Suggestion to AGS games page

[ThreeOhFour]

Ok. So there is no place for a progress here on AGS website? So here is like an old pub with old men who are talking about the old times?

Interesting judgment. Perhaps you are even trying to be insulting. Black and white photography is still a valid form of art. "But why not use colours!?  "

I don't want to.

"Progress" takes more form than just resolution. Game features extend well beyond this.

If you want high res games, make them yourself. Otherwise, be satisfied with what you get. Most of these games are free - it is a little pathetic to be whining about games that authors make for you to play in their free time without asking for financial compensation for their efforts.

Be grateful that such a community even exists in such a highly commercialized world, and stop complaining about things just because you have an opinion.

I hate to be a wanker when I post, but you just don't give up. It seems pretty clear that you are alone here. As ProgZmax said, if you don't like the way things are done, go somewhere else, and stop complaining to the good people here that make good games for us to play for free !

[TwinMoon]

So here is like an old pub with old men who are talking about the old times?

Well, no, AGS is a pub with people saying: those old times were great! Let's create some more old times!

Just because something's in the past doesn't mean you can't enjoy it anymore.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

I think I speak for most of the people around here when I say we liked the past and we want to bring back if only the nostalgic retro feeling of those games.

Here here.  I think this sums up the AGS community rather well, really.  There are an abundant number of websites devoted to new, flashy games, and no one here is saying there's anything wrong with that, but when you act like there's something wrong with people who like older games and dedicating a forum to it you are clearly in the wrong.

I will repeat: this does not seem to be a community suited to your needs.  Please stop telling us we need to make newer, hi res games because the past is the past and old resolutions aren't nice looking.

Okay?

[Makeout Patrol]

I released a game in 320 x 200 and Stan's insistence has made me realize how ashamed I should be of that fact. While I am a full-time student who also has a job and several other commitments, leaving me with precious little time to spend pouring love and care over each pixel in a 1024x768 background for a hobby that I receive no compensation for other than the pride that I can take in putting a game together and the knowledge that other people (hopefully) enjoyed it, Stan has now made me realize that I was actually being selfish by not devoting my entire life to distributing high-resolution games to strangers for free over the Internet. Goddammit, Stan put time into playing those games (or at least glancing at the screenshots for a moment), time he'll never get back, and what did he get? Have we forgotten that we owe this man a modern professional-quality product for no recompense whatsoever? Have we forgotten that there are people who do not share our nostalgia for the games we played in our youth and that this makes our wish to recreate those memories and styles wortheless and illegitimate somehow?

[Sektor 13]

Here is my cup:

1. I always liked 320x200 (240) res adventure games more than anything higher. I grew up with them I found out that they can offer me much more than any newer commercial adventure game.
I still think that The Dig and Fate of Atlantis are the best adventure games ever made, with rich graphics, great story and warm and fuzzy filling of a AMAZING GAME (ok Monkey Island too ).
Anyways, I don't like where today games are going (all genres). A lot of them feel empty and far too much commercialized. And we are getting the "same" game all over again and again, repacked... they just feel empty !
I am sorry but games have become a great place to earn money and it shows on the products. Although not all is that bad, some games are great (like Half Life 2...). But you rarely see any good adventure these days.

2. For us, hobby game makers it is hard to draw graphics in high resolution Most of the people want to draw it with mouse not use fancy expensive software that can draw instead of them.
You know how much harder is to draw 640x480 than 320x240 ? Let me say, A LOT. And it takes a lot of free time, even  this low res games are very time consuming. And if not done properly a higher resolution will give you far worse results.   

->as always my English is not commendable

[Bai Karl]

Guys, when I say "lets make a better games", I didn't mean to make it like "larry 8" (it's a terrible game)! For a example: "Sektor 13" games are very good! I like them. Nice graphics, nice colors.

[Andail]

Can you make one of those "better" games and not post until you've done so, please?

[Bai Karl]

Andail, can you fix your sceenshots for your games, before you post!

Can you make one of those "better" games and not post until you've done so, please?

[Terrorcell]

Stan, can you shut up please?

[Bai Karl]

What do you want? I just report a bug for non showing screenshots!

Stan, can you shut up please?

[Nikolas]

Stan, I'm the 3rd man to tell you this, I think!

Just SHUT UP! Ok? quit posting, and quit chassing anything about this community that the WHOLE bloody community does not care about, but only you! Quit it, ok? Let go!

AGS website can be whatever EACH BLOODY MEMBER wants! If they want it to be the low res, graphics place, let it be. If they want it to be a high resolution (Vince XII has made one and Atropos as well), then let it be one. If they want to play Dos games, let it be one.

For fucks shake, quit acting like you know better with any kind of arguments, because they are simply lame and not worth the trouble anyone is going through to let you know!

Really, relax, leave and come back after a few weeks time to deal with YOUR game. Or maybe express KINDLY what you'd like to see (in which case you'll get the very normal reply "Why not do it yourself".) In fact! WHY NOT write the high res games yourself? Why not give it a try? After all they are SO MUCH BLOODY better than the low res ones, that it MUST be worth the trouble. If you can do it, then make sure your marketing succeeds. If not, then make sure to let us know why on earth you failed, because all the people making games in low res, have their own reasons.

RESPECT EVERYONE ELSE IN HERE AND LET GO