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Hello everybody!

yes, totally possible with VS. Lua is only needed if you want to break the boundaries given by the internal action parts. But as mentioned: all needed stuff to do a MI control/inventory/etc is already there  

In Visionaire you are not forced to write code in a text editor, instead you can create lists of actions like in a screenplay. BUT in these lists you have to handle with things like IF...THEN...ELSE nevertheless. Without understanding simple things like that or the use of variables you are not able to create games.

What you are quoting is true. It's possible to create a point & click adventure game without writing a single line of code; albeit a severely limited basic one.

All game engines have their limitations no matter which game engine or how powerful it is. Yes you could make a game with only the premade available actions, events & queries, but you won't be able to create any advanced features or mini-games for your game nor will you be able to create a decent game menu or custom subtitle positions & so on & so on.

Thomas the founder of Visionaire Studio, has very little scripting/programming knowledge but he hasn't let that stop him from making games. What he can't sort out himself, he asks for help with from people he knows or creates a thread on here & asks for help. You don't have to make a game all by your lonesome.

P.S: please could you change your display username as it's displaying weird & is preventing access to your profile. Please try to stick to non-special characters for usernames.

Yes you can however to make a decent game menu you will need to use scripting since the game won't remember the changes set in the menu unless you will write them into the config file and then read them from it.

It really depends on the complexity of your game...

But I think I can say yes!

However you'll need to work on some scripts (no I'm not talking of a programmation language). You'll have to script your game with the pre-built Actions in Visionaire, in order to build your menus and save games (for example).

It's not difficult, much easier than learning a language, but yet it needs some learning.

First of all, I want to thank you all for your answers.

Aye, since the new website came out it has been defaulting new registered users to female gender rather than unspecified for some reason.

You could try sending Marvel a private message with a request to change your display name as they can edit it in the forum database probably.

In regards to "decent" - unless anyone else used that word - I was referring to a main menu / options menu for your game.

To answer your question, as I already did so in my previous post. Yes, you can make a retro pixel game like Monkey Island 1, 2 or even Maniac Mansion with the premade actions & query actions without having to resort to Lua script. Actually I believe there are even some Maniac Mansion & Monkey Island style templates floating around the forum somewhere - they used to be in the template section...

Ahh seems to be a Maniac Mansion template here: http://www.maniac-mansion-mania.com/index.php/de/ressourcen/... - I think the text & graphics might be in German only though & it's at least 4+ years old, so no idea if it will even work on VS 4.2.5. As for Monkey Island template, I'm pretty sure Nige updated them recently, but not seeing a thread for them - sorry.

Thank you mr. AFRLme for your comprehensive answer

Thank you mr. AFRLme for your comprehensive answer

Now, one last question. 

I don't have a credit card or paypal or anything for that matter (yes, it's true, I don't!)

Can I ask from one of my friends to buy it for me on his computer and later transfer it to mine or in this way will be considered as an illegal copy?

It's kind of linked to your account & the email that was used to buy it, so I couldn't say. I didn't purchase VS as I got my license for free due to unofficially being on the VS team.

If you want to know more about licenses & purchasing Visionaire Studio then I recommend sending Thomas (Marvel) a private message. Another user recently contacted him through twitter because he was having trouble purchasing a license for some reason or other. You could of course wait until Visionaire Studio is eventually released on Steam, but I have no clue if or when that will happen.

By the way, there's a free evaluation version available you can use for downloading & testing out the software. It's the same as the licensed versions, except it's limited to 10 scenes & the export module has been disabled, but you can still work in it & test your game with it. Also the ved project file created in the evaluation is perfectly valid for the paid version.

http://www.visionaire-studio.net/downloads/ - there's also some free demo games & templates available for download on that page too.

Okay, thank you.