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I couldn't agree more. Hope there's some SEX involved in this one.

Have no fear. Our hero's long dry spell is about to come to an end.

- Ponch

Excellent game. ... that clip at the end of it was just amazing.   Best .... Ending... Ever !!   It was so fantasically and proffesionally done. Mad props for that one.
Looking forward to Episode 3... it's not too far now...

Thanks! I put blood, sweat, and beer into that cut scene. It was a hell of a lot of work and I'm glad you liked it.

However, I hate to say this, but Chapter Three is going to slip by a month. It won't come out until March 3. I'm running into a few problems as I smooth out the rough spots for release, so I'm bumping it back a few weeks to give me a little cushion, so I don't have to rush it.

Hope you don't mind waiting a few more weeks.

Thanks for playing,

- Ponch

when it's done!

Hey now! Watch it with that Duke Nukem Forever talk, buddy. I was starting to get my hopes up about this plugin.

- Ponch

Problem solved!

I have no idea what was causing it, but I gave thepr a separate download link for part two of the game (the exact same build of the game that comes in the full download, by the way) and it worked fine.

What caused the error? No idea. No one else has reported it and it seems to have been a one-time thing, so I'm convinced there is nothing to see here, citizens.

- Ponch
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And thanks, CJ, for changing the topic header.

Sorry it took me two weeks to respond to this. Since Barn Runner wasn't in the topic heading, I missed it until someone was nice enough to send me an e-mail about it.

Regarding the error, I just downloaded the game from the mirror link, unzipped it, and entered the password for part two. The game started up fine and ran without any problems. I'll send you a PM and we'll see if we can get to the bottom of it.

Again, sorry for the late response.

- Ponch

Did someone say "Feminine Form"?!?

Like Lad, I never post in topics like this. But I can't resists a thread like this.

My two cents on your little cat girl is to emphasize the "cattiness" of her. Between the narrow face and the wide, I'd go for the wide. Wider faces work better (IMO) for younger, expressive characters. I'd also recommend lengthening the legs a bit, as anime characters are usually overlong in the leg. Plus, she's a cat, so slightly longer legs would help sell the feline-ness of her.

Also, even though she's young, she's still female. And the female form doesn't look as good seen in pure profile or straight on as it does with a bit of a 3/4 profile twist to it.

Below is my quick take on a cat girl.



It's just a doodle on the back of my gas bill, but I think the pose helps sell a notion of cute and sexy. Very common cat-girl qualities, I think. Granted, my figures tend towards the elongated and overly curvy, but I think the pose is a decent one for a playful catgirl to strike. If all you have to wear is an apron and a smile, then you have to flirt a lot I suspect. It's not like you can carry a lot of items, is it?

If your character is not supposed to be quite as sexy as my sexed up kitty, then you could go for a more playful, flirt-y pose. But if this is going to be a character the player sees a lot, then the pose(s) she strikes could be crucial to selling her character. Cute idle animations could add a lot too.

Anyhoo, just my two cents. Plus it gave me an excuse to doodle a cat girl while I wait for my girlfriend to finish getting ready so we can finally go already!!1!

- Ponch

[Barn Runner 5: The Forever Friday]

For your consideration:

Barn Runner 5: The Forever Friday

(Chapter One or Two, Take Your Pick*)

Silly, sexy, and serialized (for her pleasure), Barn Runner 5: The Forever Friday is (probably) the only AGS game to feature killer robots, talking fish, rush hour traffic, shootouts with bald rich kids, hordes of cannibal looters, curiously quiet school children, torture by pop music, lovingly rendered half-clothed women, naked men on Big Wheels, murderous flocks of carnivorous chickens, and steamy threeway sex inside a flying limousine.

All this and Tom Jones too! What more could you ask for in an AGS game?

(Also, there may be some puzzles and stuff in there too.)

So validate my existence and throw some love my way! Vote for Barn Runner 5: The Forever Friday today!

All The Sexy Psychedelic Fun You Can Pack Inside An AGS Game!

I've got two games up for nomination this year, so give them a try if you haven't already!

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD CHAPTER ONE (RAR Format)
CLICK TO DOWNLOAD CHAPTER TWO (RAR Format)

- Ponch
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* Even though having two games up at the same time means that the Barn Runner vote will be split, I'm still holding out hope that when this is over, my life will finally have some meaning!

Any feedback, you think you could use this in a game?

