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Beautiful art!!!

Was thinking the same as Ghost!
Anyhow, I agree on the first one.

Is there any way to report a "Game Not Found" error? - as these games shouldn't really be on the lists now.

I also noticed there are games on the "all games list" that are marked with "Download link broken", even though the link is working just fine (including my own game. Yes, I am a narcissist). Is there a way to fix this? Who's in charge?
Can I speak to your manager, please (yes, I am that guy at the restaurant).

So, rated "A punk with wheels", "Mechanismo", "Rufus Story" and "Apple Farm".
Had some fun! Didn't do any of the life-stuff I had to do. So great success!

Think this is great! I'm gonna start on it right away!

Exciting!!

Look really nice! I really like Rosellas portrait!

Nice fixes! Heels improved her a lot, and the railing lines are much better.
About the spotlights, I did a little paintover:



I made the left one a little longer, I felt it was too separated from the building, and added some opacity and yellow to light "outside" the walls. I've never done light like this, and I don't know if it's more "correct", but to me it looks just a tad better. However! I believe you should be the judge of that. If you ask people will always have tons of opinion about your art, but the only one that REALLY matters, is your own. Just a thought.
I would also suggest that you let the picture rest a bit. It's already powerful, and you don't want to let the painting get you pissed! And don't let it make you loose the ejoyment of painting.
Good luck!

I actually think this theme is awesome! I'd love to try to do some cover art.
But, alas, there's just not enough time!

Hey SilverSpook!
I really like the image, and I think you have an intresting and expressive style!
Just some thoughts!
I think you're rework improved much, but personally i prefered the blue tiles. Mostly because I feel like the golden ones steal too much focus.
The building right below the "main" castle, could perhaps be reworked, or even removed! Moste it feels a bit weird because the line of the roof is the same line as the rail, but also because it feels a bit like the big castle is resting on it.
I love the light on the castle, but the spotlights on the... battlements (is that the english word?) looks a bit like brooms . Perhaps you could rework them to be a bit more "misty"?
I'm not very good with anatomy, but is her legs perhaps just a tad short? I'm uncertain.
Lastly: I prefered the red dress

edit: oh. Wrote this at the same time as snarky. Was not my intention to partially just repeat what he said

The Dr's office and the snailhouse are both awesome!

This looks awesome!

Yucca-Lip does taste remarkable and I koala't get enough of these puns... please make it better though

High koala-t puns!

[@Ghost]

Lots of good tips in here! I personally think a lot like Baron & Ghost. I also like too play other ags games, or read books, watch movies, look at art that somehow relate to my game. Or try to create something related to my game, but not directly "useful" in the game - concept art, sketches, etc. When I lack motivation I also like to do something completly different, like go out for a long walk, play with my daughter or go to the gym. Actually doing physical activity always helps to get those dopamines swinging. But all of this depends on what kind of depression your talking about. Depression can sometimes make it impossible to motivate yourself to do the things that might actually help you through depression. Thats why depression suck so much.
Personally my roughest game-realted deoression struck me AFTER completing my game (the one and only), for several reasons.

Sidenote:
@Ghost

I also like to put a couple of rewarding animations into my games and make then early. That's just some little reward for yourself: "Darn this is a wreck right now but once they see my little zombie-girl crack a smile they'll all be like, yay, and I WANT that to happen. Where's the caffeine?"

I absolutely LOVED "Chance of the Dead". It was actually the game that made me want to do my own AGS game. Thank you for creating that.

Is he really discouring people from reading it? Isn't he just saying that it believs not everyone will enjoy it, and that creating something popular isn't his intention?

I have no agenda. I stumbled on those complex subjects because I'm weird. Other weird people will find it and like it, maybe. Trust me: You would not want to read it. Hope I'm not being rude. Crazy, at most, but not rude.

If there's still room on the cd, I'd like to put on "me and Julio down by the shoolyard" by Paul Simon. Why? Well it's got that sweet ags-feeling.

Reminds me of... Was it Alien: Breed, for the Amiga?

Wow! This looks really awesome. Love the cutscene. And nice voiceacting Tabata and Captain D!

@Stupot & Adeel:
Thanks! Took me a while to notice this! Btw, i don't need to drink anymore to ask myself what the f--k happened, I have a 2 year old daughter. I just leave her in a room and reenter 30 secs later and that question pops up.

[miguel]

miguel
Ah, I get it now.

I don't care about the perfect game, what I do think is that a game review should conform to some basic skills/features clearly identified by the reviewer. Those features should be commented as objective as they can be. After that, by all means, do write some gaming poetry and I'll applaud. What I refuse to understand is the lack of dedication and depth on some reviews and the opposite on others.
I also think that if Gork333 wrote a review I'd still try to check him up while right now there's no way of anybody to check who writes the reviews.

You're probably right. I think I was focusing more on the response from the maker of a game on a review than the effect that review might have on a possible player of the game. Thanks for some perspective on that snarky.
Pseudonyms sounds like a good idea. That way you can read other review written by the same authour.
After reading the checklist I feel like it's a very well constructed system, and I guess it's inevitable that the ratings will halt during periods. But perhaps a solution to that is to add more people to the panel.