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Thanks everybody!  It was a good birthday.  Tarah (gf) actually baked me a cake!!

Please update the first post to follow the rules (2 in-game screen shots).

My main problem with it is that it lacks any sense of depth to it!  Also you should try to avoid the smudged/blurred edges along the ridge line (especially when other parts just a few pixels away are jaggies).

I did this in about 15 minutes so forgive the sloppiness of it:


- added some "levels" to it to make it have more sense of depth
- added some noise to make it more sand like

Use google's image search for "dessert" or "dunes" and load up on some reference material!  It can only help!

An interesting idea... however, we still need TWO in-game screen shots (one more).

Also, keep the criticism out of this thread.  If you want that, post it in the Critics Lounge.

Please update the first post to include the [now broken] images!

I have lots of patience.  When you read the rules, and can follow them, PM me and we can unlock this.

I think we might have a new forum record here!!

A thread that's been dead for nearly SIX YEARS being necroposted to?

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When I was a teenager (many moons ago) I used to get regular instances of sleep paralysis.  Now this was back in the stone age (before the internet) so I didn't have the resources to investigate what this might be that was happening to me.  I was very stressed out trying to come to grips with what was happening.  It was an odd time.  Anyway...

The three most horrifying examples were (that were repetitive examples and happened on several occasions):

1) I awake, but can't move, and am facing the window (which is open, though I am certain I had closed it before going to bed).  All of a sudden three HUGE dragonflies come into through the open window into my room.  The are bigger than eagles, have massive eyes and even bigger teeth.  They are quite terrifying to behold.  They hover over my bed and I can feel the wind from their wings tussling the sheets and my hair.  They drool on me and I can feel the hot snot like stuff land on my face but there's nothing I can do... I'm totally frozen and cannot move a muscle.  They hover there for a bit while my heart muscle gets a work-out and they they leave the same way they came in (sometimes they would just vanish).  Then I can move again and I wipe at my face but, of course, there's no snot-like dragonfly drool to be found!

2) I awake, but can't move, and am facing the door of my bedroom (which is open, though I am certain I had closed it before going to bed).  This three-legged cat comes in (well it has four legs but the front/left is gimpy and she doesn't use it to walk).  She (I say she because this is a cat we had had at one point (with the gimpy leg - we called her Garbage kitty 'cause my brother had found her in a dumpster)) comes over to the bed and stares up at me and then starts hissing and growling ... then she leaps up on the edge of the bad and just starts biting and slashing at my face.  I can feel the huge gouges being torn into my flesh.  I can't do anything ... I can't even scream I have NO control of my body at all and am powerless!  After a bit of mauling my face she jumps down and leaves or, as with the dragonflies, she simply vanishes as I regain control of my faculties.  Again I feel my face (even go to the bathroom mirror to make sure) to see how bad the scratches are but there's nothing there and the 'perceived' pain ebbs.

And this last one I had, at least, once a week for a long time and was, by far, the one that creeped me out the most!

3) I awake, but can't move, and am on my back.  I suddenly become aware that I'm not alone in the room.  I feel a small pressure on my chest.  I am able to move my eyes slightly and as far "down" as I can look I can see this little man standing on my chest.  He's only about 6-7 inches tall and is wearing a white garb of some kind (I can get only the vaguest hint of what he's wearing).  The only part of him I can see with any kind of clarity is his head ... he has no hair and his skin is very slightly tinted red.  He's got his chin down slightly and is just staring at me with this horrifyingly evil expression like "I'm about to kill you ... and there's nothing you can do about it".  He never says anything, never moves, just stands there staring at me.  Unlike the cat/dragonflies he never leaves on his own... he simply vanishes as I regain control of my body.

In all these cases (after the first time), while they were happening, on some level I knew I had experienced this before but it was almost like I couldn't hold on to that... it was real, it was happening now for the first time (especially #3) and I would react the same startled way (checking for injuries) afterwards.  I have never been one to subscribe to "possession" or anything of that sort but I just couldn't find a logical explanation for why this was happening to me.  It stopped around the time I turned 17 (well I have had a few cases in the years since then, but nothing regular).  It wasn't until years later when I learned of phenomenon called sleep paralysis and sort of put all the pieces of that old puzzle together!

I still don't know why I was having these episodes of sleep paralysis, but I'm satisfied now that that is what it was and not some demon possession or anything supernatural.

Very impressive!

Can we [pretty please] have parallax background (and foreground) scrolling too?! Like 8 Levels of it??

