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[Oh, WAIT.I forgot. I didn't sleep last night, so it's tomorrow already. I'd better dig something up.Here we go. For all the nice people, who bother to check the main thread page for updates, or perhaps the suckers that were lured here with the promise of chocolate and bunnies:d00d! It's cutscene graphics! But even though it looks nice and all... it isn't animated. At all. Not one bit. So much for that. And no, there is no chocolate, and no bunnies, and no chocolate bunnies. Nothing. Zilch. Naut. That is what you get for repeatedly believing a liar. Ha! False hope! I love it!Maybe I'll try animating for my next project. But I don't even have a program to put cels together right now, so enough about that! Happy Halloween. THE NEW IMPROVED, SLIGHTLY MORE AWESOME UPDATEOh geeze, I only just posted on page 5 of this thread, the new update. Now I have nothing to update with here, and I'm all out off coffee-and-self-multilating-insect stories. Okay, wait, I'll think of something.Bah. It would have been fine if I hadn't called this update "slightly more awesome" than the last, but now it has a reputation to live up to. Oh man. Okay. Give me a few minutes, I'll think of something to make it awesome. I promise.Okay, maybe later. Like, tomorrow. Yeah. Tomorrow.THE PREVIOUS, BORING UPDATEGreat, we have a bunch of new helpers! Although... I'm not entirely sure what they're meant to be doing yet. I mean, you know when you just hang around, expecting somebody to tell you to do something but they never do? Uh huh.Oh wait, I just got an email. Hang on...Oh, that was just one of my associates. Anyway, here are the helper people. SSH - Programmer, CounsellingPetteri - MusicVel - Man ServantWell, if you're reading this and you're not any of those people... fear not! There are plenty more positions open for man-servants.Now, I have phone calls to make and business associates to remove from my leg, so if you will excuse me...I'll just wait here 'til somebody calls me....Yufster Out.]

Oh, WAIT.
I forgot. I didn't sleep last night, so it's tomorrow already. I'd better dig something up.

Here we go. For all the nice people, who bother to check the main thread page for updates, or perhaps the suckers that were lured here with the promise of chocolate and bunnies:



d00d! It's cutscene graphics! But even though it looks nice and all... it isn't animated. At all. Not one bit. So much for that. And no, there is no chocolate, and no bunnies, and no chocolate bunnies. Nothing. Zilch. Naut. That is what you get for repeatedly believing a liar. Ha! False hope! I love it!

Maybe I'll try animating for my next project. But I don't even have a program to put cels together right now, so enough about that!

Happy Halloween.



THE NEW IMPROVED, SLIGHTLY MORE AWESOME UPDATE
Oh geeze, I only just posted on page 5 of this thread, the new update. Now I have nothing to update with here, and I'm all out off coffee-and-self-multilating-insect stories. Okay, wait, I'll think of something.

Bah. It would have been fine if I hadn't called this update "slightly more awesome" than the last, but now it has a reputation to live up to. Oh man. Okay. Give me a few minutes, I'll think of something to make it awesome. I promise.

Okay, maybe later. Like, tomorrow. Yeah. Tomorrow.




THE PREVIOUS, BORING UPDATE
Great, we have a bunch of new helpers! Although... I'm not entirely sure what they're meant to be doing yet. I mean, you know when you just hang around, expecting somebody to tell you to do something but they never do? Uh huh.

Oh wait, I just got an email. Hang on...

Oh, that was just one of my associates. Anyway, here are the helper people.

SSH - Programmer, Counselling
Petteri - Music
Vel - Man Servant


Well, if you're reading this and you're not any of those people... fear not! There are plenty more positions open for man-servants.

Now, I have phone calls to make and business associates to remove from my leg, so if you will excuse me...

I'll just wait here 'til somebody calls me....



Yufster Out.

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Names may be changed, backgrounds do not represent the final quality of the finished product, no similarities to actual people intended except for Monica Lewinsky, yadayada I think you know the drill....  )

Website here. Exclusive Screenshots and... Also information on OTHER, GREAT new games! All one of them.


