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How many people does it take to persuade you that the mould is too much? We don't need to see it in game, we can zoom into the picture using paint, at the in-game resolution and see that it is too much.



Here is a mouldy wall. It's subtle colours, where as yours are dark dots scattered everywhere covering all of the wall. At least space it out a bit so it's not all over the place.

You should read a lot of books and I mean A LOT of books. Books are fun, and do wonders for your spelling and grammar!

Hehe, yeah too right! Whereas the internet has irrevocably damaged my english skills! (Well maybe not irrevocably, if I started reading books again..)

I don't like it when people of the same skin colour as mine assume I won't take offence by their racist words against any non-whites just because I'm also white. 

Heh, if we were influenced by Adventure games like they think violent games made people kill, then how come we don't go around picking up everything not glued to the floor and stuffing it all in our pcokets and walking around with two huge bulges in our trousers. (And maybe a third bulge depending on if you played a lot of Leisure Suit Larry.)

Feck off!

What, for just that instance? Make a whole new inventory that'd get in the way of the player for a single instance?

Did Simon's (Sorcerer) or Joe's (Flight of the Amazon queen) save book get in the way, by the way? Didn't Sam n Max have the little un' as an inventory item?

I said inventory item as it's minimal scripting. If the game had onscreen verbs you can just have a "wear" option.

You two mean the "mould", I think.

Funny that you've got a person called "mould cheese" advising on how to draw decent mould.

The dots everywhere = mould. Clear?

This just goes to show that people can't tell what it is, I do declare that Mould's mould would be better to use. When they tell you how..

why make a game?

I don't regard my pathetic grades as sign of my own intelligence. Mind you, my best friend at school got only one A and he's REALLY smart at maths and Geography etc!

So my maths sucks. So what? I've made a decent adventure game, wrote some fine music if I do say so myself, can use most popular PC applications and my English is pretty good.

But hey, lets not get confused with intelligence and education. The smartest mind in history might not have been able to read, but could employ amazing tactics on the battlefield in war. Or something.

I wish I was a pretty girl so I'd get a heapload of drooling comments about me whenever I posted a photo of myself on AGS.  :'(


I'd never go out with my hair looking like that, yet here I post this image to you. (Photo used in process of making mock album artwork)

We ran into some trouble with the scripting (and we didn't want Pib to be an object, as the player character tends to get in the way of other hotspots).

I'm grateful then, as I hate it when the main character is solid like that!

What if Pib had been an inventory item himself? A picture of his head, say. "Use armour on Pib"

RD and its sequel are two of those games that I seriously doubt anyone has ever completed without cheating.

Except the designers of those games, haha!

Oh MrColossal! I liked your short game, except I was stuck for ages on the crosshair bit.

And Grim Fandango was alright puzzle wise, it was the controls I hated, that put me off even playing it a second time through.

I did get a level 2 GNVQ Intermediate in I.T. Whatever that is.

And I have IBT2, but that didn't have a test..

In school:

I was in top group in history! Which meant I was in top group for Geography too, as they fell under the "humanities" banner. I didn't have a clue about Geography.

Religious Education fell under "humanities" too, but that was easy. We were told to just copy words out of books without ever taking anything in about it. And you wonder why I got appalling grades?

It's funny you say that. I don't know about Xbox, but there seem to be VERY few PS3 exclusive titles... not even Final Fantasy mind you that's probably only for release...

I'm not sure which ones are launch titles or not.. but Genji 2 is probably PS3 exclusive (You must have heard about the crab boss fiasco?) and Killzone 2 must be. Metal Gear Solid 4? ZOE3? Devil May Cry 4?  (ALL sequels hahahahahaha)

X-box 720? Nah, it'll be called X-box TRANSDIMENSIONAL, or X-box PERFECT CIRCLE.

Really, it's 100% impossible solving this without dying at least once!

When you inevitably died, did you have to load your last save game up or did it plonk you right back before you died? I don't mind it if one is taken back. Although I DO hate pixel-perfect puzzles!

