As this is the 10000 topic I thought It would be nice to thank CJ (or worship AGS as a god) for what AGS has done for you. Either it means that you have made successful series of games, got you into adventure games more by buying old classics or just made you get into pixel art more (as thats what AGS has done for me ::)).
Just post what you're thankful that AGS has done for you ;D
Quote from: Phoenix on Wed 27/07/2005 12:50:04
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Quote from: Al_Ninio on Wed 27/07/2005 12:58:00
Quote from: Phoenix on Wed 27/07/2005 12:50:04
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But anyway, I don't think AGS did something for me. I started making an adventure game, I did all the major programming and stuff but the guy who was supposed to make the art found out he couldn't do it after all, and I quit. I just come here to the forums, that's all
Quote from: Guybrush Peepwood on Wed 27/07/2005 13:13:18
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Quote from: Phoenix on Wed 27/07/2005 12:50:04
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Deleted topics are not counted there. :P
But ANYWAY. I don't think I've earned anything from AGS in particular.
Through the AGS community, however, I have met some awesome people, participated in some interesting debates and earned a total lack of a real life. :(
chicks. Lots of them. Chicks dig AGS. The moment I mention that I am the celebrated creator of Ulitmerr and Aaron's Epic Journey, they can't keep their hands to themselves for the life of them
same as gal, through the IRC channel, ive met some cool people, and in 2007, ill meet them in real life, at brittens! Ive also dramatically increased my coding and art talent doing something I find enjoyable. Thanks CJ!
AGS ruined my life. But it's a good thing it offered an alternate life here in the forums and on #ags. :=
killed my father and raped my mother
It taught me Karate, and how to pleasure a woman....
Thanks Chris!
For me, it's mittens, some fights with people who finally ended being my friends, new friends (without previous fights) and improving my art skills...
AGS has a community, and that's what taught me how to behave on the internet. It also octupled the amount of people I call friends. #ags has replaced nearly all my real life contacts... and I think it's great!
AGS has gave me great fun creating games with it, but I still haven't finished any.
I met the love of my life, Al_Ninio.
It saved me obscene amounts of money, by allowing people to give me plenty of great games to play, for free. By extension, it allowed me to spend this saved money on hookers.
After a few rounds of drinks, AGS gave me the best night of my life. I'll never forget that romantic evening we spent together.
I gave AGS some cab fare early in the morning while i was still in bed, but unfortunately AGS stole my TV and my microwave on the way out the door.
But i still love AGS.
:)
AGS has given me pain, frustration, and tears of exhaustion.
Nothing more.
ags gamme food, something to wear and a place to live
thanks CJ!
o/
AGS taught me how to survive alone in the wilderness. And how to make Texas Toast.
Dudes. Lots of them. Dudes dig AGS. The moment I mention that I am the celebrated creator of Ulitmerr and Aaron's Epic Journey, they can't keep their hands to themselves for the life of them
but... but...
AGS gave me RunHot that I played countless hours and don't reach the end yet... for years!
AGS has made me lots of new friends, shown me that there's hope for the internet yet, and given me the opportunity to bring 2 of my lfie goals to... fruition. It's also taken many, many hours/days/weeks/months of my life, but eh.
AGS has stolen my life for weeks at a time, and resolutly demonstrated to me that I'm a bit shit as most aspects of making a computer game. None the less, I stick with it as it has ALSO given me HOPE! Hope that I might one day do something that'll kick asses around the world... Oh AGS sweet cruel mistress! Let me see my own un-liklyness-of-achieving-something and withdraw into the sweet sweet night of being-a-swimming-pool-attendant... Or a cave tour guide!
[EDIT 01/08/05]
Sod it, AGS is Fucking fantastic! Not only is it un-believably flexibul, it's also pant-shittingly accessible! ANYONE can use it to make a decent game and most people can (with a little commitment) make a game that's OUTLANDISHLY good. I'm off to start a fuckin' project RIGHT NOW...
i think it has definitely got me more into gaming and seeing how games are made exactly. thanks CJ!
