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m0ds, you might want to try the new Stickam feature of "debate" rooms which features 2 prominent video streams and up to 999 people per room: its like video IRC and might suit the awards ceremony.

But hey, the live ceremony is your baby now! Bwuahahahah!

The trouble with organising the IRC ceremony is that it required a lot of organisation. Persuading people to come, informing of times, arranging guest presenters, finding a time that wouldn't make lots of people complain... also, I believe that IRC is not frequented so much these days, either. I'm quite happy to supply a list of the winners to anyone prepared to take over running of an IRC ceremony. If no-one volunteers then I'll just stick with the game version as last year.

I think that not going to all that effort for something that no-one ever thanked me for and instead creating something different  is hardly "choosing not to bring the community together". You know, it was a bit of a last minute decision to do it that way and I wasn't sure it worked, which is why I politely asked, but there's no need to imply that I only did it to try and show off in some way. If you didn't like it fine, that's the feedback I'm looking for, but can we avoid making it personal?

EDIT:
Actually having just reviewed the 2006 awards IRC log I note two things:

a) 13 of the winners were not present to receive their awards
b) One of those absentee winners was m0ds.

Draw your own conclusions....

You mean you won't attend the unattendable ceremony?

The website's not broken, it requires IE7 or one of the later versions of FireFox to take advantage of some features.

In IE6 the "Download the game" button doesn't work. Is this one of the features that IE6 users can't take advantage of? 

In other words, its complicated enough that it would probably need to be done by committee...

Hmmm, need to get CJ on to fixing that "not in the DB" issue...

Best Newbie is fine, but determining if someone is a newbie is a bit fraught. Do you count "my first gaem" efforts, demos, non-adventures or not. How new is a newbie? If m0ds finally released a full game, could he win?  

I think: registered in the current year.

But what if Dave Gilbert re-registered as a new user? 

Hmmm, need to get CJ on to fixing that "not in the DB" issue...

Best Newbie is fine, but determining if someone is a newbie is a bit fraught. Do you count "my first gaem" efforts, demos, non-adventures or not. How new is a newbie? If m0ds finally released a full game, could he win?  

As for gameplay, you can either take it as a measure of how fun the game is to play, how intuitive or innovative it is to control or how good the game would be if you ignore its graphics and sound.  Its a bit vague, but perhaps usually goes to a game that maybe isn't best overall but yet is great fun. Although in odd-numbered years its always gone to the Best-Game winner!

While we're here, also a note to all game creators: make sure your game is the the DB by 31st December 2008 or it will not be eligible for this year's awards. That includes demos, too, if you want to be up for the demo category.

NB: the 103 (as of this edit) games eligible so far are listed here

As it gets near the end of the year, perhaps it is time to have the old AGS Awards debate:

1. Is the nomination system OK?
2. Is the final voting system OK?
3. Are there any categories missing?
4. Any any of the existing awards mis-named or confusing, etc.

For reference, here's the 2007 awards Wiki page and the thoughts I posted on my blog about the 2007 awards at the time

My answers to the above questions are as follows:

1. Yes, although a better nomination page would help
2. Yes, although a better voting page might help
3. Yes: Best Voice Acting for sure and maybe Best Remake or Parody
4. Yes: Best Use of Sound should be Best Sound Effects to distinguish it from above new Voice Acting award...

And one final question:

5. Was the AGS-made presentation ceremony a good thing?

Today's gratuitous link to  my blog...

Here's the best 5 list of best AGS games:
http://ags-ssh.blogspot.com/2008/10/top-5-ags-top-10s.html

I would comment on your blog, SSH, but I very quickly lose interest in everything that isn't exclusively about me.

Happy to oblige! 

The most important thing any returning AGSers must do is read through my entire blog and leave favourable comments on every post. 

Well, since you asked so nicely...  :

As the changelog in the latest version says, this bug was fixed in v1.01.

zabnat seems to be

Spoiler

A million miles from home

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I'm not sure why taking a lot of work is a reason for a game to automatically get 5 cups. Take many Kevin Costner movies, for example...

The AGDs themselves have admitted that the game is much better if you've played the original QFG and that's quite hard to get hold of legitimately and so I imagine that could be a reason its marked down. Personally, I found ATOTK much easier to get in to than QFG2VGA.

Put Description.OLFont=2; in your global script game_start function. Or change 2 to the font number that you want.

How can I change the font of decription text? I want it to be a bold one, like the one within the ags fonts (font 2).

From http://ssh.me.uk/moddoc/Description :

Description.OLFont/Width/Color

Specify the properties of the Overlay used in Overlay mode. For GUIs, they are picked up from the GUI settings

eModeUserInv is wrong, you want:
eModeUseInv   (no R)

To make a character disappear you need to do:
cMouse.Room=-1;

not cMouse.Visible=false;

and the opposite is cMouse.Room=player.Room;

I hope everyone explains these later, as Obi's is the only one I get...

unless there are song called Gandalf Flute, The invisible man's car  or Two halves of a watermelon on a haystack that's wearing rabbit ears.