Hay Ian, is it possible to make an object a container?  In my game I need 3 or 4 of them.

Hi all

Version 1.01 is now available.
It adds some slightly nicer error messages in a couple places.
It also adds a new function called removeLocation("pet store"); which is the opposite of addLocation();

It will now load music files placed in the Data\Adventure Game\Music or Data\Adventure Game\Adventures\[adventure name here]\Music folders.

As always it can be downloaded from http://BlindAudioGames.com

@nina0116, the engine does not support containers, though you could have a box item and the use action could create the items that were in it and destroy the box.  Optionally creating an empty box item at the same time.

@keyIsFull, regarding the global function to check the time.
When you say always run what do you mean?
Would it run whenever a key is pressed?  Whenever the main action menu is brought up?
Once per second?
10 times per second?

In the scripts folder there is function global_onKey(key, mod) {
This function gets called whenever someone presses a key.
I could likely add another global function that gets called based on when you need it called, let me know what you're thinking.
Also, if you're zipping up your game and sending it to people I'd love to see a copy.  I may be able to better help with things you need if I could see how it's working.

My apologies to both of you for the late response.

Here is AGE version 1.02

I've added an elapsedSeconds() function that gives you a floating point number with the number of seconds that have passed since the game was launched.
There is also a new global event that you can tie into by creating a function called global_onProcessed();
This function gets called each time the game goes through it's processing loop which is roughly 10 times a second.

You can see examples of using both of these in the chillingHam sample that now includes a bomb.

@KeyIsFull,  I've implemented the bomb scenario you described in the bomb.txt file and the chillingham sample global_events.txt file.
Hope you find it useful.  I'm still interested in trying out the game you are working on.

Glad to see how the engine is coming along.  My first game should be finished in a few days.  To be fair the game is an unautherized adaptation of the nentendo game "Shadowgate".

Hay Ian, is ther a way to have the gae run a function in rooms no matter what action the player takes?  In shadowgate the player has a torch, and every action they take weather that is examing an object, taking an object, or using an object the torch gets dimmer.

I haven't looked into how the engine itself works as deeply as I'd've liked, but since it uses javascript, maybe javascript's random numbers would work?

In which case, the code I'd use would be something like this:

function random_number(min, max) {
return min+Math.round(Math.random()*(max-min));
}

Which would be called like this:

var num = random_number(1, 10);

Which should set num to a value between and including 1 and 10.

But... I don't know how that would fit.

Thanks guys.  The game should be finished soon.

Hi all, sorry for my lack of responding on this thread.  I'll try to do a better job of responding.

@nina0116, after the changes we made via email are you still having the problem with Noesis.Javascript.JavascriptException: ReferenceError: take_torch is not defined?

If not, let me know.

Thanks

Hi everyone,

It's been ages since I've released a new version of the adventure game engine.

For quite some time Nina0116 has been working on the ShadowGate adventure which is a port from ShadowGate for the original Nintendo.

I'm happy to announce that Nina0116 has completed the adventure and now you can try it for yourselves.

The ShadowGate adventure is really the highlight of the whole release but I'll include a changelog so you know about the other engine updates.

I want to give a big thanks to Nina0116 as the engine has been a bit of a pain to work with and Nina's feedback and willingness to trudge forward despite the engine's problems have really served to improve the engine.
I'd also like to thank Allan Thompson for his very thorough job of testing the engine and ShadowGate adventure.
Even now he has found a few minor bugs that I'm sure Nina0116 will fix soon, but we wanted to release the game as the game is completely playable and a really fun experience.

The game can be downloaded from http://BlindAudioGames.com

Here are the changes for AGE 1.04:
1 When calling the music() function the filename is now case insensitive.
2 A getItem() function is now exposed which works just like getInventoryItem() but for items in the current location.
3 A createLocationItem() function now exists.
4 A destroyLocationItem() function now exists.
5 An onArrive event now exists for locations and should be used instead of onEnter.
6 Saving and loading is now supported
7 Javascript errors now report line and column numbers
8 You can now include menus in your adventure folder.
9 Made it so a location description is announced the first time you enter that location.
10 Updated loading of your game to reparse the adventure scripts rather than loading them from the saved game.  This allows saved games to benefit from bug fixes in script updates and makes debugging considerably better for scripters.
11 Added a goToActionList() function.
12 I've re-written the user guide.
13 Added some visuals for menus so low vision users can take advantage of them.

I hope you all enjoy Nina's hard work.

OK, I found a few bugs in Shaddow Gate:
1, I can't find the key. I've done everything I can think of and the key is not showing up. I looked in the script file and I don't see anything that would make the key not hidden. I took both unlit torches and lit both of them, but that doesn't work.
When I light both torches the number of lit torches remains 1 I believe. The number of unlit torches becomes neggitive. If I light the torches on the wall, the number is neggitive as well.
I am stuck going in and out of the first and second room...
Thanks,

stewie, thanks, the bug with not being able to use items in your inventory when there are no items in the room is a problem in the game engine that I need to fix.

Frastlin,
1 As stewie suggested try using the skull.
Thanks for the bug report about the torches.  We'll look into that.