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You could try lowering your color depth, or restricting the loop to the part that is actually on-screen. Also, drawing black rectangles may be faster than drawing a sprite.

Also, do I understand correctly that you're first drawing (or restoring) the entire playfield, and then erasing the parts that are fogged? Because that's two draw operations for each fogged tile.

Finally, I would avoid calling a function like index() in the inner loop, just on general principle.

I had the exact same problem, actually. It never occured to me that you could right-click on the inventory bar.

Voice pack is coming up! Two out of five actors have sent in their recordings so far.

Since you're keeping track of version numbers: ATOTK is v1.3, and Yrolg is at v1.7.

Also, Hero of Infamous Kingdoms was never canceled. What you can download is the complete game, and is intended as such. Yeah, we said it was going to be bigger, but that was an april fools joke.

There's apparently also a King's Quest ZZT and a sequel thereof, as well as KQV the text adventure.

And then there's Space Quest XII, and although I can't find them at the moment, there's at least a dozen other SQ spinoffs and demos, such as Pinkun Maze Challenge and SQ2EYE.

If anyone know more that should be listed - finished, in production or canceled - let me know please! :-)

There's at least three more LOOM sequel wannabes.

Also, I totally predicted the ending, I guess that makes me tzachs the terrific!

FTFY

Hey, it fits on my screen now. That looks much better, thanks!

@Radiant: You're right, will add all off them.

Nope, they're still not there

EDIT:
Removed Knight's Quest II & VI .

Looks like you missed one

Reminded me of Quest for Glory games,

Yeah, that's our goal

Also, should you be looking for beta testers, colour me interested here and now.

Okay, we'll keep that in mind; this game will need a lot of testing. Ah, I see from your cred page that you've done that before; that's good.

I've just tried out Knight's Quest and Silent Knight, and I'm failing to see how either game has anything to do with the King's Quest series, other than that one has the word "quest" in the name.

Also, I note you've got SQ2VGA and SQ4.5 both listed twice.

(edit) Finally, download link for Carver Island.

Somebody start a Wikipedia article on the Tiamat!

Well, at least it's not one of those charities infamous for giving a huge salary to its director.

Anyway, for next year's Bake Sale a different charity could be considered, or a vote between several prior to going live. Variation is a good thing anyway.

PS: Is this rule still valid "only game creators wanted"?

Wait, when was that ever a rule?

To analyze things: I can see that there are legal and perfectly valid uses for services like Megaupload, torrents and the like, but the fact of the matter is that a great majority of the material being transferred is illegal copies of copyrighted material.

That is known as throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Thanx Radiant for pointing out some mistakes and missing info.

You're welcome.

Speaking of whic, this list is missing the following:

• Space Quest II, by Kippesoep. One of the oldest remake projects, unfortunately cancelled.
  
• Space Quest II, by AGDI. Started after they did KQI, and cancelled when they heard of the above.
  
• Royal Quest "Reviving Lost Shit", by AGDI. A spoof on KQ1 that was eventually cancelled, but some screenshots exist, and I'm sure their old website is on archive.org somewhere.
  
• King's Quest 2.5, by Crystal Shard. We cancelled that and made ATOTK instead. Weblink.
  
• Hero Of Infamous Kingdoms, a game made for april fools that is nevertheless fully playable. It was a group effort from various design teams, and contains scenes from Hero6, quest for Infamy, and ATOTK (hence the name). Weblink.
  

Also, the top post is too wide for my screen, anyone else have that problem? Perhaps it would help to display the links as just the word "link" with a hyperlink underneath, instead of spelling out the URL.

I used it to host my games (as in, games that I wrote) that were over 10 megs or so, to save bandwidth on my website. Of course I had a backup anyway, so I didn't lose anything per se, but it's not very convenient.

The reason steam works and is so successful is because they provide a service that is as good or superior to pirates. If other big media could provide this, then there is a good chance I would use this.

This is very important. It's called the "Better Than Original" problem, and big media companies tend to ignore it. For example, if an original game requires that I insert the original CD while playing or find word-X-from-page-Y in the manual, and the pirated copy does not, then the pirated version is easier to use, and therefore Better Than Original. This, of course, is a big incentive to pirate things - people enjoy convenience, and many copy protection schemes are just very inconvenient to the (legitimate) end user.

This looks very cool, and I'd definitely play it!

I'm just going down the list in alphabetical order.

Okay, next bake sale I'm going to write a game called AAAaaaaaAAAAaaaa!

I think the website should display something like "yesterday's best donation was $25" or whatever the amount is. It might encourage people

This wasn't a vote, just a kind of straw poll. I said earlier that the leading PM candidates should give their pitch for how they'd envision their role and plan to manage AGS. If we take the cutoff at half the votes of the highest-ranked candidate, and Darth isn't in the running, we have four front-runners.

That sounds like a reasonable way to proceed.