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Ultimately, its done by volunteers, and there's a backlog as it is so any attempts to force more work or double-reviews, etc. on the volunteers will fall flat. However, perhaps there should be a particular effort to review any games that are over 6 months old and not yet reviewed. (e.g. Soviet Unterzoegersdorf Sector II).

I think, though, that there's a huge range of 3 cup games. Some Ben Jordan and Ben304 games are in there and are great and then you've got things like Rock Rock Rock which astounded me by getting 3 cups (no offence to the authors! )

The trouble with DynamicSprite.Delete is that it frees up the memory but leaves the pointer variable still pointing to the invalid memory area. So I ALWAYS do this when deleting sprites:

Code: ags

if (selected_sprite != null)
  selected_sprite.Delete();
  selected_sprite=null;
}

Of course, this would all be much easier in the latest version where you can manipulate dynamic sprites directly without having to do all that dodgy background stuff

Line 341 is deleting a sprite because whenever you put a new value in a pointer, the old value can lose its last reference and so is automatically delted by AGS's garbage collection.  Are you reassigning mouseover_sprite anywhere else in the script?

Dualnames isn't my protege, he's my acolyte... 

I'll  leave it up to GG and DN to divide the responsibilities between themselves. As for the keys to the blog... you can post to it already, what more do you want?

I'm only 22 years old... in hex. That's another good reason to use it! Octal was used in the past for similar reasons, but doesn't fit quite so neatly for multiples of 4 binary digits, such as most computer addresses. However, its great for UNIX file permissions:

chmod 754 /somedir

Means: 111 101 100 and since each set of three is Read/Write/eXecute and then the sets are Owner, Group, World it concisely expresses a 9-bit value

Pretty much all that needs doing at the beginning of January is an announcement telling peopel to nominate and how, and CJ does the rest, the wee diamond geezer he is.

One other thign I forgot is the committee for the special awards: Lifetime achievement and Best Innovation (assuming you want to keep these). I picked some suitable cross-section of people and invited those peopel to join the committee. CJ then set up the sekrit forum and there was a thread for each award and it was discussed until a consensus was reached.

You may also want a discussion on any change to the awards: new ones or getting rid of old ones. Personally, I think there should be a Best Former AGS Awards Administrator awards. DGMacphee and Pesty really deserve it

Well, usually there's some tiebreaks to decide in the nomination process,  so I kept back my casting vote for those sitations: e.g. if in one category two games both had 6 nominations for the last place in the final vote then I'd go for the one that I thought deserved it more in that category OR if I hadn't played them both, I'd go for the one that had least nominations in other categories to try and share the love around!

Since CJ did the new voting there's a lot less involved: mainly encouraging people to vote and typing up the results in the various places that the nominations and results need to go (e.g. The wiki and the forums) . CJ handled updating the games DB himself.

And deciding what to do for the ceremony is that last big thing. I can send the source of last year's awards game to the new person, if they want. If I can find it!

Ahem, this is not the English thread! Back OT please!

As I have mentioned before, I'll be moving to China in January and so I won't have time to administer the AGS Awards this time. Volunteers? CJ's got scripts that handle all the voting, so you really just need to administer things, drum up people to vote and nominate, and do the announcements and ceremony.

I'm always angry and bilious when I fill my shopping list...  

In other new, QI revealed that not only is Stephen Fry not bothered by Grocers' apostrophes but also that there are only 3 apostrophes in the whole of the USA.

Just a uni art project, 'bout the homogenization of town centers. Greggs seems to perfectly encapsulate it.

Surely its against dsicrimination law to protest against homogenization Unless its Adam Lambert...

On the first day of Christmas AGS gave to me... 

And for Darth:

I'm really looking forward to this game, guys. And how can Ben possiblty have time for this and all the other games he churns out like nobody's business?

Err, actually, sensical and maculate are both words and feature in some dictionaries (not all, perhaps)

Isn't it just a setting on the General Settings pane?

The module doesn't do anything to the cursor at all, so yes it shoudl be possible with no extra effort.

Divon, you need to change EPICSHADOWS_MAX_WIDTH in the module header to a number larger than the largest shadow width that you wish to use.

My drugs of choice are caffeine and alchohol and I've never even smoked tobacco, let alone anything like pot or hard drugs. I also think people who take drugs are idiots. However, there are plenty of other idiots in this world, and criminalising them just doesn't help and makes sure that the multi-billion dollar drug industry's profits end up entriely in the hands of criminals and terrorists.

How can the US and UK get a chance to get out of the Afghan situation? Decriminalise drugs. All of them. Prohibition didn't work for alcohol in the US and it doesn't work for drugs.

Dual, I think perhaps it would be fair to reset the voting and put all the entries up this time!

Let us know when it's down to... 42

The moral of this story is: always read my blog. 

I can't believe that it wasn't Dual who started this thread...