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I can't convince myself that it's worth paying for. The free builder was fun, but is there enough to do and enough inventory options that it's worth the $10?

Very funny comics, but something on your page keeps crashing Firefox. This happening for anyone else?

I had this problem when trying to install Saints Row 2. The disk wasn't loading models, so I kept having to restart my system. Eventually I tried installing the game to the harddrive and it would get about half way and say that "can't read disk". I ended up borrowing a copy of the game from a friend and installed it to my harddrive, and then my disk loaded whatever information wasn't transferred to the harddrive on the install. I'd guess your problem has something to do with a semi-corrupted disk. Laser burn, maybe?

Oops, tried to post this last night but I got side tracked.

The painted backgrounds look really great. The perspective is a tad sloppy looking, but the vibe they give off is nice. Defiantly has kind of an old world feel to it. The sprite looks alright, aside from some problems with the proportions, mainly his legs look too big in scale to his body. Though I'm not quite sure how he fits on the backgrounds. The textures of the acrylic really make these paintings, and I don't think that the pixelated sprite complements those textures. Are these backgrounds the final product, but scaled to 320x200? I'm curious how that looks.

Fibonacci Sequence?

Lowering the backseat/rear window bottom would also help even out the horizon line height.

If I'm available and don't forget, I'd love to give it a shot. LGM would probably be interested too.

Um...yeah.

Holy balls, has anyone tried this? Try it on hard.

Think about the functionality of this background (Why is the character here, what can they see/do here, where are the hotspots, where does this BG exist within the game) and then reconsider your layout. Overall it looks very nice. I think the style and colors look good, and the perspective isn't that terrible either. I think the brickwork under the right window on the front of the building looks great, and the textured ivy has a really good feel to it.

The door placed facing out so far on the left side of the screen looks strange. There are two points of focus, the front door and where the back of the building and the tree line meet, and they're fighting each other for control of the image.

Here's a quick mockup I did to illustrate some of these ideas. I moved the door, adjusted the perspective of the building a bit, and adjusted the tree slightly to give a sense of mystery/possible hotspot.

   

I think it really depends. The most recent animation looks really fluid and awesome. But his walk is really distinct. He looks like a sleepy drunk motivated to get somewhere, which looks really nice if it works for that character. If you want a more bumbling drunk, he needs to lean back, maybe two more pixels, and his head should tip backwards and sort of whip forward when he steps. His legs should function one at a time rather than simultaneously, and then his feet should sort of slap on the ground. That should give him more of a troublesome, extremely intoxicated look. But regardless, what you have now looks solid.

But my point still holds. It is better to save the life of 4 people (who are potentially rapists) than to save the life of no one

A completely rhetorical question not directed at anyone: What if a rapist (or murderer, or terrorist, or...) fell ill while on trial? Would you be willing to donate an organ from your deceased person to them so they could receive justice? If not even in a sense of societal necessity, then purely for the grieving family members of the victim(s)?

Wow, what a surprising final quarter for the Saints.

Also, Puppy Bowl's Kitten Halftime show > The Who.

and presumably you dont agree with medical cadavers for experiments either. I don't really know how your world view would work on any large scale. How would doctors learn?

This is very interesting, because I'm actually in the process of removing myself from the US donor registry, in favor of donating my body to a medical university, completely "in tact". In the US medical universities can keep a cadaver for up to 4 years, and the donor can request that their body be only used for teaching medical students.

Over four years, can you imagine how many students will learn how to be better doctors by looking at your body? And imagine how many lives they'll save after they get their medical license. I mean, sure, my body my not give them any breakthroughs to save an individuals life, based purely on examining my corpse, but who cares? I don't believe in anything after death, so who am I do care what happens anyway?

Plus, after the 4 years, they return the body to the family, theoretically, with all of your organs. Let a few doctors look at your johnson, then they give you back, and put you in the ground. Sounds pretty fine to me.  8)

Clearly men are for Mars and women are for Venus.

Fuck, have I really been reading AGS Forums everyday for 9 years? Jesus Christ.

Edit: Maybe 8 years? Holy hell, how old was I when I registered on ezboards?

Don't get me wrong ... I love touchscreen technology.  I think it's just swell.  I do not, however, feel that it is the "way to go" in the future.  Putting everything on-screen has it's place but to those of us who develop on computers; can you imagine doing what you do without input devices like the mouse and keyboard?

I think the iPad is horribly designed, and not well thought out. But I have to disagree with Darth in saying I think removing input devices is the way of the future. There are plenty of ways to make touch screen keyboards work, they just haven't made it there yet, IMO. The dual touch sensitivity is phenomenal, and the only thing that is missing is a design where a keyboard is executed well enough to be used for standard typing.

It would have to have a stand of some sort built in to angle the pad so you could type on it comfortably, while still being able to see the screen. My idea is that they should divide the lower half into the key"pad" and the upper half would be the screen, but the bottom edges of the screen could be sized with a slider, so that when the pad is lying on your lap and you're typing, the screen looks normal, square instead of a trapezoid. Sure it would be small, but it's way more practical than the current iPad design.

But at least to our own planet. Can you imagine if we accidentally killed all life, possibly life more intelligent than our own, on a foreign planet, with only a few bacteria left on a tiny droid that more than likely won't give us a whole lot of valuable information? We'd for sure never get a date for Universe Prom.

The problem with Europa is even if we can get through the ice, we can't really guarantee that we can sterilize any probe to keep from contaminating a potentially "ideal" environment for live. It would be an astounding feat if we could get below the ice, but I'm not sure NASA will ever probe Europa because of the danger of bringing organic contaminants. Hopefully other countries also appreciate the danger of affecting a literally life changing discovery.

There are a bunch of videos on youtube on how to do this. Reversing the audio clip, then adding delay or reverb, then reversing the clip back to normal will result in something close.

The better option, IMHO, is software or effects processors that have a live reverse. Starting at 2:45 in this video of the EHX Cathedral,  you can hear an example of the dry signal mixed in, then a few seconds later he turns down the dry mix, and you can hear just the wet, reversed signal. I'm not sure of any commercial software or plugins that do the same thing, but I'm positive they're out there, and most certainly will sound more like what I think you're trying for than trying to reverse audio clips and reverberate them.