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Here they are, first two screen shots!

Here's our hero in the last room. Notice the half of a table to the left...

http://invis.free.anonymizer.com/http://a-janjic.freewebspace.com/screen1.jpg

And here he is in the front of the house.

http://invis.free.anonymizer.com/http://a-janjic.freewebspace.com/screen2.jpg

If you decide not to play a game just because my art skills are non-existent, well... your loss.

Hey Goldie, I just sent you the files. Be gentle :-)
I'll post some screenshots tomorrow, I promise. But beware - I make the game from the end, so the screenshots might contain spoilers, hehehe.

OK, I have drawn all backgrounds and animations and today I started with the fun part. Music is going to be a small problem. Someone please recommend me a good FREE program for making midi music.
I also need someone with Cakewalk. I have a short theme saved on my HD in Cakewalk's .wrk format, but I don't have Cakewalk anymore. So if anyone has that damn program I'd appreciate them to convert my file to .mid so I can work with it. Thanks.

P.S. Some screenshots coming soon!

26% here
OK, I had to improvise on a few questions, like when it asked me do I have sex with males or females. "none" was not the option :-)

Btw, how big the game is going to be (roughly)? I mean the file size.

Yoooooohoooooo, we (Serbia & Montenegro) beat Wales!!! 1:0!

Wow, this game sounds like... great! Can't wait for it to be done. Snake, do you still need out-of-team beta testers? I'd like to help with that.

Just a small progress update (yes, I am actually working on this game): I've drawn most of the backgrounds and objects. I need to work on one more character and improve the looks on some backgrounds. Also, all important puzzles are designed, I'll make a few more just for fun. So, basically, I need to make a few drawings more and then I can get to the fun part - coding. I won't post screenshots here after all, because my backgrounds are lame and they might put you off, but soon I'll be able to present a short playable demo, before the final release. I think the game's length will be aproximately like the first Robert Redford.

ISN: Kill! - somewhere in October this year, possibly with changed title

Read Bible and go see a movie with friends. Even better, write a sad story and use it to make a game.

Can a guy and a girl be friends? Of course! Like... Bruce Willis and Cybille Shepperd in Moonlighting, or... David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in X Files (before that crappy movie) and... I'm sure there are some more.

Preparing to intensify (is that the word?) studying and working on my game. PREPARING.

By all means, hurry back. And bring your butcher knife with you :-) Good luck on finding new job.

Hey, too bad Vincent's Night failed. I liked that script.
Anyway, come to IRC and we can try to think something up. Yey.

Me is speechless.

Definitely :-)
Good luck on your trip.

Your game sounds cool. Coincidentally, I'm also in the process of making a game that's supposed to start a series of games. Let's hope we'll both do it :-)

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As you can see, I've finally moved my lazy ass and started working on a game. This is supposed to be the first game in a looooooong (yeah, right) franchise featuring an old Scotland Yard inspector solving various weird cases including vampires, werewolves, murderistic shaving foams and similar stuff. This first game (it's titled "Kill!", I'm thinking about changing the name because it completely sucks) is of introductory character (kinda like Rob Blanc 1), it will be pretty short and help to introduce the main character and the type of puzzles and humor I'm going to use in these games. Yeah, this all sounds great on paper, we'll see how much of this I'm actually going to do.

Anyway, what I have done so far is not much - a few backgrounds (will post some of them later, but they're nothing special, I don't consider graphics a very important part of the game), almost all characters and some objects.

Right now, you can check this small non-playable demo. It contains the intro to the game (which is actually just a looooong dialogue). It's not much, but it will give you an idea what the game will look like. I will occasionally post screenshots and other promotional stuff here.

