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A less complicated suggestion, perhaps:
Somebody (AGA ) providing a system to host these personalised trophies, along with a default (or no image at all?) in case the competition starter didn't make any (no need to force making of trophies, although this method might encourage laziness to NOT make trophies), and when someone wins, it shows up on some section of their profile page (not under their avatar).
IF that person should so desire, they can copy the code or links of those images into their own signature.

Although honestly, simply having a space somewhere just to host all the trophies if that competition had any wouldn't be bad either.

Ctrl+Mousewheel down reduces the size of stuff, yeah, but that is only a temporary solution, I'm hoping there is some way I can set it so that no initial magnification at all occurs. I don't want to have to do Ctrl+Mousewheel down or Ctrl+- every time I open a new tab.

I had also set Zoom Text Only in the View->Zoom menu, which had no effect (on the text OR the images), and after installing NoSquint I also set it to zoom text only (it had such an option as well), but while that did modify the zoom for text (I currently have it set to show everything at 80% of what Firefox renders it, which I chose through pure guesswork) it still showed magnified images in the page, and setting it to text only OR text and images it didn't help for images alone at all.

Yup. No effect. In fact, I'm having to do Ctrl+- on most pages or images.

For the last couple of weeks (possibly after I updated firefox), everything's been magnified in the browser.
When I googled around a bit, it seems that some new update of firefox dynamically changes the size of the stuff on the page depending on your monitor, which to me seems like a very horrible idea, but I guess I wouldn't mind it so much for text (although it'd take getting used to on my usually visited sites), but it does it for images as well, even when I open JUST the image in a new browser tab, which I really don't understand.
I keep my non-widescreen CRT monitor's resolution at 1280x1024, which may seem low, but I am happy with it. However, images that are even just 750 pixels tall are required to be scaled down and I need to click the magnifying glass to view them, at which point I have to use the scrollbars to view them!
I know I am not imagining it, because when I copy the image and paste it into Paint, it shows up smaller.

I haven't had so much of a problem on these forums, possibly because I have gifs and pngs to magnify using nearest neighbour(?) and how most pixel-level art here is posted using tags or something (or possibly because I haven't noticed it yet :O), but it is annoying me on most of the rest of the web, and I'm second-guessing myself as to whether everything just got bigger, or it is normal, or what.

Following instructions on some mozilla help thing (where someone else posted a similar problem), I installed the NoSquint add-on, but while that helps somewhat (but not really) by setting a default zoom level for everything or for specific websites, I'm mostly setting the size by guesswork, and Firefox STILL expands it when I open a picture in a separate tab (NoSquint gives the message that the zoom level is N/A for that page).

So...mozilla's own help thing has been kinda unhelpful, but I hope someone here might have a solution for this?

Thanks in advance!

Best not to save as jpegs, as that adds a lot of artefacts. If you have the original still, maybe you can post it as a png or something? Because right now, it has a LOT of artefacts that are ruining the whole thing (must not have saved it in high-quality jpeg?). If you don't have the original, then...well...I'd recommend starting over. I realise it maybe is meant to look grungy and dirty, but the artefacts certainly don't help towards that. The blurring probably didn't help either...

When you mentioned that all the commercially successful and popular games seem to be serious dramas, horrors or crime thrillers, I said hmm...she's right. But then you mentioned not wanting to do pirates, and I remembered Nelly Cootalot, and how the sequel was successfully funded. Then there was the Journey Down, which I enjoyed immensely as well. I don't think there is anything wrong with taking an old idea if you put your own unique spin on it.

Everything you're saying is the stuff I like...light-hearted, comical, exploration, a sense of adventure (rather than just as a title of the genre), etc., but I don't think a comedic adventure game should be done simply because it might be considered easier to do than a more serious game. Good comedy is pretty hard, and I've seen lots of (low-key, though) games that tried going that route, slightly missed it with the comedic tones, and fell flat on their face.

Games from recent memory that induced emotion for me were....The Walking Dead, I guess? I just played it a month or so ago, but I'm not sure that'd be the appropriate direction to go gameplay-wise.

I suppose if I had to distil the things that I enjoyed about the old classics, I would say the sense of adventure, the exploration, the feeling of being in that world, discovering new places and people, the sights, sounds, how it was filled up, and the protagonists reactions to everything. But it probably takes a lot of effort (or money) to create that feeling. I dunno.

Might be a bit offtopic, but did someone hear something about The Big Sheep? Also looks like Davy hasn't been visiting the forums for almost a year 

I get the feeling that The Big Sheep might be on hold for a while now.

I guess I did find one that was more difficult .
A more revealing screenshot, but I've taken the liberty of still hiding two things.


In exchange I can tell you it was an edutainment game, and I'm not finding much presence for it online aside from a couple of lets plays and pages on abandonware sites. Nemo already has a vague direction of the date of release from what I corrected of his guess earlier.
I can't make it any easier other than almost literally giving away the name of the game (which you'd be able to totally guess from what I've hidden ).

Nope! You're looking too far ahead with your guess.

I used make people wear the "crown" wait icon in King's Quest games

Not part of a minigame, abstauber, just that when you move the mouse over important bits of the screen, that would show up. Currently it is pointing to an area that had an object I just picked up.


Oh, and I cannot find this game on MobyGames .
Here's another screen to help you out, with a little more of the GUI showing:

I didn't really buy a lot of indie titles; I usually pick the indie ones up during a bundle for fairly cheap, so I can't pretend any moral superiority or anything, but I wonder how much of it goes towards the developers? I know in the HIB you can choose how you split it...

That sounds like it'd be pretty boring .
Cactii(?) and deserts don't really play a prominent role in this game, this was just the first screenshot I could find that didn't give away a major hint of the game immediately.

Nice little game, that.
I'm scraping the bottom of my barrel of obscurity here, hopefully this won't be too easy:


Stripped of its GUI and title.

Hahah! I posted this a while back in this thread, didn't I? That is Fish!

Cat, Eric, Oraxon.

http://babar.uoou.info/tutorial/2/imgsite/charsheet1.gif
http://babar.uoou.info/tutorial/2/imgsite/charsheet2.gif
(nabbed from a tut off elfwood)

Just linking them instead of showing, because they're huge.

Minimi! I remember you and your modelling (I think you even made a tutorial on 3D modelling at some point? I remember a staircase in a room ) and your bird game . Nice to see you again!

I wouldn't be displeased with a kickstarter from Christy Marx (Conquests), but I think she's working at Zynga now

Did you watch the pitch video? Because when I watched it, Jim Walls says it with: his voice.

Hahah...I actually got bored when they hadn't finished introducing themselves almost halfway in, and skipped to the text. I see it now!