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[The Merchant Of Menace]

There's plenty of documentation for it, I'd say give it a go before you decide it's too hard. And character animation isn't too hard if you follow the base animation frames they already have.

As for gameplay, the basic formula is wander around and click on things until a thing happens, anything on top of that is a bonus.

[Neonivek]

There's plenty of documentation for it, I'd say give it a go before you decide it's too hard. And character animation isn't too hard if you follow the base animation frames they already have.

As for gameplay, the basic formula is wander around and click on things until a thing happens, anything on top of that is a bonus.

I guess I'll go for something more basic for my first time out... AND I'll make the story in such a way that community help is possible.

I don't really want to make a Dwarf Fortress based point and click but beggers can't be chosers. Just need a design set out.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

If you're gonna go for community help, I suggest something totally nonsensical and stupid. Because 99% of the suggestions you get are going to just that.

And be sure to check the tutorial that comes with AGS, it covers most of the stuff you need to know.

Also, I just realized I must sound like I get money for every download of it or something

[Max White]

Hmm.
*Googlepedia*
So how much freedom does it give you when it says point and click? We talking 'Return to Zork' or full on 'machinarium'? Could one replicate the puzzles from myst? Does it allow for simple turn based combat?

[Neonivek]

Hmm.
*Googlepedia*
So how much freedom does it give you when it says point and click? We talking 'Return to Zork' or full on 'machinarium'? Could one replicate the puzzles from myst? Does it allow for simple turn based combat?

Point and click with strategic combat?

Wait a minute... Quest For Glory? I love that series!

[The Merchant Of Menace]

The QFG2 VGA remake was made in AGS as far as I know.

[Draco18s]

Hmm.
*Googlepedia*
So how much freedom does it give you when it says point and click? We talking 'Return to Zork' or full on 'machinarium'? Could one replicate the puzzles from myst? Does it allow for simple turn based combat?

The Myst puzzles have been replicated in Minecraft so doing it in JS would be trivial.

[RedKing]

Magic Carpet 3. Without too much tweaks or additions to the gameplay, just updated graphics. Real-time terrain deformation MUST remain.

[Starver]

I feel both old and disconnected.  If MC3 is the double-sequel to the original Magic Carpet I remember playing, I can perceive both the passage of time and the fact that I've somehow missed two further generations of that game...

[RedKing]

Magic Carpet II came out in 1995. Was good...had a number of underground/cave levels where you had to use terrain deformation to open up new sections of the level.

[Starver]

Magic Carpet II came out in 1995. Was good...had a number of underground/cave levels where you had to use terrain deformation to open up new sections of the level.

I remember '95[1].  Must have been lost in the rest of the stuff of that year.  (When did Battlezone[2] come out?  Carmageddon[2]?  Hmm, a couple of years later.  Not sure what was trying to attracted my attention at that point, in lieu MC2, but it had obviously succeeded.)



[1]

Spoiler: Nostalgia (click to show/hide)

Got myself a P133 with 8Mb RAM (added another 32Mb, eventually, to 40Mb), a massive 1GB HDD (added a second of that size).  Decided to go with Win95 installed instead of Win3.1, after all.

[2] Incidentally, two prototypical games which (in their own ways) I wouldn't seeing been updated or otherwise improved for modern machines.

[Draco18s]

[1]

Spoiler: Nostalgia (click to show/hide)

Got myself a P133 with 8Mb RAM (added another 32Mb, eventually, to 40Mb), a massive 1GB HDD (added a second of that size).  Decided to go with Win95 installed instead of Win3.1, after all.

What's that sonny?  A P133?  Ha.  I've got a 486 in the basement.  Used one of its RAM sticks as a keychain fob for several years before the chips fell off.

[timferius]

We had a 486 for a while, I was a wee one then though, so I'm not as old as you two old farts.

(Kids these days, no respect for their elders, amiright?)

[Urist McScoopbeard]

We had a 486 for a while, I was a wee one then though, so I'm not as old as you two old farts.

(Kids these days, no respect for their elders, amiright?)

(Elders these days, no respect for their kids, amiright?) I wish a combination of men of war and dwarf fortress existed

[Starver]

Not my first computer[1], nor (intentionally) meant as a oneupmanship shot.  Merely a mental milestone that somehow escaped onto the keyboard.

Back on subject, perhaps something from that age that I'd bring back is something like the Maze program (BBC Model B, randomly generated maze, run through by player in 3D[3], you having to navigate through against the machinations of patrol bots[4], a find some keys to the elevator to the next level on).  Because, now I think of it, I can suddenly feel once more the far reaches of my old addiction drawing on me.

Spoiler: Warning, these footnotes look dangerously like they /are/ a volley of oneupmanship{5}... (click to show/hide)

[1] I'm sure the first ("100% IBM-Compatible") PC was a 286, but before (and during) that time, there was also the BBC B, the ZX81 and the... unremembered-thing-from-a-kit[2].

[2] I know Sinclair did kits, but my memories of this thing was that it was even more basic (boot-strap/program from dip-switches, I know it could make tunes from properly set up tones), but not Altair-like.  Much smaller and probably less practical.  More an Educational kit, rather than a 'hobby' one, I suppose.

[3] Very basic 3D, in that your views were purely orthogonal (except for a "rotating left/right" transition effect) and so all it had to do was represent a limited number of "vanishing point" vectors and vertical/horizontal lines between them.

[4] Pasted into the above scene, probably.  A scalable filled-vector representation with a small amount of windowing when emerging from/disappearing behind various walls.  Actually, I'm going to write this for myself, when I have a bit of spare time.  I can even remember what I had worked out about the maze-generation algorithm.

{5} But I happen to know there are people with better credentials than me, on this forum, so this is not my intention.  Just me rambling, as per usual.