Well i was just wondering whats happened to the good old days, not that mind all the new things here but i found AGS back in the day, 2005-2007 i think it was and ive been missing the olden, it seems like alot of creators from that period and chatters games as as well have disappeared, I droped by a few of their profile and some of them havent logged back in since 2006 ne way i suppose that some of them have grown up and moved on with their lives but is there anyone still here who misses and or remembers the old days, are you feeling nostalgic lik me??
Ive just noticed a difference since back when Tribleys Notes, 7 days a stranger, that one music quest.... I will say a tale of two kingdoms was brillant and that definatly takes me back however it seems like alot of game creators are on hiatous or have moved on.
Ne way I hope this generates a few reply's im just curious.
Self-referential jokes about "how nostalgia threads on the forums aren't as good as they used to be" aren't as good as they used to be.
I've been around since 2002, back when we were on EZBoards. And yeah, a lot of the "elders" seem to have moved on. Even the newbies that, had they remained, would be moderators now, aren't even around.
Is it me? Does my body odor offend?
Hehe, I've been here since 2003 :/ Not as far back as the EZboards, but six years is still pretty long o_O
Man, AGS boards have had some pretty good times :D
I've had an account since around 2000 and I'm still around...
Maybe it is time for me to disappear as well? You know, just to legitimize the whole 'all the old people are leaving' running gag that I hear every year? :=
Not to be a pedantic but unless your account says "transferred from ezboard" I doubt you can reminisce about the good old days :P Now those days were magical. But I do agree that times have changed and the community has expanded a lot since those days.
Maybe this isnt coshure to ask, i dont think i can even spell it rite.....lol but there was a member Miss chelle? somthing like that and i remember alot of guys tried to romance her one guy in particular created a game with her in it as a character.
Ne way, I move to australia, then i picked up a bug in australia and somone stole my computer as well so i lost track of things when i got back to the state because i was sick i was stuck in the hospital for awhile then i logged back into here maybe thats when i finally created an account......
ne way, did anythign ever become of that romance? anyone get married? lol maybe its just a stupid question though but i feel a little like it was some strange soap opera back then and ive missed the ending of it.
You can just ignore this question if im way off and asking things i should remain quiet about.
You had got unlucky computers, it seems.
Erenoth dude, you should get your keyboard checked out... I think a few keys are broken. There seems to be a macro replacing 'any' with 'ne' as well. :P
AGS Class of 2003. Yay!! :)
And it's spelled "kosher", as in the Jewish set of dietary laws. Ever see that circled "U" on food products, and/or the word "Pareve"? That signifies kosher food. And it entered the English language in another meaninâ€"
Oh, screw it. "Coshure" sounds cooler. ;D
Yea its just a shame I failed grammer
magintz I think you might be taking things a bit far. I mean, sure those of us who weren't around "back in the day" of the EZ Boards missed out on an amazing time in the life of AGS (both the program and the community). But I've been around a mere five and a half years now and I feel pretty confident that I have a right to say, "I remember the good old days..."
People always talk about how things have changed and they're just not the same as they used to be. Well here's a funny thought: maybe they aren't the same because they changed. :P
Time and people change. Not everything today is going to be the same as what it was years ago. I know that I for one am a far different person than when I first joined the forums. Life can do that to you.
So yeah, we all get to think back and remember what it was like when we first started with AGS. I for one personally remember when gMenu.Visible = false; was InterfaceOff(MENU);...and then GUIOff(MENU);. I remember when AGS had the Interaction Editor for scriptless scripting. I remember when Ashen was active on the forums and he was a cool guy who didn't afraid of anything even when some trolling n00b would come along and accidentally the whole thing!
Each of us has our own stories, our own history (or herstory) of how AGS has impacted our lives. Saying "what happened to the good old days" is honestly a bit close-minded and thick-headed though. Things change. That's life. Especially in a community as dynamic as this one; based around something as ever-changing and dynamic as the AGS editor which Chris works tirelessly to improve for us! Even though things may not be the way remember them, the editor changes, the community loses a member and gains 27.3 more (1 of which remains active more than a single month). It happens.
Oh and by the way Erenoth the irony of you "fail[ing] grammer" slays me. It really does.
stupid txt-style spelling killing my ares and making them into rs. I mean...ugh!
