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Personally I cracked up when I realized what this game was about.

Hilarious.

Making a game about wife-beating does not mean the guy advocates such activities.

Lighten up people.  It's the web.  It's not G-Rated.  If you don't like the game, don't download/play it.

Congrats on finishing!

Will version 2 be a "new" game?  Or are you continuing development on this game?

If it's a new game make sure to post the announcement in the Completed Games board (and I will lock this one).  If you're still developing this game (for v2) I'll leave it open.

Cool!

Congrats on finishing!

Two [useless] facts about me:

1) Space Quest III is my all-time favorite adventure game (just above Loom and Full Throttle). 
2) I am not opposed to fan remakes. 

Having said that ... I don't think this looks all that promising.  It looks essentially the same (to me) as the original.  He mentions some plot-extensions, new characters, etc but still it looks like it's just a high res of the same screens.  To me, if you're going to do a re-make, go all out (as was done with the King's Quest remakes).

Granted, I'll still play it if/when it is released

I will never understand why people do this.

If you don't have the screenshots to post now, you should have waited until you do to make this post.

I'm not going to lock this, but if the screenshots aren't up [very] soon I will have to.

Is this made in AGS?

Well this could be one (or both) of two reasons:

1) This is the internet.  People seem inclined to put something down (or take the opposite opinion) even if they like/agree.  I haven't figured out the scientific reason for this yet, but I suspect it has something to do with human beings' deep desires for confrontation and the anonymity of the intarwebs which makes them digital tough-guys.

2) In conjunction with #1 (above) you're dealing with a subject loaded with fan-boyism.  So you're bound to get the fanatics to come out of the woodworks in an attempt to defend before they actually consider it might be satire.  They think you're making fun of their favorite thing so they jump right in to defense mode.

Shrug it off ... I thought the video was rather hilarious and if a couple of fan-boy-d-bags can't take it, just smile to yourself in the knowledge that they suck.

Sheesh ... I go away for a few days and look what happens!

Let's get back on target here and keep the off-topic stuff to PMs (if you're so inclined to maintain the discussion).

Congrats on finishing!

If this is a part of the other game, post it in that thread.

A bigger hat, brilliant idea!  Why didn't I think of that?

Oh wait...

Please post another screenshot (read the rules). Sounds like a nice idea but if you want c&c please post in the critics lounge.

I like the hunched over stance!

Make sure to make his face very wrinkled (I'm sure you intend this but just haven't added it yet)

The only thing (as it is) that I think might be the "not happy" thing might be the hat ... I think it's too small.  I'm envisioning this old-timer wearing a big old sun blocking 10 gallon hat.  This looks more like a fedora (or Australian bush-hat) type thing.  I feel it should extend much further over his brow!

I look forward to seeing this progress!

I troll internet forums.  It seems to work for others too...

Oh man that's a bummer!

Let me know if you get back to it and I'll unlock this!

I hope you pick it back up!  I liked how this was improving and where it was headed!

Awesome guys!  Thanks   It was a good day!

Just be prepared that there is a little bit of a learning curve. She may find it frustrating at first, especially since she's used to drawing and (possibly) won't be able to get as good results with a tablet straight away.

Are you left/right handed?

Because my brother and I (years back) each got the same Wacom at the same time and he expressed the same learning curve as you just said.  I took the thing and within 5 minutes it was like I'd been using it my entire life.  There was almost no transition for me.  We wondered at why he had to adjust and we boiled it down to maybe the difference between left/right handed (he's right, I'm left).

Just curious

I sense the need for some pruning soon ... let's stay on target people.

P.S. Don't play the beta up top. Not only is old but it has a hell of a lot of flaws

Then perhaps you should remove that link and put an accurate link?

The place looks great!

The dates worry me (only slightly) but I should still be able to manage this!  My two trips over-seas would be only about 1 month apart.  While this is just fine by me, I'm not sure how those that sign my paychecks will feel about it!  I will find out.

Keep me on as a [almost certain] definite though!

Sketchup for life yo!!

