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Time for another one perhaps!

ABOUT RELEASE SOMETHING:
This isn't a competition as such, just a big free-for-all where we can all showcase our talents. Basically, a date is set for "Release Something!" Day and on that day, people are invited to post to this thread anything they like, really. For example, some sprites,Ã,  screenshots of your game, music, sound effects, backgrounds, rooms, a plugin, a storyboard, a demo, or if you can manage it, a full game. Heck, even if it's 95% done or 1% done, if you wanna release it, you go for it!

WHEN:
It's starting on November 25th (that is, NOW) and usually runs for a couple of days to accomodate for different timezones and people actually having lives.

Remember, anything you want, as little or as much of it as you want! Get working, people!

This is the only piece of code in this game so far, so there really can't be aything conflicting. Whatever the problem is, it's here.

Basically, I have a room with one GUI in the top-left hand corner. The room background is 2040x2550 and the "map" GUI is 68x85. The map is a smaller version of the background and what I'd like is if you click on any given area of the GUI, the view scrolls to the corresponding area in the room.

This is the code I have so far:

Code: ags

		int ypos = 0;
		int xpos = 0;
		destx = ((mouse.x-gMap.X)*30)-640; //Establish the destination by converting
		desty = ((mouse.y-gMap.Y)*30)-480; //small map coords to large room coords
		if (destx<0) destx=0; //if destination is within 640x480, make
		if (desty<0) desty=0; //sure the dest coords don't go below 0
		
		int diffx = 0;
		int diffy = 0;
		if (GetViewportX()<destx) diffx = destx-GetViewportX(); //Establish the distance between
    else if (GetViewportX()>destx) diffx = GetViewportX()-destx; //current X,Y coords
		if (GetViewportY()<desty) diffy = desty-GetViewportY(); //and the destination X,Y coords
		else if (GetViewportY()>desty) diffy = GetViewportY()-desty;
		
		int speedx = (diffx/10)-(diffx%10); //Set speed so larger distances are 
		int speedy = (diffy/10)-(diffy%10); //covered in the same time ie. scrolls faster
		
	while ((ypos != desty) || (xpos != destx)) {
		SetViewport(xpos, ypos);
		Wait(1);
		if (ypos<desty) ypos+=speedy;
		else if (ypos>desty) ypos-=speedy;
		if (xpos<destx) xpos+=speedx;
		else if (xpos>destx) xpos-=speedx;
	}

Perhaps more convoluted than it needs to be, but it seems to me it should work. It half works, because when I click on areas of the map, the screen does move but often ends up going twice as far as it needs to on the Y axis, or occasionally in the wrong direction entirely.

I can't help but feel it's my maths which is wrong here, and/or the mouse recognition.

Any ideas?

Oh, I've also noticed that the mouse cursor doesn't go down to the bottom of the screen. It stops perhaps about 20 pixels short, and of course seems to go about that much higher off the top of the page. What on earth could be causing this? I've never really coded for mouse/cursor functions so I'm stumped.

Also, I have another GUI made up with almost the exact same properties as the map GUI (which shows up everytime) which I just can't get to appear on the screen. I can think of no reason whatsoever for this. Even if I code a gDebug.Visible = true; into the game start, it won't show up. And yet, the gMap GUI shows up, as it should.

Sorry to ask so much, its just baffling that I have all these problems when there's really no more to the game than what I've mentioned here.

[Chu-chi]

Oh, joy of joys!

The Mushroom Republic has done it again! My dear friend and well-known comic genius Patrick Alexander has finally released his own game, "Chu-chi"!

It's a very unique music-based shooter created in Game Maker. I won't go on about it too much because you ought to see for yourselves, but it's terribly impressive, and I don't even mean in a "for his first game" kind of way. It's incredible that he's managed to put something like this together for what is indeed his first game (it puts me to shame and do intend on self mutilating myself later, rest assured).

Well, here are some screens:







To keep the project managable, it's only two levels long but trust me, you'll spend a decent amount of time playing this. I did the old, "Play it because my friend made it" thing not thinking I would be anywhere near as caught up playing it as I was. It's almost certainly going to be a bit overwhelming at first, but as you get the hang of it bit by bit, it's very rewarding and a real challenge. PLAY IT LONG TIME!!!



