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Nice, SSH.
You frown upon the only blind-friendly puzzle in the whole adventure gaming.

I tend to agree that as it is, it's harder on the ears than the brain.

Haha, well said!
I love such an effect. After all, playing a game is not only a brain-kind experience, no?

"Donna killed my ears, but left my brain unharmed."

Thank you!
The comments are very helpful.
Most of you point out that the sounds are annoying, so I'll exchange them, but maybe not tones, as I'm afraid that going an octave lower will make the sound all garbled. Slowing them down is also an option.

I'm happy that even the tone-deaf people solved it - this was my main concern.
As for making it more difficult, I don't know yet. Because you get this device so far in the game that I don't really want to stress the player with too hard obstacles and lose the suspense.

Maybe it would be best if "detect" gave you the lock's signal only once, as Farlander and Andail quasi-suggested, and then you had to repeat it... it's not very realistic, though, because if such a device existed it would surely sustain the detected tone.

Hello,

inspired by Garage Gothic's suggestion on how Terranrich could improve one of the puzzles in his game (sorry, I haven't played it, so I'm unsure of the details) I've added a signal-scrambler-sortish kind of machine to my game.

Now, I don't have a perfect ear, but I've dealt with music ocassionally, so I'm unsure how difficult this puzzle is to an un-musical person.

Could you give me some of your time and check how this small machine works for you? And maybe you have some suggestions how to improve it?

link: http://www.geocities.com/hermann_rottweiler/machine.zip
(right-click, save target as)

Thanks in advance!

Hmm, I think that mine quote of the week would be:
"For spanish every sentences is funny!"

Um, it's actually Goldmund's wife already ;-) And she's much cuter in toxic green swimming goggles, everyone may testify.

And come on, Farl, you know Lorena's a cutepie! We have great photos of her doing this ballet routine (post them soon).

My second Mittens experience was as fantastic as the first one, and big thank you to Helm for making it possible to happen.
And I liked the food at the camp! Lots of meat! Alas, the idea of cooking potatoes in vinegar doesn't appeal to me.

Discussions at the beach and at the restaurants... seafood... home wine... sleeping at the seashore under myriad of stars (although they were only cheap replicas, I couldn't find the most common constellations! Scandal!)... eh, it was sad to leave, in fact, Dominika even cried when we got to Athens!

I urge M0ds to post the highlights list! And everybody - photos!

Edit: Chrille, make sure if it's not appendix which hurts you!

Hm, but aren't you going to use this bus on the 15th of August?
You don't plan to just go to Liosion St. and wait...? If the bus leaves twice a day, it may take some time...
As we're leaving tomorrow morning, maybe I'll just call one of you and confirm the hour we meet at the bus stop.

You go to Liosion street 206 in Athens you get a ticket for the KTEL that goes to Agia Anna. There's two busses. One that goes there twice a day, and is relatively close to the camp-site, and other more frequent, that goes two villages away from it. Either you decide to take, you're going to have to take a cab from your destination to Agia Anna Camping. About 8 euro cab fare, I was told. Less if you take the closer bus.

Thanks! By the way, do you happen to know what are the times that this twice-a-day-going, close-arriving bus leaves Liosion St.?

I know know exactly how we will get from Athens to there, and it involves two busses, and a taxi ride.

Could you share this information, oh thunderous goat-meister?
For those who plan to arrive separetely?

Oh, and we'll bring a tent. I thought about sleeping with La Lore and Farlander (thanks for the offer you little, but big-spirited Spaniard!), but I don't know how open-minded they are to nocturnal freshly-weds' activities... do you swing?

2ma2: nope, I found that wizzair (a hungarian airline) is much cheaper, we have to change planes in Budapest, though.

Aye, we're booked!!11!
I'm verry happpy... Petter, remeber to take your guitar to honey our ears with delicate plunking and a zany rhyme!

The only problem before me is my flight-fright... expect another photos of drugged-up Goldmund above the clouds...

Ha!

Sign me in... or, should I say... US!

After so big a struggle I will be there with my Donna-animations-drawing wife.
The trip will be a delightful combo: a Honeymoon/Mittens/Work one.

We will come to Greece a bit earlier to spend two romantic newly-wed evenings eating mousaka, drinking ouzo and not throwing toilet paper into the loos.
Then we will go to the camping ground with you guys and beside having fun I'm going to interview you for the article on independent gamewritting for my magazine.

So, my dear Helmovski - sign two more people in!

Rats, I'd so love to go...
I guess I will know for sure around 5th of July - very important period then, deciding my fate with the company.
Sorry for being such an undecided sissy, Helm - you can roar at me.

HA! YES!

Dead or married - neither still, but getting close to one of the options... (1 month left)

So, after 15th suits me best. Exactly, two days after 15th are superb.
Because, you see, on 16th we send the magazine to printing and have a somewhat lighter week.
I want to go. Male sodomy and bruised women are like ice-cream and salmon pasta in the area of my favourite phenomena.

Still, I can encounter two problems.
1 - the boss won't let me because I work for too short a period of time
2 - they won't give me 2 free weeks, just one - and after marriage it's just not fair using your only free week to meet with your favourite pals instead of going with your bride somewhere where you can shout at and beat her to give your relationship a good start.

I'm afraid I'm in the "probably" section... but will try with the whole force of my anus!

Excuse me, but I don't buy all this "You had to be in Hitler Jugend or die!!!11!" talk.

I guess all the german emmigrants of 1933-1939 were just tourists and escaped to Switzerland, USA and South America for the kick of it?


P.S. Of course, I don't suggest that Ratzinger doesn't regret his past; I bet he does.

Hi, Dan!

I remember handing you an AGS award around 1982.

Book XI of St. Augustine's "Confessions":

"Yet I say boldly that I know that if nothing passed away there would be no time past. And if nothing were coming, there would be no future time. And if there were nothing, there would be no present time. Those two times, then, past and future--how are they, when the past is no longer and the future is not yet? But should the present always be present and never pass into time past, truly it would not be time, but eternity."

"We even measure how much longer or shorter this time is than that; and we answer, 'This is double, or treble, while this other is but once, or only just as long as that.' But we measure times as they are passing, by perceiving them. But past times, which no longer are, or future times, which are not yet, who can measure? Unless, perhaps, anyone would dare to say that what is not can be measured. When, therefore, time is passing, it can be perceived and measured; but when it is past, it cannot, because it is not."

etc., etc.

Einstein could as well have said something similar - as St. Augustine is the Man when it comes to talking about time, but he lived oh, around 1600 years before Albert. :-)

Fmrais:
St. Augustine.
(Maybe you heard it in "a movie" but it was he who said and invented this aphorism)

Now:
"Existence precedes essence".

C Leksutin as the main badass character!
This will be fun.

I'm waiting and waiting and waiting for an AGS game with risky subject matter.

You don't have a fat stupid boss or a marketing specialist ordering you around and telling you "what kids would buy & parents would like", so make use of that freedom!