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For those of us who can't afford to go to the US this year, a small gathering of UK ags'ers would be cool. Just for the day or something.

I sent it on but lost the original in my reformat, sorry.

Yes.

Every year our school runs a battle of the bands competition, and I was planning on entering with two of my best mates- an awesome guitarist and an even more awesomer drummer, with me on piano. About a week before the contest our guitarist decided that he wanted to play Purple Haze and Bombtrack- but they sounded pretty lame without the basslines. So I borrowed a bass guitar off a friend, tought myself how to play the damn thing, worked out purple haze and then, with just two days before the performance, learnt the bass part to Bombtrack in an evening. It was the first time I had performed any post-1950 music live, and we were awesome DEFINITELY the best thing I've ever done, and I hope to do loads of stuff like that live again in the future.

Hehe, we played Rock Around the Clock as our closing number too, went down surprisingly well considering the average age of the audience was 14-16

What I remember is sitting at my computer, and chatting on IRC in #ags. I kept asking everyone how it was possible that I was asleep yet sitting at my PC and using IRC, and everyone seemed confused and stunned. It just felt like I was sitting there typing for about half an hour. The next day, I almost went back on and asked if everyone remember chatting to me.

Ah yes, being stoned on irc. Quite the passtime, eh mods   :

Less talk more tunemaking, people!
To quote the lyrics of a certain Brit Awards nominee, it's time for something biblical:

http://www.btinternet.com/~peter.rocker/TehWrathOfGod.ogg

Sorry it's an ogg file, my mp3 encoder seems to hate the cymbal samples I use and wants them to die.

Yay I'm in ^,^ btw, does no time signature count as an odd time sig? Could I have, say, a third of the piece in 5/8, then a third in 4/4, then a third freestyle general instument bashing against walls?

CJ, if you are interested in cranking AGS's speed up a couple of hundred percent and massively reducing the .exe size by converting some of the compiler output which creates the exe to assembly language, let me know, you have my e-mail.

Ok first, since 95% of a game (more in larger games) is graphics and sound, I don't see how using assembly is going to make such a huge impact. And second, these are adventure games we're talking about here; why exactly would you want performance increases? There are no load times, no frame drops, nothing.

Datafile and interpreter? Eww. Easy to hack, slow to run, a bother to remember which files to distribute...

Jeez, you people have actually got free time over half term? I envy you, really I do.

While I realise you were (probably) joking, there was an earlier Neverwinter Nights

Hehe well I was kinda wondering if they had postponed the project for 10 years to let technology catch up.... or something

Whoa, seriously, how long was Neverwinter Nights in development before they released it?

Yeh the British billion is a million million, but personally I prefer the American billion- one thousand million.

Well since AGS makes it so rediculously easy to implement save slots, I'd say go with it; even with a short game it adds a touch of professionalism.

Hehe yak, reminds me of watching my friend's dad trying to kick-start a bonfire using diesel. Suffice to say it didn't work.

Sean Bean w00t
My mum shares her birthday with Tupac. Hehe

Everybody here knows about goatse, right?
You don't get much more fucked up than that.

Two words: Tub. Girl.

Meters other than 4/4 aren t used very often in modern music so for most musicwriters learning about other isn t required.

Maybe they aren't used that often, but some great songs have been written in 3/4 time. Breaking the Girl by the Chillies, and a couple of Silverchair songs - these are in no way intellectual or pretentious songs, and they're written in 3/4! WOW. And what about the millions of pieces that have been written in 6/8 time? Are these somehow incomprehensible to the average listener, or musician for that matter?

My stock answer would be to download DirectX 9 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/ and see if that helps.

You forgot MaekMyGame(), something that I've been bugging CJ about for AGES now. God, that man is such an incompetent.