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Kids today should know how lucky they are - I remember spending about $100 of my savings on Codename: Iceman back in 1989. I wonder if the investment made me appreciate the game more than most people, but damn I got my money's worth of joy and frustration. I spent weeks navigating that fucking submarine between icebergs, avoiding depth charges and playing sadistic dice games.

Today? $20 seems like a fair price for most indie games.

I'd have to say Eternally Us, with Downfall as a close runner up. And, I'm really not joking, but The Orange Man really struck a chord with me for some reason.

Pro Motion isn't free, but as far as I can tell one of the best dedicated programs for Deluxe Paint style pixel animation. I think it would be hard to beat, but a I'd be happy to see a free alternative and perhaps it can provide inspiration. Good luck with the project.

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 90%

Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 40%

So, yeah

Well, it's pretty obviously biased. Their assertion that "some right-wingers" claim it has a leftish biased and "some left-wingers" claim it's biased the other way--and that implicitly, this means it must be balanced--strikes me as a pretty dishonest way of obscuring that issue.

You're missing the point. They never claimed it was "balanced" because both right- and left-wingers have found it biased, it's not about being "equally" slanted in either direction. Their point was simply that yes, the statements are written as response triggers and people from both ends of the spectrum were pointing this out to them.

There, fixed it for you:

Well, I guess I'll be hanged with Bicilotti and RickJ.....

Viva La Revolución! 

Check out Toon Boom and Anime Studio (less expensive). Don't know of any free alternatives, I'm afraid.

Good to hear. Be careful to feel once in a while that it doesn't get warm around the repaired spot.

Tinfoil and ducttape?

Actually that would probably work, though I'm not sure tinfoil is conductive enough not to create heat that could potentially burn the tape. I'd say buy a new charger, short-circuiting your power supply while it's plugged to the laptop just isn't worth it.

No money for new charger.

Borrow it from someone, it's only 20-30 euro.

Or if we are to belive them, I vote for renaming this the "feelings and or prejudices in AGS" thread

Aren't "feelings and prejudices" more or less what it comes down to every time voting season comes around?

[Some of the questions are slanted]

Neither of you guys read the Political Compass FAQ, did you?

Some of the questions are slanted

Most of them are slanted ! Some right-wingers accuse us of a leftward slant. Some left-wingers accuse us of a rightward slant. But it's important to realise that this isn't a survey, and these aren't questions. They're propositions - an altogether different proposition. To question the logic of individual ones that irritate you is to miss the point. Some propositions are extreme, and some are more moderate. That's how we can show you whether you lean towards extremism or moderation on the Compass.

Some of the propositions are intentionally vague. Their purpose is to trigger buzzwords in the mind of the user, measuring feelings and prejudices rather than detailed opinions on policy.

I thought the "naturally gay" question was also dishonest.   Presumably the test would score one less libertarian for thinking that it often a learned behavior and answering accordingly.    The test unfairly assumes that such an answer indicates that the answerer is also in favor of laws that strip freedoms from homosexuals that everyone else enjoys.  It seems to me a devious kind of bigotry underlies a question used in this manner.

You're reading things into it that isn't there. The statement is "No one can feel naturally homosexual", and when you agree/disagree it's not with whether or not people are born gay, it's with whether someone can *feel* that's the case. Basically your answer reveals how open you are to the subjective experience of others, it doesn't relate to objective reality at all.

Can someone maintain the one link and we just post our scores?

This! For some reason I keep disappearing from the chart, and I was helping to form such a nice straight line between Matti and Tuomas.

Economic Left/Right: -6.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.44

Edit: Understand now why it's not working without posting an updated link after self-adding. What a retarded system for something that's perfectly suited for group-usage. Has to do with anonymity factor, I suppose.

Nice to see nobody in the upper right quadrant so far - looking at the chart of politicians, that's where the majority of assholes are.

And yay, I think I contributed to the handle of the sickle... or maybe that's the hammer, the graph is beginning to lose shape - anarchist socialism cannot be contained!

Not gonna do the test again (already took it twice before) but I'm also on the left wing/social libertarian corner of the spectrum.

Edit: Decided to re-take the test anyway since I've gotten a clearer picture of my true feelings about the world lately. Though I think the main change from previous times was that I answered "disagree" rather than "strongly disagree" to some of the pro-religious questions. Still am strongly opposed to organized religion in its current form, however.

Economic Left/Right: -6.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.44

Probably not it, but I can't help thinking of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, though I would assume you'd have mentioned Bill Cosby being in it (and besides he was neither fat nor elderly at the time). Still, obnoxious as fuck

SLUDGE and Wintermute are both open sourced adventure game engines, so you can check out their coding solutions.

Actually of those examples I'm pretty sure only CMI uses full-screen animation - the others have mainly static backgrounds with animated elements.

For true fullscreen animation it would be best to make a video and convert it to OGG Theora format - that will compress it to a much smaller size than if you use fullscreen size sprites, and the file will be compiled into the game's .exe/resource file. Also no need to hide objects etc. when playing videos.

Qt support C# scripting, doesn't it? Though I'm not sure how well it supports 3D (which, let's face it, will be a part of future AGS eventually).

There's several examples of commercial first-person adventure games using photographic backgrounds. A Quiet Weekend in Capri was quite atmospheric, though I never got very far. And the Carol Reed (a female detective, not the director of The Third Man) series has gotten a lot of positive feedback on various adventure gaming forums.

The Oracle, free and made with AGS, took a similar approach and in my opinion successfully so. Great game too, check it out if you haven't.