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Thanks everyone!

You've given me a lot to look over.

Hello all, it's been a while.  It's nice to see some familiar names.  I recently got back into AGS so, I'm formally saying "yo, what's up" to the whole community.

I also have an ulterior motive for this post, I have a request for you:  I'd like to find some games in which the player controls the environment rather than the characters (e.g. the player turns on spot light and the characters move to examine the illuminated area).  I have a decent idea but I'd like to see a proof of concept.   

Thanks in advance

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Piper, I concede that I should not have called them glitches.  I was wrong.

I should have called them accessibility issues.  I don't think the recipes are clear enough, which lead to me misinterpreting them.  Though I may not be the bar for an average gamer, I'm mostly a dolt, I would have to believe that others may have run into the same problems.

I still think the game is adorable and I have played through it a couple times to try out some different things.  Kudos all around! 

Cino,

While your explanation may work in the real world depending on sizes of glasses, but were dealing with a bottomless glass in game.  The first recipe only needed one part of mixture and was represented by one vial.  The second recipe calls for two parts (two vials) unless I misinterpreted it.

Secondly, dead-end does exist if you do the following:

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Incorrectly mix green chemicals, attempt to reset system by using vacuum to empty beaker and refill the base chemical test tubes.

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My point was to display a situation with a dead end rather than look for a way to avoid it.  You can avoid it by doing the recipe right in the first place.

Wow, what a nice game.  One of the puzzles was diabolical but the rest were just the right difficulty to allow the game to flow.  Kudos Ivy, Vince and Scorp!

These may or may not be a glitches:

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1. I didn't have to use two parts green goo to get my hot air balloon to rise.  I just mixed the two base components then added the coffee then the glitter, mixed and heated.

2. During the opening sequences, some of Brainbot's dialog flows underneath the other sprites depending where he's standing. I didn't write down where it happens exactly, sorry! I'll run through the again to point it.  Though this may be a stylistic thing to show no one listens to him...

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Is this the sort of game that you can get into a dead-end situation? because I ran into some headaches picking stuff up and trying to juggle items especially the vials. example:

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when making the hot air balloon gas, i mixed the formula incorrectly, using two yellows and two blues, I put in the coffee, handed the coffee off to another bot, grabbed the glitter and added that. Since the formula was wrong, nothing happened and I couldn't exchange the glitter for the coffee and the other bot wouldn't put the coffee into the beaker.

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This is a great comic to do the captions for but I have a couple of questions about it.

First, in the last frame, the old man has vapourized, so that speech bubble should be coming from the kid or is it?

Next, the question that has plagued many a scholar, why do the old man's hat and goggles fade away but not his jacket of scarf?

Finally, what is actually going on in this scene?  I'm sure that this is part of some series of strips but how do we get to the point of one guy turning into the ghost of Xmas past or revealing he's a hologram or whatever?

Not funny, but I think it's fitting...



Is there anything that Star Wars doesn't apply to?

I find it hard to believe that anyone can argue that Battle Royale is the greatest movie ever made.   Battle Royale is nothing more than a bloody slasher flick with slick editing.

I watched the film around Xmas time mostly because I had received it as a gift.  I was also told that it was original, a little thought provoking and had a bit of violence to lighten things up a bit. 

Well, I know not to trust my brother about anything. 

To me, this film is a combination of three ideas: Lord of the Flies (kids trapped on an island, duking it out), the short story "The Lottery" (the whole lottery selection system and the innate evil in all men/women) and any B-rated slasher movie (for the outright violence and brief sexuality). 

For those who haven't seen it - send a class of delinquents to an island, have them kill each other and let the last one go free (which is about as much as one can expect from a blood-and-guts type film).  Add a crazy teacher-turned-militant, picture Magneto but instead of mutants vs humans it's adults vs kids, who is broadcasting this whole ordeal to show the world that kids are like adults that haven't grown up yet or learned what life is about.  Finally, throw in a love/redemption story, a couple of computer hackers, a Mexican standoff, and there you have it, a recipe for a blockbuster, right?

I'll accept the plot; it's not bad, just not ground breaking. 

This is where everything goes to hell in a hand basket. 

Sure, a whole class of delinquents is gone, but you're letting the most coldhearted and ruthless one go.  Come on.  In one of the first scenes, you see a girl that is totally messed up from having to kill all her friends.  That's the goal of the program?

If they really wanted to reduce delinquency, they'd round up delinquents and send them to the island rather than send some randomly selected group of kids.  It would illustrate their point more clearly, rather than have a bunch of nerds being filleted because they don't know how to operate a firearm.  “But you want and need a hero to cheer for” is probably what you're thinking.  Okay, that's fine.  But it's more interesting to see a person redeem themselves and become a hero rather than see them learn nothing and remain stagnant.   Plus, all the really innocent people, ie "good guys", die even before the game begins.  Why not just line all the students and execute them in front of their school, why do the whole dance of kidnapping and bringing them to an island, if the real goal is to kill everyone. 

There are also marshals killing the students who either won't fight or anyone in their path for that matter.  The marshals add an unnecessary layer; the kids don't care about the marshals.  Conceivably, it would be hard to kill anyone, but placed in a life or death situation, much harder to kill a friend than a stranger.   

