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pull out the plug

My son said it was either Nightmare before Christmas or BeetleJuice

Your son was right, it's BeetleJuice.
Give him a cookie!

Your turn.

Is it a similar performance, though, an cartoonishly evil villain with a weird voice? Like Jones in HTD or Vincent D'Onofrio in Men In Black?

Yes, definitely.

WAIT is it Howard The Duck? Jeffrey Jones growls it out when he's possessed, right?

No it's not Howard the Duck.
(Although what should we do if two films just so happen to have the same quote? )

Does anyone want me to post another quote?

Cassiebsg is correct with today's adventure games and designers. But what I don't understand is this...today we have easy to find walkthroughs, more hints, hit space bar to show all interactive objects and hotspots. So I'm not sure why designers take the easy route now. Designers should not be in fear of people not finishing their games anymore.

That's something that confuses me as well. Designers complain that if they made a puzzle too hard, then people will just look up a walkthrough online.
That just makes me think that there's no reason to make them easy then. Minimizing the game to look at a walkthrough online, doesn't exactly take you out of the experience. At least not in my opinion, I'll understand if it does for others.
That being said, I don't understand the hardcore gamers gripe with a hint system and that "spacebar that shows all hotspots" function. If you don't want the game to be too easy by using those things, then don't use those things.
People are weird.

Now with all that being said. I prefer easy puzzles. I like getting stuck and then solving it the next day (I find that it breaks up the game nicely). But I don't like being stuck for any longer than that.
Still, it would be nice if someone made an impossibly hard game like an old KQ game.

I was thinking about this the other day. I noticed that with today's new technology, it has not made adventure games more fun for me. I prefer the old style crazy graphics, pixels, instead of the...try and look real with stiff 3D modeled characters. I love the warped graphics over the try and make everything look real games of today. I think this is due to the strange puzzles we come across. Strange puzzles seem to fit in better with the crazy pixel graphics more then the new real life ones in my opinion.

I know what you mean. Aesthetics nowadays have been almost completely thrown out of the window in favour of realism only. That's more of a problem with people always praising graphics, without knowing the definition of that word.

I prefer zany aesthetics over realistic ones. Especially for adventure games.

Oceanspirit Dennis was taken

All wrong so far.

[Go ahead, make my millennium.]

Danvzare is right It's when the Nebuchadnezzar crew are having breakfast.

You're kidding me!
I got it right!

Wow... I did NOT expect that.

Alright then, here's an easy one
Quote:
Go ahead, make my millennium.

Now that quote sounds very familiar, and for some reason reminds me of Red Dwarf.

But I'm going to take a guess and say it's The Matrix, simply because I remember a similar line in that film.
Although I think I'm wrong.

of the 1980's. Suddenly

jwalt, you could try and render the pictures with just basic color, instead of using image textures. They would probably clash less.

Hey, that's what I was trying to say.
Although I clearly did a poor job of explaining it.

WHOA!!!
That's incredibly good work there Hobo!
I'm glad you managed to finish it.

Three great entries, and only six days left.
Anyone else want to participate?
If anyone needs an extension, just ask.

Another screenshot to commemorate me technically finishing the game.

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All of the puzzles, dialog, and graphics have been implemented. I've also sorted out all of the bugs I've found.
But there's plenty of time before the deadline, so I'm going to use that time to refine my entry.
Improve the graphics, make graphics for the interface, search for more bugs, and maybe even adding voice acting.

Congratulations Mandle, Baron, and Blondbraid.
A lot of entries this month, all of which were top notch.

I like them. They clash a bit, but I think that's acceptable for a RON game.

I find the mix a bit clashing at the moment with this character example. The main thing for me is the solid blocks of colour on the character. If the character was shaded a bit more I think it might look fine to my eye.

In my opinion, I think it would work better (and be easier) if the backgrounds were made to match the character, rather than making the character match the background. Such as changing the textures on the backgrounds to make them more like solid blocks of colours, and seeing if you can put some cel-shading on it.

That being said, I think Gurok's suggestion would work the best.

Dave told him that

Holy crap, that escalated quickly.
Pretty damn awesome animation too.

The Big Lebowski?

Any insight into what constitutes parody? This game takes a very lighthearted approach to the whole Indiana Jones adventure dynamic.

Why go for a parody?
Just change the names of all of the characters and any locations that were used in Indiana Jones.
Change the way characters and locations look, just enough so they seem different (they can still look similar).
And then slap on a sticker saying "Inspired by Indiana Jones".

I can name a few games which actually did this. War for the Overworld is an obvious one that comes to mind. That literally started as a Dungeon Keeper 3 fan game.

Suddenly a gigantic blue