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Oh let's everyone stop being ornery and go make some adventure games.

lol!
You don't post much, LGM, but when you do, it's good

...inspired by the original Alone in the Dark game

I will be waiting for this

Diath, I've been meaning to post.

I liked this game. It was a bit short, but I enjoyed it while it lasted. I liked the humor in it as well. The music was very nice. Did you make the music or did you get it somewhere?

I was a little dissapointed at the end because:

Spoiler

I knew damn well that when I got back either your friend was going to be dead or you would whiteness it right after entering the room. I knew this was coming, but that wasn't the dissapointing part. I was dissapointed when that was the end of the game. I was expecting to get a jump when entering, like the zombie jumping up from the table, and so it was a little nerve racking to open the lab door. But when I did, I got nothing. I was hoping that you would have to destroy this zombie, being able to travel through the other rooms of the house and then when achieving this goal, your friend is missing. Now you have to hunt him down and kill him as well. But I got nothing of what I was thinking, heh.

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But anyway, I liked the game and I can't wait to see more horror games from you that are a bit more lengthy and full of scary surprises.

And please... PLEASE do a zombie game.

[Graphic Modules]

I always thought it would be great to categorize the modules, exactly like Crimson Wizard already wrote, but even more specific than that.

For instance:

Selecting Graphic Modules would bring up a menu:
  - Weather
  - Screen Effects
  - Scrolling Modules
  - etc...

This would absolutely make it easier to find a specific kind of module instead of sifting through hundreds of modules of different kinds thrown together. It's such a pain in the goat-ass to find something here on the forums.

I would love to see a video of the gameplay, Icey. Could you upload one to YouTube?

[Evenwolf:]

Evenwolf: The original image got replaced with the final version by mistake. There were three sets of red lines in the original image showing the size of the character next to the doors.

Hehe (I may have been drinking during that post)

Heh, no problem, Ryan, I understand I seem to do that more than often.

Anyway, man, if it wasn't for your response, I wouldn't have fixed it!

The stairs haven't been fixed, they're dead straight on as if it's a poster on a wall.  Meaning they appear to have no depth at all since the base of the stairs don't follow perspective.

Jesus, Ryan, it sounded as if you were scolding a child. Thanks for the info, regardless

And thanks to the rest of you. I will try again as soon as I can.

Clock Tower by any chance, Duals?

Thanks, GG. I've fixed the stairs. Of course there's a few more things to get matched up, but here it is now:

Thank you for the pointer, J. It's helped a lot (or at least I hope).

Does this look alright?

Hello there.

I am having trouble with perspective and I need help
Below you will see three pairs of red lines. These represent the size of the character. I'm trying to create backgrounds that require as little scaling as possible. In this scene there are three doors. When the character is up against the door next to the clock and the door in the hallway, scaling looks fine.
The problem is I need a door on the left wall between the two columns.



As you can see, the character being up against a door on the left wouldn't look right in conjunction with the other two doors. I suspect that the hallway has something to do with this mess.

Please help me.

@F1ak3r:
I think you are an ass. The graphics are not "horrid". The fact that you would even say they are "horrid" is wrong - even if you used that word to convey how much they didn't matter compared to the game itself.

Even though they could be remade to be more immersive for the story, they do NOT deserve to be classified under "horrid".

You might as well spit in discordance's face.

[LOCK]

Please post in the Adventure Talk and Chat forum, Sarah. This is not the place

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Oops, no wonder there wasn't a LOCK option, this isn't the GiP forum!

Sorry, Sarie

The only reason I bought my Dreamcast, about 10 years ago as well, Domino, was for Resident Evil: Code Veronica. Other than that the only purpose it has served was to play NES roms. I would love to see AGS games playable on it... don't know why, but I do.

But the truth of the matter is, Grim107, unless you get a dedicated person to make this possible, it won't be, unfortunately. Reason being, AGS games are made to be played on the computer, not a console, and that will be the excuse for a lot of people.

And I agree with you, AC, who agrees with Dom, who agrees with Xen who agrees with Proggy.

And where's this PM you said you were sending me, AC? You master of mystery, you...

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I just have to say, Proggy, awesome MAGS. Really. This is the best idea I've seen yet. Looking forward to playing everyones unfinished gems.

I wish I noticed this when it started :'(

[Don't Like:]

Don't Like:
I hate those videos people make about what is in their closet or pocketbook/purse. They are all the same pointless thing.

<Example>

Over use of annotations.

I hate those girls that talk like a complete valley girl idiot because that is what girls are "supposed to sound like when they talk".

I don't like those kids that try to teach the viewer how to play particular songs when they don't know how to play it right themselves.

