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Just before Xmas i started doing a remake of Night of the Hermit, but because of various reasons we decided not to continue

The plan was to do a 2 puzzle demo revolving around the bar puzzles

We where doing the game in a CMI kinda style in Flash, the backgrounds are 800x600 jpgs, foregrounds are PNG, there's around 5 rooms: 2 bars, lobby, hallways and the view from the window.. two rooms where flash animated but i have the frames etc, i think i still have the 3D models used

There's no Herman or barman, i used an enlarged version of the originals will testing

Heres the bar with animation:
http://www.nigecstudios.co.uk/images/scummbar.swf

http://www.nigecstudios.co.uk/images/bar2.jpg

http://www.nigecstudios.co.uk/images/hall1.jpg

If no ones interested no problem, it just seems a shame to bin them, credit would be nice if they are used tho

PS sorry i can't do extra scenes, they where done with Truespace 6 which crashes under Vista if i use the same shaders, hence one of the reasons we're not carrying on

Heres my re creation of the Scummbar, its kinda based on the one from MI4...
they were done in Truespace 6, using UVtoon shaders to give a 2D feel

I know a few of you guys have done fan games based on BBC TV programs, Red Dwarf and Dr Who spring to mind,  i was wondering if anyone has actually approached the owners for permission, who actually is the owner? is it the writer or the channel who showed it?
Whats the worst that could happen to a lone game developer if they ran into trouble?
Has anyone managed to get permission from a company like the BBC?

i know i but a pimple on the bum of the world of games making, but I'd hate to think X amount of years work, could be squashed by sh*t loads of technicalities

i've been working on a Flash based interactive website using the LASSIE-AS game engine as a bit of fun on my game creators site
Paranoia Games

is any one up for a little testing/proof reading?

click on the site logo to enter the interactive site

the interactive site has come on a bit over the last few weeks and a lot of the layout is done
the general public cant get past the second room but there is a way to see the rest
if someone could tell me where the spelling mistakes are and ideas on how to improve things it would be great!
i've added basic puzzles, just to make it a bit more interesting

the things i know about:
cursor needs fixing
6DA room not finished
some duff walk areas
dodgy main character
stop enter room dialog repeating when you re enter a room

i'm working through the above as it type.. well you know what i mean!

to enter full game...
dont go through the double doors, pick up the big box... walk to the foreground barrels, if you move the cursor around just above the inventory dock it should glow read over a hotspot called "talk" use it, it'll skip the brain room and take you to the hallway

the brain room might be going, i can't think of anything more to put in there

things to do
6da room
brain room: either a forground and more detail or lose it
character
fix above problems
add a few more look touchy feely things
cut scene animation and door animation

post you findings here or on the sites forums if you want to join, it would be great 

It's time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella Awards." The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck of New Mexico who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's. That case inspired the Stella awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States.
Here are this year's winners:

7th Place:
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.

6th Place:
19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.

5th Place:
Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000.

4th Place:
Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams, who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.

3rd Place:
A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.

2nd Place:
Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms.Walton was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses.

1st Place:
This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, (from an OU football game), having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the back & make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mrs.Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000 plus a new motor home. The company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any other complete morons around.

i have an idea if any of you guys are interested
as well as AGS i've been having a bit play with LASSIE and thought it might be fun if we/i did a monthly contest like MAGS combining entrants for both AGS, LASSIE and any other engine that comes to mind
i loved doing MAGS games and found it a great way to learn AGS
anyone interested?
Greg/BigMac the developer of LASSIE is interested in the idea so if enough people wanna join in we'll get the ball rolling in a few months 

hi..
in 2002/2003 i made three MAGS under the name of woodz/Paranoia (one with the help of hotspot), OK they weren't the best games in the world, but does anyone have a copy of them?
TIT. Terence independent terminator (sept 2003, filed as TIT.zip)
pussyhunt
barry snotter
the host they where on is long since gone, and many a PC disaster so i don't have them..
in the ideal world i want to find TIT but they where probably that aweful they are long gone

anyway heres hopin!
cheers

the great escape was written by me using LASSIE, the intension was to do a AGS version but due to a BIG computer problem i lost the resource files 
http://www.rottengames.co.uk/uploads/escape1b.zip 8meg

this is the beta version and has a few  sprite problems (transparency glow on inv items) and character animation needs fine tuning but it works!

it was a test game to see what LASSIE was like to use and its ok, lacks a lot of features AGS has,, but AGS would take some beating anyway big benifit for LASSIE in the future is it will create online games (it does now but projects need compiling by the LASSIE owner)

hope you like it.. let me know what you think

thanks to AGA for letting me post this

is there any software to create web bases games on the same lines as AGS?
sorry if this question has been asked before but i'm 3 years behind with games related stuff :
thx

ello to the old n new..
tiz been a awhile since i was here last, ( quickly searches the forums to make sure he never upset anyone or owes  em money)
2003 ish : .. doesn't time fly!
still cr*p at AGS but whats new lol

hope everyone is well