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Cheers mate!

Now I know what to download if I ever want to lose my job and get a divorce

Happy Birthday Khris!!!

I'm sure that if there were a candle on your cake for every game project that you have helped someone bring from just a dream to fruition we would need a cake thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.

That's a big cake.

Someone (I cant remember offhand who) once said 'Funny is whatever makes you laugh'.

That was me.

I think the best AGS game I've played this year was Donald Dowell and the Ghost of Barker Manor.

You know what? I was just thinking the exact same thing!

See below

Have put character with a background so you can see it in context, have altered the buckle as suggested.

I'm happy with it. Thanks everyone for  your comments.

** Some failed joke about buckling down and getting this game out ASAP **

If anyone wants to attempt CPR on the joke go ahead... As for me...

Come Nero... Time to go...

Maybe only having it "flow" being the character, like it would normally do when one walks and then stops???

Like Cassiebsg said: Have the dress trail out a little bit behind the character as if she had been walking and stopped, otherwise you are going to have a very hard time animating the character: Either the dress will trail when she walks and then suddenly gather up around her feet when she stops, or the dress will stay gathered around her feet even while she is walking. Either way is going to look weird.

Also: For me, the belt buckle looks slightly too far to the right compared to the way her face is pointing. The buckle on the hat is perfect, but it looks like the belt buckle has a different ratio of how far it is left-right-wise... (Yup, I'm just makin' up words now!)

Very nice looking character overall though. Love the hair baby!

I've chosen the name Angelina suggested by Mandle (in a PM),

Yay!!! I named a mouse!!! Never done that before!

Hopefully players will get the reference, or even if not: It's still a pretty name.

I've just made the second batch mixture and bottled it...This time with the recommended amount of yeast instead of trying to eyeball it like last time

Last time I used two 1-liter bottles. This time I'm using one 2-liter bottle. I will see if that also makes a difference as it's what the recipe suggests.

As for the last batch:

Had a couple of glasses of it last night after dinner, over ice, with the wife. It was quite nice, even she said so.

The taste was nice and gingery with a little kick from the chilli peppers. Not much evidence of the lemon juice or honey in the taste, but I think the lemon juice is there for a different reason. The lemon juice is to help kill any rogue bacteria that got in the bottle as I understand it. And maybe the honey got too eaten up by the overkill of yeast...

A bit too light on the fizz but I'm assuming that was because of the mentos and cola show I put on in the back yard with it earlier

I'd estimate alcohol content around 4% ..... so about the same as regular lightish beer...

I will check the pressure on the second batch tomorrow about 24 hours from now and see what's what

NOOOOOOOO!!!

I lost weeks of my childhood compulsively playing Yahtzee on the TRS-80...

Damn you Yahtzee!!! You're not getting me again that easilly!!!

/me goes to download...

1. It looks like the legs need to be a bit further over to the left - i.e. "under" the torso more

I thought the same thing at first, but then realized that it's the hair sweeping back in under her arm that makes her waist look too slim on the right-hand side. So her waist is thicker than it looks in this shot.

Maybe when she moves this will become clearer as the hair sweeps back and forth? Otherwise yeah....this illusion is a slight problem...

Otherwise: Great look!

The crack at the back of your fridge is usually a pretty warm place.

Might be a tad dangerous though if one of the bottles explodes. It could short out the fridge and start a fire I guess.

I think putting the bottles in double or triple plastic baggies and tying them shut would prevent splashage though. Just remember as well: Glass bottles are a big no-no!

Nice to meet you Phil.
The Ring books are great. I'm a big fan of the books and the films (although Sadako 3D was terrible!!! The scariest thing about that film is that they're making a sequel. Aaaargh!

Hahaha!!! Yeah...it's pretty much the "Jason" or "Freddy" syndrome going on, where the character from a well-made horror movie has taken on a life of its own outside of its original movie(s) and become a kind of recyclable boogeyman. The character has become better known than the movie(s)...

Unfortunately, when you remove the character from its original plot structure you just end up with something generic and tawdry.

Also see: "Aliens vs Predator" (not literally though)

Ron Gilbert himself just wrote a cool blog post about this very technique: http://grumpygamer.com/puzzle_dependency_charts

LucasArts Confirmed. THIS IS HOW YOU DESIGN PUZZLES.

