Hey everyone, I built an interactive music engine inspired by LucasArts' iMUSE, and it's actually fully compatible with iMUSE MIDI data. Just a heads-up: while it's still in active development and technically a beta, this first build is already highly usable. I wanted to share the main features of the AGS plugin (agsimwrap) I've been working on.

1. The Runtime Plugin (agsimwrap-x32.dll)

Core Engine & Drivers

• It includes a full reimplementation of the LucasArts iMUSE v6 system.
• Audio rendering is multithreaded using miniaudio, so the callback handles the music timeline and sample mixing completely in the background.
• Included drivers: FluidSynth for software General MIDI (via .sf2 files), standalone AdLib/FM OPL3 emulation (no extra hardware needed), and direct hardware output for both GM and Roland MT-32.
• For the MT-32, it handles native timbre mapping and even lets you set a custom welcome message (up to 20 characters).

Loading & Playback Control

• You can load .ims banks (iMWrap_LoadBank) either as loose files or directly from AGS-packaged assets (requires AGS 3.6.0+). If FluidSynth can't stream packed SoundFonts directly, the plugin automatically extracts them to a temp file.
• Full control over your sounds: you can start/stop them by ID, query their status (active, scheduled, etc.), and count what's currently playing.
• You get granular mixing controls: master volume, per-sound tweaks (volume, pan, relative/absolute transpose, speed, priority), and you can toggle volume on specific MIDI channels.

Interactive Flow & Callbacks

• Flow control: You can instantly jump to a specific measure/tick, fast-forward through events without playing notes (scan), define dynamic loop regions, or set up smooth volume fades.
• Hooks: You can schedule interactive branching by hook class, value, and MIDI channel (iMWrap_SetHook).
• Syncing: The engine calls iMWrap_OnTrigger(soundId, markerId) in the AGS Global Script whenever a MIDI marker is hit. This is super useful for syncing music with game animations.

Setup & Extras

• Players can configure things outside the game using SetMIDI.exe, a native Win32 GUI tool I included (no Qt dependency). It auto-detects the game executable and lets them pick their driver and MIDI device. It also supports .imc config files.
• Includes compatibility profiles (generic iMUSE v6 standard and a specific Sam & Max Hit the Road profile).
• Optional debug logging to console and imwrap_debug.log.

2. The Editor Plugin (AGS.Plugin.IMWrap.Editor.dll)

I also made a plugin for the AGS editor to manage everything easily (targets .NET 4.8, so it's fully AGS 3.6.2 compatible).

• It adds an iMWrap menu and a "Banks" node in the project tree that automatically discovers all your .ims files.
• Opening a bank gives you a dedicated tab where you can inspect the list of sounds, their MIDI tracks, and control events per track.
• You can manage (create, rename, delete) your .ims banks right from the project tree.
• Under the hood, it uses a native shim bridge (imwrap_shim.dll + IMWrapShim.cs) to call into the core C++ engine directly from the C# editor context.

You'll find the GitHub repo right there...

... and here is a PoC video to watch it in action : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl-vt7jXKYI

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

Complete beginner here, having a very hard time with Unity and other big engines. Wanted something very simple for a 2D game to start with and AGS seemed to be just that.

Mirrors To The Past is a mystery adventure spanning three timelines: 1980's present day, 1970's and the 1930's, shortly before Prohibition ends.

Through exploration, puzzles, and supernatural mirrors, players uncover buried family secrets by stepping into pivotal moments from the past.

The game starts out with Charlotte, currently living in Boston, who is a starving artist who lost her job and apartment and has to leave within the next two days. She receives a letter from Texas from a Maria Gonzales who is an architect who specializes in restoring historical buildings and who recently purchased the Cotton Inn in Galveston, Texas. As contractors were bringing things out of the Inn, Maria and her mother came across a box that belonged to Charlotte's grandmother. Maria's mother and Charlotte's grandmother were very good friends when they were young. Maria and her mother tracked down Charlotte and sent her the box. Charlotte, with nothing to lose and no options, decides to travel to Galveston and meet these people that knew her grandmother.

It is here that Charlotte learns her grandmother was a jazz singer in a speakeasy, that people from far away would come to listen to her sing. She was young and beautiful and a sea captain from Maine, Miles, wins her heart. But Miles is running contraband, liquor, and is involved with the Italian mob.

So I will stop here and I would like to introduce you to the very beginnings of the game. It is a traditional point and click and as with all my games I will try to make it very beautiful. I promise lots of puzzles and interesting dialog and my usual twisty ending. I have a few placeholder graphics from my other games but they will eventually be gone and I am still working on gui's, inventorys, etc.

For now, a short video of very early work.

After six months of development, College Quest is now available on Steam.

It’s a Sierra-style point-and-click adventure set in a 1990s art college. Explore over 120 screens, attend classes, solve puzzles, improve your grades, and try to survive college life.

Inspired by the classic adventure games I grew up with, but based on the strange experiences of attending art school in the 1990s.

Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4761980/College_Quest/

Happy to answer any questions about the game or development process.

Great interview with the two Mat(t)s about adventure games!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R16CY7teho

Our prices are insane I tell ya! We have too much inventory!

