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totally off topic from google smashing, but did you know that there is an elmer fudd language option in google?

I love Ali because if I didn't say that his trained lion cub would get me  .
He has a really cool avator and I love his art

I use qbasic. I can draw ok in it, but I don't really use DRAW command as it seemed to confusing to handle. I use PSET (pixel set) and a bunch of data statements. Why are you asking?

Thanks for all the ideas. I have sort of made up a complete basic story, I just did not want to post the whole thing . The player will play as each character, one after another until they all reach the wizard. After that he will tell them to go to the beginning of the world, where the player will then control all the characters together, on their journey there (see another journey that adds nothing to the plot, but is most of the game). The end of the story will be when they reach there, and do whatever they are supposed to (I have already got an idea for that, but I dont want to divulge that either).
I have very much borrowed from the RPG genre, as you guessed  , and I realise that the game might be more suitable as an RPG, but I am making an adventure. It is a rather epic mission type of story. It will also be leathal (as in it will be very possible to die in it).
I have placed a lot more emphasis on the characters. The four descendant children will each be from a seperate clan, and have different styles of speech, skills, physical features, and will solve the puzzles in their own special way. The second part (when the journey to the beginning of the world will see them coorporating with each other to pass all the different puzzles.
*EDIT* I just read my post and realised how much it sounds like LOTR.....4 youths from 4 seperate clans out to save the world... Really! It just came to me now! I was not borrowing anything from it! Not that it matters even if I did, but I did not!

Why do so many people hate Vel so much? When found these forums everyone treated him reasonably normally, but then something changed and I missed it. Most of his posts are reasonable and I am sure there are a lot of other more aggravating posts. I am not trying to defend him for whatever he did.... I am just curious.

I made up a story for this game I am planning. As of yet it is all on paper. It is a fantasy type story set in a completely different world.
The world is being invaded by outsiders. A wiseman/wizard guy who is wanting to save his world does some incantation/spell/spiritual call for help and is answered by the spirit of the World's first ruler who tells him that his (the ruler's) blood children must join forces and go to the beginning of the world, where the answers to their problems will be revealed. The ruler was said to have 4 children who went their seperate ways and created 4 seperate clans/tribes that occupy the world. The wiseman/wizard sends out a dream, hoping that the direct descendants of the 4 children answer, as their identities had been lost after all that time. The dream reaches 4 youths, unknown to each other, who make their journey to the wiseman/wizard.
I am satisfied with this as the basic story, but I would not mind some helpful C&C, as it is still all on paper. My problem is that the way I designed the game, most of it will be the JOURNEY of those 4 youths (who will be the player characters), which does not have any direct connection with the actual story. Can I get some help with how to connect it to the story, or add stuff so that it becomes relevant? Thanks in advance..

Neither am I fan of hellraising creatures that are here to destroy teh human race, and that's probably why I didn't particularly like Quake, either.

But you don't have to be a fan of hellraising creatures to like quake... you just had to like running around blowing them up  .
I also feel a strong need to voice my disagreement with all those who seem to hate Loom... sure, it might not be your favourite game, but to mention it as your worst??? ?? It was a really great game...so much about it I loved, INCLUDING its unique interface.  I remember playing the City of lost children, too. I borrowed it from a friend of mine but I never got that far and then I just lost interest. Aside from that I dont remember anything all that horrible about it. King's Quest V I loved as well... it was my first of the KQ series. I guess that is the major reason I have for liking it so much- but I dont remember anything particularly wrong with it either.... alot of other games had much more annoying puzzles. Is "The lost files of Sherlock Homles" a game where you get to choose from a number of mysteries to solve and then you go through choosing a series of video clips to watch and addresses to visit and at the end you go to some courtroom to identify the murderer? I think I still have that CD... I never solved any of the mysteries tho...

Aww damn... you had got all my hopes up too. Too bad... I guess its all for the best though... maybe if you return to this idea someday.

Quote from: rodekill on Today at 01:42
Wasn't someone remaking the beginning of MI3 or something?


Dark Stalkey.

WHAT A DUCKING BRILLIANT IDEA!! Does that mean to remake MI3 in the style of MI1 and 2? Oh wait, no... it would still suck. The story would be the same, and if you changed it, it wouldn't be much of a remake.

BUT I LOVED SQ4!!!11111 How can anyone hate it?? it was my favourite of all the space quest series. I guess you are entitled to your opinion, BUT YOUR OPINION SUCKS !!!111  Seriously, you can't hate a whole game for something right in the beginning can you? You could have just used Moslo or something...thats what I did when I replayed it.
I can't really say I hated any of the adventure games I played. Myst was one of the lows, but once you had been playing for a while you got immersed into the game. However, I stopped playing it after a while due to the difficulty. Ahhhh... the days before internet and instant walkthroughs.

hmmm....you people seem to be lucky. When I tried it all I got was a bunch of GHGHGHHGHGHGH and JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ. Its probably so mad that its just dragging its efingers accross its ekeyboard.

I would really enjoy playing a MM remake using the newer SCUMM GUI, as I also remember how easy it was to miss stuff unless you clicked all over the screen with the annoying "what is" button. However, please make sure you know the original game through and through before making any remake, as there might be very obvious solutions that you missed and replaced with something much vaguer of your own design.

Exactly! Why can't you come up with an original fake name? Look at me, in acting I have adopted the name of Daniel Radcliffe. You don't see me copying it from anyone do you  ?
Let see... I have my name because my parents gave it to me, and I have not yet found sufficient reason to change it. Oh, you mean my forum name? Well, thats just a nickname I had from the time I was immensely fatter than I am now. It sounded alot like my original name, except with a much rounder and fatter feeling. My avator I have because besides looking very much like a Babloyi, it also shows my outlook on life, that is to say the outlook of a slightly deformed baby that appears to be in the late stages of mental retardation

the arabic (and I think egyptian) word for the devil is "shaitan".

well.... I should have decided long ago... but I am still not sure. I want to be in games designing, but then I also want to open up a chain of resteraunts. Then there is the fact that I wanted to be a writer since I was a small kid. Also, like DGM, I want to accomplish something that would make me reknowned long after death. Maybe I could combine all those into 1 job somehow...
the great chain of Babloyi resteraunts now offer gaming..... first 100 to win get a free meal...

I need someone to create a logo for me. It would be at the beginning of the games I am making. I would give you credits in all the games I make, and I would be sure to pay you if um....I ever made money from the game
Anyway, the logo I need is of an stylized Ox. I have searched the net, and found that an ox is just like any other bovine creatures. It is male, so I want horns, and a ring in the nose if pssoble. I would like it from the shoulders up. Think of the logo of chicago bulls, but with the ox looking kooky instead of angry. Also it should be in only 2 or 3 colours. Ok, no after all my "shoulds" and "musts", I say, PLEEAAAASE HELP.

ummm.... well it has to be an animal! Ritual sacrifice of a cabbage or hunk of cheese is not nearly as satisfying.

Or you could use print preview at 100% and measure it against the size of your DVD case

this community is cool

Thats RIGHT!! It should have its own holiday known as AGS DAY!!!
"Eid mubarak" is just a greeting....It is like saying Congratulations on Eid. So I guess the real question is why the president shares his name with the word congratulations
*Babar feels like a history teacher
Eid is a feast. It happens at the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca, where some animal is sacrificed and the meat distributed as gifts to family and friends. It is also an excellent reason to party

I get the feeling most of you dont celebrate Eid :'(

Happy feasting to all! It is Eid here where I live, so I thought I would wish everyone a happy eid