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OnActivate is called only when the player presses enter, which is the problem; I just need to activate the text box with code instead of making the player physically press the button, because it defeats the object of quick commands.

Something like this

Code: ags

function bLook_OnClick(GUIControl *control, MouseButton button)
{
    InputBox.Text = "look";
    //Simulate enter
}

I swear I've read how to do this somewhere but cannot find it again... how do I simulate a key being pressed? There is text added to an input box, and I'd like enter to be 'pressed' afterwards so the player doesn't have to.

Thanks.

Nice to hear of the progress Duncan Do we have any other takers?

lol @ Pinback

To be on the safe side we could add another hundred years or so onto the Mayan scriptures. That will comfortably cover my lifespan.

[Topic: 'Death']

Topic: 'Death'

This month's guidelines were set by mode7:

Make a game which begins with the death of the protagonist.

Ideas to help you:

• What were the events leading up to their death?
• What happens after their death?
• What is the reaction of other characters?
• Did they slip, or were they pushed?

My leprechaun and I wish you luck for the year.

Ending 31/1/2011



What is MAGS?
MAGS is a monthly competition for all amateur adventure game makers. The idea is to create a game in under a month, following the rules set by the previous winner. It aims to help you work to a deadline, improve your skills, or provide a kick-start into making adventure games. Regardless of skill, MAGS is for everyone. Voting is based on "favorite" games, and not the most artistic, or the best coded. If you have bad art skills, use it as a chance to do some graphic work. If you're sub-standard at coding, use it as a chance to give scripting a go. Ultimately, people will vote for the most enjoyable entry.

You may get help for the competition, although you must end up doing something yourself. You should however be warned that it proves difficult to organize a big team within thirty days. You are not allowed to use material already created before this competition. Your game must be completely new! Music and sound is an exception; you can use free material that is available to the public, if you wish. Modules and templates are also allowed. Please do not enter the competition with a rushed entry (a game created last minute). Sure, you can make a game and rush it - but don't do this just to win by default.

Entering MAGS is simple. First, conceptualise your game following the month's criteria (see top). Second, create your game fueled only by coffee. Third, finally, and most importantly, post your game here, including:

✓ A working download link.
✓ The title of your game.
✓ A suitable screenshot.

At the end of the month, the all-important voting will begin! This period usually lasts fifteen days. Should you win, along with announcing the next month's rules, your name and game will be immortalised in the MAGS Archive. Yet hopefully, at the end of the month, the accomplishment of finishing a game will be your greatest prize. For more information please visit the Official MAGS website.

It's here everybody! Time to cast your votes!

For voting please visit the MAGS site or make your choice right here:

Ocean Spirit Dennis Gets Textual by ddq
Don't Look! by Tamanegi

Please vote only once and be sure to have played all games before sending your voice! Good luck to all participants.

W00tles! Now we have all entries in, I'll start the voting tomorrow.

That's one cool card. Jazz is awesome. Perhaps it will become the new music scene of the decade.

Time is relative to the observer. It makes no sense to say anything about time is 'universal'.

No, I don't mean the passage of time is universal, just that time passes throughout the whole universe (as far as we know of course). Thus it is a universal trait. Which is why I said you would have to change time universally to be genuinely travelling in time.

[Time travelling] is *already possible and has been done*

Nobody has ever travelled through time. Ever. The astronauts are a good point which admittedly I didn't think of, but they did not travel through time. To be truly time travelling, you would have to manipulate time itself Universally, by disjointing it and then reconnecting at a place further along the track, not just visit the moon, or go into a coma. This is what I'm saying, just because they went to the moon and experienced time differently, the train still went through Manchester.

Just because time travel is seemingly impossible from our perspective doesnt mean the computer, or whatever, doesnt have the power to reverse time.

This is true, and what I said earlier. "The Master Computer ... can manipulate space so it would be able to manipulate time."
Plus, this is also exactly what I meant by the Pony Palace Universe.

Remember, if we were in a simulation we would be the NPCs without direct access to the console.

That's also what I said in my own post:

On the other hand, you could argue that only the Original Universe has the power to affect the Master Computer.

I don't wish to be truculent I'm just defending myself when I never explicitly answered the original question.

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This is pure speculation

There is nothing in this topic that isn't pure speculation. Calin posed a philosophical question - surely the whole point is to speculate and exchange ideas? To use your own words: "we cannot ever know whether we are in a simulation or not." I'm sorry but I think that was unnecessary.

About travelling to the past/future: if we're in a simulation then a Master Computer has control over everything. There would be nothing in the Universe that isn't a manifestation of the Master Computer. It can manipulate space so it would be able to manipulate time. Therefore time travel, altering time itself, would be possible.

Also, why would time travel to the future cause the effect to predate the cause?

If you time travel to the future but do not age, you would be younger than you actually are which is paradoxical. Even if you do age other strange things would happen. You would have grand-children before you have children. Basically, it cannot happen if you cheat the flow of time. The children must have been born in the present before it can happen in the future.

Think of a train, which serves as a metaphor for time. The train starts in London, and is going to Edinburgh. On the way it will pass through Manchester. This train travels one direction, at a constant speed - it is time itself. If the train was plucked from the tracks just before it reached Manchester, hauled by a crane over the city, and put down on the other side, the journey and fabric of time would be disrupted. It would never have been through Manchester but it would still be past Manchester. If you asked a fellow passenger whether you'd been through Manchester yet, they'd have to say no, even though you are past Manchester and are now on the home-straight to Edinburgh.

