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Yes, Princess Marian is up to her adventures again. This time she fights the forces of evil in a two-player snowball fight!

With thanks to Haddas for the music and SSH for the snow module and SSH for the spritetext module

Download it now!

Player 1 keys:
Z: move left
C: move right
X: pick up more snow
S: hold to build up power and let go to throw snowball

Player 2: cursor keys

That's why it is an example. I also expect people to read the rest of the docs. You need to change SNOWFLAKES to whatever the view name is that contains your snowflakes. Unfortunately importing a character doesn't keep the names of the views...

[Download here]

Well, I was making a generic winter festival celebration game  and wanted snow, but the plugin didn't work, so here for anyone with a PC that can cope with 13 concurrent overlays....

Download here

Documentation

Comes with a .cha file that you can import to get some sample snowflakes.

Now upgraded for AGS 3.1+, etc., but still includes the old module for 2.72 fans

Maybe they're actually doubles?

EDIT: I've been noticing that my GUIs are displayed wierdly in the editor. I say GUI is, say, 50x10 pixels with transparent BG in 320x200 res. But the editor draws a 100x20 magenta box for me to place my buttons, etc, in... very hard to position things in! This was pretty much straight after usign the empty template.

Also, I've used a SetRestartPoint() in room 3's before fadein (starting room) and then once in room 2, I do a RestartGame, but it just reinitialises Room 2... I'm still investigating this one. EDIT: Ah, just the old... "The game can't save while a script is running, so SetRestartPoint will actually wait until the first game loop when there isn't a blocking script running in the background. Is this likely to be the issue?" This should be added to the manual entry for SRP, btw... "Only creates a restart point once the game has stopped running scripts"


Just for more info on SnowRain. I tried using it and it didn't work for me. The plugin comes with the Allegro 4.0 DLL. I tried copying in the 4.1 and 4.2 DLLs to the compiled dir to see if that helped, but no such luck. I also tried JUST having newer versions, but that didn't help either. And renaming the 4.2 DLL to 4.0 just breaks things! So much for the DLL idea. Shame that Scorp seems to not be around for a while!

Sheesh!

Red and pussy (the stuff you get from wiping your eyes) from staring at a monitor for too long, and a matchstick held up vertically between your eyelids to prevent them from shutting!

Matt, look up "puss-y" in urbandictionary. And "pus-filled" might be better. But a better way still would just be to say bloodshot. I don't call that yellow stuff you get in the corner of your eyes "pus" I call it "sleep". But maybe that's just me.

Welcome back, Neole!

I think this should get added to the wiki... or at least linked!

Heh, the KQIX page still says at the bottom: " "KQIX: Every Cloak Has A Silver Lining" is a work of fan fiction. It is based on the popular King's Quest series, which is wholly Copyright of Sierra Entertainment, Inc. 1979-2005. "

I loved Richard Pryor, he was great. But now we have Chris Rock, so all is good....

An IRC conversation last night showed that everybody (i.e. AGA and me) confuse Chris Rock and Chris Tucker. These ethnic minorities all look the same to me  To confuse things further, Tucker's role in 5th Element was called Ruby Rock...

PS, I added SSH in there becouse he seems to be doing a lot of work with games and the wiki itself. It only seemed right for him to be in there.

You forgot to say that I'm handsome!

This gets discussed so often on the forums, it should be in the FAQ. Or popular threads. Or added to the forum signup questionairre:

You feel that the simpsons isnt as good/popular as it used to be. Do you:

a) Use the forum search feature to find that 196 threads about this already and decided that its been done to death already
b) Post how much you think that the Simpsons has declined in a new thread so that everyone can reiterate how they thought that Futurama was canned to early
c) Slightly injure yourself because you take a comic cartoon series way too seriously
d) Find another forum that gives a monkeys
e) Claim that Matt Groenig is a god and get flamed by the religious fundamentalists who say that the only true god is the FSM/Pope/whatever...

EDIT: Toned down, because I wasn't really trying to get at the OP, in fact I saw the replies to this thread before I saw the original...

Two ways to work around it:

1) Use the Char Control module instead of plugin

2) Do this:

string x;
StrCopy(x, "WHAT I WNT TO SAY");
old_function(x);

Hack, but will work

Radiant, you are evil! 

I think you compiled this with 2.7, tho, becasue sometimes you do have to kill the program with the Task manager if you quit it.

http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/D/Dissociated-Press.html

Ah, right, rharpe must have got that one and Matthew 26:24 confused.

just noticed:

"Make love not war" message, etc., does not go too well with what I stand for as a Catholic.

So you're saying that the catholics would rather that people killed each other than procreated (possibly even with their spouse!)

In which way is it "not working"?

It's like what Christ said, "It would be better if you were not born then to scandalize a child." He has definitely scandalized many, even after his death. Many of you are so desensitized, you wouldn't even know it if you were.

Ummm, I think you need to check that quote. I think he said that about someone who would betray him, not someone who "scandalizes children" whatever that means...  or maybe you equate lennon with Judas?

Ironically, RC3 fixed your problem #2 for me. Check that your DirectX, video drivers, etc. are up-to-date.

I'd just like to point out that "John Lennon" is an anagram of "Lone Jehovah"

COINCIDENCE?? ??

* SSH places his copy of Catcher in the Rye down on the table

There are lots of fonts to use with this module on this site

I have put a few of them into .cha files for import in this download