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used only shades of grey, but no black, white or transparent
(and deliberately tried another position, than the obvious)

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    ... and well yes, it IS a man!

He is an actor, playing a female role in theatre. 

I am not really sure, if I understood what you did already,
so I am kind of "fishing in the dark" with it, but
have you already tried to get medical help for Guy?

[Congratulation Bodrius!]

All nice entries, but I would like Mafalda to be seen in a game (to start with her).
Congratulation Bodrius!

.... I'd be remiss to say that there's something odd about a little girl sunbathing topless, ...

Only if you would prefer, every little girl (with nothing to hide) has to wear a top and as soon as they get older ...    

Looks like Joey's got a bit of a bad habit - but hey, who can blame him (aside from the police)? Great expression and fun posing - the body is twisted in a kind of odd way, but it works. ..

Thank you very much for your kind assessment and no worry - Joey is meant to be a harmles young man, who is just a bit curious (gathering the Playboy only because of those interesting reports) and since hiding behind a bush in this position is a bit tiring, he will give up soon  

... Of course, on a hot sunny day, that outfit would be a little stifling, wouldn't it?

Oh yes! But noone wears clothes at the places he prefers - so camouflage is everything (or getting naked, as everyone else)!  


Edit:
Every time, I read my sentences, there is something new I find, to correct 

The guy, who tells you what to do is looking a bit angry, but I can make out his face (on my monitor), so for me it works well.

For your broken screen you could use this or that one as a reference.

Good luck with your game! 

[really]

Hell, yeah - that is amazing!  :o

Are you working at an assembly line
(or has my hypnotic powers influenced you much more, than I thought)?  :

You know, I really can't stand the waiting for TB4 to come,
but I also have to agree to what Ascovel + anian said already -
so please, take your time needed! 

Not to forget:
I like the bg's and announced features ...   

I like Armageddons style most, because of the legs (vampires are not only model-types) and main characters not being perfect, are lovable for me. Thinking about the possibilities of using a floating vampire has it's own charm and because of the needed „cyborg“-elements I prefer the body of Anonymus 3# (maybe using Armageddons in a flashback-sequence or something like this?). But it may need more manpower to work this one out. Do you already have enough applicants?

To reach the task of this project you need a well done sprite and with consideration to the limited capacity of participants, it should be as easy/fast to handle, as possible and because of this, I vote for Cat's with modifications. It has everything needed.


@ cat:
Thank you! Even apprentice beta-tester or "the guilty for everything that goes wrong" would do for me (also these jobs for sure get some extra minutes)  

Hi monkey,

your modell looks nearly like mine. 

Since I always have to write my posts on a seperate document first (because of the translating and „proof-reading“), I have to do all those copy&pasteâ€"work over there, too. Otherwise I loose the overall view. 

I prefer the templates, selmiak mentioned, because you can write your text like in „word“, simply mark the passages, you want to hide, change to bold or what ever and then change it by only a click on the the corresponding button.

This way I have less of those copy&paste pieces to do and get it done faster. I know, I'm lazy!  8)

But thank you for your offered assistance! I now can be sure, that there is no easier way for me, as I do it right now already. 

... Sorry, I was just having a bit of fun  . 

So did I     - so no regrets about a bit of teasing, please! 
Also a project-leader should do so, now and then. It is lifting the mood, which is good for a creative process.     

Now waiting for new sprites, ideas, .... !            everybody!

I was rather looking for imagetags, linktags and maybe spoilertags. bold and italic are also nice.

+ 1          (without the "maybe")   8)

...  Sorry Tabatha, you're off the team. 

Hey Baron â€" wait a minute! - You fired me,    mich,    moi?!? - That's not fair!

I spent about 59 minutes in translating and typing my epic post. Because of my unimaginable generosity I didn't count in: Several days of being cloistered in a monastery which I needed to get my genius idea (everybody was sooo enthusiastic of).   

Oh btw Tabata, how about importing sprites etc. Also important tasks.

@Wyz:
I would really love to participate but I fear that I would rather export the sprites and delete or so (producing errors like this). My only experience aside from playing games is to learn a very little bit of using gimp in the time left, after a fulltime job and all the other stuff in real life (started this year). As you can see, first I am in need of a very patient teacher (i.e. from Planet Earth ), giving me an intensive lesson about what to do, before I could try to start with „the hour“ and I think, there's no space for a stupid little apprentice (like me) in the swarm, but thank you anyway.


@all, who got a job in the swarm:
I like the interesting approaches about the story of this "borg-vampire" (also the sprites) and I am curious about where this will lead to 

-  *claps, claps, claps*  -  (learned this at the AGS-Awards-Ceremony already  )

I like the idea of this project 
and hate for not being able to participate 


What about a title like:   "Drop by Drop"
It's related to the vampire and also to "the drops" given from a lot of artists to make the game.

I'm not really sure if I like the game being a side-scroller of a kind with a walkable area of only one pixel thick and the character only walking to the left and right, but I like both characters you created and the animations.

