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Hi guys,

I'm currently in the middle of developing a game (started out programming the engine myself plus it was a 2D puzzle platformer but I now feel that an adventure game is more suited to the story I want to tell) and I was wondering if I could get some comments and critiques on some characters on my game.

My first character is the main character Lexie Sarander. She is a fiery 8 year old girl from 1930s Portland, Oregon who yearns to explore like her great hero, Sir Earl McGuffin, and find new untouched lands. However she is stuck in city life, with parents (Callum and Theresa Sarander)that wish their daughter to become a ballet dancer like her three older sisters, Beckie, Macy and Tracey. On the night of a big show that she has been forced to practise for, she puts on her McGuffin branded jacket and explorer hat and runs from home to explore the forests near her town.

[imgzoom]http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/6332/rsb0.png[/imgzoom]

I am quite happy with the design but I feel that perhaps her stance is a bit... stiff? Any comments or constructive criticism is welcomed!

Technology. What would we do without it? It makes life easier for all of us sure! But what if one day, technology decided it didn't want to make our lives easier? Make it frustrating, irritating or damn near life-threatening?

This is where you guys come in. I want you to write a story about technology rebelling! This could be from Terminator full-on end of the world (not T4 bad though) or simply a pc which decided its had enough of being bossed around.

Here are the general rules:

• I don't care how long the story is, it could be a 400-1200 essay length story or a 30 page novel-ette. Just  keep it fun/exciting and enjoy writing.
• All entries must be in by 25th June
• After the fortnight, voting will begin. In the event of a draw (or worse no one votes) I will choose the winner.
• As usual the winner will get the honor/curse of hosting the next writing competition

I await entries with anticipation, happy writing!

Hey people! This is my first serious pixelated sprite attempt . It may feature in my game when september ends. It will perhaps feature in 'The Shining' part of the game . I felt the atmosphere would be sort of creepier in a sort of lo-res form.



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I realise he has no mouth or nose and that his ears are'nt very easy to see, but this is what this forum is for isn't it! For some people in the community to point out anything that is wrong with it. Thanks in advance for any C&C.

Cheers,
Bigmac

This is an anime drawing of my main character.


I recently got a graphics tablet and thought I'd share my fist drawing to you lot! Anyway any c&c would be appreiciated!
Bigmac

Hey people! I just made a custom icon for my game using 'Paraben's Icon Builder' and named the file USER.ico and placed it in the compiled folder(like the AGS Guidebook told me).Then I started up the ags editor ,made sure it was making a windows executable and saved the game.Then I checked the icon was working but it was only the usual blue cup icon that made it work.
Any help would be apprieciated!
Bigmac

Hey this is Bigmac 8) This is my new game When September Ends !The plot is as follows-:
A young scottish boy Chris catches a glimpse of the gadget ofÃ,  his dreams. A kind of VR helmet that takes him into games and tv programmes! But when he tests it out it goes horribly wrong!

RightÃ,  that's enough telling, I better start showing.

Main Character's Room with a special guest...


His house's living room


NEW!
Chris is threatened by a person we all love to hate.


Right guys this is as far as I have got(Working Rooms) and basically I have just started. ButÃ,  I will keep you updated.

p.s This game will have Family Guy style comedy(e.g. Completely Random!)ie This is not a completely serious game.
See ya!

UPDATE!!! 07/06/05
I am currently at the stage of making a demo of the game. It will not be very long but hey, it's better than nothing

UPDATE!!! 15/07/05
Okay guys! Thanks to the combined loss of time of my two week holiday just there and the studying for the fourth year prelims, the demo release has been postponed. I will try to finish it in any spare time I have but there's no promises.

Update!!!  23/11/05
I thought I would add a rough percentage of how I'm getting on.
- graphics 35%
- puzzles 42%
- scripting 35%
- music/sound 90%

Hey Bigmac here! I was wondering, how do you make arcade sequences like in Broken Sword. You know like you have a time limit to do an action like duck as someone's about to shoot the character . Any replies would be appriciated.Thanks Bigmac

Here is a background I have made for my game ' When September Ends'.
[img width= 640 length=480]http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Ma_room.bmp[/img]

Right I need advice in the Critics lounge on my characters and backrounds. I need to know how to paste a picture to my post.

Thnax for any replies!
Bigmac

Hi there! I've had Simon the Sorcerer II for some time now and I recently had my Win 98 to a Win XP. I loaded it up and it said 'Installation aborted: This product does not support NT.' What do I do to play it?

In 5 Days a Stranger, there was a part where you swung from one window to another. How would u do something like this?Ã, 

I recorded some speech for my new game and the speech didn't play!
I put inthe dialog script as follows;
CHRIS:&1"A snake wearing a wicker hat. Strange...

And the speech file name was CHRI1.wav as it said in the manual.So what's up?
Bigmac

I have started work on a game and in a bit set in a jungle(the backround of  mi3 when Guybrush gets eaten by a snake) and there is a familiar cobra wearing a hat and I want to be able to throw a stone at the snake to K.O it and nick the hat. I'm having problems doing the animation for it.Would I have EGO
and the cobra in one animation or do it one after the other?And how do I do it fluidly?
Thanks for any replies!
Bigmac

I've been wondering,the manual refers to flic movies.
How do you make them?

Right, this is bigmac with a new game.
the storyline goes like this;
A 14Ã,  year old boy named Chris goes to his high school in Helensburgh,Scotland. He thinks it's going to be a normal week but, little does he know that the teachers are hungry and Tennagers are on the menu.

Well that's as far as I have got.The game will be done in about a year.
Oh and if anyone can help me make the walking animations of the characters that would be great!
Thanks to any1 who replies!
Bigmac :=Ã, 

Right. In the 7 days a skeptic walkthrough there was a special date which only appears on a certain date.Does anyone know what it is?
In advance, thanks for replying
Bigmac, out.