There are a bunch more flubs plot wise but this post is already huge. 

Honestly, I don't understand why there was so much hype about this flick, it's a disposable bloodbath.  It's got Beat Takeshi but not his eye behind the camera which would have helped.  There are some fun scenes like when the fat guy gets speared in the gut - I laughed.  Poisoned spaghetti! Ha! And when the slutty girl does her little “seduce the boy with the gun” act â€" I have to admit she was good at it.  But otherwise, blah.

Thanks for the tips everyone, though I don't knwo the exact date I will be heading to the vicinity of London. I'll probably check out Cardiff of Doctor Who notoriety, maybe I'll score one of those awesome bowler hats, and most definitely have more than enough beer.

@ Klytos - yeah, I don't mind getting a little drunk, maybe fighting a couple of hooligans. It's all good.

@Pumaman - you're obviously hiding something - The secret of your delicious Steak and Kidney pies wil be mine!

@Grundislav - Florida? I mean that's like the armpit of tourist traps. The whole damn state.

@Obi - See thats exciting, nothing says "I've been there!" like partial blindness.

@Baron - These bicycles you speak of sound like some form of phsyical exertion.  I'm not a fan of that.

@layabout - I would like to see a little of the countryside but you know, there's alot of grass and trees over here in canada so I doubt I'm missing much.

@yutzster - your town sounds like the bees knees.  Artsy stuff is fine, plus it's what you europeans are famous for.

@Chicky - I'm all for some underground indie music. Love it.

@The Ivy - Yeah, Not all Irish people have the red hair and the leprechaun DNA. Some of us are just regular folks.

So, like the title of the tread implies, I'm planning a trip to the UK.  Hopefully, I'll have enough cash to sleep in some non-hostel hotels but I'll see.

I'd like to get some suggestions for some places to go that wouldn't be in the category of "tourist traps".  I'm not a big fan of tourist guides because underneath it all it's just kickbacks and bribed positive reviews.  I'm interested in seeing London, but I would also love to see my ancestral home, Dublin (I am well aware that Ireland isn't technically part of the UK).

Any help is welcome.  Thanks all!

Oh, AGS Board, I Wuv U


Happy Valentine's day!

I hated that one puzzle in Full Throttle:

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Where you had to break off the little pips from the road to get those mole people to ride off the cliff.  God that took me a while to figure out.

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Also, I hated then I loved the spit thing in MI2

I think your thread might be similar to this one.

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=14678.0

As you had mentioned a history of gaming. If I am wrong, I apologize.

I was hoping to get past nostalgia and try to get to the great games that can be enjoyed by all. Like I enjoy and laugh at games like Carmageddon and BMX XXX, but these are far from being note worthy in the history of gaming and should not be played by younger gamers or sane gamers.

I've yelled "look behind you! A three headed monkey!" a bunch of times to attempt to duck out of socially awkward situations.

I was thinking about the history of gaming today.  I was wondering what you folks would choose as the games that can be enjoyed by all, like if you had kids what games would you want them to play or if you wanted to show them a history of gaming which games would be included.

This is my list(in no particular order)

1. Space invaders (Atari)
2. Super Mario Bros. (NES)
3. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
4. Pong (Atari)
5. Tetris(NES)
6. Mike Tyson's Punch Out(NES)
7. The Secret of Monkey's Island (PC)
8. The Oregon Trail (Mac)
9. Katamari Damacy (PS2)
10. NBA Jam (Genesis)

Tuomas,  I just finished listening to your tune.  I like the music and the lyrics sound pretty decent but I'm no expert - I can barely play the guitar and singing forget about it.

Though there was one thing about the composition of the song that was kind of weird.  It seemed that some of the lyrics weren't synched up with the music like in the first line the progression from the Am to the Em the lyrics seemed to come out too slowly. 

I'm sorry for being so vague but it's more of a "flow" thing rather than something technical.  At any rate, you've got a great song.  Keep up the good work.

Sure, these are comics in the sense that they are sequential art that attempts to entertain or discuss some issue but they aren't comics how the average joe, like me, thinks of comics (like a comic book or a newspaper comic strip). 

They are interesting pieces of art.  I could compare them to some very famous pieces of art but comparisons like those are not apt and there is an undertone of plagiarism. So I'll just say that these pieces pay tribute to the pop art movement of the 1960s, though without the political or the emotional attachement that those pieces had.

I'm thinking about it.  It's in toronto right? If so I don't think I'll need lodging.

Occasionally we tell them to draw things like a giant hoagie crashing into the earth just so we can see what it would look like.

That was a hoagie? I think not! As a graduate of Sandwich U and former sandwich artist, I can tell you that that was not a Hoagie. I mean Pickles on a hoagie? For shame! That isn't provolone cheese!  It hurts me to think people aren't into proper sandwich contruction...

Oh yeah another cover, that I had an issue with is the Spiderman one. It clearly doesn't hold to the guidelines of the Comics Code Authority!

But I digress. I'm just a cranky old man.

I miss the old formula:

Panel - Panel - Joke - Death.

It was classic, timeless even. Lord knows I would never have gotten published if I had to write jokes as complex as these ones.

p.s. What happened to all the other cartoonists? Weren't there like 3 of them just lying about?