Help me please!!!

[Zonkie]

Okay, found the link  .

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~ptrkelly/agi/docs/index.html

There you can find the tutorial game and the tutorials that go along with it. Work through them and you can get a good overview about how to do objects and doors in games.

[Andrew_Baker]

My game, Voodoo Girl, is one of those games that provides a src folder, so you can view all my logics.

www.voodoogirl.cjb.net

[Dwarfy]

Thanks Andrew!

[Joey]

you could just open the src with agi studio, you dont need that folder.

anyway, i didnt want that square filled in. i was just wondering how you could do it if you had multiple green lines on the one pic, or in the game. so if he stepped on one line, it would set this flag, if he stepped on the other, it would do this. but you can just use get.posn

but this green line thing will be helpful. i think i just found out what i can use it for in my game. stairs. i will put a green line going down the edge of stairs. if ego touches that, he falls. if that doesnt work, i will just use the if(posn(o0......

thanks for the help!

[Andrew_Baker]

Sure, Joey, you can decompile most sources without the folder, but I like to provide the originals + the defines.txt file so that the logic code has rationally identified flags and vars.  It is a great source of honor for me to help out someone with their code, but it really, REALLY annoys me when I have to decrypt a bunch of undefined vars.  Would you rather have "done_flag","index" or would you rather have "f35","v120"?

[Joey]

oh. thats how i can see which variable and flag does what. i didnt know that. thanks for telling me!

[Zonkie]

If you open a game without the source folder you only see the compiled logic. But when you write the logic, you probably give names to objects, flags and variables that make it easier. For example, I always give objects names so that I can just refer to them like "animate.obj(name);", which I think it much easier than "animate.obj(o1);". Every time you compile a logic by pressing F9 or F10, AGI Studio changes what you wrote to what you would see without the source folder. That folder basically contains a "neat" copy of the logic for you to work on.

[Dwarfy]

Got other questions.

How can i create sounds for AGI and add them in the game??

What sound-creator is the best...easyest...??

Is there a finished, good, "very" helpful, "How to create a AGI Game"- Tutorial??

Can you all tell me what you like for a style?? (Leisure suit Larry, Kings Quest, Space Quest, horror, fungame, very hard games, wargames...)

And last question for today, What game is very good, for looking his logics, prios. and learn to do them??

Many questions, I know. Sorry! I just love create my own games, and i want to do "good" games.

[Zonkie]

To create sounds, you can either create or download MIDI files and convert them using mf2rol and rol2snd. You can find them in the tools sections of many AGI sites. Or you youse AGISE, which is a very good sound editor for AGI. It really depends what you think is easiest. If you know how to write music, use a good MIDI notation program and convert the file or use AGISE, otherwise download MIDI files and convert them.

There are lots of good, finished tutorials. Work through the ones I mentioned earlier, they will give a very good background on how to create a game. Otherwise have a look at the tutorial section on Nick's page.

For styles it depends a lot on every person. I prefer games like LSL, but that's only my personal opinion.

I would suggest looking at many games to see some pictures and priorities etc. There are a lot of really good fanmade games and demos out there, just download them and have a look at them. Also load some of the original Sierra games into AGI Studio to have a look at them.

Don't put yourself under the pressure to release an awesome game as quickly as possible. Take your time, maybe work on a smaller project to get used to AGI, and then start a bigger project with the knowledge you gained in doing the first project.

[Kon-Tiki]

What Zonkie forgot to tell you, is that you can only get AGISE from my site. I surely hope Brian'll put it on his site too someday, 'cause most of the people go there for their tools.

-Kon-Tiki-

[Andrew_Baker]

I totally agree with zonkie in that you shouldn't put yourself under pressure to release a masterpiece right at first.  In fact, why don't you try putting together a really well-polished five or six room game first?  Use it to actually learn the language and structure your project.

[Patrick]

I am with Andy...you sould really actually DO the game first..and then Perfect it...or else you wont have room for prefection  

[Dwarfy]

Thanks guys!  

So, i download AGISE first, then do a little game.

If i got another question, i'll post it in here...

Maybe, i don't know how to use AGISE, but i'll download and try it first.

[Dwarfy]

5 minuits later, i am back again.

Got another question.

How the AGISE works??
I mean, how can i use the notes c to H3?

[Kon-Tiki]

In the middle left of the screen, there's a box that says:

ID (or something like that)

You can fill in the name of the note there, where the letter stands for the note (C == do -> If I'm not mistaken, D == re, etc.) and the number after it stands for the octave (don't know if that word exists, but you get the meaning )
E.G.

Code: [Select]

C0 == lowest possible do
C1 == do one range higher
So, fill in the name of the note (like explained above) where it says 'id'.

-Kon-Tiki-