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I'm an Arizonan, so neither of you yellow-bellied, possum-suckin', knock-kneed, lily-livered polecats stand a chance against me!

DRAW!



I am on the left.

I'm in El Paso (which is now New New Mexico), so I'm clearly the one in the sombrero! Not sure that I would be caught dead with pink pistols, but I totally dig the hat, man!

And Strange Visitor has a good point: Barn Runner 5-2 if practically overflowing with half nekkid womens! That alone should ensure it's place as game of the month (if not game of the year!)

- Ponch

[Sketch-tastic!]

Ha!  "Harry Sach"!  I didn't get that until I read your AGS panel review.

Just finished playing, went back to see all the endings, great job, man.  The drunk Crow robot was my favorite guy in the whole game.  Hey!

I also noticed, Harry apparently has man-boobs at that one ending.

Thanks for an awesome gaming experience again, I can't wait to see chapter 3!

Thanks! Someone who e-mailed me last month said I have a reverse James Bond thing going on when it comes to naming the guys in my games: Prick Peckard, Harry Sach, Gary Minge. It just amuses me, I guess.

If you look closely, all the MST3K robots have made appearances in the series by this point. That was one of my all time favorite shows, and I like to work it, Star Wars, and Doctor Who in whenever I can.

As far as Harry's chest goes, that was supposed to be big pecs as seen from 3/4 rear profile. But, as you noted in your review, the art tends towards more towards "doodle" than polished. Believe it or not, I used to make good money in commercial art before deciding to spend my middle age years cramming American History into the heads of uncaring students.

With exceptions only for very detailed technical shots (like the exterior shot of the hangar bays in the opening movie of Friday 1), all Barn Runner art is done free hand on yellow legal pads in my spare moments.

Case in point, here's something I drew during lunch a few days ago:

Sketch-tastic!

This is from the game I hope to have finished in time for a Christmas release. This is Debbie in her elf costume, in the middle of a shootout. The sprite will be imported directly from this doodle and, minor tweaks aside, this is how it will look in the game.

I just don't have time to sit down a refine it much, even though I wish I did. Still, I think the Barn Runner games have a pretty distinctive, cartoony visual style.

Thanks for playing (and the nice review) and I'll do my best to get chapter three out next year! And as regarding your review, indeed I do like to draw the ladies (half naked and otherwise). But, hey, I'm equal opportunity. I put the fellas in there too! There's something for everyone in Barn Runner!

- Ponch

I read the list and went "Nooo!  Why do I have to be competing with Barn Runner 5?"

Because we're both Texans? We have to fight with somebody, right? So might as well face off against each other! Yee haw! Six shooters! And what have you!

- Ponch

[Dualnames]

Pressed for time right now, so no time for hints. Hope you don't mind me just giving you guys the answers instead of being clever and hinting at them.

Dualnames

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Use the Harry Icon on the control box next to the bartender. Once the Booze-a-matic is fixed, take the bundle of red cable from the corner and use it on the light rig overhead.

[close]

Tina

Spoiler

Put the 6 card in the 5 slot, the 2 card in the 1 slot. Leave the scorched card in the holding slots beneath the puzzle. Do the same with the speckled wire. Place the other two wires in top to slots (doesn't matter which order), and turn the switcher knob until there is a metal rod connected to each of the top two slots. Then press the reset switch.

[close]

That should get you guys back on track!

- Ponch

stuck again I'm at the 3 lifts. one is on fire one is broken and how do i get the other one working ive tried the hacker but I'm no good at that can anyone help i cant bypass it thanks

Tina,

That's the one lock that has no back door combination and must be hacked, so here's the sequence you need to use to crack the lock.

As soon as the HackLink screen loads, from left to right, do the following:

Spoiler

Column 1: Click up twice. Column 2: Click down twice. Column 3: Click down once. Column 4: Click up once.

[close]

Lock all the circuits and enable the bypass. That should unlock the elevator.

- Ponch

... After speaking with Jani, I'm supposed to write something in paper but I don't have it...

stridey, try this:

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There's a yellow note pad under all the garbage on Jani's desk. Poke around and you'll find it.

[close]

That should do the trick.

- Ponch

... you get very well the provocative girl graphic...

