How do I make a game in AGS

OzzieMonkey · May 2010

Ok, I need help here. I have a Science assignment that's due on Monday PST, and I have decided to make an adventure game that gives sciency info with a friend of mine. Now, I'm really stuck, coz I don't really know a lot about what to do. Can anyone please help?

monkeymovies · May 2010

I've been using AGS on and off for a few years (on right now, cause I should have a game out soon

) but anyway...

Ok, here's how to set up a basic room, keep in mind, I'm not great with tutorials!
Open the studio and type a name for the game, etc. Then choose your desired resolution such as 320x200 (used in Monkey Island 1/2) or 640x480 (used in Monkey Island 3).
If you go into the room panel and create a room, then you can import a picture to use as your room background. The picture has to be the same size or bigger than the resolution you've picked (bigger means that the room will scroll).
The areas panel shows that you can draw hotspots (items to interact with), walkable Areas (areas to walk on), walk-behinds (when baselines are inserted, characters will walk behind it) or regions (for altering a character's level of brightness or colour).
Keep in mind that I'm still using AGS 2.72 (I find it easier to use than the newer versions, but it should still be under the same basic rules). Ok, so once we have a background imported, draw a walkable area onto it, this is the area that the character will be allowed to walk around on.
Now to put a character into the scene, save your room as room1 (all rooms are saved in numbers as room__)go to the sprite manager, import a sprite (let's say we copy and paste something from MS Paint as a test). We then go to views, create a new view and use that sprite we just imported into the first frame of the top view (this serves as the character's front normal view, future frames are used as the walking animations). Other loops lower down in the list are used as left, right and backward static views, but let's just focus on this for now.
Ok, now go to the characters tab. Create a new character, give him a name and a script name, then set his normal view to the view number we just created. Then set this character as the player character, make sure his starting room is the room number that we just created, make sure that he is positioned on the co-ordinates of the walkable area that we drew in that room earlier on.
Now we'll save what we've done, go to Test Game, then we can hopefully move the character around the room.
And that's it! The first step to creating the next Monkey Isl....err...your own original adventure game!

Sorry if that was a little hard to understand! I've never done one of these tutorial things before...

Leafar · May 2010

Video-tutorials in portuguese (Brazil)... maybe it helps someone, or not! ^^

http://z15.invisionfree.com/ScummBR_Forum/index.php?showtopic=1314

MonkeyMania · May 2010

zhebrica · May 2010

That tutorial series is really good. Thanks for the link!

Wolfstar27 · May 2010

hmmm i might need to bookmark this thread

taumel · May 2010

Wow, great infos here, i spare myself offering tips now.

rhaith · May 2010

Here you go:

http://tinyurl.com/36r9ote

and no it's not a virus or goatse

How do I make a game in AGS

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