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Speaking of books, I was thinking of how I would love to see a game version of Cool Air or Pickman's model.

At the moment I am working on an idea loosely based off of Lovecraft's lesser known, er, I mean lesser referenced material like mentioned above as some others.

But I would love to see a "fall of the house of Usher" game.

It looks interesting, I love the art style and the idea.

Keep up the work, I would like to play this one.

Cool,  finally somethiing about my religion.

Thanks for the advice, I did not know you can change views for an object.

That is going to help a lot.

I am trying to figure out how to create a Full motion video by using objects as a "screen", I hope to string together one object to another to create the illusion of an animated FMV.

Problem is I cannot figure out if it is possible to begin one object and have it animate until the end then when it ends to go to the next object without a break between the objects such as the first object reverting back to first frame or a blank room.

Thanks for your help in advance.

I am a digimon for the longest time and all of my names have digimon related names, so that explains the mon half.

Gin means gold, and Anubis just rocks.

So it comes out to: gold Anubis monster.

Here's the problem; you are a ten year old trying to get an important book on occultism but you cannot get it out of the library for futher study (it is a very thick book) and the head librarian is pretty stern on the rules and won't let you take it out.

The goal: Getting the head librarian away from the desk and allowing the inexperinced librarian to check you out with a swapped card to avoid getting caught and walk out with a book.

The hard fact: The card swap (taking a book from the child's library and taking the card out then placing it into the occult book and fulling both the computer and the new librarian.)

The solutions to "puzzle": One must get the head librarian away and make the inexperinced one take her place, thus "distracting" her.

There is two ways I wanted to do this, one is to go into the computer lab and "break" one of the computers ether by crashing it or unplugging it. Then getting the head librarian to take a look.

Another is using a cell phone, hiding it among some books then going to a payphone outside then "calling" it to annoy the head librarian, then go back in to find the inexperinced librarian in charge. Thus allowing you to get the book and check it out freely then leave with the book.

The real problem: Making it seem logical and not too out of place (despite the main character being a ten year old), the head librarian is a bitter and mean - ergo won't tell you quat unless you break a rule - and the inexperince librarian does not talk much about herself.

I am trying to think of ways to point out these hints without taking a stale Frenchbread and hitting people over the head but not to obscure that only me and a walkthrough to figure it out.

Does anyone has any suggestions to help out?

(NOTE: While writing this I am thinking of using both solutions for the "goal".)

I second  2ma2's opinion.

I was wondering if anyone had ever used AGS to make or even attempt creating a FMV game before?

(NOTE: I put this question under general because technetically(SP?) it is now about adventure gaming.)

I had just gotten my own mircophone and I was wondering what is a good free recording program (or at least a program with a trail period).

Thank you.

Hi, I tried playing the game but every time I try to start it up it shuts down before even starting and saying there was a fatal exception.

I find animals with big b**bs highly disturbive... Can't you make these critters more cartoony? They look too human.

I was going for a human look to them, and about the boob thing. Besides being a furry at heart, I CAN'T DRAW SMALL BOOBS ^T\./T^.

These two character are basically cartoon characters in a realistic world where toons are basically actors with minor inhuman traits.





I am a little happy with this girl but I am not happy with her shading, could you suggest where and what to shade?





This girl on the other hand, while I am happy with her basic design but there is room for improvement.

And if there is any advice for improvement please tell me, I like to have them look there best.

Is there a way to create a random path for small ball like a pinball?

I was thinking of adding a small mini-game of pachinko for fun (and perhaps extra prizes and to be different ) and I was wondering what kind of scripting would be needed.

Freakin' awsome, Cheeba, a hentai game. Too bad not many had even concive the idea to make one despite it is one of my favorite genres (in fact it could be my very few favorite genres on the computer).

The screens look great, and the story sounds kind of cool too.

Keep up the good work and ignore anyone that goes "tht Po4n, you 6ist person ever" when they come.

Perhaps I could do this better on my own but of course I cannot continue without first getting some kind of push if I can so it can be better (just like my "art".)