AGS gave me herpes... or was that CJ... or M0ds... or DGMacphee...hmm
AGS sucks but it came in a big box which is useful for living in.
I'll get arrested for who know what if I write down the names...
AGS? What do you mean ags? You mean this isn't the ZZT boards?
ZZT?
I thought this was the American Goat Society!
AGS has so far given me two damn-spankinly good holidays abroad (Swe, Usa), a whole bunch of friends and interesting people. If it wasn't for AGS I probably wouldn't have continued much music making, so I really can only thank AGS for all the experience in music making its given me - and also the honour + pleasure of writing music for peoples games. Moderating a forum (or three) also gave me an actual "purpose" to come online which is always handy!
The only thing I won't thank AGS for is the amount of newbies that added me to MSN a couple of years ago.. :P
It has also led to minor-acclaimed fame, so far on GIGA TV with Fountain of Youth (which is good, considering it's not even finished yet). Okay, so I wouldn't call that "fame" but more Germans know me now than ever did! If it wasn't for AGS there'd be no first commercial game made with it and that one happens to be Fatman which again I did music for! Very proud of that. (Being INVOLVED more than the music :P)
So yeah, I have a lot to thank AGS and CJ for, in return, I try and show an active presence, organise what I can - when I can - if I can, and help out other members when possible :) The only thing I don't do yet is finish games, but thats fine with me - I expect to live until at least 60, (so YOU can expect at least ONE finished game!) - and I will happily continue the AGS legacy through and post any world war or destruction of society, so long as computers still exist - and Windows still works. :D
AGS has caused this site to exist, providing links to games in the genre I like most.
It was nice to know the genre hadn't been forgotten. :)
Aside from providing lots of free (and darn good!) adventure games to fuel my addiction, I have managed to recover some of my enthusiasm for creative pursuits. I still don't write as much as I used when I was younger, but I am writing more than I did a few years ago. And I'm also pleased to say that its given me motivation to improve my drawing. I'm still not very good, and I don't get a lot of joy drawing on the computer, but I've really begun to enjoy simply sketching. It used to be that I couldn't go anywhere without a notepad in case I had an amazing idea, now I can't go anywhere without a sketchpad either!
Seriously though, this stuff isn't all due to AGS. I did it myself, and I proud of myself for having done so. AGS was simply an excuse I needed to pursue my goals. And a darn good excuse too!
AGS has made me waste countless hours of my life slaving over a hot keyboard when I should have been out on the pull in a lycra spandex bodysuit.
But by far the best thing to come out of AGS is, as m0ds says, two (soon to be three) great summer holidays abroad. And I'm not just saying that, it really was great meeting all of you. Except AGA, obviously.
:=
AGS gave me hours upon hours of headaches. It also kidnapped by sister (MY SISTER!!!!!) and brutally beat my pet dog, Scruffy! (SCRUFFYY!!!!!!!) It also killed my girlfriend......
SCRUFFYY!!!!!!!
AGS was great for me, to find countless of enjoyable free adventure pleasure, and the ability to create my own adventures. It got my into some creative thinking, and was really the effort worth, when I finished something. AGS Rocks, even though I don't have so much time left to use it. I think AGS should be commmercial actually :P CJ should just release a version for buying and point some members to being technical-support-staff.
That would be awesome, to see AGS in the shop.... though I don't think that dream becomes reality... though you never know... ;)
It's allowed me to put my sense of humor into a format that everyone could see. Unfortunatly for everyone, it allowed me to put my sense of humor into a format that everyone could see.
I've made a lot of friends here, and I can only hope to carry on those friendships for a long time after, at least until the restraining orders. It's given me a reason to go onto the internet with a purpose more noble than porn...not as exciting, but more noble. I honestly check this more than my e-mail. It's what CJ has really done for me, that matters...which is given me a reason to like onion rings all over again.
-MillsJROSS
I've learned how to peel a Banana the proper way! Or at least that's what Chris did for me.
PANCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE?
AGS inspired me to start learning C++. Which helped me to understand what the heck was going on with the new coding style of 2.7. Which helped me to understand C++ a bit better. Which helped me with that combined knowledge to understand PHP which I am starting on. And it's also stolen 1 year, 1 month, and 7 days of my life which have been spent on a project that currently has yet to even release a playable demo.
And...uh...well...these forums exist...which introduced me to Lisa (Dart) and she's pretty cool...I guess. She keeps trying to get me to play MapleStory. But other than that she's okay.
In short...nothing. Nothing at all. Absolutely nothing. Not a single thing.
- An outlet of creativity in form of games i love the most?
- Never-able-to-finish-my-game complex?
- Lottsa unfinished trash on hard disk?
- Ability to draw and animate pixelly art... and being a little bit famous for this though no one in REAL life gives a heck?
- Over 1000 postfuls of different forms of wasting, like time, webspace, people's around world and my own - eyes and of course, my keyboard?
Thanks! :=
I met the love of my life, Al_Ninio.
It gave me a great reason to freak out my friends and family by saying "Oh yeah, I'm going away for a week by myself to meet some guys from the internet and camp with them."
And it was a great diversion from class in the college days.
Oh, yeah, I HATE bringing that up.
I'll tell others that I met up with Europeans last year, and then they'll be like... "How did you meet them?"
Then I sigh, and say... the internet.... :-X
Good times.
In return why don't we open a cafepress shop and honour CJ with all the profit whilst we benefit from tacky yet perfectly respectable AGS goods!! I just don't have that get-up-and-grund to make my own t-shirt :P
AGS has:
-Given me yet another reason to never leave the apartment
-deprived me of hours upon hours of time that could otherwise be spent watching tv
-aided in the break-up of at least one girlfriend so far
-fed my freakish obsession with perfection
-led to many akward conversations that involve:
"So you make video games?"
"Yeah, kinda."
"What, like Doom or something?"
"No, they're adventure games."
"What's an adventure game?"
"Nevermind."
AGS has added a lot to my life. And maybe taken some away.
AGS helped me:
Be persistant.
Improve my writing.
Improve my drawing.
Improve my music.
Improve my programming skills through hours and hours of unspeakable pain and frustration.
And of course, AGS brought me to this wonderful forum.
The forum has:
Corrupted my mind. ;D
Interestingly, and complicatedly, AGS introduced me to Ragga!
Quote from: Anarcho on Mon 01/08/2005 21:18:47-fed my freakish obsession with perfection
I have an obsession with perfection in the important things. Like the PHP script I was up till 1 a.m. last night perfecting, only to discover that there is a way I can create the MySQL database if it doesn't exist, then create the table if it doesn't exist. So...now there's more perfecting to be done! I'm away!!!
Edit: I've only just started learning PHP three days ago. Quit laughing at me!!! :'(
AGS has taught me how to talk to girls! :=
AGS has cured my halitosis.
AGS helped me escape that cult I should have never joined.
AGS has taught me to respect my boundaries and make time for me!
Thank you, AGS!
If it wasn't for AGS I'd never have met Ron Gilbert and therefore arranged to meet up with James but he never showed up so I whined at him a bit and we got talking and so if that hadn't happened we wouldn't be going out and I wouldn't be working as a games tester and I wouldn't be in Brighton right now and I wouldn't be a fraction as happy as I am right now.
I've had two bottles of KICK which is 44,000% of my RDA of vitamin B or something. and god knows what of caffeine. I'm still at work. I am seeing visions of this game. Every time I close my eyes, my thoughts are organised like troops, and I think in turn-based strategy mode. Holy crap.
Thanks to AGS I've realised that I can't come up with a good adventuregame idea.
But I'm still lurking around after all these years... curse you AGS!
AGS has made me fully realize the power of hate. Hate, and the occasional bickering match vs. everyone about nothing in particular. Spoon!