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I'm really shocked at your morals, people. What happened to family values?

Here's my list:

My wife.


That's it.

Actually, I've just remembered Wing Commander 3: you flirt with two women but eventually you have to choose between the pilot lass and the engineer (played by an porn actress!) or neither... if you choose the pilot, you have to configure your spaceship yourself for the rest fo the game. If you choose the engineer, you lose a potential wingman. If you choose neither, I dunno...

You could make a love triangle, and your final choice when given an ultimatum would determine the way you solved puzzles (i.e choose the really tall girl and she can get something from a high shelf for you... choose the short bird and she can stand on your shoulders.... )

I'd like to hear people's thoughts on how you get the player (as well as the player character) to really care about an NPC, maybe even fall in love with them.

Obviously, big bosoms....

Seriously, though, look at how they make you fall in love with a character in a movie... sympathy, empathy, physical attraction, intelligence, indignation against a third party...

Take a look at the most successful movie of all time, Titanic. One of the reasons it made such a vast pile of cash was the sympathy of the female part of the audience with the DiCaprio character. They went back to see it again and again becuase some part of them hoped that maybe this next time, he would survive. The best stories are tragedies. So if you want that the player at least understands the character's falling in love, there must be somebody doing something to the love interest that they should not be getting away with.

Beware that tragedy isn't just tacked on, however. In Titanic, the tragedy of Jack's drowning is a part of the inevitable tragedy of the Titanic sinking and thousands dying. Compare with Armageddon, where the tragedy of Bruce Willis dying wasn't really necessary to the plot and they saved the world and most of the astronauts in the end anyway so it didn't really work as a tragedy. On the other hand, Aerosmith are better than Celine Dion...

Now follow the inevitable Leo-envy jokes about the tragedy in Titanic being his acting, etc....

In this situation the main-character will light a fire with a flintstone.

Fred, Wilma or Pebbles?  

This reminds me of the song...

http://www.anysonglyrics.com/lyrics/a/androids/doitwithmadonna.htm

Speex is a lossy speech compression format, giving better compression for speech than Vorbis, but its from the same people: http://www.speex.org/

Ogg is a wrapper for different kinds of format, and if you use Ogg's own player (as it says in the docs), then it might just work anyway. Do you always build in the latest version of their player when you release a new AGS?

Does the Ogg support in AGS just include Vorbis, or does it have Speex as well?

Sorry if this is a silly question, but it looks to me that we can't do this in AGS currently:

Is it possible to have a Broken Sword dialog interface with pictures instead of text. Also, to have the inventory visible at the top of the screen that can also be used as dialog topics?

Great game, DGM! But I got a bit stuck:

Spoiler

There's a three headed monkey behind you

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Reminds me about those French comixs I used to read.

It reminds me of Tintin too  

Was it just me, or is the 300th Simpsons episode (where Bart is emancipated) rubbish? Sky had been hyping it for weeks and it was such a disappointment.

On the other hand, the 100th Charmed was pretty good.

Cowboy Beebop -- Sci-fi action series about bounty hunters

Neon Genesis Evangelion -- Very philosphical series with big robots -- it doesn't take itself too seriously all the time -- And the characters have a lot of depth and feeling to them.

Cowboy Beebop is currently showing on CNX channel on UK Sky Digital at 9pm each day. It always seems to be the episode with two cat space ship pilots, though...

As for NGE, aren't 99% of Mangas about very big robots? Gundam, Escaflowne, RoboTech, BattleTech, etc.?

Hmmm, I wasn't sure which forum this should have gone in, so I'll just post a quick refernce for you Critics to the other thread:

http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=5530

Is Critics Lounge meant for C&C of plots, too?

Cheers!

Thanks, Iqu... in fact that's exactly the page that I read as well... I had the plot idea, but needed to fit it in somewhere and the "heresy" of Akenaten and his succession by Tutenhkamun and Ay and Horemheb fitted well, and it is just after the rediscovery of the Sphinx and there's lots of sequel opportunity!

There is a bit more, but that would start to give away the plot, like Neole did with the Creation game  

Incidentally, Akhenaten, Khafre, Horenheb, Ay and Maya did really exist...

Firstly, love the pic, shadind and blurry effects. However...

Drummer has a blackhead on his forehead and Bass player has drool on her bottom lip... and the girls arm has been cut off as blacksoul said.

Record posters of the word "teh":

Czar: 20
Mr Panda: 29
Mods: 34
Las Naranjas: 36

and in first place, by a mile:

Gilbot has posted 56 articles featuring the word "teh"....

Can we make that sprite the official RPGCreator image?  

I stole it from your LotR photoshop entry anyway....

EDIT:
Thanks, x0Z!

OK, OK, I know that there's a million and one Egypt based games but this one is good becuase:

1) It is set in the days of the 18th Dynasty: you are Maya: assistant to General Horenheb in the last days of the reign of Akhenaten.
2) I've been to Egypt
3) The pyramids only feature incidentally and do not have mystic powers

So here's an outline of the introduction:

Room: In front of the Sphinx, General AY is standing, waiting
MAYA follows General HORENHEB into scene
HORENHEB: The pharoah has gone too far this time, Ay
AY: Indeed, I have tolerated as much as I can of his new cult of Aten
HORENHEB: The people are near revolt; they want to go back to worshipping Amun
AY: This is exactrly the wrong time to change another tradition: we need all the support of the army for the war with the Hittites
HORENHEB: What can we do?
AY: We must seek an audience and see if we can dissuade him
HORENHEB: You know that will not work
AY: We must try...
*The Generals leave, Maya goes to follow:
HORENHEB: The Pharoah will not grant the audience to you... wait here.
*Maya waits.... and waits... and waits...
* It goes dark, and Maya falls asleep, and dreams:
SPHINX: Tremble at the power of Khafre, humble assistant. Khafre was humble too in his time, building his pyramid smaller than his father's out of respect. But his powers were greater than any Pharoah before or since. This power has been reawakened in me as your Pharoah worships his false god Aten. You must tell your master of this power and use it to restore worship to the rightful Amun.
MAYA: H..h...h..how? WHatttt?
SPHINX: In the pyramid of Khafre is a secret chamber, never discovered by any of the thieves who plundered the tomb... a man must give up gold to find the chamber, not steal the gold. In this secret chamber you will find the  inscription that reveals the power of Khafre.

Room: Horenheb's Palace, the next day, Horenheb sits at a table, examining maps with Ay
Maya runs into the room in a panic
HORENHEB: WHere have you been?
MAYA: Sir, you told me to wait by the SPhinx and I fell asleep and I dremt that the SPhinx told me of great power.....

Maya tells of the dream
HORENHEB: Pfff.. you have been drinking too much Nile Water, Maya
AY: No, no, I think he may have something... I remember the Pharoah's grandfather Tutmosis IV uncovered the sphinx becuase it came to him in a dream and told him too... and made him Pharoah in return.


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So, please, folks, does that sound like something you'd like to play? Anyone want to volunteer for art?

15 hours!!?? Won't that be a bit of a big file?

No, becuase the only puzzle in the game is that you can't escape until your girlfriend turns up and bails you 15 hours after you begin to play...