To link back to my point, say a child was born in Manchester. Because the train didn't go through the city, it would not be possible for the child to be an old woman by the time you reach Edinburgh (because she was never born).

if I entered a yearlong hibernation, unconscious and without aging, I'd have essentially traveled to the future

This is wrong, you have not physically travelled through time, as it would still be passing around you. Sure you might wake up to a 'future world', but think of the train again. You fall asleep at King's Cross and wake up at Paddington. All the while you're still on the train (of time), which is constantly travelling whilst you're sleeping. You couldn't call yourself a time traveller.

*clap* *clap* *clap*

Best post EVER. Way to go.

Ok Dually, what are you hankering after this time? I made it quite clear it was just a one off!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11982757
http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

Well really, nobody can disagree with this because Calin argues that our Universe isn't a duplicate of a Original Universe, but just a simulation. To be an absolute duplicate you'd have to map every single atom of the whole Universe and unravel every single riddle. This might be possible in the Original Universe but it's certainly not possible in ours. In ten trillion trillion years time maybe, but it's so unlikely it hurts. And this is exactly the point - the Original Universe could be anything from a pink pony haven to a land where they worship guacamole. You suggest it, I can make it happen in the Original Universe. Therefore you can realistically counter any argument with "yes but don't forget our Universes don't necessarily share laws".

So, in this Original Universe where anything can happen (one thing we definitely know is that something is 'intelligent' enough to program us), there could even be a Master Computer with infinite processing power. Because of the space-time continuum, this leaves one of two options - either the Master Computer is only finitely powerful, in which case Space and Time would have an end; or Space and Time can go on forever.

Either way, another thing we definitely know is that Time MUST pass in the original, because without Time the Universes would be unstable and wouldn't exist. There MUST also be Space otherwise nothing would exist and you wouldn't be reading this now.

My point is, the Original and Simulated Universes share at least these two things in common. It is thus reasonable to assume they share many other things in common.

Furthermore, if we are in but a simulation, it would be possible to travel backwards and forwards in time. Clearly, this is impossible now, and it ALWAYS will be. There is no way on Earth (quite literally) that effect can come before cause. There are so many paradoxes with travelling backwards in time it proves itself impossible. The same can be applied with time travel to the future. Effect would come before cause. My daughter would be married before she was born. On the other hand, you could argue that only the Original Universe has the power to affect the Master Computer. But if we are a simulation of the Master Computer then there is a way to connect with it, we just haven't found it yet.

Either way, we can search for the truth but this one's a materialistic route to take. I'd like to believe there's much more to life than being governed by some Master Computer in some Pony Palace.

Hey dudes. About four days left of the MAGS now. Lots of promising entries already. Time to hack it up and start spit polishing!

Cheers monkey.

I want to set a label so it shows the name of the room the player is in. But how can I get the value of that String?

Atelier.

[Fox Man At Large!]

Fox Man At Large!

A mysterious man is being sought in connection with a spate of thefts in London. He is suspected of numerous muggings and burglaries, and in what seems to be
a complete disregard for the law, he has evaded capture and is still at large in the city. Police stations across the capital are on high-alert, and several high-calibre
Inspectors have been selected to helm the search.

After increasing media interest, details of this man and his crimes are beginning to emerge. People across the country are dubbing him "Fox Man", because of his
reputedly vulpine ways. He is supposed to slip as silent as a fox through open windows (although closed windows are no obstacle), and allegedly has a bright red
coat to match. After committing a crime, he melts into the night by scaling buildings and dashing from the rooftops. DCI Tom Barnaby tells us of the hardships of
keeping on the heels of such a notorious criminal.

"It's very tiring, yes. But at the end of the day, this man is nothing more than a common thief, who has been allowed to start a one-man crime wave." Detective
Barnaby believes he knows why the thief may be active. "In this festive period, it's inevitable people will turn to crime to provide for their families at Christmas.
That said, at the rate this man is stealing, he could provide for all the children across the world!"

In the city however, Foxman is fast becoming a living urban legend; so much so that Melvin Slack, a 25 year old lay-about, has made it his life's mission to catch a
glimpse of the elusive Fox Man.

"It's just so cool, y'know. A real life Robin Hood, except badass, and not fake. I've made it my business to hang around crime black-spots. I've even resorted to
wearing gold chains openly, in the hope it catches his eye on the rooftops. So far, all I gotten is a lot of spec from the crib dogs."

A solitary eye-witness even gives Fox Man an accomplice. Veronica Smythe-Smythe-Smythe, who we found in the top drawer, tells us about his apprentice.

"He was short - very short. About your height. And he had pointy ears, and a crumpled face that looked like it had been beaten with a croquet mallet. Yes, I suppose
he did look much like you."

Earlier on tonight, police issued an artist's impression of Fox Man, cross-referenced with many eye-witness accounts.



They urge anybody with information to come forward. A reward of £10,000 is offered for his capture, or information to that end. As the sun shrinks over the tower
blocks of London, the search for Fox Man continues.

Well, there are ten days left so you still have time to finish your entries. Dualnames, did you start working on something? ddq and Temanegi, good job, I am looking forward to both!

A French translation is provided where unnecessary:

Eh bien, il ya dix jours à gauche donc vous avez encore le temps de finir vos entrées. Dualnames, avez-vous commencer à travailler sur quelque chose? ddq et Temanegi, bon travail, je me réjouis à la fois!

It alerts me too.