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I think one of your problems is that she doesn't look like a zebra, she looks like a cow. Zebras don't have short, peach toned noses, they have longer snouts with dark grey noses. Also the tone of grey around the eyes is too light, making the white of the eyes dissapear. I personally think Grundislav's edit is perfect for making her look like a zebra without losing the style, but since you don't like it, just darken all the tones a little and make her nose a dark grey. Adding a few black dots on alternate pixels along the sides of her face might give the illusion of stripes.

Holy crap I'm back!

Iqu: Casting in silver might get expensive, but it's doable if you're willing to pay. It's a good chunk of metal. As for steel, I don't think you can really cast with that. I honestly hadn't even considered that. I might be able to do it with pewter, though.

Squinky: I would make so many silver bullets if it got me on the monster squad. Mummy-in-my-Closet is a helpful fellow, he's not the monstering sort. He could be my sidekick. Next to Zombie God, of course.

I'd like to buy one, but at a later date... I've recently maxed out my card on a imported psp purchase.

How many are you planning on making Pesty?

However many orders I get. I plan to cast them in runs of 6 to 8, depending on the demand. If you want one, let me know and I'll put you down on the preorder list, but the first run isn't even cast yet and won't be until at least the week after next.

Dinocybrasaurus!


Cyborgs are animals, right?

Right-o.Ã,  A couple of questions..
1. The Chain.Ã,  How sturdy is thing thing likely to be? The amount of things I've had round my neck and broken in the past..
2. This bronze stuff.Ã,  What's the likelihood of this bronze stuff making a green patch on my chest? The amount of times I've been left with green patches..

Assuming the answers to the above questions are the answers I want, put me down on the list.Ã,  If they are not, I'll probly end up having one anyway, but will have to plan days to actually wear it.

(In other words, I don't like removing jewellery that much what with my paranoias.Ã,  Ergo, I pick things that usually last).

Apologies if this post makes me look dumb.Ã,  It feels wrong when I read it back to myself, but currently, I don't have the smarts to improve upon it.

It's only fair to ask questions like these. I have some answers that may or may not be satisfactory.

1. I haven't found good chain for a good price yet, so this is yet to be determined. I can guarantee it'll be good quality, I would never sell cheap stuff. This is a side project for me that I thought would be fun for other people too, I'm not out to make a quick buck. If you do get one with a chain and it does break, I can easily refund what you paid for the chain, which is $5 USD.

2. To be honest, I have no idea. The bronze I use is as pure as bronze can get. It's called 'ancient bronze' and it's an alloy of copper and tin (most bronze today has zinc and/or silicon in it). The reason your skin turns green is because you're having an allergic reaction to one of the metals in the jewelry, so if you've had this happen with copper, I wouldn't recommend trying the bronze piece, just in case.

Sorry I couldn't give you definate answers. Hopefully I'll find some good chain that I can afford (without hiking up the price any more)soon. I've got some good leads with 'gold filled' chains, which are durable and nice looking. I'll keep everyone who's ordered one with chain posted.

(now please don't start selling rubber chickens with pulleys in the middle... )

It's hard to do that when nothing better than this is out there. http://www.mcphee.com/amusements/current/09608.html

And Pesty, this is a great looking necklace. you did such a good job. I loved your joke about Sophia needing to be a linebacker.Ã,  As of now, I don't think I'll be getting one, but I am glad you posted in the FOY forums. maybe also do it in the Amberfish arts one too (if you havent already) I suppose you'll keep the mold, so maybe in the future ill ask for one from you.

I'm considering posting in the Amberfish Arts forum. I think I will once I get back from my spring break trip. I wouldn't want to go and post about it and then dissapear for a week.

Radiant: Dang, you ruined my next project!

I actually think I'd like a wax model!

Seriously though, very nice. A really great idea, and I'm happy you have preorders already. I personally love trinkets, physical objects that remind me of games/movies I love, so stuff like this really appeals to me.

Unfortunately, I'm about $1000 in debt and jobless, so I'll have to say no to buying one. I think I'd be tempted if it were made out of something like wood or a semi-precious stone. I'm not much of a metal fan.

What, do you prefer rap? OMG I ares so funny!

No, it's understandable. I'm in a similar situation (no income, yet somehow I have debt) and I would never expect someone to choose something like this over something important. This is just for fun. I'm glad to know people are interested, at least.

I'm going to sound extremely stupid for asking this.. But what game is this from?

I'll take a wild guess and say FOA.. But I really don't know.

Great work, though

Sorry, yes, it's from FoA.

