Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:28 pm
Anyone who extracted Krabby Quest's data might have noticed two files with the extension AGP.
As it turns out, this is an extremely obscure format used only by ArtGem, a shareware image editing program that was discontinued in 2002 after abysmal sales. The credits for TOW mention that its 2d graphics and textures were created with it, so it appears Patrick is one of the very few people who bought it.
And apparently, he was still using it during Krabby Quest's development, seeing how two of his AGP files accidentally slipped into the game's res2.dat. This format is only intended for ArtGem itself (much like Photoshop's PSD files) so I strongly doubt the game could actually render them even if they weren't unused.
Anyway, I located the last version of ArtGem released before its discontinuation with the Wayback Machine. Obviously, it can no longer be activated, but it has a 30 day trial, so I was able to open these two files.
Turns out they're just really simple unfinished prototypes of UI images. There's really not much to them, but I converted them to PNG anyway and uploaded them for you.
As it turns out, this is an extremely obscure format used only by ArtGem, a shareware image editing program that was discontinued in 2002 after abysmal sales. The credits for TOW mention that its 2d graphics and textures were created with it, so it appears Patrick is one of the very few people who bought it.
And apparently, he was still using it during Krabby Quest's development, seeing how two of his AGP files accidentally slipped into the game's res2.dat. This format is only intended for ArtGem itself (much like Photoshop's PSD files) so I strongly doubt the game could actually render them even if they weren't unused.
Anyway, I located the last version of ArtGem released before its discontinuation with the Wayback Machine. Obviously, it can no longer be activated, but it has a 30 day trial, so I was able to open these two files.
Turns out they're just really simple unfinished prototypes of UI images. There's really not much to them, but I converted them to PNG anyway and uploaded them for you.
