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I know we've had a "What was the first Adventure Game you played" thread, and I apologise if I'm re-treading old ground. My question, is "Why?"

Adventure games for alot of their lifetime have been an anomaly, certainly not something that was fretted over in the classroom over who's played/seen/collected what. So I wonder how you found adventure games? What led you to love this genre through thick and thin?

I remember being small, maybe 6 or 7 and being at my grandpa's house, and he was playing Myst. My sister and I would sit and watch, unable to help at first and eventually chipping in ideas on how various puzzles could be solved, where we'd seen things before etc. Soon Grandpa set us up on our own adventure, leaving us to solve the puzzles, to be called on when we got stuck. (We weren't old enough to access the internet for walkthroughs!) Another early game we played was Toonstruck, actually being lent this one to play at home. Soon we were playing Fate of Atlantis together and trying out all of the three paths to get through, exhausting all avenues to get every last bit of brilliant fun out of the game. I don't remember the order we played, but we went through all the Lucas classics, until I bought MI4 on my own and was disappointed.   

My Grandpa, my sister and I had a lot of fun with adventure games and they are important memories to me. I know for some people they are just games and that's great too, but the interactivity and difficulty of this genre brought us together in a way any other couldn't.

Does anybody else have stories like this? How you found the games? Do they mean more than just games?


(Also, does anyone else remember a game called RAMA, set on board a spaceship i think, never completed it!)

After many months of deliberation, of the past weeks several revelations in the News media have forced the News Corp owned newspaper, The News of the World, to stop publishing.

This is due to the dshonest, cruel and thoughtless actions of journalists and private detectives in the employ of the newspaper. They hacked into the phones of murder and kidnap victims, of soldiers killed in action and the victims of the 7/7 bombins in london. Although these are simply allegations, I can, from personal experience, say with some confidence that the News of the World has no qualms about lying, cheating and planting evidence to get a headline. These revelations did not come as a surprise to me.

For more details on the story, go here http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/phone-hacking

I was wondering how this story resonates around the world, News Corp are an International organisation owning, amongst MANY others, the fox network in the USA.

These recent revelations may well stand in the way of News Corp's aims to purchase the remainder of shares in Sky Television, a move I believe would be detrimental to the state of broadcasting in the UK.

Many people tend to put a blanket over journalists of being untrustworthy, while I do not think this is true, I have little faith in News Corp to uphold any kind of journalistic standards.

Does a story like this in the UK affect how you consider News Corp outlets where you live? If you are in the UK do you think it affects their other publication such as The Times?

I wouldn't normally do this, however, she was a truly lovely lady and was far too young.

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Some of you may remember that I am working for a small company, who are making effort to refresh their brand.

This started with a new website and has now moved onto a new Logo. The existing logo is strong, but does not translate well as a "mark", the script "H" alone does not stand up as a mark and cannot be printed easily, carved or engraved and remain recognisable. It is to this end that i have designed two new potential logos for the company.

The ethos of the company is friendly, modern, healthy, fresh and up to date, although the business is also very proud of it's farming heritage and the owners are fond of "modern heritage brands" (see Abercrombie, jack wills etc.). They sell fine foods, wine, gifts and also run a restaurant and butchers. It is to this end that a logo must be flexible enough to sit above any of these sections of the business and also be used on all stationary and such.

I have first included the current logo, and then two separate designs. The first being a logo based on crossed forks but including a modernised "h" and the second being an entirely modern logo, with a free form circle, in an attempt to appear relaxed with a nice clear font to show modernity. (i am worried this appears too childish and that the cross h one looks like a swastika)

I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Due to the nature of creating logos as PDFs, and wanting to maintain the best res for you to see, they are quite large so I have thumbed them. (sorry for frustrating hosting)

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Hello everyone, I have recently started working for a company doing basic design and graphics, they asked me to refresh their website. I have had a go, and since they wanted a blog, I have essentially created a WordPress skin.

What do you think? I quite like the basics, but it doesn't look very exciting, at least to my tired eyes. It is for a Farm Shop in the UK, which sells fresh fruit and vegetables as well as lots of Deli produce, expensive wines and champagnes, luxury chocolate, flowers. Sort of an aspirational grocery store. Any Suggestions?

http://www.theholliesfarmshop.co.uk/

EDIT: Should also clarify, the idea was that the four "sub" sites were for four different sides of the business, united by similar design styles and the top bar. Is that clear?

I can only presume that this issue hasn't permeated the international news, as it isn't even really making that much of a splash over here.

A man named Paul Chambers has recently been found guilty of sending a menacing electronic message and fined £1000. The message he sent, via twitter, was this:

"Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"

He sent that to about 600 followers from his iPhone after a blind date he was going on was jeopardised by his local airport being closed. It was a joke, and obviously a joke. When terrorist cells are using twitter to alert the armed forces, I think it will be a much scarier world.

How often do you see threats on the internet? Something like youtube is full of threats of violence from people who get over excited behind their keyboards and just type nuts stuff, this man wasn't actually threatening anyone, but he has now lost his job and gained a criminal record. I think this is pretty insane, Should the internet be policed in such a way? Is this just a case of the people in charge taking it too seriously, or is it a sign of something worse?

