Messages

That's the biggest pile of bull ever. Where's Metal Gear Solid II? Devil May Cry, Gran Turismo, Deus Ex, Half life??!?

Boy-boy-girly-wirly awards. Yeeucckk!

[visually]

ISBN: 1-58450-043-3

Comes with an awesome CD full of awesome stuff.

Has a whole section on how to pitch your idea, how to get a job in the industry etc.

More juicy stuff:


THE ART BIBLE
Your art bible lists all the artwork needed in the game and includes a bit of writing since a great deal of notes should be taken on the overall look and feel of the game. Some of this material could be redundant of the design document, but it will help the artists stay consistent with the mood, ambiance, and atmosphere of the game. Here is where color schemes can be recorded and explained, rules for what colors mean in the game, and other elements that are visually important for the game. This document helps producers, designers and individual artists communicate and create textures and assets that will fit into your game world.
The art bible should also contain lists of things that need to be done, such as the following:

2D ART
MENUS
- Buttons and interfaces
- Background art
- Cursors
- Character icons

CREDIT SCREEN
- Font: Arial Bold
- Screen shots 32a - 36a must be included
One button to quit

The art bible is sometimes useful as a version of the game development as it pertains to the artist. Everyone needs to be up to speed on the entire project and understand how his or her work affects everyone else on the team. Having a schedule focused on one aspect for the artist can help.
The art bible should also take into consideration the publisher and its needs. It is not the developer's responsibility to do package or ad design, but you will be asked for screenshots, high-resolution models and other assets for web page art, sell sheet design, demo splash screens, magazine ads, press art, packaging, the user manual and more. Be prepared and make time for this deliverables in the schedule before going to the publisher. Sometimes a publisher will ask you to take screen shots since you may have the most recent version of the game with a new feature enacted. Take good screen shots can take time.

Also, visit www.godgames.com.

This book is awesome.

THE LIFE CYCLE OF A GAME

Year One: Design, research, prototype, proposal.
Year Two/Three: Making the game
Year Four: Testing, replication, packaging, shipping, IN THE CHANNEL.


Just a random interesting titbit.

[A) Overview/Story]

Well, today I was dropped in to town to go job hunting, which was expected to take all day. So my mother said she'd pick me up at around 3pm, same place. Anyway, what actually happened was that I walked about ten steps outside, got offered a job, and then had absolutely nothing to do all day. By the way, I would like to take this opportunity to pledge my allegience to Little Chef, the awesome resturant chain that - get this - single handedly saved the Irish Economy at least five times.

Anyway, that left me with very little to do for the rest of the day, so I decided to walk into a college and use their library and computer facilities. This is great because nobody has worked out that I'm not a student here yet, and they have broadband. So I'm thinking I'll come by this way more often.

But, enough about my illegal activities! Here is what you really wanted to know; In my search through their extensive book collection I found this really awesome book, which, having 6 hours ahead of me, I read from start to finish. It's called Designing 3D Games that Sell! and it's by this nice chap called Luke Ahearn.

In it I found some answers to a lot of questions I had about Design Documents, specifically, "How do you write a design document" and "What font should you use for your Design Document? Should it be a nice font, or a fancy one? Or something simple that just says 'I'm so good, I don't need no fancy pants'?"

I'll illegally post an extract of the said awesome book here, because I know that none of us really know very much about design documents and man, everybody wants to be able to write a design document! In fact, when I get home and quit using other peoples computers illegally, I'll write a design document, just for the hell of it.

Anyway, excuse my spelling errors because I am copying this directly from a book. Illegally, I might add. But I guess that's how much I love you people, huh?


