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Right, as some people already know, the original plans for Stickens have been cancelled and will now be held in a different location, which we now know to be... Brookside Caravan Park, in Lynminster, West Sussex (which is close to Littlehampton, Obi's hometown).

The accommodation has changed slightly too, after unsuccesfully trying to arrange for a 6 person chalet (fully booked) and then a 4 person holiday bungalow (no reply from owner), and the time for getting a place for August running short, we will now be staying in a 4 berth caravan. The date, 8th to 15th of August remains the same.

I know it's a bit of a step down from a cottage on the Scottish borders and means that even less people can come, but it does now work out cheaper, and very few people were able to come with the original plan anyway.
Plus I see this as less of a holiday and more of a get together, which means it's more about the people than the place.

So right now we have 3 people staying on site (Bicilotti, Sylvr and myself), which means there is room for one more person, but you have to bear in mind that although this is a 4 person caravan there are only two double beds, and I really don't expect Sylvr to share with a strange male from the internet. The other double bed is made up by re-arranging cushions and sliding a thinger out from underneath the seats in the main area, and I suspect it can be re-arranged to make two single beds also.
However, the owner of this caravan does also have another 4 person caravan on the same site for £360 a week, so if more people were interested in coming it is still available for booking, but it's only really practical if atleast 3 additional people can come, and they'd have to decide they want to pretty soon before it's booked.
In addition to the three staying there we'll also have frequent visits from/to Obi as he lives nearby, and also Stupot said he may be able to drop in as he lives over in East Sussex.

Over the coming weeks (and hopefully with Obi's help) I'll be drawing up a list of local activities, places to eat and possible daytrips to nearby locations, so that we have an idea of what we can get up to while we're there without having to spend half the time deciding or wandering about

Santa hats are still a requirement...

For those of us in the UK, any hallowe'en celebrations are soon followed up with Bonfire Night on the 5th of November.
Although this presents a bit of a problem for Super Squibs - the largest supplier of fireworks in the country - because their head firework designer was eaten by a pack of zombies on Hallowe'en. So now they're looking for somebody to replace him. Could that somebody be you?

Rules: Design your own awesome firework (think Gandalf's dragon rocket in Fellowship of the Ring, which was originally supposed to open up it's wings before taking off), it can be a rocket, catherine wheel, fountain, other type of firework, OR any combination of those!

Size Restrictions: Obviously Super Squibs want something to make people go "ooh" and "aah" and not blow them to pieces, so people are strictly limited to a size no greater than 150x150.

Colour Restrictions: No more than 64.

Optional Extras: You can supply an action shot of the final explosion of your rockets, twirling of your catherine wheels, gushing of your fountains or whatever if you would like to. You can also animate if you like.

You have until bonfire night. Good luck!

yay just got a wireless router so i could play this online and thought it'd be fun to try get some kind of AGS mario kart tournament going or something. so it would be nifty if people were to post their friend codes here.
mine is 2535-4036-6794

i'm looking for a way to make the character to carry on using the last walking frame it used when it stops and then resume from that frame when it starts to walk again (or some way of delaying the character stopping until it has reached a certain frame), instead of instantly returning the the standing frame.
the distance between my character's legs can be quite long around half way through the cycle and instantly going from legs far apart to side by side in an instant looks a bit odd.
a feature like this could turn into a useful module.

hello hello, welcome to this tune contest.
the theme of this week's contest? simple; the 80s.
yep, i would like you to make a tune with an 80s sound, this could either be electro pop, new wave, new romantic, 80s rock, synth (think jarre, kraftwerk etc), oldskool house, chicago house, even old nintendo/amiga/c64 game style or any other style just as long as you can hear the 80s influence.
go! make beautiful music!

edit: i've knocked up some 1st, 2nd and 3rd place trophies so hopefully i'll get atleast 3 entriesÃ, 

finally the game i have been working on for two days is finished, it's called I Need A Wee! and was inspired by Obi's game Are We There Yet?

here is a screenshot:


you can download the game here

i think a non-blocking alternative or setting to Wait would be handy for when people want a delay between actions taking place in Repeatedly_Execute_Always (such as two characters having a looping conversation in the background) for those of us who are not that experienced with either timers or custom functions.

a way to change the speed of CyclePalette (although it is hardly ever used by anyone) other than changing the game speed would be nice too as the way i'm slowing it down now is by including repeating colours in the cycle next to eachother.