In other words, one day today will have been one of the good old days, even though it is currently only a mere average new day.
Or something. 8)
No Monkey, Magintz is being totally fair. ezboard, The problem with Yahtzee, those were the good old days.
Yea it slays me to........... grade school teacher didnt think grammer was important so he threw it out the window, i ended up in highschool clueless so they decided to put me in the special class, i spent my higschool english classes with interesting people who rocked back and fourth, made loud noises, had strange quirks, the teacher had finally had enough of it so she just sat behind her desk and smoked. Oh the memories....................... perhapse it would make a good parody game..... some of the hijinks i got myself into to keep entertained in that class.
Yay, nostalgia threads. I remember my first nostalgia thread like it was yesterday!
Class of '03 sticking together to mock the elders, 03 is the new 00. EZ Sleazy.
Quote from: Chicky on Sun 06/09/2009 18:17:03
Class of '03 sticking together to mock the elders, 03 is the new 00. EZ Sleazy.
Class of '04 shakes it's underclassman fist at you. You guys are old and no longer hip and with the times. '04 is the new hotness.
Most definately '03 :P
I wish I had been around to try and romance this Miss Chelle character... she sounds interesting.
Quote from: Layabout on Sun 06/09/2009 05:56:55
No Monkey, Magintz is being totally fair. ezboard, The problem with Yahtzee, those were the good old days.
I want to reply to that but don't know what to say :) It made me laugh... sigh I do miss the good old days.
Perhaps now I'll be one post closer to "breaking out the bubbly" ;)
The ezboard days really weren't that interesting to be honest, aside from being the genesis of what is now a strong community and piece of development software. You've got to realize that with a few exceptions, (CJ, myself, a few others) most of the now 'established' members were just punk kids back then and therefore wholly uninteresting (unless you're a pedophile).
ESPECIALLY AGA! :=
Some people come back and periodically read the forums...
Class of 02, the graduation year when the girls snuck into the guys shower's caught us all naked getting ready for the ceremony. I got so many phone numbers that year...........lol
Quote from: Erenoth on Sat 05/09/2009 22:19:57
I will say a tale of two kingdoms was brillant and that definatly takes me back however it seems like alot of game creators are on hiatous or have moved on.
Thanks, but I've never been on a hiatous, really. I just don't post all that much.
Summer '04.
5+ years dedication to anything is quite an achievement for one so breathtakingly undisciplined as myself.
I often wonder if moving on in general (as life seems to drive us to) is what we all should eventually do, but that leads me to heavier cosmic questions which I'm just not cut out to handle.
Quote from: LimpingFish on Mon 07/09/2009 00:12:00
I often wonder if moving on in general (as life seems to drive us to) is what we all should eventually do...
I plan to be here until CJ turns the lights out or until I finish the Barn Runner series -- which, at the rate I'm going, will occur just shortly before the heat death of the universe.
Like others before me have said, life goes on. One member leaves, a new one joins the community.
I myself have been reading the forums since 2004, but only recently joined the club (yeah, I'm some kind of super lurker, so what? := ). Lets hope AGS and the community will exist for a long, long time.
I've been here on and off for the past 5 years. It's the only community I really come back to. I might've missed "the good old days", but there are some good times I've had geeking on here, and some worthy topics to contribute too. I can never guarantee I will always be active, sometimes I come on here for a brief while and disappear for long periods of time, but I know I will never leave (which may be considered unfortunate ;) )
Unfortunately my infrequency on the forums means I never know where I stand with some people, as chances are they don't remember me from the last time I was here ( I was up until a few months ago inactive for about 2 years).
Its a good place to be and I don't understand why people feel the need to permanently disappear in the first place.
Ah, the good old days...
I've been here for more than 10 years and yet never completed a single game.
/me cries.
Hey Gilbot, up until September 2007 I was following in your lead. You were my idol. Sure I kept some projects lying around to make people think I'm working on a game or two; but actually making one?
Then Trance-Pacific came along with its beta testing and then Diamonds in the Rough which I still have no idea what I did on that game...
'04 was the year for joining the AGS community though. All the best people were doing it. So I jumped on the bandwagon. Albeit the facts might show me as having registered before some of them, we can just ignore those silly little discrepancies.
