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The house looks extremely natural  :o! How you did it?

Well, sea looks more like distant hills, I think it would be better if horizon would be absolutely horisontal instead of this blurry case of sea you're having right now. Actually, these screaming contrasts remind me an old game, "Shadow of the comet". Experiment with less contrasty colors on seawater, I hope this helps. Apart from this, everything looks absolutely ok and beautiful.

I still think we should do away with the collage of games and go with a rotating collection of individual game banners.

I think that this is super idea. It also prevents this site having just one banner which some people would dislike. Variety! Yeah!

Oh, is that a kid?
Funny, I always thought that It's someone's grandma on ecstasy or enjoying some highly good mood with same type of music... :o
She looks old!

It's almost impossible to understand what you really want to do. Start a dialogue? Script it?
Let's assume you made a dialogue which must be happen when character uses talk cursor on some other. Under "characters" see that other character's "interactions", find "Player talks to character", put "run script" there and give a command RunDialog(int topic) and put a number of that dialog instead of "int topic". Easy?
Oh, and just download AGS demo game and see how It's done there!!

Um, I dunno. I think banner should be less colorful (more similar blue tones and less contrast) and present main characters from different games, not just random trees or dogs. So It'll symbolize more games made with AGS.

Thanks.
Actually i don't like using hotspots at all, but there seems to be no way doing this with edges. Well, I plan my game to have 2-3 rooms able to walk through per map location, so I think I'll do with hotspots.

SaveCursorForLocationChange(); was something I had no idea about, 2 hotspot use seems just clever. I'll see which I use. Thanks again.

Hm. I noticed some games have their cursors changing to an "exit" sign or directional arrow, when pointing them over place which makes character change room. How to make such thing? I tried with hotspots and change cursor to usermode1 when "Mouse cursor over area" and cursormode is "walk" but mouse stays that way after removing it from hotspot. Is there any script commands to determine is mouse over specific hotspot (and if not), or is there at least any simpler way to do this?

Hm. Not bad at all. Appears to become an interesting character.
Only problem I have with him is physics. When standing like that, keeping balance seems to be difficult.

I drew a stickman fast to show, how thing would be a bit better.


See, you could redraw pants a little, and give stronger angle to hand, otherwise than that, everything seems ok, IMO. Well, that's only what I think.

I really hope to see more characters from you, because I like the style alot.
P.S I used old picture, but hand & feet are same on both, so It doesn't matter.

About pasting sprites out from AGS - yes, I've noticed wrong color outcome too. colors seem somewhat replaced with blue and green tones. The way I use is to paste sprite into MSPaint first, then Copy it into clipboard from paint and then to my drawing program. Works fine, only disadvantage is that it takes extra few seconds... but that's not a mentionworthy problem.

This is more like regional thing, where I live, kids listen rap alot, but there wasn't been any school shootings ever. Firearms are still more a thing that only grownup criminals carry and they cannot be bought from street... at least usual kids cannot.

Interesting that this question appears again and again. Yet, It's no material for tech archive.
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Hm. I found my computer sometimes crashing when exiting game via "Alt"-"X" keys during some character talking (running talking view while showing some speech text). blue screen > restart, no other way to get around this. Usually when quickexiting during cutscene. But this seems random or there's a moment to catch which crashes Windows.

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Or incompatibility of sense of humor between different people (which is supposed to be like that, IMO). But no-one forces you to (re)act anyhow, so...
...so nothing. This is getting stupid, if it already isn't. But you're overreacting this all alot.

Now, morale is that really that It's damn good to live right now and we should spend less time about complaining.
And whole thing was meant to be something to produce a weak smile or something at least close to that. Not a war, naturally.

Why are you guys taking every word so dramatically and seriously? Isn't this a corner in AGSforums to present even a simple thought that made me laugh or share some good emotions about a movie and so on? Why? Do I sound like a dictator gathering hate and manpower for next world war?  

Glass?

Massive, oak doors with wooden panels, perhaps?

Rap culture then. Okay.  
Even if I am living in a box, It's made of glass and I'm not that ignorant to close my eyes.