i'm using on_key_press to animate a character in my game but i only want the action to happen once and not to happen again once i release the key (it's causing problems with the footstep sound being played repeatedly until the sound engine crashes)
i'm using this code in the room script

Code: ags

function on_key_press(int keycode){

Ã,  if (keycode=='UP') cEGO.Animate(0, 0,eOnce,eNoBlock);

UP isn't the actual key i'm using but the game is for OROW and i don't want to give too many hints away.

any help will be greatly appreciated

just thought i'd let everyone know that there's a new trailer for Dreamfall, the sequel to The Longest Journey, up at the official site http://www.dreamfall.com/

Are you actually Spartacus or are you a fraud trying to claim that you are Spartacus?! Guide yourself through and try not to be strung up on the cross... IF YOU CAN!



this game can be downloaded from here

and you'll find the QQQ website by clicking the image below


edit: download link is now for a newer version which unlocks an alternative ending

The latest game from tdrDESIGN puts you behind the paddle of the most intense game of Pong ever concieved! Battle it out with your friends, as you fight to see who is the ultimate Pennis master! Grab your paddle, and get ready to rumble!

now is your chance to get this great game from tdrDESIGN made in only 8 hours, and it's available totally free from http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=download&game=585 so there's no need to splash out!

be sure to check what the controls are from the main menu

edit: oh yeh, forgot to mention i didn't actually make this game, LordHart did, i just did the music

This week, your task is, through the art of music, to portray the misadventures of... a teddybear, from his (or her) escape from a child's room, to venturing outside, getting into a bit of trouble and being saved just in the nick of time by the child...

good luck and may the tuning fork be with you.

-boyd

wooh, i don't know if you already know this, but you can download the TLJ soundtrack from http://www.longestjourney.com/download/music/
i just searched for it in google hoping to find it on cd to buy but got a pleasent surprise when i realised i could download it for free!

okay, so i just run the latest version of AGS for the first time on this PC, and after running "Test Game" and exiting i was presented with this:


now, this is the first time i've seen had this on this PC since i did a clean install just over a week ago.
after closing AGS i loaded up Paintshop, and it also tried to send the same kind of data...
was AGS supposed to do that or has it somehow been infected with a virus (i've tried running a few other apps, and it didn't happen with those)...

okay, i got a new pc recently and for some stupid reason i asked for win2k (sp4) to be installed on it, it ran fine up until i took it online and within 5 minutes 127 files got infected with various worms, ironically i was online so i could update my virus definitions and get myself a firewall.
i tried installing win2k over itself but i get told it can't because i didn't finish installing something but it doesn't actually tell me what...
i tried to do a clean install which goes fine up until the point i get an "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_SECTOR" error, so i try installing from startup disks rather than the cd, i don't get the error this time, but i do get told that my hard drive couldn't be found...
i installed recovery console and tried booting the pc into that mode, but again i get the inaccessible boot sector nonsense.
now i want to just totally format my hard drive but i don't know how the hell to do it as there's no command prompt or anything...
there aren't any viruses on the pc now, but my firewall tells me that certain files try to get contacted by remote machines, and when i startup i get two file not found errors on asLM75.sys and AsmiHwIo.dll
so, ladies and gentlemen, my question is... how on earth do i fix this? i've only had the pc a week and already it's futzed.

[edit]

just found out those missing files are from my ASUS Probe software so nm about them...

well, i'm working on this silly little game and thought i'd ask for crits on the only background i have so far...



i'm quite happy with it and don't really think i'll be changing much (i'm always open to suggestions though), i might just animate the computer screen a little and maybe add some more to the space outside.
the game is 70s themed hence the clashing colours, or atleast that's my excuse...

edit - updated version, i got rid of the green cupboard things and the the blue worktable youjamaflip, also added panels to the walls and the gold plaque

this one has me completely stumped, i would like to change the colour and if at all possible the actual graphic of a slider (for the sequel to Boyd's Music Mixer...), i couldn't actually see any proof of sprites while looking through the main ones that sliders used them and i couldn't see any kind of colour codes in any of the code, i've also read all the help file has to offer on sliders and couldn't find anything of much use there.
if anyone could give me any help with doing this it would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

-boyd

well, after much tinkering and cursing i managed to turn an idea i had into something executable, and you can get it here

be sure to read the included text file as it contains some interesting information... no, really, it does.

http://www.angelfire.com/un/eastkoast/badger.swf