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Mad-Hatter says:
When someone says, "America is a good country." you laugh and say, "you're an idiot"

Your only redeeming feature.

Carry-on allowed again, but maybe only from Tuesday in some places: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4789593.stm

I don't think that should make a difference. CJ should fix it after he gets back from his gallivanting off to Spain.

names similar to other identifiers or keywords sometimes messes up the completion engine, too

It's a good point though. Perhaps the topic should be re-titled to UPDATE THE FLIPPIN MANUAL CJ and moved to Tech Forum so his Pumaness sees it

I think DaveGilbert and Yahtzee's thing of doing donateware special editions for a very low price is a good compromise. I wouldn't pay $30 for Al Emmo (or $5 for that matter) but I would pay $5 to someone who has put some extra effort into a game I know already is good and has been improved more.

www.adventuregamers.com Underground section reviews many AGS and non-AGS games. There are also many mentioned in the forums there. For example: Frasse and the Peas of Kejick, TGTTPOA Cruise Ship, Out of Order, etc.

Or if you like action adventures, try Steve Ince's Mr Smoozles demo.

Sound like your stepfather prefers that people breed with people as closely related to themselves as possible, monkey. Perhaps thats what his parents did?

I've mirrored it at http://ssh.me.uk/games/NTR_DEMO(1).zip

there's only one explanation, that could blow this whole case open:

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BEN JORDAN SEES DEAD PEOPLE, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW THEY'RE DEAD!

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or maybe...

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Percy "made" BJ a paranormal investigator by planting the PI guide where Ben would find it and get interested, then caused all paranormal events to happen... which only the DEVIL could do, so Percy is Beelzebub! Just like Unbreakable!

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or maybe...

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The village elders dress up as the strange red-wearing monsters to scare the villagers into staying put and they are actually inside a wildlife reserve!

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or maybe...

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Hang on, I haven't seen Shylamalan's latest movie yet

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That's all very easy. To detect if a character is standing on a hotspot, you need the script function Hotspot.GetAtScreenXY., e.g.

if (cBob.Room=player.Room && Hotspot.GetAtScreenXY(cBob.x, cBob.y)==hYourHotspot) {
  cBob.Room=whatever
}

which would go in the click function of your GUI's buttons, then make whatever action it is that makes the GUI come up do: gChooseLocation.Visible=1 to make your gui visible

What's the thing with Finnish guys? It's unnatural!

Last year it was the Gate Gourmet strike, this year terrorists... what is it with Mittens that makes the airports shut down just around its time?

You coudl calulate the square clicked on from the x and Y mouse co-ords, then calculate the centre of the square and move the character to that point. That would also avoid having to paint lots of hotspots, and any limit on the number of hotspots.

If you're worried about download size, AGS game files compress very well, though. For example, the game file for Shivah compresses 77% in plain old zip, and Duty and Beyond compresses 89%!

RAR and 7zip get even smaller (7zip manages 83% and 93% on the above game files)

PCX and PNG are "lossless" compression, so feel free to use them without any loss of detail. PNG will usually be much smaller than PCX, so go with that.

KANDYMAN's track record is somewhat more impressive than yoda, but still I'm with those who say "Don't do a remake, make your OWN game". It would be a waste of his talents, I think.

Great, I updated the wiki page. Feel free to add any further info there yourselves.

Thanks for those below who told me who won OROW2

I wish they rated movie so that you coudl tell if there was any peril in them at all. I mean, my daughter gets upset at such horror classics as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Madagascar, The Incredibles