Gamevariables

Game variables

The following variables are available to your script. They allow you to do various tweaks to the engine at run-time.

Names in bold are read-only variables and should NOT be modified by the script.

All the following variables are int variables.

variable	description
game.abort_key	The keycode for Abort Game, which allows the you to quit even if your script is stuck. Default 324 (Alt+X).
game.ambient_sounds_persist	If 0 (default), ambient sounds are stopped on room change. Set to 1 to tell AGS to leave ambient sounds playing when going to a new room.
game.anim_background_speed	The current room's animating background speed - same values as in editor.
game.auto_use_walkto_points	Default 1; set to 0 to stop AGS automatically using hotspot walk-to points.
game.bgspeech_game_speed	If 0 (default), background speech stays on the screen for the same amount of time, no matter what the game speed. If 1, the amount of time it stays is relative to the game speed.
game.bgspeech_stay_on_display	If 0 (default), background speech is removed when a Say command happens; if 1, it isn't.
game.close_mouth_end_speech_time	At the end of speech text, the speech animation will stop for this number of game loops. Default 10. No affect in voice mode.
game.debug_mode	Whether we are in debug mode or not.
game.dialog_options_highlight_color	Color used to draw the active (selected) dialog option
game.dialog_options_x	Offset into dialog options GUI to compensate for borders
game.dialog_options_y	Offset into dialog options GUI to compensate for borders
game.disable_antialiasing	Set to 1 to disable smoothing of scaled characters, overriding the user's choice in Setup. Default 0.
game.following_room_timer	How long to wait before following char emerges in new room, default 150. (higher is longer).
game.keep_screen_during_instant_transition	Normally the Instant transition blacks the screen in 8-bit colour modes, to avoid strange palette effects. However you can set this to 1 to prevent it doing so.
game.inv_activated	Inventory item that the player last clicked on. Useful for unhandled_event.
game.inventory_greys_out	Set to 1 to make inventory controls grey out when GUI disabled is set to "GUIs Grey Out"
game.lipsync_speed	Similar to Game.TextReadingSpeed, but this determines how quickly the text is 'read' out by the mouth moving. You should normally only set this faster than text_speed, otherwise the reading will get cut off when the text times out. Default 15.
game.max_dialogoption_width	Maximum width of textwindow-based dialog options box. Default 180.
game.min_dialogoption_width	Minimum width of textwindow-based dialog options box. Default 0.
game.narrator_speech	Which character ID to use for voice speech within Display() command. Default initial player character. You can also use NARRATOR which uses 'NARR' prefix - special narrator character.
game.no_textbg_when_voice	Normally 0. If 1, and the Sierra-style With Background speech style is in use, will change to the Sierra-style (No Bg) if a voice speech line is present.
game.read_dialog_option_color	By default, -1. You can set this to a colour number, in which case dialog options that the player has selected before will be displayed in this colour.
game.roomscript_finished	The on_call function has completed executing. (See CallRoomScript)
game.score	The player's score. To modify the score, use the GiveScore script function.
game.score_sound	Sound effect to play when the player gets points, originally set in the editor.
game.screenshot_height	The height of screenshot images when saved into save games. The largest you can have is the full screen size (320x200), which gives the highest quality but the largest size save game files. The default is 160x100.
game.screenshot_width	The width of screenshot images when saved into save games.
game.show_single_dialog_option	If only a single dialog option is available, show it anyway (default=0)
game.sierra_inv_color	The background color of the sierra-style inventory.
game.skip_display	Setting for how Display() messages are skipped; valid values are same as for Speech.SkipStyle (default 3).
game.skip_speech_specific_key	Default 0. You can set it to a keycode, in which case only that key can skip speech text.
game.speech_bubble_width	Maximum width of the thought bubble text window (default 100)
game.speech_text_align	Sets how text in Lucasarts-style speech is aligned. Same possible values as game.text_align, default eAlignCentre
game.speech_text_gui	The textwindow GUI number used for sierra-style speech.
game.text_align	Sets how text in message boxes and Sierra-style speech is aligned: eAlignLeft: text aligned to left within message box (default) eAlignCentre: text is centred within the message box eAlignRight: text is right-aligned within the message box These options do not affect Lucasarts-style speech, which is always centred.
game.text_shadow_color	Color used for speech text shadow (default 16).
game.top_bar_XXXX	Customizations for DisplayTopBar, see link for details
game.total_score	Maximum possible score, initially set in the editor.
game.used_mode	Cursor mode used with last click (use with "any click" events to find out which mode was used)
mouse.x	Mouse X co-ordinate when the last game loop was run (320-res)
mouse.y	Mouse Y co-ordinate when the last game loop was run (320-res)
palette[SLOT].r	The red component (0-63) of palette slot SLOT
palette[SLOT].g	The green component (0-63) of palette slot SLOT
palette[SLOT].b	The blue component (0-63) of palette slot SLOT
player.[x,y,name,...]	Alias to the current player character.