A) Overview/Story
1. Define the game's key ambiance/attitude.
2. Describe the game's overall style.
3. Describe the general world(s) and the state of the world in which the game takes place.
4. Team members who will be working in this area and their spicific duties.
5. Production unit.
B)Characters/Units
1. Thoroughly describe the player characters/units
    - Current status/suituation/ambition
    - Personality traits, history/relevant relationships
    - Abilities, special abilities (Powers and or techniques) and their accompanying animation and effects
    - Weapons or utility items
2. Decribe persistent nonplayer characters/units
3. Describe persistent arch-enemies
4. Team members who will be working in this area and their specific duties; include necessary technological implementation.
5. Production art.
C) Level Description
1. Break the game into manageable sections according to it's genre.
    - Levels (Action/platform)
    - Chapters (RPG/adventure)
    - Geographical areas (RPG/Adventure/action/stategy/sim)
    - Mission (sim/stategy/action)
    - Races/tournaments (Driving/sports)
    - ....Ad infinitum
2. Description of each level
    - Level name (Describe the level in referential terms that everyone can understand: "Blade Runner Metropolis," "Spider King's Lair." etc..)
    - Enviroment (Appearance, geographical features, inactive (background) active (foreground) puzzles/traps/enviromental challenges, key area for artwork, maps may be helpful, team members who will be working in this area and their specific duties; include necessary technological implementation, Production art.)
3. Main goal of level (Explains the purpose of the level, EG Pascal needs to navigate through the hellhole to rescue Auntie Garfungiloop so she can give him the Jewled Monkey Head)
4. Level's relevance to the story (How the results of the player's success or choices in this level affect the overall story, how the level and events portrayed within for into or advance into the overall story, how these elements are related to the character, KEEP TRACK OF SUBPLOTS.
5. Characters/enemies encountered
    - Conversation/dialogue
    - Nonplayer character actions
    - Attack moves
    - Physical appearance
    - Brief character sketch
    - relevance to story
    - Technical description
    - key area for artwork
    - Team members working in this area and their specific duties
    - Production art
6. Actions/animations specific to the level
    - Explicit actions performed by the main character to accomplish level goal(s), defeating a boss, desivering or recovering an artifact, special abilities grantedby powerups etc.
    - Explicit actions performed by other characters.
    - Terms like "run" "Jump" are insufficient; it is important here to describe HOW a character jumps and what he looks like while doing so.
    - Team members working in this area and their specific duties
    - Production Art
7. Music for the Level
    - Technical aspects (event triggers, redbook audio etc.,)
    - Desired effects on the players
    - Purpose of music (EG Ambiance, tension building, clue supplying)
    - Team members working in this area and their specific duties.
    - Production art.
8. Sound effects for level
    - Level of realism
    - 3D aspects of sound
    - Hints provided by cues
    - Scripted dialogue
    - Background ambiance
    - team membes working in this area and their duties
9. Items per level
    - Powerups
    - Weapons
    - Any other items with which the player can interact
    - Key area for artwork
    - Team members in this area and their duties
    - production art.

Actually, Annie already pointed that out and I did think before giving it to her. Instead I went to the principal and told her exactly what we were gonna do and got the names of the parents council members to write to them. I also got a supportive email from the student union of ireland detailing how I could go about planning it.

And oddly the Principal seemed rather okay with it.

Anyways so basically we're considering either or both of these:

1. Just go in wearing trousers one day.
2. Each student has agreed to write one or more letters to the school a week with the exact same message. If the school has to open about 600 letters a week with the same message, from anonymous senders, they're gonna get pissed off. However, that's pretty much all it would do ; piss them off.

Oh and then we're all gonna assemble outside and burn our bras.

If you have the flaming mass, yay!

Use it on the hook in the store room.

If you have a petrol soaked string:

Load your saved game, because it's a BUG! You have to put the string on the extinguisher first, THEN soak it in petrol. Goddamn communists.

Okay, I changed my plan of attack slightly. As well as that charming letter to my principal, I'm also sending furious but completely reasonable letters to:

Noel Dempsey, Minister for Education
Dept. of Equality
Student Union of Ireland
Irish Times
RTE Radio Telefis Eireann
The Sunday Times
Carlow Nationalist
Sisters of Mercy Secret Military Headquarters in Berlin

I'll cause them so much shit they'll have to do something, and I'll let them know that as a single parent, my mother is entitled to legal aid, so money isn't an issue with this case.

After getting the respective replies from those depts, I'll stir the blood of my fellow students until they're as angry as I am. Then... War!