<Example>

What I hate the most are all these people making themselves the star of their own, what are they called, news show or whatever-the-hell they classify themselves as. They talk about news or what stupid things a certain celebrity has done with SFX and photos thrown in. They are all filmed and edited the same way - I HATE the thing they do where they cut the film RIGHT after they finish a sentence and edit in the next sentence directly after. There is NO dead "air" what-so-ever. It's just me, I'm sure, but they all seem to be from the same mold with the same humor.

DO Like:
I LOVE game review videos, Listening to songs I haven't heard in a while, people playing guitar (Solodallas especially, since I am a huge fan of AC/DC - I want his guitars and shirts!1)

If you are a fan of Mario Kart Wii, you should watch Captain Ellipsis' Online Adventures!: Mario Kart Wii videos. He has 118 rounds so far (three races in each round) and I've seen every single one since the beginning. They are really fun to watch and he adds in annotations about what he is thinking during the race.
The whole premise of these videos is to get his mii, Ellipsis, to 9999vr.
I finally got him added to my friends list and am waiting to finally get to race with him.

I really don't have to make an OSD game, do I?

[ON TOPIC:]

Tha-that's possible?

I can see writing how you talk (with punctuation and all that, you know) but writing out an actual stutter is going annoyingly too far (much like your other thread).

I'm actually surprised no one else has commented on that.

To be fair, mate, that was hardly excessive as textual stutters go, and I'm pretty sure I've seen professional writers use it in dialogues.  And if not professionals, definitely amateur writers of reasonable quality.

Right. In dialogues in stories, comics, novels, games, etc. Just something about it when he wrote it irked me. I can't explain why it does not fit here, maybe someone else can explain. Someone with more than half a brain

I suspect (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that if one of the regulars said the same line, you might have been less inclined to comment.

You are absolutely correct. But if one of the regulars wrote that exact line, I would get the joke, because it would be meant in some way to be, like you said, cutsie or funny. When Icy wrote it, I felt as if he was seriously scared and felt the need to expresse it with a stutter. All I can picture is this icy character quivering in some dark corner (as the camera zooms in of course) in fear that he will be banished from the forums while saying, "Tha-that's possible?!". It just seemed completely obsurd to me at that moment.
Please, somebody back me the fuck up because I can't explain a goddamn thing the way I feel it.

At any rate, I don't know how someone should be expected to know to avoid that or similar mannerisms ahead of time, so it seems a little more understanding would be in order, whether or not you feel that airing this particular preference is necessary.

Was it necessary? No, it wasn't. Fueled by the other thread? Yes.

I mean, I know that your post wasn't anywhere near as harshly worded as some of the stuff in the other thread, but it does have a sort of condescending (is that the word? Passive-Aggressive?) vibe to it.

No, it was not passive-aggressive, quite the opposite, I thought. I wasn't trying to sound nice or helpful.

What gets my panties twisted in a bunch is the fact that he has not made any effort to better himself when talking on these forums (whether or not he's being made fun of - and there has been a few serious attempts to help him). His posts are hard to read because he totally disregards using any sort of puncuation. They are one very long sentence.
I can live with anyone's inability to capitalize at the beginning of a sentence and completely ignore the fact that "i" should be "I" when speaking of one's self (it's turned into the "norm" now days on the internet - I'm used to it enough, I suppose), but having to read it over again to make sure I understand what they are trying to say, when they write in one continuous sentence, is a little much.

Really, I'm not one to correct someone's grammar and spelling, since I can't spell for shit anyway (Dictionary.com is my best friend) and my grammar is always far from perfect, but it does annoy the crap out of me when no effort is produced what so ever to write/type correctly.
I'm sure Icy can, he just won't.
He is not an idiot. His drawings are actually pretty good as well. I just wish he would try to create sentences with seperate paragraphs so my eyes stop falling out.

Now you may be asking yourself, if it bothers me so much, then why read his threads in the first place? Or why even comment at all?
Because I've got some sort of morbid fascination with it.

(Serious question: Would it be stepping on toes to start a civil, reasoned discussion on newbie policy in a thread where such is actually on topic?

Yes, I think that is a great idea.

ON TOPIC:
I've always loved Final Fantasy VII. It's the only one I ever played through and finished. The world and atmosphere that was created in this game was brilliant.
I always wanted to play FFIX but never got the chance. I remember seeing the commercial for it when it first came out and I thought, WOW! I loved the look of the world and the characters. I played a bit of FFVIII, but I couldn't get into it. Maybe it took itself too seriously, I don't know. I guess I really didn't like the characters looking too real, too anatomically correct, I suppose. I really like the short, cutsie, cartoony-looking characters.