Ian is spending the night in a Family Run Motel when a small child is attacked by a cloaked demon. A girl called Aya intervenes, but too late... The demon escapes, and the child is left in a coma. Aya explains to Ian that the Dream Catchers are from the Dream World, and are stealing the minds of children. Somehow an opening has been created, a hole between Reality and Dreams. Nobody knows exactly why or how. The only way to find the missing minds of the children is to enter the Dream World...

...Which is a place that Ian is pretty familiar with anyway.


Ian has to sleep like he's never slept before to save the day.





Ian's particular Dream World is compiled by his own thoughts and imagination. He must find a way to break from his own subconscious into the dreamworld of the Dream Catchers and rescue the lost minds.

His Subconscious is split into three areas, Ridiculous Cliffside Village, Foreboding Mountain and Mysteriously Innocent Town. He is free to travel these areas for most of the game.






Features
Non-Linear Gameplay
A large section of the game takes place
within the Dream World Map. Ian can
solve the puzzles in any order he wishes.

Lovable Characters
If you like alligators and piranhas, you'll
love these characters.

Original Storyline
I pride myself on the fact I wrote the entire
story and plot, sewing up plotholes and
writing puzzles, way before I started
the graphics and programming.

Loads of other Really Neat Stuff!
Like free chocolate and money for all!



INFORMATION
PLOT, STORYLINE AND SCRIPT
Are, believe it or not, complete

MUSIC
I am looking for a composer with a style that
will suit the games atmosphere. Probably,
I'll release a demo before I get a musician.

GRAPHICS
Just under one half of the backgrounds are
completed, and a few sprite animations

PROGRAMMING
Is not my strong point. Only a few loosely
connected rooms for testing the backgrounds.

NEAT FACTOR
Huh.


Due sometime in a distant future... possibly Christmas 2003 if I have a lot of free time (which I plan for, as I'm doing Transition Year! Buwahahhaa!

Wait, let me rephrase that....

COMING CHRISTMAS 2003!!!
(with possible short, year long delays )


I'd love any comments, critisism or ...(?)....oh yeah, suggestions (my mind is going )

Give it to me straight Doctor.

Yes! More, Doctor, More!

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hornets are like wasps, except bigger and more painful and also more fun to PING because they're so big they don't PING, they PUCK.

I got chased by a cow before. It sucked bootah.

Before making the graphics on my game I'd like to know what style GUIs you people all prefer. The Lucasarts style monster that sits on the bottom of the screen (think MI) was my personal favourite. There was also the Sam and Max one that allowed for an entire screen devoted to the room instead of the GUI. And there was the CMI one, which would probably be my favourite if I wasn't completely biased and loyal to the older games  

The problem being that if I make a load of full screen graphics without leaving room for the GUI should I decide on an MI1 style, I will have to redesign all the rooms I have designed

Didn't occur to me, it was only when it was gone that I realised it wasn't something I'd done wrong, maybe.  

I love nettles. I mean I hate them, but you know, the smell of them reminds me of falling off high trees into nettles. Ha ha. I had this pony, she was evil. She was horny. she went totally insane when she heard male ponies. So she'd take off, with me on her back, and then stop, and I wouldn't be on her back any more. I'm surprised I'm not dead by now, but it was fun.

And have you ever caught fish with your hands? We have this little sticklebacks in this icy stream near where we used to live, and when they were in shallow water, if you were quick enough, you could catch them with your hands. Only the tiny baby ones though. I always released them because I hate killing things, except wasps. Oh yeah!

Wasps wasps wasps! I hate them so much. I've been stung by them sooo many times, in the head, in the hand, the leg, both thumbs, other places.... So one summer, after being terrorised by wasps enough, I took out our badminton raquets (UK spelling, you bastards) and PINGED them all. They'd come up to sting you, and you'd SWIPE them (I'm deadly at Tennis and Badminton) and they'd PING off the Raquet onto the floor, where I'd hunt them in their stunned state and KILL THEM. At first I used death jars, by crushing lorrel leaves which contain cyanide and putting them in there, because it was painless for them, but then one stung me so I just crushed them.

