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How Adventure Game Studio sparked @dave.powerhoof.com journey into game development, just like @juliaminamata.bsky.social origin story! 🚀
From first clicks to first code, this is where it all began.
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It's time for the next AGS Highlights article! Issue 19 is going to be packed, since so many great games have been released. You won't want to miss it!
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www.dasklapptsonicht.de/ags-highligh...
Title card: Fletcher and the kingdom of the molemen, Press anywhere to begin, this title screen does not represent the quality of this game
character reference sheet for Fletcher McCallister
Throwback to my #AdventureGameStudio days back in 2013, I never released them, and I lost the files long ago, these are the only screenshots proving it existed. #oc #scarsofkalakar #gamedev #developercommentary #indiedev
Somehow I've released 9 AGS games. Albeit they were all shorts and the majorly of them done for jams.
To bad I don't seem to have the brain for longer projects.
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I think we're at 'let's finish this' numbers! It's been about a year and half? I think... My hand hurts. Also my brain.
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To give you an idea of how much I'm revamping this, I'm learning how to use a MOD Tracker to port the menu's theme! Now I've just gotta bug the AGS devs about their broken looping MOD file support... #AdventureGameStudio #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev
Ah, new MAGS (Monthly Adventure Game Studio) competition, and this time the focus is on... “Brainrot”.
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MALLICIOUS is out!! (MAGS jam version).. We might have a bunch of issues to fix, I've been pretty feverish and it's probably gotten weirder. #gamedev #pixelart #adventuregamestudio
jfrisby.itch.io/mallicious
We have a title & title screen! MALLICIOUS is coming soon. (before christmas... er, maybe.). #mags #adventuregamestudio #pixelart
A brand new build of Sequence Break is now available to play! Continue the descent with a new area that'll leave you wanting more!
slightly-sleepy-studios.itch.io/sequence-bre...
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A screenshot from a Work-in-progress build of Sequence Break. In it, the familiar lounge appears to have some slight alterations from the last time Hellbound One has seen it. The room is filled with red mist, as an exit door is shown to be wide open. Hellbound responds to the situation thusly: "...they're here..."
A new build of Sequence Break is finally coming soon! I don't like to drum up hype, but I have a feeling this is going to leave you wanting more... Stay tuned.
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![A screen grab of a bash terminal, altered to remove potentially identifying information about my code. The window shows me running a git commit command with the following comment: ""Refactor PersisitentStatTracker to save and load to disk only as needed. AKA: Spend way too much time refactoring code that only just so happened to work right becasue it wasn't programmed correctly to begin with, so now it should work right like it should have from the beginning. This change breaks the FULL GAME RESET room, so it's been modified to close the game instead [sic] of calling RestartGame, and risking more stale persistent states."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bk3dxtqzmdm4roxqanmlvlcv/bafkreihwyxmvobd75d2i43h5olk6doh3qilkhv2icinkclv5yh4i2u5lwy)
A screen grab of a bash terminal, altered to remove potentially identifying information about my code. The window shows me running a git commit command with the following comment: ""Refactor PersisitentStatTracker to save and load to disk only as needed. AKA: Spend way too much time refactoring code that only just so happened to work right becasue it wasn't programmed correctly to begin with, so now it should work right like it should have from the beginning. This change breaks the FULL GAME RESET room, so it's been modified to close the game instead [sic] of calling RestartGame, and risking more stale persistent states."
It's been one of those days...
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A screenshot of a work-in-progress build of Sequence Break. The game screen shows the game’s logo with handwritten text that reads “Visuals not ready yet…” sitting next to a smiley face, written with a colon and close parenthesis, as if writing a text message with that emoticon. Sitting on top of the image is a portrait of a character with text above him: he says “NOW I see it. NOW I know what’s going on.”
Do you, good sir? Do you REALLY see what’s going on?
A still from a work-in-progress version of my game - gotta remember to put in a technical blooper reel at some point!
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Here's something I should have done a while ago - implement a sound test!
