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I'm pretty sure it's allowed to enter your own MAGS, and that this has happened before. That said, if it bothers people I'll just go design something else instead

Has been done several times and there was never a rule that said it can't be done. Plus your stuff's great as a rule. So help us make this a FEMUR*!
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* Four Entry MAGS, Unusually Risky!

I'm in love with Ghost's title screen!

Thanks a lot! So I'll get your vote if I just relase the title screen?

Girly griefers give generous glowstone-gift.

And I call dibs for N:
Needlessly noisy noserubbing necessitates narwhale neutering.

Happy birthday, DoorKnobHandle.

Man you guys are on a roll here, huh?

his model sheets are amazing.

Now that's some sweet char designs. Okay, H/B were often of a shoestring budget at the start of the show, but the reuse of stock animation was jarring even for 5-year-old me. Now I wonder how... man, imagine a feature film of that.
Really, imagine it.

I shall go and watch Freaked! again. Just so you know what your deceptively innocent theme caused in terms of repercussions.

Happy birthday Eric, and a belated one to SunnyPenguin

I wanted to post how the game is all awesome. But now I am blind and bedazzled!

Correct me if I'm wrong or if this has changed, but AFAIK you can't. The application loses focus and is put on halt.

[the wonderful world of TWO palette effects]

if used correctly it introduces you to a wonderful world of palette effects.

Hey, I'm as old-school as the next man . But the wonderful world of TWO palette effects has, like, TWO palette effects. Replacing a colour is cool and colour cyling would in theory allow awesome water effects, but for the love of the gods I can't really name ANY AGS game taking advantage of them... I would agree that it can decrease file size though. That's actually still something to consider AFAIC.

Excellent, so in short, currently 32-bit is probably the safest bet for compatibility with modern computers?

No, because colour depth and drivers aren't related. 16b and 32b are both safe to use and the latter gives you even more colours plus the option to use alpha channels. The other issue are drivers, where D3D seems to be a bit more compatible than DD. I don't have exhaustive info on that though, but I think all the commercial AGS games (which cost money, and thus give people a reason to complain when they do not run) recommend D3D.

Personally, I have been using 16b for all my games, and I still use DD instead of D3D because I notice colours are a bit off when I use D3D. I never had any problems running that and, again, the colour depth is for YOU and the driver is for the PLAYER.

There really is no reason to use 8bit anymore. It only brings limitations, and on these day's hardware you won't gain any speed advantage. Don't use it, even if you just want to use 4 colours.

16bit is the standard and should be used if you do not need a) alpha transparency and b) really soft gradients. If you want to use alpha trans. or have a huge amount of fine shading, use 32bit. That's about the gist of it. Transparency and soft shading = 32b, everything else = 16b.

According to the manual D3D and DirectDraw offer different speed for some features like RawDraw (where you directly draw on temporary sprite surfaces). D3D seems to become
the default here- I remember several people stating that they can run only D3D because DD gives them graphic glitches or doesn't allow to run fullscreen. It's more a question of compatibility than speed I'd say; the user can naturally always just change the driver in winsetup, but you need to know that winsetup is THERE.

From personal experience I can confirm that D3D allows me to use scaling in windowed mode that DD does NOT support.

Voted, and congrats to both entrees. That was short, sweet, and entertaining.
Just like the real thing.

> dream of PONYCORNS because reasons

I'm in.

Alien Cow Rampage: Orion Needs Your Milk
an original single player board game

I mean, hey, I can't fail forever, right? At some point a game will form by sheer accident.

Also please note how hard it was to come up with a proper acronym title. I am rather pleased about how that turned out.

Spoiler

It's clever because the acronym formed by the title is, in fact, acronym. Recursivey, like.

[close]

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Progress is being made. Also a title screen.

[Ghost]

If you find them useful, please thank Ghost because he was kind enough to share them with me.

Actually, since I lost TONS OF BOOKMARKS, thanks for posting this!

I do like the cowboy hat! The brim should maybe have a bit more of a curve- since this is low-res, exaggeration is key and these things are hell to sprite anyway...

Sale-Tan luvs ya.

I'm getting a Parse error at function on_call(rid):
Error (line 3): PE3: Parse error at 'rid'

use r.ID instead

Now I'll never get that picture of chanting, joyful, tricyle-riding wisemen out of my head.

Yay for leftovers!

Tested product by ancient Portuguese wise men.

How many testicles do they have, between the lot of them?

It's about a man thinking back as we was getting teased of his big ears - the bullies named him "Dumbo."

So... ONE COVER teleported the gist of the story into my brains? I'd call that a very powerful image, then- well done

It would be interesting to know what the story's about- right now a look at the cover creates (for me) a dark mood, with an ominous and slightly agressive "Dumbo! Dumbo!" shouted into my face... and the only Dumbo I know is that cute little elephant from the Disney movie, so there's a bit of a conflict.

I know you should never judge a book by its cover but the first thing I thought was "Now this is going to be a dark story, maybe about some kids teasing and antagonizing another kid (probably because of his big ears)." It was the first thing that popped into my mind.

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edit: My ears are normal-sized, and I was never teased for them.