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A MAGS in half a month? Is that even legal?   Should we call it a HAGS game instead?

Glad to see this is happening again. I'm interested in attending as well, although I can't promise yet that I have the opportunity to travel then. I would be interested in doing a talk and/or panel, just like last year.

[or Desura]

Only because it's near-impossible to get an audience these days without going Steam or Desura

Urgh, PLEASE don't go steam-only. 

That's why I wrote "or Desura"

We're also open to other suggestions like GOG.

So, Petter, this means that you're going commercial after all?

Only because it's near-impossible to get an audience these days without going Steam or Desura

It was a nicely done short game. I just finished it. One question, is there a use for the ?

The game is about exploration. This is part of it.

You need to fix the download link to 1.1, because it's pointing to the defunct bigbluecup site.

Done.

I think this is a great idea. There is currently a lot of interest in playing AGS games on different platforms, and to my knowledge there are only about three commonly used plugins that cause problems with this (i.e. Steam, Flashlight, and Rain/Snow).

I would also be interested in a technical way of dealing with this. The game runs fine on Windows even when Steam isn't installed, but throws this exception on Android.     

We are currently working on a Deluxe version of Quasar, which is intended for distribution over GOG, Desura, and similar platforms. Aside from some interface tweaks, this primarily means that Elissa has been touching up or redoing graphics in a better resolution and color depth:




Basically, what we're doing is applying the lessons learned during the creation of Heroine's Quest to some of our earlier games; Warthogs is due for a similar treatment. This also means that we are re-recording the voice pack with professional actors with high-end recording equipment. To the community members who helped out with our voice pack: thank you very much for your support, and we sincerely hope not to offend anyone with this move. We'll keep you posted on future developments.

Is it any worse than, e.g., "this really is the last straw!" when in reality there are no straws involved?

Ironically, yes.

I've received a similar report that the keyboard doesn't work. It's a German computer, with German Win8.1, of course German version of a MS Sidewinder keyboard and German keyboard layout.

Furthermore, I've noticed how people, at least Brits, tend to use 'literally' when there isn't a call for neither a figurative nor a literal intensifier, like when Jamie Oliver says something like "You then literally grab the union and literally squeeze it down your food processor, etc etc".

That's the same kind of hyperbole as stating "I've been waiting for a hundred years"

Do we have any AGS'ers in South America or in North Africa who could organize a Mittens?

Why don't you take a trip to Africa and find out? Nigeria, perhaps?

I was actually in Africa when I wrote Draconis. Hah!

Thanks CW, that sounds very good.

Since you asked, I'll say that it's a bit counterintuitive to me that checkbox ON = borders OFF and conversely checkbox OFF = borders ON; I would suggest reversing those. That said, this is not a big deal to me.

[clearly]

I would defend Alanis and "Ironic" against the critics as well, though my take is a little different from Merriam-Webster's. While they seem to argue that "irony" is such a vague concept that anything goes, my argument is that many of the anecdotes in the song are clearly ironic under the strict definition, and that all the rest (which are too short to really judge) could easily be so depending on the context.

Or, you know, this:

I am cemused by this thread. Possibly even demused.

I would be interested to see if you can also locate the demo of Nightfall: Hero Of Odarin, or of Destiny: The Lost Soul. Both games have released a demo either to a small group of friends or to the devteam themselves, and both demos appear to be lost to history. It would be nice if someone could find them

Geometry Wars?!



Cool game, but what on earth does that have to do with Sierra?

I will probably be merging custom display resolutions code into 3.3.1 in a short while, and as an alternative approach I am considering removing "winsetup" from engine code completely and replacing it with stand-alone cross-platform program that will run on all desktop systems (Windows and Linux at least).

I applaud this idea and wholeheartedly support it!

Do we have any AGS'ers in South America or in North Africa who could organize a Mittens?

It's not the games for me usually, it's winsetup.exe so my guess is because it has the word setup in the name?

Seriously?

Come on microsoft, that is completely silly.

I'm trying to get in touch with Gabriel Down, a forum user who hasn't logged in for awhile and who doesn't have e-mail or weblinks on his profile. Perhaps somebody here knows how to reach him? If so, please let me know, thanks!