What was the first AGS game that you played?

CaptainD · Fri 20/10/2023 15:47:09

Or at least, that you remember playing?

Mine goes all the way back to 2001!

Rob Blanc I - Better Days of a Defender of the Universe by Yahtzee

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/8-rob-blanc-i-better-days-of-a-defender-of-the-universe/

Just thought it would be fun to compare notes. Probably been done before, but I don't remember seeing anything for a long time.

bicilotti · Fri 20/10/2023 16:12:52

Unsurprisingly a Yahtzee game too, 5 Days a Stranger. It was on the front page of "The Home of the Underdogs".

CaptainD · Fri 20/10/2023 16:14:13

Quote from: bicilotti on Fri 20/10/2023 16:12:52Unsurprisingly a Yahtzee game too, 5 Days a Stranger. It was on the front page of "The Home of the Underdogs".

Oh I remember that site - didn't they host RON games at one time? (Or maybe even now and I just haven't seen it.)

Crimson Wizard · Fri 20/10/2023 16:21:44

When I just found AGS I had no idea what to look for, so started playing games in alphabetic order, choosing ones that looked fine on screenshots and had average+ rating.

Naturally, most of Yahtzee's games were there, because they had numbers in titles ("1213", "5 Days a Stranger", and so forth). Then "Alien Time Zone" by Babar and "Apprentice 1,2". Then "Ben Jordan" series. And so forth.

Postmodern Adventures · Fri 20/10/2023 16:30:58

5 Days a Stranger too. But never played the rest of the series. I also remember the first Ben Jordan, the freeware version of The Shivah, Apprentice and The Adventures of Fatman.

Danvzare · Fri 20/10/2023 17:34:29

If I recall correctly, I think it was Bog's Adventures in the Underworld.
Although I never did manage to finish it.

If I'm remembering correctly. I think I was searching for a full length game which had an artstyle and premise that I thought would be entertaining.

I think A Christmas Blunder was possibly the second.

As for how I found AGS. Well that was the result of it being on a list of RPG game engines I found. What kind of idiot made that list, I have no idea. But hey, I found AGS through it.

Pax Animo · Fri 20/10/2023 18:12:27

The Blackwell Legacy.

I didn't know anything about AGS at the time, so when I came across AGS many years later, I was pleasantly surprised to see it was developed using AGS.

RootBound · Fri 20/10/2023 18:59:48

Wow, this question made me remember games I hadn't thought about in a VERY long time.

The first AGS game I remember playing is Wet by Spyros. Evidently this won the very first MAGS competition!

Creamy · Fri 20/10/2023 19:48:39

One of the first AGS game I remember playing was Mind's Eye. I found it on Home of the Underdogs too.

Laura Hunt · Fri 20/10/2023 21:15:04

Mine was The Cat Lady, in 2016, but I had no idea it was made with AGS because I didn't know about AGS at all back then! I only connected the dots a couple of years later when I started making my own games with it.

LimpingFish · Fri 20/10/2023 22:54:18

Umm...Permanent Daylight.

Rincewind · Sat 21/10/2023 00:00:50

Hm, I think it was Night if the Hermit by Roy Lazarovich, sometime in the early 2000's. I remember looking for games similar to Monkey island online and then stumbling upon NOTH and subsequently discovering the AGS community shortly afterwards.

abstauber · Sat 21/10/2023 08:37:20

DemoQuest, because there weren't any completed games

But the first proper one was also Rob Blanc.

TheFrighter · Sat 21/10/2023 11:51:22

Not sure, probably Emerald City Confidential. Or Alice in Underland.

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Falsely · Sat 21/10/2023 13:20:14

Duzzquest. I went to a programming workshop some fifteen years ago and the instructor used it as an example of what AGS could do. The rest is history!

...Come to think of it, I don't know if I ever finished playing it. Or maybe it was the sequel I got stuck on.

Kini Games · Sat 21/10/2023 15:16:45

I think mine might've been Pleurghburg: Dark Ages, from long before my time as an AGSer.

heltenjon · Sat 21/10/2023 19:41:16

This is a really hard question, as I certainly wasn't aware of what AGS was back then. I suspect it may have been Rode Kill: A Day in the life or a Reality-on-the-norm game, like Lunchtime of the Damned. I downloaded games from Home of the Underdogs, and I suspect I found them from there. I also remember MAGS having its own website, ending in .tk if I recall it correctly. I may have played something from there first.

Edit: The (now obsolete) Mags site was indeed http://www.mags-competition.tk/ Probably viewable through the wayback machine, though, if someone wants to take a peek through time and see what it looked like back then.

cat · Sat 21/10/2023 20:25:43

The Fountain of Youth Demo I found somewhere on the internet. The end credits mentioned AGS and that's how I ended up here

Snarky · Sat 21/10/2023 23:09:03

For me, I'm relatively certain that it was King's Quest I VGA* — just like King's Quest I (SCI) was the first adventure game I played as a kid (not counting Shadowgate for the NES, which I only ever got to play a couple of screens of).

(* Not actually VGA)

Quote from: TheFrighter on Sat 21/10/2023 11:51:22Not sure, probably Emerald City Confidential.

That's not an AGS game.

TheFrighter · Sun 22/10/2023 09:31:16

My sorry, someway I remembered it as AGS!

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