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I know I'm about 2 weeks late but I'm stuck on

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The girl's name in the book title?

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I've tried everything and I must be the only idiot not to get it 

Edit: Whoops, got it now. The power of Google eh?

Nice but for the dimmed outside view the character looks just as colourful and lit up as he does in the bright view. I'd say that if you're using a dimmedview you should apply the same rule to a second sprite. Nice backgrounds though

It looks pretty good but aside from what the others have said (And I'm certainly not one to judge on this  ) the wall covering the left half of the balcony, which I'm guessing leads to another room, looks a little bit like a corner that cuts everything off. Maybe a shadow or something to give it more of a "hollow" look? Looks good though.

Thanks. I wasn't planning on making one. Just curious as to what's involved.

Basically, how does one go about making a platform game in AGS. I've seen a few of them (most popular being 1213). I was just curiosu as to how you make one. Thanks.

I saw this a while back. Why don't they just make Broken sword a game about fighting pigeons if they want to murder the series. It's a shame because the cast will be something along the lines of:

Nicholas Cage (The overpaid mongloid who has no emotions) as George Stobbart
Angelina Jolie as Nico Collard
Angelina Jolie's breasts as Nic Collard's breasts
and Neil Flynn (The Janitor from scrubs) as middle aged Andre Lobineau

Then They'll realise it's low budget and tweak it (screw it up) to:

Rick Gervais as George Stobbart
Concheta Farrell (Berta from Two and a Half men) as Nico Collard
Concheta Farrell's breasts as Nico Collard's breasts
and Someone caled Mike as Andre Lobineau

My point is it'll be awful. Where will the interactivity be? Where will the new plot be?
I know where the funny script will be. Down the toilet.

I'm not particularly good with it but I like to use MS Paint for backgrounds and inventory sprites. Easy to use and good quality. Haven't made any characters with it yet but I'm starting to try. As for time: You can't time yourself for a background. If you have an idea and what a rought background only seen once or twice then you might take 30 minutes. If you're a perfectionit who likes thigs done right then it could take an hour to a day. It depends on what you have going on in your personal life and how intricate the design of your room is.

But don't limit yourself with time. Most would prefer it takes you a year for your backgrounds to be done right  thank play a game with bad backgrounds that are impossible to make out.

Thanks very much for the feedback and advice. I don't particularly like the "Cartoon" style very much. I don't like realistic characters either though. I'm more into the sprites seen in Monkey island, 5 days a stranger and leisure suit larry. 2D graphics and darker colours.

Thanks again. I'll have a look at those tutorials too.

I have a pretty full idea for a game at the moment except for what the characters look like. I know the basic look I'm going for with each character (although only a vague idea).

I thought I'd focus on this last and set up bakcgrounds, music, scripting and fixing any plot holes left first. I do, however, feel that I should get characters out of the way soon though. Any tips on how to make a character? I'm using MS paint* for the whole game (yes I know its crappy and yes I know it's a beginner's way of making graphics) so does anyone have an idea of how to draw up characters and any tips they could hand out? Thanks.

*I have tried using GraphicsGale by the way but it seemed more awkward to use than Paint so I just left it.

I agree with much of what is said above but before you do this you need to get the two parts playing in the same key!

Your bass part is in E minor and your top part is in A minor! Raise the bass by a fourth (or lower the top) and then you'll have something to work with.

I have no idea how you figured that out but clearly you are very good with music. I also recently found out that I have a virus that decided to delete all my installed programmes and their contents. I have more space but I lost the midi 

I only just got rid of the virus and re-installed the music program so I'll post a new (hopefully better) midi soon. Thanks everyone though. You're inputs very useful fors shaping the music.

First off, yes it is a title piece that I'm hoping to loop.

0-0:18 seems like you were going up and down a scale with slight changes, don't know if you want to change that or not, or maybe an instrument or two more, just with slight effects.

Yeah. A bit too bland. A counter melody might work there with perhaps a second cello.

- in the 40s some of those notes are on the border of screeching try lowering the volume of that instrument.

Right. I thought it sounded odd at that part and considered bringing the notes up or down but te volume with this program is a little weird. Still if it sounds bad I'll try it.

- at 1:03 exactly, you can hear something that sounds like a record skipped, this might be cause the two instrument played like the exactly the same note or something similar, might be just a bug in the recording, check that.

Just checked the staff for the music, there was a problem in writing the melody and it decided to repeat a bar for me. Thanks technology 

could do with a bass line of some kind and more instruments

As I said, it's the bare bones and I plan to add more but another bass melody couldn't hurt (I had a harp one but it's hard to hear)

Up the tempo a bit and it could become quite spooky

I'll try that. I just thought that slow equals spooky for themes and fast is for a fight scene. I'll try it and repost

it doesn't sound like a horror melody, but like some fantasy scene at night.

Great That's all I hear now. Thanks though. It does fit that description unfortunately so I hope all your ideas will help. I'll re-post when I'm done editing.

Thanks for the feedback. Any more would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry for the bump but I really need some sort of opinion. Please, any help at all is useful.

First off, I know it's not good (yet  ), but at the moment it's only the bare bones for the final product. Anyway here it is:

http://midishrine.com/midi/28628.mid

Anyway it's meant to be for a horror game title screen and possibly the intro cutscene. At the moment, however, I just don't feel it. It doesn't seem to inspire any sense of foreboding that I'd hope for in a horror game.

Can I get an opinion on: What you think of it, how I can improve it and what kind of feelings/ images it draws up?

Thanks in advance.

I'm no expert on sprites or graphics so I'm not going to edit it but I think you should listen to them. The beard does look a too heavy there.

Edit by ProgZ:  There's no need to quote the post directly above yours, let alone the images.  Please stop doing this.

He goes back to his friends and GF and brings them with him to a different, nicer society.

Pretty happy huh? 

It sounds very interesting. Ambitious but ambition is what resulted in the lightbulb, the car and the internet (and Diana's death but let's not go there). I like the look of the sharpened graphics. Are you using a text parser in game?

Can't help but notice the long pause after I said that. 

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Hah. That's my favourite entry.

I could have done better but I'm tired :






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