Right! Here's the game: http://chickennation.com/chu-chi/chu-chi_102.zip
(Just under 11MB)

...and here's Patrick's LiveJournal if you want to send him any comments, which I know for a fact he'd hate, so do it for me instead: http://community.livejournal.com/chickennation/15732.html

[if mouse click on GUI]

This is such a basic question, I almost want to shoot myself for asking, but here goes. I have a GUI in the corner of a scrollable screen, I simply want this code:

Code: ags

SetViewport(mouse.x*30,mouse.y*30);

to be used when the left mouse button is clicked on said GUI. Given my recent game project involved no mouse whatsoever, I have no idea how to do this. Which script do I write the code in? Global? The GUI's script? I'm not sure how to achieve, "if mouse click on GUI".

What's the deal, are the originals (not the VGA remakes) available for download anywhere? Or is Sierra still being a bitch about that sort of thing? Because I wanna make my friend play the original and yet it's proving mighty difficult to find it on the net.

People of AGS,

I'm in Brisbane right now cleaning out my stuff from my old apartment (now my ex-fiance's apartment), and before I head back to Japan on the 26th, I have a veritable lifetime of goods to get rid of. I can't take them with me, and I cannot afford to ship them all over to my parents' house on the other side of the country. So they need to go. Most of the books I've read, the CDs and DVDs I shall be burning a copy of for myself before I get rid of them and though I would prefer to keep the originals, I just can't. I physically and financially can't.

I've put prices on these, but this is just kinda a rough guide. I mean, I'd prefer to get a little something for them because I'm terribly broke *violins!* The only thing I really need and won't waver on is that you agree to pay for all the postage/shipping yourself.

Most of these things are in excellent condition because I do take care of my things. Some of the books aren't new though (I mean, when I got them), a bunch are 2nd or 3rd hand. I haven't written which yet because this took long enough to do already but please ask if you care. Some of these books are near new, some are old and adorable and have that nice smell old books get. Some DVDs have only been watched once, and even my most treasured ones haven't been watched more than a few times. There are only so many hours in the day for Labyrinth, as great as it is.

I hope these prices aren't too much, I was trying to pick something reasonable that would be practically nothing. Feel free to bargain, but the postage must be paid.

One thing I didn't put on there is 4 Futurama box sets, seasons 1-4, because they are kinda special and I haven't figured out what to do with them yet. I can't take them with me, but I guess if someone wants them, offer me a price and we'll see.

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DVDs ~$8  [I checked every disc, all good and scratch free]
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Star Wars - Ewok Adventures: "Caravan of Courage" and "The Battle for Endor" **SOLD**
The Neverending Story **SOLD**
The Young Ones - Series One **SOLD**
Blackadder season 3 *SOLD**
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Collector's Edition (2 disc set) **SOLD**
The Goonies
A Fish Called Wanda **SOLD**
Return to Oz
Labyrinth **SOLD**
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Spaceballs
Willow
Terminator 2: Judgement Day

ANIME
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The Cat Returns
Panda Kopanda (or "Panda! Go Panda!" US title)
Moldiver (eps 1-6)
Araiguma Rascal (this is the entire series, but squished into long movie length)
Ah! My Goddess movie **SOLD**

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CDs ~ $6 [I decided to make these ones more because they're multiple discs, and fabulous]
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Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (2 discs + booklet) **SOLD**
Swing Bands (vol. 1/2/3; 3 discs) **SOLD**
The Best of Big Band Swing (2 discs) **SOLD**

CDs ~ $4
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Gwen Stefani - Love Angel Music Baby
The Darkness - Permission to Land
Michael Jackson - Number Ones
Queen - Greatest Hits III
David Bowie - Hours...
David Bowie - The singles collection 1
David Bowie - The singles collection 2
Alice Cooper - Super Hits
ZZ Top - Greatest Hits
The Goodies - Funky Gibbon
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Poodle Hat
The Cure - Galore **SOLD**
The Cure - Standing on the Beach **SOLD**
Madness - it's... **SOLD**
Duke Ellington - All Star series volume 2
Benny Goodman - All Star Series volume 2
The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith
Reservoir Dogs soundtrack

