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Animation wise it actually seems more complex than Sam $ Max Hit the Road.

Scavenger, frankly it looks so good that I'm starting to worry you may not manage to finish the project while aiming at such high standard. Or have you a team of animators working with you now?

Everything.

Most importantly, the challenges and game events are not as repetitive as in the other genres.

They asked for too much in my opinion.

Well, I don't think they asked too much when taking in account production costs. Animating in clay and making it work within a game is way more expensive and time-consuming than producing the kind of visuals that, say, Double Fine Adventure or Broken Sword 5 has. Also, Revolution and Double Fine have all the equipment, contacts and team force they need for this kind of job, while these guys haven't made a game in years if I'm not mistaken.

Random flashes and loud noises will make someone jump but it won't scare. Ever.

Reminds me how incredibly boring Amnesia was.

To be the Citizen Kane of something is to be the first widely recognized example of having fully used all the unique techniques of a particular medium to communicate something meaningful.

In that case, Maniac Mansion maybe? It did set the bar for pretty much all mouse-operated adventure games that followed. It wasn't the first graphical, or mouse-driven adventure but it did really push the envelope back in its day.

I'd agree Zork, Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, King's Quest had the kind of influence on the adventure game genre that we'd want a Citizen Kane to have. However, none of those games did communicate anything particularly meaningful.

The importance of Kane: The Movie was not so much about pushing the envelope and inventing new techniques, as much as about using the most 'edgey' available techniques to tell a truly meaningful story, but in a quite a different way than mediums like literature or painting do. It's also not exactly about Kane being the absolute first, but about how universally it was recognized as showing what mature cinema can be. That's why people (i.e. journalists, indie developers) are currently trying to push the likes of Passage or Journey for the title of the Citizen Kane of gaming.

If you ask me, it's much too early to be looking for a Citizen Kane of adventure games or games in general. Perhaps a futile exercise altogether - it's mostly just people fighting for prestige.

To be the Citizen Kane of something is to be the first widely recognized example of having fully used all the unique techniques of a particular medium to communicate something meaningful.

Like things about human condition and stuff.

the reputation of Kane was fostered

I see what you did here.

Snakes of Avalon obviously.

Good idea.

Don't tempt me. It would take weeks to clean up that mess for publishing. And I'm not even sure how to describe what it does.

How about a few more words? Because I'm talking about landing a rover on Mars using a sky crane, eradicating smallpox and polio, building quantum computers inside diamonds, and figuring out how single celled organisms turned into the diversity of life we see today by purely natural processes.
How does any of this compare to what religion does/is?

The things you mention are fragments of reality. Religion has a lot of bearing on how the world we live in is. It influenced people's actions throughout centuries and is influencing them still. So that is religion's connection to reality. And in that sense religion is very much comparable to theoretical science.

But if you want me to compare religion directly to reality, it compares pretty much as any other piece of fiction describing reality to reality. And the theoretical/explanatory content of science is not that much different.

The reason I wrote to you in the first place was your attack on Baron's well-founded advice to approach scientific theories with a healthy dose of skepticism. I imagine you must be some extreme materialist.

But those are my own, unpublished scripts. Although some are based on published modules of others.

EDIT: Yeah, what Phemar said.

    -Entries must not use any premade content except published AGS templates, modules and plugins.

Shame, that rules me out. I've been developing certain scripts for more than a year now (animation, simple physics, interface) and I don't intend to leave them be and start everything from scratch.

That doesn't mean I don't see the sense of this rule.

Science doesn't make moral judgments. It tries to describe and understand reality.
(Actually: according to science, going outside and eating dirt is recommended, because exposure will strengthen the immune system.)
It looks like you are confusing rationality with completely irrational recommendations. Not everything that isn't religious is scientific.
The people who claim that living near power lines makes you sick are not scientists.

When it works like it should, removed from dogma, misleading desires, focused on a problem at hand, science doesn't try to describe and understand reality. It's people who do that. Because of psychological needs and ideological purposes. For those who still believe actual science (or even "real", "official" science) is any close to 100% rationality and differs so much from how the directives of a religion are established, I have one word for you: "Kuhn".

Well, the storytelling and writing of AVS1 were flawed and Bill might not be perfect, but at least he's not anti-gay-marriage and possibly not even religious.

Has anyone considered a Game of Thrones AGS fan game? What sort of thing would you want to do?

The Chronicles of Young Little Finger could be interesting. Or Tywin Lannister. Both seem to have changed a lot.

But to be honest I would prefer another Indiana Jones game with sprites from Fate of Atlantis or similar. I can't seem to forget that game and how fun it was.

If there's no such thing as objectivity, no one can truly know there's no such thing as objectivity. So backing your actions and beliefs with such claims is pointless. Unless one questions basic logic as well, then everything makes sense and is total nonsense equally.

Happy ddq-day, Ascovel. 

1 month belated thanks, Ponch! Nobody has wished me that yet.

On the MORrOW let's have OROW!

PS:
Ascovel, I suggest you do read it before deciding if he's better or worse than half of this community, it's not a very long text.

Can't access the original page. "Page not found". Gaygamer's quotes I find an insufficient point of reference.

And to be clear - in no way I was deciding who's better. I'm against judging so easily. I'm against judging Tennapel's whole character and harmfulness based just on the info that he's prejudiced against some groups. I think taking a stand (even homophobic one) in a political conversation over the Internet has little to do with what a person is really made of when it counts. If Tennapel acted deliberately to harm someone then it would be a different matter.