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I think Michael Land's score for Monkey Island is very effective.

People really seemed to have trouble with that bit where you have to walk to the mountains.
This is what happens when you get really excited about the new animations you just implemented and tell your beta testers what to do before they have a chance to fail to work it out for themselves.

THAT IS AWESOME!

I LOVE Kimbo and Skadi.
AND NOW I LOVE YOU!!!

COME HERE!!!!!

This is boring crap!
Go write essays about it!
Leave us aloooooooooooooooooooone!!

How d'ya like my social desirability nooooow!!

I'd totally forgotten the title screen of Ben Jordan 1 was just a photo of Grundy with a dollop of pasta-sauce slapped on his head...

You know... cynicism doesn't automatically equal wisdom. A lot of the time it's a just a safe place the emotionally cowardly crawl into to avoid disappointment.
Usually I'd count myself among those numbers but right now I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I think Obama being elected is a positive thing and will have a positive effect on the world.

I'm probably not going to watch the ceremony, though. You know it's going to be as corny as hell... and I don't care about Leona Lewis...

It's a little bit too hard.
Even Douglas Adams had trouble writing anything in Douglas Adam's style.

Well that was epic.
But for photo-shopping entries I think I must maintain that Trent's original was, in fact, the best: for believability, insightfulness and masterful use of blurry jpeg artifacts to HEIGHTEN THE TENSION!!

Congratulations, Trent R. You win a picture of Joseph Goebbels dutifully pie-ing himself in the face after realising that he has been bested:

It's gorgeous.
Goooorrrrgggggeeeeoooouuuussss.

That man's a regular in mine Krazy and Bluke4x4's MSN rotoscoping sessions, his legs are hella inspiring.

No more smear campaigns?
No more backstabbing?

I'm proud of you all. You have until midnight to sicken me.

That place is awesome. You need to start hiring it out, your business is on the wrong side of the building!

That was a good one, except I'd never heard the phrase 'cloak and dagger' before when I played it.

This question's trickier than the terrible puzzles discussion, part of a puzzles quality is when it seamlessly integrates into a well-balanced design and you don't really notice it's there. I really enjoyed getting the photograph of Domino in Grim Fandango but thinking back it doesn't really make much sense... I guess I'll go for any of the stuff involving Time Travel in DOTT. I'm a sucker for time travel nonsense.

And, I have to say, Telltale's Sam & Max games have some brilliantly inventive puzzles. Like the stuff with the clove cigarettes in Night of the Raving Dead: hilarious, ingenius and it just feels so RIGHT.

Decent audio compression hadn't evolved yet...

My game can be downloaded from box.net now: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=download&game=1120

I don't THINK they delete files if no-one downloads them in a while.

So far when I'm gleaning from this is that you REALLY WANTED to tell someone how often you masturbated and simply COULDN'T CONTAIN YOURSELF!

Nothing too wrong with that, but next time if you could phrase it in the style of a broadway showtune it might make the information less boring for the people who have to hear it.

I'll be totally honest with you, I don't really want to know.

Sorry about the delay, it didn't occur to me I might have won.

What is a Photoshop Phursday?

Photoshopping isn't drawing a completely new image -- It's editing images to create a new image, such as editing one image or combining several images. The contest usually lasts for a fortnight. Also, you don't have to specifically use Photoshop -- Paint Shop Pro, MSPaint, or any other programs can be used. Please make sure your image doesn't exceed the width of the screen.

Since awards season is coming up, this thread can act as a companion piece to 'for your consideration':

Your mission is to run a smear campaign against a rival AGS game from this year or it's creator, be as brutal as possible. Even if you didn't make a game this year, just act out of the instinctive hatred that boils within us all.

Winner is whoever manages to lose their chosen game the most votes, bonus points for turning the public so against a forum member that they are forced to go into hiding.
Or... I could choose one in seven days based on what makes me laugh the most. We'll see how it works out.

For Inspiration

"You shouldn't nick caves, you bad seed!"

"Last time I saw nicotine move this fast was... when... some guy ran a marathon... and... and he was called Nick O'Teen and...It was working my head!"

"You look like an oven mitt."

Can you imagine a world without these CLASSIC one-liners? Would you even WANT to imagine such a lonely and desolate place even if it was MENTALLY POSSIBLE TO PUSH YOUR BRAIN TO THOSE DARK, DARK RECESSES?!!

For your consideration for best non-player character:
Ray from Magical Whatever Girl Rocks Out In The Stone Age

Thank you.

Just had a thought, rather than push the AGS-RON connection why not spread the word to some of the other game creation communities?

A lot of other engines that in their infancy have promise but the respective communities can't really seem to get to grips with what they're doing; they need a reality-on-the-norm. And seeing as how the original RON needs games it may as well be OUR Reality-on-the-norm.