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Hi everyone!  Thanks to everyone who voted for me.  I really appreciate it!  It's pretty cool being the new guy and winning.

So, I'm reviewing the previous MAGS contests so I set up a good one for everybody.  Does anyhow have any suggestions for me?  If so, go ahead and PM me and I'll be happy to hear from you.

PS: I'd also like to hear what you thought of the game.  PM me on that, too!

Thanks again!

Okay, I think that's it.  SCOTCH is the winner!  I think all the backgrounds were great.  I'm happy that everybody got into this so much.

Alright! I'm finally done! And just one day before the deadline.  Sheeze, this took longer than I thought it would.

My game is about my cat Cougar, and his quest to escape from our house.

Check it out! Let me know what you think.

http://www.dreamorb.com/ags/games/cqff.zip

I'll admit that my GUI is not that much different from the standard one.  But I'm really new at using AGS, especially with designing the GUI. And I'm so used to the Sierra style, it's hard for me to be different.

Anyway, try it out, I'd love to hear feedback.   

Great pictures from everybody! I think it's time to vote. Actually, it was probably time to vote a couple days ago, but I just playing this by ear. Let's pick a winner!

I loved everybody's backgrounds, but I've got to pick one, so:

Scotch gets my vote. I love the shading and lighting. Very mysterious.

Greetings, everyone.  So, I've read through all the previous background blitzes (is that a word?) and the suggestion thread.  I've noticed that there seems to be very few space suggestions, maybe people just think it's too cliche.  But since it's a hot topic in the news (with the Saturn probe) I've decided to make this blitz about SPACE.

I'd like to make this one very open, so people can be as creative as they want.  I'd suggest a space ship or station, location is up to you.  Deep space, orbiting a planet, inside a giant asteroid, whatever works.  What the craft looks like is up to you - what do you think future (or past) civilizations will use (or used) to explore the stars?

Size: 320 by 200 or 320 by 240
Colors: max of 256

Thanks again for voting for me, and I'm looking forward to the entries!

Thanks to everyone for the votes.  I'm glad you all liked my style.

Okay, so now do I set up a new background blitz thread, picking a topic from the suggested topics thread?

I'm in this month.  I was REALLY new last month, so I didn't want to participate until I got the swing of things.  I've got a great idea for this month.  It's a little mundane, but I'm going to blow it out of proportion to make it grander.

I can't wait to submit my entry and check out the other ones! 

Thanks very much for the votes, guys!  I was trying for maximum damage.  I wanted to add some more, too, but I'm not sure what else I could have done in there.  I was thinking of collapsed ceilings or possibly a giant hole in the floor.

So what happens with the contest now?  I'm new at this.

No, he means that it was inspired by him, and I must give credit where credit is due.  My future cop guy is the literal representation of Judge Deadd.   

Here's my attempt.  I've never been really good at drawing people, but I love participating.

He's sort of Judge Dread inspired, I think.  I used 18 colors, and it took maybe 2 hours or so.  I'm not very fast when I draw either. 



Jamie

Thanks for the compliments.    Yep, the dart board is a scaled down image.  I tried to draw one, pixel by pixel, but just couldn't get it right.  So I found one online and made it 20 pixels wide.  I was thinking of making the dartboard four or five colors so it would match the rest of the room.

Amazing - that IS a Jim Beam poster.  I found that online, too, and scaled it.  I thought it would be a nice touch.  I also thought that I should clutter up the walls with posters and picture frames, but I thought that it might make it too busy.

I thought that the blue cup was appropriate given that I'm still in tutorial mode myself.

I'm really psyched about making a game.  First, I'll need to think up something to make a game about, and then I'll be on a roll.

Greetings, new guy here.

I decided to take a shot at the challenge.Ã,  I welcome any criticism or advice, as I'm pretty new at this and by no means an artist.Ã,  Let me know what you think!



Jamie

Ah, there is a place set up to introduce myself.  I'll drop a post there.

I did see the 'read first' posts in each of the areas, and I agree with everything in there.  I'm on another unrelated forum, and it just drives me nuts when people don't post in the right place or constantly post the same questions over and over, and over again.

Actually don't have IRC, but I'm happy in the forum.

I'll do my very best not to make you post like a bastard.    If I get out of line, I fully expect to people let me know that I'm being a stupid newbie.

Actually, it's funny that you mention the LucasArts games, and I'm not being a good adventure gamer for doing this, but I've only played Day of the Tentacle and Full Throttle.  I really should get the Monkey Island games, and the early Indiana Joneses, but I've been either lazy or biased, or just procrastenated.  Is this the right forum to talk about series of games?  I'd love to have some recommendations.  I just recently discovered Beneath a Steel Sky, never even knew it existed.

Thanks for the big welcome, and I'm looking forward to participating.  I'm actually working on a background for this week's background blitz as we speak.

I just wanted to chime in and say hi to everyone.  I've been checking out this site for a few days and decided to join the forum and give AGS a try.  A couple years ago I played around with AGI Studio and got in to making my own games.  Due to the level of complexity that was involved with AGI Studio, I never actually finished one of them.  I finished what could have been called a demo, but would have more accurately have been called 'abandoned'.  It just took far too long to do a background with the built-in tools for drawing them.  I have an awful lot of respect for Vonster drawing all his own backgrounds in Space Quest TLC.

But AGS looks pretty cool!  Importing sprites and backgrounds, being able to draw them in PSP, and the improve scripting tools make this so much more fun to do.  Now, if only I had some slight amount of artistic ability, I'd be set!

I'm looking forward to working on some games.  I can't wait to participate in MAGS, but I'm a little too late for this month.

Thanks for listening to me ramble!  8)

Jamie