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at this stage we are gonna be using a yellow lens over the camera to simulate the old school computers of the original SP games!. we want to make it as authentic as possible!

I think you might mean "yellow filter" not "yellow lens" and perhaps I'm not familiar with "old school computers" but how would yellow tinting simulate them?

Also, given that Lucas no longer thinks adventure games are profitable, which production company thinks that a film based on an adventure game series will be a good idea? I'm particularly baffled by their aspirations to "make it as authentic as possible" and recreate low-res VGA graphics on film.

Maybe this all makes sense and my brain has overheated. That happens sometimes.

Whether or not you've ever made a game has very little to do with your status of "noobiness" (I made a word!)

M0ds has yet to complete a game, yet he's a moderator and has songs written about.
Cornjob never completed a game of his own, and still got the first AGS Lifetime Achievement award.
I've never made a game, but I'm fairly certain I'm not a newb. (fingers crossed)

You're right, sorry! Clearly I was wrong. I would add an embarrassed smiley, but tiny disembodied heads worry me. Please disregard everything I have said, am saying and ever might say.

You calling Chris a newbie then?

Yes I am ... apparently.

No, I only meant that lots of AGSers are well known for games as well as music and graphics so having made a good game seems to contibute to becoming an established member.  I believe the technical term is denewbification.

Also because AGS is game-centric you can't really be anything but a newbie if, like me, you have yet to finish your first game.

Too bad a few people didnt get itÃ, 

How is "So you discovered google huh?" a get-able joke if the photo is by debudding's friend?

When I look at a character, I look at their eyes. Your design looks great until the 6th draft where you've added eyes that aren't quite recognisable as eyes. I find it difficult to see where they're looking.

If you altered the eyes and mouth a little, perhaps in the way mousemat has, the character would be much nicer to look at.

DG, stop telling people to answer my question and answer my question...

No wait... thankyou.

Hotspot, The Game randomly generates a code system every time you begin, so I couldn't have copied the code from any walkthrough, with or without typos.

The Good/Bad news is after hours of searching I've found a walkthrough that mentioned a bug in the game that can make it unfinishable. Luckily I found a cheat that got me round the bug and I've completed the game.

Apart from this problem Nine is a great adventure with really distinctive graphics. Play it if you get the chance/have the patience.

This thread can be locked if a moderator has a moment. Ta.

My Kitchen is named after Lord Kitchener. I call it Aldwyn.

I like the poster - good work making the text look authentic!

I hope this is the right forum...

Has anyone played '9: The Last Resort'?

Is anyone aware of problems with the game?

I can't get past a puzzle where I have to play a series of notes into an organ to get a key. I've followed every walkthrough I can find and I'm absolutely certain I'm playing the correct series of notes. It still won't work and I'm tearing my hair out.[size=10]*[/size]

Has anyone heard of anything like this - a successfully completed puzzle failing?

Thanks

-Al


[size=10]*Not literally of course, I have a fine head of hair.[/size]

"Meh.. If it doesn't work, we'll fix it in post." How.. Unimiginative...

It's not unimaginative! Quite the opposite.

I'm making a short film at the moment. Parts of it involve digital tweaking. That's because I can't afford to make the whole film in the traditional/indy style you've described.

Shooting is a very expensive process, as I don't doubt you're aware. To use a computer to make the process quicker (therefore cheaper) or easier (therefore cheaper) or just plain old cheaper is a boon for film makers.

Cinema is a medium based on technology, it's nonsensical to reject computer technology because it's percieved to be somehow not authentic.

Look at 'O Brother Where Art Thou?' The whole of that film was digitally graded to make lush mid-summer look like an autumnal depression-era south. It did cost a lot, but it allowed the Coen Brothers to create a fantasy would that they couldn't have otherwise.

[EDIT:]

p.s. not one of his six kids need glasses or contacts either

The sun had nothing to do with that - whatever happened to his eyes his DNA didn't change!

Eyes are light sensors.Ã,  I can't imagine playing a loud noise into a mic would improve its sensitivity, so I don't see why a shining very very bright light into someone's eyes would improve their vision.

EDIT: That answers my concerns, though I'm still doubtful. Luckily I live in England and wouldn't have the option to look at the sun even if I wanted to.

$6-8 ticketÃ,  --Ã,  goes almost entirely to the Studio, not the theatre.

