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Ooh, so very pretty and atmospheric.

Could someone tell that little girl drawing with crayons that it is raining?

I think she's using chalk... which is even dumber when I think about it.

Congratulations Tycho Magnetic Anomaly, Tabata, and Rocchinator.

That either refers to Ron Gilbert, or Dave Gilbert, or it's a trick. Nevertheless: A Golden Wake?

Step 1 for making great adventure games: Make sure your last name is Gilbert.

Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria?

Anchorman?

Mr Magoo?

Nice results!

What I really like about cat's icon bar is the colorwise separation of verb buttons and game control buttons. Maybe that could be incorporated in CeasarCub's #4, e.g by using the color scheme of #5's load game button for the four buttons on the right side. This color scheme is also a bit more toned done compared to the orange/red on blue, which underlines the fact that saving and quitting the game is not an important action, but playing it is what's important!

Ooh, I like that idea.
Also, on another thread, I've seen CeasarCub come up with a few more palettes, so there's plenty of opportunity to do this. 

The Dukes of Hazzard?

Rocky? 

I like #2, #5, and #6.
Although it seems to me as though most people aren't too fond of the suitcase, and for pretty good reasons. So maybe it might be best not to choose the suitcase.

I also rather like the "!?" in the speech bubble. It really spices it up.
I'm not so sure about the desaturated blue though. Hmm... maybe it just needs to grow on me. 

With the load and save icons, I went for a folder on my second version, because people now a days have no idea what a floppy disk is. This is the same reason I reworked the C:\> into a power button.

While not everyone knows what a floppy disk is anymore, you can't argue that it's become the universal symbol for saving. I feel as though folder's are a bit more abstract in that regard.

Thanks everyone who wished me a happy birthday.

Also, happy belated birthday Aprilskies, and happy birthday Wyz. 

Congratulations to the winners. And an even bigger congrats to Scavenger for winning. 

perhaps another jam could be the offspring of this match made in heaven hehe

Heh, who knows how many kids they'll have and just how different they'll look...
It could make for quite an interesting contest.

I could've sworn there used to be something like this years ago. 

Hmm... either way, I'm in full agreement. I want to something like this as well. 

Also feel free to further discuss combining various entries from the gIconbar contest and preferably post a picture of what you mean already

Alright then, I'll post a picture of what I meant. Here's a quick mockup of combining all the parts I liked of the winning entries: [imgzoom]http://orig03.deviantart.net/66e6/f/2017/144/2/f/example_of_menu_by_danvzare-dba9mrt.png[/imgzoom]

Personally I think it could be improved a bit, the hand could be simplified, and the save and load icons could be given a bit more detail. But you get the idea.
I mostly prefer CaesarCub's entry, but there's a few things here and there from selmiak's and cat's entries that I think would really spice things up.
I really want to know what combinations other people have in their heads. Who knows, maybe I chose a particular icon that no one likes.

Trying to write in a silly moments in the game is kinda hard since it's a serious game. But the thing is,the protagonist is a "silly character."

So you've got a silly character in a serious game? Why not use dry humour then, with the character doing absolutely bizarre and insane things, and all of the other characters treating it like it's a perfectly normal everyday occurrence.

That second version is so perfect to my eye that now I want to play that game!

Also, the objects in the room now look like that are actually solidly resting on the surfaces. For me, in the first "smoggy" version they look to me to be floating a bit, especially the box, laptop, and ashtray.

Absolutely agreed. The second version is just so much better. The first version looks like it belongs to someone with a really large bong.

I agree with selmiak. But I suppose there are ways to try and learn how to do humour better, but that takes time and isn't necessarily going to yield results. But if you want to know how, just try and write jokes. Lots of them, every day. Since the best way to learn anything, is to do it over and over again.

If you really want to put humour into your game though, I suggest bringing someone else on board. Jokes tend to come out much better when you can bounce them off someone else.

Rocky and Bullwinkle?

I'm leaving the forums that's all I moved on to another gamemaking software and I don't contribute anything to this place so I don't see any reason to hang around anymore

What are you talking about, of course you still contribute. You make so many awesome looking 3D models!
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Ah well. Goodbye. Good luck in your endeavours. Don't forget to visit!

A superhero ega game?
Uh... I have no idea. Comix Zone maybe?

Also, I had never heard of Dead Reefs until today. I guess all of my guesses were in vain.

Battleship?