I must have killed HUNDREDS of wasps that year, and the population was never the same again... (for a few years)... You have no idea how much fun it is to PING wasps. They are evil, vile creatures and must be destroyed at all costs. Do not, however, confuse wasps with Honey Bees, which are deadly looking but essentially friendly creatures. And if you ever kill a bumble bee, I will hunt you and kill you.

PS: Hornets must also be killed, they are THREE TIMES the size of a wasp, look like a GIANT WASP, and sting like THREE TIMES A WASP STING. I learned this by assuming it was a friendly insect, as many insects disguise themselves as wasps as protection, because they are so friendly and harmless that if they didn't look deadly, people would eat them. A Hornet, apparently, looks like a wasp because it is essentially a VERY LARGE WASP.

PPS: Hoverflies are harmless and friendly creatures that look like small wasps. Do not kill them. They are endangered.

You creep!

*slaps Femme*

Just kidding, it sounds fun  
Jeeze my brother visited from Waterford a few weeks ago and it was sick, he hadn't seen me in ages so he couldn't stop looking at my chest. I mean, what the hell? Dudes, really, get a girlfriend. So I know how she feels.

Am I gonna be the first girl releasing a game with a male main character?

PS: I was wearing clothes, obviously.

PPS: ROTFLMFAO! I have a member! *points to the member under her name*

PPPS I think somebody spiked my coffee coz ther iz blud cumming owt of my nose. Oh bugger.

heh... nice one...

one of the most fun things i used to do was find trees and find new ways to climb it.

it was great until my dad cut the "climbing branch" off the tree in our front yard. But i guess i had more time to practise my guitar then.

I also used to love walking across the fields behind my back yard witrh my friends...it was even more fun when the farmer chased us. those were the days.....

Are you SERIOUS!?!??? We had the best tree EVER! It was like really bushy and easy to climb, but the only branch you could climb up on was this one that was all stretchy, somebody had to hold it down while everybody climbed up, and then you had to sort of jump real quick so that when it catapulted back up you LANDED on the branch, it was so cool! And we played pirates, we'd get on the end of the branch and wave it up and down, it was better than a bouncing castle! And then one of us would get off and really beat the SH*t out of the branch to make it fly about while we all tried to keep our balance on it!!! WOOT! I would STILL do that, only...

MY DAD CUT THE ENTIRE TREE DOWN!!!!

What's the deal with that!???

We had a cherry tree down the end of the garden that was almost as good though, but we had to cut away the blackberry bushes first because they'd tear you to pieces when you fell off it.

Is there something I could rip the MI ones with? I dont think you can do it using ... wassitcalled.... Scumm Revisited. I'm working on taking painstaking screenshots and putting them in order at the moment, so if I finish a guybrush one I'll send you that for the file dump.

Interestingly, I think Guybrush only has 5 frames of walking L/R. Not including his standing stance, as that's not included in the animation.

If it helps you, I don't have an actual answer to that particular problem but I tend to use different programs for backgrounds. I generally do an outline in MS paint with it's nice simple interface and test the size and proportions of the outline in AGS. Then I import it to Dpaint where I get a nice pixelated look using ancient gradients and stuff. Then I'll do any little last touches in Pro Motion (Like small animations or whatever) and then finally import it to PS where I might add effects.

You might consider using a different program for the part that hinder the crosshair, it sounds awkward but it's actually a lot easier and is a good habit to get into.

I don't know why, it just is.

Excelllllllent  

I forget who originally said it now...but the girls climbing tree, being adventerous thing....MY GOD YES!! I SOOOO wish I could find a girl like that. Ladies, you have no idea how sexy that is. Oh, and on a related note: Any female that sits in front of a computer and programs or (most importantly) uses AGS, automatically gains "sexy"-points.