Sweet zombie Reagan, dkh! Are you joking? I would create a game just to use this plugin. This makes my "Duck Hunt" shooter code look soul crushingly pathetic. I can't even face myself in the mirror now, knowing that this exists for AGS.

How the hell did you get from AGS Pong to this? Simply amazing.

- Ponch

CJ,

When I got home, I tried voting with IE instead of Firefox, and it worked just fine. It may just be that one of my Firefox plugins that's causing the trouble. I turned off "No Script" before I went to nominations page, but there might be something else running under the hood that's blocking something. Who knows?

Anyhoo, problem solved. Now that it's working for me, let me say I like this year's nominations page better than last years. Good work.

- Ponch

Well, clearly I'm doing something wrong. I can't get it to accept any of my clicks. I was able to generally nominate a few games, but not for any specific categories. Maybe it's a browser issue, or something. Or it's entirely possible I'm an idiot. Either way, I've done my part as an American and voted. I also did it wrong, or didn't know what to do once I got in the voting booth. I think I may have voted for Pat Buchanan or Ron Paul. Possibly Kinky Friedman. Who knows? But I'm proud to say that I voted (badly).

Whoops. Came a little late to this party, but Happy New Year everyone! And thanks, CJ, for another year of AGS.

- Ponch

[Who wants to sit on Santa's lap!]

At the risk of bringing this thread back on topic, I have a Christmas game in the works. It won't come out until next Christmas, but I've already started working on the stealth code that it will require (think something along the lines of the sneaking sequences of the original NES Metal Gear).

It's called Santa's Little Helpers and will star The Chief, Debbie, and Mayor DuChamp, plus a bunch of student radicals and some angry housewives.

Who wants to sit on Santa's lap!

This is a rough of what the menu screen may look like. It's just a felt tip marker on some copy paper, but I like how it came together. For the real version, I'll actually sketch it out in pencil first before putting ink straight to paper. But this is a good start, I think.

Anyhoo, I hope everyone has a great Christmas. I'm about to hit the road for a few weeks of well-deserved vacation. I'll be back after New Year.

Hope Santa leaves presents for all of you!

- Ponch

Do I make up with my Dad before he dies, or is this completely pointless given that he's a serious sociopath?

My old man is (was?) a sociopath too. I'm well acquainted with the violence and all the other crap that goes along with having a father like that around.

If making up with him is something you feel you need to do, then do it. If, on the other hand, you think it's something you need to do for his benefit, I'd say you're wasting your time. He's made it his entire life without feeling anything for anyone but himself, dying is probably not going to change that. Were this a Hollywood movie, you two would reconcile, he'd realize what an ass he's been all your life, and you'd hug just as the sweet music came swelling in to end the scene.

But life isn't a movie, is it? Your reaching out to him, should you choose to do that, would be for your benefit, not his. He just has a head full of bad wiring, and that's all there is to it.

I haven't seen my dad since I was sixteen (almost twenty years ago). We ended on a nice, violent note (sort of a family tradition, I suppose) and have no more use for each other. No idea where he is these days. Maybe he's alive. Maybe he's dead. Don't know. Don't care. If tomorrow I got a telegram from him saying "I'm dying. Come see me." I might consider going. But my pop is a dick through and through and that telegram is never coming, is it?

Truth is, I wouldn't waste the gasoline it would take to drive to see him, even if it turned out he was just across town. Why? Because I'd just leave his bedside feeling angry and pissed off. He had no use for me as a kid or as an adult. Why would I believe he'd had a serious change of heart.

If your father is the same sort of man, I doubt he'll reach out to you. Even if he does, I'd suspect his motives are entirely selfish.

If you absolutely need "closure" or whatever, then go see him (but be prepared to come away with nothing good from the experience). Otherwise, tell him to piss up a rope.

That's my two cents, anyway.

- Ponch

Two words, people.

Flesh. Light.

Sweet Jesus. People are having sex with things I keep in my tool box!?! What is this world coming too? Back in my day, they had blow up dolls. Now they have these Real Dolls (and Flesh Lights, apparently). Pretty soon, the human race will cease to exist because we're dry humping appliances instead of having drunken, regret-filled sex with people we don't like very much.

If it was good enough for my parents, it ought to be good enough for the rest of us!

Off to sex up my air mattress now.

- Ponch

Isn't resorting to tricks found in books to get sex kind of acknowledging that you're a shitbag who doesn't really deserve any?

