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Should be okay on both mobile and desktop now.

Somewhat related, so mentioning it here, I dunno if it was ok before and just recently got messed up, but on desktop, the awards icons that show below a person's avatar in a comment on the forums seems to be following some weird down then right scheme. So for example for you, it is showing 3 awards in a single column, for someone with 4, it shows the fourth on a second column on their right. This also seems to happen in combination with the icons that show what people can help with.

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Our MAGS entry for this month. Slightly updated from the itch version jfrisby mentioned above. Hope you enjoy, and hope we see someone to have it up against!

Personally, I feel a well done conclusion is more satisfying than an endless series, and after over 10 years of having a story on mind, I'd imagine he'd want to move on.

I too would be happy to lend a hand with testing

@Babar when you say "which currently can't be", I assume you mean that it's not possible to have the next actions to wait until non-blocking finishes in the same script function?

Yes, that is what I meant. I know it is possible to script around this situation, but it being a generalised "basic" functionality to be able to, as you say, schedule the sequence of nonblocking actions in script, would make things a lot easier

Sorry to interject, but I was just wondering about approaching stuff from the opposite direction as well:
Instead of investigating how to interrupt blocking functions, what about how to incorporate non-blocking functions?

Why not:
cEgo.Walk(x,y,eNoBlock);
cEgo.Say("I will say this when I reach x and y!");
cEgo.ChangeRoom(5);

And have that all work in that order, in that sequence, and if the walk is interrupted by something else, stop the function?
Because the desired functionality here doesn't appear to be wanting to interupt blocking actions, but rather, wanting to be able to have actions be non-blocking, which currently can't be.

I bumbled through some of the game, but didn't get very far either 

My main takeaway from the project: goodness I love AGS compared to Godot engine! AGS has so many convenient features that I came to miss greatly now that they were gone, and while Godot has its own neat features, most of them feel like they're geared up for making pretty lights and sparkles happen, rather than help you create an interesting game.

As another AGSer who has downloaded and mucked about in Godot a bit now, I'm interested, could you share more?

No special program. Possibly some ancient copy of Photoshop. The colour cycling was all done in AGS

Awesome! Count me in. I've never entered a MAGS contest before-and I've never released a complete game, for that matter-but maybe this will challenge me to get something done.  I guess I'm 4 days late, better get to it. =P

Looking forward to see what you make, Perpetuall! My very first released game was also a time travelling 8 bit game that used palette cycling for the time travel animation:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxHGS56JGZ4SzavHN_5ZCKHy4UEqFSUzJI?si=lznHHMJ1dzSEpzqi

And don't worry about being 4 days late, there are months where people enter in the last week 

How's it going @jfrisby ?
Can we expect something?

Another twelve hours would be appreciated! The game is mostly finished barring a few nasty bugs, but right now I am at work, and jf is probably asleep.

I think I had to sign up on TikTok or Insta to understand what are these anti-vaccine, anti-AI and flatearth conspiracy trends and a long list of hilly billy names are about, before commenting. Excuse my ignorance!

I've usually just been ignoring the extra bits you add to your conversations, but I am very much confused now, so I might as well just ask...
What does cryptocurrency, paper money, vaccines, flat-earth have to do with anything?

PS: And while we are off-topic, people seem to have gotten very confused when I mentioned piracy, so just to note, I don't pirate, I have no need to, most of the software I use is free and FOSS, the music I listen to are either things I already own, or indie bands that are available and I want to support on bandcamp, the games I play are stuff I buy discounted from steam and gog or free stuff here, and movies and tv shows I watch are on streaming services. I was speaking of piracy from a moral position: i.e. if a company makes use of theft of someone else's property to make their products, it is hypocritical of them to complain of theft when someone pirates their products.

While I'm not against generative AI in and of itself, it can't really be denied that the way it has currently been built up and implemented is definitely immoral, and probably illegal as well. Reducing that to "Quit whining about losing your jobs and find better jobs" is about as meaningful as someone stealing someone else's house and then everyone else telling them "Quit whining and find another house".

The dataset that was used to build up generative AI that is used for images was made up of work that was stolen (probably the majority of it, in fact).
The dataset that was used to build up generative AI that is used for text was made up of work that was stolen (probably the majority of it, in fact).

The moral (and legal) way to have done this would have been to use artwork in the public domain. We have thousands of years of art to draw from, and thousands of years of the written word, never mind stuff that people have given their permission for today.
The moral (and legal) way to move forward from here would be to remove access to these current datasets, and reset the AIs trained on them, and make use of tools that can identify any art/text that made use of those AIs. Obviously, this is only going to happen if someone pushes legal action.

As it is right now, I am feeling morally (although I guess not legally) ok with pirating software and media from services that have made use of this current stolen data, and enabling ad-blockers of services that make use of it- if they are blatantly making use of stolen data, I don't quite see how they can justify whining about others doing it to them. Lets hope one of these big corporations get hurt enough to push legal action that will result in the removal of these datasets.

There is an ancient Red Dwarf demo in the AGS DB: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/878-red-dwarf-demo/

Haven't played it in over a decade, so I don't quite remember how it is

Please upload them so that I may steal them too?
It is worthy of the git?

One thing I've done before is use Mixamo and Blender together to create frames to work from. I've also just taken screenshots from animation for reference.

Do you have a reference I can steal adjust and use myself?

Hopefully Stupot will appreciate our game that's essentially about him, and lean the MAGS votes our way 

Adding games again does not appear to work. Completing the form just leads to a blank page.

There's trouble brewing at the oldest stew in the world, and it is up to you to help Moby figure out how to fix it all!
A game by @Babar & @jfrisby
Download here: https://bani-gala.itch.io/stew-of-las-moras

Tried making an AGS DB entry this time, but the site does not allow it.

And then I leave them till the end, then I'm stressed about deadlines, and then have to worry about all the bugs the walkcycles introduced, it's all such a big hassle.

There are a couple of wireframe guides for walkcycles that I've tried painting over, but especially for front and back views, they never look right. The character walking towards the screen either widens their legs (as if the vanishing point was just behind them, or you can see the soles of their feet, which usually doesn't make sense.

How do you deal with this? I remember there were a couple of walkcycle generators, but trying them now, either the sites are dead, or they don't work any longer.

Also, how do you plan the rest of the game around your walkcycles? Are all your BG horizons approximately in the same place? Do you limit vertical movement?

Eric Matyas, who has a thread in this forum just 2 down from yours right now, has a website with loads of sound effects here: https://soundimage.org/
Somewhat less organised is the collection at OpenGameArt