Tutorials and Guides

 
General

• Creating an AGI Game
• How to Make an AGI Game by David Smith
• Making AGI Games Part 1 by Peter Kelly
• Making AGI Games Part 2 by Peter Kelly
• Vortex AGI Tutorials
• How to Create Your Own AGI Adventure Game by Jonozon
• AGI for Newbies by Nat Budin and Dark Fiber
• A Brief Explanation of AGI by Juha Terho

 

Picture

• Introduction to PICEDIT
• PICEDIT Tutorial
• An Explanation of AGI Priority Screens by Juha Terho
• Limitations of AGI Priority Bands by Juha Terho
• The Making of an AGI Background Picture by Juha Terho
• How to Draw Better Rooms (Room tutorial)
• How to Draw a Good PIC with Picedit by Kon-Tiki

 

Logic

• AGI Command Reference an AGI Logic Programming Tutorial by Chris Cromer

1. Arithmetic Commands
2. Commands to Load and unLoad Resources
3. Program Control Commands
4. Object Control Commands
5. Object Description Commands
6. Object Motion Control Commands
7. Inventory Item Management Commands
8. PIC Resource Management Commands
9. Sound Resource Management Commands
10. Text Management Commands
11. String Management Commands
12. Initialization Commands
13. Menu Management Commands
14. Test Commands
15. Other Commands
16. Unknown Commands

• Logic language reference
• Managing resources
• Display text on screen
• AGI Command Reference
• Multiple Inventory Items by Andrew Baker
• Pushing Objects

 

Sound

• AGI Sound Tutorial

1. Introduction
2. Limits of the AGI Sound Format
3. Extracting Sounds
4. Converting from Other Formats
5. Merging
6. Scripting
7. Visual Editors
8. Playing Sounds with External Tools
9. Sound in Your Game
10. In the Future
11. Location of Tools
12. References

 

Game Design

• Design Documents
• Whizzard's Guide to Text Adventure Authorship
• The Craft of Adventure by Graham Nelson. Five articles on the design of adventure games.
• How to make your game more interesting

 

Technical & Debugging

• AGI Specifications
• Peter Kelly's AGI Docs by Peter Kelly

1. Data Used by AGI
2. Defines
3. Basic Structure of a Room

• AGI Error Code Tutorial by Nick Sonneveld

1. Introduction
2. Logic Errors
3. Interpreter Errors
4. Unacknowledged Errors
5. Debugging Techniques

• AGI Stack Overflow Information
• AGI Studio Help File by Peter Kelly

 

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General

• Creating an AGI Game
• How to Make an AGI Game (Hosted on David Smith's web page)

Picture

• Introduction to PicEdit
• PicEdit Tutorial
• AGI Background Creation Tutorial] by Juha Terho
• How to draw better rooms (Room tutorial)

Logic

• Logic language reference
• Managing resources
• Display text on screen

Game Design

• Game design documents] for some of Al Lowe's games.

Other

• How to make your game more interesting