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We have a winner! Good job! Looks like I really suck at giving good hints, though, either they're too simple or too hard!

[HINT: The way the code letters break up into the solution characters is: AABC, AC and ACC. Again, have you ever seen letter couplings similar to these before? In... history?]

You're not on the right track, I'm afraid, Baron. Oh and, not sure if I understand you right, but I didn't say Alan v. Drake was close, I said someone was close! (the smart puzzle solver now knows it wasn't him, haha)

Okay, it's been a long enough time I guess, so here's the next hint! This one is REALLY telling, I think, and this time I really expect the code to be solved very soon! Let's see...

HINT: The way the code letters break up into the solution characters is: AABC, AC and ACC. Again, have you ever seen letter couplings similar to these before? In... history?

If you like AGS so much, why don't you just work with it a bit more and make your platformer with it? AGS is perfectly capable of that!

It doesn't affect my local FPS, that's true, but it still means I can't aim properly etc.

But I did hear they improved the performance somewhat on release, as you said, so I should give it another try!

You should mention this is a free to play game, haha! I also played the beta but I couldn't handle the network lag me and my friends were getting. If you're in a vehicle it's better, because you generally don't need quick reaction times but playing with as infantry with like 10 fps (not due to CPU/GPU speed but server lag) was never very fun to me!

Do you have any lag problems (especially during fights)?

I will make sure to read your story, too! When I get half an hour of time, I promise!

There is actually one very important piece of information that was entirely new in the hint I gave today, if you look close enough!
Plus, it really does point you in the right direction very much!

But okay, one last tip for today: take another look at what people have guessed so far (regarding this code); even though the correct answer wasn't given yet, exactly one person was, while not using the right 'method', still giving an answer that was in exactly the right ballpark!

Haha, nah, it's real characters, no colors or anything mean like that!

And I also didn't manage to encode two characters with three, would be very interesting tho!

[There are 9 characters in my code but they translate to 6! It's neither one 'code character' per 'solution character' nor is it two! How can this be? Have you ever seen this happen before somewhere maybe?]

"square" or "matrix" or "sudoku" ?

In case those aren't just random 6-letter words, I'd be very interested in how you got them from my code!

Okay, so the hint:

There are 9 characters in my code but they translate to 6! It's neither one 'code character' per 'solution character' nor is it two! How can this be? Have you ever seen this happen before somewhere maybe?

I'm pretty sure this makes it kinda easy, in case I'm still underestimating the difficulty of deciphering my code, I will post another hint tomorrow!

[the solution consists of 6 characters]

Nope, it's none of the above! Since it appears to be too hard to figure out without this information, the solution consists of 6 characters!

That hint in a good 12 hours is still going to be posted btw!

AABCACACC

Is it like one of those letter substitution things?  Like A=E, C=S, etc..?

In some form or the other, yes, otherwise it wouldn't be much of a code!

Haha, you'd think there'd be a D in there somewhere, no?

Nah, that wouldn't really be a 'code' I don't think. More like a cryptic abbreviation.

I will be releasing a first hint in ~20 hours assuming nobody gets it until then of course.

Haha, well, it's neither AGS nor DKH but it sure is fun seeing you guys try!

Nope, although I would like to know if there's any method you found to convert AABCACACC to AGS

If nobody has it by tomorrow I'll start dropping hints!

AABCACACC stands for a string of characters, like a word, a phrase, a sentence etc., as you say, it holds meaning, too. It's not nonsense or a sequence continuation or anything like that!

EDIT: I should also mention it IS a 'real' usable code. So the people that know how to decode it (which is extremely easy and quick, no calculations or anything necessary, BTW) will be getting the same exact thing you encoded with it! It's not the first letters to a sentence or anything random like that.

Nope, the first guess I don't suppose was meant seriously, the second one is a neat idea but it's neither chords nor a tone sequence!

Another riddle (dunno if this actually is a riddle):

AABCACACC

I made this code up and I have no idea whether it's incredibly easy, super hard or somewhere in-between to break, so let's see! Can anybody tell me what that means.

EDIT: It's just the 9 characters above, the text before and after has nothing to do with it.

I'm not a big fan about how unspecific their presentation is. "We really think it's the right time to make another Dizzy adventure [no reason given as to why], and it's going to be TEH BEST AND BIGGEST EVER [no explanation HOW they are going to achieve this, not to mention this particular phrase is THE first deadly sin of game design], we have more money now, so we can do more stuff [gee, that always works, right? George Lucas anyone? I would like to know WHAT they will do differently]", and then they go on to mention a couple of trivial buzzword features... Casual-friendly? Multi-touch support? Classic gameplay? A hint system? Yaaaawn, how exciting.

From their current kickstarter page, I can't help but feel they're simply porting the old games to iOS and PC with an upgrade to the sprites. I, for one, can't get too excited about that. There are plenty of modern clones available already for both systems. This one has a big name, and that's it from the looks it.

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You put dsSourceGraphic.Height but sSourceGraphic.Width, so maybe it's referencing a different, much larger sprite? That's off the top of my head, just looking at the code for a sec as I'm strapped for time, but maybe that's it!

I saw this fairly bad horror-ish movie a couple months ago that was kinda like this. Basically a family gets into financial trouble, some weird old man shows up at their door, gives them a large red button that, if they press it, will kill some random person somewhere out there. It could be a kid or a dieing old person, but he assures them it would be someone they themselves do NOT know. If they press the button, the man promises them a large sum of money. Of course the family ends up pushing the button. It was an intriguing, psychological set up but they then went all kinds of supernatural and it ended up being a really dumb and senseless conclusion that couldn't keep up with the set up. I can't remember the name of the movie.

I myself would certainly not have anybody killed in the hope that the other people out there, that might end up killing me, would be as humane.

EDIT: The movie was The Box (2009), starring Cameron Diaz: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362478/

Sweet, PM sent! Thanks!

[composing music for orchestras]

Do we have people here at least somewhat experienced in/familiar with composing music for orchestras? If so, let me know please, I have a couple of questions!