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I already said this in #ags, but I'll post it here for the sake of posterity...

instead of
if (threetasks <3) {
threetasks += 1;
}

just have
if(threetasks < 3){
threetasks += 1
}
else{
SetDialogOption(10,5,0);
}

and delete that bit in repeatedlyexecute, since it's not doing anything.

lol. I'm going to start a topic about defecation. Not only is it a natural human act, AND within the rules of the gengen forum, but anyone who deletes it I know will have constipation XD

Weeks? The average long game could take a year to make. But don't get discouraged... simple games can take far less time. Try entering a few MAGS (monthly AGS) competitions to get an idea of what can be produced in a short time frame.

You could try ebay, but when an old game has a manual its price generally rockets. Try googling to see if someone's scanned a pdf.

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Can you add some kind of zoom function to the UK on that map? You already can't read three of the names.

I'm pretty sure that Gore would seem just as silly as bush does in this predicament. It's just easier to place the blame on one person though....

Arguing that life would be better without bush is like saying life would be better without saddam, and thats worked out great so far...

Firstly, Gore might seem silly in this predicament, but you have to remember that this is a predicament OF BUSH'S MAKING, that he could so very easily have avoided.

Secondly, since when has life with Saddam been "working out great"? Not only have British and American troops been dying since the 'end' of the war, but we have produced a hundred thousand new terrorists, who in about 10 years will be wreaking havoc on the Western world.

The UN did fail.  I didn't say they disappeared.  If a football team loses (fails) they're still a team and move forward.

So what happens if one player decides to do something stupid, runs towards the opposing team with the ball but with no support, against the will of the other players, and just generally makes an ass of himself?

To be honest, sibelius isn't the best choice for creating MIDI files - it's meant as a scoring program, not to produce stuff that'll sound good. For example, you can specify forté and piano markings, but you can't give notes absolute volume values out of 127. This is good in some ways - for example, you can give a general amount of expression in the "play -> performance" menu, but can be annoying in that you don't have such absolute control as you would in more techie-oriented packages, such as cakwalk or cubase.

But that doesn't mean you can't compose with Sibelius; far from it. To make volume changes, select a note, hit ctrl+e, right click, and select from a list of dynamics. For crescendo or decrescendo markings,  select a note, hit L on the keyboard, and select the marking you need. Pressing space once the marking is there will advance it by one note each time, keeping things neat.

To insert a time signature, select a note and hit T. For a key signature, hit K. To insert a tempo, use Ctrl+Alt+T. TO change an existing tempo, just double click the tempo mark on the score, and enter a new number. You can even insert a different note instead of a crotchet if you right click. The tempo slider is just a way of temporarily changing the speed of a performance.

Finally, a soundfont is just a file containing one or more samples of instruments. If you have a Creative sound card then you should be able to use them -  if you want I can google some tutorials on them.

Hehe, yes I'm an idiot ^_^ of course paypal is a far more logical solution.

The name Cafépress triggered alarm bells in my mind, and after a few seconds on google I found out why:

http://www.giveneyestosee.com/say-no-to-cafepress/

There was recently a story in Future Music magazine where a guy made an $8 audio plugin. After a couple of weeks, he googled his program, and found a Russian site that had cracked it. So don't count on your program not being cracked just because it's $1.

Lecture over, this sounds like a great idea. The biggest problem I can see is getting a company that will process credit card orders, and paying for a server that supports SSL encryption.

Since the inspiration behind Path of Crystal hit me, I've never looked back, which I find extremely odd since it's no better than a lot of other ideas I've had but lost interest in.

Yeah, I once had a weird problem with AGS; it was magically solved by grabbing the DirectX 9.0 runtime from downloads.microsoft.com . Go get it! Oh, and remember to put all your hardware acceleration sliders back to where they were, lest you get another weird problem

Minimi, about 70% of internet users are male. Of the 30% left over, 29.9% are too sensible to so something like this.

What's that they say about 87% of statistics being made up?

As long as you promise you're going to play that on the piano, and not sing over a MIDI file, then it's fine

I did find myself predicting some of the chords though; they're a bit cliché for my taste. But then, perhaps that's what you're going for.

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Jesus christ Goldmund, do you realise you just posted nearly 2500 words!

I didn't have time to read much of what you said, but I will say my two cents: you say in your opening post that you found the character Jake Macurk in P:DA to be lacking. I would disagree with that for one reason: at one point in the game Jake's boss has to nearly beg him to give up the case for a day and go home. I thought, "wow, what a great guy. All this bad stuff's going down around him and all he can think about is getting to the bottom of this case and saving the day". From that point on I warmed to his character a lot more.

Or, we just wait until CJ implements floating point numbers in ags, ISN'T THAT RIGHT CJ

^_^ <-- angelic look