How to use AGS Part 1 (Introduction) Video Lecture | Learn and Master: Adventure Game Studio (AGS) - Game Development

hi youtube welcome to the adventure game
studio how-to series where I will be
walking you through the adventure game
studio editor and how to use it to
create again adventure game studio is a
program written by Chris Jones and it
allows you to create adventure games
similar to the ones that were created by
Sierra online and LucasArts back in the
late 80s early 90s games like King's
Quest quest for glory The Secret of
Monkey Island those kind of types of
games and it does a really really good
job of that I mean it's a really great
program for for for creating those types
of games it allows you to custo tallit
totally customize your your interface in
your game it has great features for
creating you know your own custom gooeys
in the game but it also has built-in
defaults like saving your game restoring
your game your inventory management
things like that are sort of built in
for you so it's a really good program
for just allowing you to create a great
a great adventure game so the first
thing I wanted to do is explain that the
game that I'll be actually showing how
to to design this in this series is the
Sammis quest game and if you haven't
already you might want to check out
before you watch this this series of
videos you might want to check out the
Sammis quest walkthrough that's on my
channel dens ming de NSM img' on youtube
there's a series there's a playlist
there for Sammy's quest walkthrough and
that just sort of walks through the game
that we'll be going over in the AGS
editor just to kind of give you an idea
of what the game is Before we jump in so
the first thing I wanted to do wanted to
do for a GS editor video is show where
to get a GS I've got a web browser up
here and actually I might the adventure
game studio homepage which is adventure
game studio dot co uk so that's all one
word obviously adventure game studio co
uk and once you get there there's lots
and lots of things to do on the website
but just to get to get athe s there's a
download
link on the left you click on that
currently the current version I believe
is 3.0 point 2 so you can get that from
if you scroll down a little bit you can
get it from either the German server or
the USA server whichever is closest to
wherever you are or you can get a Aurora
file which doesn't include the demo game
from the download plain RAR file link so
however you want to get it it's fine
once you download it you run the
installation program and it will install
the install the editor so what I'm going
to do is I'm going to close that out and
I'm going to load up a GS just to kind
of give a brief overview of now you know
what I'll load up
Sammis quest this isn't the complete
Sammis quest but just to give you an
idea of what the editor is and sort of
the the different parts of the editor
here once you've got the editor open
that that screen you saw was the wizard
and asked me what I wanted to do and I
just said load up AG load up Sammy's
quest I'm here in the middle on the left
you have what's called the the main you
know view window and this shows you your
current document that you have open and
I call it a document it could be a
character it could be a room it could be
a view it could be a font it could be
whatever what every particular thing you
have open currently is displaying this
the start page and then the upper right
corner is really your meat potatoes of
your your your game this is where you
have all of the different components of
your game here this is called the
project tree ever anywhere from general
settings of your game to your gooeys to
the different characters in the game
scroll down I have the different rooms
in the game that I have of course this
is not a complete version of Sammys
quests I only have one room in one
character but if I had more you'd see
them listed here your different mouse
cursors that you have in the game so
everything that every component in your
game is going to be listed here in the
project tree if I double click on any
particular component for example Sammy
it'll bring it it will bring up Sammy
that particular component in the the
document window and then in the lower
right corner then you have what's called
the properties window and that has the
properties of the currently open
object so it has all the different
attributes that you can assign to that
object for the case of a character you
have you know the name of the character
the script name what room the character
starts in the X&Y location that the
character starts in that room and just
lots of other things associated with
that particular character for an
inventory item for example if I get Abel
click on any of these inventory items
you have you know where the hotspot is
located for that inventory item you have
the name of the item whether or not the
player starts with the item so there's
just a whole slew of different things
that you can do that you can set on via
what's called what are called the
attributes or the properties of that
particular item down here in the lower
right hand corner across the top you
have your standard toolbar you'll get
more icons depending on whether or not
you're enter you're editing a room or
not for example if I double click on the
main hall I go to hotspots I have you
know I have drawing sort of drawing
buttons that came up when I clicked on
the hotspots here that allowed me to
draw in the room and so that's really
the basic interface for for a GS editor
which will be going over so in the next
series of videos we'll be talking about
actually in the first series of videos
we'll be talking about your first
character how to create your first
character Sammy in this case and then
we'll go from there we'll create the
room will put Sammy in the room we'll
have them say a few things and and then
we'll go from there so I hope you
enjoyed this video leave comments by the
way if you have suggestions or if you
have things that I didn't cover clearly
enough and I'll try to post you know I
can post them additional videos if
people have questions or want additional
questions answered or something like
that another good place and I meant to
mention this when I went over when I
talked about the AGS studio adventure
game studio website you go there now if
you go to the forums there's a link over
here on the left for forums this is a
really really really really good place
to go for questions on the AGSM AGS has
a very very active community of people
who who use a GS
people know a lot more than I do about
it so I'm no expert by any means I've
created one game using a GS and that's
it but there are people that on the
forums that have created you know tons
and tons of games that know a lot more
about this tonight than I do so if you
go into forums enter the forum's into
the main forums now you can create a
login I'm Dee dens being in there but
you can create a login if you want to
and you know go go in here ask questions
look to see if your question might have
already been answered in the forums but
if not you know ask questions
CJ Chris Jones the person that actually
wrote AGS at an aes engine is a frequent
member and contributor to the forums as
well so you know if any if anybody knows
the answer he will he'll post if if he
if he reads it and has the answer he'll
make sure that he he contributes as well
so it's a great place to go if you have
questions while you're designing a game
I know I did and I continue to I mean
there's there's tons of things in Ag s
edit that I have never experienced
before or maybe others don't even know
so but but if you have questions or just
comments or if I just say something
totally wrong that's totally not true
then you know feel free to put a post on
the comments and subscribe to my videos
I'll be adding them as I create them as
I have time at night and what-have-you
so anyway I hope that you all watch my
videos take it easy bye