Can you put up a dev-blog for this somewhere?  I'd actually really like to keep an eye on this!

Do I need to mention again that this is NOT the critics lounge people?  Really?  It's not a difficult concept...

Okay, this is getting a little off-track in here.

This is not the critics lounge so let's refrain from critiquing the art-work like a Critics Lounge thread!

Karens - as there seems to be some mixed feelings about Rosella; if you want to get some general advice please post the request in the CL (personally I like how she looks)!

This is NOT the CL!!  If you want advice on graphics (or music, etc) please post in the Critics Lounge.

Also, you aren't selling this game ... I'd really stop worrying about copyright stuff and just make it how you want.  Just be clear (and give credit) to the stuff you're borrowing.  If you keep emailing the companies to ask permission to use their stuff the only thing you're likely to get in reply is slapped with a cease and desist.  If you just do it the way you want (and make no money off it) it's highly unlikely any of the companies you borrow from would ever even know.

You need two in-game screenshots.  The first appears to be a menu/title screen (which doesn't count).  Please update your first post with another in-game shot!

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I like the look/sound of this!  Good luck finishing it!

My opinion; don't bother wasting time trying to prevent them from cheating!  If they want to cheat and ruin their experience just let 'em. 

Trying to stop people cheating is as futile as trying to stop piracy  

Cheater's'goan cheat.

BTW - love the new screen!

Lookin' good!  I like the simple, but interesting, story line!

zhu293hana is real.
I chat with her yesterday and she asked me to paypal her money in order to unlock some bank account in Nigeria. Then we'll get married.

That two-timing BITCH!!!  She told me I was the man of her dreams!!  I wish there was a way to take back a paypal transfer...

Well do I know situations such as these.

I had a neighbor of my parent's that couldn't get his printer to print.  He confessed to me that he had attempted to force some paper into the ejection area (where the printed paper comes out I mean) in the hopes that "maybe I could get it to spit out what I tried to print".  As if some evil creature was hiding in there keeping the paper from ejecting!!

I asked him if he had the software that came with the printer; yes.  I asked if he ever installed it; no.  I installed it.  It printed.  I told him that installing the software killed the evil paper-stealing creature inside (I didn't).  He gave me fifty dollars for my trouble.  I considered it doofus tax.

I got it on Bluesnews.com (albeit a small mention, but it IS there!)

www.bluesnews.com

One of my favorite aspects of the human brain is its ability to "fill in the blanks".  This is extremely helpful (evolutionary wise) as it is mechanism that can help with creativity, logic, reasoning and deduction.  Ungar has big hole in head shaped like mammoth horn ... fill in the blanks, he was killed by a mammoth; don't stand too close to mammoths.  And throughout history this ability has led to countless innovations in science and technology (and even just survival) where filling the blanks leads to intuitive leaps that wouldn't be made if this ability wasn't there.

But, like most things, it does have a dark side!  It can lead to misinterpretations (ghost stories) and even false memories.  I am 100% fully willing to admit that my remembered dream of the plane crash might have been slightly different than I expressed but when I saw the news story about Alaska Air's crash my mind "filled in the blanks" and my memory of the dream was "updated" to match the details of the real event.  The worst part about it is that I will never know because, now, the memory of the dream is as I expressed it; matching the details of the real event almost perfectly.

Again... I'm naturally skeptical and tend to agree with the hard-line skeptics out there (I'm lookin' at you Leafshade!!)  But I still accept that there are things that cannot be attributed to scientific or rational explanation!

Sometimes I happen to think of something really random, and then it occurs.

I do this quite regularly.

Last week I randomly had this thought about this actress I had a major crush on back in the 90s named Shevonne Durkin.  I looked her up on IMDB to see if she'd done much since (she hasn't).  My friend Kevin and I used to drool over her back in the day.  Then, yesterday, he sends me an email out the blue in remembrance of her.

A few years back my brother and I were reminiscing about the past and girls we'd ... well ... known.  We mentioned this one woman and were trying to remember her name.  We finally came up with it.  It had been over 15 years since we'd even thought of her.  Two days later she friend requested me on facebook.

My dad and I were working on my bathroom renovation a few months ago.  We started talking about this boat show we'd gone to in Orlando about 12 years ago and mentioned a guy we'd ran into that we knew and how he was the father of this girl I'd gone to highshool with.  The next day she friend requested me on facebook.

Just a few examples.  Again, all could be wild coincidence in a rapidly shrinking world but with defying odds like this I really should start thinking of the lottery numbers...