Thanks for sharing that! A very interesting read

I'm tempted to try this, but we are in winter now, so I don't know of many warm places to keep the bottle for 48h.

Wow...I'm surprised nobody jumped on this one...Kinda left yourself wide open there Mati

WOW!!!

They are all amazing, but I would have to pick #2 for the sheer attention to detail from the original source

They paced their real side splitting jokes well by making sure there was a "cool down" period in between filed with "just a chuckle" jokes before hitting you with the next "killer gag"...

That reminds me of something that was in a book on magic theory (about showmanship not actual illusions) called 'Strong Magic' by Darwin Ortiz . One of its suggestions was waves of performance, start off slow, hit your peak, taper off then repeat with each peak slightly higher than the last.

Cheers Mandle, you've reminded me of an old book I haven't read in over a decade, Im going to have to dig it out now

Very interesting indeed...I would say that magic and humour are both very similar disciplines in fact:

Both rely on the element of surprise to provoke laughter or amazement: You don't laugh at a joke if you saw the punchline coming, and you don't gape at a magic trick if you knew what was going to happen...

Magicians also tend to include a lot of comedy in their acts...well, the banter also distracts the audience from the mechanics of the trick that are being put in place

Sounds like a good read though...An adventure game is also kinda like a magic show, so probably worth a read for developers...

I tried to make cherry wine. But sadly there were some small maggots in the cherries already so they ate all they could of the yeast and grew very fast and probably had the intoxication of their life. It looked very yuk and noone wanted to drink it then though
Growing weed is easier 

You should have said:

"Why you little maggot, you make me want to vomit." ~ Drill Sergeant Hartman

Yeah...tried the weed growing thing back in my day...Guess I just don't have a green thumb...Never worked...

I can get yeast for free from work, I'm tempted to give it a try!

What's your work? ...Baker? ...Gynecologist?

I LOLed at BANG!

So did I...after I went and changed my undies...

Just had my first chilled glass of the stuff...Couldn't wait until night-time...

It was niiiiiice...

The ginger and chilli pepper mixes were perfect...Very spicey, which always goes nice over ice in the summertime...

The fizz was too light though, but still there...That would be from wasting most of it on the volcano effect when I tried to release the gas earlier

And yeah...the alcohol content was pretty strong...Might go and take a bit of a lie down right now...

Next batch coming up after a nap and a bit of thought...

For now: Note to self:

RULE #1: Don't put in 5 times too much yeast next time!!!

[BANG!!!]

Well...I've started my first brewing experiment with homemade ginger beer, of the alcoholic variety ...

I've been following the recipe/instructions on this site:

CLICK HERE

I mixed up and bottled the mixure 2 days ago in two 2-liter plastic PET bottles, and placed in my garden shed.

I had an inkling that I had put in too much yeast, and boy was I right

Yesterday I checked on the bottles and they were already swollen, which is supposed to take 48 hours, not 24 hours like in my case.

So I released the caps a little and let off some of the gas pressure. The mixture fizzed and foamed up quite nicely. So far so good.

This morning I checked again and the bottles were really swollen again already.

I tried releasing the gas again and...

BANG!!!... the caps shot off into the air about 20 feet at the barest twist and the mix shot out like champagne after you give the bottle a good shake...Think F1 racing champion style!!!

Scared me (and the neighbors I'd say) half to death!!!

Well, I managed to save about half the mix...so about 1 liter saved out of the original 2...

It's now in the fridge where the cooling is supposed to deactivate the yeast. Hopefully this happens or my fridge explodes I guess

I did have a taste of it before fridging though and it was quite good! Nice and spicy with a light fizz...Gonna be good over ice later tonight I think. Not sure of alcohol level yet, but a mouthful gave me a slight buzz so it's in there for sure. Just don't know how strong yet.

"It passed the first test though: I didn't go blind!" ~ Homer J. Simpson

So yeah...first experiment...lesson learned: WAAAAAAAY too much yeast!!!

Will have another attempt tomorrow after I sample and rate this first batch tonight...Once I get the technique down pat I'm gonna go massive scale and brew enough for a big party with friends towards the end of summer

Has anyone else brewed ginger beer (or other alcohol) at home? What were your experiences? Any advice to share?