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I like the west one the best.

Well, I guess I'll just wait until someone enters...

Flamingo woman looks exellent.

Hmmm, does anyone plan to enter? Did you decide not to because of the rules, or just didn't have the time? I'll change the rules is that's blocking people.

It did seem like this contest was kind of dying though

Well, it's not like (Junior year in) High School can really compare to College in difficulty, but I just found out today that my GPA is 98.16 (3.9 I guess it translates as), so that's pretty cool I guess. I'm #2 in my class, but watch out Milissa Lewis!

Hey, Mr. Panda, what's your schedule at school? How do you manage to fit 9 classes into it?

Alrighty, new rules:

*Music must be of some other origin than Western music (although I will accept folk music styles from Western culture)

*Instruments will be restricted to ethnic instruments with the exception of these orchestral instruments:
flute, oboe, violin (fiddle), harp, percussion
        -ask if you have any questions about this-

*Please try to stay away from jazz, blues, rock and the like

*This is not a rule, but extra points for modal music (if you don't know what this is, you can probably find an explanation online somewhere)

*File size is limited to about 1 megabyte

Have fun!  

Thank you very much. For anyone who couldn't guess it, it was the Larry Vales theme.

Oh and N3TGraph, all I have to work with is GM, so I can only imagine how awful it sounds on your system .

http://cygnes.homestead.com/files/variation.mid

Ok, here it is! It's like a ballet variation version of an AGS theme. Thanks for extending the guideline.

See if you can guess which theme I used (It becomes more obvious towards the end).

Well, I like it and I plan to enter... if I have time (which I probably will).  

I like the midis. They sound cool. Crazy, but cool. I guess what I don't like about them is the lack of structure and melody/direction in most of it. As of now it doesn't really make any sense. The short three second ones are fine the way they are. I'm talking about the longer ones.

I don't think any kind of media would deal well with what love acutally is, unless it was like the game you described, but that would be a lot of work for just a side-line interaction between two characters. The point is to be entertained, and people like the thrill of love at first sight, seduction, and lust, so that's what's used to entertain people. take a look at plays like Romeo and Juliet and countless ballets, operas, movies, and books. You wouldn't watch a movie to be anything but entertained, or would you?

http://cygnes.homestead.com/files/robot.mid

It's called "Robot Dance", it has a telephone sound in it, AND it's a 12 tone piece. So there.



Oh, just for the record, I really hate Shoenberg and these stupid ways to make music a complex, yet well thought out, piece of garbage. Viva Romantica!

The Enchanted Lake should be on all your lists.

Believe it or not, I used to listen to Mr. Bungle all the time. It still holds a special place in my heart. But anyway yeah, I recommend their first CD (I think it was just called 'Mr. Bungle'). Everything's great on that. I can't say I liked much from the third CD though (California). The only song I really liked was Sweet Charity. And, uh Disco Volante sucked ( I never even bothered to buy the CD).

I think you can die in MI2 when you are hanging in the jail cell with wally, if you take too long you die, but I can't remeber what happens next, I think you probably get to play from the start of the scene again

yeah, you can die in MI1 also, when you're in the water under the dock and you wait ten minutes, Gybrush drowns. But dying like that in Lucasarts games is only because you want to (unlike Sierra).

I think the two big things that people notice differently about the two is the interface and dying.

Sierra interface is either a text parser, or the interface bar thing with the walk, look, interact, talk, and inventory buttons (the only exceptions I can think of are GK and KQ7). Sierra games are more action based also.

Lucasarts interface was the walk, look, push, pull, open, close, talk, take, etc. I guess with so many options the player seems more in control. There was also a verb coin, and some games had sierra-like interfaces. I haven't played every lucasarts game so I don't know every single interface that was used. Inventory was also displayed in an open area on the screen. There were choices for dialog in Lucasarts games, which I don't think Sierra ever had.

In Sierra games you can die practically everywhere, and there are probably some times where there is walking dead. To my knowledge you can never die in a Lucasarts game, and I'm pretty sure there is no walking dead at all either.

Those are the main differences in the guidelines the game developers went by.

The walkthru does explain how it works (it is a little weird that it's so organized, yet there were no hints on how to solve it)

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password's...er ok, I won't tell

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Well, all I listen to is classical. If you really want to know what specifically I usually listen to when agsing though...

Tchaikovsky- Swan Lake full ballet score (very appropriate for my game actually), Nutcracker full ballet, Symph. 6, Orchestra suites 3&4 (Mozartiana), 1812 overture, Capriccio Italian, March Slav, various small works
Vivaldi- Four seasons
Stravinsky- Rite of Spring, Pulcinella (occasionally, it's not that good)
Saint Saens- Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre, Bacchanale (Samson & Delilah)
Mozart- all kinds of crap, mostly piano concertos, eine kleine nachtmusik, opera stuff (Magic Flute, Marriage of Figaro)
Holst- Planets (Jupiter's my favorite )
Handel- Music for the Royal Fireworks
Mussorgsky- Night on Bare Mountain, Pictures at an Exibition
Puccini- various opera stuff (Gianni Schicci, Turandot)
Mendelssohn- Symphony stuff, Midsummer Night Dream, Songs without Words
Beethoven- Symphonies (usually pastoral(6) and Eroica(3)), piano sonatas, etc...
Wagner- Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, Mastersingers of Nuremburg, Ring stuff (Rhinegold, Sigfried, Valkyrie, Twilight of the Gods), Lohengrin
Chopin- various stuff, preludes, Fantasie Impromptu, etc...
Richard Strauss- Till Eulenspiegel's merry pranks, Thus Spake Zarathustra,
Mahler- Symphonies
Marcello- Oboe concerto Dm
Bach- hmm, whatever I have lying around

There's probably more on some anthology CD's I listen to all the time, but that covers the major composers.

Yeah, I really liked it also, except I'm stuck.

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All I have for inventory is a knife (I put everything else in the punch bowl). I can't really talk to anyone, I only have access to 4 rooms: bedroom, upstairs hall, living room (?) the room with the fish tank, and the party room. I have no idea what to do! Where did that girl go?

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EDIT: Oh yeah, it might be helpful to tell everyone the password to the walkthru zip file.

Timosity: KQ IX isn't being made with the AGHAST engine. They're programming it all themselves.