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[AGS Bulletin]

AGS Bulletin first issue released!

Reviews and walkthroughs of Trilby's Notes, Duty And Beyond and The House That Ate My Soul.

Get it while the ink's still wet.


http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/AGS_bulletin_1.zip

[AGS walkthrough page]

The other day, I was seaching for a walkthrough for a flash adventure game when, to my silly suprise, I came across a Dutch walkthough for Ben Jordan 4. I was even more suprised when I found out that there is no walkthrough for Ben Jordan in the AGS walkthrough page, since there were no updates since september 2004.

Therefore, I'd like to call upon everybody who made a good AGS game or played and finished a good AGS game to write a walkthrough, especially the Hint & Tips forum regulars. Your help is needed.
I'm sure that the walkthrough page can be fixed or maybe the AGS wiki can be used.

So, please, write a simple, step-by-step walkthrough for any game that YOU think is worth playing by others.

From the director who made Pearl Harbour (*shiver*) comes TRANSFORMERS the motion picture.

Teaser here.

Optimus Prime test here. (Which has nothing to do with the movie)

It's too early to say anything, except that the Beagle 2 control room didn't look like Capcom but like a conference room with a few pc's hooked up. Wrong stock footage, Green Peace does it all the time.
They better not fuck up the rest of the movie. WOO HOO!

Billy B. Star and the Lapaset Travel Quest.

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/billybstar.zip
(Why aren't there more mags entries!)

[-story-]

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{Presents}

Roberto DeMauricio,
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or "HBM" for short

-story-
Roberto DeMauricio is sight-seeing in the southern states of America. He spends the night in High Bluemarsh, a small town somewhere in Alabama, when he is accused of murder. Roberto escapes and searches for the truth of what lies underneath the small town.

-features-
Explore the town at day AND night.
Non player characters wander through the screen.
Sneak, hide and avoid the local police with the help of the lightbulb interface.
Travel through the giant underground maze.
Unravel the mystery of High Bluemarsh.
Original music by Petteri.

-demo-

To do list for demo:

• Interactions.
• Puzzles.
• Dialog system with pictures.
• Cash machine.
• Hotel rooms with open doors.
• Inside jail.
• Sound & Music.

_{I'll be in the shower. All that game pimping makes me feel dirty.}

The AGS forum banner is getting a bit old. So I though we all could make some new ones.



This one is based on the old design, but more radical banners are welcome too.

It took me almost excactly half a year to finish The Dig. It never took me that long to finish an adventure game again.

I bought Fable for the PC last thursday. I finished it yesterday (sunday). This game supposed to be bigger then the xbox version.

It took me weeks to finish Max Payne 1. Max Payne 2 looks great and the physics enginge works fine and all, but what does it matter if I finish it within 3 days?

Unreal gave me a feeling that it was almost over. "This it the 6 chapter. Maybe one more chapter before the game ends." It turned out that I had still 50% of the game to go. Unreal 2 doesn't even have 6 locations.

You can not finish Zelda: The Windwaker in one weekend. You can finish Beyond Good & Evil in one weekend.

A friend of mine finished Halo 2 in one day. And that was his first try.

Are games getting shorter? And, if so, why?
Because developers are getting lazy?
Because EA wants the game finished before christmas?
Because all those fancy graphics take up all the space?

Or is it because I'm getting better at playing computer games, and it's just my imagination...

Another year, another board game.



http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/PU_bordgame.zip

An explanation:
This board game came with the Power Unlimited, a dutch computer magazine, and it features the journalists that write the magazine.
I just made a digital version with AGS.

I doubt that you get the insider jokes, so I'll explain some:
   J.J. doesn't like magic in games.
   There are two people called Niels, they call the youngest Mini-Niels.
   Mini-Niels wrote two books.
   A reader didn't agree with one of Jan's reviews and accused him of taking bribes.
   Jurjen is a Nintendo freak.
   B.I.G. stands for Ban Illegal Games & software. They want to stop people copying games by making commercials and advertisements. Big means pig in dutch.

The game comes with an english translation, but the first screen isn't translated, because, well you should read the readme file anyway.


And now I'll crawl back under my rock with no internet connection, again.

France voted "non". Today The Netherlands have to vote.
Update: The Netherlands also say "nee".

the cons

Shady and unclear law. Even experts are argueing about what they might mean.
People feel screwed about the â,¬uro.
Arguements inside political parties.
Is it good for the whales or bad for the whales. Is it good for economy or bad for the economy.
Nobody red it.
Heard nothing but bad things about it.
Sticking it to the man.

the pros

This is where the pros would be if I could think of one.
Because I don't like the French.
[/list]

Please give some arguements so I can fill the Pro and Con lists.

[Thursday May 5th]

http://grumpygamer.com/

Ron Gilbert is holding a meeting in Amsterdam... TOMORROW! (Thursday May 5th)
It's a little short by day, but since tomorrow it's the Dutch Day of Freedom, you'll have no excuse for not being there because it's a school/workday.

Plans are not set yet, but the time and place could be at 7 or 8 on the Leidse-plein or Rembrandt-plein. Read the Grumpy Games tomorrow for Exact plans!

Sadly, I myself can't be there because I made other plans. But things might change...

Another one of those nifty internet adventures.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/thedoors.html
I havn't finished it yet, but it doesn't look that hard.

