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That's incredible, Groucho! If everyone who joined this community brought something new then it would be an awesome place!

Heh, I think we're going to be seeing a lot of sims-resembling character graphics in ags games soon...

Edit: do you require The Sims on your computer to rip these graphics off?

Yeah, before you insult an old hand I'd suggest you look up "tutor" in your english->dutch dictionary, minimi

Erm... this is kindof a silly question, because:

1. The whole purpose of Wait() is to block whatever's happening at the time, so what do you want? A DoNothing() function?
2. Whilst in a while loop nothing will happen until the loop exits anyway

I think what you're actually asking for is multi-threading, which obviously isn't going to be put into AGS for a long time

I installed Linux once, played with it for a few days, then uninstalled it when I realised that I'd never use it for anything useful.

To your first question: the short answer is yes, but in practice 50 sprites won't make much of a difference (especially when compressed with winzip)

To your edits: the mp3 is obviously the single largest item, but 3.5meg is still fairly small for an mp3. If you absolutely want to squeeze all the space you can out of this, I'd suggest getting OggDrop, the utility for creating .ogg files, set the quality to 2 (96kbps), and convert the mp3 to an ogg file (in my experience ogg performs better than mp3 at low bitrates). The only real other ways of reducing the size of your game are:
1. Reducing it to 256 colour
2. Using 320x200 graphics instead of 640x400
But 11 meg still isn't that much, providing that the user gets a decent game at the end of it

Edit: and remember you don't need to distribute the music file itself, just the music.vox file that ags produces.
Another edit: you can get oggdrop from http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0/windows/oggdrop-win32.zip

You say it's too big without zipping? Why on earth can't you zip it then?

Ok, use this code:

character[CHARID].room = a;
character[CHARID].x = b;
character[CHARID].y = c;

To be fair, that is in a kindof poorly documented part of the help file. Look up "character[], variables" in the index.

If you're moving the player character, then of course you'd use NewRoomEx().

I already said it, but that ares teh FUNNY!1!11

Look to me like you're using keyframes, instead of saving the animation as each frame completely. I don't know enough about the FLC format to know how, or even if it's possible, to turn this off :o

The problem is, most geeks don't have the charisma to present a TV show  

Then again, most TV presenters don't have the charisma to present a TV show

I think since Sibelius can export midi files with no hassle, that would be preferable, although on the other hand, it's nice having a neatish looking score available to look at. What the hey, why not upload both?

Oh dear oh dear oh dear. I suggest you look just a teensey bit harder

About the age limit thing: perhaps there should be a limit on who can demo their game / run a stall / whatever, but no limit on who can actually turn up and have a look around?

And I am so totally coming to this thing, if it ever materialises, perhaps not with my game but just to meet everyone that I wouldn't be able to meet otherwise (no mittens until at least 2005 for me >_< )

I agree with cj; the only reason it worked in Half Life was because they used a silly mechanical voice.

Just use character[CHAR].room = -1 (where CHAR is the character's script name, obviously)

Come now loominous, your ear should be 1337 enough to tell how it's constructed just by listening ^_^

The latest versions of Winamp 2 or 3 should do it.

Edit: Ghormak, WOW! The samples you used for that piece are absolutely awesome :x

Doing it click for click is the only way ^_^ Welcome to the world of pixel pushing.

Really nice work on the detail, btw

That's all pretty neato! The only problem I would have is that the transitions run waaaay too slowly... but I guess that's the ineficiency of RawDraw

I think it's an Only In America thing. I mean, everybody gets a little worked up when school children/teenagers play football (that's soccer ), rugby or cricket matches against each other, that's natural. But in my experience everybody is calm and civilised, and we certainly don't build any stadiums; generally any spectators have to stand by the side of the playing field.