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Any AGSers play? I'm real tempted to get it. What proffesions, classes, skills, species, server and stuff would be interesting to find out.

Anyone got any links to decent tutorials to help with drawing in this kinda style. Thigs like marvel comics and things?

OK, with most games almost every room will have dozens of hotspots, objects, characters etc... and with these there is a need to provide some sort of interaction for the user.

How would I go about creating a global random displayspeech that would have 3 or so messages for each interaction (lookat, pickup etc...). And with this I could call upon one of these (random choice which one) for any object or hotspot without a designated interaction.

Could this be done and if so, how?

Yes, I've finnaly upgraded to a .com domain with all it's juciy goodness. For those who already knew I've removed the 'Under Construction' page and replaced it with content and a new design.

Check it out at http://www.magintz.com/

If anyone wants to add a link from my site to theirs there is a link on the links page.

Well, that's about it then.

Not sure if anyone ever uses wikipedia, but I found this today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Game_Studio

All about AGS

I need to get myself into some form of sound production for my games, although I have petteri to make some A class midi's I'd really like to begin to develop my own sounds, sound effects and that sort of thing.

If anyone can help me out by pointing me in a good direction e.g good programs, good tutorials etc...

I've used fruity loops a bit before, and i've heard cakewalk is rather good, but if anyone can help i would appreciate it.

thanks

I've now completed part one of my game. It has just finished it's beta-ness and I'm planning a release of it in stages very similar to Apprentice or Book of Spells, although my game will not be as long as those.

Should I continue and release my game in parts, or should I work at it, complete it and release it all as one?

I'm very tempted to release it now so I can get some feedback as to what options would be preffered throughout the story and get some general feedback as to whether or not to progress making it.

I know at the end of the day it's my choice but I would like to know how people would prefer something like this?

Just a small request from a dear friend to you all (me).

I am very almost ready to release my game but have gotten myself into a small predicament. My character has no up/down walk animations. I have tried several times but always end up making the character look deformed and limping like a drunken zombie wearing greased up rollerskates with an ear infection whilst trying to tight-rope walk across the mast of a ship in mid storm.

So you get the idea - I can't do walk anims.

If someone would be so kind as to donate their services to my game by masterfully creating the final two walk animations of my character I would be very grateful.

If anyone is interested I can send them the character graphics. (p.s character is pixelated )

R.S.V.P A.S.A.P

Thanking you in advance

Magintz

Anywhoodle, lemmie 'splain my problem to you.

The Situation:
I'm playing through my game to test it, In one room I get to pick up a bunch of inventory items and use them. When I use an inventory item with a hotspot I get taken to another room. In this new room the player character changes and the inventory is changed to nothing and you can grab a bunch of new items.

The Problem:
Everytime I try to "use" one of the newly aquired inventory items it displays in the display bar "use pole with", pole being inventory item 3 and the inventory item sued to transport to this new room/new character and when i try to use the items  on something else it does nothing.

When i start a new game and use "ctrl-x" debug tool to skip to the room when i go to use the inventory item it says "invalid inventory item specified" and a problem with line 51.


      StrCat(madetext,"Use ");
this line -->     GetInvName (player.activeinv, buffer);
      StrCat(madetext,buffer);
      StrCat(madetext," with ");

I am using Proskritos LEC GUI but I think it's an older version, can anyone help.

Edit: I believe the problem to be in the player.activeinv line, I think that it isn;t getting the data from the new character or hasn't realised that the inventory has changed. How could I perhaps incorporate a GetPlayerCharacter command and would this work?

An Internal Error has Occured...

ACI Version 2.62.772

Error: Prepare_script: error -18 (no such function in script) trying to run "room_a" (room 5)

This happens whenever I go to pick up an object in game, I've tried creating a new object with the same code:

ObjectOff(6);
AddInventory(5);

What's up? Should I e-mail the room?

I know this sort of thing has been mentioned to have a version of AGS that is able to run on pocket pc's and to make games for pocketpc. I'm not sure of the reasons why this has not been done or why people with the talent to don't but here's my question.

How difficult would it be to allow the windows compiler to compile games to run under pocket pc?

I got bored earlier at Uni, so I made this very short .avi lightsaber thingy

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Saber.zip (500kb)

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Illegal exception
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An exception 0xC0000005 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x0041421D ; program pointer is +6, ACI version 2.61.747, gtags (5,1)

AGS cannot continue, this exception was fatal. Please note down the numbers above, remember what you were doing at the time and notify CJ on the Tech forum.

