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This sort of thing almost NEVER happens to me, would you believe. That's because my computer is 10 years old so my left hand convulses about every 20 seconds to hit Ctrl-S.

I often save a word document twice before I start typing. It's a sickness really.

Benji Spamcakes

You have to imagine this name in the place of 'Ben Kenobi' in Star Wars. I just don't think changing your name from Obi-Wan to Ben is the best way of hiding from the dark side. All the Emperor would have to do is search on the electoral register for 'Kenobi' and BAM! He'd be dead.

I can't see Luke Skywalker saying: "Obi-Wan Kenobi? I wonder if she means old Benji Spamcakes..."

OK then, the winner is...

Pestilence's pet Rainbow Bug with it's sleepy-time tunes.

Inkoddi's Devrobat comes a very close second, and thanks to everyone else who entered, the other pets were very very cute/terrifying. I see a potential crime fighting team: Bruised's Bob and BOYD's Bob solving mysteries, the Cat doing research in the library and Hypnosweet working through his social problems guarding the HQ. Crooks beware!

[Topic:]

OK, here I go...:

Topic: Pets with Powers!

Any kind of cute/terrifying animal you might keep around the house, with a useful/horrifying ability.

Size: 150 x 150
Animation: Optional.
Colours: Any, but please keep within the visual spectrum, I don't want to have to look out my infra-red goggles.

(Note: If this Sprite Jam recieves less than 400 entries I will send my TERRIFYING animal with a HORRIFYING ability around to AGS mountain, and he will strike you all asunder.)

I feel the same way DG ... let's make beautiful music together.

"Damn! It sure is windy here on the *ahem* moon."

I just attended a talk by the head of Revolution Software about Broken Sword 3 - The Sleeping Dragon. I looks REALLY good. I mean it!

I've taken back everything I said about it being 3D, because the in-game graphics look excellent! The character's aren't photo-realistically boring or hideously cartoony. They're stylised, some inspiration having been taken from anime, apparently. The quality of light is excellent, and the characters interact with is in a really lovely way casting differing intensities of shadows.

The game play is not point and click at all, but the 'action' sequences (which the other 2 games did have) don't require knife-edge precision or split second timing. It really looks like the game is a cognitive adventure, in three dimensions.

The sound/music is as atmospheric as the first 2 games, but alter live-as-you-play depending on the situations the characters find themselves in.

And BEST of all - there is to be a thematic return to the first game. I don't know any spoilers (and I'm glad) but it looks like we might learn more about the eponymous broken sword, and also the mysterious Voynich Manuscript which some of you might know of. Plus the title sequence includes two extreme stereotypes who are nonetheless likeable. Broken Sword has always been king of pleasant stereotypes.

My message to you all is: go back to your home PCs and prepare for Broken Sword!

My apologies for this wild and incoherent outburst of enthusiasm, but the game looks super-great. Everyone must feel free to lock this thread, delete my account or indeed, send their bigger brothers around to my house.

as for Longest Journey.... it wouldn't run on XP

Longest Journey should work on XP! It says so on the designer's site:
http://www.longestjourney.com/help/faq/technical/run_on_winxp.html
It worked for me. Read a trouble shooter for any other problems, because it's such a good game it'd be a shame to miss out on it.

Also (on topic) I don't think the gender of the character is what's important so much as the way they relate to their world and their plight. It's much harder to create a character who drives the plot rather than one who is driven by it, and perhaps this is why we're often stuck with one-dimensional individuals who simply react to whatever happens to them.

Finally... a drink-driving adventure!

Ben's wearing beer-goggles and he don't need handlebars to hold him back.

Yez get hods o peeple skittin' Geordies y'na. It's propa shan. Wey we'z not all git radge leik. Aoh last night reet, A'z hoyin bricks and this coppa comes so A'z nashing doon this rood...

(Textual interpretation of what living in the North East sounds like.)

What do you get if you cross a waffle with a super-intelligent sperm whale?

