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> make the Jester sing "The Wizard's Staff Has A Knob On The End" in soto voce.

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"draw, without any arguments, the seemingly only room your house exists of in MSpaint and show us how it looks like, but if you even try to come up with another agument saying this 'I dare you' isn't doable for you, you have to go to a huge public place wearing an original Shalwar kameez while riding a donkey backwards with in one hand a glass of tandoori flavoured anne kÃ,, rasand while asking someone to take a photo, which you have to post here"

And steal someone's camera on the way.

... while having pink commando-style brush-strokes on your face, yelling "!Mouth for war!, !Mouth for war!".

Man, that's getting complicated! Are we sure he'll even live?

Adeel! Should you need support, you can have my axe! kitten-gun!

For support!

And steal someone's camera on the way.

Ah, first (virtual) ink!

Congratulations, AprilSkies! I had a blast proving that men will never ask for directions

Of course, an extension is fine - any change to a request for a week? Also are there any other men women or children left standing - yamipanda, Adeel?

A week would be awesome, thanks! I started a week late and hit a couple bottlenecks with that game But I'm super happy with it right now and will comeplete it no matter what.
If that week teases the rest into buckling down and completing their games, all the better! C'mon LostTrain and everyone! Seven extra days!

I was wondering if there was a way to query the room edges the player is about to enter?

If you don't have too many rooms, you could create a struct to hold edge position and then an array, populating it with the proper values during game_start. You'd have to enter the values manually, but if you plan to use that custom function of yours a lot, it could be worth the effort.

Basically:

Code: AGS

struct RoomEdges
{
  int top,
  int left,
  int bottom,
  int right,
};

RoomEdges[SIZE] edges;

Not a NICE way of doing it, but a workaround.

Fortnightly what?  Are we still doing these things?

Hey, it takes time to come up with a theme! How often do I win these things? So when I get to host an FWC it's going to be glorious.

So please write something because that already is 12% more gloriousity.

Then I have made it through a SteamSale without buying anything*! Awesomeness!
If I maintain that level of discipline** I will soon be able to enter a shop that sells Magic*** cards again!

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* But still with one long-wishlisted game thanks to Tabby
** Also general no-money-ness.
*** The Gathering. You know. Rectangular cardboard-crack.

What about the story of a sales man that wakes up looking like an insect?

That sounds familiar. I remember seeing a movie with that plot. I think it was based on a novel... by Stephanie Meyer or someone? The movie was directed by Michael Bay, that I know. It was pretty cool. He was a grasshopper or something but could transform into a bumblebee. His parents found him, trained him to ride a tiny tricycle, and then everything exploded.

Fun fact: Science has been proven that bumblebees are too heavy to fly. The current theory is that they're powered by the rare isotope idontcareium.

Sweet video!

Let's Have Another Fortnightly Writing Competition!
MUTATE!

According to a popular survey, 100% of all humans are 100% human. That's the way it is. But fiction likes to play with the idea of a human changing into something else, partially or completely. Mutation, Transformation, Evolution, Curses and Aliens are often to blame. There's many a reason to play with the theme- it can be disturbing, shocking, sad, but also a hilarious road trip. All up the the writer.

This is what this FWC is about. Write a story about a human who, for whatever reason, goes through a change of shape and play it out to your heart's content. Please note that this is not about writing a story merely featuring a "shape-shifter". The central element is the change as it takes place the first time.

Will it be a grisly body horror story? A light comedy featuring an unknown X-Man? A dramatic exploration of the first change into a werewolf? A tongue-in-cheek take on the "wizards made me a frog" thing? A finely written first-person musical based on Hellraiser?

All up to you, and you have two weeks to get your story in (we close this on Saturday 12th July).

Have fun

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Will put in trophies later. Gotta have trophies, right?

I had a hard time deciding and eventually found help in form of REFERENCES. So here's my votes- but awesome entries, everyone!

1st: AprilSkies
because according to Doom, Monster Infighting is a cool feature
2nd: Tabata
because according to the Duke, it's Ahhhh Much Better when you open the zipper
3rd: jwalt
because according to Iron Maiden, Heck Ain't A Bad Place

I must say, putting all entries into the first post is a cool idea. Future host can simply open up the thread and see theme and entries. This should be standard!

[Can we have an extension? Anything, really, but probably a week would do for all of us?]

*BUMP*

I ran into a couple of nasty bugs and just today reached a state that qualifies as "beta". I'm not too happy about rushing this all. So...

Can we have an extension? Anything, really, but probably a week would do for all of us?

In case I am the only one who's actually working on something, I'm doubly reluctant to rush into a MAGS release with hotwire code, and if this is indeed the case, ignore my suggestion above and read it as:

Can I have an extension? Anything, really, but probably a week would do for me?

Possible?

Oooohhh just like the wise men from my country with their trycles!

And now i have a mental image of the King standing in front of a mirror, three tiny wisemen (waving tiny tricycles) sprouting from his chest. One of them smiles and rings the tricycle bell.

THANKS!

I will ALSO make sure to MENTION all sorts of pointless details from now on.

The King has a third nipple, right? We're GOLDFINGER (oops) SCARAMANGA!!

I feel this pattern is somehow going to be important.  Set aside time later to study this pattern in more detail.

I thought something like that but dismissed it as "typical adventure gamer paranoia" (Must not throw away shoestring! Will make useful bowstring!)... But let's keep that in mind!

> order the JESTER to pay the SEAMSTRESS, and COMPLIMENT on her (guild's) CRAFTS(WO)MANSHIP

Yeah, I think I saw that last screenie (with the caterpillar thing) somewhere before. It looks cutesey and I am looking forward to seeing it in action.