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Try using the character[EGO].z variable.

I'd suggest interspersing the infodump with parts where the player has actual control, and doing part of it in the form of one or more NPCs that you can ask questions of, and do another part of it by sheer immersion rather than explaining.

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I'm afraid I won't be able to make it to both Mittens and Brittens, so I'll have to pass on the Irish one. Sorry

Perhaps we should redefine it as the "silliest game" award, or something like that. I'd be much more interested in seeing an award for intentionally-joke games, than for random games by some novice that just happen to be crappy.

Crackwell is certainly silly


(edit) looking back over the previous years, as near as I can tell every recipient of the penis award in the past was just some amateuristic simple piece by a newbie who didn't know any better. Of course, half of them aren't available for download so I'm not sure. But still, it would be more interesting to have given it to funny games, but then it shouldn't be called the "worst game" award.

(edit again) perhaps it should simply be open to only games in the Joke category.

[Pixel Hunt]

While it wasn't part of any semi-official competition, Pixel Hunt was written in one hour (most of which was spent hunting down funky sound effects on the internet )

Radiant award for example or whatever. We should bring it back for the hell of it.

Cuppit award?

Those of you who haven't already, should check out this year's Golden Raspberry Awards, and, for that matter, the recipients of last october's Ig Nobel Prize.

The reason I'm bringing this up is this: the yearly AGS awards used to have an award for the worst game of the year, called the P3n1s award after its first recipient. This ran into some controversy last year, as an relatively high quality game was nominated because some people considered it "a huge disappointment", and hence the award was dropped this year.

However. I think it would be fun to have one, or perhaps up to three, less serious awards for the AGS ceremony (or, perhaps, for a separate less serious ceremony a week later). These would, however, require a better description than "worst game". There are plenty of games released for AGS each year that aren't intended to be serious, and yet are quite funny in one way or another, and could deserve some recognition.

For instance, we could have the "funniest game" award, or the "strangest plot twist", or the "silliest concept for a game". Or even the "blurb text that is completely unrepresentative of what the game actually does". Games that I could envision winning include Snail Quest, and Me Go Store, and probably quite a bunch of others.

Thoughts please?

I like the railroad one. It sounds the most intriguing of the four.

On this note, would it be possible to implement a way to retrieve the length (in bytes) of a file? Something like File.Length or File.Size would be useful.

Technically, you can fake that by opening it in raw (binary) mode, reading raw characters until you reach the end, and counting them.

File.Size would still be nice, as would File.Seek, though.

(1) nice idea, but other than released games and new AGS versions, is there really anything happening? Unless of course you want a weekly gossip update

(2) good question. I think it should be feasible to integrate the forum with the games page, so that the games page simply displays part of a forum thread. I've seen in general that comments in the forum really don't match up with comments in the games page (i.e. positive vs. negative, or many vs. none), which is weird.

(3) don't know, I'm not familiar with the others.

There's no obvious cause and I've failed to reproduce it so far.

It did happen as I clicked a button on a GUI (that caused another GUI to become enabled). Is there anything I should avoid with GUIs, like using too many buttons or animations or overlaps or something?

What was the last piece of TV (or film) that choked you up.

The time when my TV was broken and I couldn't watch...

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Illegal exception
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An exception 0xC0000005 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x004313C7 ; program pointer is +379, ACI version 2.72.920, gtags (2,0)

AGS cannot continue, this exception was fatal. Please note down the numbers above, remember what you were doing at the time and notify CJ on the Tech forum.


This happened while testing a game I'm working on. What does this mean?

-open tomodify in eRead
-open dummy in eWrite
-copy the content of tomodify in dummy whith a simple while loop modifying the necessary characters
-copy the content of dummy to tomodify.

question: is there another path to accomplish that task?

Yes.

-open tomodify in eRead
-copy content to an array in memory
-modify array in memory as needed
-close tomodify, then open it again in eWrite
-write array back to tomodify

It's probably one of the most absurd side-plots from "Life, the Universe and Everything": Arthur Dent is stranded on a deserted planet. However, after MANY years of complete solitude, a spaceship lands next to his cave (where Dent has been living) and this guy steps out and says:

And, much later in the book, they come across a certain Arthur Philip Denu, who meets the same fate

You can pretty much find this out by taking any game that runs in 320x200 and has scaling enabled; run it in 640x400 and the sprites will have a higher resolution than the background.

This tends to look better than running it in 320x200.

Yes, you're missing the code that reads the file, kind of like

Code: ags

  while (not EOF file 1) {  write (file2, read (file1)); }

It's probably not wise, and certainly not necessary here, to open the same file twice simultaneously.

You should check out the BBC mini-series for visuals. They're far more faithful to the books (and better written, and funnier) than that movie.

Note also how the movie is nearly incomprehensible to people who haven't read the books, so that's probably not what you should aim for.

A race so amazingly primitive that they still thought digital watches were a great idea...