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Are they probably partially overlapped by a GUI or a huge object? That blocks out clicks on the background, even if it's just the transparent parts that are hovering over your hotspot.

[Communist Cheese Onslaught]

After asking random people on the Intarwobz, it's now narrowed down to either Communist Cheese Onslaught or Everybody hates The Alien Crusade!. That's going to be a tough decision.

\o//

Yaay!

* Akatosh starts reading right away

/EDIT: Buh... wah?

Best contest ever. 'Nuff said.

I can't decide between "Killer Blimp Basketball", "Communist Cheese Onslaught", "Robot Stick Returns", "Presidential Hovercraft Freak" or possibly even "Emo Arcade EX", though. "Naughty Makeout Batallion" kind-of runs out of competition. 

Anticipation! 

It's Like A Nonsensical Blog Shared By Multiple People! (TM)

Well, it depends. If it's indeed a product that might be generally of use for the people at the forum you're posting on, it might be fine to start a thread along the lines of "Hey guys, check this out!", with a little explanation and everything. If you're just trying to fend off crap... go buy and ad already. 

[Background Blitz]

Yes, ladies, gentlemen and hermaphrodites, because of the dwindling activity of the Mockup Blitz (which I "won" last time because my entry was the only one), it's possible time to bring back the original Background Blitz.

To celebrate this event (which also means there now is no regular contest apart from mAGS I could ever win  ) and to ensure a higher activity, the theme shall be pretty simple:

Cliché villain lair.

That's it. You can draw it from the outside, from the inside, from the top, from the bottom, in sinister blackscale colors, in sickeningly bright retro graphics... it's completely up to you! No technical restrictions, but please don't make your scene bigger than, let's say, 640x480 pixels (and not smaller than 320x200).

In case you don't remember the voting categories, they are:

Idea - The underlying idea to the background. Doesn't
necessarily have to coincide perfectly with the theme of the
week, just strike you as interesting/amusing/inspiring; a place
you'd really enjoy visiting within a game.

Atmosphere - How well the image manages to evoke a certain feeling or mood.

Design - How well the elements in the image are designed,
such as landscapes, buildings, decorations, clouds, doorknobs,
etc.

Composition - How well the elements in the image work
together/are positioned in relation to each other.

Functionality - How well it would work when adding sprites, i
ncluding appropriate walking distances, a good angle for
character sprites, clever walkway solutions, easily understood
exits, etc.

Technique - How well the ideas are executed in form of
rendering.

Now, get backgroundin'! Ending date's two weeks from now.

/EDIT: Or, y'know, the 25th. Either thing's fine by me.

It's late, lame and contains recycled stuff, but hey, at least it's something.



You play as Dr. Adam y Mota, the head of the Liberal Social Democrats (LSD, in case the obvious pun eluded you) of Revenga and you're trying to get El Presidente to fulfill some promises he made.

Which would be not very dangerous... if we weren't talking about El Presidente here. But since we are, it's nothing short of suicidical.

Yes you are. Actually, it would just be

Code: ags

cChan.SetAsPlayer();

and

Code: ags

cPrest.SetAsPlayer();

respectively. I'm pretty sure it's explained in the manual, though. Also, welcome to the forums! 

Best Use of a Largely Unreadable Font?

Yahtzee's getting enough awards as-is... 

Looks pretty interesting... intriguing (sp) concept for a game. Is there going to be some sort of psychedelic storyline behind it or not? And are there going to be AI enemies or is it just you against the clock / nothing in particular?

Spoiler

Have you throughly checked the latest LAN system? You know, the one connected to the server you need the decrypter to get access to.

[close]

Nice to see somebody is still playing this. 

If you're going to have that a "generic reply", you could also do something like this:

Code: ags

String genresponse[4];
genresponse[0]="Heya";
genresponse[1]="Whuzzup";
genresponse[2]="Eh?";
genresponse[3]="Portal reference!";
//and so on. you get the idea.

function dialog_request (int num) {
  if (num == 1) character[SOMEBODY].Say("%s",genresponse[Random(3)];
}

Strangely, this thing happened for Me Go Cannibal Jungle. The character art took about 5 hours of work... spread over 20 days. Sorry, FSi. 

Futurama: Jurassic Bark

A great and sad episode indeed.

True. XKCD was right when they said the end even made computers cry.

Damn you! I was going to post that! 

It sounds like a bit of sci-fantasy to me at this juncture but it's certainly interesting.  Imagine the next slew of rpgs coming out where the player's face responds directly do your facial features and affects gameplay?  "Don't stick your tongue out at ME, Mr. Hero!"

Can I headbutt the Annoying Plotdevice Character then? Now that is something I've  been wanting to do for a long, long time.

... oh. 

Also, merci beaucoup. 

The future is upon us, as it seems. Now where's my hoverboard that doesn't work over water?!

Seriously now. The chance this thing actually works, for a reasonable price, with a variety of applications, the time it is released (or it being released on time - or a at all) is about as high as the probability of the next Windows version being open source.