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Quite a few of them are much better than the majority of commercial ones.

Seconded! AGS-games can't compete in terms in graphics and voice acting, but in terms of puzzles and story-telling.

For example sometime ago I played forced myself to spend time with Runaway 2 after I payed money for it. I can't remember much AGS-games with such crappy puzzle design.

Argh... I thought the only way to do this is if (player.InventoryQuantity[iLamp.ID]==true)...

I wouldn't upload a first game that only has the purpose to get used to the engine.
But I would upload a game that can entertain people, even if it's only for 5 minutes and the graphics aren't that good.
I also uploaded my first game. And normally the criticism is quite kind for newbies.

Thanks for the hints for other game-communities. Seems like I have to learn some things about PR.

Nice to hear that.

Open winsetup, go to 'Game language' and choose 'English translation'.

In a community where so many oldfashioned, retro-drunken, EGA-worshipping guys clubber together, I always liked to think that graphics aren't the first thing people look at.

Well, I also hoped that this is true.

That would be boobs.

I knew I missed some important key to succes  :.

We're all missing the big issue here, which is: Nelly Cootalot doesn't have a AGS Review Panel comment! All the other rated games seem to.

I've seen several games with a panel rating but no panel comment.

For Celtic Chaos 2, I took a lot more effort into the visuals, especially into the backgrounds. Let's see if that effort will work out.

Seriously though, the panel cycles, and you never know - you may be on it one day. And then you'll come to realise why it's best to just be anonymous about it.

I fail to see the point. I'm not on the panel but can't really see what the problem could be. What's to hide or protect?

Well, some people tend to react really dickish if you critisize their art.

A common prank on LAN-parties. But still funny.

Take for example A Second Face - The Eye of Geltz is Watching Us; despite it having a middling rating of 3 cups, it consistently outperforms games with higher panel ratings in terms of download count, and as you mentioned, often low rated games will get similar downloads to middling rated ones.

A Second Face has 3 awards including best game. Comparing dls of a multiple award winner or of a pick of the month with other games is tricky.

Before releasing 'Cold Meat' I assumed that User ratings are much more important than panel reviews for the dls, but at least for the last months, it's not true. Maybe I overrate the influence of the panel. I just want to understand what makes games interesting to download, but I'm stumped.

And I take dls as a measure for advertence. Personally the most important thing for me are the comments. It shows that a game moved someone.

Since it's about judging AGS-Games I thought it's adventure related. But I see the discussion goes on in the other thread, so let's close this one.

Just opened a thread here....     :- 

I'm not sure whether the topic is more 'generel' or 'adventure related'.
But we should close one and discuss this only one time.

There has been a lot of discussion about the panel review of the McCarthy Chronicles.

I think it's best we discuss the function of the panel review in a new thread.

One problem for me is, that its some kind of distortion of competition. Some games get a quick good panel rating and that boosts the download a lot. But other games have to wait several months. The panel review is a sole opinion that influences the advertence for a game a lot.

I thought that the user ratings and good comments are the main influence for high downloads. But since I have released a game with a really high user rating (86%) and nice comments there must be something wrong with my theory. Even games with a one-cup-rating and comments that basicly say "this game is unplayable" have about the same number of downloads.
Well, I'm not sure what influences the dls the most, but it seems like the panel review is a stronger factor than the user ratings and in my opinion the user ratings are more representative.

I think the role of the panel needs to be seriously discussed by the forum community and some change/arrangement should be agreed.

We should discuss that in another topic, apart from the McCarthy Chronicles.

The game made a lot of progress in the last weeks.

Now Kaputtnik joined the project to compensate my lack of knowledge of the english language.
(Is the word Sprachgefühl really used in the english language? I was quite surprised when my online-dictionary suggested that.)

As a small teaser: another Screenshot.

Take a look at the tween-module. It contains a command called tween.transparency which is a simply shorter and includes more options for fading.

I thought about making a GUI similar to '6 days a sacrifice' (I can't remember 7 days a skeptic but it seems to be the same) for my next bigger game, but I haven't finished the GUI yet.

Yep, I thought the whole 1st season was pretty easy. No really absurd puzzles, especially if you're used to playing adventure games.

For me the other episode were pretty easy too, but  in Reality 2.0. I got stuck severel times.
Maybe I was just too tired for gaming at the time