I love the way these threads always devolve into who's been here the longest though. Really absolutely brilliant. :D I mean as far as the members currently registered on this forum I'm down at number 651 of 4549 (sorted by date registered). So that would still put me in the top 15% of all members. I don't rank too badly.
And Layabout as I said in my post, there is quite a bit I wasn't around for. A lot of what Prog would call pedophilia I'm sure, but more important things like Yahtzee and the very evolution of the program and the community.
But there's still a lot that's happened in the last 5-6 years as well that can't just be ignored. Sure maybe my memories of "the good old days" and your memories won't be the same or from the same time. Everyone's going to have their own definition, their own ideas of what "the good old days" actually mean.
For example, I think the good old days were when Flukeblake (Flukezy, etc.) was the forum's favourite troll and we all used to give him hell. He was the troll we loved to hate. From his point of view though that might not have been one of the highlights of his time spent in the community. I'm not sure what his views on that might be but you understand what I'm getting at.
Nostalgia threads are awesome because we each get to step back for a moment and reminisce on our own version of "the good old days" and maybe even see what others have to say. They also suck for exactly the same reason however, because they almost inevitably turn into a great bout of douchebaggery over who was here for what and who wasn't there for that! ::)
Quote from: Gilbet V7000a on Mon 07/09/2009 03:46:15
Ah, the good old days...
I've been here for more than 10 years and yet never completed a single game.
/me cries.
Many people think Im a permanoob who has never made a game and after a decade still lacks even the most basic understanding of AGS... but thats not true. For the past decade Ive actually been making what could quite possibly be the greatest 2d game ever made. I had to heavily modify the AGS system itself so that I could create a 4500-room game with over 1250 different scripted characters and 3000+ inventory items. It also has amazing artwork unlike anything ever seen. When will this game be coming out? Eventually. Its still a work in progress.
Hah but in seriousness the closest I ever got to making a 'real' AGS game was this one RotN game where Davy Jones returns from the future as a T-800 (Terminator) to protect Mika or something like that. It was pretty ridiculous, kinda wished I had finished it.
ah no nothing against you radiant, Im just missing some of the old games a like Two of a kind, and The stargate adventure, im hoping some more of those will come out, 1213 was brilliant i cant remember how many times i played that. Duzz Quest got me in australia I studied there for two years and im gunna move one day. Theres definatly alot of great creators out ther today but I tend to be picky most of the time when i play games and i havent found anything yet to immerse me in my kind of world, maybe selfish, The first game i ever tried was The Adventures of Fatman That was brillant, and when Apprentus came out my friends were gathered around me laughing untill their sides split at some of the jokes. I had to download apprentus for my sister and i helped her through it, and when that quest about Amy where you had to win her love back was one of my favorites.........probably because this girl i had major crush on named Amy caught me playing it and i ended up helping her beat it, which got me a date with her, and the end of which she told me that she had always loved me however her family moved england and that was the last i saw of her.
Hmm, I'm not sure where the hell I stand on these things. I've lurked intermittently since around the time Rob Blanc II and The Treasure of Drunk Island were released, whenever that was, but only recently got an account. I spent years trying to get into AGS, saying it 'sucked' in frustration, giving it up, trying it again, giving it up again, waiting for Glumol in a vicious cycle.
From my casual perspective it seems much of a muchness myself.
The good old days are dead. End of story.
I kind of like the days of AGS as they are now. But it seems that's just me.
Ditto Dual.
These are exciting times to be a adventure gamer in general... and very exciting times to be an AGSer... and I can only forsee things getting better and better, at least for the next couple of years.
Quote from: monkey_05_06 on Mon 07/09/2009 04:54:49
For example, I think the good old days were when Flukeblake (Flukezy, etc.) was the forum's favourite troll and we all used to give him hell. He was the troll we loved to hate. From his point of view though that might not have been one of the highlights of his time spent in the community. I'm not sure what his views on that might be but you understand what I'm getting at.
Hehe, Flukezy is still around. He posts under melon_collie92 I think.
The good old days were when I used to go into IRC and pretend to be Babar and then some n00b who used to lurk around here named Zor...
Quote from: Phemar on Mon 07/09/2009 10:19:40still around
...::) decapitated me with his "penish" (sic). Because adding the 'h' to the end makes it not offensive. Everyone knows that.
