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If someone's come up an idea that's sparked your imagination, there's nothing that says you can't run with it.  You can always send someone a pm if you're unsure of anything (it never hurts to try to contact someone).

Your sketch background looks promising, and don't forget about Dave Nihilist who is also a barman at Scids.  If you want George working a shift at the beach in your game, just claim that Dave's watching over the bar back in town.

The Anthony Hahn Library is on the corner next to the municipal building across from Chez Chef & the Red Apt building (try going south of Chez Chef if you're in the town square, or going to the right side of the screen if you're in the red apt exterior).  While you can still get to it in older version of Virtual Reality, I did upload a new version that adds road crossings that make it clearer where the room change spots are in the town square room.

Don't forget, there's also the maps in the faq section on the site.
http://www.realityonthenorm.info/images/misc/20151027-townmap.png

See my previous post, although you can read about the time it hosted Big Brother RON if you head to the fiction section on the RoN site.

The original intent of the series was that would tell stories that could build upon ideas presented in earlier works.  As time went on and with more games, things started to get overwhelming for newcomers which is why the classifications of: Canon, stand-alone, non-canon were devised to attempt to sort things out into something more manageable.  At end of the day, if you've got a story idea go for it.  If you questions about characters, locations or the series history, don't hesitate to create a forum post and ask.

Re: Jackie working at Dominatrix, she didn't until both you and DarkWater decided she did... in two separate games without talking to each other about it, I'd wager.  Also, it's easy to claim that Nick had sprained wrists & couldn't play drums in "Rock" which is why Chris played them (rationalizations are fun )

Back to the topic on hand, yay more content, downloading now.

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Reality TV hasn't featured in any games, so the staff are all uncreated/unknown.  Since you want to avoid making new characters I can suggest the following characters would would be easiest to fit into some role at the station as they're not predefined with an existing job/role:

Unnamed Fat Man: Has only appeared in 1 game so far, nothing is none about what his profession is, doesn't even have a name.  Would require new sprites to put him in a suit.

Frank Jones: His profession is unknown (as far as I'm aware).  Would require new spirtes to put him in a suit.

Louis Darcy: Investigate journalist with 25 years of experience.

Jennifer Barnes: An aerobic instructor at the fitness centre.  Could host a morning exercise program.

Mrs. Stringstein: Thakbor's mum.

Edit: It occured to me that students could be working at a location such as Reality TV as part of a school credit co-op education program.

What?  You can't make it out in the swirls, ridges & furrows of the icing? It's was written in chocolate after all.

RoN turn's 15 today!  Happy birthday RoN!!

I updated and uploaded a new version (v6) of Virtual Reality and I baked a cake.

Well, here we are, just 16 days from RoN's 15th anniversary.  If anyone needs a place to post links or files of whatever they've been working on to celebrate the anniversary, they can post it here or can simply send me an IM.

I've updated & uploaded new bundles (Feb 1, 2016) of the character sprites & .cha files to the resources page on the RoN site.

Also, there's a special RoN MAGS this month (in the AGS Competitions & Activities subforum), if you're interested.

It's been a bit quiet since Eggie's awesome art so here's what I've been up to.  After finishing the 2014 reconstruction of "The Repossessor", "Paranormal Investigation" & "Monty on the Norm" soon followed.  In June of this year (2015) "Cold Storage" was updated & uploaded.  I've also spent time working on the wiki and have gotten the character pages created and the character info transferred from the RoN site.

Today I uploaded the updated, recompiled "Stuck at Home" to the RoN site.

So I created sprites for a character, based on a favourite author, for RoN University's Dean of Literature.  I've still to get the animations done but when I do, he'll be added to the appropriate packs.
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I'm still working on debugging Stuck at Home, however Cold Storage is finished and is up on the site for download.  I'm also redoing the beach backgrounds as they need updating.

I'd say try not to second guess yourself.  If you want to make a game with Mika as the protagonist, then do so.  There are plenty of story themes and ideas that can be explored by a plucky photographer/photo-journalist.

Next year RoN will be celebrating it's 15th anniversary.  I'm mentioning this now so if anyone wants to do something special to celebrate this landmark (or RoN in general) has enough time before Feb 2016.

If anyone is unsure of what they could do, contributions could be any of the following:
- Artwork (digital or physical)
- Fiction or non fiction piece
- Music: for game use, or a live recording of the Ron theme (for example)
- A game
- Character/object/etc sprites
- Game backgrounds
- A birthday card
- Photos of a cake celebrating the 15th anniversary
- a audio and/or video piece
- Or something not listed above that marks this anniversary or celebrates RoN in general

I've re-zipped the version of The Chef (click here for link to games page) that's at the RoN site & uploaded it.  Hopefully you'll have some luck with that.

I've encountered a few false positives from Avast.  It once threw a .dll file straight into the quarantine vault when I opened an old game of mine with AGS 2.7 as I needed to check some lines for a port project I'm working on.

You may have to get Avast to either exempt the files you're trying to extract or turn it off briefly as it's clearly being pig-headed.

Ah the joys of Avast.  I use it too and there are times when I want to reprogram it with a very large axe when it starts getting fussy with AGS programs.

Anyway, you can find a rar copy of The Chef at this archive.  It's listed as #28.

The project looks very interesting.  I can see it being used to quickly generate & experiment with character concepts (the head at least).  Once it's done we'll work at getting it on the RoN site.

Will there be future updates for female heads?

Unless someone manages to find an archive to drag screaming into the light, pretty much everything on the old RoN forums is gone.  The only things I've got from the old forums is the art from the old sprite & background comp/activities.

Did more digging, here's the earliest versions of the following that I have:

Disappearance Time: link

Cabbages & Kings: link

Dead Man's Political Party (v1): link
While you didn't ask for this, I've included it just in case you didn't know there was a version 1/had the version 1.

I Spy 2: link

The Postman Only Dies Once: link
Link on the website now works as well.

The First Stitch: link
Best I could find was the game files which I've recompiled using ags 2.7 as whatever version I originally used to make it was cast into the wind long ago.  This will have to suffice unless someone else can come forward with an original compile.

After having a look through the files on my machine, I've only been able to find RoN Beach Party, which I've added to the demos page on the RoN site for future download.  For now, here's a direct link.

I'm going to keep looking through my backups but they're on CD and so will take longer to go through but I'll be wearing by fedora while I do this because hey, why not? At least I'm assured no ancient traps from long dead civilizations

As an aside to anyone else watching this thread, I also came across Edmundo's beta version Ron Movie Maker program and put it on the RoN site in the fiction section if anyone wants to check it out.

The style that I was attempting to emulate was designed by Krysis (see the example of Mary the fox in the first picture).  I've made some adjustments, redid the colouring and I think I've got something that works given the height limit of 16 pixels (it a kitten after all).  I'm pretty happy with this and I think it's serviceable, or at least cute.

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