That does look cool though (I check some of the vids/galleries).

If only I hadn't just dropped 1200 USD on next week's cruise...

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Darth, you're missing the point...

...Also you have to understand that there is a difference between it being culturally acceptable to eat cats and stealing cats to eat them.

*if* this guy had a previous record of eating cats and had been convicted (like your rapist) then feel free to apportion suspicion in his direction. However, you can't accuse him of theft just because some of his countrymen happen to like eating cats.

I think it is not I who is missing the point.

I never accused this neighbor (or claimed he should be accused).  I contend (and stand-by) that there is enough evidence to warrant looking into his potential involvement further.  A suspicion of guilt is not an accusation. I didn't say he did it (again, again, and again I've said I doubt he did).  But you don't overlook any connection in a matter (a disappearance) like this.  No matter how circumstantial.

No one has said you should avoid suspecting someone due to race or culture but merely that you shouldn't suspect someone solely because of it.

Let's make a white example here (since that's not likely to offend anybody).  A member of the KKK lives in the neighborhood and racial slurs are spray-painted on a [non-white] person's house and the cops are called to find out who did it.  Now, by your (and other's) "logic", because that KKK member has never been convicted of a crime (and might appear to be an upstanding member of the community aside from his connection to the culture of hate that is the KKK) the cops should ignore the fact that he is a member of the KKK and not investigate his possible involvement in the case?  They shouldn't suspect him solely on his connection to the KKK?

This is so flawed I find it difficult to believe that you wrote it, Darth.  It's along the same lines as having a salmon pond and immediately turning to your japanese neighbors when one goes missing just because you 'know' the japanese love fish; without any evidence beyond a generally-believed stereotype you're walking into very dangerous and unhealthy paranoia territory.  I'm not saying it's impossible or could never be true, but suspecting the worst of another person because of a cultural predilection is just racism of the worst kind and using a word like logic to support a view or a feeling is pretty terrible.

That makes no sense.  I honestly don't know how to reply to that.  So we should pass a new law/policy to all police, detectives, investigators and people in general that if you feel a crime has been committed you should ignore ALL possible connections and only investigate people of the same race/culture as you?  Let a criminal get away with something just to avoid offending cultural sensitivities?

"Well the neighbor is a suspect but we don't have any [insert culture] people on the force so we can't look into him!"

And you think I can't apply the word logic to my statements?

Granted, if there is significant EVIDENCE (coming from a country where something is done is NOT evidence, or at best is purely circumstantial) that a neighbor is a thief or you have seen them in your yard around your pets or goods then you have reasonable cause to be suspicious, but going back to the cat eating issue it's just such a wild claim that, short of catching him in the act of trespassing or professing a desire to eat cats or an admission that he has done so recently, you've got no grounds for suspicion beyond xenophobia.

So your contention is that if a crime has been committed (or even just suspected) ALL cases should just be dropped if you don't have significant evidence?  A crime should never be investigated on circumstantial evidence?  That's so flawed I find it difficult to believe you wrote it.

A cat has gone missing, a person in the neighborhood has a connection to a culture that eats cats.  While it is FAR more likely the cat simply wandered off the potential for foul-play still exists. This isn't rocket science.  The guy may find the notion of eating cats deplorable and might even be a cat-lover ... but you wouldn't know that unless you looked into him to discover that and then rule him out as a suspect.

But to ignore him as a potential suspect because of words like racism, xenophobia, dangerous territory, etc is just plain illogical.

To jump to the conclusion that I'm accusing him (even though I never accused him) is illogical.

To jump to the conclusion that I'm racially profiling the guy (or succumbing to any form of racism) is silly.  Maybe you're assuming I'm racially profiling 'cause I'm white?   Maybe it's not me who is racially profiling here....

I can tell this is one of those issue that is just going to go back and forth.  What I (and all the people I've discussed this with outside the forms (not all white, just to clarify)) see as "logic" others (here) see as racism and other such popular buzz-words.  I'm not going to clog up this thread anymore.