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My bad, I meant "Always ask before opening this file" - not type of file.

I think (if memory serves correctly) there is a check box on the actual warning that comes up, something like "always ask for this type of file" which you can uncheck.

Snakes coming up through the toilet - insane!

Reminds me of a story that was doing the rounds a while ago - can't remember if it was internet or newspaper, but definitely true in any case

A girl took her pet snake (python? or at least a seriously beg snake) to the vet complaining that it was ill. Apparently it hadn't eaten for weeks, which was not that unusual in itself, but it had been refusing the dead mice etc. she put into it's tank, which was in her bedroom. She got concerned when, a couple of nights in a row, it started banging on the lid of the tank as if it was trying to get out. Then, the following night she was woken up by the snake actually in her bed, not wrapped round her or anything but stretched out lying down next to her. She put it back in the tank, thinking it was obviously ill and took it straight to the vet next morning.

Well, any illusions she had that the snake was being "sweet" in some way by coming into the bed with her for comfort were quickly dispelled by the vet.

Apparently the snake, seeing her lying there immobile each night, had decided that she was the best meal he had seen in ages and the part about lying next to her was him measuring her against his body to see if he could manage to swallow her whole, which is apparently what that type of snake does!

I'm guessing she got rid of it pretty fast!

Looks nice, definitely looking forward to this one!

Confused...

So... notwithstanding that the next host is chosen at random, was there a ... winner?

I'm very grateful for the freebie and also ashamed I haven't bought it!  :'( (emoticon feeling overload.)

Thank you Mr Gilbert!

...and also to have a feature of adding bookmarks so you can press a key and scroll though your bookmarks...

I'll second that. Very handy for a "less experienced" coder such as me!

Must agree, I enjoyed all the games and frankly couldn't believe how high the standard was considering the time frame they were made in. All were good and had something unusual (in a good way ) about them marking them stand out in their own way.

However, ultimately Helme's just felt more like a complete game (as Dual said above) and, for me, that was what made it stand out. Not to take away from the others though, I would be particularly interested to see a "complete" version of "The North Crown" and "Ardent Fever" given more time etc.

I might start calling my wife Mrs. Degree!

Wow! So much Barn Runner love. Now I feel even worse (worser?)  for not having chapter three of The Forever Friday finished yet. (Only seven months behind schedule, but who's counting). If I can ever stop working sixty (or more!) hour work weeks, then perhaps I'll be able to get back on track.

There will be demo of the game available on my website on October 1st. Hope that will tide you guys over until the game is finished.

Fantastic news!

Now, LESS POSTING AND MORE FOREVER FRIDAY!

Prick Peckard! Nothing more.

Seconded!  

Thirded. 8)

Gaseous snake - in a bell jar!

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Able to get to places others cannot go but ultimately foiled by a breath of wind!

No one else seems to have mentioned it...

That's because we're all in denial about our AGS Forum addiction problem!

Thanks very much.

I could have sworn I'd already tried using the

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makeup

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on her already. Oh well

Don't you hate it when you get stuck in a game before Leon has had a chance to finish a walkthrough!

So far I have...

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Drained the fountain of water and read the markings except the one the sylph is sleeping on. I have got the decoder, sceptre, water in the vial from the pool in front of the mirror, On/off switch thing, magnifying glass, makeup and scroll.

How do I wake up the sleeping sylph (on/off switch only does so temporarily) and/or what do I do next?

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I don't think Andail was suggesting that a game that deals with being a man/woman would have to be some sort of sociological treatise. Because like you say, that doesn't sound like much fun.

Apologies to Andail if I misunderstood here.

But that doesn't mean that it couldn't prominently feature, in an informed and profound way, some of those experiences that ProgZmax talks about. That "My First Time" game concept that The Ivy did for GDC comes to mind. Games like that might allow people to reflect on the experiences of the other sex, could inform debates about gender, and sociology students could write their thesis about them if they wanted.

Firstly, with the greatest respect to The Ivy, whose games I love and are roughly 7 million times better than anything I could do, this is fine for a short game but I wonder whether it would work consistently for a longer (i.e. full length) game?

Similarly, I think it would be interesting to play a game with a black main character, where that was actually a point rather than just a palette variation. Doesn't mean it couldn't still tell an entertaining story. A game like The Shivah was enriched by featuring Jewish themes while still being a cool noir mystery, for example. But there really aren't a whole lot of adventure games like that. In the vast majority of cases, the main character comes from an almost completely anonymous background. (One of the reasons I was disappointed in Blackwell Unbound was that although it featured a female main character in the early 1970s, it more or less completely glossed over what that experience was like, and the cultural differences between then and now. I'm not saying the game should have turned into Mad Men, but by pretending that it was a non-issue both the world and the character came to seem less real.)

I think we're now agreeing, as having a black/Jewish protagonist, with the "black" or "Jewish" part as one facet of his character (rather than a game focused (sp?) particularly on that aspect), ties in with what I said (or at least what I meant ) regarding GK above.

I'm not religious, thank you very much.

On the contrary dear boy, you frequent and post on these forums religiously!

When was the last time you played a game that â€" in an informed and profound way -  discussed what it's like to be a man/woman? Maybe one out of fifty games features a protagonist and a plot that allow for a pertinent socio-cultural analysis. The rest are about pirates, adventurers, private eyes, apprentices, and whether they're male or female has more to do with esthetics and gimmicks rather than a desire to truly debate gender.

Of course many adventure game protagonists (and other genres too of course) are "blank canvases" so the player can project themselves onto them. Or sometimes just due to bad writing!

Even in games where the characters have definite personality of their own (looking at GK1 as an example) you are correct in that most (maybe all?) do not specifically deal with what it's like to be a man/woman, but I think anian is also correct when he says that nobody (or not many people) would want to play a game like that. Could well make interesting short stories but probably not so good in an adventure game.

I would even say that in GK1 the well formed characters are not limited to being just a man or a woman, but are men and women with different (and sometimes changing) personalities that are influenced by the fact that they are a man or a woman (i.e. this is just part of their characters). To me this is much more interesting in terms of a game, the overall character of the people involved rather than any debate on gender (for the purposes of this argument and IMO an isolated feature of personality/character).

I nominate c.leksutin for that position 

Seconded. It's probably not even worth having a moderator category because he will walk it.

No, it's just that you can't run Winsetup.exe unless the game.exe is called "Jonny Smallvalley.exe".