That's right...

You get Goliath Eclair, the great detective:


Eclair's brilliant analytical mind will be put to the test when he finds himself caught up in a deadly mystery...
...the Mystery of the Singing Fish

In a remote country house, Eclair will uncover deceit, murder and unadulterated use of the word 'tiddlywink'.




I thought I would make anyone who was interested aware of this game, as I've been working on it (*very* slowly) since Christmas. It will be a 2-room, largely conversation-based game. I think I am at least 50% of the way through, if not more. With it being my first AGS game though, it's difficult for me to judge.

- Ali.

Note#1: Sorry for not posting plot info earlier.

Note #2: Waffles are a kind of food. They are yummy and here are some recipies:
http://www.freerecipe.org/Breakfast/Waffles/

I hadn't heard of your foreign minister until the attack. She was described as a human rights camaigner and a prominent politician.

It so sad to hear that someone like that has been attacked, I can't think of many prominent British politicians who could be called human rights campaigners. It sounds like Sweden was luck to have her.

I am sorry.

I'm playing Pleurghburg.

EDIT: I guess the music's not midi, but what I mean is, it's relatively simple but succeeds in sounding like *music* rather than the battle cry of an electric kung-fu pidgeon (which is the best I can do).

Best of all it's tailored to the mood of the scene. Dangerous or exciting exchanges have dramatic music, while unremarkable or travelling sequences have gentle but tension-maintaining music.
It uses music much better used than some professional games, like 11th hour.

(P.S.  Does anyone know how to *say* Pleurghburg? Should it be plurg-burg pr ploor-burg or something else?)

It's like the whole Christ thing. Jesus comes up with a few ideas, tells about twelve of his friends and it's all cool. Then loads of people latch on, the Pope gets involved and everyone's all: "GLO-OOOOO-O-OOOOO-O-OOOOO-ORIA! HOSANNAH IN EXCELSIS!" and then...

it's like, woah dude, chill

Here we go:


Mobile phones will continue to use advanced technology to allow people endlessly to play games which went out of date before they were born - this time in 3D and with a risk of cancer.

Classic Text Adventures Masterpieces of Infocom was released by Activision, if that helps you look for it. I bought it only a few years ago, so it might still be available from some places. The manuals for every game are incuded in .PDF on a CD in this package, along with maps and hints. So you wouldn't need to worry about Archangel's warning trying to find original manuals.
I don't know if this is the exact package I have, but it looks like it:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000051ZT0/qid=1062944421/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/102-4276021-0436143?v=glance&s=videogames&n=507846

And there seem to be other infocom collections on Amazon (pretty expencisve though).

Here is Mr Tony Blair, not as he is, but as I'd like to see him - caught in an expressionistic nightmare.



Not enough people are caught in expressionistic nightmares, for my money.

I'm going to go see a man about a somnambulist.

I'm running verison 2.52 on windows XP and I was having one of those days when every program I used crashed.

Suddenly, sometimes when I quit after testing my game, the editor window appears white and frozen, and after a while a message appears telling me that AGS has crashed and I should make sure that ACWIN.exe is in the editor folder. It is, but I have a feeling I've caused this with some kind of silly coding mistake, or by wildy clicking in a cavelier manner. This only happens some of the time, and I couldn't find reference to the problem on the forum.

Does anyone recognise it?

Barcik, you say that you feel safer now that the treat from Iraq has been removed, and that Israel has been facing terrorist threats for a long time, and I wouldn't dispute that. But while you feel safer, shouldn't you be concerned that the Iraq war was (apparently) fueled by two key issues: the threat of terrorism and the threat of WMD?
Neither of those dangers have been removed, your statement shows that terrorism continues and WMD appear not to have been a threat from Iraqi quarters to begin with.
Perhaps you are more secure following the fall of Iraq, but isn't that something of a side effect? And isn't the fact that the US and Britain can win a war without resolving any of the issues which started it more worrying?