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Why do I have to name a specific character in the "Best character art" category? I thought this category was about character art in general.

Bug.  Fixed!

I would guess it's probably downloads from a certain host that are being tagged.  The one cat linked is cat.agser.me, but we'd need to see more 'bad' links to work out a pattern...

Fixed, thanks.

The AGS Awards showcase games won the most awards.

As for news, we need people to volunteer to have it included, and for the news to definitely only apply to AGS and not other communities / engines.

Do you want me to delete the other account, Anarcho?

Normally we don't do image macros in the proper forums, but I think we can make an exception for this thread...

There are arguments for both sides really.  For Europeans European Mittenses are relatively cheap, the same for North Americans at NA Mittenses.  People from Australasia and south Asia however are forced to spend crazy money in both those cases, (and end up never actually coming...) so isn't it fairer the rest of us make the trip over at least one time?

I'm also wondering just how much stuff there is to do on a Carribean island aside from sunbathing and drinking Bahama Mamas.

There have already been a few small scale Aussie meet ups I believe, but never anything on the scale of Mittens.  Maybe having a larger group, for a longer time, would encourage more Aussie AGSers to come out of the woodwork and come along.

The results are crunched by a script on the AGS website, there's no room for manipulation of votes anyway; I usually use that as my source when I update the awards in the games page anyway.  It just might spoil the surprise slightly for them if the organiser wins!

Make it Melbourne, Australia and a new person might actually come and join you guys!

PS: It's not me.

Does this person not have access to airplanes?

Brompton, Gillingham, Medway. Kent, UK

You're 12 years too late to attend a Mittens in the home counties, I'm afraid.

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Okay, so, it's now 2016.  Due to the higher than usual cost involved, and fact that many of us are likely to want to take two or three weeks off work to make the most of the trip, it might be a good idea for us to start planning...

Questions are:


Who's interested in attending?
Where should it be?
When should we do it?

Promise I didn't touch the code since last night!

Previously that indeed didn't work, but I fixed it last night.  Sure you don't have an old version of the page cached or something?  Now all images should be scaled up / down according to their true dimensions.

It's definitely working 100% the way I intended now, so if you're seeing something else it's because I don't understand what you're looking for!

New game feed http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/includes/gamesrss.xml isn't being updated.

Fixed, thanks.  It was actually being updated, but some bugs in the formatting code meant it wasn't rendering properly to RSS readers.

on this page:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/community/
the Link for the French AGS Forum also includes the word Unofficial on the next line.

Fixed.

also there is something weird happening with the imagepopup when the game screenshots have different resolutions, best seen here:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1958/

This was because all thumbs were being resized to 320x200 on the main page, as a holdover from the old standard resolutions days.  Now it will scale the width to 320 and adjust the height accordingly.  Which may not be ideal, but we can't account for every possible resolution in the site's design; hopefully this imperfect compromise will work with the crazy resolutions possible in the new engine!

Our summer is of course their winter, so what we consider peak is actually 15-20 degrees in Sydney for instance...  The months you mention are actually more mid 20s.  Sydney doesn't seem to get that hot overall from what I can see though.  The other cities may of course be much hotter!

Mittens will be from Saturday 30 August to Saturday 06 August on the island of Orust, Sweden, please read!

Info from Andail:

Okay, just updating the thread with some travel info.

From Gothenburg, buses depart from Nils Ericsson-terminalen, which is right next to the central station.

You take Stenungsund Express to Stenungsund station, where you change to bus Orust express which will stop at Edet on northern Orust.
Here's a site that will allow you to check the times.
http://reseplanerare.vasttrafik.se/bin/query.exe/sn?ld=fe1&OK#focus

Esseb will hop off at Uddevalla and take the Orust Express directly to Edet, which is a much quicker trip.

Once you get off the bus it's a 5 minutes' walk to the cottage, and I'll put up signs.

I'll drive up there on the 30th with my car, which has room for 4 passengers, so give me a shout if you want to tag along.

We will have to leave the cottage in the morning of August 6. If you need to stay another night in Gothenburg for connection reasons you can use the guest room of our apartment, but we won't be there ourselves until midnight or so, since we're going to a wedding that same day.

Planned activities for this Mittens:
* Mittolympics (with events such as archery with historically accurate bows, ring-tossing with historically accurate rings, darts, croquet etc)
* Beer and sing-along around bonfire
* Board games
* Board game jam (we'll form small teams and construct our own board games using a plethora of cards and pencils and other stationery I've probably nicked from work)
* AGS show and tell (bring memory sticks)

Since there's no booking or renting involved, you're free to show up with just a day's notice, but signing up late means you'll probably get to stay in a tent, depending on participation (which will probably be all time low, considering this is basically a plan B mittens).

Do post here if you have more questions!

Attendees:

• 2ma2
• AGA
• Andail
• Chrille
• Esseb
• Monsieur OUXX
• Tamara
• yamipanda

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It looks like the Caribbean is a good option for many of us this year.  The Australia idea we can maybe come back to next year.  Please see this post for some possible Caribbean destinations.

So the idea of Mittens 2016 being in Australia was raised at this year's Mittens.  Quite a few people seemed interested, but since I appreciate Australia is a loooong way away for most of us - and quite expensive - it might be good to have this possibility on everyone's radars sooner rather than later.

We didn't really discuss a time or a place, beyond the suggestion that it might not have to take place in the traditional July or August Mittens timeframe, now so many of us are grown up and not at school or university (with their associated summer holidays).  I mainly wanted to start the discussion now, and to make people aware that it costs around â,¬1200 to fly to most of eastern Australia (I checked Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane) from Europe so you should all start saving!

Australia seems a fair idea, since over the last 14 years we've had 9 in Europe and 5 in North America.  Maybe for the 15th anniversary we should try a whole new continent, one which many of us will have never visited before!  Plus of course our lord and creator Chris Jones will likely be there, since he emigrated to Aus last year.

Damn, I even checked the wiki to see which OROW was the last one to take place, but apparently it wasn't updated after the previous time!

No, just keep them Mandle! In a few months they are "in" again.

Unfortunately the banner specifically referenced OROW8, so that wouldn't work in this case!

As a hypothetical question, is it viable to make an automatic assembly of game archive which would combine game data with latest version of the port?

Hypothetically, yeah.  PHP can run Linux commands (and indeed Windows on Windows builds), so if someone writes a BASH script to build an archive dynamically it could be triggered by AGS Archives' upload scripts.

But of course there's the ethical (and legal?) question of messing with people's game releases without their say so...