(Global script line 141)


Most versions of Windows allow you to press Ctrl+C now to copy this entire message to the clipboard for easy reporting.
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I'm tryig to create a chat window, I have got a string for the name of the person speaking called name, the text they have typed called input and two other variables called begin and end which will surround the name variable with <> so it should appear like this:

<Magintz>  Yo, Dudes

Here is the relavant code:

   {GetTextBoxText(PARSER,1,input); //This gathers the text from the text-box in GUI 0, and from Object1 and to store it in the predefined string "input"
StrCopy (end, ">  ");
StrCopy (begin, "<");
ListBoxAdd(4,0,begin && name && end && input);

I think the problem is with the && and how it can't add more than one variable, or it could be with the strcopy as I have never used that command before.

Well I finnaly put the photos on my PC bout 1 month ago and got round to editing them and uploading them bout 2 weeks ago, and finnaly put them in the gallery bout 5 days ago, and now i present to you the link*....

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/chissy/brittens/brittens.html

*Witty Captions Sold Seperatly, may cause siezures and or diareah. Do not consume orally, should symptoms show please consult your local pastry chef.

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It occured to me the other day that bluecups are everywhere in modern life, and especially tv and film. Either Chris is doig some sneaky advertising promotions or it's just coincidence, believe what you wantÃ, 

What arose my suspicions:
1) Chris does AGS for free, could there be some hidden agenda for it?
2) Conspiracy Theory (saw that the other night - makes you think)
3) If there is a hidden agenda like brain washing he would need to get as many people as possible to use it.
4) Who here worships Chris like a god? .... Exactly!

Anyway, back to business...

What I want you to do is report back with any sightings of Bluecups in films or tv programmes, state what the show is and where the cup was (if it had a lead role, state it)

I'll start you off with one I saw the other day:

TV Show/Film: Friends (TV) - The one where they go to the summer place and Ross and Rachel get back together after Ross owns up to everything in Rachels letter.
Place: In Central Perk on Coffee table
Info: Quite an old episode back when AGS was still in its infancy (or even before that). This sighting is probably just coincidence or is that what Chris (if that is his real name) wants us to think.

Agent Magintz Reporting

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What do you think? The only thing I need to add are the boxes, still need to plan this out though.

Which one looks best? Does it look like a dream? How could I make it more of a childhood memory/flashback?

Thanking you in advance

Magintz

Well I'm trying to make a childhood nightmarish dream sequence that is a flashback of a tormented childhood (yes I know very cliché but....... shut up... k )

Anywho.... I need some c+c to get the mise en scene (the way things are placed around the room and how the atmosphere reflects the mood) just right



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Too many variables and logical sequencing for my brain to cope with. I've tried and i've tried to get this scripted so it will work.

TO best understand it I have compiled a little flash animation of how everything should work. There are 5 boxes. You need to shift them all about so you can climb to the top. Once at the top you can jump across and get to freedom.

If anyone can please help me with this puzzle I can e-mail the flash animation.

EDIT: Uploaded it to 2D adventure - http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Puzzle.zip

[What is a Photoshop Phriday?]

Oops, I didn't realise I had won.... weee yay me to the extreme!!!111two

Anyway...

What is a Photoshop Phriday?

Photoshopping isn't drawing a completely new image -- It's editing images to create a new image, such as editing one image or combining several images.

Also, you don't have to specifically use Photoshop -- Paint Shop Pro, MSPaint, or any other programs can be used.

See this link:
http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/

And for other examples, see here:
http://www.worth1000.com/

The two above websites should give a fair idea of what is involved.

Also, make sure your image doesn't exceed the width of the screen -- If you don't may your bodily odour smell vaguely of waffles from this day forth.

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This week's theme is: "I choose you..."

With the release of Pokémon Colleseum last week here, and the amount of time i've spent playing on it I want you to photoshop an AGS character or AGS member into the world of Pokémon;this can be a pokemon, pokemon trainer, pokémon battle/scene or anything pokemon related, try to come up witha cool name as well.

Check my avatar for an example.

I got really bored today and started thinking of nonsense, and remembered this:

As I was walking up the stairs I met a man who wasn't there, he wasn't there again today, I wish that man would go away!

Has anyone else got any to help me pass the time? or any riddles even that are fun...

I'll just get back to the polar bear game.... damn i lost..... :/