Last thing I'd like to do is having forum fights at 7:30 AM over a topic in which I'm pretty incompetent and don't really care about much until I have personally closer connections to topic, neither winning the fight. I don't have black friends! But If I'd met one and it were a nice guy, no color could stop me from becoming his/her friend. Peter Thomas is right - I didn't mean it that way at all. Only time I have talked to someone black was at New Years eve, me and my friends were drinking at the city center and two famous house DJ's stopped us to ask direction to a fancy local night club where they performed that night. We fell into a chat for a hour and drank two bottles of expensive vodka, my friends (who are 101% hip-hop-culture teens) were superhappy to meet people that are black, just as their hip-hop idols. During this, I didn't feel for a second that there's something different with those people (except that they were famous house DJ's ).

So, read here: I don't have a problem with black people. But I've just became an uncle, and I don't feel too good about my little cousin growing up with "pimping", "bitches" and other weird stuff from MTV which is so popular nowadays.

Fact that people discuss things they don't know much about happens all the time. People who make laws don't usually act against them. Social workers don't do drugs by themselves, but encourage people not to use them.

But I don't like to fight over something, I don't know very well. Like ethnic (did I spell that right?) groups or their culture.
Especially here. In and with this community I've enjoyed so far to be member of.

I wouldn't call you racist, just retarded. What you call black culture probably doesn't include 2/3 of black people.

Maybe it doesn't. But lots of "pop" category things (music, clothing, way of language use, etc) are from afroamericans actually.
That's all I meant, and this goes basically for music.
And word "racist" doesn't mean anything to me, because where I live, aren't any black people. There's maybe 10-20 of them for whole of my country (which has only 1,4 million of people), so I actually haven't seen or experienced real skin-color-related racism in life and it's stupidity to attach me to that. There's only russians and estonians. And being "estonian" is a reason enough to have your teeth kicked in when encountering some russian youngsters on the street, especially when they're drunk. That concludes all problems between nations here.
And after all, one word really wasn't what this thread was about. I can't tell more that I know and if it comes to foreign people or culture, I can only tell what I get from media. Turn on MTV.  If I am wrong - let it be so. Point taken.
Smarter now. Happy?

I'm not sure what definition of "dimension" you're using when you say we can only sense one, because we live in a three-dimensional world. Are you talking about parallel universes or something?

My grammar/typing mistake - I didn't mean a single "dimension" but a "set of only three dimensions" or an "environment consisting only three dimensions"... actually, I don't find my vocabulary enough to put these words properly... but Remixor, I think you got the idea anyway.

Okay. Present time is fucked up, It's pretty clear. Drugs, popculture (risking being called a racist, I say it: Black culture, which pop really means today), diseases that didn't exist 100 years ago and all this crap, you name it. Now, I was thinking about what comes next.

I am currently 20 years old. If I had a grandfather and asked him to tell how things were in his youth, he'd tell something like that:

Times were quite difficult. WWII has just begun, nazis drove around in our village, demanding butter, milk and meat. We were very poor, our father was taken away by soliders and we never saw him again.
There wasn't any grown-up men left in village, so nobody did the farming. Winter came along with hunger.
My mother didn't have any money to send me to school - or even buy me shoes. There wasn't any food left. So we, me and some boys from village, sneaked to a house where nazis had set up their camp, and stole some solider bread from their supply shack. Thanks to god and bits of food we managed to get, we survived this winter...

Heroic and serious. Now, I was thinking, what would be story I'M telling to my grandchildren after 45 years?

Times were quite difficult. I couldn't afford a faster video card or load my cellphone with credit every month.  America invaded Iraq. Terrorists blew theselves up around the world. Drugs and popculture invaded youngest part of humankind. Gas became super-expensive. People became fat. Millions of retarded, perverted, sick people found themselves a stage to act on in Internet. Success of Doom and Tomb Raider killed the last good of computer games, making all games to be third or first person shooters.
Adventure games genre was dying, or already dead despite a group of people who still knew and loved it.
Oh yeah, It was a difficult time...

Stupid? Oh yeah.
I think that after that story, my grandchildren rush away to bring me my pills.