I hope that's a reference to the dream sequence set to the Tom Jones song. I spent just over 100 hours animating that damn thing. I haven't done that much hand drawn animation in ages and it was a blast to do. I had such a blast doing it, that now I have even more ambitious sequences planned for future games in the Barn Runner series. Kudos to CJ for making an engine capable of creating more than just adventure games. It does cartoons too!

... concerning the last game and mostly some of them, well they need ambient sounds and original music...

Yeah. I agree. I went with the "silent movie" approach at the start of the series for a variety of reasons. But once the Forever Friday and the 5th Anniversary game are behind me, I plan on making some big changes to the world of Barn Runner. I'm overhauling the character sprites, probably moving up to 800x600, and I might even start using sound f/x. As far as original music, let me think about the offer. The big love scene from part three of Forever Friday is eating up all my free time right now. When the schedule loosens up a bit, I'll pm you and we'll work something out.

- Ponch

[stridey]

{b}MARKO33[/b}
Check Brentimous' post above on how to open the club's door.

stridey
To repair the elevator:

Spoiler

Pull out the scorched wire in the top slot, replace it with the good wire in the bottom slot, and turn the switcher knob until it connects with the second wire's position.

As for the circuit cards, the device is a multiplier. Each slot has a numerical value, as does each chip. The system requires 32 amps, so do some quick math and find which chip value, multiplied with each slot value would produce 32, and put those chips in those slots.

Press RESET and that should do it.

[close]

Hope that helps,

- Ponch

...I'm stuck I'm in the block of flats investigating and need to bypass the lock...

Which lock has you stumped? There are two different set of flats that you have to investigate.

If you're investigating D-Vyne (the red hallway), then use Harry on the lock and he'll use the HackLink to crack it.

If you're investigating Homer J. Fong (the yellow hallway), then use the HackLink in your inventory and crack the lock with it.

However, if the HackLink puzzle is giving you problems, then just USE the keypad and enter the following combination for each lock:

D-Vyne (red hallway):

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21718997. That's her citizen ID number and you can find it on her case file button on the GUI.

[close]

Fong (yellow hallway):

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8675309. The foster parents are old and, apparently, love cheesy pop songs from the 1980s.

[close]

Hope that helps and I"m glad you like the game!

- Ponch

How the heck do I get back out of the hallway leading to Prick's office? ... What's the dealio, yo?

Prick can't go back to the lobby outside the Chief's office because Harry is waiting for him there. He has to have both the guns from his (secret) office and the DataLink he left in the briefing room.

You'll revisit that hallway in chapter five, and there will be a little yellow bar on the ground that let's you know where to go to get back to the lobby. But for this chapter, he can't go back until he's ready. (He needs to make a good impression after all).

Hope that helps.

Ponch

(And thanks for all the nice words guys. I'm glad to know you were waiting for this one!)

Congratulations on getting part 2 finished!  I've been looking forward to this.

Thanks! I've put a lot of work into this one and I hope it provides a meatier gaming experience than part one did (which was saddled with the introduction / setup duties that made it a little too talky and a little too lean on gamplay).

And thanks for Liimey Lizard. Awesome theme and I hope the series has a long run!

- Ponch

[An abandoned mall? Let the looting begin!]

Almost released on schedule, I'm proud to present Barn Runner 5: The Forever Friday 2.

An abandoned mall? Let the looting begin!

This medium length game picks up one hour after the last chapter ended. The mass hysteria of the "Big Crazy" has begun tearing through the city and it's up to our hero, Prick Peckard, to stop it.

Reluctantly saddled with a partner (the very man who is trying to fire him), Prick must venture into the chaos, armed to the teeth and looking for the people responsible for plunging Arc 19: Evansville into an orgy of looting, cannibalism, and utter disrespect for littering laws.

Will Prick survive his mission? Will he find the people responsible? Will his city survive the madness that has claimed so many other cities before it? And how does Welsh crooner Sir Tom Jones factor into all of this? You'll only find out if you download!

Available from TackyWorld Interactive, where the quality of our freeware is matched only by the price!