Anyway, I never understood why feminists burned their bras. Wouldn't it be uncomfortable without a bra? Imagine hopping down a flight of stairs with no bra. They were sort of cutting off their nose to spite their face, so to speak.

Ehm... did you try

Spoiler

using the EXTINGUISER on the Petrol soaked STRING? and Vice Versa? Crap, I hate dumb bugs

[close]

The Tree Bug IS fixed in the new version

Petteri, in answer to your question...

Spoiler

Use the flammab....

[close]

SHIT, bluecup!!! ANYway...

Spoiler

...Use the petrol soaked string on the fire extinguisher and use the flammable mass on the hook, then light the string with the matches and voila.

[close]

You could word it so that its a bit more like a request and less like a protest march plaque. Place your problems before her and ask her what suggestions she has for solving them. Suggest trousers as an option that might work. That would work better IMO.

I guess I should have explained this letter a bit better. I HAVE gone to her before. In 2nd year, I asked her why we weren't allowed wear trousers. In 3rd year, I got a lot more actively involved and wrote a pleasant letter detailing the advantages of trousers and disadvantages of skirts. Her main argument then was, "Well the school uniform has never been changed before (lie) and we're not going to change it now." Well, thing is, the uniform IS being changed, right now, starting september. And it's being changed in favour of all of us who want trousers. No, we're not being given trousers to wear... that would be the ideal. But they're changing the shirt to a blouse, and the tie for a scarf. They're ultimately digging their own hole because they're making us into more and more traditional females and so strengthening the case against them.

Because it's considered extreme discrimination in Ireland at least, to force a female to conform to traditional female whatchamaycallitums.

So yes, I have previously asked nicely, and even protested peacefully against them, and the Principal/Significant Others simply shrug their shoulders because quite frankly, they don't care.

As for uniforms on the whole... I generally don't like uniforms because of the colours/materials BUT I prefer to have them. I think they're great. The only thing I have a problem with is the skirt.