If a girl has great cleavage and wears a top to show it off when she's out at a club, is that a "trick?"

I'm 36, still single and quite happy to remain so. The "trick" to successfully hitting it off with girls is the same as in any other endeavor. Practice. Get shot down a lot and eventually, you'll start figuring out what doesn't work and what does. The sooner in life you start learning how to avoid getting shot down too much, the better off you are.

Conversation is, in my experience, the key skill. Also helps if you're funny. Making a girl laugh goes a long way to opening doors. Be able to talk about as many topics as possible. You never know what interests a girl may have.

The most important thing is, if you're really interested in a girl, don't let it turn into a friendship. Friendships are, in my opinion, a cage you'll never escape from (if you're looking to be more than friends, I mean).

I've heard about this book, and some of my friends swear by it. To me, some of it sounds pretty useful. But some of it, like the "insult a girl to warm her heart" seems like it would only draw the crazy chicks. But they have their own charm, I suppose, so whatever works for you.

Personally, I've always been a talker and I've kept myself in good shape (and I still have all my hair, so I've got that going for me), so I've managed to do fine on my own over the years by learning from past mistakes and honing my "gift of gab."

My opinion on this? Stay outside the friendship zone, show confidence without being an ass, and stay just a little aloof. Women like mystery, and it pays off big if you're a bit of a riddle for her to solve.

Your mileage may vary, of course. But that's been my experience in things.

- Ponch

Anyway, are you recognising that Religion is the same as hope, love, trust, hapiness? Do you finally recognise that Religion is a feeling, and nothing else?

If the answer is "yes", we can, finally afther 7 pages, end the discussion.

I notice that you avoided Lemmy altogether. A wise move on your part. Motorhead is all the proof of the wonder of the universe that I need.

Religion is, at its core, a set of rules and usually a hierarchy concerned with maintaining its position. Guitar music is just a series of chords.

But Motorhead is much more than just guitar chords in the same way that faith is more than just rules and priests.

Both transcend into the sublime.

Is Lemmy god? I'm not making that argument, though I know a guy who has a tattoo to that effect. I just like the notion that there's something beyond what I can see. Something that instills in me a sense of wonder in the world.

Personally, I usually feel it most keenly around Christmas time. If there were some way to fuse Lemmy and Santa, well even you Nacho might be swayed by the awesomeness.

- Ponch

Probably you'll use your mind-reading powers to somehow interpret this as "Andrew loves terrorists" or something.

Andrew loves terrorists?!? I'm simply shocked to learn this! And to think that I've occasionally posted on your blog!

I guess I should expect a visit from the Department of Homeland Security soon. Thanks a bunch, SSH. Here's hoping I can still access the forums in Guantanamo Bay.

And for the record, I think the intangibles are what make life worth living. Without those, it's just eat, sleep, sex, die. Notions like love, divinity, duty, and others help fill out that long stretch of road between the cradle and the grave.

I think Motorhead sang a song about that. And Lemmy is so awesome he borders on the intangible himself.

- Ponch

This was wonderful. I thoroughly enjoyed playing chapters one and two and am looking forward to the next. Thanks for sharing this with us all. Fantastic job!

Thank you for playing! It would all be a big waste of my time if nobody played the games I made.

I'm hard at work on chapters three (almost done) and five (halfway done) as we speak. Chapter four has been done for a while now. After that, the Fifth Anniversary game will cap this part of the story off and I think I'll take a bit of a break.

ProgZmax and Strange Visitor, I retract my statement. I've put a lot of fan service bits in my games to amuse myself and my play testers, but I may have to draw the line at anything involving midgets and giraffes. The letterbox format I use just wouldn't get everything in frame, you know?

- Ponch

Oooh, that does it.  I am *so* going to slut Damsel up in her sequel.  And her first peril will be escaping from a bedroom full of hot nymphomaniac Cirque du Soleil girls.

Cause...you know...contortionists.

THAT is the AGS game I've been waiting for. See, what I do is just cheesecake. But when you bring Cirque du Soleil into it, it becomes art!

- Ponch

Oh, so I've put the code at the door, talked to the guy a lot of times, tilll i get a msg like nothing to say, but I can't use the "rope" to go back, and or do something else(btw I have the pencil),so?

Can't write him a note with just a pencil. You need something to write on.

Spoiler

There's a yellow note pad at the bottom of the pile of garbage on his desk.

[close]

That should do the trick.

- Ponch