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD (RAR Format) (14.5 Megabytes)

System Requirements:
Windows 95/98, 2000, ME, XP, or Vista
1 gHz Processor
256 Mb of RAM
DirectX compliant sound and video cards
193 Mb hard drive space

Rated "T" For Teen (not really, but it probably should be)
This game contains:
Mildly Suggestive Adult Themes
Mild Profanity
Brief Nudity
Cartoonish Violence

Plugins and other helpful things Used by this game
Andrew MacCormack's Save/Load Functions
Steve McCrea's OtherRoom plugin
Scorpiorus' Parallax plugin


So, if you have some time to waste, why not download it and give it a try?

Ponch

Thanks for the link to those movies, ProgZmax. They look very interesting, and they've got to make more sense than the talking heads on my TV screen, who all seem insistent that it's the fault of the other political party.

CJ, if money gets tight for you, why not slap up a donate button? I'd throw some money your way for all the AGS goodness you've provided over the years. Things are tough on this side of the pond too, but I'm sure I could cough up twenty dollars or something. (Which is like three pounds and some change, I think).

Hope the job search goes well  for you.

Ponch

Did we definitely win this, then?

I think so. Though I never heard anything from Mods.

Could be some sort of sinister plot. We all show up to collect our prizes and are never heard from again. But maybe I'm must paranoid that way.

- Ponch

Contrary to AGA's misinformation, my tache is full and powerful:

Indeed it is! And suitable for twirling in a menacing fashion!

And kudos to the other fine staches on display here. Well done, all of you.

I must say, I'm surprised at the number of AGS ladies who sport such fine moustaches. Well done, ladies! Flaunt your manly 'staches in a womanly fashion, and social conventions be damned!

I contacted a friend of mine from years back, and he was nice enough to provide me with this image:

I helped out with bit parts in student films back in the day, and in this role I was supposed to be a 70's burn out / former biker (or something like that). This fine shot is from "behind the scenes" footage of me trying to learn my damn lines before we lost the light. Sorry for the crappy compression, the behind the scenes stuff was saved in some crappy mpeg format.

This moment also records the closest I've come to actually shaving off my beard since I got out of the service. Porkchop sideburns aside, that is pure stache, baby (and a damn fine one, I think you'll agree).

- Ponch

This thread is muy macho. In fact, this may be the most manly thing I have ever been a part of -- and I have lived a very manly life, so that is saying something.

But the obvious question is:

Where is CJ's moustache?

- Ponch's beard

The day I got out of the military was the day I stopped shaving, so I've been rocking the facial hair thing for years.

But no beard?! What the hell?!?

The way I see it, my beard is like my moustache's wingman. There's just no damn way I'm sending him out into hostile territory without backup. Flying solo is for young fools who may have a "devil may care" attitude towards life. But the beard is a sign of maturity, and the mark of a man wise enough to make it back home alive.

And those are the sorts of men who live to father sons... sons who will grow up to continue to bring facial hair to the world.

- Ponch's beard has spoken

"And knowing is half the battle!"

"G I Joe!"

Thanks for the explanations on the futanari thing. I think I understand what you and limping fish are getting at.  I guess I just prefer my ladies with the factory standard parts. Call me old fashioned.

Thanks also for that link to the Futurama clip. I had forgotten how funny that show was. Also, very true I suspect. I know if I were to ever get my hands on a Bettie Page Bot or a Pam Grier Bot I would never make it to work again. If I managed to get my hands on both of those robots, I suspect they would find me dead of starvation*, tangled up in a pile with my robots.

- Ponch
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* Or extreme dehydration

[who quitely sit in restaurants to have dinner]

people who quitely sit in restaurants to have dinner are hunted down with torches and pitchforks by angry mobs.

Well, that's what the deserve, isn't it? Flaunting their quiet, middle class lifestyle for all to see. Lording their satisfying, vanilla sex lives over everyone. The nerve of some people!

I've read a lot of Heinlein over the years. Must have missed that one. I'll have to look it up as it sounds quite interesting.

- Ponch

Sweet! Even better than that time I took second place in a beauty contest (though, come to think of it, that may have been in a Monopoly game).

Big congratulations to Crystal Shard, Dan Marshall and Ben Ward on their wins.

So, how does this work exactly? Is it like being in line for the Throne? If something terrible were to happen to those three, would I get the trophy? By something terrible, of course, I mean the sort of something in which they disappear without a trace and no evidence is left behind and the police have no leads to follow. Just asking.

Thanks to everyone one who voted!

- Ponch