[Since first attending St Leos College, I was always surprised (and still am) that any modern establishment could still uphold such ancient and ludicrous traditions such as making females wear skirts. I have brought this topic up with several teachers and received many different excuses for this clear-cut discrimination of over 800 students in this school alone.1. It’s TraditionalNeed I mention that it is also traditional for wives to serve their husbands, or for women to be obedient homemakers and mothers? Modern society has (quite rightly) let go of these primitive ideas. Traditional is not a viable or convincing justification for the continual inequity against female students in St Leos, and across Ireland. 2. It’s been our school uniform for years, we can’t/won’t change it now.To correct this obviously accidental mistake on the part of many teachers, the St Leos School uniform has not always been the same, as it used to include a blazer, for a start. Also, the uniform is now due to be drastically changed again, therefore rendering this widely used defence obsolete. 3. It’s not up to us, the Teachers/Principal/Vice-PrincipalThe issue of discrimination is in fact, up to you, the discriminator. As enforcer of discriminatory rules, you therefore partake in the act of discrimination itself, against over 800 female students. You may not be able to change the uniform overnight, or of your entirely own accord, but your input into the process is vital. So far, any interaction with staff members of St Leos and other secondary schools across Ireland has simply produced shrugged shoulders. It is quite evident that said staff members are not working for the welfare of the students being discriminated against. 4. When you entered the school, you signed a document whereby you agreed to wear the St Leos School Uniform.My parent/guardian signed the said document, and I did not willingly agree towear the derogatory uniform. However, as the document has been signed, I can for now only continue to wear the uniform. Nevertheless, this does not merit the constant discrimination, or justify it, or make it defensible. It merelyimplements the inequitable rule and forces such discrimination on the students. 5. Skirts are more convenient than trousers.In Junior Cycle, the St Leos skirts may be machine washed without much by way of ill effect. However, there lies the problem of ironing, which is a dreadful task on any pleated skirt. In Senior Cycle, the skirts are anything but convenient. They contain a lot of pleats, making ironing them a tedious and time consuming job. This also means that machine washing will destroy them and wash out the colours. Therefore, the skirt must be dry cleaned, at horrible expense and terrible inconvenience. A pair of trousers, on the other hand, can be thrown into the wash whenever and quickly ironed. They are also significantly cheaper than the current school skirts, which range in price somewhere around E55. To say that skirts are more convenient is to lie blatantly.6. Skirts are much neater. Trousers look horrible on a girl.I can only laugh bitterly at this remark, which has been echoed by female and male teachers alike. Apparently, there is much conflict as to the true meaning or symbolism of a school skirt; so far suggested have been tradition, convenience, and because you just have to. But to suggest that a true reason for forcing a female to wear a skirt, to walk home in driving rains or winds in a skirt, to wait for buses or lifts in the winter months in a skirt, to wander around a cold school premises in a skirt, to endure teasing by male students from the neighbouring schools about her skirt... to suggest that it is because it looks better than a pair of trousers is insulting to both the said student, and the person who made such an absurd remark in the first place. 7. You don’t hear lads asking to wear skirts.Of course not. Skirts are awkward, uncomfortable and belittling. But of course, if girls are allowed to wear trousers, of course males should be allowed the right to wear a skirt. It’s a silly and primitive tradition to bar any sex from wearing a particular item of clothing. If they want to sport a skirt, I say let them. If they want to.8. Get used to wearing the skirt; you’ll be wearing uniforms when you get a job in the real world.No wise Employer makes the female Employees wear skirts. Such treatment can, and usually does, immediately lead to lawsuits. It is considered shameful to the Employer and does not stand well in court, as it is highly unlawful and extremely inequitable. Many students are now realising that the school cannot, in fact, legally prevent them from wearing trousers. It is becoming a matter of time before some manner of a student strike takes place. Schoolgirls and women workers are no longer required to wear skirts following a landmark ruling by an Equality Officer that compulsory women's uniforms are discriminatory. Rulings by an Equality Officer have a legal standing and can only be appealed to the High Court.Therefore it has already been decided that the compulsory female uniform in a place of work or education is considered discrimination. The enforcing of the strictly female uniform is discrimination. Furthermore, to deny a female in a workplace the right to wear the male uniform is highly discriminative and unlawful. The school is a workplace, and this law covers female students, as they are females within the place of work for as many hours a day as a teacher.In conclusion to all of the above, I would request that you seriously consider your treatment of the St Leos students as regards the derogatory and outdated uniform skirt which has been the subject of this letter, before the students take more serious steps in making their voice heard. The uniform is being altered; now is the time to make the leap to equality.]

See I actually LIKE Uniforms. I think they're a great idea and I enjoy not having to worry about what I'm going to wear. But I don't enjoy the skirt part of it. Especially not in irish weather.

I wrote a letter to the principal outlining some general stuff, and I'll give it to her on Monday, after I've checked it for dumb spelling mistakes, repeating words, (apart from discrimination, which doesn't have many alternatives and besides... the more I say it, the more threatening the letter sounds! Hurray for psychology!) and the inevitable "That Sentence Doesn't Make Sense"ness.

I throw the word "Equality" around in this letter quite a lot. I'd like y'all to know that that's to make it more imposing. The issue with me is not that I don't feel equal to a guy. It's the sheer discomfort of skirts and impracticality that's driving me to this, not penis envy. But words like Equality, Racism and Discrimination, make Principals tremble. But since there's no racism involved in skirts, I guess I'll just have to stick to the other two.




Since first attending St Leos College, I was always surprised (and still am) that any modern establishment could still uphold such ancient and ludicrous traditions such as making females wear skirts. I have brought this topic up with several teachers and received many different excuses for this clear-cut discrimination of over 800 students in this school alone.

1.   It’s Traditional
Need I mention that it is also traditional for wives to serve their husbands, or for women to be obedient homemakers and mothers? Modern society has (quite rightly) let go of these primitive ideas. Traditional is not a viable or convincing justification for the continual inequity against female students in St Leos, and across Ireland.

