New Years Resolutions?

[Andail]

This is such a cliche of a topic... but hey let's do it anyways!
So here's where we can write down our new years resolutions, to make it even more embarrassing when we eventually fail to keep them.
Oh and you can't say 1280x720 because I just made that joke now.

[miguel]

320x200?


How lame is it to be the first to respond to Andail's plead?
Anyway, because this season is all about buying pretty stuff, drinking, excess behaviours of a sexual nature and drinking, I am safe to say whatever I want:

- paint my local town landmarks (I've made a rough list of 12 locations);
- pay a annoying debt that is hanging on my back for more time than I ever wanted to;
- be good to my family;
- do at least another AGS game;

 

[monkey424]

Get Sleuth finished!!

Stick to my exercise routine.

Be nice to my in-laws.

Continue working hard to put food on the table.

Buy a dish washer.

Something about family and stuff..

And if time permits..

Play more AGS games!!!

[Mandle]

I resolve to break all my resolutions including this one.

[Slasher]

My new years resolution for 2015 is as usual: never stick to resolutions

[Darth Mandarb]

I think I have posted this before... about 20 years ago I made my last New Year's Resolution. 

It was to never make another. 

I have stuck to it

[AnasAbdin]

-move (work and family related)
-finish Epoch (AGS..)
-stick to my workout routine.
-learn Unity3D

[Adeel]

Convert O₂ into CO₂

[bicilotti]

Convert O₂ into CO₂

Adventure gamer generates Carbonium out of nothing: "I used everything on everything"

Mine: stop dicking around, release a bloody text adventure.

[Esseb]

Mine: Play bicilotti's text adventure.

[Gribbler]

Find the time to resume the work on my next game.

[Ibispi]

-Learn ancient Greek;
-Become an astronaut and go into space;
-Climb mount Everest;
-Travel around the world in 80 days;
-Find Tokugawa's buried treasure;
-Discover Atlantis;
-Make a full length adventure game.

[CaptainD]

@BSP - stop being so unrealistic.  You'll never make a full-length adventure game.

[Ibispi]

You are right Dave, I keep struggling even with a short adventure game...
I should rather search for Atlantis, that will be a lot easier to do.

[CaptainD]

Why spend time searching for Atlantis?  I mean it's on BBC1...

[Cassiebsg]

Hasn't both SG1 and Indy found it? :p
No resolutions for me, just hope I can get a new game out sometime next year... (one that isn't half done, that is).

[CaptainD]

Also not a NYR as it's something I've been planning for months, but 2, hopefully 3 commercial game releases in 2015.  Everyone else can resolve to buy them if they want.

[Stupot]

I'm not gonna lie to myself and promise to go to the gym or stop biting my nails. So I'll be a bit more doable.

Adventure - I resolve to play more adventure/AGS games.
Also to make more smaller games. Despite earlier enthusiasm, I think I'm still not ready for a [decent] full-length project so I will do a couple of MAGS and finish my Escape project.

Life - I will get a better paid (and more rewarding) job. Currently working for a dodgy dispatch company who essentially steals nearly a third of my potential wages. Still, it's better than being unemployed as I was this time last year.

Family - Skype my parents and sisters more. Every time I skype them I wonder how I had left it so long since the previous time. Definitely need to sort that out.

@BSP Why not make a game about finding Tokugawa's treasure. I was in Nikko just the other day, where Tokugawa Ieyasu's grave is. That's pretty close to Mt. Akagi, where the treasure is thought to be :-)

[Mandle]

@BSP Why not make a game about finding Tokugawa's treasure. I was in Nikko just the other day, where Tokugawa Ieyasu's grave is. That's pretty close to Mt. Akagi, where the treasure is thought to be :-)

And instead of trying to beat the Nazis to it, you're trying to beat these guys:



(For those who don't know, these are the Japanese Right-Wing Nationalists or "Uyoku Dantai". They are a kind of fascist group in Japan who want to restore the Emperor to his former power, so it would actually make a lot of sense they would want to find Tokugawa's treasure. Hey, this game sounds AWESOME!!!)

[miguel]

WTF are you doing here? You should be out partying!

Stu, I feel the love here, you're going to finish a game in 2015, that's what my oracle is telling me right now.

[LimpingFish]

I resolve to come up with better New Year resolutions.

[Peder 🚀]

Mine: Watch Esseb play bicilotti's text adventure.

