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yes but its c++ language...

Er well ... if you DO decide to go with GBA ... there is a special Basic version for the GBA. Find it here:

http://www.jm-basic.com/dragon/

Try this one:

http://visualham.console-dev.de/

Oh duh. Snes. Right. This link is for GBA.

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Sweet graphics, m0ds. Very Zen Don't put colour in them, I love 'em in grayscale.

Tried to fluffify (yay, another new verb!) it:

The ads are f*cking hilarious - smooth site, rode!

look at Miez's grpahics, just for quoting a quick example! 

What are you talking about... that Miez guy can't draw his way out of a aztec temple filled with nazis... :

So true. 

Your limitations aren't everyone's limitations. Just because you or I couldn't make use of a feature doesn't mean the feature shouldn't exist. A great program like AGS should at least intend to allow everyone to work at their full potential. Allowing someone who's better then you at something to shine doesn't reduce any sort of functionality of AGS for those who arent using that particular advanced funtionality. It's not like if 3D was added, all the sudden he's going to remove 2D and now everyone has to get with the program. It just opens a new feature for 3D artists.

and that's exactly why I said:

It would be cool to have this feature in AGS

Maybe I'm a whiner - but I'm not THAT impressed. They are nice graphics but I've seen much better.

2) It would drastically conserve file space.  Using a SPARTAN 10 frame walking animation with 1 standing still animation, it costs 10 MB for each character (suing 800x600 alpha channel blended) just to have sprites for walking in the 4 directions and standing still, not counting diagonal animations, and animations for other things such as opening doors, gesturing, idle animations, handing things, taking out of pocket, stooping down to pick things up, random cutscene animations, etc.  AGS does not compress the sprite images internally, unlike backgrounds etc, so these 10 MB's go straight to the file size.  Using 3d rendering, only the small 3d information would need to be downloading.  In a well-made game that used 3d rendering and had equivalent animations to a game like Broken Sword or something, this could reduce the downloaded file size by hundreds of MB's.

True, to a point: the 3D model itself would not take up much filesize. But keyframe information and textures might still take up quite some space.

I'm not saying it wouldn't be a NICE thing to have, I was just wondering if the time CJ will have to invest, outweighs the amount of time people are going to be using it ... I just have my doubts.
But, again, as GF is one of my fave games: it would be awesome to have the power...

Has anybody given any thought to just how much work this is going to be? Making a full game in 2D is a task many of us have trouble finishing. Throwing 3d characters in the mix  is gonna make the task only bigger and bigger. Building character models, boning and skinning, keyframing and animating ... it's a huge task.
It would be cool to have this feature in AGS - but will it be used to it's full potential? I doubt it.

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If you really want to do 3D characters on a 2D backdrop (Grim Fandango style) - you're better of with using something else than AGS. I'd suggest DarkBasic or somesuch; it does 3D and 2D and it does it fast enough for an adventure game.

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Miez, what about Highlander and Fortress... those two movies absolutely rocked. Most of his other movies suck ass, but those were great.

Granted, Highlander is way cool, and fortress is ok. But compared to the vast pile of movie doodoo that he's made, these two films dwindle into nothingness.

Steven Segal? Hah, he is nothing compared to the horror that is Christopher Lambert. Really, browse through any DVD or videotape filled bargain bin and 80% of the crap you'll find in there has Christopher "can't-fight-can't-act-can't-sound-right" Lambert in it.
Evil has a name. It is Christopher Lambert.

You were gone? ah, well - in that case: welcome back. Finish the boobie game!

i only jus got a new sound card a while back, cus the other one was fucked.

i just plugged the new one in and installed it, should i have taken out the old one or somthing?

I'd definitely suggest getting rid of your old sound card - it might create all sorts of weird hardware related problems.

Miez makes an amusing point though....... but I don't know...

Amusing? I'm dead serious here, I wanna see Yufsters mum! 

Ah well - a Wacom isn't like the holy grail ... billions of people get along without one. It is "nice", not "necessary". Just start using the camera. Photograph your mum. Put her online. 

Ok - a bit to the side (because they're not strictly a games company) but Steve Balmer of Microsoft is the biggest arsehole ever. And to prove it, here's Steve himself.

why not use the tablet and your standard mouse at the same time?

That sure works - and the awesomeness is enhanced by the fact that most Wacom tablets have a mouse as well as a stylus - so you don't need extra space for a mousepad.

Wacom. It's better than a threesome.