What makes me curious, is that you promised: „ ... believe me, I have CRAZY ideas ...“. 
I think, you catched me with this â€" so I am looking forward to try it 

Can you tell something about the puzzles (which kind of will be included) and the controls?

a little hint about the lens:
(even if I don't really understand, why you are in need of it right now )

Spoiler

Latha is telling, that she can't open the camera with her (bare) hands â€"  maybe you should try an item to pry it open

[close]

connecting wit Guy

Spoiler

After creating/repairing your wetware-modul you should be able to connect with the network-terminal.
If you already did this, you should be able to use the (now) activated trance-symbol from the inventory with Guy to connect to him.

[close]

[really]

...
WOLF FIGHT:   I intend to go back and make this harder.   If you manage to get killed, then on the death screen, you have the option to SKIP AHEAD now.
...

Would it be very difficult to code something like:

Spoiler

After several death's (maybe 9, like we have hours to dawn) the player will get the chance for skipping and maybe also adding an automatic-save (when using the skipp-button) for those, who prefer to go on with the story first, but including the possibility to retry this challange whenever they want later again?

This way every player will get in the right mood, given from the fight, but won't get stuck endlessly until it is won. In my personal opinion this would be a great service for the player, getting the choice to try as long as he want to.

[close]

...
I spent a LOT OF TIME working on Jen's death.  I think it looks a lot more dramatic now.  If the demand is there, I could make it really gruesome without out oo much more effort.

...

Let's take a look and measure the intensity of shudder to tell, if I could endure more

This is Joey while doing his beloved hobby, but it's only fun in the sun:
                                                                         

... you don't understand why?

Okay â€" only for to explain his hobby (not for the comp.) I'l allow you ...
a little peek over >>> here  

Initiallyonly looking at the first screenshot, I thought about The RainDogStory immediatly. Could it be, that ... it's the same style, so ...? Without reading the text, I changed to the profile, because it was Romeo, who ... - oh, what a disappointment - ... this Romeo never has worked on any finished game yet  :'(  but ... hmmmm.

Going back to the thread to read and â€" hey, he is it â€" yay  â€" Romeo is back with a very interesting new story and it sounds, like there are lot of possibilities for quests and puzzles.

I loved playing The RainDogStory, even if it was very hard to get through (for me) â€" but it was really fun (getting desperate, then sad, finally mad) while searching for a solution or an item - it was a game for adventurers.  8)

So I wish you a lot of luck with creating your new game and that you get great ideas for the puzzles again. 

I found a site to upload the version I am using (every now and then I still go over there to look around). I tried it just before uploading, so it should work for you, too and have everything needed. 

So if cianty's version doesen't work for you (like for him), you can try this   http://www.files.to/get/9358/w6p87rgk1j

(If the site shows up in german: You only have to go down the site to repeat the code and click the button „weiter“, then the red button for downloading appeares) - Good Luck!

You „decorated“ well! It's a big progress in my oppinion!  

There are only two little things, I would change a bit, if possible:

# 1
By watching the window of Claudios, I still don't know, what they are selling (what anian said).  
If the items in the window are a kind of promotion-constellations, they shouldn't be blanc.
If they really sell mirrors, maybe you could change the items in the window to three different, but more classical mirrors in different frames.
You also can write (whaterver is selled) unter the Name on the window to make it clear.

#2
The crack looks more like a little branch to me, than a crack.
Maybe a little reference will show you, what I mean:

Not my best ideas, I know, but maybe something to start with, like in a brainstorming 

*What would you make this presence following James look like, if anything? I would like to make some chase sequences...but how can I do this without letting the presence be seen? Could I maybe imply that you're being chased but the pursuer is invisible? (ie. As you're running away, a lamp falls over behind you, perhaps you hear footsteps closing in on you...)

Maybe every upcoming appearance may first to be mentioned by an acustic and/or visual effect (a creepy short sound/lights flickering). Every time this happens you have for example 4 seconds to leave or the presence coming near to you will make you dizzy and because of this you can't see clearly (the screen blurs a bit). You could do a transparent char. with only the outlines of the presence to be seen sparely (transparent shining/dark glowing/shaded). This way you only can see "a something" dimly but it is possible to be to located.

*What other types of action sequences might fit well into a horror game?

Flee through the whole mansion to a save room right in time, before being catched from the presence whould give you a bit of action every time, it shows up near to you.

First researc, finding and combining some different items (to get a weapon usable for a fight with the presence). A (selfmade) poison to throw at it could be an other option to get an advantage, because it could make something of the presence visible (i.e. let his eye glow) to see it easier and then there could be a fight to weaken the presence. In case of winning the fight, it has to recover and the next appearing will be later than usual.

I have no idea if that's some gay rocker, or a young girl. And if it's a young girl why is there no top.

... maybe she doesn't like those white patches left on her body after sunbathing 


@ Bodrius: I like her! She reminds me of the Peanuts somehow