Say, terranRich. Did you really re-wrote the screenplay?
http://www.apple.com/trailers/mgm/into_the_blue/

. . .
My mom was the manager of a bank branch and one day, about 6-7 years ago, she met a screenwriter, Matt Johnson, that came into the bank. They talked. He saiid he wrote a movie and hoped to have it greenlit, she said I was an excellent writer for my age, and he said I should look the screenplay over and proofread it and look for errors in continuity or realism. I did, and got paid $80 for a written paper on everythingI liked, didn't lke, found weird, etc., etc.

Over the past few years, my mom or I would randomly bring it up every now and then, wondering what ever happened to it. I always thought it was an independent film, doubting that I would be lucky enough to have proofread a Hollywood script.

The movie was called "Into the Blue" and was about a group of divers finding themselves in deep trouble with a drug lord after they come upon the illicit cargo of a sunken airplane. It was a pretty good movie and I could envision it on the big screen.

Lo and behold, yesterday I was bored and I suddenly remembered this movie. And I remembered IMDb.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378109/

Apparently, there are some semi-big stars in the movie, which will be released this very year. And I proofread it and fixed errors. And I still have the original screenplay! Woohoo!
. . .

[angry ags'er stereo type:]

angry ags'er stereo type: WTF n00b! th1s ares teh Ai Gee eS FORUMS. only AGS games, no 1337 rpg games. : P
jetxl: don't judge a game by it's screenshot. This game is 100% programmed in ags. Yes, I used RPG Maker XP to make backgrounds, so spank me.
angry ags'er stereo type: Say, shouldn't you be w0rking on teh ATC?!!!1!11
jetxl: Well, the game was finished before that. But the ags version I used, couldn't play my s3m music files. But the new version does, so I finished it up this week.
angry ags'er stereo type: IMHO U still suxors. and I'm n0t g0ing t0 pl4y y0ur suupit g4m3.
jetxl: That's your oppinion. The game isn't great, but it was great to make.


Story is about Howard who has to stop a wizard cult from summoning a great evil force. Puzzle your way through a mountain.
I never know what to type here, just play the game for 10 minutes of fun.

http://www.angelfire.com/art3/the-makers0/catacombic/catacombicfinish.zip
http://12.22.230.41/MicroTech/Host/Games/catacombicfinish.zip
http://aafiles.bicycle-for-slugs.org/full/Catacombic.rar
8MB.
8MB? Hot potatoes, Is AGS getting fat? The first game I made had 10 640x400 screens, but it could fit on a floppy disk!

PS: Again, thank you, Candle.
PPS: Back online again.
PPPS: And yet again.
PPPPS: and so on. Thank you, Rui!

Has Penny Arcade an exclusive deal to make web-comics about games?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/index.php3
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=news&date=2005-01-26

Are other web-comics no longer allowed to make jokes about games and the game industry?
Is this for real, or just a joke.
My bullshit meter is shaking like an asian tectonic plate, here.

One of my other hobbies on the internet is to watch trailes.
Now, I don't want to post links to movie sites, since if you're interested in movies, you would search them yourselve.

But today it's different. Today I have learned that they're making a movie about THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY. One of my favorite books (on tape...).
(EDIT)
teaser: http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy
trailer website: http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/main.html
big trailer: http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/r/m/rmm260/movies/hhgttg2.asf

And to top if off. I learned yesterday that Tim Burton and sexy mofo, Goldmunt look-a-like Johnny Depp are filming Charly and the Chocolate Factory!
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/charliechocolatefactory/

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/waroftheworlds/
There you have it.
By Spielberg.
give it a w00t

I want to know if people can see this High Quality 37 second 5.71mb avi file.
I'm not sure of the avi compiler I used, because it's not working anymore. Danm shareware.

http://the-makers.tripod.com/download/CDteaserHQ.aviÃ, 
^right mouse click, save target as...^

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/CDteaserLQ.zip
^low quality 1mb wma file hosted by neole^

For some reason I can't play s3m music files in ags.
I was wondering if this happened to other people or if the problem lies within my s3m tracker.
I only hear squeeks in the game, but the files work ok in winamp.

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/s3mtest.zip the ags test game
http://www.bluemoon.ee/history/scwin/ the tracker I use.

When I minimalize a script editor window and then close it, I can't reopen the script editor again. I see the appicaition in the Windows workbar but when I click on it, it's not displayed.

I tried it on my laptop and my brothers pc. We got both Windows XP.

I hate hairdressers.
They alwais ask me how I want my hair cut and I alwais say "with scissors would be nice".Ã,  I don't know how I want my hair cut, it's not on my priority list. I don't plot how my hair is cut. I only see my face in the mirror when I wash my hands after taking a dump, anyway!

I only get my hair cut every half year. I let it cut short, then I let it grow for half a year and let it cut short again.
But now I havn't had my hair cut of more then 3/4 year.

I like having long hair. I can't explain why a guy wants to have long hair, until you get it youself. Then you'll understand. You just feel cool and get more self respect. You'll feel more like an individual then a clone.

I also came to the conclusion that my long hair effects other people too. Groups are more afraid of me and old people have less respect for me. Strangers stare at me, like I'm up to no good.



I'm going to get my hair cut next week. Not good timing since it's getting colder again...

What is your oppion and experience about hairlength (or hair colour).
What do girls prefer.