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"Awful" how?

I guess it's just someone who are used to "modern high-res HD graphics" and cannot stand blocky pixels, so they prefer playing the game in a tiny window.

OR They're playing the game in full screen mode (which changes the displayed resolution instead of keeping the original desktop resolution and adding black borders), then the whole thing would be a blurry mess, since modern flat panel monitors are all inferior to good old CRTs have a fixed native resolution, displaying anything other than the native resolution would look awful (could have incorrect aspect ratio too in playing a 4:3 game on a wide screen monitor if not set-up correctly).

If not using palette or shader effects, one way of faking this (in AGS) is to prepare different copies of character loops with different lightings (e.g. the simplest ones are a version for light coming from the right and a version for light coming from the left) and change the characters' graphic loops accordingly when they walk into/leave certain room Regions.
You'd need to make more versions if there are different coloured lighting areas though.

The XBox Game Bar can record videos too, which is probably already installed if you are using Windows 10 or 11.

I'm to lazy to check the UI ATM, but can't you just fill the unwanted colour with colour/area #0?
Colour #0 is just 'non-walkable area'.

Try running 'acdos.exe --setup' and see whether there are available options to change this.

[game.score]

The correct name of the variable is game.score.
You may just search for "score" in the help file to find it.

What system did they port this to? 

The screenshot from abstauber was obviously the Apple ][ version.

Hmmm. Seems that your game was added to the website 4 times. Didn't know whether it's related to the recent site updates.
Because of its seemingly offensive title, I initially though it was spam until I saw who uploaded the game.

Anyway, I've disabled 3 of the entries, leaving one single entry active.

Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom

Correct!

Your turn. 

Nope.

Hint:
To keep with the theme of the last entry, this is also a Japanese adventure game.
This game was also ported/remade on the Famicom, and had a western release too, so it's not that obscure.

Next:

Ripple Island

I just randomly pressed "Edit Game" on a random game in database, and to my surprise it opened game description for editing. Is it a bug, or I somehow have permissions to do that (then why)?

Don't know whether this is intentional, but I think most (all?) mods on the forums are also mods of the game pages.
I seem to recall that before the site update I saw something like "You are an admin (moderator?) of the game pages" but it's no longer specified after the update.

All three screenshots I saw are quite high res.
It's possibly that your browser had cached the page and its images.
Try clearing the browser's cache and refreshing the page and see if that makes a difference.

GI Joe?

(Just a random guess.)

EDIT: may any mod merge this post there?

Done.

You may use Object.Transparency for this.

This is just a random example for illustration, in the room's script:

Code: ags

int ffdir; //1 for fading in and -1 for fading out.
int ffcoutner = 0; //coutner of the sprite's animation

function repeatedly_execute_always(){
  ffcoutner += ffdir;
  if (ffcoutner == 0||ffcoutner == 200) ffdir = -ffdir; //Change direction)
  if (ffcoutner > 100) objFF.Transparency = 200 - ffcoutner;
    else objFF.Transparency = 100;
}

You may use it as a reference and tweak it to meet your needs (timing, etc.).
(Don't mind the spelling of coutner. It's just an old AGS meme that few people may get.)

I don't know what restrictions are involved in designing an interface in Windows, but can we just leave empty space on top and below the image (or just stretch the image, at least until a newer image is made)?

I think it won't look bad, at least not something that can't be tolerated:

Also, you don't need to copy the text to Notepad.
It's a .json file. Just save it with the browser (usually, Ctrl-S on most browsers) and the original filename will be kept. (If you save it in Notepad and use say, .txt as extension, it pwobably won't be recognised unless you rename the file properly.)

It's probably not this but I'll just guess:

Spoiler

pencil sharpener?

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