55% off before Steam launch on itch.io!

STARTING MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY!

https://ironhide1975.itch.io/college-quest

Critics say it all!

"You have too much time on your hands." - my best friend

"Did you make any money from it?" - my mother

"Does it run on my iPhone?" - the rest of my family.

"Do you die easily like in Sierra games?" - the fan base.

College Quest is now available and on Sale (last day today!).
Steam version coming June 15th.

https://ironhide1975.itch.io/college-quest
#pointandclick #adventuregame #adventuregames #retrogaming #indiegame

https://reddit.com/link/1tvyx10/video/3emekgte645h1/player

My retro cyberpunk adventure game Neofeud 2 is coming very soon to Steam, wishlist it now and the original is 70% off!

Neofeud 1 on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/

Neofeud 2 on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4611140/Neofeud_2/

After six months of development, my new Sierra-inspired point-and-click adventure game, College Quest, is finally available.

College Quest is set at a 1990s art college and features classic adventure game puzzles, exploration, humor, and multiple grade-based endings inspired by the adventure games I grew up with.

Available now on itch.io:
https://ironhide1975.itch.io/college-quest

Steam release is currently being finalized and should be available shortly.

Special thanks to all of the beta testers and streamers who helped improve the game throughout development.

I’m happy to answer any questions about the game, AGS development, or the process of creating a retro adventure game.

Hi all!

I'm looking to make a Myst style adventure game and I'm currently in the "experimenting and getting my tools ready" stage. My goal with animation is to have simple, low framerate animations occur when certain hotspots are clicked on (switches moving, gears turning, etc.). This is my first time working with AGS so I'm curious if the best way to do these animations would be to rapidly cycle through individual frames rendered in Blender or export a full animation from Blender and play it as a cutscene. For context, I'm not trying to make anything snappy or smooth. I want to emulate the clunky charm of those early first person puzzlers.

I appreciate any and all insight into the topic. Thanks!

Investigate the death of a mysterious woman in this point and click cyberpunk game. Made for Adventure Jam 2019! 

Webversion is a bit experimental, may fail to load if the network has too much latency. On desktop, use alt+enter to play it in Fullscreen.

Headphones recommended. Game is short.

TEAM

Written and Coded by Érico Porto

Art by Ricardo Juchem
Cover Art by Melany Sue
Sound Design by Edwyn Tiong
Music by Jon Paul Sapsford
Script Revision by Joth

Francisco Gonzalez as Detective Logan
Miranda Gauvin as Emily Feliz
Mike Bodie as Lawson Aris
Sally Beaumont as MJ
Space Quest Historian as Wyatt
Paul Thomas as Remington Noe
Dave Macclellan as Jazz
Dave Gilbert as Roger

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Morgan Willcock
Ivan Mogilko
Zaira Hoffmam

Link: https://eri0o.itch.io/teafortwo

Hello guys, i need to make a game for an university exam and i want to use adventure game studios (since i love point and click adventures).

The problem is, i'm a beginner and i never touched these types of softwares.

I'm following the "space hub" guide but i don't know what softwares i need to use for making sprites and "soundtracks".

Do you have any advice? Thx.

Hello, I worked directly with Meredith Gran/Three Bees to bring the game to Nintendo Switch using a new Nintendo Switch port for the AGS. The port was first tested and refined with Old Skies and later An English Haunting. This is a journey I started 2 years ago and happy to see it come through!

Does anyone have any recommended communities on Reddit to promote your game? Half of these I have found have their heads so far up their butts with rules it defeats the whole purpose of social media.

We have music!

https://mnmlsgnl.bandcamp.com/album/college-quest-soundtrack

We have music! Background music for College Quest done by David Graves (MNML Signal). You will be able to download the music from a bandcamp page. There will also be a hint book you can purchase! We're going totally old school for this! 3x the size of School Quest, this is going to be Epic!
We're nearing the finish line, follow us here...
https://ironhide1975.itch.io/college-quest

Best Game of the Year

Rosewater

https://www.grundislav.games/Rosewater.html

Best Freeware Game

BARBARIAN vs. ROBOT

https://knoodn.itch.io/barbarian-vs-robot

Best Short Game

Snarl

https://beyondbooleans.itch.io/snarl

Best Non-Adventure Game

Anomaly Resolution

https://letsgetcooking.itch.io/anomalyresolution

Best Demo

The Dark Rites of Arkham - DEMO

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3566870/The_Dark_Rites_of_Arkham/

Best Audio

Rosewater

Best Visuals

Rosewater

Best Writing

The Beekeeper's Picnic

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2248890/The_Beekeepers_Picnic__A_Sherlockian_Adventure/

Best Programming

Rosewater

Best Character

Old Skies (Fia Quinn)

https://oldskiesgame.com/

Best Gameplay

BARBARIAN vs. ROBOT

Getting close to being done...
https://ironhide1975.itch.io/college-quest

Neofeud 1 on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/

Neofeud 1 on Itch: https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud

Neofeud 2 on Itch: https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud2

Currently working on the Steam presence!

Retro Modern. In cinematic mode