Anyway this is the concept of the game.



This is you, who is not for critism until final draft, Barbra Harris who is a toon character (obvivously) visiting her father Alex Harris -


This guy, who is not up for C&C yet until final draft.

- A human and a person constantly on the go, she starts off in the bus station talking to her mother before heading off to her father's place. While walking around she notices how the resident people are acting strange around her but she is use to it since she is a toon that lives in a human neighborhood back with her mother. Of course it all gets stranger and stranger as things start to spiral out of control and a secret about herself is discovered.

A few notes about the game concept:

This was originally meant to be a fangame starring Tiny Toon Adventure character Babs Bunny but later I kind of grew out of the concept as I created a brand new character with a background that fills in the role much more properly (and avoiding lawsuits and possibly sucking in the end). But as a kind of tonge in cheek joke I kind of made the main Character from Babs Bunny to Barbra Harris the Human/Skunkette who has a pink color (expect a lot of in-jokes like this) so bare with the ****iness.

I was going to plan on to work the game and write the script as I went to on to make the game, which I used a grammer/Spellchecker every once in a while but ended up just dumping this pile.

What do I need to be C&C is this: characterzation, pacing and the way to make it all much better in the new story of the game.

Thank you.

Chapter 1.

Scene 1. CHP1S1

[Interact with the door.]

Babs: I better call mom before going so she knows I made it here fine.

[Interact with the phone.]

Soundeeffcts: *Ring*.

Mrs. Bunny: Hello?

Babs: Hi, mom. It's your most loved and talented daughter is calling you to tell you I made it safely.

Mrs. Bunny: That is nice to here, dear. Remember to be nice to your father and be on your best behavior.

Babs: I will, I will.

Mrs. Bunny: Please be nice, all right sweetie.

Babs: Yeah, I will.

[Interact with the door.]

(Cut to Mr. Harris's house.)

[Interact with the note.]

Babs: (Reading) "Dear Babs, I had to leave for a small business venture.

Babs: (To herself) Typical.

Babs: (Reading) "Please go into town and find a Mr. Nick Anderson, he lives above a bookstore in town. The address is written on the back, I will be back soon.

[Leave the scene.]

(Cut to map.)

[Interact with Police station.]

(Cut to Front of Police station.)

[Interact with the doors.]

Babs: I have no reason to go in there.

[Leave the scene]

(Cut to the map.)

[Interact with the library.]

(Cut to the interior of Library lobby.)

[Step on region.]

Babs: *He is glaring at me with an unnerving anger, possibly an unnatural hate aimed toward me. I wonder why is he glaring at me?

[Talk with the librarian.]

Librarian: Hello, may I help you?

Babs: No, I was just walking around.

Librarian: All right then.

[Interact with the elevator.]

Babs: Out of order.

[Interact with the stairwell.]

Librarian: We just painted the stairs and the floors will not be open for the rest of the day.

[Interact with the door.]

SoundEffect: *Rattle, Rattle*

Librarian: The reading room is closed, the open hours are 10 Am to 5 PM, Monday thur Friday except on holidays.

[Leave the scene.]

(Cut to the map.)

[Interact with the Bookstore.]

Scene 2 CHP1S2

[Interact with the store front.]

(Cut to store.)

[Look at books.]

Babs: Strange and perhaps a paper sleeping pill.

[Interact with the books.]

Alice: Please do not manhandle the merchandise.

[Look at the special book.]

Babs: The arcane messiah; Saemul. Strange.

[Interact with the special book.]

Alice: Please do not touch that book, it is very expensive and hard to come by.

[Talk to Alice.]

Alice: Yes?

Babs: Is this Nick's place?

Alice: If you mean Mr. Anderson's bookstore then yes, what do you need?

Babs: I just need to know that this place is what my dad was talking about.

Alice: What is your purpose here?

Babs: *Judging by her tone she had hinted towards a sinister motive, I would had done a spin change and taunted her but there was that tiny, microscopic part of my brain held back.*

Babs: Because my, because Mr. Harris told me to come here and look for a guy named Nick Anderson.

