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Congrats! 

That's it. I'm definitely having more shirts made. 

Easy there, ig299. We haven't guessed the last movie yet. Two movie clues at once is too much for the average AGSers fragile brain. 

Four entries? Looks like I need to have some more t-shirts made! 

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Yay! More entries!   \/

Thanks, Kconan. I do my best to keep Dennis on the straight and narrow in a topsy turvy world. 

Happy b-day, Khris 

Our Man Flint?

They're remaking Matt Helm? I didn't know that!  I was talking about the old Dean Martin movies from the swingin' 60s, baby! 

Matt Helm?

Icey: The OSD website only deals with OSD games for the moment. Sooner or later, I'll add entries (or a separate page) for the OSD spinoff games. You're just going to have to wait a while, Icey. Real life is keeping me very bust at the moment. The important thing is that the Omnibus thread here is up to date -- at least, I think it is. 

Ghost: I can't wait to play this game you never made. Which is why you should make it. 

EDIT: Are monkey's links at the top of the page setting other people's virus guards off? Or is it just me?

Two, possibly three, entries? Really? Come on, AGS Community. You can do better than this! 

Hooray! An entry! 

Ponch: Sadly, Spaceman in Space was concluded in Episode 7.

What?! This is shocking news! 

I need to lie down for a while until I come to terms with this. 

What happened Ponch? No more site updates?

No new games to add to the page, Icey. When someone releases a shiny new OSD game, I'll update the OSD page. 

Our Man Flynn?

[EDIT (48 minutes later):]

Hooray! A new episode! I'm all a'tingle for the next exciting chapter of Spaceman (in space) 

EDIT (48 minutes later): Alas! My tingling was for naught.  Still, all in all, a fine podcast. Looking forward to the next one.

No problem. I'll try to come up with an idea and have it out in two or three months -- gotta finish the next Barn Runner game first. 

Ponch, since you've pulled it off well, this might be a good opportunity for you to share best practices with us on how you set up your games. Each background is a different room, with a GUI for options? Buttons take you to different rooms? Invisible player?

1) Invisible player (a small 4x4 square).
2) Each background has it's own room, unless the background includes a simple animation (for example: DuChamp leaning back from her desk)
3) Two kinds of rooms: Rooms with no choices, only text; Rooms that have choices that branch the story with the two button GUI.
4) Lots and lots and LOTS of scripting. 

Seriously, every time the player clicks the "next" arrow, there's scripting. Each dialog button? Scripting! Player leaves the room, check the script to see what choices they've made so far that decides what will happen next. Player enters the room? Check to see if they're carrying an inventory item so we know what will happen while they're in the room.

To be honest, it's not really all that different from making the usual adventure game (in some ways it's a little easier). But in a few ways, it's more work than I expected. If I had to do it over again, I'd make a better outline (probably in flow chart fashion) so I'm not constantly checking my notes to make sure I'm not missing a narrative off-ramp and messing everything up.

Also, I wouldn't attempt something so new on a MAGS schedule. 

Who knows, maybe one of these days, I'll make an OSD visual novel and release it as a template. 

Hmm. I didn't think it was such a bad topic :-(

It was a good topic, Stu. But between MAGS and the coloring ball, I ran out of time before I could finish either of my stories.