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Thanks for noticing Kyriakos, there is indeed elevator music, but I missed one click. Reupload will follow in a few mins...

So I just longplayed the game and to bump the topic of this nice game and make more people play the game I'll post it here. And the video is filled with SPOILERS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbc2yGAf1Cc

I love those old computers. Great work!
How long did it take you to make this?
Would this run on the original hardware? What storage medium did the vic-20 use?

but Ron Gilbert always mentions he had the idea for MI while on a rollercoaster in disneyland called pirates of the carribean... so disney is back as IP owner of PotC and MI is a moon broken out of the POTC planet...

They use up your time and energy, wear you down and never seem to change their habits even when they promise to...

absolutely!

Don't know how this is going to turn out buddy but please take care of yourself here too.

Thanks for all this great advice guys, you are the best. this really helps! At the moment he is not here but visiting family. probably to eat or to get money, all because he is broke already for some shitty reason he gave 200â,¬ to some shady guy, probably to buy drugs and this guy never came back and of course he was drunk atm. Or maybe he went to a casio, i don't know any more and I don't want to hear those stories anymore. me shouting at him and his stupidity and drunkness doesn't bring back the money, probably makes him want to drink even more to forget this idiocracy he did when he was drunk. What a vicious circle. I gave him some food the last days before he left and he drove me crazy with wicked speech as a thank. he sometimes leaves when he is either broke or knows he drove people too crazy and comes back, is sober for a day and smiling and a nice guy and it gets worse from there. I fear the day he comes back. He still has some valuable computer parts and some comics from me. screw the comics, but I want the computer parts back. So I actually have fool him to get into his appartement before shit's going down. he'll become possessive of my things and our fucked "friendship" probably.
the weirdest thing is, he is an interesting character and I have no idea how he gets through life and always stands back up again, so part of my artist writer soul wants to study him, but being around him is not healthy. damned. Since he is very broke and money arrives at the end of the month I can expect him then...

To remind, the manual at http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/manual/ is seemingly made of the HTML files which are an intermediate output of the manual CHM file building process. This means that one could just run manual generation in the repository, and take HTMLs instead of final CHM, and upload them to site.

That sounded like these html files are stored on the github servers somewhere already. Sorry that I got you wrong there CW. I know too little about building files on and with github to help there. The problems seem not to be the generation of the html files but the where to store them and how users can access the generated manual html pages? on git or on ags.co.uk, you just said "site"?

I can give you (or whoever) access to that folder, the same way you do for releases, CW.  Somebody needs to take responsibility for getting (and keeping!) it up to date though...

Is there some scp command running from wherever to copy the files from git to ags.co.uk or do you manually download the files from github after building and then manually upload the files to the server CW or AGA? I think it is useless to do that for every little change in the manual!
What about a cronjob on the ags server that checks once a day if some changes happened on the AGS git repo builts and then gets these files, no matter if .exe files for AGS or .html for the manual pages. So much for the theory...

I have a very good friend, we had lots of beers and fun together. We would hang out on the weekends and sometimes on weekdays, but over the last couple of months his alcohol habit became really drastic thing. He only eats broth anymore or little bites (and I'm a good chef), the rest is liquid with alcohol in it. when he gets drunker and drunker he knows everything better and rarely is injurous, rather he commands around for little things right in front of his nose. When I explain him, hey, this thing, gamecontroller, lighter, spoon, whatever, is right in front of him he gets louder and wants to get it handed, dunno if he is king in his head or just unable to move because drunk. normally I throw him out then. I know he did meth a lot some time ago and stopped, but lately this also became a more often and then he complains about his nose bleeds. lately he had his nosebleeds again and drnak too much and puked blood, I hope from his nose and not a damaged stomach or liver or WTF! And no, he doesn't go to a doctor when adviced. He went to rehab for alc once (that I know of), I even visited him there, damned, what a desolate place, I can imagine it only get worse there, he made it through there for a week, then the docs thought, hmmm, what are we doing, let's check his urine and found traces of meth and wanted him to go to closed up treatment where you get fed all kinds of funny little pills and there he ran away. And lately he announced he wants to drink himsef to death. I have a lot of empathy and feel sorry for him but this drains on my strenght and he just doesn't listen. What do the positive people of the ags forums think, What can I do? what should I do? and also HOW?

the funny weird and sad thing is, he is away to visit family for a week or so now, he probably drinks there a lot too and meets old drinking buddies. Then I forget how annoying he is in the meantime and after a week or some other random timeframe he reappears and is sober and nice and then I fall for it and talk with him until it gets worse and worse.
At least he started making music, so I though maybe we can make a game together to give him some purpose, but that music is no gamemusic sadly. What do when he reappears and is sober and nice?

