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Alot has occured over the past several hours, including an argument, a farewell thread and a notification of only temporary farewell.  

But this cannot all go by without explaination.  Also I feel the need to make a MAJOR appology.

First off I'd like to say that I'm sorry for causing an uproar in the Gay Adventure thread. All you guys involved in that fight, I'm sorry for acting like a total fool.  I just... Man. I'm ashamed.

Second, I'd like to revise this post to a lesser extreme.  I'm going away for a short time. I'll pop in now and then just to see what's going on, but I'm just gonna take a bit of a rest.  As in several days to a week or so.  

Third, I'd like to apologize for any confusion this akward (retarded) series of events has caused.  

I was serious about the original Farewell Friends thread until I relised how much I really do enjoy it here and even though I have a fare share of disagreements there is no reason to ditch this place. I actually felt depressed after announcing my now cancelled final leave.

I know the solution is not to runaway but to take a small break from any heavy debates and to sheath my toung!  

I'm so sorry about this. I've been a total idiot about everything. I am really sorry.  I never wanna leave this place.

If any of you wish to chew me out or cyber slap me, please do so in this thread!  

Again, I apologize for my immature behavior.

Your Adventure Game Studio forum friend, who IS staying

-Raggit  

Just when you thought you got rid of me!!!! I'm back!

And thanks Taryuu, you slapped some sense into my head.  Just enough to make me relise my actions were too extreme.

Sorry guys.

(Please note that Evil's response was directed at the original version of this thread and is no longer relevant.)

I decided I want my players to be able enter their names in my game.  When they do this, NPCs will talk to them and call them by whatever they entered as their name.

Well I'm having some very strange problems.  In the beggening of the game I run the InputBox script.

I understand the deal with the string prompt but what should I use for the string buffer? Then I have a command set to display a message right after entering some text in the input box just to test it. The message should contain whatever the player typed.

Example of my script:
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InputBox("Enter your name:",what should go here?");
Display("Welcome, what should go here?);
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As you can see, I'm a little (if not alot) confused. I read it over in the manaul several times but I still think I'm doing something wrong. Could you provide me with a little example in the style of what I'm trying to do?

Thanx.  :

Maybe this should go in the competitions forum.

Anyway, I was thinking about how cool it would be if we had an AGSer's stock exchange! Of course real money wouldn't be used. We'd use "AGS dollars".

How it would work is that people could "buy" and "sell" shares of their favorite AGS games and their creators. As well as purchase shares of upcoming projects.

Creators could add their projects to the list and people could buy that game.  If the game is a hit players get "AGS dollars". If the game is a flop they lose AGS dollars.

Each person will start off with a set amount of AGS money. With that they can use it in the AGS stock exchange.  At the end of a month or whatever the person with the most "money" wins. People could keep track of their money just by writing it down, or even displaying it on their signature if they are on an ego trip. This game would be based on the player's honesty to tell the truth about their AGS wealth.

Anyway, this was just an idea for a fun board activity people could participate in.  What do you think?

Got this in an e-mail a bit ago:
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Subject: "WTC Survivor" --NEW VIRUS???


I don't take these "new virus" warnings lightly anymore.

I recently received a one of the typical warning notices from my brother that had been sent to him.  A few hours later I received an email from "support@microsoft.com"......Some of you may have seen it.

Like many others who might want to see what "Microsoft support" has to say, I opened it.   Norton Antivirus went crazy!!  It found the subject virus from "Microsoft support", and quarantined it.  It was the same one my brother had warned me about just hours earlier.   It was then that I went back to his email and found the name of the virus matched the one quarantined.

Hope everyone's anti-virus tools are updated.  Happy computing!!

Dave T.

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Very Important


During the next several weeks be VERY cautious about opening or launching any e-mails that refer to the World Trade Center or 9/11 in any way, regardless of who sent it. PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, "WTC" STANDS FOR THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. REALLY DANGEROUS BECAUSE PEOPLE WILL OPEN IT RIGHT AWAY, THINKING ITS A STORY RELATING TO 9/11!

BIGGGG TROUBLE !!!! DO NOT OPEN "WTC Survivor" It is a virus that will erase your whole "C" drive. It will come to you in the form of an E-Mail from a familiar person. I repeat, a friend sent it to me, but called and warned me before I opened it. He was not so lucky and now he can't even start his computer!

Forward this to everyone in your address book. I would rather receive this 25 times than not at all. So, if you receive an email called "WTC Survivor", do not open it. Delete it right away! This virus removes all dynamic link libraries (.dll files) from your computer.




PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE!
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Hehe, people are so funny. They'll forward anything if it says "PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE!".  Why not research it if you're going to put stock in it.

My favorite part is the part about it erasing your whole C drive!!!

Don't know why I posted this. I just thought it was humorous. Especially since it dates back to December 2001.

Check this out:

   http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBMalCode.shtml#wtcsurvivor

I could probably do this on my own but It'd take awhile to figure out!

Anyway, I want the player to be able to move some NPCs around by clicking a custom cursor on him, and then using the walk cursor where he wants him to go.

So here is how it should work:

The player uses the "select this character" cursor on the NPC and then clicks the walk icon on any walkable area and the NPC will go there.

Any way this can work easily?

I've had a difficult time connecting to an IRC server but when I have been able to nobody was on the AGS channle!!!

Is anybody really there or is there something wrong with my server connection or what?

Who are your favorite directors??

I think one of my all time favorite directors is Robert Zemeckis. (Back to the Future movies, Cast Away, Forest Gump and more)

I also enjoyed Lasse Hallstrom's What's eating Gilbert Grape.  Though I haven't really seen any other Hallstrom films.

So who's works do you enjoy?

Awhile back a link was posted with this:

http://www.tekzoned.com/whatswrong/


Here was that thread:

http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=1868;start=0

There was discussion of other animations in that thread about cool animations like one where a ghost comes running at you while screaming after a bit.  Does anybody have anymore of these type of things??? If so, post the links here!!

----Positions Filled, No Longer Hiring-----

Sorry to drag this up but I'm still getting offers for help. I appreciate everybodie's offers for help! I now have three people working with me on the story.

Rabbit with Fangs

GinnyW

Hobbes (maybe)

So anyway thank you everybody for your interest and help!


And to the folks who made suggestions about playing the witch etc:  Thanks, but I feel the game will be better if the player is the searcher insted of the witch, who is gone. I know, the witch should be present in the game. I've heard that before too!

But I wanna do it this way and we'll see if we do a good job on it if and when it is finished.




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I posted this in the ACR thread but I don't think anybody saw it. On the other hand maybe nobody wants to help me! Sorry if I am breaking a rule or something by making a seperate thread here!

But I'm looking for one or two imaginative writers/puzzle designers for a mideviel fantasy adventure game.   A quick description of the game:

In a far away land there ruled a greedy and corrupt king. He taxed his people heavily. In the forests there lived an old hag. The king ordered his tax collectors to collect from her too.

She was angered at this so she stole away all the king's treasures and money. She took them and locked them away in a large chest wich she then hid away forever to punish the king for his greed.  After losing his money the small kingdom fell and the king turned his back to the people, left and never returned.

The player is in search of fortune and treasure. He hears this legend and travels to this kingdom to find and claim the legendary treasure!

That is just the plot but before I actually start writing the game itself I need help to design puzzles and stuff. I haven't written very much of the game becuase I want to get some help!

If you want to take part in the creation of this enchanting tale please instant message me!

Thanks!

I was just wondering what you think about putting your real name in your games credits.  

Do you think its a bad idea?

I mean, if sombody played your game and saw your real full name why would they want to stalk you down and kill you?

What do you put in your credits?