Alice: I, see.

Babs: Well do you know where he is?

Alice: Upstairs, in his apartment.

[Interact with the front door.]

(Cut to the front of the store.)

[Interact with the side.]

(Cut to the back of the store.)

[Look at the stairs.]

Babs: *A normal set of stairs leading up into an apartment above the store.*

[Look at the window on the ground.]

Babs: I cannot see down there, the glass is too dirty.

[Interact with the door.]

SoundEffects: *Knock, Knock.*

Anderson: Who is it?

Babs: Babs Bunny, my "father" told me to come here to find you.

Anderson: Hang on.

(Cut to the living room of Anderson.)

Anderson: So, you must be Babs. Your father told me so much about you, he is proud of you.

Babs: Yeah, being a star finally caught his attention.

Babs: *Mutter.* Now. *Mutter.*

Anderson: Well he wishes he could be here but he said there had to be some work to be done,

Babs: I understand, he had been doing this since I was born and a lot when I visit.

Anderson: Do I detect a hint of ampithy in your tone?

Babs: Sorry, It usually happens whenever I talk about my "father."

Anderson: I see.

Babs: So, where did he go this time? Cairo? India? Africa?

Anderson: He is near by, inspecting several caves in the area, he should be back tomorrow but he told me he wanted me to watch you until then.

Babs: Why does he does this, I am sixteen years old. I can take care of myself, I did go around the world helping people.

Anderson: A very value point but that is best shared with your father, not me.

Babs: *Aloof, I always expected this from his "friends".*

Anderson: I had prepaired a guest room for the night, it's down that hall and towards the left. Dinner will be at seven, if you need anything just ask.

Babs: Understood.

(The scene opens on a dark room without any lights.)

Harris: (Voice over) What do you mean, Barbra is a very special girl.

Mrs. Harris: Well you made it sound so wrong, Alex. You speak like she's a, a thing.

Harris: I never meant that, what I meant is that Barbra is special in a different way. Trust me, she is going to be something.

Mrs. Harris: Alex.

Chapter 1 Scene 3 CHP1S3.

(Open on the Anderson Guest Room as Babs wakes up.)

Babs: Hmm? Morning already?

[Interact with the door.]

(Cut to Anderson's living room.)

Anderson: Hello, Babs. Your father had just called me, he said he would be home later tonight if you want to wait at the house. He told me to give you a key before you leave.

Babs: Well, thanks.

Anderson: I would walk you to your home but I have work to do here at the store, invatory is a bit backdated and there has to be deleveries to be delt with.

Babs: Well thanks, I can take of myself. Bye.

[Interact with the door.]

(Cut to the back of the store.)

Babs: Man, it feels good to get out of there.

[Interact with the side.]

(Cut to the front of the store.)

[Look at Alice.]

Babs: *She's glaring at me, just like everyone else in this town. But her eyes seem different then their's.*

Alice: What are you looking at?

Babs: Nothing.

[Interact with Alice.]

Babs: *I am not like that.*

[Talk to Alice.]

Dialog tree.

1. Who are you?

Babs: Who are you?

Alice: Alice Hammer, why?

Babs: Just curious.

Alice: Curiousity will get you into trouble around.

Babs: *And so does that attitude.*

2. Is there anywhere in this ghost town to have fun?

Babs: Is there anywhere in this ghost town to have fun?

Alice: Nope, this is a dead town.

Babs: Well how do you keep from dying of boredom?

Alice: You can't. I'm just waiting until I am old enough to leave.

Babs: How old are you?

Alice: 15.

Babs: And you are smoking?

Alice: So, want to make something of it?

3. Do you know why everyone in this town glares?

Babs: Do you know why everyone in this town glares?

Alice: You shouldn't asking questions like that, if you know what is good for you.

Babs: Just wondering.

Alice: I told you, curiousity gets you into trouble.

F. Bye.

Babs: Bye.

Alice: Yeah, bye.