Download the demo - Save Target As...:
http://archaicsoftware.tripod.com/isn.zip

Hey, thanks
Wow, 20 hours, now THAT's long! Our trip was only about 6 or 7 hours, but this is a small country :-)

I wrote a loooooooong post about this yesterday, but forgot to login before sending then everything got lost somehow. So I'll cut it short this time.
Anyway, last Monday my brother Vladimir, cousins Zarko and Milena and me went to Belgrade to see Sonic Youth. The concert was great. It ended around 3 AM and we decided to go home right after that (and the Nobel prize for stupidity this year goes to...). My brother was driving (we borrowed my mother's car) and he assured us that he didn't need any sleep, that we can go right away. So got to our car (it took us more than an hour because we had to wait for the bus to get us there) and started the journey. The three of us fell asleep right away. Milena was sitting in the front seat (she didn't use her seat belt), Zarko and me in the back (I was on the right side). Everything was going well till we got to a place about two hours from home. We stopped to drink some fresh mountain water, then I fell asleep again, and when I awoke it was like an apocalypse. The ground was hitting our car from all sides, I heard the sound of glass breaking and then it went through my head that we might be in trouble. Just for a second a silly thought went through my mind ("The car is going to be ruined!") and the next thing I remember is seeing my brother and some other people trying to push the car back on the wheels (it turned on its right side) so I can get out. I was the alone in the car and I was almost crying. Partly from the pain but mostly from the fear probably. I also noticed Zarko for a brief moment, he said "Your knee is hurt" and then he went to see what happened to Milena. Then I looked at my right knee and saw that my pants were completely torn on that place. I didn't feel any pain in that part, though, only in my left leg and right arm. When I got out of the car I noticed Milena all bloody. Her head was bleeding, her shirt was all red and she was crying from the fear. Fortunately, Zarko and some other people were saying that she was OK. After that, I looked at my right knee again and blood was flowing from it like a stream.
To cut the story short, what happened is that my brother fell asleep at the wheel (it's never a good thing), we crossed to the other side of the street (fortunately, no one was coming from the opposite direction, otherwise we would all be dead now), then we hit some big rock at the left side of the street and crashed, ending up on the street again. Nobody knows exactly what the crash looked like. None of the four of us remembers much and the police can't tell from the car's position what happened (both sides of the car are severely damaged, but the roof doesn't have a single scratch on it). As for the people in the car, Zarko was completely OK, he didn't suffer a single blow somehow, my brother had a small brain concussion and hurt his elbow, Milena had some nasty cuts on her head and ear and bruises everywhere and I ended up with a destroyed right knee, hurt right elbow and shoulder and undefined pain in my left leg which I still feel (the accident happened on Tuesday morning). Only Milena ended up in hospital (my brother and should have, too, but our mother is the doctor so she could take care of us better) and I had to go to a surgeon to take the small pieces of glass from my knee. It was the greatest pain I have ever experience and probably the greatest pain possible, if we don't count when someone cuts your head off. That damn glass got deep in the open wound and the surgeon felt free to dig in there with all means possible, completely ignoring my moans (I wasn't moaning with pleasure, you perverts!). Yuck. Now, a few days after that, my knee is itching (meaning that it's pretty much OK), the elbow and shoulder still hurt a bit and my left leg hurts equally as before. The doctors didn't find anything wrong with it but I'll probably have to have it examined again. My brother is OK, Milena is OK too, so you see one big cheesy happyend here. Except that the car is ruined. But in real life, unlike in movies,  cheesy happyends are a good thing.
So, here's a few pieces of advice for everyone out there, so that you can avoid what happened to us (after the accident we received some brilliant advice from oour parents, they said that we should have had a rest before driving):

1) Don't drive tired. EVER. Driving tired is ten times more dangerous than driving drunk. Don't think "I won't fall asleep" because you will.

2) If there are more people in the car, don't fall asleep at the same time, leaving the driver alone. At least one person should stay awake, that's increasing the chances that driver himself will stay awake.

3) Don't drink pills, they won't help. Have a nice sleep before going.

4) If you feel even remotely tired during the driving, park the car by the side of the road and have some sleep before you continue.

and finally, the most important:

5) Don't crash your car.

I know this sounds obvious and stupid, but unfortunately we had to learn it the hard way (actually, semi-hard way, the HARD way would be the death of one or more people). Sorry if this post was too long, but I thought I should share this with you guys. Best of luck to everyone.

Harvester