Is there life after AGS? -an addict's tale.

[Trisk]

So...here I am...my project of 11 months, my baby, Prodigal, has been released. I've completed the course, I've run the race. The game is out. It is pretty much bug free...(knock on wood.) I've announced it, and all is grand and stuff...

For the last 11 months I've been waiting for this day, and yet now that it is here, I'm realizing something else: for 11 months I've lived, walked, talked, ate and slept AGS. It was what I did to the exclusion of all my other hobbies. And now it is over...and I don't know what to do with myself!!! ARGH!!!

So now I've got to try and remember my old hobbies. Things like:

1.) Closing my eyes and running full tilt until I smash headlong into something.

2.) Stab needles through those little meaty webs inbetween your fingers.

3.) Sharpening ALL pencils in the house, even the mechanical ones.

4.) Trying hard to remember how to eat. (Where does the food go again?)

5.) Sitting. Alone. In a chair. Alone. Bored. Crying. Alone.

6.) Learning how to live without "Mystery Science Theater 3000" playing CONSTANTLY in the DVD player. Seriously, every time I worked on Prodigal, MST3K was there.

7.) Doing laundry. (So THAT'S where that Gouda smell was coming from!)

8.) Stumbling clumsily into the light of the so called "Real World" and trying to shield my pasty, AGS coding skin from its horribly positive effects. Bonus points if women DON'T run screaming at the sight of me!

9.) Standing dully under a stream of pee-warm while rubbing sticks of scented fat and lye over myself in a strange pagan ritual called "showering."

10.) Underpants: your friend.

Even with all these ideas, I'll probably end up like all the other out of work AGS coders: a homeless bum lying in the gutter with a broken mouse clutched in one hand, and an empty bottle wrapped in brown paper clutched lovingly in the other...dreaming up sequel ideas.

Trisk

prodigal.lilgryphmaster.com

(Got any ideas to add to my list?)

[Ishmael]

I wonder if this is related somehow... http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=22018.0

[PsychicHeart]

1. Unblocking all Instant Message Buddies
2. (if in school, highschool, college etc.) wiping the dust off that history textbook
3. The sun... it burns, it burns!!

Cheers,
Fb.
PS: Great Post Trisk, i didn't even know Prodigal was finished. Downloading soon.

[SSH]

Now you've finished, You can post self-referential threads in the Gen Gen forum that advertise your game 

[Akumayo]

I posted something similar to this one time, something about all the side effects of AGS, I'll dig it up in a moment.

EDIT:
Found it: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=23018.0

[Trisk]

lol, SSH! :b

Actually though, I posted this because I found myself sitting in front of the computer, blankly looking at the wall. I thought it was kind of funny that I suddenly had nothing to do with myself.  So I decided to write a little thing about it.

Now, though, I'm happily catching up on all the Gaming Goodness(TM) I missed while working on Prodigal. "Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth" is pretty darn cool!