Hi there Lyberodoggy
Thanks so much for the reply and suggestions. Yes i thought it might have something to do with my vista x64.. i have often had trouble installing things for x64 that otherwise work fine on any win version as long as it was 32.
I did try the win 7 x64 version of adventure maker hoping it might work with my vista x64, but no luck unfortunately.
I dont think its due to anything blocking it, I have uac and any other microsoft silliness turned off, also I did attempt to install and run again but disabling my virus software and firewall (still no luck tho).. so I really do suspect and as you first mentioned, its the x64 issue back to haunt me again
Its a shame, this looks like the perfect solution for what I wanted to do. I did also find AGS (adventure game studio) and had a quick look at , also watched a bunch of video tuts.. it looks ok i guess (not as great as adventure maker in terms of end product quality).. but ags looks like at some point scripting knowledge is required .. I know I could probably "attempt" to make something with ags but i just know eventually Ill hit that impenetrable brick wall. My programming skills are pretty much non existent and much as ide love to learn the bread and butter I really dont think i have the head for that sort of thing.... I really had my heart set on adventurer maker. It seems to have lots more options in terms of game style... ags seems only to cater for crude 2d pixel art styles, but i guess its good at what it dose, making games look and feel like those classics of old.
anyway.. Im not really sure what to next, do you happen to know if there may be any future possibilities of patches? or has development come to a total stop?
Thanks so much for the reply again, and I sure hope i can join the adventure maker ranks in the future, it seems im missing out on all the fun
regards
pan
ps. actually my mistake i "thought" on the download page the windows 7 version was catering for 64bit , but its 32..... i guess thats what i get for flash reading things.