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The city had a name but I'll be damned if I remember... Thank you for the nice word Kyriakos

Hello! Hello! It's been brought to my attention that the download links on the game website have been dead.

I take this merry pentecostal occasion to drop by and notify all interested persons that today I have changed the hosting and you can download Donna now!

Wheee! Me & Helm will come.

The thing is that our opinion on queasiness of FMV is based on games made very long ago, as Trampoline noted. Don't look at Donna, it's an amateur effort and I didn't really care about smoothness of animations. But I'm sure that with today technology a great-looking FMV is very much possible.

Hi Frenzykitty,

well I, for one, dig the look of Donna ;-)

I think the style is best suited for horror, alternative (cut-out, like Monthy Python interludes) or first person.

The thing is that with characters themselves looking so realistic, animations are bound to be lacking unless you put a lot of work into that. If you have 16 px x 16 px sprites, nobody cares if there are 2-frame animations.

Also, if you're going for realistic mood, I think you should forget about color if you're going to have photo backgrounds as well. Imagine correcting color for each walkcycle in a new room.

Other than that, knock yourself out ;-) It's quite odd to read about "not smooth animations" and "errors in lighting" on a forum for amateur game makers. Hotline Miami, ok?

I'm looking forward to the results of your endeavors! :-)

Oh well, maybe in 2023! :-)

Cheers, Tabata, Urpney, Datadog -- and congratulations to the nominees! Good luck.

Wow, not a single nomination. Thanks, guys!

It's a man who basically made a career out of his passion, which is something to be envied and attests to his talents.

Completely OT, but doesn't he make a living out of sassy videos?

Well, I take it gaming IS his passion, isn't it? Besides, I don't watch them, just read the columns.

That said, somehow his own creative output (games and books) seem to me to be trapped forever in the domain of fan-fiction.
I can't even put my finger on it. It's as if he was always imitating without creating a new value.

Huh? 5DAS, The Art of Theft, The Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment? How were these fan-fiction? Fan-fiction to what? I'm generally interested, they all seemed reasonably original to me.

Hm, well, I really need to tread softly here and pick my words, because I'm not really sure why I dislike Yahtzee's games, but the feel of "fanboyism" and "fanfiction" seem to be at the core of that. It's a matter of style I think, of parodying or using past concept in a way that doesn't create a new product, instead remaining
a) a comment on own medium
b) fanfiction as "creation without self-expression"

Please compare any of his games to, say, Second Face, Cart life, TechnoBabylon, any of Ben304's games -- to pick some very differing ones. Very different, but each full of own style, of the creator's personality. They are the worlds upon themselves. Compared with them Yahtzee's games have this feel of a high=school talented boy who keeps imitating what he likes without giving anything from his own personality, dreams, fears.

edit: ever noticed how his games are full of things he lambasts in reviews of other people's games? That's because his products are an imitation, not creation. I think he's a brilliant critic and a mediocre designer.

edit2: I gave it some more thought and I think it's not imitation; it's the lack of personal vision that turns me meh. It might well be that it is a form of learned cynicism, which makes a person afraid of displaying own personal vision with danger of being ridiculed.

I admire mr Croshaw for his wit and taking game criticism to a new level.
It's a man who basically made a career out of his passion, which is something to be envied and attests to his talents. Don't we all dream about it?

That said, somehow his own creative output (games and books) seem to me to be trapped forever in the domain of fan-fiction.
I can't even put my finger on it. It's as if he was always imitating without creating a new value.

Trilby's Notes were brilliant in gameplay, but story-wise... oh man.

[BEST AGS GAME FROM 2012 WITH PARTS STILL MADE IN THE DOS VERSION OF AGS!!!!]

Damn, it was an amazing year!

But nobody can beat me in this category...
BEST AGS GAME FROM 2012 WITH PARTS STILL MADE IN THE DOS VERSION OF AGS!!!!





Tell me, oh lake misty and deep,
Will I get an award in my hand to keep?

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Ok! Where two gather in your name, etc ;-) I'm on it.

Je voudrais un demo, mais il donne moi l'erreur 404. :-(

I was wondering, would anyone be interested in Donna's OST? I could remaster some tracks and put together an album. If there's interest.

Haha I love the old folks' room decor. Far out, dude!

Heard about GOG refusing to carry it, this is ridiculous. :-(

I absolutely love your lovely art style! Unique yet simple. Something C64 about them... nostalgia... ah.

Oho! Gratuluje! Gdzie te czasy, gdy bylem jedynym Polakiem w tej bandzie ;-) The game looks super sweet.

I love Technobabylon games, one of the best things to come out of AGS.

Imponujace! Gratuluje i podziwiam.