Well here's the crap on that. I had a boyfriend that was a BORING BASTARD. I mean, I actually tried to MAKE him climb a tree, and he was all like, "Sniff, Sniff, don't be stupid." the only 'adventurous' thing he ever did was start fights. So yeah.

My first boyfriend was incredibly dull. He wouldn't do anything if it involved being more than a foot from the ground, going faster than a walking pace or ANYTHING.

Why? I guess people have this thing with acting mature or something. I don't see what the deal is with that. I mean, we moved to the town three years or so ago, so I can't any more, but if I could, I would STILL sit in a treehouse and spy on people in the distance with my TOMY Telescope. We had a look out post (We sat on the roof) and looked out for people on the horizons. Mostly it was just cows and sheep. And if we saw a farmer clogging along ten fields away, we'd go undercover, tie the branches down so they covered the treehouse, and hide (while spying all the time).

Uh, bit off topic, but my point is... I miss that.

I was also born in London, so I tell you now, I am no farmer! Although I have grown rather partial to the smell of cow poop.

Okay, I am sooo joking.

It's very depressing that when I hang out with other girls, they talk about guys the whole time. I mean, I like guys. I do. But I also like other stuff. Like computers and trees. Okay by trees I mean activities in general.  Everything. But whenever I try and hang out with guys (Who tend to talk mostly about videogames where I come from) they think I'm coming on to them.

Which is why I'd love to gang up with other females here that have the same love of ... stuff in general, and you can be the best friends I have, but never actually shared interests with.

Not that I'm excluding the guys or anything, but I don't want to start another argument about who'd win a Tekken Tournament  

Which is a funny story actually. My last boyfriend challenged me to a game of Tekken III, I won, so he challenged me to an arm wrestle, which I lost. Asshole.

What a random post.

EDIT: PS did anybody get the double meaning of my sig thingymedoodle?

I love you. It works, but... there's a eversoslight gap between the loops. Oh well.

Animate as a sprite and then use change character view and move character commands? Just a suggestion...

did anybody else feel real scared for Guybrush in the end of MI2? I hated it when he was in all that pain....

Why does that sad face look so retarded?

Is MI3 seriously 256 colour? That's amazing. Truly heroic! Where did you hear this?

Hm, they must have sketched them, scanned in the backgrounds and coloured them painstakingly on some paint program... How on earth did they keep the colours down to 256?! And... why?

I blatantly lied about chickens and oranges having periods, and some people believed me. Femme Fatale is too smart. That's because she's a girl, and they're smart.  

No, it only occured when THAT midi was playing, and it only happened on THAT area of the screen. The midi played fine, as I said, except for a weird Pianoish CLUNK at the start, which isn't in the actual midi. It really was bizarre. And it stopped happened after I reimported the background, even though I didn't update the areas or anything

Finally, a way of recycling corks!

I LOVE YOU!!!!

Yeah that's Yufster.com right? I registered it, made an Excellent Doublefine Fansite, and then didn't reregister it because of lack of funding. Besides, trying to get information from Tim Schafer is like feeding Coffee-and-Sugar-Syrup to a maniac hyperactive child. Have you ever emailed him? He was all like, "Thanks, you now I'm going to lose my job, thanks a lot. You only care for yourself, Illiad Rusalka!"

That's not even my name  

Email him, it's fun!

Yes, stop whining and get back to work, slave! AGS doesn't have many limits that you can't work your way around, a higher resolution isn't gonna make a HUGE difference so long as the rest of your game is great... nobody is gonna play gorgeous graphics. They're gonna play a game.

Hey, I like that. It's not the graphics you play, it's the game Let us all remember that for years to come.

I'm ready for my close up.

I think this is the right place to ask... I'm having difficulty making my Sprite Animation look NOT awkward... I have the basics there but somehow it looks like he's LIMPING or something. I was wondering if somebody could supply me with Guybrush Sprites to study (Or characters from another P+C Adventure from that time) because I can't find them ANYWHERE. I really need to rip off somebodies sprites study those sprites!

You Suckers!!!! Love to all.