by GM-Support » Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:39 am
Dear forum members and AM users,
I am happy to announce the release of Adventure Maker 4.4 Alpha1 that introduces for the first time an experimental "export to html" feature!
You will find the feature under the Project Menu (see attached screenshot). The feature is still under development, and may not produce the result that you would expect.
To use it, just open your project (you can open for example the "demo of game for the portable gaming system", which works particularly well), click "Export to HTML", choose the location where you want to save the HTML files, and then click OK. Once finished, you can preview the game on your computer by double-clicking the file "index.html".
Note: when you open your game locally with IE, you may see a message at the top of the page saying that the game uses javascript, and asking for the authorization to execute it. However, the message disappears when you put your game online. So, once your game is on a website, your players won't get any annoying messages of this kind.
Again, the "Export to HTML; feature is still under development, and therefore it is very incomplete (it is still in the alpha stage, not even in the beta). However, you can already use it to create very simple online point-and-click games, like the demo that I have uploaded to the following location:
DEMO OF ONLINE GAME MADE WITH THE ALPHA1:
EDIT: link no longer available because a newer build has been released.
SUPPORTED BROWSERS:
I have successfully tested it on the following browsers:
- Internet Explorer 6 and 7
- Firefox 1.0 (I guess it works on v1.5 and v2 too, please confirm)
- Safari 3 beta
Please let me know if you notice any problems with the browsers above or with any other browsers.
DOWNLOAD:
You can download AM 4.4 Alpha1 from the following location (16MB):
(download removed because a newer build is available)
FEATURES:
This is what you CAN do with the Alpha1:
- Move from frame to frame (create interactive visits).
- Use integer variables to create puzzles (all the options under the "variables" tab of the Hotspot Properties are supported).
- Use both transparent and graphical hotspots.
- Display text messages at the bottom of the screen.
- Use timers to go to another frame after X seconds (from the Frame Properties window).
- Use animated GIF's.
This is what you CANNOT do with the Alpha1:
- Display cursors
- Play sounds
- Create savegames
- Use the inventory (instead, you can use an integer to remember whether the item was picked up or not - see the sample game above for an example)
- Play videos
- Display text at any position of the frame (the text that you create by right-clicking on a frame)
- Use VBScript
- Use plugins (3rd person plugin, panoramas, etc.)
- All the other advanced features.
More features will be added in the upcoming alpha releases.
Stay tuned for updates, and please provide as much feedback as possible.
Thanks,
GM-Support
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GM-Support on Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:04 pm, edited 3 times in total.