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Instead of using
seq1 = seq2 = seq3 = seq4 = 0;
try
seq1 = 0;
seq2 = 0;
seq3 = 0;
seq4 = 0;

Since AGS doesn't use pure C this might not be supported.

If m0ds wants to step in then that's fine; alternatively, since Loominous was an incredibly close second, he could do it (again ).

The first thing to do is to try an updated driver for your sound card... try and find the manufacturer's website on google. If that doesn't solve the problem, then go into the multimedia section of the control panel, and try moving the slider for hardware acceleration for the sound down a notch or two - or if it isn't at the top, up a notch or two. The slider could be found anywhere depending on which OS you're using, sorry I can't help you more there.

What soundcard do you have?

Right, that's it for this week. I just thought I'd like to say a few words about each entry:

Ghormak: a really nice piece, opening with some decent chord progressions on the piano, and then filling out with some luurverly string arrangements later. The only thing I would like to have seen is a velocity control over the piano... but like you said, it was a rush job; if you had had the whole week I'm sure it would have been perfect.

Stalkers: alternative and slightly twisted this certainly is! At first I was a little taken aback, but thinking about it there are a lot of situations where this could be used, which could still come under the category of love... just as an example, it could conjure up an image of some naked manga chick in suspended animation, watched by the depraved scientist waiting for his moment to revive his obsession!

Loominous: what can I say? As always your orchestral arrangement is perfect. Not only has it got the big, film-score quality to it, but there is a melody there that would indeed befit an ff game, or similar.

EldKatt: a lovely little baroque/classical piece; it shows the safer, more classy side of love. A solid arrangement and nice melody.

Ok, so now I've got to choose a winner. You have no idea how close this is, but I'm going to have to go for...

Spoiler

Ghormak - it has a character and recognisable quality essential to the video game love interest! Well done.

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I get a 404 with that, loominous.

I agree with both those points. Although I probably wouldn't use floating point numbers, I can see situations where people could. And find/replace would also be cool.

I think that everything I could have said has been summed up so far, except for one thing: GET A BAND TO DO THIS! I'm sorry, but guitars are one of MIDI's weakest points.

Ok, by my watch the 30th of august has now drawn to a close. I'm gonna keep the competition open for another 24 hours because I know at least one of you has something in the works, and contests with only one entry are boring. So come on people!

Wow! That is absolutely perfect, except for one thing... please, please change his lips, they're giving me nightmares and I'm still awake! But otherwise, fantastic work, this is going to look absolutely awesome in a game!

Next: what will happen when Arnie becomes president

well 'make your game' has about one hundred thousand million in it self

Yes, but they're quite easy ones really:

int main(void){
AGSGame * game = new(AGSGame);
for(int i = 0; i <= 100000000000; i++){
game.HowGoodTehGameIs += 1;
}
MaekMyGame(game, GAME_COMMERCIAL, "game.exe", 1337);
}

Arnie isn't an idiot, and he does have charisma and a self-power. What else do you need in a governor? I mean, a sensible, intelligent, wise, good man would be nice, but the problem is that most wise people are wise enough to not go into politics. So I think Arnie would make a decent governor, as long as he had some good people behind him who could help pull California out of its huge debt.

I've noticed this- when the music number is the same as the room number then the number will dissapear from the on room load music number edit box, but the music will still play normally ingame.

Wow Andail.

It's not like I know you or anything, and I'm not quite sure how to put this into words. But, well, just when I think I've got problems I read about someone like your friend, and how you managed to help him, and suddenly I feel very humble.

Your sunny (if cynical) outlook is something I think I share in a small way with you. It's a great gift that you have.

Also, DG, your post struck a chord in me. This will probably sound really selfish, but it's good to see someone who has gone through the same (sometimes painful) thought processes as me and arrived at most of the same conclusions.

I'm sorry if that seemed a little gushy; I've had a shitty two days.

$200 for 8mb? Jeez. Even if it's a top quality 8mb that's still a bit much.

* Archangel hugz his free 400mb collection of soundfonts

It's not just that I got up pen y fan, it's that I got up it after already having walked 30km, with a heavy pack on my back. Ok, so it wasn't Snowdon, but it was still aw3sum!1!

Well, not exactly the fan dance, but three friends and I DID get up to the summit of Pen y Fan, and then some.

For those of you who don't know, the Brecon Beacons are a range of hills in the south of Wales; the highest point in the Brecons is Pen y Fan, at 890 odd metres. Every year potential recruits into the Special Air Service (SAS) have to go through the final part of initial selection here: they have about 8 hours to cross something like 30 miles of steep terrain, including reaching the top of Pen y Fan (hence "Fan Dance"). Well, we had a 30 mile (50 km) long route, but fortunately we had three days to do it in, and here's a short photo diary for your viewing pleasure.