2.   It’s been our school uniform for years, we can’t/won’t change it
          now.
To correct this obviously accidental mistake on the part of many teachers, the St Leos School uniform has not always been the same, as it used to include a blazer, for a start. Also, the uniform is now due to be drastically changed again, therefore rendering this widely used defence obsolete.

3.   It’s not up to us, the Teachers/Principal/Vice-Principal
The issue of discrimination is in fact, up to you, the discriminator. As enforcer of discriminatory rules, you therefore partake in the act of discrimination itself, against over 800 female students. You may not be able to change the uniform overnight, or of your entirely own accord, but your input into the process is vital. So far, any interaction with staff members of St Leos and other secondary schools across Ireland has simply produced shrugged shoulders. It is quite evident that said staff members are not working for the welfare of the students being discriminated against.

4.   When you entered the school, you signed a document whereby you agreed to wear the St Leos School Uniform.
My parent/guardian signed the said document, and I did not willingly agree to
wear the derogatory uniform. However, as the document has been signed,
I can for now only continue to wear the uniform. Nevertheless, this does not
merit the constant discrimination, or justify it, or make it defensible. It merely
implements the inequitable rule and forces such discrimination on the
students.

5.   Skirts are more convenient than trousers.
In Junior Cycle, the St Leos skirts may be machine washed without much by way of ill effect. However, there lies the problem of ironing, which is a dreadful task on any pleated skirt. In Senior Cycle, the skirts are anything but convenient. They contain a lot of pleats, making ironing them a tedious and time consuming job. This also means that machine washing will destroy them and wash out the colours. Therefore, the skirt must be dry cleaned, at horrible expense and terrible inconvenience. A pair of trousers, on the other hand, can be thrown into the wash whenever and quickly ironed. They are also significantly cheaper than the current school skirts, which range in price somewhere around E55. To say that skirts are more convenient is to lie blatantly.

6.   Skirts are much neater. Trousers look horrible on a girl.
I can only laugh bitterly at this remark, which has been echoed by female and male teachers alike. Apparently, there is much conflict as to the true meaning or symbolism of a school skirt; so far suggested have been tradition, convenience, and because you just have to. But to suggest that a true reason for forcing a female to wear a skirt, to walk home in driving rains or winds in a skirt, to wait for buses or lifts in the winter months in a skirt, to wander around a cold school premises in a skirt, to endure teasing by male students from the neighbouring schools about her skirt... to suggest that it is because it looks better than a pair of trousers is insulting to both the said student, and the person who made such an absurd remark in the first place.  

7.   You don’t hear lads asking to wear skirts.
Of course not. Skirts are awkward, uncomfortable and belittling. But of course, if girls are allowed to wear trousers, of course males should be allowed the right to wear a skirt. It’s a silly and primitive tradition to bar any sex from wearing a particular item of clothing. If they want to sport a skirt, I say let them. If they want to.

8.   Get used to wearing the skirt; you’ll be wearing uniforms when you get a job in the real world.
No wise Employer makes the female Employees wear skirts. Such treatment can, and usually does, immediately lead to lawsuits. It is considered shameful to the Employer and does not stand well in court, as it is highly unlawful and extremely inequitable.

Many students are now realising that the school cannot, in fact, legally prevent them from wearing trousers. It is becoming a matter of time before some manner of a student strike takes place. Schoolgirls and women workers are no longer required to wear skirts following a landmark ruling by an Equality Officer that compulsory women's uniforms are discriminatory. Rulings by an Equality Officer have a legal standing and can only be appealed to the High Court.

Therefore it has already been decided that the compulsory female uniform in a place of work or education is considered discrimination. The enforcing of the strictly female uniform is discrimination. Furthermore, to deny a female in a workplace the right to wear the male uniform is highly discriminative and unlawful. The school is a workplace, and this law covers female students, as they are females within the place of work for as many hours a day as a teacher.

In conclusion to all of the above, I would request that you seriously consider your treatment of the St Leos students as regards the derogatory and outdated uniform skirt which has been the subject of this letter, before the students take more serious steps in making their voice heard. The uniform is being altered; now is the time to make the leap to equality.

But that's just it. The only ones demanding anything are the people running the schools who are generally child molesting perverts anyway.

