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Hi!

I have a weird problem in my game: sometimes playing an audio stops the background music.
I have narrowed down WHEN it happens, but I don't know why or how I can solve the problem.

After an intro screen, the player enters the main room. There I start the music in room_FirstLoad()

Code: ags

aKanji.Play(eAudioPriorityNormal, eRepeat);

Which works as expected. Later in the game, I play a sound when looking at an inventory item

Code: ags

aRubberDuck.Play();

This sometimes stops the background music and it doesn't start again.
The weirdest thing is, when this happens. Because it all depends on the first intro screen.
The full room script:

Code: ags

function room_AfterFadeIn()
{
   StartCutscene(eSkipESCOnly);   
   Wait(6 * GetGameSpeed());
   EndCutscene();
   aStart.Stop();
   player.ChangeRoom(1);
}

function room_Load()
{
   gInventory.Visible = false;
   aStart.Play(eAudioPriorityNormal, eOnce);
}

When I cancel the screen with ESC, everything is ok. But when I wait for the cutscene to finish, the aRubberDuck.Play() will stop the music later in the game.

What I intend to do is showing the intro screen and play the sound and only navigate to the main screen when the music has finished. When the user presses ESC, the game should stop the sound and switch to the main screen immediately.

My guess is, that aStart.Stop causes some internal error when the audio is not playing anymore, but I'm not sure.

Is my description clear? I know it sounds very confusing.

Is there a workaround for this problem?

Edit: I'm using AGS 3.3.3

3 would be best. 1 is pretty but hard to read. 6 is a bit boring. The others look sloppy, as Cassiebsg has pointed out.

Another Coloring Ball with great entries - you guys don't make this an easy decision!

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[The game has been released!]

The game has been released!


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Congrats to the winners, especially Monsieur OUXX and thanks to aikex222 for hosting this great competition. I had a lot of fun participating.

I don't know if this was fixed in this or the previous version, but thanks a lot for fixing the issue with weird scrolling when selecting frames in superlong view loops. This was really annoying

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I absolutelty love the Tokugawa idea. I just watched a documentary about him a few weeks ago and Nikko (and especially the nature around it) is so beautiful.

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Is there anyway you can list and repost all competing entries in a post, so we could see them all together? Will make it a little bit easier to decide!

It's in the first post

Now for the voting - this is really hard, because there are so many great backgrounds.

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Thanks for the clarification, I guess I'll use the 3.3.2 installer for now and have the 3.4.0 separately to try the new features.

Probably not the right place to post it, but I didn't want to start a new thread for this:

I finally have time to work on a game again and wanted to also update AGS to the latest version. But the problem is - which is the latest version? There is AGS 3.3.2, AGS 3.3.3 and AGS 3.4.0.2, all in separate threads. It would be great if there was a sticky topic that links to all current versions and explains, which one should be used.

I know that testing is essential for getting a good software, so I would also use an alpha or beta version, if it is stable enough. It would just be great to provide game developers with a recommendation which build to use.

Wow Cat! That is heartbreakingly beautiful! Is it going to be part of a game you're working on? Please say yes!

Thanks, but no, not part of a game. Considering how long this single background took to make, I'd only finish such a game when I retire

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In the game I have planned the island will be at the bottom of the ocean but it will also be risen and above the waves at some point so I'm not sure how I'm going to light the scene.

You will probably have to make two different versions, the light and color is totally different under water.
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Ok, I think I'm done. Here is the scaled down version of the background, click to see a larger picture (though it seems the image host scales down the full 1700x768):



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Congrats to the winners, such great sprites!

@Misj' Do you have that animation in a higher resolution? I know this competition was low res, but this sprite would probably look even better in high res.

@beeblebrox Thanks for resurrecting this competition!

*bump*

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I can now die in peace.

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