Before we started was the "acclimatisation" walk (which was a ludicrously long 15km), and I thought I'd include some photos of that because of the beautiful mist that hung about the area on that day.



You can't quite see it here, but there's a 200m (600 foot) sheer drop the other side of that grass in the foreground.



This gives quite a good impression of depth. Remember that for this walk we didn't get anywhere near the summit!



Did I mention I suffer from vertigo? That tiny line in the distance is a wide river, with valley.



This picture makes a great wallpaper - message me if you want a higher res version for yourself.



Well, with the acclimatisation over, we returned to Cwrt-y-Gollen CCAT camp for our last shower for three days. Then began the expedition in earnest:



Just some of the kit we had to carry 50km.



Ahh, so THAT's where the army gets its rations from



My good friend S.Sgt Dickins (foreground), with L.Cpl McRae lurking in the shadows. "We're not lost, I just don't know where we are."



A stream. Ain't it pretty?



By the middle of tomorrow we'll be at the top of that hill. Not the big one in front, the even bigger one on the horizon!!



The end of day 1 and Cpl Rocker (that's me!) is boiling some water for the ubiquitous dehydrated chicken balti.



Day 2 begins in earnest. My three friends are perambulating (what a great word!) towards the peaks in the distance. The far, tabletop-shaped hill is Corn Du, and we'll be standing on top of that before too long.



This may actually have been day 1, to be honest I can't remember. But it looks nice anyway.



100-200m up the first hill, Fan y Big, looking backwards. We used this hill as the 'ramp up' to the beacons, if you will. And please, no jokes about the name. I've heard them all a million times already



Me again, wondering how the heck we're going to get up there.[/IMG]



We're pretty much at the top of Fan y Big here, looking back over the path we took, along that ridge to the left. It was a bloody long slog, and there's still a long long way to go.[/IMG]



That peak to the right of the picture is Cribbin; we have to climb that before we can get to Pen y Fan.



At the top of Cribbin, looking out towards Pen y Fan, and Corn Du just behind it. What you can't quite appreciate is that we have to drop about 200m before we can begin climbing that path you can see.



This is 200 times better with depth perception.



My friends enjoyed playing on my vertigo and freaking me out by sitting RIGHT ON THE BLOODY EDGE OF CRIBBIN! That's about 400m down, btw.



After a long uphill struggle, which I haven't photographed due to it being uphill and a struggle, we reach the summit of Pen y Fan. What a sense of achievement!



From left to right: Me, Cpl Cockram and S.Sgt Dickins, doing our own version of the Fan Dance



We begin the long, slow decent. This picture was taken half way down the far side of Corn Du.

To cut a long story short, after walking about another 10km, we arrived at our second camp site. The third day was a mere (ha) 13km, over pretty uninteresting terrain (by which I mean easy ). Just to prove we did it, here's a photo of us by the minibus at the end:



From left to right: S.Sgt Dickins, Cpl Rocker (me), Cpl Cockram, L.Cpl McRae.

So in short, I had an absolutely fantastic time, and if anyone here has the chance to do something similar (this was for a Duke of Edinburough Award Silver), I would strongly recommend it. I've got about 80 photos in total, so if you want me to send you a hi resolution version of anything (for reference, or a BG, or a wallpaper), feel free to forum message or email me. Thanks for reading!

Age: 16
Gender: male

1)   Name three characteristics of a typical adventure game

Plot
Puzzles
Music/Atmosphere

2)   What makes it easy to identify an adventure game from any other genre?

The point and click interface, 3rd person views with pretty scenery

3)   What makes you choose a game? (e.g. screenshots, reviews, description etc…)

Reviews from fellow users above everything else; also, does the case look professionally made? And I can also be swayed by pretty screenshots.

4)   When buying a game what information would you like to see on the product or display?

The game genre, the premise of the plot, what I can expect from the game.

5)   Name three characteristics of a typical super-hero

Does not fear making sacrifices to help others
Posesses qualities not found in an average person; ranging from simple personality traits to genetic modifications
Adored by those he/she comes in contact with

6)   They say an image can speak 1000 words, would you buy a game just because of the images displayed on the box? What type of impact do images give to you?

No, I would not. However, pretty screenshots and decent looking artwork can sway me from perhaps wanting to buy a game to definitely buying a game. Also, a game cover needs to stand out, so I can easily identify it in a shop ^_^

No, all the music.vox file does it keep all your mp3 and ogg files together in one handy file.