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Long time, no update, ladies and gentlemen!

I recently read a post by Garage Gothic that got me rethinking how my story is going to be set up.  The puzzles and obstacles I was using were not really fitting in with the story.  So it's back to the drawing board- er... writing desk.  I'm going to try for what GG called "optional depth," where instead of having the goal "solve all puzzles!" you have the goal of "find all story lines."  It's sort of like in The Colonel's Bequest- you didn't need to find out who else was using the secret passages or where the treasure was hidden to complete the game.  It just made it more fun.  This unfortunatly means that my lovely little status bar has gone down.

Rincewind: I'm going to try for the GK1 dialog interface.  I found a very nice tutorial, but I'm very bad at scripting.  And that Larry Vales remark deserves a big fat  .

Wow, GG.  This is going to sound kind of weird, but you have just managed to put into words the problems I've been having with Bard's Blood.  I'd gotten totally sick of writing stupid puzzles "Oh no! My computer connection is down! I must find another computer!" and so forth.  I was almost at the point of throwing everything out and starting again.  Goofy little "where are my keys?" puzzles didn't fit in with the serious story I was trying to tell.  But the idea of Optional Depth... hmm.. I'm going to work on this a bit.

I can't wait for Shadowplay to come out.

So you want to be a Pornstar? In this Trial by Fire, were there Wages of War on your Shadows of Darkness with his Dragon Fire?

Did he Quest for your Crown? Did you Romance his Throne? If he heired, it was only human. Was your Rosella in Peril?  

Did he Pursue your Death Angel? If your family found out, The Kindred would have Vengance in an Open Season. They'd probably SWAT him. (Just trying to get all the Police Quests in there.)

Did his Zombie Killer get your Granny? (Oh well, it's better than Panda's! [j/k Senor Panda  ])

Did he/you (insert leisure suit larry subtitle here)?

Exile isn't an AGS game though, so this IS the right spot. Exile = Myst III

That really sucks, Rode.  Please don't feel bad about all cops, though.  My cousin is a cop, and he really does try to help people.

However, just to prove that robbers are morons... it's story time with Auntie Dragonrose.

My dad used to work at the planning and development offices for my hometown.  They recently changed offices, because the old building was quite old, and there was a lot of structural stuff that they don't use anymore.  For example, an enourmous walk in safe.  They didn't really keep anything important in there, just some archived road designs.

One day, my dad comes into work, to discover the police are there. It turns out that someone had broken a window and had broken into the offices.  They had shifted some extremely large filing cabinets that are next to the door to the safe out of the way. Then they dug a hole through the wall into that safe.  It must have taken them quite some time, because the wall was really thick.  Now, I'm sure they were quite disappointed to discover nothing but road plans.  They left without taking so much as a piece of paper, and completely ignored the state-of-the-art, brand new computer systems that had been recently given to all the executives, as well as the smaller safe that they have for when people pay for building permits parking tickets.

So poor robbers got away with nothing but some heavy excercise.  But what makes their time of labour, pouding away at the wall even more rediculous is this: the safe is never, ever locked.

Actually, there was a study done recently, as reported in the Toronto Star, that showed that masturbation is good for guys, because it clears out toxins or something like that.  It's similar to the way that breast feeding is good for women.  The research found that it's only masturbation, not ejaculation that does this, which is completle strange.  

I'd try and find the article, but I'm quite wary of trying to google "masturbation," no matter what else I put in the search bar.

Back on topic: I am just getting over my annual makes-me-wish-for-death cold.  Which sucks, beause my voice is messed up from a stuffy nose and coughing too much, and this is the time of year when there's auditions for plays at school. BOOOO!

Feel better, Squinks!

Nah, Arnie can't be president.  He's too easy to understand.

I never noticed before how much Howard Carter looks like Hitler.

Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

Those are nice, LGM.  I like the one of the dog.

I, too have photos!  I took these during Welcome Week at my university. So far I only have pictures from the Bif Naked and Kazzer concert uploaded.

Pretty!

I've got the same sort of problem.  I've got a deliciously fast connection at Uni, and there's a P2P system set up just for the campus.  My harddrive is now stuffed with fantasy movies, Bif Naked and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes songs.  I love their punk cover of Phantom of the Opera.

Out of curiosity, what does colisse mean?

A moon

King's Quest VII has a moon in it.  Yes, it is cheese, but if you look at it it's called the moon.

Trapezoid said:

a shrunken head

Monkey Island there was the navigator's shrunken head.

Congrats, Dave!

Second place is cool.

General yay to everything.

I heard about this on the radio yesterday. The DJ said the  concert is going to be in Florida, though there was a quickly passed law once the government found out about it, stating that it is illeagal to stage a suicide for publicity.  The person who will be commiting suicide is terminally ill.  It's supposed to raise awareness about assisted suicide/right to die issues.

Unfortunatly, I can't seem to find the name of the band.  I wonder what the Canadian connection is?

Esseb: I was sort of joking, sort of really wanting to know.

Remixor: I have NO idea what you mean.

Gemmalah: I recently remember reading that there are at least 2000 jedi knights in Canada, according to a recent census. So you're in good company!

Minimi- when does the voting close? Just asking cause it's almost the end of the month.

Current standings are ('cause Minimi hasn't updated the website in over a week):

Dave Gilbert: 15
Dragonrose: 13
Alkaline: 7
Blue4x4: 7
Eggie: 5
tiki_dude:4
SSH: 3
Vel: 0
Isegrim:0

Edit: Apparently I can't count.  Sorry, Dave, you have 15, not 16 like I put in before.  Congrats, Blue4x4, you have 7, not 4.  I think that's it.

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Just so you all know, yes, I am being silly.  I think it's pretty cool. But aren't they supposed to ask before they publish other peoples games like that?  Just from his Chrilleness' post, it seems like he didn't know about it.

i hope the tubby bastard makes it in.  that would make me all warm and fuzzy to know that something so embarrasing could turn into something so kick-ass.

I don't understand.  Which one is embarassing- the Star Wars Kid or the new Star Wars Trilogy?

NOTE: I am not actually answering this question because I haven't played DOTT.

* Dragonrose ducks flying vegetables.

Anyway, I think this is a really good topic.  I wonder why it got shot down?  It can really open up some good conversation, and get a lot of questions answered.

Oh dear...

Three things:

1)Mr. Jack said he made up the word "apprechiated," not Mappomedia (which is a silly name for an game company, unless you're making games about geography)

2)DG was joking.  But NOW he has a website for Mappomedia, so Mr. Jack better watch his behind.

3)Mr. Jack: you make secret games, yet you make popular adventure games and counter strike mods? Aren't you just the magical man!

#1: Dave Gilbert
#2: tiki_dude
#3: Eggie