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First off, obviously I agree with scotchand 2ma2 100%.

For me I think I was drawn to AGS for nostalgic reasons [or at least I was drawn to searching for an engine to make adventure games, starting with SCUMM and roBOT] but now that I'm here and I've grown up and can look at my nostalgia without those rose coloured glasses on I see the faults [and there are many many faults] with old adventure games. Like scotch, I get bored when I play an AGS game that takes one tiny part of the "adventure game idea" and makes a whole game based on it, the fetch quest. Regardless of how nice the art. The prettiest AGS game in the world won't stay on my harddrive for longer than an hour if the game behind the art is boring. I've learned not to trust pretty screenshots.

As for what draws me to AGS games... Now-a-days: If it's recommended by a reliable source, i.e. a friend on the forums who I share likes and dislikes with. They're like my agents in the field. They go out, play AGS games and then report back to me on what's good and then I give it a try. They walk amongst you, they are silent... They watch.

Movie kisses on a whole are usually pretty stale, in my opinion.

They're just prolonged lip to lip kisses with a lot of heavy breathing. Then the female character goes "Wow! What a kiss!" and I'm left saying "I've kissed my cat with more passion than that!" and then I'm arrested for bestiality.

Hooray for me! I was quite surprised to be mentioned on Qwantz's front page!

So as a present from me on my birthday, everyone can go to Qwantz and click the link and read my new comic series I started a little while ago...

Happy birthday to everyone!

you probably can't attach a file because you can't on the AGS forums.

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/Themes/default/help/posting.english.html#bbcref

You can attach an image using the codes found in the BB reference but you have to upload the image to an outside host.

Edit: Back off scotch! I got this one! You're a mod who plays by his own rules and I'm going to tell the Chief about it if you don't stop muscling in on my jurisdiction!

I need to start a band... I need to start a band and I need to name it:

"Attractive People Robotically Fucking in Front of a Camera"

Or at least let that be the sub title to Melt the Limit 3!

I vote no on the cell phone idea... That's too abstract unless you spell it out for the player. I forsee a lot of "Why am I doing this?" moments

You could get the phone number off a payphone in the lobby and call it so it rings, or call the head office and ask for a book way back in the archives that would take ages to get.

Or if you want to use the computer the head librarian has to sign one out to you and she says "Don't open too many programs, it always crashes and it takes me forever to get it working again!" so you go to the computer, get a first person view and, like a 10 year old, open every program you can see on the desktop, crashing the computer and distracting her.

If you can let the player do this instead of a cutscene it would be 100x better.

We have a private message feature just for this such occasion, please use it next time. Posts like this so do not belong here, you know this.

A little tip for saving flattened images without flattening:

select the entire canvas, hit Control Alt C and it copies anything in the marquee regardless of layer. It's like taking a print screen of that area.

Then Control N, Control V and it opens a new window and pastes the flattened image to be saved.

I found this on accident and I use it so much it's not even funny.

Sometimes if I start getting crazy with layers I'll Control Alt Copy the entire canvas, stick all my layers into a folder, close it, turn it off and paste the flattened image and start a whole new round of layers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Alexandria

The Greeks had a steam engine but apparently they saw it as an amusement

"Look at that, it turns! How cute! Oh well..."

Imagine if someone just accidentally attached a rope to one of the spigots... Steam Punk wouldn't be so cool but just imagine!

Then we have a lot of fan games we'll have to shut down and delete their threads and remove them from the games database.

go back to the dumpster repeatedly I guess?

Or try going to a Salvation Army or something and seeing if they have stuff there... Even so, I can't imagine power chords to cost more than 4 or 5 dollars.

Don't make me start pressing that lock button!

Oh wait!

Ah so you're emo, hammerite?

BURN!

Yea sure... and I only go to Klan meetings for the free ziti...

Hitler is dead?!? Oh my...

Yea, Steve Irwin killed him I think 2 years ago. It was coming up on the anniversary of the battle too...

Is that a turbosmoothed head? Or meshsmoothed? As in it's low poly and then you added a smooth modifier to smooth it out and get more polys?

If so can I see it without the smooth on please?

Also, just hit F4 and take a screenshot with the texture on it and the wires like the first imag you posted. I need to see wires to see how your edge flow is for animating. If you don't have enough loops or the loops are in the wrong place the animation could not work and the face will collapse where it shouldn't.

Can you post the wires please?

slut Pronunciation[sluht] Pronunciation Key
â€"noun

1. a dirty, slovenly woman. 
2. an immoral or dissolute woman; prostitute. 

from your description she isn't a slut. she's just a person on the internet who isn't very reliable or serious it seems. "Jerk" fits better.

if a default character without clothes stops them making a game, they weren't cut out to make an AGS game.

http://kafkaskoffee.com/images/games/tutorials/template/templatesideviewanim.gif
this is a nude character.

Oh yes remember that too, I think the standard price for items is like 12 dollars for a shirt and you add money on to that in order to make money...

So if you charge 15 dollars for a shirt you're making very little money and need people to buy a LOT of shirts to make money that's worth it. Check on local printers and then you can charge what you want and if there are any local fairs you can bring the shirts there and sell them too! Especially a nautical themed fair like one taking place near a dock or where they sell lots of fish or fishy items.