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I was sitting on my stool while eating my orange,
When someone came in and squeaked the door hinge.

I dropped my orange and it went splat,
Causing the juice to squirt all over my lap.

Now I'm wet, and this rhyme sounds vulgar,
I better stop, before I'm actually over.

Next word: Custard

For something that I made in a really short amount of time, I've really impressed myself here.
I tried to make it so if I wanted to, I could just slot him straight into a game. It would be easy to animate him, and he's in the same artstyle and size as my other sprites. Overall, I could definitely use this cute little guy.

[imgzoom]http://orig06.deviantart.net/ce5b/f/2016/059/b/8/mutant_one_eyed_floating_fungus_head_with_tendrils_by_danvzare-d9tfk2t.png[/imgzoom]
His story:
Having been created by a mad scientist under the influence of a purple meteor, Bob Babble finds himself somewhere in the Caribbean, where he finds out that the telephone company is controlled by aliens! He then sets out on a quest to find a missing Sasquatch, but instead finds a cursed carnival. His adventure ends when he has to return to his creator's mansion and become a salesman in the afterlife.

1. Mandle      (I just love how perfectly it fits the shape, and the patterns on it)
2. AnasAbdin   (I like the shading on this, and the way the whole picture comes together)
3. Arj0n      (There were only two choices left, and I preferred this one because it was closer to the theme)

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That was on my watchlist for ages but I never got round to it because I doubted it was worth watching. Is it any good?

I've watched it (on TV), it's a pretty decent film.

...

Is it "Into the Woods"?

Of course this is just a wild guess, since I've yet to watch that film.

What? Seriously? I was right?
Wow! I only knew about that game, because last year I was trying to look for a particular game that was very similar to Solomon's Key (I never did find what I was looking for).

Ok, let's see if anyone can guess this one:
[imgzoom]http://orig03.deviantart.net/7568/f/2016/057/5/d/you_will_never_guess_by_danvzare-d9t5lqn.png[/imgzoom]


EDIT: Should I choose a different game? No one has even so much as taken a guess at this game.

Troddlers?

Easy, all you have to do is give him a flipper. Seals have flippers.
He shouldn't have feet, he should have a tail.
If you do that, he should look perfect.

Freelancer?

You are allowed to do common script commands in dialog scripts, if you indent them by a space.

Oh, thanks for that. You learn something new everyday.

Hmm, I can't fathom what the problem is, because having no dialog options certainly works for me.

The test code I'm using is as follows:

Code: ags

// Dialog script file
@S  // Dialog startup entry point
ego: "I am very happy today because it's my birthday."
cChar1: "No you're not!"
ego: "Yes I am!"
stop

and in the talk interaction of a character I made:

Code: ags

dDialog0.Start();

It works without a problem. So unless your code doesn't conform to that standard in some way, it should work.
Unless... you haven't got multiple starts and stops do you? Like this:

Code: ags

// Dialog script file
@S  // Dialog startup entry point
ego: "I am very happy today because it's my birthday."
stop

@S  // Dialog startup entry point
ego: "I'm very sad today because it's not my birthday."
stop

@S  // Dialog startup entry point
ego: "I'm dead."
stop

Because AGS doesn't work like that. You can only have one start and one stop in each dialog script. Otherwise the program won't know where to begin.

If you post the code for one of these non-working dialog scripts of yours, I should be able to point out the problem much quicker.
Although right now, I'm starting to think that maybe you've been using functions to move the characters around and do things, inside the dialog scripts. Which if you have, well... there's your problem.

Wow, there's some great entries in here now!

Mandle, yours fits the shape perfectly. Really well done.

And AnasAbdin, I love your use of the EGA palette. Yours was also instantly recognizable as being related to Space Quest (it was mostly the purple ground that gave it away).
Great story too. I love multiple solutions in classic adventure games. Although they're kinda rare.

This game looks awesome but when I downloaded the .rar from the link provided my Windows Defender software said the archive had a Trojan virus:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/threat/encyclopedia/entry.aspx?name=Trojan%3aWin32%2fSpursint.Ahreatid=2147705703&enterprise=0

Maybe you should check your system, Gurok :/

It's probably a false positive.
You'd be surprised at how unreliable antivirus software can be. Still, I'd always recommend having one installed.

By the way, I've downloaded it and tested it with both AVG and Malwarebytes, and haven't gotten anything. So definitely a false positive.

It looks like you've just made a character creator for either Wolfenstein 3D or Doom.
And I like it!

I look forward to messing about with the web version.

This must have garnered massive respect from your family, or extreme worry. Either way (or both), is there a plaque on a wall somewhere in your house?

And: great contest entry!

Nope, no plaque. But I was congratulated. And seeing the ending was reward enough I think.

By the way, thanks you two for the kind words.

Redguard?

I started working on this on the 14th of February. I more or less finished it yesterday, but I made a few small quick adjustments today.
I'm not much of an artist, and this is the first time I've ever done anything like this. Overall though, I'm quite proud with how it came out.

[imgzoom]http://orig06.deviantart.net/ccb2/f/2016/052/2/b/puzzle_piece_by_danvzare-d9skrkn.png[/imgzoom]

The reason for my picture:
The hardest puzzle I've ever played so far in a game, has got to be the squeaky bed puzzle in Day of the Tentacle. This puzzle was so difficult, that it took me several years to figure it out. It took me so long to figure out, that I had solved all of the other puzzles in the game, except the ones which required the solving of that one particular puzzle. And as for those puzzles I couldn't solve, I had already figured out how to solve them, I just couldn't until I got that damn mouse from that damn cat.

It took me years just to figure out how to swap mattresses. And because of that, this is the hardest puzzle I've ever faced in an adventure game and by far the most memorable as well. I am so glad I figured it out on my own and didn't resort to using a walkthrough. Definitely one of my proudest moments.

Oh, and my entire family was stuck on that puzzle, since we were all more or less playing the game, and figuring out puzzles. But I was the one to solve that impossibly difficult puzzle (years after everyone else gave up)!

Ok, so if Wait(1) takes 1/40 of a second, the max sprites you could preload that way is 40 per second using a single object or GUI thing etc, correct?  Is there a way to redraw a sprite for only a single game frame, so you could load faster?  Or would it be better to have say 2, or 5 objects preloading sprites so you can do 2x40 or 5x40 sprites per second?

I don't know about redrawing a sprite for only a single game frame, but if you wanted to speed up the game to its absolute maximum, you'd use SetGameSpeed(1000).