Pro Tip - if your game relies heavily on an audio soundscape, MAKE A SOUND TEST! It'll be easier than going to each trigger point manually, believe me!
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Chatted with @threeohfour.bsky.social about this game a year ago, and he’s working on some mad sorcery with #AdventureGameStudio
Revisiting Sierra's King's Quest Series in 2025. Part 4 - The Perils of Rosella.
#steamdeck #kingsquest #kingsquest4 #perilsofrosella #sierra #adventuregames #pointandclick #retrogames #retro #retrogaming #ags #adventuregamestudio #remake #retold #daventry #kq4
A terminal window, showing the partial output of my current code base's status. It lists numerous files in red text, indicating that I have modified those files, but that I haven't committed - or made permanent - those changes.
Time for the most terrifying part of a pre-release workflow... bug fixes.
The PR, the announcements and even the upload of the game? Easy! Trying to find as many bugs to quash before release as possible? Not so easy.
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Watch this space: I'm closing in on my next build of Sequence Break! This build will be adding two new areas to the game, turning my "Proof of Survival" into a proper Proof of Concept.
Should be out within the next few days. Stay tuned! #IndieDev #SoloDev #GameDev #AdventureGameStudio
Congrats on the release, @juliaminamata.bsky.social! We (as @edmundito.com) helped out with making this possible. We helped add character spacing support to #AdventureGameStudio, among other technical details.
A screenshot of a work-in-progress version of Sequence Break. The main character is looking at himself in the mirror. A portrait image of his face is slapped on top of where his head would be in the actual background image, making his face look cuter than the more gritty take on his visage as intended. He is talking to himself: "That's me... or what's left of me."
POV: You're here, but mentally you're somewhere else.
(Unintended bug I stumbled upon during play testing after moving my dev environment - I apparently forgot to check all cutscenes with my new portrait system! This is #art, I don't care!)
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"You don't have to open the door. Not yet."
-???
Who's that person in the cloak?
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A security camera angle, looking at a table currently set up as a poker table. The game is Texas Hold-em. The Flop, Turn and River are, respectively, King of Diamonds, 7 of Spades and Jack of Clubs; 7 of Clubs; and Queen of Hearts. The losing two-card hand - a 7 of Hearts and a 7 of Diamonds - results in a four of a kind. The winning two-card hand - tossed on-screen by a hand from the right hand side of the frame - reveals an Ace of Clubs and a 10 of Diamonds, completing a Royal Flush.
"4-of-a-kind! Read 'em and weep, boys!"
"Not so fast, bub!"
"What is it, doll-face?"
"Royal Flush, dirtbag."
[May or may not have been toned down for BlueSky, heh...]
A Scene from a security camera system, coming to my game in the next build.
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This wouldn’t have been possible without a lot of the improvements made to #AdventureGameStudio by all the contributors to make the engine much easier to port to other platforms, and Ryan C. Gordon for sharing the SDL Nintendo Switch port.
The cat's out of the bag! I've been working on this (through my tiny company @clickpulp.com) for the past year, creating a new port for #AdventureGameStudio for Nintendo Switch, and designing a new controller scheme that feels more natural for gamepads while maintaining the point-and-click gameplay.
What a way to end the week - implemented (a very basic form of) New Game+, Swapped out the old panel for my new, multi-purpose main menu, and even got a limited version of my extras menu ready for mid-game access!
Honestly, I'm feeling proud, heh...
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Slowly refining my visuals and adding a new menu system so it's not just wall-to-wall Default AGS visuals (Not entirely at least...) and... for the first time, I'm feeling like I'm actually putting together a proper video game!
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Going to very great lengths to justify the upside down room. #RiseofPigMan #WIP #Adventuregamestudio
Any of my fellow #adventuregamestudio #ags users know why hotspots descriptions would be showing up in the action bar (Text at the bottom of the screen) and not inventory items?
It works if I start a new project with the BASS template but not in my current project so I'm not sure what I screwed up
Following up on yesterday, I've now added my Pocket Communicator, along with full support for tracking files are downloaded and can be shown to the player! With this, my first area of the game is functionally complete! 🎉
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