I don't think that's exactly true.

[boring film finance]
The money might not go to the theatre, but a pretty big chunk goes to the distributor, not the studio. If you bear in mind how much it costs to produce and market a film, there's often only a narrow profit margin.

Four Weddings & a Funeral, for instance earned on its US distribution far more than it cost to produce (only £4m), but would have ended up in the red because of marketing costs if it hadn't been for international sales.Ã,  (You don't need to market much internationally - once America knows, everyone knows).
[/boring film finance]

Nevertheless, your point is fair. I hate advertising too. Try loudly shouting over adverts in the cinema. It helps you feel better and makes strangers hate you! Two birds with one stone.

It's a nice photo, why not just use it?

A few tweaks in a photo editor would let you control the atmosphere:


(Please imagine this with slightly lower contrast, it displays differently in my software)

If you do want to redraw the picture, try drawing a 4x3 grid over the image, then do the same with a blank sheet of paper of the same size. With faint lines, copy the main details of each square in turn. That should help you keep you perspective in line for the path and so on.

COW AND SHEEP ARE NOT CUTE!

You're right! My family farm sheep in NW Scotland. The main reason I don't eat them is I'm afraid of what they might do if they found out...

Actually pet lambs are pretty cure, but more encrusted with poo than their cartoon counterparts.

Thanks for the food tips SSH and Highwaygal.

[Boo!]

People who don't eat meat scare me.

Boo!

I'm a vegetarian, but If I did eat meat I wouldn't.

...If you see what I mean...

Many animals are farmed in a way that is unhealthy for the animals and for the people eating the meat at the end of the line.

At the moment I'm trying to find kinder/healthier alternatives to cows' milk (which I hate anyway) and chicken's eggs. I've heard ducks have to be happy to lay eggs, maybe I should eat duck eggs.

Since I quite obviously didn't come up with this character, I thought I'd better give it a little movement:

"Oh ... escard on me ma'am..."

The outlines look excellent, not using black outlines gives the picture a really nice feel. The games/DVDs on the shelf look very nice.

Evil is right about the bed. If I hold my finger over the end of it, the pespective looks fine.Ã,  We should be able to see much less of the end, it should be at a sharper angle to the camera.

[>GET AGENT ORANGEYou get the Agent Orange.>DROP AGENT ORANGE]

I think interactive fiction is the way to go:

>GET AGENT ORANGE

You get the Agent Orange.

>DROP AGENT ORANGE

I think Blackthorne has given the smartest advice, why not just set the game in any old jungle and make a Broken Sword style game where you find a mysterious temple or a lost civilisation.

If you want the war element, why not have a plane crash or a shipwreck lead soldiers to end up in unfamiliar territory.

[EDIT:]

For me the key issue with the screenshot is that it's not a Catholic church yet your priest will be speaking Latin.

Bare walls says methodist, brightly coloured walls shouts evangelist or somesuch. I'm also not sure what a priest would make of red candles. To make a few generalisations, Catholic churches are grand, with bare stone not plaster, gaudy trinkets all over the place and a figure of Christ on the crucifix, not a bare cross.

You ask for alternatives to this kind of art - that depends where you live. I live in York which has lots of locations that would be of use to you, but I'm afraid I don't have a digital camera (or any camera for that matter) otherwise I'd snap you up some backdrops. If you don't live in Europe or you live in a big city, why not pursuade generous historical-city-inhabiting AGSers to take some photos you could use?


EDIT: The new colours are a great improvement - much more natural! With this update it would be a relatively simple matter to add a few well placed shadows to give it a gloomier atmosphere. Sorry I was wrong about the candle!

[Blackadder the Whole Damn Dynasty...]

I agree. It's not as if the shows looked realistic, why should the graphics?

To paraphrase Blackadder:

"So this is where it ends ... on an unrealistic grassy knoll."

If you're having trouble fitting together the plots for a DOTT style game, buy Blackadder the Whole Damn Dynasty...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140280359/202-6548340-7990208

It contains all the scripts and has introductions that chart the progress of the Blackadder family in between the series - explaining how a decendent of George IV (actually Mr B)  became a captain in the British Army in WW1 and so on.

It also has Baldrick's family tree showing an unmistakeable link to Gazza. Plus money from it goes to Comic Relief.