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I figured out the secret to the game.
If you get to rich something happens (sickness, a bank failure, ect.) The secret is to keep your cash hovering around 50.   I had one pig and 2 shovels, so that if i got low i could plant a few crops, but if not, i just lived off the pig.   Im up to round 51 right now... Ill post a screenshot when my dude goes belly up

EDIT: Round 80! i added a donkey to my allstar team of poor farmers!

Edit2: We made it to round 101, but our donkey got us raided by gurilla warfare people.  Now I'm back to the old format, only with 3 shovels instead of 2 shovels and a donkey.  We had to sell my wife so i could afford a new pig.

Edit3: Round 120- DIsease and refugees keep killing my pigs.  I am a lucky guy, its suprising that a guy who lives in the middle of nowhere on pennies, still manages to live 120 years.

Edit4: Level 125, I'm bored, and my dear pig was stolen, so I'm going to buy an elephant!

Edit5: I only had one precious year with my elephant before gurillas took him and consequently starved me to death.

I checked bbcode and smiley reference... never said anything about hidden text.
well, anyway...

Spoiler

1 is red.  2 is blue.  3 is teal.  4 is green.  5 is orange.  6 is yellow.  7 is brick red.  8 is black.  9 is absolutely nothing.  0 is white.

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How do you use spoiler mode?

The problem with the feet is that feet are not shaped like that.  The first two picture's feet are pointed in the middle, the third one is an ovular shape.  Look at you're feet, get that shape, and practice that shape until it looks as good as the rest of the picture. 

No other complaints here, I can't even nitpick on it!

You're right, stein, he is facing to the left (right?).  But he looks fine anyway, someone who would stand there like wouldn't look like they're just looking or doing anything in that specific direction, rather just an "I'm idly staring into space 'til you tell me to do something" pose.  It works fine.

I get huge amounts of money relatively quickly, and once i got myself an elephant, a tractor, tons of peanuts a huge barn 4 chickens and a cow I lose everything.  Is it just built so you can't do good?

I don't know what half the things do.  What is the whole point of buying sheds, wells, or barns?

THis game is rigged! No matter how good you do you die.  Its a sick joke! I HAD NO FAMILY AND A FAMILY MEMBER GOT SICK.  WHAT THE HELL.

If satan ever were to be seen as a villan, he would have to be everything that is evil. 

As for dracula... couldn't agree with you more, man 

Tuomas, MSpaint has a text box... Idon't know why so many people think it doesn't...

Its funny.  But it looks like the dude with the fiery computer has lipstick on... (it does add a little comic effect, though)

I almost have a demo ready for a crappy small game I've been working on... all I gotta do now is fix up some bg's and I've got a game... or at least part of one.  This is really convenient for me 

Okay... we all know that any type of hero has it's opposite... A character that challanges the hero both physically and mentally.  All depends on what type of story and what type of hero... For Guybrush Threepwood it was LeChuck, for The Prince of Shapir it was Ad Avis, for me it is George Lucas... pompous bearded freak... Shove that lightsaber up your--
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Back on topic here...
Who do you think is the most compelling supervillan?  Catagories considered should be appearance, powers, personality, feats of evil (or coolness), and (sometimes) connection to the hero.  This is not to be confined to any genre.  Comic books, movies, adventure games, books, my home-made movie of me attempting to assasinate the beloved creator of Star Wars... (On sale October 15th!)

I hope i'm not misunderstoon... I mean ANY villan.  Ever.  Anything you can possibly think of that has done something evil and deserves to be crowned the best supervillan ever.

I can't see the second one, but the first one looks good.

You're art style looks good, but (based on the lighthouse) it looks like you're just trying too hard to make it cartoony.  That's a great piece of artwork, I'd just suggest honing your own style rather than trying to get someone elses.  Rather than trying to search for CMI art tutorials, get art tutorials on shading and perspective and such, and once you learn all the basics (it doesn't even look like you need to, based on the pic I already saw) and then just study CMI art.  Post another thread here later, with something close to CMI style--you'll get plenty of responses.

