DOWNLOAD The 13th Disciple

[CapTAmerik@]

Dear people,

Version 1.00 of 'The 13th Disciple'-demo can now be downloaded from the official website www.multicards.nl/royal/index.html (top left corner).

I found the program works best with NAGI. There are some points you need to be aware off before playing this game:

* No score or sound has been included yet;
* For some reason, some inventory items will not display in ego's inventory list. I have been working on a solution, but to no avail so far. If anyone knows a way out, please contact me;
* Without spoiling, the puzzles will be far-fetched in some cases, but that will be resolved in the end product. All puzzles will work towards escaping from the school, a goal that can't be achieved while playing this demo;

Having said that, I hope the board appreciates the game as much, as I have had joy creating it. Regards and of course, I'm happy to hear all comments, suggestions, solutions with regards to the '13th Disciple',

Regards,
CaptAmerik@

PS: Parental guidance might be in order for the intro.  

[Jelle]

In your profile it says 12th disciple, why?

[CapTAmerik@]

Actually, the idea was to put a picture of myself in there. And since I created the 13th Disciple, I called myself the 12th... and so on.

Only thing is I can't get this thingie to work,  
CaptAmerik@

[Allen]

Yay, this should be good!
I shall sporckle to tour site and fetch it.

-Allyb-

[CapTAmerik@]

Sporckle?

Did I miss something.  ?

CaptAmerik@

[Joey]

wow!!!! this is very very nice!!!! the intro scared me.
jk. this is really awesome. your a great drawer. puzzles are pretty hard though. heh heh. keep up the good work.

[Kon-Tiki]

Great graphics, great puzzles and great humour. Only thing that's not so great is that I get a memory problem when the intro wants to start. This's a great game!

-Kon-Tiki-

[CapTAmerik@]

Hmmm. Memory issues...
Anybody any idea how to avoid those, because I did put in quite some effort in the story's intro...  

CaptAmerik@

[Allen]

I just used NAGI,

-Allyb-

[Joel]

About the only way to avoid memory issues is to make sure you unload resources when they're not being used (but you have to do it in exactly the reverse order that you loaded them, so if you load view 1, then 2, then 3 and you don't need view 2 anymore, you have to unload view 3 before unloading view 2, even if you still need view 3 (but you shouldn't unload view 3 while it's assigned to an object or your game will probably crash). You can always reload view 3 after you unload view 2.

If you've unloaded everything that you can unload and you're still getting errors, then your game exceeds the capabilities of the Sierra interpreters and will have to be run on NAGI or something similar.

Anyway, the demo looks good so far.

[Joey]

i just erase objects. i didnt know you can unload!? what is the command for it? also, if i go to a new screen, will that view still be loaded? do i have to unload it before it goes to another screen?

[Joel]

The command to unload a view is discard.view(). You do not have to unload views before going to a new room. The new.room() command discards everything except logic 0 (including ego, I believe -- I think if new_room is set, then logic 0 reloads ego's view).

Keep in mind, though, that the unloading in reverse order applies to all resources. If you load view 1, then sound 1, you have to unload sound 1 before you can unload view 1. The interpreter will not enforce this...if you're lucky, it will just crash if you don't do it that way. If you're very unlucky, it will work fine.

[Joel]

Erasing a view does not free the memory that the view is using. It just removes it from the screen. You can draw the view again without loading it again if you just erase it. If you do a discard.view, then you have to do another load.view before you can draw the view again, or the game will crash.

[Joey]

how do i get the broom!!!???

[Kon-Tiki]

Search the pile in the closet.

-Kon-Tiki-