Okay, this is NOT one of those whiney, "My Poor, Sad Life!" threads.  Just to get that out of the way. But you have to understand a tiny bit of family history in order to understand the funny, WTF part.

Okay, so my dad used to be violent and my mom moved out. I used to be pretty terrified but you know, teenagers stop being so scared of parents after a while. Besides that I just realized he was a petty and mean little man, and quite pathetic. I mean, he gave pictures of me to his best friend and told him he'd set him... a 30 year old... up with his daughter. Just because he was in a foul mood. And he spread rumours that I'm a whore. Okay, I'm talking THAT kind of insane, alright? Yeah, and recently we had to move back so we could sell the house. So we clashed. Anyhoo, the house is actually split into two wings, he lives in one, and us in the other.

Anyway, off the whiney part ASAP! Now for the good bit.



He called my mother into his wing of the house and sat down grimly. "I have a complaint." He said.

"What?" Asked my mother, carefully.

"One of two people did this. Either Rusalka did this to me, Rusalka told you exactly what to do, and you did it."

By now, my mother was geniunely curious. "What?" She repeated.

"For weeks now, I've been thinking that my music sounded hollowy and echoey. And yesterday, I found out why. Somebody had turned the bathroom setting on the speakers to ON."

My mother gave a mock horror gasp, and then realized he was actually making some kind of a point. "Wait, you think that Rusa--"

"Sneaked into this house, and turned the Speaker Settings to Bathroom. Or told you how to do it."

"I think you're being a little-"

"She's probably been sitting over there, listening to me playing hollow music, and laughing about it, has she? I told (his best friend) Sean about it. I mean, fair play to her for thinking of it and everything..."



Now I ask you, What the Hell? Maybe this isn't as funny to you, but I got this picture of me dressed in a black catsuit, sneaking across the roof, down his chimney, switching his speaker settings to BATHROOM, and then laughing hysterically in the other house all week while I heard his music sound hollow, and pictured the puzzled expression on his face. Yeah, right. If I wanted to do something pathetic like that, I'd stab him in the face a lot sooner than I'd switch his speaker settings.

Any other WTF stories you have to share?

That's also discrimination, and pretty pathetic. You shouldn't stand for it.

We'll rebel together!

Imagine if they were. Imagine all the girls being forced to wear skirts. You'd like it, wouldn't you?

Do you think they would?

Have a little compassion for your fellow human beings! Wreck something!!! It's time somebody answered for being a bitch.

Here's what gets me still more:

Our 'new' uniform has incorporated a pretty little blouse into our school attire. So, we're talking little pretty blouses, with little pretty jumpers, and little pretty jackets, with little pretty skirts? What do you fucking think we are? Pussies?

[1. Skirts are TRADITIONAL.]

In this day and age, don't you find it ridiculous that girls are banned from wearing trousers in school? I mean, come ON!

When out and about, you'll notice most girls wear trousers. Doesn't this say something about our preferences?

Irish/English weather is wet and windy and cold. Skirts are uncomfortable, and you're constantly worrying about them blowing up or something.

There is a law against making a female wear a skirt in a workplace. A school is a workplace. This law, I feel, should also cover female students, whether or not it is a mixed or single sex school.

Why do schools feel it nessecary to hold down female students and deprive them of equality? What is the use of skirts? What do skirts have that a pair of trousers does not?

I've been given the following weak excuses by my Principal:

1. Skirts are TRADITIONAL.
Back in the 1920's, it was also traditional for a woman to be a housewife, and cook and clean for her husband. If you're going to be stuck in the past, you should teach history, not french, Ms Ryan...

2. Our School Uniform has been the same for over 80 years, and we're not changing it now!
Lies! Originally there was a green skirt, a blazer, and a jumper with the school emblem. Now, in recent times, the jumper is plain green without the emblem. There is no blazer, and the skirt has been changed for senior cycle students to a kilt. And now, they're changing it again, to a red/green jumper, a jacket, and a scarf instead of a tie. I don't think this is a valid excuse anymore...

