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I broke through the bal... game-demo!  8)

As bg's already promised it (to be seen in the critics-forum), it is very nice to watch and explore. Since the puzzles are missing „to interrupt“ the walking and lightening of candles, it's a looong way through the mansion, but it's a nice demo to get an impression of the feeling. I like it - well done! 

The only things I prefer to be changed (only for me in personal) is the amount of clicks necessary to light a candle and the „Wait, what?“-response. 
So I am now eagerly waiting for the release 

A very good MAGS-game with a cool story, nice graphics and a really clever interface.
I had big fun playing it!

The swarm has been very busy and I like, what I can see and hear. 

I am back home refreshed and ready for (almost) everything and best of all -
I could get rid of my nightmares:
               
I don't know, where I got it from

So count me in again if there is something (technically easy  ) left to do.

Well, I'm sure we could be flexible.... .  In all honesty we don't yet have sounds, finalized music, credits, read me, GUI, or voice acting yet (indeed some roles have yet to be cast....).  So we'll probably be another couple weeks in post-production before we can finally release the game.

Okay, then I will prepare myself mentally during my vacation on the casting-task ahead of me,
but be warned ...
-  btw. did I already tell you, that I am blonde?! 

Well my problem is, that I didn't take my mic for holiday
(and If you will follow the „deadline“, I won't be home before releasing)
                               
so no chance for my „soft“ voice in „perfect english“
to give it to a char of the game
         
but I am sure the swarm will rock it

Greetings to Arj0n & Tamara
... seems to me, you are having fun over there 

Oookay - that's, how it goes - I want moooooooore   

Thank you very much Big GC  - great work again!

vocal artists:
grmbl ... I will never start my carrier, if I am not present at the right time

Thank you Matti!



              to Icebooty & Crimson

Tabata still wins for Best Use of Smileys

I totally agree.
She is, without a shadow of doubt, the 'Queen of smileys'.

Jay.

     


... and here we have the best example, that you males know exactly, what a girl needs ...
... if you want!    -  Or are you afraid of the needles      -   Thanks!

Shiver and Hudders:
You both sound great and it fits perfect to the game for me
I am jealous of you because not being able to participate, but it is to be seen, that it will be veeery special and


Edit:
I did the Beta 3 and (as Knoodn mentioned earlier) you are still able to play the game without biting the scientist (even if it is only half the fun) â€" so what do you think about, if Merrick refuses to leave the room (I need more informations, but they won't give it freely to me for sure. I think, I am in need of a little „drink“ ... or something like this) as long as „Blondie“ is still working?


Hey Big GC,
maybe I am outrageous,
but as long as you are "on the ride" and
only if you have some time left, of course
.... ähem ....
how about a little animation of Merrick getting shot?
                                   

[very]

Thank you all for your wishes and yes, abstauber won!
It's the Giant Ferris Wheel from Vienna.

Best vacation moment this summer was being dragged out paintballing by my little cousin.  ...

That sounds cool!

....  Still, lots of fun if you're into masochism....

This sounds ...  - ähem â€" (I  have to think about )

Clever Wonkyth! ... and to find the site form a special one, just take a peek in the properties of the pic.
Most of them show the sites-name at the beginning.
           
... and there are a very lot of them to find ...

Ali's joke reminds me of “some” AGS-developer somehow 
and Phemor together with Ghost's “Filterloses Studentenfrühstück” (thanks for the tip)

Very interesting, where you all are lurking around â€" tell and show your family more, please

[very]

My experiences with males in this forum so far are very positive
and that's the reason why I love to come here, my beloved gentlemens!
                               
... and if some of you might have a feeling like poked with a needle (after you didn't behave correct) ...
...  I'm sorry in advance

Hello my dears,

since we are kind of a family, I want to greet you all from ? ? ? (a well known place in Europe)



... and hopefully some of you will use this thread to share a little piece of  their holidays, too.

If you dislike the arcade sequences, then just click the "Setup" button on the GUI at the top of the screen and switch "Arcade Mode" to "off". The game will skip all the arcades and mazes, leaving you only the adventure game stuff to play. You can do this at any point in the game and you don't have to start a new game. Just go back to a saved point prior to the arcade and pick up from there with the arcades off.
...
Anyhoo, I hope you'll switch the arcades off and give the game another spin.

These are great news!
Sure I will give it another try now â€" thank you very much for explaining this great option to me!

[Darius Poyer]

Such a lot of babies â€" do you really expect a woman to choose only one of them!? 

But since it has to be done:
My vote goes to the cutest avatar-baby (2).
Well done and great idea, Darius Poyer!

[and]

Hey swarmies,
already have had a breakdown with my motorhome (that was a big adventure for little Tabata)
but now I'm „on the road“ again and found a connection to greet my family, ...
so I'm happy to say


@ Baron:
Sorry, but it was the latest version  avaliable (the first beta) I used and there are two ways to make it happen.
If you click not only once at the fridge (the second  time it begins but afterwards the game will crash).
If you want to „walk around“ in the room (while sitting in the chair) use the mouse wheel (press it) somewhere on the walkable aerea in the room and it will go wherever you want.
     
But whatever you changed to the beta2 â€" it has fixed the version that was possible by using the mouse wheel, too.
So there is only one problem left (using the fridge a second time should repeat the dialog instead of moving the chair and crashing the game)

The beta2 has brilliant changes!
Beside the already told chair/fridge-thingie I only found some little things:
- the science-computers are both named as hotspot1
- the guard stops running after a short period (even when you leave and reenter the room)
- the id-card of “Blondie” is still wrong (mirrored). If I remember it correct Icey told, that he'll correct it?
   ... (and still I think, that “Blondie” needs fangs at the end )

[; -)]

If I would be able to I might do this.
As long as a simple bit of changing is only ending in things like
         
I need "some" more experiences and swarm-lessons first. 

So in the meantime I prefer to gather them from everywhere ...

Spoiler

You find "the home" of most smilies, when you take a peek at the properties of the pics  ; -)

[close]

Time to go - so I'm off now 
     

[GO SWARMIES GO! - â€" WE CAN DO IT! YOU CAN DO IT! - - GO SWARMIES GO!]

Aah - okay! So it's just a exception in a very special case of game-producing. Thank you!

I am “on the road again” for a holiday starting this morning (for several weeks), not knowing if and when connecting to the www will be possible during that time and since I don't know, when I will be able to cheer you up next time I wish you all a lot of fun with polishing the swarm-game and make it near to perfect with voice-acting.
I am jealous of you all and I will search “at every corner"
for a www-connection to see what the AGS-family is doing.

 


Only some more steps to go -

GO SWARMIES GO! -  â€" WE CAN DO IT! YOU CAN DO IT!  -   -  GO SWARMIES GO!

It has happened: my own game managed, during testing, to scare me enought to get me to go turn on the lights in the apartment and check that there isn't anyone standing outside of the front door. I have a good feeling about this now. 

That is a wonderful advertisement for your game  

It has moved now from my "to-do-list" to my "must-play-asap-list"!      

[in]

The other one is the item needed

So you should go there and search for it again (it's not in the bin).