Adventure Game Studio 3.1

Adventure Game Studio (AGS) is an excellent visual system that will help you to create your own adventure games like the ones that used to be created in the nineties. AGS will let you concentrate more on the process of game creation, and make the development of different stages of your game an easy task.

Adventure Game Studio is a powerful game creator that includes many key features. For instance, it features a flexible scripting system, which allows you to write customize your game greatly by means of scripts. You can set up background music for your game, and also play sound effects at appropriate times when your game is running. Edit GUIs (Graphicl User Interface) easily. The game interface is split up into GUIs. Each GUI is a rectangular region on the screen which is drawn on top of the background scene. With this for example, you can create text/lists boxes, customized text windows, GUI buttons to provide interactivity with the game interface, etc. There are many useful tools to help you when you are going to distribute your game. for instance, create translations for your game, or use a text parser, are some of the many tasks you can so it with Adventure Game Studio.

The new 3.1 version of AGS has many improvements. When using Alpha channels, it now supports adjusting Transparency properties. When you are working in the Editor and you switch between tabs, it is able to "remember" which item in the property grid was selected. A new property (Character.SpeechAnimationDelay) has been added to replace the old game.talkanim_speed setting, and the program also works with Sierra-style speech. An Error Reporting feature has been added to send error information if the edit or crashes. When changing a game's resolution, the editor will resize all your GUIs automatically, to compensate. Other minor bugs, crashes and translations has been taken care of as well.

To sum up, If you really want to create cool adventure games, either for friends or for selling them, Adventure Game Studio is one of the best options you can choose, and it's totally free.