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Features:
- A uniquely-crafted RPG/Adventure game.
- Gain new spells as your character improves. No stat grinding!
- Replay as one of four Mage classes (Water, Air, Fire, and Earth), each with unique spells, puzzles, and solutions.
- Beautifully detailed pixel-art character animations.
- Over 30 detailed character portraits. Over 9,000 voiced and lip-synced speech lines.
- A complete digital music soundtrack, brimming with magic and mystery.
- Battle against a horrid horde of monsters or avoid combat and focus on adventure.
- Multiple story paths, depending on your in-game choices.
- More than 50 magical gemstones to enhance your magical power.
Honestly, I'm really happy to see a small resurgence in the point and click genre like this, with developers taking elements from some of the classics and putting their own spin on it. Nostalgia is a powerful thing, but I often find the classics a little too retro, so being able to jump into a new adventure with a familiar but updated feel is awesome.
That said, the experience at least for me wasn't good at all. It loaded with a resolution stretched across two screens, while displaying on one. So what I actually saw was half a black screen and half of the game—ouch! Honestly, it's 2019 and I really don't understand how this is still an issue for some games. Two monitors isn't that uncommon now. I hardly ever have a good experience with games built with Adventure Game Studio, they need to do better.
You can force it into windowed mode, by editing the config file and setting "windowed=1". However, this is not the config file in the game's main directory. You need to edit the config file of the same name, in your local save folder found in "/home/username/.local/share/ags/Mage's Initiation/acsetup.cfg".
Next problem: serious and unplayable mouse-lag. This I've seen reported across Windows and Linux. I've tried many suggestions, adding various different mouse options directly into the configuration file and nothing solves it. Overall, looks like they need some serious polishing on it before it's properly playable.
Article updated with new configuration info after publishing.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Arehandoro Jan 31, 2019
QuoteHonestly, it's 2019 and I really don't understand how this is still an issue for some games.
Next problem: serious and unplayable mouse-lag.
That's due to the fact that AGS still hasn't switched to SDL and is using Allegro windowing toolkit, which is just bad. They seriously need to use something better.
Last edited by Shmerl on 31 January 2019 at 3:00 pm UTC
Quoting: GuestI love point and click adventures
That game stretching across 2 monitors issue is yet another reason I use i3. Games launch where I tell them to launch.
The mouse lag issue is a worry given the type of game it is but if it is on all platforms I'm sure it will be fixed soon.
Also, "Replay as one of four Mage classes (Water, Air, Fire, and Earth)".....only needs Heart to spawn Captain Planet
Honestly I was expecting the avatar.
Also been very curios about I3.
Did you learn by doing or did you find some good tutorials ?
Quoting: PatolaI played lots of adventure (point and click) games in the 80s and 90s, but I can't see a good reason why anyone with a reasonable budget wouldn't make it 3D nowadays, like Black Mirror or _observer^. The retro vibe should be a homage, not an anachronism.Does it have a good style? Is the gameplay interesting? Those are should be paramount above anything else.
This is a similar argument I'm sure we've had many times, games do not have to be 3D or in any way realistic to be enjoyed. Honestly, some people sound like they really put themselves into a really odd box.
You really, honestly think everyone can just come along and make something like Observer?
Quoting: GuestI love point and click adventuresWhat's i3? I ask because usually stuff with little short acronym-y names like that gets a lot of unrelated stuff when you search.
That game stretching across 2 monitors issue is yet another reason I use i3.
Quoting: ShmerlMust be this: https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags/issues/162Which is already in allegro, so does AGS need to pull in an update or what? This has affected multiple AGS games lately.
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