I played some and didn't like them for their seemingly randomness, like you said, a ruler inside a fancy box that needs three locks. I prefer a coherent story where the objects you get somehow make sense and also can be combined with other items to solve a puzzle.
Some pixelhunts in adventure games are like hidden object games, but pixelhunts in adventure games are annoying, so there is that. not really my cup of tea.
I see people can have fun with some complex puzzles but for me it is just some random puzzle after another, this is not that motivating to continue (except it is the whitnes) I need more story between the puzzles to have fun.

wow, interesting topic! Sooooomehow I feel even worse and more depressive after hearing this. damned, I hope you don't know these black days when you don't make it out of bed and can't sleep either. Then even the internet sucks and you find something great and instead of celebrating it accordingly you destroy it with some sick shit and feel sorry, all while on of your best friends announces he wants to drink himself to death and even more often uses meth (which he hid for a long time) and stops eating and just drinks the whole day and brabbles annoying and sick shit and you can watch him lose all his brainz and know you have to either go crazy with feeling sorry or let go. man, this is eating me up and sooooo distracting from gamedev and art after all! feels a lot like fight club irl and I wish this to noone! thanks for this episode, really helpful advice there, thanks for reading this.

p.s. I don't do meth! probably the worst you can do to relax...!

This is great progress and a wiki synched with the manual delivered with AGS is very convenient. May I propose the goal to have the AGS builts on git and on the adventuregamestudio.co.uk domain rebuild and update every time someone changes the manual, or better once a day if a change was made to the manual.
I wouldn't remove the manual pages in the wiki, rather add a fat and bold header to show it is outdated and a link to the new version of that specific page on git. below the warning and link there should still be the old version of the text. Or maybe I'm just about keeping old stuff because I like 320x200 px point and clicks, propably it is better to just have the link, but to the correct page on git to avoid search engine confusion and double entries with old and up to date versions. So I'm wondering, can the old outdated text be kept on the wiki below the link, maybe even with smaller font and be hidden from search engines?

oh, a votin...
1 Tabata   
2 Rocchinator
3 Blondbraid

Hey Dave, I hope you didn't get my comment wrong on the previous page. Damned, I wasn't even drunk while writing this, just some kind of twisted humor that noone watches these long youtube video in whole and I could cite you however and make people actually watch this and excitement and surprise to find these 5 mins about tb2 in the loooong interview and also kind of disappointment you have to finish unavowed first before TB2. It's been indeed a rough year, oh my nerves, I wish you best of luck and lots of strength to make a great unavowed!

it is very dark. Some rim light from the outside lanterns on that character would probably look great. Also there is a camerajump at the end for 1 frame or so.

some explanation for the mouse.setbounds would have been nice, like a short range laser or so. I tried luring the cat close with the laser right from the start. But would this message pop up every time you move the mouse out of the bounds? then it would have been annoying. maybe with a timer on repeated steps over the bounds.
@ slasher: feel free to spread the vid to the hints and tips!

This game is cool!


Walkthrough with ALL SPOILERS! ...but just click it and pause for the clicks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN5myvDuigY

I recorded a playthrough of the game.

Contains SPOILERS of course!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayeaLof_HF8

Wow, this looks nice! Congrats on the funding! Now have fun producing it

[Hjarta ~ The Cosmonaut]

and here are some more AGS Game Longplays of Game you might not even have heard of and should play



Hjarta ~ The Cosmonaut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j11Koz74mc
Hjarta draws you into a nicely drawn world featuring 3 Episodes, each will have it's own longplay video on this channel.
This Episode features "The Cosmonaut" and his quest through space to find a mysterious orb and the love of his life. Help him solve some interesting and some mean puzzles to complete his quest.


bird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2dOkWyGIYE
This is a funny weird game with quite some optical Illusions included and also Eadweard Muybridge's galopping horse in once scene and bending and warping lines and forms in another.



The Black Hand Gang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khhAIKj_3qs
The Black Hand Gang is a well known children's book by H.J. Press about a gang of young detectives that catch all kind of bad guys. The reader is invited to find the clues and solve the mystery with the gang.
Mandle turned this into a game. I loved the book as a kid and he did too and so will you and your kids love the stories and riddles and this new interactive format for the book.
Also you are invited to read and play along with me, I let every page stay for 10-15 seconds, so you can pause the video, read the text, solve the question in the bottom left and then continue. Enjoy!
Or even better, go play the game and take this video as a recommendation and not as a guide. There is no way to die in the game, it's like reading and turning a page. And you can read all 4 episodes called "The Mysterious House", "The Treasure in Breezy Lake", "The Smuggler's Tunnel" and "A Theft at the Zoo".


Chance of the Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgTIvXbX5-g
Chance of the Dead is a cute and very wordy game about a cheerleader that is brought back to life from her way too soon death and she gets a second chance. It all ends in a bake off contest and you solve some puzzles while the entertaining and a bit too wordy story keeps you on track. Some funny SFX and a fitting soundtrack make it a game you should be playing now and not watching the longplay and getting spoiled. Find the download link below...

@Mandle:
The book is great and I am very thankful you made this game! Playing it brought back many good memories. And it is just the perfect book for an adventure game.
Hehe, mistyping is mean, especially when you record the gameplay and want to play it good Indeed I didn't notice I mistyped and then skipped it iirc...

@NickyNyce:
I have inside already and played the demo already and it is really cool. I haven't come around to complete it though. No idea if I record the gameplay after all. The limbo videos seem to be not that interesting for my viewers, almost no views on the videos, and cutting these vids also takes time. But in the end, when I really like inside, I'll probably record it anyways, just to have it on my channel

@TheFrighther:
Thanks

@lorenzo;
Listen to what cat said




I recorded some more longplays since my last video post in this thread. I'll pick some and post some more tomorrow

This give a creepy eerie feel, I like it