I don't know, what do you guys think of this?

Some of you may remember me doing this website in a few different iterations. Im trying to not make it look "web 2.0" but i want it to look clean, modern and stylish, as well as looking a bit trendy.

I like the general direction but it might be a bit boring?

(this is as a replacement for the website of a radio station, current site being http://www.livewire1350.com/ )

Where'd it go?

I have been working on a nice simple quick way to sprite and came up with the following image, I have however been struggling to turn him on one side. Any suggestions?

Sorry if this is starting to annoy people, but I notice others had posted their designs for website in here, and since I have no other place to show off my creativity, I might as well.

Recently, the radio station I worked on in the UK (my uni one, nothing major) has starting looking to updating their site. I occasionally do some graphic designy stuff for them so they asked me if i could help. I said i'd look into it. The site as it is is here http://www.livewire1350.com .

I wanted to give it a more 2.0 appearance but I dont know if i've gone too far with reflections and gradients. Also it seems to me like it looks a bit "things from photoshop thrown together" if that makes any sense. Is there anyone here with web design experience who can help me out? At the bottom I've put a sample of one of the flyers I did for the station to give you an idea of the style and vibe of the station.

Please bear in mind this is an idea, nothing final, but I need help and ideas!

Hope this isnt too wide:



Flyer:

Am I the only one who can't access irc at the moment? Has it moved elsewhere to shelter from the troubling economic  crises?

Been away for a long while. Lazily drew a background to get back into things.

Suggestions? Opinions?

I'm not sure how much this applies abroad, but over here, summer is the season of Music Festivals. Whether it's DOwnload, Reading, Wireless or V there is one for everyone. I was wondering how many AGSers are going to festivals this year, meeting with anyone at one could be fun!

I am going to Leeds, Reading's sister festival, it'd be cool to see an AGSer there!

Right Folks, I'd forgotten about this thread, but my weekly radio show is back on air, and since all you people are so lovely, I hope some of you might listen!

It's on from 9-11(GMT) on www.livewire1350.com

Tomorrow we're talking about the new spiderman film, we'll be reviewing some of the gigs we've been to and just chatting about news and music and life.

I really hope you can make it for a bit!

I wouldnt normally do this, but I have seirosuly broken my computer and need the help of peoples in the know. here is my tale of woe:

I paritioned my hard drive to install Ubuntu (Linux). I then restareted my computer and installed linux. All worked lovely, nothing had been erased and I now had two lovely partitions with an OS on each. I decided to boot Windows XP to check that all was in order. It wasnt. It gets stuck in some sort of horrifying loop saying that it is skipping 'AUTOCHECK', my computer then restarts. So, i tried uninstalling linux, and booting again. Same problem. So i install another XP installation on the new paritions, which boots fine, however I now dont have any access to my old partition with all my lovely files and programs on it. I know that they're still there due to checking in disk management but I cant access them or even see them through explorer, please help?


Please?

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Hey you!

Have you just been to an AGS meeting? Do you miss that sense of comradery and dampness in your pants? Don't think you can last a whole year before the next one? Able to get to sunderland?

Bonfirittens is for you!

To be held at the house of Creed malay over the weekend of Bonfire night, a meeting to tide all you eager beavers over till next year. Davy has very limited space at his house, so its first come first served basis, there is roughly enough room for 6 guests as well as hosts. Conditions will be cramped but also dry. There will be outings to a fireworks night close by and many frolicks in the candyland of the North.

The rules of bonfireittens are - 
     The first rule of bonfireittns is - it will be cramped.
     The second rule of bonfireittns is - seriously, it will be cramped.
      The third rule of bonfireittns is - we have a cat.


So folks, post here if you can make it to a meeting from the 3rd to the 6th of November, in sunderland. Go cats go!


here is a map of where Davy's House is:

Edit: NO MAPS FOR YOU.


Don't forget your sleeping bag!

(Please be prepared for contact if you reply, Davy wants to screen guests, he doesnt like murderes and whatnot)

I might as well start this thread as people will inevitably get stuck, as I am, and to limit the amount of needless threads.

Plus, im stuck.

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I'm just wandering the hotel, confused. I unlocked the toilets and read the journal, what am I actually supposed to be doing?

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Well, its here at last, starts in just over an hour. Use this thread for predicions celebrations. Declare your team alliegences and such.

I predict a Brazil win, with england argentina Brazil and France in the semis, France and Brazil in the final.


I am supporting england throughout. Hooray!

This gets a new topic because its not really related to the existing PODquest.


Last night, i recorded a special edition podcast with SSH where he announces the nominations for the AGS awards and the foregos.

You can get it here (if you have itunes):
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120521499&s=143444 

Or here if you don't:
http://www.grundislavgames.com/podcast



enjoy!

well, some of you may be aware of a MINI project I'm working on, well, its gotten out of hand, so heres some art from a new location, the jungle.





EDIT: Update, with fireballs


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