CDs ~ $2 [These are either singles/old fashioned/shit music/case is slightly damaged]
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Queen - Greatest Hits II [A few teeth broken on the case] **SOLD**
Kiss - Greatest Kiss [only here because the some of the CD case's teeth are broken.]
Brandy - Brandy
Daft Punk - Around the World
Music from China
Gregorian Chants **SOLD**
Koto Music of Japan
The Art of the Japanese Bamboo Flute
The Supermen Lovers - Starlight
TLC - Diggin' On You
Outkast - Hey Ya!
Roxette - Joyride
Romeo & Juliet soundtrack [embarrasing... but there's some good music on here]
Enigma3 - Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!
Madison Avenue - Who the hell are you?
Barenaked Ladies - One Week
Real MCoy - Another Night
25 Golden Classics (various famous classic pieces)
An Hour of Golden Classics (more of that)
Golden Big Band Era volume 2

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LARGE BOOKS ~ $3 each
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An Island Called Moreau - Brian W. Aldis
Otherland - Tad Williams
The Elf Queen of Shannara - Terry Brooks
The Talismans of Shannara - Terry Brooks
The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara - Terry Brooks
The Dragonbone Chair - Tad Williams
Rise of a Merchant Prince - Raymond E. Feist
The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien **SOLD?**
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien **SOLD?**
Sherlock Holmes; My life and Crimes - Michael Hardwick **SOLD**
The Sword in the Stone - T. H. White
The Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works **SOLD**
The Fatal Strand - Robin Jarvis
The Woven Path - Robin Jarvis

SMALLER BOOKS ~ $2 each
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Therapy and how to avoid it! - Nigel Planer & Robert Llewellyn
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway *SOLD**
Five Weeks in a Balloon - Jules Verne **SOLD**
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne **SOLD**
The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne **SOLD**
Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne **SOLD**
The Clipper of the Clouds - Jules Verne **SOLD**
The Island of Dr. Moreau - HG Wells **SOLD**
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll **SOLD**
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking *SOLD**
Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov *SOLD**
A Guide for the Perplexed - E. F. Schumacher
Red Dwarf Omnibus - Grant Naylor **SOLD**
Observations from a Moving Vehicle - The Sandman
Murder is Easy - Agatha Christie
The Nine Days Queen - Karleen Bradford
Decision at Doona - Anne McCaffrey
Eating Well for Optimum Health - Dr Andrew Weil [My health BIBLE. This man knows what he's talking about. I recommend this to anyone.]
Star Trek; Voyage to Adventure (A Which Way book) - Michael J. Dodge [This is a treasure.]
She-ra, Princess of Power; Shadow Weaver's Magic Mirror - John Grant

TEXTBOOKS ~ $2
I will just bin these if noone wants them, but I couldn't throw them out without trying. They're really good textbooks.
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Dos Mundos (fourth edition) [A huge, excellent Spanish book for beginners] **SOLD**
Two Chinese (Mandarin) textbooks... I can't read the title because it's in Chinese but this is like a first and second book. If anyone wants them, they're kinda neat. **SOLD?**



ANYWAY! PM me or reply here if you'd like to raid any of those!

Thankyou for your time ^_^ I hope I'm not breaking any rules here. I honestly thought you guys might be interested.

Hope I'm not breaking the rules with this one, but I was wondering if anyone could help me find a download of a game called SWIV. Not SWIV 3D or Super SWIV, but good old Amiga-version original SWIV. Was thinking about it yesterday but all I can find online are the remakes and whatnot.

EDIT: Well, *ahem* Since that question's been answered, let me expand the thread a bit. What's your favourite shooter? This is why SWIV was on my mind, was discussing shooter's a bit yesterday and SWIV sticks in my mind as being my personal favourite. Hard to remember why exactly, it was just plain fun. Simple but with enough to keep you interested all the way to the final boss.

Is this the 4th one? Something like that anyway. Thanks to Scummbuddy for being a constant reminder about this.

ABOUT RELEASE SOMETHING:
This isn't a competition as such, just a big free-for-all where we can all showcase our talents. Basically, a date is set for "Release Something!" Day and on that day, people are invited to post to this thread anything they like, really. For example, some sprites,Ã,  screenshots of your game, music, sound effects, backgrounds, rooms, a plugin, a storyboard, a demo, or if you can manage it, a full game. Heck, even if it's 95% done or 1% done, if you wanna release it, you go for it!

WHEN: (that is, NOW!)
This time it's starting on June 15 and usually runs for a couple of days, so PLENTY of time.

Remember, anything you want, as little or as much of it as you want! Get working, people!

