(For the characters, CHARID is the script ID name as set in the Room Editor). Names in bold are read-only variables and should NOT be modified by the script.
| character[CHARID].x | X co-ordinate of the character (see Note1 below) |
| character[CHARID].y | Y co-ordinate of the character |
| character[CHARID].name | The character's full name |
| character[CHARID].prevroom | The room it was in before this one |
| character[CHARID].room | Which room the character is in |
| character[CHARID].activeinv | The currently selected inventory item (or -1) |
| character[CHARID].inv[x] | Whether the character is carrying inventory X |
| character[CHARID].walking | Whether the character is currently moving |
| character[CHARID].animating | Set to 1 while an AnimateCharacter animation runs |
| character[CHARID].movespeed | Current movement speed (use SetCharacterSpeed to change) |
| character[CHARID].animspeed | The character's animation speed |
| character[CHARID].talkview | The character's talking view number minus 1 |
| character[CHARID].view | Current view of the character graphic (minus 1) |
| character[CHARID].loop | Current loop of the character graphic |
| character[CHARID].frame | Current frame of the character's graphic |
| game.debug_mode | Whether we are in debug mode or not. |
| game.following_room_timer | How long to wait before following char emerges in new room, default 150. (higher is longer). |
| game.inv_activated | Inventory item that the player last clicked on. Useful for unhandled_event. |
| game.items_per_line | Number of inventory items displayed per line (useful for working out how much to scroll the window down) |
| game.max_dialogoption_width | Maximum width of textwindow-based dialog options box. Default 180. |
| 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.num_inv_displayed | Number of inventory items which can be seen in the inventory window. |
| game.num_inv_items | Number of different inventory items which the current player is carrying. |
| 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 text script function. |
| 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 SetSkipSpeech (default 3). |
| game.speech_text_gui | The textwindow GUI number used for sierra-style spch. |
| game.swap_portrait | Set to 1 to make sierra-style speech swap the portrait image from left to right when different people talk. |
| game.talkanim_speed | The animation speed for talking views (default 5). |
| game.text_shadow_color | Color used for speech text shadow (default 16). |
| game.text_speed | How long speech text stays on the screen. Default 15, lower number means shorter time. |
| game.top_inv_item | Index of the first inventory item in the window |
| game.total_score | Maximum possible score, initially set in roomedit. |
| game.used_mode | Cursor mode used with last click (use with "any click" events to find out which mode was used) |
| gs_globals[50] | The graphical script global flags (0=clear, 1=set) |
| mouse.x | Mouse X co-ordinate when the script was started (0-319) |
| mouse.y | Mouse Y co-ordinate when the script was started (0-199) |
| 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 character[EGO]. Note: only set at game start, does not update if you change the player character. |
| savegameindex[20] | Save game slot order - see the ListBoxSaveGameList description in text script reference for more info. |
| system.screen_height | The vertical screen resolution (200 or 400) see Note2 |
| system.screen_width | The horizontal screen resolution (320 or 640) |
| system.color_depth | The color depth (8 or 16). |
| system.os | Interpreter version (1=AGS-DOS, 2=AGS-WIN). |
| system.windowed | How game is running: 0=full screen, 1=window |
Notes:
(1) The character X&Y co-ordinates may be modified as long as the character is stationary; changing these while the character is moving will cause it to start moving off in the wrong direction.
(2) The system information is provided in order for your game to behave differently if it needs to; however, do NOT use this information to force the player to use a specific resolution. The AC engine is designed to allow players with varying speeds of computer to enjoy the game at a playable speed; people with a 486 would rather see blocky graphics at 320x200 than be forced to run very slowly at 640x400.