The good old days were when spaceboy perma-banned me from Stickam because I used a picture of a random from the Stickam room in my avatar. And then spaceboy threatened to sick
his lawyer on me. Over something that had nothing to do with him. And it was hilarious. And a bunch of people got thoroughly upset with me for being such a hard-headed, arrogant oaf.
The good old days were having a laugh at TVD (whatever his name was; TerribleVenerealDisease wasn't it? :P) over how upset he got at me calling him TVlanD.
The good old days were when I've attempted posting anything in the critic's lounge.
The good old days were every single time I've posted an "about a girl..." thread.
The good old days were every single time I
didn't post about my girl troubles.
Etc., so on, and so forth. I rest my case. :=
Now I remember that back in 2000, in order to download Adventure Creator (that was AGS' old name), you had to challenge Chris Jones to a drinking contest over what we called then an internet video chat call. Since not many of us had web cameras in those days, one of us actually challenged him and eventually shared his copy of AC through KaZaA (because bittorrent wasn't available yet).
That's why the logo is the Bluecup. It's because Chris used to drink Fosters from a blue cup or straight from the can (which is also blue).
I miss the days when By the Sword was eagerly anticipated. :(
I miss the days were mods and I were mates and he couldn't believe my age, so I had to send a scan of my id.
Though I do not miss the day, when I screwed up the Vestibule ::)
Oh... and I miss the GODS of AGS, who even had a closed subforum and never released anything ;D
I remember when the AGS editor was all in Sanskrit, when animations were all about wooden puppets hanging by strings, when you had to pray to Thor before attempting to compile your game, when CJ wore a beard and had six arms and only assisted you with technical questions if you sacrificed a goat, when Helm could still not speak but only wave his hands, and when the forum was a place of trampled earth, surrounded by monoliths on top of which rested six black ravens.
Those were the days!
I do miss my early ags days, despite they weren't on the good AGS age. When Duckbutcher was working on DrWho, when Spooks was just coming out. When Nikolas posted more around here, when Helm ..(no wait I don't miss him), when ManicMatt was POSTING around here. They weren't much the days, but they meant something. When Ashen was posting in the beginners topic, when Rui was around here more often.
Quote from: Andail on Tue 08/09/2009 08:37:19
I remember when the AGS editor was all in Sanskrit, when animations were all about wooden puppets hanging by strings, when you had to pray to Thor before attempting to compile your game, when CJ wore a beard and had six arms and only assisted you with technical questions if you sacrificed a goat, when Helm could still not speak but only wave his hands, and when the forum was a place of trampled earth, surrounded by monoliths on top of which rested six black ravens.
Those were the days!
YES! When men were men, and CJs were GODS!
When CJ could really deliver on an April Fools Joke...
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=12733.0
Haha, Domino, that's hilarious. Too bad I wasn't around here back then...
What's wrong with the new days?
Looking back everything looks all glitzy, sure, but most of that stems from the fact that I had way more free time on my hands than I do today. I could make five posts and feel like I accomplished my life's goal for the day. Now, I'm prouder when I draft a post, and then decide not to send anything at all.
There's always a feeling of exhilaration when we find something new and shiny, and then as time passes its luster begins to lessen. I can't think of any organization I've been in for a number of years where I didn't, for some reason, miss the past. At some point you have to come to the conclusion that the forums (or any organization) haven't really changed much, you're the one who's changed.
Unless, of course, you came from ezboards. In that case, everything has changed, and you should completely miss what we had.
-MillsJROSS
Well, I for one couldn't imagine the times where I wouldn't have been able to use neat features like alpha-transparency, an object limit above 20 and so forth.. ;)
Been around since February 08, 2003...
Quote from: rharpe on Wed 09/09/2009 03:36:57
Been around since February 08, 2003...
and...your opinions are?
Well, I wished I discovered this community sooner. :P For some time now I get to this site to play a short game whenever I feel down a bit, and it helps. But I could have used it more years before.
Only registered recently, when I was sure I could make games myself. But still get the feeling I missed out. ;D
I still pop in from time to time. Truth is, life happened. Lot of crazy things went down the last couple of years. But, perhaps some day I will actually make a cohesive game with replay value.
Someday.