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I've been making this little thing about losing my keys. It's currently one room and really just practice for a lot of the basics of AGS and some more advanced things.

There's a curled rug that keeps flipping up, (you can stick it down with something, that's the only "puzzle" so far), and a bunch of junk to interact with, and you basically look around for your keys until you find them.

Anyway, it's done enough to be playable at any rate and I thought I'd post it here. You can play it at: https://ophidic.itch.io/the-keys-knees

I though I had whittled things down to be simple, but unfortunately not simple enough it seems. I gave up for now trying to do arrays, I could never do arrays, not in applesoft basic, not now.

After difficulties with other things I decided on a simple RNG on game start that defines a location of an item, just in checking a hot spot it will check the variable and if the 3rd location detects the variable is 3 it gives you the item and if says the other thing.

that should be defined as far as I'm aware as:

Code: ags

function game_start()
{
int RNG = (1, 4);
}

I think? I don't know if I'm doing that right, I've been talking to chat gpt and looking at the manual but I'm not gasping this somehow.

It INSISTS I can refer to RNG in a room function thing but it doesn't come up on the list of things that I can use. I keep getting errors about stuff not defined and I am not even really sure how to ask or continue to look for help on this since the documentation isn't helping me grasp this at all. I wish I knew the words for these things better.

I'm starting to make some puzzles and I want to do a combo lock like this one.



Unfortunately I'm still new at this and I'm not sure what the best way to approach it would be, I was looking at making a gui, but 'm not sure it would be good to learn GUIs at the same time as trying to code a game mechanic.

Perhaps maybe I make a room with a close up graphic of the lock, and objects for the numbers that go up on left click and down on right click?

Either way, I'm not totally sure how I would go about starting that. I could define the code in the room script if I made a dedicated room for such a puzzle right? Haha it feels like the deep end every time I try a new thing.

Just the start of a little practice game where I misplace my keys, and search around the house for them.

I drew everything here except the font and GUI, and I managed to make a functioning drawer after a little bit of fighting with the baseline.

Also my first time using overlays and animated backgrounds, so that was fun.

My walk cycle is janky, yeah, but I was looking at the NES MM sprites for reference and they seem to only have 3 frames per direction.

I've been converting paintings and things into 16 color EGA, and these are a few of 'em with the originals for comparison. I've omitted/changed some details to make them more room-like or whatever or just cuz I got lazy. I assume this is the right place to just show stuff you did.
















I'm not great at animation, but I started doing a sprite for Son of Man.




I'm realizing now that I made the coat longer as it is in the painting, I have to make that change on the front view sprite as well.

Oh and here's a couple I did while taking a look at Tom and Jerry background cels. They're really weird without characters in them.

Hello. I'm trying to get a result when using an inventory item on a character in the 2 click template. I just finished making two items that combine into one item giving the new item and taking the other two away


So say I have cEgo and I want to 'give' iey that to cPerson, uhhh how do I express that?
I see the example cEgo.ActiveInventory = iKey; in the manual... and I understand how to do the rest of what I want for now, but the manual doesn't say how to use it and I don't know how to write the code from nothing just yet. Not sure where or how to start it sometimes, like in this case.

I can find a lot of stuff about inventory here but I can't find what I need. I found an old example of how to do it from 2004 but the topic is locked and the commands are obsolete.

Thanks

Edit: Here is a video of my practice so far, I've done some masks for the walk & walk behind areas.  Drew all the EGA backgrounds and that, but just using roger still.