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[YotamElal]

Hello,
Iv'e Been working on "The Quest To Zooloo" for about a half a year, very intenslly. I had no programing backroung at all & I did EVERYTHING by myself.
I managed to do this with the help from the AGS Technical forums.
This is the biggest project I've ever had, and finally it's finished.


The Quest To Zooloo - Full Talkie



Zooloo.rar 62mb
http://www.internet-...s100/Zooloo.rar

AGS "The Quest To Zooloo" Forum
http://www.bigbluecu...p?topic=20862.0

Artwork, Music, Programming, Story, Voice Narration, Puzzles: Created By Yotam Elal

[BeefontheBone]

much better - sorry i snapped at you before.

[A. J. Raffles]

What's this game about, then?

[YotamElal]

Game Outline:
Your name is Silly. You are an alien trying to find a way to get back to your home planet Zooloo.

[A. J. Raffles]

Let me guess: that way somehow involves cats and stop signs?

[BeefontheBone]

and a portcullis - alien homeworlds are notoriously hard to get to

[YotamElal]

Well.. That's just the first screen.
You'll need alot more to get to Zooloo.
And yes, alien homeworlds are notoriously hard to get to!
(But don't worry, not to hard)

[Sean]

The graphics look... well.... slightly ''n00bish'' forgive the term.

For example:
Chain And Gate have white outlines as they were not properly cut.
You can see the sky through the grass.. i dont know if that was deliberate but it really makes everything seem very unprofessional.

As a result of the screenshot i doubt ill be checking this game out.

Maybe you should think about revising the graphics before a final release?

I dont mean to come across as rude thats just my opinion. ill be quiet if you want me to. I just thought you might want advice on how to improve future AGS productions.

[Aureliano]

Magic, on May 26 2005, 06:06 PM, said:

I dont mean to come across as rude thats just my opinion. ill be quiet if you want me to. I just thought you might want advice on how to improve future AGS productions.

Being rude and apologizing for it at the same it isn't a winning formula, Magic. Either you're afraid of your own opinion and you don't give it to people, or you stand by it and you express it into an understandable and concrete form. If you didn't want to be rude, you could have avoided calling those graphics n00bish. Wait, lemme tell ya, I'll rephrase your post so that it'll not be rude.


"YotamElal, it seems to me that you have not put the necessary work into the graphics of your game.
For example:
Chain And Gate have white outlines as they were not properly cut.
You can see the sky through the grass... even if you want to give a cartoonish and simple feel, there are some things that don't depend on style : they are just the difference between quality and amateur.

Maybe you should think about revising the graphics before a final release ?"

See ? it's actually shorter.

[Sean]

Hmm.. perhaps you dont understand.

I wanted my views to be painted in bright red colours so everybody knew what i was talking about,i did not however want my post to come across as simple 'trolling' it was supposed to be constructive criticism.

[Aureliano]

Magic, on May 26 2005, 06:18 PM, said:

I wanted my views to be painted in bright red colours so everybody knew what i was talking about,i did not however want my post to come across as simple 'trolling' it was supposed to be constructive criticism.

So basically, the best way to get your point across and to make your opinion clear is to be rude about it - and since you don't want to sound rude,  you pretend not to be by inserting spineless attempts at sounding respectful like

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ill be quiet if you want me to.

so no one will notice how offensive some parts of your post are. I stand by my first statement  : make up your mind. You can't be one thing and the opposite.

Let's not discuss this further, lest we lead this post astray.

[BeefontheBone]

We sure are coming across as a mean, surly bunch aren't we? Sorry about that - constructive criticism is what we're looking for here guys. I have to agree with Magic about the white outlines and the holes in the grass - fixing those would improve that particular scene a lot without too much effort (a good idea considering it's the start of the game).

[A. J. Raffles]

If I might chip in here (maybe I shouldn't ), I found Magic's original post far less harsh than Aureliano's paraphrase, actually...

Anyway, I understand that YotamElal wants to encourage feedback on his project, and that would include - constructive - criticism. And what's wrong with trying to put things politely, by the way? Not everyone likes bluntness.

I noticed the download is a .rar-file, so I won't be able to unzip it in WinZip, right?

[BeefontheBone]

Probably not - WinRAR has a similar trial period to winzip, or i think Total Commander will handle it too. ( 7zip might too in fact)

[YotamElal]

1.
I like comments & criticism. I do perfer when the criticism is polite.
I don't think Magic was being rude.

2.
Chain And Gate have white outlines as they were not properly cut.
I'm sorry about that, I should update the screen shot. (I changed that in the game about a week ago.)

3.
You can see the sky through the grass..
I guess I didn't really see that. I'll get right to it.

4.

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As a result of the screenshot i doubt ill be checking this game out.

YOUR LOSS!
Funny that becuase of 2 small flaws in the graphics, you let yourself lose out in playing a Full Length, Full Speech, Original Adventure Game...
You should check out some posts from the people who beat the game! (From the AGS forum page)

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Maybe you should think about revising the graphics before a final release?

I think the graphics are great, (I will improve the see-through grass.)

6.
Winzip should beable to decompress rar files.
If you have a problem then you can download winrar:
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

7.
I'd be happy to hear more constructive - criticism.
It would be better though if it was allso from the game and not only from the screenshot.