AGS in the media

[Akatosh]

I don't know if it counts, but AGS is mentioned in the Game Programming wiki (http://www.gpwiki.org/index.php/Tools:Programming), under Game Authoring Tools.

[LimpingFish]

PC Gamer (UK) latest issue:

AGS Awards!

The Shivah!

Fortune and glory, etc, etc.

[SSH]

I didn't know Snarky wrote Trilby's Notes!

[GarageGothic]

I love how PC Zone's reviewer of The Shivah (linked on the Wadjet Eye site) writes: "I won't spoil the plot by saying any more", yet the review features a screenshot of:

Spoiler

Rabbi Zelig holding a gun.

[close]

I myself turned in a review of The Shivah today to the Danish newspaper Politiken, by the way (as a supplement to an article on Manifesto Games where Dave is also quoted). I'll post a link when it's been published.

[m0ds]

Sweet! Love the ags award segment!! I love how strangely incorrect it is too. Looks like someone didn't do the research properly on AdventureGamers.com :p But alas Dave, you got REVIEWED! An "intriguing(sp)" score but moreso a nice bit of mass exposure across the UK. Congrats

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Whoever is submitting these games to these magazines, submit a few of mine and I'll slip you a fiver!  Or at least my gratitude. 

[LimpingFish]

I presume whoever is in charge of these things uses various genre websites, or sites such as Abandonia Reloaded, to source games for their coverdiscs.

Maybe we should start an AGS Public Relations Department to pimp our wares and ensure correct creator credits and such.

[Ashen]

The Onion AV Club reviewed 'The Shivah'. Does that count as 'in the media'?

[m0ds]

6 Days A Sacrifice, I am reliably informed, has been favourably reviewed in issue 201 of British 'serious' computing journal PC Format.

Anyone got a copy of issue 201?

[LimpingFish]

I have some stuff to scan and will do so in a bit. These include (I think):

The Six Days thing m0ds is looking for, plus a PC Gamer review of same.
Two Blackwell reviews (one a tad harsh).
Two reviews of Gesundheit! (both positive).


...and possibly something else. I could be wrong. I'll have to go look down the pit.

EDIT: Okay, scanned and uploaded. You can find them on AGScene...here!

[vertigoaddict]

wow, if one of my games ever get mentioned in a public magazine, I'd get so excited! I'd scream at the top of my lungs till my dad would beat me up with something hard (and possibly metal) just to shut me up...AND FAIL!

...you get the idea...OwO

[edmundito]

Two AGS games (Gesundheit and Trilby: The Art of Theft) mentioned in this article:

The Best Indie Games You (n)Ever played:
http://www.thinkdigit.com/details.php?article_id=2499

[edmundito]

AGS is mentioned (and screenshoted!) in this article comparing making games with tool such as AGS to taking home made pictures with your digital camera:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3784/persuasive_games_video_game_.php

It makes a pretty interesting argument:

"A focus on formal constraints like character statistics or genre distinctions like moving from screen to screen makes sense from a tool developer's perspective: different sorts of games require different kinds of programmatic infrastructures.

But from the lay creator's perspective, genre is a less useful starting point than topic. "I want to make a game about my cat" is a different sentiment than "I want to make a graphical adventure game." Photography doesn't make such a distinction; a camera can just as easily take a landscape as a portrait."

He kind of mentions that there should be more game tools for creating game "snapshots" of any kind, kind of what most people use their photo cameras at home. Though, I can recall that SSH made the Princess Marian Games as gifts; this is exactly what he's talking about.

[fred]

I just noticed this page with mention and an embedded TV spot reviewing AGS

Troldspejlet

It's from a Danish TV program called 'Troldspejlet' which has been reviewing cartoons, video games and anything else fantasy/sci-fi/cult since 1989 - it's quite popular.

The review explains briefly about AGS, showing a game (Apprentice II) and the engine itself, explaining it's primarily for the 'determined' amateur developers, since it has a learning curve and many advanced features. It's a very positive review though, urging people to try some AGS games 

[GarageGothic]

Awesome, I love Troldspejlet but haven't watched it the last three years since I no longer have a TV. I met Jacob Stegelmann (the host of the show) once at a press screening of "V for Vendetta" and went into total fanboy mode, telling him I'd been watching the program since I was a kid - which apparently made him feel very old

[Alarconte]

Nanobots and AGS awards in one of the first spanish games magazine, Micromania



(I was on holydays of our spanish "Holy week" xD and I buyed the magazine (I buy it from time to time) and I enjoyed that was Nanobots in it!)

[buddyanwanda]

every body needs to make love

[zabnat]

In Finlands biggest magazine for new technology and computers, MikroBitti, there was a whole spread just for cheap and free adventure games. Featured on the free page there was three AGS games (out of four). Ben There, Dan That!, Ben Jordan: Case 7 - The Cardinal Sins and Duty and Beyond.

[LimpingFish]

Boing Boing has an post on indie adventures that mentions Ben There Dan that, The Shivah, and Puzzlebots/Nanobots:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/20/click-track-a-guide.html

[m0ds]

I was looking in the shop today cos I'm supposed to be in a mag soon (non computer) and ended up flicking through PC Format as they seem to have (finally) stopped putting plastic wrapping around it.

Nothing there, but PC Plus has at the top of the cover; "Make your own Monkey Island!" which I knew instantly would be yet enother AGS tutorial. There are in fact 3 pages of pretty concise notes on how to make a game and it goes into depth with the scripting.

They've also bigged up RON and suggested people try making their own RON game. Also a link to the forums, the Wiki and it looks like they've used some art from Ben There, Dan That (a parrot saying BWARK! ??).

So AGS is definitely still out there No mention of games though, at least, not that I saw, but I really did just skim-read, as thankfully I already know how to use it