Messages

[we are going to AdventureX]

Hey maybe you guys already read in the blog post...



but in case you didn't... Just passing to say we are going to AdventureX! I am both excited and terrified!

If you happen to be around please go to our table meet us and play our game.

Ags can be built with either static or shared libraries. The ags for Linux shipped with the Editor has shared libraries - and some plugins. The script for running a game just check if the computer os is 32 or 64 bit, and then runs the appropriate build of the engine with a variable pointing to the shared libraries.

This is a variable called ALLEGRO_MODULES to point where are the libraries. My experience is that variable doesn't work for me for some reason - I also don't use the ags for Linux shipped and instead use the AGS-SDL2 port on Linux because it runs faster in fullscreen. I also use a different script for switching between 32 and 64 bit builds that I posted recently.

I recommend testing before shipping.

selmiak, the problem is literally sphinx. We are using it. It has bugs. Gurok is right, the issue is bigger than I expected. I think maybe morganw can fix, so I will wait.

About offline pages, the html we build have search implemented through a very lean javascript code, and it works offline and it's reasonably fast - faster than chm on my machine.

Snarky, the suggestion being moving from .chm to a folder with .html files or hosting online? Would it be ok if it was a folder with html files on the ags install folder?

Hello,

I would like to suggest moving the default ags manual to a online help, and f1 just running a search on this online help in the user own browser. Most softwares uses online manuals these days.

We are hitting some hard issues to support using the current .chm help with easier to edit and maintain help. The new help gives per topic markdown files that can be edited online instead of the old 22k lines of LaTeX text file and a ton of magic.

Here is how is the online manual now:
https://adventuregamestudio.github.io/ags-manual/index.html

And here is the repository for it:
https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags-manual

yes! So... I've been thinking... The original idea of the wiki was to have more contributions, since we needed the manual entry for the Editor stuff (how to use the room editor, place an object, it's properties on the editor, edit a GUI, create inventory items, ...).

I think it's better if we use the wiki to generate the manual for AGS 3.5.0 an then on store the pages on the own repo and use the normal PR+issues for contributions on the manual pages. (since the wiki isn't exactly a king in popularity)

I like the idea of just using a branch per ags version and all.

Also, later, the html generated pages should have a downloadable .zip on the release page, and then we can create a task that unzips the releases on separate folders on gh-pages... This is for The Future â,,¢ .??:

Edit: CW, do you know what is needed for f1 to work with the generated .chm inside AGS ?

The wiki is just a repo, so it can have branches. Unfortunately the interface only supports editing the master branch. The branches have to be edited locally.

github wiki help on branches

But the sad part is using the wiki, looses the cool github repo interface.

What we can do is have the content in another repo, or the same repo, with branches.

The releases themselves have tags - currently they are a snapshot of the mds and a chm. The github pages only follow the latest master.

@selmiak, this is the rendered page

CW, it's here: Script Language Keywords

[Geek & Game Rio Festival]

Hey guys!

We went to an event here in Rio de Janeiro, called Geek & Game Rio Festival and we had a stand to present Future Flashback, where people were able to play it! It was a great - although exhausting - experience, and we wrote about it on our blog. For the game itself, it was like a marathon of playtesting where we could observe players interacting with the game, and listen to what they had to say. We saw many father-daughter, mother-son, couples, and other pair thoroughly excited by the game and it was really cool seeing they play, people lining up, asking things! Really rich experience!

You can read more on our blog... Share our post on Twitter or Facebook !

Hey CW, sorry, I really have no idea how to get more insightful logs from playonlinux and wine. I am sea visiting family this week, but once I get home I should probably also test on wine on Mac to see how it's working there too.

I don't know if it was clear, but on Linux the crash I got was after closing ags. Apparently nothing got corrupted, so things are fine, but if something changed on the closing of ags since previous version it would worth a look.

Also I am on 3.4.1 and will be for some time.

Hey, when I modify the project, build, and exit, and click yes to save, it crashes PlayOnLinux. Weird thing is doing the same running PlayOnLinux on Debug DOESN'T crash it.

playonlinux log output

Other than this I have no assets to test the limits of more than 2GB , so I only quickly tested for regressions...

Oh reading the log I get it why it doesn't work the Linux build, instead of just copying the files, AGS creates hardlinks - and fails. I would prefer it just copied the files over - or gave me an option somewhere to do this instead.

Hey Eric, I think the link on the first post needs to be updated , since it doesn't show all assets (reading on mobile!)

The Good Wife, it's Tascione

[libaldmb.so.1]

So, I was trying to run my AGS game on Steam OS and for some reason it kept failing on missing libaldmb.so.1 . Now, for the 64-bit version, I use the sdl2 port and use the regular on 32-bit. No matter what I did, the ALLEGRO_MODULES variable wasn't recognised on SteamOS, for the libaldmb.so.1 , so I solved by passing the LD_LIBRARY_PATH - since lib32 / lib64 include the libaldmb.so.1 . I also place the ags binary inside the lib32 / lib64 directories.

Below is what I got that worked consistently across my Linux PCs, through Steam. I pass the full screen modifier because it's needed now in the sdl2 port for some reason.

Code: ags

#!/bin/sh
SCRIPTPATH="$(dirname "$(readlink -f $0)")"

if test "x$@" = "x-h" -o "x$@" = "x--help"
  then
    echo "Usage:" "$(basename "$(readlink -f $0)")" "[<ags options>]"
    echo ""
fi

if test $(uname -m) = x86_64
  then
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$SCRIPTPATH/lib64":$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
    ALLEGRO_MODULES="$SCRIPTPATH/lib64" "$SCRIPTPATH/lib64/ags_sdl2_64" --fullscreen "$@" "$SCRIPTPATH/"
  else
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$SCRIPTPATH/lib32":$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
    ALLEGRO_MODULES="$SCRIPTPATH/lib32" "$SCRIPTPATH/lib64/ags32" "$@" "$SCRIPTPATH/"
fi

Ok I decided to test the AGS 3.4.2. I am on Ubuntu 16.04, used Playonlinux.

The FIRST TIME I opened, I got an Error from Playonlinux/Wine, but I didn't pay attention to it. After clicking ok, the AGS Editor proceed to open normally. Now I can close and open it, and all works.

I created a project using it, I selected Default Template, and it created TWO projects with the name of my project, one called Default Game, and one called new_test_game, but both are the same project?



Other than this I did some more testing and it appears to work. All I have to say is that I REAAAALLY like being able to see Walkable areas together with the characters. This is the greatest thing in here.

Other than this, in all ags versions I have, it doesn't build the Linux version on Wine. I thought this one would be different because you had removed the takeown thing, but somehow something else must be blocking (I don't know yet what though).

Oh yeah, I loaded and built my game successfully. I really like the new Room Editor, it's much much better, being able to hide things is great because I have lots of object that I only use when loading a room and then get rig of them.

I am not very smart and have some trouble understanding documentation. I am trying to release a game on one of those gaming stores.

- should the game installer also install DirectX? This specific store has a redistributable option where I can just select it. It didn't seem to hurt.

- which folder should contain the savegames on Win/Linux/MacOS ? I need to watch them so they can be synced accross computers.

My experience as a Wine user says testing is the only way to findout.

WineHQ entry on .NET 4.5, which says it works without issues.

You need to show some code.

Hey, you forgot to show the function GetDistance.