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Yeah, that would be nice, I'm not sure how CJ would like to do it if at all, but I think the simplest way would be to set a factor to multiply y coordinates by for each room (set at 1 by default). For the perspective room I drew, on the floor each pixel in the y direction is equal to about 3 pixels of x direction so the multiplier would be set at 0.33 (or divider set at 3, whatever).Ã,  So the angles would be adjusted to reflect this, perhaps character y speed would be affected by this in the same way, that would by the cleanest way imo, because they should change together.

Obviously it'd be best to keep it everything the same as it is now for people who don't want to use it so I'm not sure of the best set up for everyone.
Perhaps a "Character walk speed and animation directions affected by room perspective scaling value" check box on the character, or something more succinct.
It'd replace setting x and y speed seperately, just setting an a normal speed and that would be scaled for the y speed for any given room.

I remember I asked for seperate x and y walk speeds once, to make things look more realistic on rooms that aren't viewed directly from above, that's been implemented now and it's great. So to compliment it I thought I'd suggest something related that bugs me a bit (it's in Broken Sword, and George's walking would look much worse without it).
Lots of you will get this straight away but here are some diagrams for those that don't.
On overhead views the angles for walk directions would be like AGS does it now. (Just using 4 directions to keep things easy to see).Ã,  That is 90 degrees for each direction deciding on which direction loop it uses.Ã,  Which works in this situation.


But most games use perspective views in which this just looks wrong.Ã,  The direction the character is moving in should be relative to the floor, not to how he is moving across screen coords, obviously he's not really in a 3d world so he's just moving through screen coords but it needent look that way.Ã,  The angles that each direction should use would be scaled, depending on the angle the floor is at to the camera (probably can't be precise in hand drawn art but you can get it looking about right), something like this would work for this room:

it means that if he was walking at 20 degrees (anticlockwise from right) in screen coordinates he would have the up view, which would look best for the room, because he would seem to be moving in that direction across the floor.

For people who don't want to use it it could just be set to the normal angles by default so they don't have to mess with them and it adds no extra hassle.. but it could be set on a room by room basis, perhaps in script, for people like me who get bothered by things like this.

It is a basic feature of many adventure games though.Ã,  I even think it's like this in early nineties LEC/Sierra games.Ã,  But I'm not certain.

lakerz: No! You are meant to be lost as to what is going on.  But the puzzle can be solved (nobody has told me that they have, though it's not hard)

I had the same problem, other people just told me that you can remove the cartdige just by interacting with the printer.. I assumed I had come across a bug, but no, you can do it.
Unfortunately I can't remember how exactly I did it, but I think it might have been a pixel hunt for the part of the printer you can actually get the cartridge from.

GCSEs are pretty easy, like AGA I didn't do revision, or most of the coursework (except for IT and graphics where it was most of the grade) and I got good grades (all C or above, 5 As).  As long as you expect to get C or above for most things, based on your mocks I wouldn't bother revising, work on your game is more important.  I don't think anyone looks at your GCSEs anyway.

It's only on the games section, I'm sure we can handle it.
I'm off to play the game now.  Hi /. readers, yes it can run on linux

For 2d adventures it's not very limited at all.  For other kinds of games it's very limited.
Biggest limitations on adventures.. I don't know, being able to play a movie as part of a background would be nice for me.  Perhaps some 3d hardware acceleration for high res alpha blended graphics.  These are just minor graphical enhancements.  There are no other things I can think of.

Really I don't think you'll have any problems, as long as you are trying to make a 2d adventure game.

I'll be there with a tent.
Cause I can't afford to go to America.

Sam and max has a Windows version now available on cd, but all the Lucasarts adventure games can be played on ScummVM http://www.scummvm.com aside from the 3d ones.
Works on XP, Linux, Mac and others.

I vote for Rincewind, Pessi's is great but it's not really a background.

There's a article one of the people porting Broken Sword to the GBA wrote about the conversion process for graphics and music I think.. it looked really really hard to get it working on a system with such limited memory and sound abilities.  There's no way a 256 colour, low res AGS game would run on GBA with the original art and music content even if there was an AGS engine for it.
You'd have to design the games for GBA to make them playable, and personally I found BS on the GBA extremely irritating.

I just got my wacom working after 5 months without it, it's better than I remembered.  Nothing beats the way the pen moves on the surface of a wacom tablet, it's much better than the Aiptek tablet I've been using which is double the size.

I have the smallest Graphire 2 by the way.

I'm not sure what the problem is, but if it is just a problem with running in 320x240 then you could run the setup file and tell it to run in a window, or select a higher resolution (or both).  If it is a problem with running 320x240 then that should get around it.

The Xbox uses Directx like AGS does.. so maybe it's not such an improbable idea, but there'd still be at least some work porting it to work with an xbox controller and probably a lot of technical stuff I don't know about.  CJ doesn't have an xbox as far as I know so it's unlikely he'd want or be able to do one.  If it's possible and someone offers to port it then maybe it could happen... but it's not likely.
Only port so far has been to linux, and that has had many requests and someone offered to port it, only a few have asked for console ports.

Haven't  played the game in ages but I seem to remember that there is a waterfall there, it's just hard to find on the map.  I may be wrong but you could have another look around for the hotspot.

I don't think you could make it work very well in AGS, you'd need lots more than 8 directions to make it look right.. which is why it works best in 3d.

Yes, there is a FollowCharacter() script command to make one character follow another, kind of like in Sam & Max, and you can easily make more than two characters talk in a conversation, just make the third character speak as you would any other character.  You can use the same MoveCharacter and DisplaySpeech type commands you use on the main character with any other character.

Low res art is usually pixelled, but in FoY's backgrounds Miez draws in pencil first and uses that as the skeleton for the pixelled artwork.  Monkey Island 2's backgrounds were oil painted then scanned and they worked well.  So if you find it easier to do hand drawing you can certainly do it that way.  You may want to do some pixel work afterwards you, just so thinks don't look too blurry.

It uses a verb coin, hold the mouse down for a second.

This game looks amazing, one of the best looking games I've seen in AGS.  I bet it really benefits from 32 bit colour

Finding hosting should be no problem at all, but 800x600 avis? that sounds insane..