But Jimmy Kimmel (or whoever the heck he is) did!

http://www.devilducky.com/media/45899/

http://trendpimp.com/albums/crazy2/crazy_mkvsstreet.swf

This is really bad-ass. I love it.

But it got me thinking. Who do you want to win? Before I saw that, I was thinking probably Street Fighter but now, well, Scorpion just kicks ass. I'd have to say I like it's brutality over Street Fighters more... cleaner style.

(Dead or Alive is still the best fighting game series ever, after Soul Caliber)

I cannot believe I'm the first to start a thread on it. I claim this thread - Wii!

So, what do wii think of the name? I hate it, personally. Nintendo has become a joke. I had SUCH high hopes for the Revolution. I still think it'll be an amazing console. I can't wait for it. But I will never, ever like that name. It makes me feel embarrased to be a Nintendo fan.

Can someone please tell me an easy, no fuss way to take screencaps of an avi file? What I'm getting at the moment is that annoying thing where it just screencaps a blank hole. I remember there was sme method of getting around this but I can't remember what.

Sorry for the lack of detail, I'm not sure what else to say.

Thanks!

http://www.studiohunty.com/dungeon/

Great fun! A fantastic concept.

I'm thinking of a game I'd like to make (eventually), and I'm at the point where I'm starting to consider whether or not 2D would be the best platform for this game. I've never considered a 3D game before in my life, so I have no idea where to start really.

I'm not at the point where I want to actually find programs and play around with them, I'm still very much only thinking conceptually. But, I was wondering if some of the people here who DO have experience with both 2D and 3D game making could help me out with some rough questions I have.

Firstly, are there decent 3D game making engines out there? I'm looking to make something akin to an RPG.

Secondly, would cel shading be much more difficult to pull of than your standard 3D shading?

Thanks!

I go on about this game sometimes. It really is about my favourite game in the world. I thought, for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about and would like to see a little bit about the game, I'd let you know about the webpage.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ngc/ggfj/

It's in Japanese, but very visual!

If you click "ON" on the front page, you can hear the theme song (the screen that pops up will ask you if you want the "short" or "long" version, in that order - get the long version).

If you'd like to see a bit of the game in action, click on the red movie reel-looking thing that says, "click!". Or just go to this link here:

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ngc/ggfj/images/movie.wmv

For those of you who have never heard of it, Giftpia is a game released on Gamecube some years back. It's what you'd call an RPG, but I think it's closer to an adventure game. It's both and neither really. It was never released outside of Japan, unfortunately, and never translated. If there was a way for me to do it though, I'd translate it myself.



One of the greatest things about Giftpia is the music! It's -stunning- and never, ever leaves my everyday music rotation. An official soundtrack was never released because all the music is created by various amateur Japanese street bands. It's a real shame, but you can get most of the tracks here anyway:

http://www.revo-europe.com/news.php?nid=4185

I suggest you -do-. they're all wildy different styles of music, and all fabulous. They aren't all full tracks, unfortunately, but this is better than nothing.



Thankyou for your time ^_^

http://www.conlanpress.com/youcanhelp/

Aww Poor guy. I LOVED The Last Unicorn! I don't have any merchandise though.

What's the most disgusting injury you've ever had? Or the worst? But I'm more interested in the most disgusting one.

I've had almost nothing my whole life. No broken bones, no measles or chicken pox. Never had any parts of my ripped off or maimed beyond use. Bo-ring.

I did have ring worm once which was quite disgusting, but not as disgusting as it sounds, really.

Anyone ever pulled their toenail off? That looks pretty gross: http://www.alexwrege.com/wp-content/no_toenail.jpg

Is anyone here a Scientologist? I have some questions

Anyone else watch this show? I didn't like it when I first saw it but now I can't get enough of it. Just watching every episode I can find now (thankyou, youtube.com!)

The "rules" are simple. Post a video from a site like video.google.com or youtube.com that you think other people should see! (Probably try to avoid things that are well-known or from those "Most Watched Clip" lists).

I'm always finding great stuff in these places but I wanna see what the rest of you have to offer ^_^

This is my contribution. I think I've posted it on these forums before but if it passed you over, you should check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K_VMB8d19Y

The song is "Bohbo No. 5" by a long time, popular Japanese band called Southern All-Stars. I adore this song, and the filmclip rocks.

It's not like I'm the boss of the internet, but lets make this thread about links to places like the previously mentioned sites with instantly playing clips, not things you have to download or things that require bizarre plugins ^_^