(Just so you know, I have no idea if what you already put up here is CMI-style or not, I never played it  )

Edit: what I meant by cartoony was the hugely angled lighthouse, which would look just as good if it were standing strait

Err... right... the saddest thing is, though, that you're right.  There's a few things you can stand to watch here in america, and the rest is just ratshit on a stick.

Even if I've never actually seen a new "stupid, stupid american comedy" in years.

Makes me sad  :'(

...I think i will, joelman...

Well, that was fast 
My entry will be up in a minute
...Or as I'd like to call it, a Jiffy!

Quest for Glory (or Hero's Quest, depending on your generation).

I would:
Actually FINISH the game... unlike QFG 5  :
Give it higher quality graphics (or lesser, to give it a more "classic sierra" feel)
do 4 seperate plotlines-- Fighter, Wizard, Thief, and Paladin...
For fighter it would just be the hero proving himself to the world, and becoming a badass hero.
Wizard would be becoming a powerful mage... to the degree of Fenrus and Erasmus, with magical familiar and a staff that looks cool (I don't care what you want to call it, QFG 3, it's still a freakin' log!)
For thief it would be going around and stealing everything... to a degree 300x more than in the other games.  As a thief you go there, steal whatever you can, become a hero, and basically screw over everyone as you run off with the handsome hero's reward and hundreds of valuables.
And for paladin, it would be kind of like QFG 4, only with more quests.  Ending off with a cooler spell than awe (by the time you got it, it didn't even work on any of those bastards in Minos' castle)

Next:  make money have a use, for god's sake!
in every one of the games, you had barely any use for money.  It was always given to the begger, or spent on a few items, and then nothing.  I mean, you got 5000 dinar, 390 silvers, 900 crowns, 500000 drachmas AND NOTHING TO BUY BUT FOOD.

My favorite part of working on it would probably be making the ultimate villan, whose powers will differ for each hero you can play as. 
Wizard and Paladin will have more spells... (although I was very content with the spells a wizard could use in QFG 5, aside from "juggling lights" which required no juggling and provided very little light.)

I'd also add in a little bit easier to explore... unlike QFG 1 (where there was no place to explore) QFG 2 (if you did, you likely died of thirst, if you went on saurus outside... and inside, navigation was HELL!...damn you, thrift shop guy!!) QFG3 (whereas you would probably end up with the waffle walker on your ass most of the time), QFG 4 (where you'd get poisoned by a bat or dragon), or  QFG 5 (ABSOLUTELY NOTHING INTERESTING ANYWHERE).

Whew!  What a fun rant.  Anyway...

Other features:
-More weapons and items usable by Wiz & Thief
-Paladin Sword & Magic Shield have increaced power based on your honor level
-Thief with more sneaky-like skills
-A cow that the mage and thief can ride... ( :o)

I am totally serious about the cow.
No, really.
I am.
yes.
cow

Actually... the scene might've been worse.  The Simbani Chief wasn't that important of a character, he just sort of sat there and yelled at you for no reason occasionally.  And even if there WAS a way to intervene where you saved the simbani chief, the cougerman was posessed and had to die anyway.  But then again, that was the worst QFG game out of the five... so meh, anything would have been acceptable for that

It depends weather or not you decide to sell it... and weather or not all those random companies give a damn about what you're doing.

Edit:  Sorry.  Didn't read the opening part about "death"...

I'm sure I could name one... let's see...

(still don't know about the "spoiler" invisible text... oh well...)

The one in QFG3 worked.  It was the cougerman (or something like that) killed the tribeleader of the Simbani, as a result of you bringing them together for the peace confrence.  After that, you and your monkey pal Manu must save the greater Tarna reigon!! Yay! 

...Okay, so the game sucked.  But the death DID work out well in moving the plot foward.

Donde esta la biblioteca?!!
(what do you want, all the spanish I know is that and "Where can I find the money?")

Game looks shiny.  Any idea when you might be able to release it?

Barry's legs seem to be a little bit "jerky" (don't know how else to describe it) while he's walking, you might want to add in a few more frames of animation.  And his hair looks a little bit wierd for a cowboy.  Otherwise it's good.

Edit: The only anim. that is like that seems to be the walking to the right, the other two are good.