3. Girls look awful in trousers!
Um, this one just makes me laugh.

4. We're not going to change the entire school uniform.
Somebody is a bit afraid of change. And no, you're not going to change the entire school uniform. You're going to change the skirt for some trousers.

5. You don't see Boys asking to wear Skirts.
This is because (a) skirts are retarded, uncomfortable and unpractical and (b) equality is the same for either sex. Therefore, I say let guys wear skirts if they want to. If they want to.

6. You signed a document when entering this school, saying you would wear the uniform.
Sure did. Didn't say I'd uphold and cherish the uniform, either. In fact, I didn't even say I wouldn't try to start a nationwide rebellion against it. Nosiree. No such words ever crossed my lips. Or pen nib.

7. Skirts are so much more practical. They just get dry cleaned every once in a while and... voila! Trousers need to be washed constantly, ironed, uh, other stuff...
Here's the truth. You have to pay to get the skirts dry cleaned. You have to pay a lot of money, in fact. They're pleated, so they can't be washed at home without wrecking them. This is inconvenience at it's worst. Besides that, one spill, one accident in the Home Ec room, one food-fight, one trip-up during PE... and your skirt needs to be cleaned. So it needs the dry cleaners, AGAIN. Besides that, it needs to be ironed once a week to get out the creases that appear naturally when you spend your day with your ass pressed against the item in question. Have you ever tried ironing pleats? Probably not, because you're probably a guy and don't have this problem. Trousers, on the other hand, can be thrown in the wash and ironed straight whenever. Skirts also allow for limited freedom of movement, discouraging girls from being athletic. Ever tried hopping across a wall in a skirt? Ever tried running in a skirt (In irish winds, this can be tragic...)? Ever tried going up a flight of stairs in a skirt? Skirts are also humilating in this sense. I can't count the amount of times I've seen girls stopping on the stairs to let up a male teacher, because they're embarressed to walk ahead of him, for obvious reasons.

So I want to know what your views are on such ridiculous rules as wearing a skirt to school. I know some people will take the view that Girls should for some reason, obey these rules and wear their skirts like good little girls. I want to hear all viewpoints, because I plan to rebel, and I need to argue my case until I yell it in my sleep.

Above all, when you think about this, try to imagine wearing a skirt during your everyday activities. On a windy, raining and cold day. As it most often is in Ireland at least.

Petteri, to go to the upper level you just click on it. It can be a bit tricky sometimes, and I'm not sure why because... it's a large hotspot and all. Just keep trying, it'll work.

For best plot in 2002, the Winner was Kings Quest 2 VGA Remake - Daniel Stacey. I think that remakes should be barred from being nominated (For most awards) because quite clearly, the person who remade the game didn't design the plot/story. Just thought I'd point that out

And, jeeze, DG, calm down. It's just a retard. Let it be...

Well then, I have two ways to solve this problem

1. Enable Anti Alias mode, do not skip intro
2. Disable Anti Alias mode, skip intro.

Yay!

....You pressed ESC and that error came up?

That doesn't happen with me. Does anybody else get this error? Where were you in the intro? What did you press?

I'm not getting this error. Hmmm.

I totally fixed a whole WHORE-house of stuff! To quote the main page:

Here's the NEWER, FIXEDEDER version. It contains less bugs, and more Oomph.

1. Changed intro dialog
2. Added new screen to intro
3. Added hotspot names, interactions
4. Added inventory LOOK interactions.
5. Fixed the GUI
6. Fixed the Window in the Attic.
7. Fixed the USE PILLS thing, the lazy person way.
8. Fixed USE STAIRWAY in the Dream World Entrance.
9. You can now feed the bird.
10. Fixed Sign in Zitrahajin
11. Fixed Barwoman+Dialog
12. Fixed 'Tunnels' intro
13. Wrote a long list of things I fixed
14. Added READ ME FIRST and E Booklet.
15. Credited SSH
16. Edited opening credits
17. Spelled Petteri's Surname.
18. Changed some of the settings randomly.
19. Ripped off the Grim Fandango Help File.
20. Made it to 20 with the list of fixed stuff.

Beyond Reality