Curses! Your message has reminded me of that atrocity known as Rick Dangerous! Not an adventure game sure, but you had to be psychic to play that. Read the programmers minds! It became a memory test, remember where that spike will come out of nowhere and kill you, remember where that bomb goes off etc etc

My money will probably be spent on a PS3. The 360 just doesn't have enough exclusive titles of interest to me to get so far, and the x-box only lasted me about a year compared to the 5-6 (?) year lifespan of my PS2. (In terms of games AND durability)

The wii looks fun, but I suspect I couldn't play an RPG all day on it, if I indeed have to hold my arm up all day? I'm glad light gun games only last a couple of hours, and they're knackering! Not just the trigger pressing, but holding my arm out foward.

I look at all the unique games I've played on PS2, the Helm-Hated Japenese RPGs, the quirky
novel games like Mr Mosquito (self explanotory I'd think), and the game where you had to survive earthquakes and rescue people (SOS: the escape), and the fun I had using the eyetoy to make videos before I got my PC. Oh! And the music makers.

So although I'm not "loyal" to Sony - How could I be when I own an xbox? - I do base previous games on which next gen console to buy.

ALTHOUGH!! Now I have a PC I am less inclined to buy next gen than I would have been before.

Erenan, He'd quite easily not had mentioned the gender so far, which is why it occured to me, but I see your point. I was just shall we say, brainstorming. Like I have about twenty different choruses for an album's worth of songs in my head and use 11 of them in the end. And as I haven't read any adult books whatsoever, I had no idea it was cliche! 

In space? Then in that case, I'd suggest using more detail. I imagined your story so far to be the year 2006 on Earth. Descriptions are key. Describe the walls, the buildings, the sky etc.

Here's an idea. It's what I used when I last wrote a story. I made a basic premise first, like you have. Then I write something like this for the whole story:

"Jack goes to car. Jack goes home and find's his wife has been killed."

This way I've already got the whole story quickly jotted down. Now I fill it in:

"Jack walks over to his car, opens the door, and climbs in. This was one of those big ol' family cars that... etc"

This is my own method, not one I've heard of anywhere else, so it's up to you if it would suit you or not.

Yes, Inflict! Someone I know who is reading the Dan Brown novel says there's violence with Tom's character, but even so, if the film doesn't, and the game is based on the film, not the book, then my point still stands. (Which you agree with anyways)

Desperate housewives: THE GAME! From looking at the back of the case out of curiousity, it looks like Sims Lite.

Apparently, in Catwoman the game, due to contractual license agrrements or something, you had to kick men in dustbins/wardrobes to "kill" them. They won't die otherwise! (Read that in a magazine)

EDIT: Har har! Very funny! Kick men INTO dustbins, then.

Most games come out on multiple formats, so I buy the best format suited for each game.

Like, a Burnout game I'd get on the PS2, as one of the X-box versions wouldn't let you change the controls, and holding down the trigger to accelerate for hours on end f*cks my finger up.

But a splinter Cell game, I'd get on X-box, for the nice graphics. (I would have said PC, but the new PC one comes with a shedloads of bugs in it, requiring more patches than Edward Scissorhand's blow up doll.)

And of course, some games are better on the PC for mods. Like Half life 2.

Okay, I was happy to read it up until the whole clown bit, which just lost me. I don't know what that's all about!

I liked it when they looked in the mirror and described non-human things about them.

You should check for spelling before letting anyone read your stories, by either checking yourself, asking someone else, or using a spellchecker. It's very important that spelling is right in a story. If things don't flow, or you spell things wrong, "aswered" then it breaks any belief of the sotry because my mind isn't thinking about what this alien is doing, it's thinking Dan missed the 'n'.

IF I knew what the overall story was about I could give you a brainstorm of titles.

Right, so "ALIEN TURNS 18" now that's kind of simple. You can make something like this interesting by rephrasing it. "Coming of age" for example. Now of the alien gets into danger, you could change it, "Coming of deadly age". Now that sounds like the age means he's gonna be deadly, so don't use that, but I hope you see where I'm coming from.

Also, I'm not sure, but I don't think the reader knows their gender.

Spoiler

Although this could be used to great effect if you fool the reader into thinking they're one gender, when it turns out they're not. Twists like these make for wanting to read the whole thing again in a new perspective. Perhaps if you didn't know he was an alien with blue skin for a while. Just a thought.

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