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Perfect Tides

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Summary:
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen. Set in the year 2000, you follow Mara, an internet-obsessed young writer who lives on a so-called island paradise.





"One of the year's best games." -Kotaku
"A harrowing, funny, beautiful, horrifying, and ultimately reassuring work of art." -AV Club
"Breathtakingly good... an incredible feat of storytelling." -Buried Treasure
"Devastatingly honest." -Polygon

It would do my heart well to be honored by the AGS community. Please consider Perfect Tides for:

Best Game
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Original Music

 

[Perfect Tides]

I'm pleased to announce the release of my 4+ year game project, Perfect Tides!

Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen. Set in the year 2000, you play as Mara, an internet-obsessed young writer who lives on a so-called island paradise. Following 4 seasons of the year, you experience through Mara the beauty and silence of the island, the turmoil of family life and mainland public school, and an ever-evolving quest for love, friendship and experience.





Featuring:

-Classic 90s-style Point and Click user interface: collect inventory, interact with people and objects, and explore your island home.
-Rich narrative and character-driven story: solve puzzles and watch the plot unfold.
-Move through 45+ beautifully designed rooms, day and night, in 4 seasons of the year.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172800/Perfect_Tides/
Itch.io: https://granulac.itch.io/perfect-tides

I want to give a huge thanks to the AGS community for their early interest and support in this game. I had so much encouragement and tech help on my very first game, and I'm proud and excited to have seen it through. Would love to hear what some of you think!

This was totally it - I had a few buttons visible! It's working perfectly now. Thank you so much, Khris!

Apologies for bumping the thread again, I have one final question. The module has been extremely useful in my game - it comes up in multiple scenes - but the longer you play, the creakier the animations get. Not just the scrolling of the text, but any other nonblocking animations just become unbearably slow. I've tried turning off any extraneous animation, but it doesn't seem to make a difference - the chat itself is still just as slow.

I've used Chat.Clear before each scene and Chat.Cleanup at quit - still, the scenes creak on. Any thoughts on what might be bogging the game down would be much appreciated!

Sorry to revive the thread. This plugin has been enormously useful to me, but I haven't been able to figure out how to use it in skippable cutscenes. The game inevitably freezes if I try to skip any Chatdisplay content. I've tried to use if (!Game.SkippingCutscene) to bypass the Chat code, but no luck.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Either way it's a terrific module!