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Offline russdanner

Re: The web version of AGILE (https://agi.sierra.games)
« Reply #90 on: May 10, 2024, 09:40:00 AM »
I think r/Sierra doesn't allow this kind of content. In my limited experience, it gets removed immediately.

Offline doomlazer

Re: The web version of AGILE (https://agi.sierra.games)
« Reply #91 on: May 10, 2024, 01:52:06 PM »
Grats on the release. I've had a lot of fun checking out fan games because of this. #happy40th

Offline lance.ewing

Re: The web version of AGILE (https://agi.sierra.games)
« Reply #92 on: May 10, 2024, 02:21:48 PM »
Thanks all. Yeah, its been fun making it as well. Hopefully the site will live for years to come and people will use it as an easy way to play the games. The traffic to the site seems to have been steadily increasing through the day, so maybe the word has been getting around. Thanks to those who have been helping to spread the word.

Offline lance.ewing

Re: The web version of AGILE (https://agi.sierra.games)
« Reply #93 on: May 10, 2024, 02:26:32 PM »
I think r/Sierra doesn't allow this kind of content. In my limited experience, it gets removed immediately.

I can see that you managed to get a post through the spam bot detection on r/Sierra. Thanks for that!  :)


Offline Collector

Re: The web version of AGILE (https://agi.sierra.games)
« Reply #94 on: May 10, 2024, 02:48:09 PM »
It has been announced in the main Facebook Sierra groups this morning. There may have been a couple I missed, but the main Sierra Facebook community & Sierra alums should be aware.
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Offline russdanner

Re: The web version of AGILE (https://agi.sierra.games)
« Reply #95 on: May 14, 2024, 08:13:25 AM »
I'm doing what I can to keep it on top for a bit. The birthday is only relevant for so long, but as long as new YouTube videos come out, etc., in my estimation, it's okay to continue to bring the subject back up without being "spammy."


Offline lance.ewing

Re: The web version of AGILE (https://agi.sierra.games)
« Reply #96 on: May 14, 2024, 11:29:15 AM »
I have noticed a definite increase in views over the past 24 hours, in fact it has been the best day so far. It looks like a lot of that is from facebook, so thank you both. I have also been promoting it in more technical places, such as the libgdx reddit, as AGILE uses libgdx, and the gamedev.js newsletter. I'm going to think of a few more like that. Maybe things like webdev and javascript on reddit, but focus more on the tech used, e.g. certain browser APIs, as a way to introduce and link to the app. - Someone in the libgdx reddit was happy to have been able to play Tetris on their phone. Not sure which of the two Tetris games that was.

Yeah, I agree that bringing the subject back up under comments, etc. in relation to something related but new is avoiding being spammy. Thanks for the efforts.

The github stars have increased from 5 to 9 since the launch, so a few people have been looking at the github page as well.

Offline lance.ewing

Re: The web version of AGILE (https://agi.sierra.games)
« Reply #97 on: May 22, 2024, 02:41:55 PM »
Regarding promoting AGILE online, I had an idea about a week ago to put the original AGI interpreter source code out there and spread the story of its discovery in a blog post. As far as I know, it isn't commonly known of outside of our community. I think we're the only ones that talk about it, and, also as far as I know, I don't think anyone had noticed it prior to NewRisingSun mentioning it here about 8 years ago.

Anyway, I was thinking of ways that I could promote AGILE and thinking about how its implementation was always cross referenced again the original AGI interpreter source to help make sure it was as accurate as possible. I started thinking that the story about how roughly 70% of the AGI interpreter source code ended up being copied onto tens/hundreds of thousands of customer copies of SQ2 would be something that people might be a lot more interested in and perhaps I could use that as a way to link to AGILE as well.

It seems to be working. I published the blog post this morning, along with a github repo containing the source. It has both the 70% of the code from the SQ2 and another 5% or so from the KQ3 disk that I mentioned in a forum post on here a while back. So there's roughly 75% of the AGI interpreter source in there.

https://lanceewing.github.io/blog/sierra/agi/sq2/2024/05/22/do-you-own-this-space-quest-2-disk.html

https://github.com/lanceewing/agi

I mentioned it on Hacker News not long after publishing the blog post and repo. I'm checking now after work and the new "agi" repo has 10 stars already and the agile-gdx repo has also been increasing today, now at 14 stars. I haven't yet mentioned it anywhere else. Well that's not quite true. I tried to mention it on r/Sierra on reddit but my post was blocked again. I'll have a think about where else to mention it. Feel free to mention it wherever you like.

Offline Collector

Re: The web version of AGILE (https://agi.sierra.games)
« Reply #98 on: May 22, 2024, 04:02:01 PM »
I posted it in several pf the Sierra Facebook groups. A number of the old Sierra devs will see it.
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Offline doomlazer

Re: The web version of AGILE (https://agi.sierra.games)
« Reply #99 on: May 22, 2024, 04:35:05 PM »
I tried to mention it on r/Sierra on reddit but my post was blocked again.

I think r/Sierra auto removes posts if your karma is below some arbitrary threshold. Just message the mods and they will likely restore the post. Seems like a dumb system, but what do I know?

Offline lance.ewing

Re: The web version of AGILE (https://agi.sierra.games)
« Reply #100 on: May 23, 2024, 01:34:04 PM »
If you're quick, you'll see that it is at the top slot on Hacker News at the moment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/

Edit: I'd encourage some of you to join in on the discussions going on. Really interesting.


Offline mnicolella

Re: The web version of AGILE (https://agi.sierra.games)
« Reply #101 on: May 23, 2024, 01:51:20 PM »
Very interesting writeup of how the code was leaked! Was the complete AGI code never leaked? Why are there by contrast so many complete leaked versions of the SCI interpreter?

Offline lance.ewing

Re: The web version of AGILE (https://agi.sierra.games)
« Reply #102 on: May 23, 2024, 04:30:39 PM »
I don't think the complete AGI code was ever leaked as such. The documentation was, the editors were, the source for a few games, but not the interpreter code, as far as I know.

I have noticed that a few people have started mentioning it on various reddit communities now, including r/Sierra.

The stars for the agi repo just went above 40, and agile-gdx is at 22 at the moment.

A lot of traffic to agi.sierra.games, the most so far, seems to have come from a French website that mentioned it.

Offline vafada

Re: The web version of AGILE (https://agi.sierra.games)
« Reply #103 on: May 23, 2024, 05:38:33 PM »
just saw the post in HackerNews...

Amazing work!

Offline lance.ewing

Re: The web version of AGILE (https://agi.sierra.games)
« Reply #104 on: May 23, 2024, 05:48:52 PM »
hey, @vafada, good to see you on here again.

Are you referring to the original AGI interpreter source code on the SQ2 disk? Or the web version of AGILE? I assume the former. I can't take credit for the discovery on the SQ2 disk. That was NewRisingSun, as far as I know. There is a thread on here back in October 2016 where he mentions it. Since then, I've extracted the same code from my own copy of Space Quest II. Since then, I have also discovered a further lot of original AGI interpreter source files on a KQ3 disk. The github repo contains both. There was only a small amount of overlap.

Have you given the web version of AGILE a try yet?


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