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Yeah the NO campaign flyer spouted untruths! The black guy should totally have won that race because they can beat a white guy on a bike.

Cheers Khris, works now.

Woop woop.

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

The Lurking Horror by Diath
RunAway by Matti
Of the Essence by Wham
OSD 3D by Studio3
Concurrence by mode7
City of Thieves: Rescue Sandy by Rocco
15 Minutes by hedgefield

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

I think I can make it 8. All I have to do is finish this game soon.

I'm confused now. Would you like me to include your game? You can't have two entries.

Awesome six entries thanks and well done to everybody. Wham the pressures on!

Those graphics are awesome.

Might want to look at Simon's Cat for ideas on cat things.

I'm getting sick of all the media coverage it's getting. Oh guess what there's yet another media storm! I apologise to all Americans out there if you had to endure all that Royal Wedding malarkey. (For the record I am a royalist )

I was getting ready to die from swine flu. I was preparing for my town to be drowned by rising tides. I was told to buy drought resistant plants for my garden. Global warming is a joke (think they call it climate change instead now). "Let's follow everybody else and get grants to do some research! Don't worry, we'll fudge the results!"

The point is we only truly know what the media tells us. (Free media basically means news agencies can force whatever agenda they want). Osama's death is painfully overstated. If this top secret mission, real or not, was not reported, would it affect us? Nope. Will it affect us anyway? Nope.*

To the Americans Bin Laden is not just a 'person', he is an icon of fear and evil.  It doesn't necesarily have to be the man's death they are celebarating, that's just by-the-by. They're really celebrating the symbolism of his death.

Absolutely. I couldn't believe people going into a frenzied trance over his death. What is that in aid of anyway? I bet some of them didn't even know who he was.

* Touch wood.

I had 9 days to make a game

Hmm, I actually suggested you join the next MAGS (ie MAGS May) I wouldn't expect anybody to enter with only a week left.

This is a sweet website for those attempting it too: http://www.dreamviews.com/section/what-lucid-dreaming-7/

[kconan]

Here was my entry I gave up half way through.



I vote for kconan.

wednesday (or a bit later) would be real good since this weekend is going to be very chaotic for me

So i suggest a deadline extension until  Wednesday 4. May!

I'm still deep in a swamp.
Can there be an extension until monday? That way I can try to graps straws during the weekend.

Ok. New deadline is Wed 4th May with a bit of leeway after that. And thanks for your entry icey.

I tried it last night and during hypnagogia, where you picture random images or "hear" random sentences, on the threshold of sleep, I kept reminding myself that I was in essence still in reality. When my body entered sleep paralysis soon after it began to kick off - I felt my body become weightless and my mind was left floating in a vacuum. My eyes were going mental in my sockets (I was awake during REM) and even though they were closed I could "see" the darkness around me as if I was in a dark room. If I "commandeered" my eyes I could move them about freely. But REM carried on as soon as I relinquished control. I can only describe it as being hopelessly alone.

So rather than gaining awareness of dreaming during the dream, I was stepping into a dream while my mind was awake (something apparently called WILD). Unfortunately I didn't get that far - I remember some men round a table were beckoning for me but it was lost. So I engaged my motor neurons and sensation came back to my body. It's was the scariest experience I've had - the only thing that kept me with one foot left in reality was the sound of my breathing. I'll have to keep experimenting on myself

Anybody heard of or practiced lucid dreaming before? Lucidity is being aware that you're dreaming while you're still inside the dream. This means your wakened conscious state can actually control the content of your dreams. Not only is your imagination untamed but dreams are 100% real whilst you're in them, so all your other senses come into play and you literally do whatever you want as if it was real - drive fast cars, meet deceased family/friends, and of course fly. (There's naturally infinite potential for chronic nightmare sufferers).

I've only had a lucid dream once before, like a year back or so. And it was awesome. I was in a car park and I thought to myself "I'm dreaming aren't I?" So I pointed to the other side of the car park to test it out and teleported instantly (I wish now I did something more exciting). Unfortunately I managed to wake myself up. Teleporting on a whim had actually confirmed my belief it was a dream - you have to strike a fine balance between remaining conscious enough to remain in control, but on the other hand let the dream run or you'll wake up.

So I thought it was about time to have another lucid dream. I'd heard of it before but didn't realise there were ways to induce them [naturally]. Apparently I have to keep a dream journal and get used to a "reality check". This is something like counting how many fingers you have during the day (last time I checked it was seven), so you can cross-reference how many digits you own in your dream.

Has anybody else had any experience with lucid dreams? I'll keep you posted if my return to Lucid Land is successful.

...fiddled about with it

Whoa steady on dude!

Sorry, but that's a deal-breaker.

Qui est impoli, mangeur de rosbif! Par ailleurs, nous ne mangeons pas beaucoup les cuisses de grenouilles! Vous faites bouillir mon sang.

Spaced is a transgressive masterpiece. However the Pegg/Frost combo is losing momentum. Their movie Paul doesn't come anywhere close on the lol-o-meter to SotD or Hot Fuzz.

[one]

I don't know what the problem is but try this:

Code: ags

function Button39_OnClick(GUIControl *control, MouseButton button)
{
  if (lstRestoreGamesList.SelectedIndex >= 0)
  {
    Display("Data loaded"); //Put this here instead
    RestoreGameSlot(lstRestoreGamesList.SaveGameSlots[lstRestoreGamesList.SelectedIndex]);
  }
}

If it doesn't display "data loaded" you know the problem is with the line above

Code: ags

if (lstRestoreGamesList.SelectedIndex >= 0)

And you can do the same kind of thing in other places to track down the problem.

As a side note,

Code: ags

 if (lstRestoreGamesList.SelectedIndex >= 0)
  {
    RestoreGameSlot(lstRestoreGamesList.SaveGameSlots[lstRestoreGamesList.SelectedIndex]);
  }

can simply become

Code: ags

if (lstRestoreGamesList.SelectedIndex >= 0) RestoreGameSlot(lstRestoreGamesList.SaveGameSlots[lstRestoreGamesList.SelectedIndex]);

because you don't need the brackets if there's just one line after an if statement.

Also, if you create a new game and choose the template, there's save/load code set up for you to use or copy into your own game.

Or we could steal one of these

http://www.heraldryandcrests.com/Mottos.htm

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Here it is: Download

Icey, it might be a good idea to enter the next MAGS. That way you can make a small game to show everybody you can do things other than FF rip-offs. The guidelines will also help to focus creativity.