Lately I've been working on something special to sell to all of my favorite adventure game nerds (that's you dudes!). Now you can preorder your own Nur-ab-Sal necklace, just like Sophia's. I made one in silver for myself, then thought I'd make some for other fans of the game. They'll be cast in bronze, a bright goldish bronze that looks very much like oricalcum. I've already got three preorders, and I'd like to get at least three more before I start casting.

I have a few pictures to give you an idea of what to expect.

Here is mine, without the swirl because I plan on setting stones for it: http://www.sylpher.com/froghaslipstick/pictures/foa_necklace3.png

And here I am wearing it: http://www.sylpher.com/froghaslipstick/pictures/memodellingnurabsal1.png

Here's one of the wax models I've made (this one is Miez's) next to a US penny to get an idea of the size. They're not very large, but they're a nice size for an actual necklace (Sophia must've had a linebacker's neck to hold up that much metal!): http://www.sylpher.com/froghaslipstick/pictures/waxmodel_foanecklace_1.png

Just post here or PM me if you want to be put on the preorder list. I'm making them in lots of 6-8 pieces at a time, depending on how many orders I get. Once I get them cast, I'll contact everyone who's ordered for payment information. It'll be through Paypal. I still need to find out about both national and international shipping costs before I can give you guys prices for that, but I should know by the time I'm ready to recieve payments.

I think that's it. Each order also gets something special with their piece, but you'll have to wait to find out what that is!

Edit: Durrrr, I forgot the price. Without a chain, they're $15 and with a chain they're $20.

Can you tell me what's about all those Frankensteins now?

Hahahahaha! No.

The secret of the king of the moon shall remain so forever more!

We had that before but not this year, don't know why, probably because Pete is lazy...

And she's smelly!

OMG ERIC SUCKCKCKCKCKS!1!!

It's not because I'm lazy, it's because I had no idea I was supposed to do it. If I had, I would've done them.

I would just like to say that I got rid of the Best Demo category because I wanted to put more emphasis on finished games. If you want to win an award, finish your game! I've noticed that every demo that's won or been nominated hasn't been finished (take a look here: http://www.sylpher.com/AGSAwards/Awards.htm if you don't believe me). I replaced it with the hour games category because there aren't enough hour games around and I feel they're a great way to practice and they're a lot of fun. So I didn't just get rid of the category for no reason.

Thanks, Netmonkey. It's been replaced. The original one was messy anyway, so this works better for a few reasons.

Edit: Now it's on point!

It probably happens because people think to themselves "oooh, I liked game X" and then proceed to nominate it in every category.

If we don't go with the committee idea for next year, I am going to disqualify anyone who does this for next year. I want people to put more thought into their nominations. I got some people voting for Apprentice 2 and other games they voted in every other category in the p3n1s award category because they simply weren't thinking or paying attention.

Other Worlds was nominated for other categories, it's just that only the top five games with the most votes could be used. Just because your game didn't make the final cut doesn't mean nobody voted for it, it just didn't get enough votes. It's not an insult to you or your game.

The nominees are tallied and the list is in! Voting isn't quite ready to begin, but you can look at the list and maybe play some of the games you haven't played yet!

http://www.sylpher.com/AGSAwards/Prelim.htm

Congratulations to all the nominees! Once voting starts, you'll have two weeks to get your votes in, so start thinking about who you want to vote.Once voting is over, there will be an awards ceremony on IRC to announce the winners.

Edit: Voting has begun! Go here to vote: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/awards.php?action=dovote

Flippy, the point Eric is trying to make is that your post was unhelpful and fairly rude. Sure he could've looked it up, no we're not a forum made for answering these sorts of questions. But why couldn't you have done what Eric did and just give him a link to a site that is for answering his question? Is it that much easier to be rude?

A lot of people here have been doing this sort of thing. It's pointless to say "omg this isn't the place for it, google first!!' He obviously didn't and posts like yours keep threads like this from dying off. Help him and get it out of the way and save us all some trouble.

So here's an update. This week has been insanely busy for me and I haven't had time to finish up the nomination tallies. This, coupled with the fact that the week after next I'll be gone from the 19th to the 26th, I'm going to announce the nominations and start the voting on Sunday, March 13th and the ceremonies will happen the day after I come back (hopefully). This gives you all two weeks to vote for the winners. I'm very sorry for the delay, midterms are a bitch.

i thought that they have somekind of program that counts games votes and report the results..Ã,  :

Yes, that program is called Pesty and A Piece of Paper.

I get the feeling many people think that I do have a program of some sort that lists all these things, but there isn't. It's all me, which is why it's taking so long. It's not an easy task and all I ask is for people to be patient. It's not a life or death situation, it's not gonna hurt being a day or two late.