[Leave the scene.]

(Cut to the Harris house.)

[Use the keys on the door.]

(Cut to the hallway.)

Babs: So, this is his new place?

[Interact with the first door on the right.]

(Cut to the living room.)

[Look at the mirror.]

Babs: There is nothing out of the ourdinary, maybe a chip in the corner but it's nothing.

[Interact with the mirror.]

Babs: I look good.

[Look at the table.]

Babs: Clean, and pretty bare.

[Look at the couch.]

Babs: It is very clean, but worn.

[Interact with the couch.]

Babs: Nothing.

[Interact with the couch again.]

Babs: Hmm? Feels like something solid and small.

[Interact with the couch one more time.]

Babs: It is an old key.

[Interact with the clock.]

Babs: The clock seem to have stopped, and there seems to be something written near some the numbers.

[Look at the clock.]

(Close up of the clock.)

[Leave the clock.]

[Interact with the door.]

(Cut to Kitchen.)

After realizing the disasterious work of my first gaming outting and just now working on my second game to be release and placing more work into this.

In the beginning it was going to be simplily a fangame, another fangame with one of my favorite shows, Tiny Toons Adventure. It was going to have like this secret shocker that Babs'  father is a human (which is revealed in the first chapter) and there is a deeper secret about herself but as the script went on and I drew more and more of the characters while learning the basic uses of AGS the casual thought of how far from the orginal source matieral that Babs could be an orginal character and now one would notice the change, which at first pretty much upset me as I kind of thought the game cannot work without the character in it.

But, as I gotten tired getting good ideas shot down because it cannot work with the universe that Steven Speilberg (and to a degree Tex Avery along with Warner Brothers) had carefully created and in honest interest could come knocking on my door with a nice lawsuit (with bacon ) and possiblily sucking. Of course as I started to draw a concept character for the possible of another game it was then and there I kind of realized that perhaps while there are many, many good and solid fangames there is thrice(SP?) amount of orginal work out there. And after watching, studying and carefully listening to the making of featurette in the many, many anime DVDs I came to the conculsion that my game would be greater if it was made from scratch.

From my last experince with game making for King Of The Hill which was a major ***** to work on as there was little refernces and the possiblity of being sued and above all the game sucked I learned as I made orginal backgrounds and designs that it is a lot better. And a whole lot more fafilling too.

Getting down to my point here; I grew into making fangames because I was good with fanfiction and I love games and felt that the whole field of fanfiction is becoming a little too restricting as new and stupider rules are coming up by a lot of crazy people and the decline of good stories (in my opinion). But with the orginal production I learn that I got freedoms, and I can boldly hold my head up and proclaime that I work on this (production) all by myself which is of course a rarely something I can say in fanfiction.

Of course in final argument; the quaility of the product boils down to the effort put into it but I had gone over to the darkside of orginality, I could take every single cliche in the world and around it then force it into the single game with every single bland design ever it still my own creation which kind of makes me smile with pride.

What is your opinion of Fangames and orginal games?

It was the "Lockview" fuction I was looking for, thanks.

EDIT: I forgot to thank you about the region idea, I'll try that to simplify the game, thanks.

I do not know if this had been covered in the manual/topics/wiki but I searched them all and I could not find the basic scripting for running a short animation.

The basic idea is simple short scenes like a puzzle solution where the main character, Harris, changes disguises which the right contition is right, let's say if the character steps on a hotspot.

Thanks for your help.

www.geocities.com/milleniumenjimon/Rukii

I am sorry not to place this in production but by the time I had the thing running and ready to display it was finished.

But here's the basic infomation.

It's the beginning of a series that is based off the show King Of The Hill and an old story I written for fanfiction.net. The main story is that in an explosion Bobby Hill is changed into a ptite girl and has his/her life thrown into turmoil.

The game is my first game (obvivously) and I have a lot of plans for the next one like puzzles with more then one solution and branching storylines but at the moment I am dipping my toe into the water and trying to get use to AGS.

Thank you for your time.