 will be eligible for the AGS Awards 2017 that will start with the beginning of next year. It would be a pity to miss out on such a great opportunity

Would it be doable to add at least scroll bars?

+1

For one game I made a GUI that is twice the size of the screen resolution and is moved during the game. This has two issues: I'm missing scroll bars to see every part of it and I get an annoying warning when compiling.

Thanks NicolaGs. I was hoping to get the Windows Synth to work, but I guess I'll try your solution.

Logged in with another account, but the problem persists