[Ibispi]

@Stupot and Mandle, great game idea, but, very hard to accomplish, since I've already started working on a new AGS game.
It could be a great New Year resolution for someone who's out of ideas though (to make that game). ^^

[Stupot]

@BSP and Mandle, I've PM'ed you. I've just a few post ago said I want to steer clear of large projects but this Tokugawa idea is too juicy not to at least throw some ideas around.

[cat]

I absolutelty love the Tokugawa idea. I just watched a documentary about him a few weeks ago and Nikko (and especially the nature around it) is so beautiful.

[Azure]

Going to get *something* out this year.

[Bavolis]

1. Going to push myself to get The Knobbly Crook Episode 1 out by the end of January.
2. Episode 2 out in the fall.
3. Try to figure out some more complex AGS programming with my muddy non-coding brain.
4. Write fiction much, much more. Stop sleeping on the bus ride to work and use it for writing time. 500 words a day. No excuses.
4. Watch the full run of Vikings.

[Chicky]

I will be drawing a doodle every day! I have no idea how i'm going to keep this up, but today wasn't a failure: http://doodleham.tumblr.com/image/106833122397

Also, release my first game!

[straydogstrut]

1) I rather enjoy walking so looking to do some sponsored walking to raise funds for a charity close to my heart. I've found a London to Brighton one though that might be a bit ambitious. If anyone knows of any other UK-based treks I'm all ears.

2) Do more volunteering. Just finished a volunteering project on New Year's Eve with a Charity that works with people with learning difficulties, and looking to get involved in more activities with the same organisation. Currently on night watch duty in a homeless shelter as I write this so getting the year off to a good start.

3) Make a game. Preferably a MAGS since I have so many abandonned attempts lying around.

4) Attend AdventureX this year since it transpired that I couldn't make it last time despite my promises

Happy New Year everyone

[CaptainD]

@straydogstrut - worthy goals mare!   (Check your PM... )

[Dropped Monocle Games]

1. get fitter (less junk food, more moving)
2. spend more time on artwork
3. do the little things that I always tell myself.. "I'll do that later"
4. spend less time on social media sites (Facebook / Reddit)

[Radiant]

I thought about making a resolution to join every single MAGS contest for a year... then I decided I have enough ongoing game projects already. But do expect some releases in 2015

[TheBitPriest]

1.  Do not finish Captain Disaster
2.  Avoid all MAGS competitions
3.  Eat more junk food

Since I always break my resolutions, I'm trying a bit of reverse psychology this year. I'm making stellar progress on #3 so far.  Many cookies.  Many, many cookies.  Er...  cakes?

[Hopper_Tabby]

1. Write at least SOMETHING every day.
2. Perform Joseph Beuys' "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare" in my college's gallery. I don't care if I have to take out a bunny myself, it's happening this time.
3. Smoke less while working.
4. Get involved with this forum and game design.
5. Read at least one James Joyce book.
6. Get my grades back to where I want them, and stop putting off class work until last minute. Writing my semester project for English 102 in one night was the biggest mistake I've made since I enrolled.

I can probably think of a few more, but I'm not sure if it's even pertinent.

[InCreator]

Make and actually finish an adventure game over loooong time.
Most likely a fangame/heavily inspired by KGB, because that's something I've wanted to do for a decade by now, just never got to making it.
Won't be using AGS for this, though, I have good portion of the original engine made in Game Maker already.

[CaptainD]

1.  Do not finish Captain Disaster

?!?!??!?!?!?

Since I always break my resolutions, I'm trying a bit of reverse psychology this year.

Phew...

[arj0n]

Only one: finish my LSL1 remake.

[Queen Kara]

I can be and usually am pretty fail at sticking to such things if I make them. I _still_ haven't made an AGS game yet. Not even a short one. *kicks self in the butt and sighs*

And I haven't made any non-AGS games....but the Adrift games I had been working on need to be redone some day anyway. So much work and art lost...*cries* Stupid Sam. Why'd you have to go and die on me?! Well, at least I got five years use out of you. And it was fun when you were working like you were supposed to.

I'm doing good right now though with my promise to myself and "sorta promise" to others that I will check in on the forums at least once every day....

Oh, and I'm being pretty good with taking my pills and stuff when I need to most days.

So...I guess I'm getting at least some things right?

I still feel very bad and guilty about stuff that should've been done a long time ago though and I still haven't done them yet. Like making presents instead of buying them. Or finishing any projects I start. I have to do them all over again anyway because Sam - ( my old laptop ) - died and I haven't been using a non-laptop aka "real PC" at all. *sigh*