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In php it's:

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include("navigation.php")
?>

I'm not sure if you can include .txt files or .html files.

How are the menus being handled? Is it through some sort of include?

Since games like GF and MI4 only use 3d characters i was wondering what it'd be like if they only used 3d backgrounds instead.

I was watching an anime called "Wonderful Days" and it uses 3d backgrounds with 2d cel animation on top. It's one of the nicest looking movies i've ever seen. I wonder what an adventure game would be like flipped around with 2d characters and 3d bgs.

http://wonderfuldays.co.kr/english/
Wonderful Days - WMP High res
Wonderful Days - WMP Low res

Wonderful Days - Quicktime High
Wonderful Days - Quicktime Low

Hello and welcome to Abnormally Gullible Sods

Hello :(

I'll never pay for AGS unless it takes some HUGE strides forward in terms of features. I'll be sticking to 2.6 SP1 for the rest of AGS's days unless it implements something worthy of that rediculous price tag! 3d characters would be the size of feature i'm talking about...

mat sums up the rest...

Man! My first thought when reading Chris' first post was: "This Aprils-fools joke was a bit over the edge." I felt my stomach tingle in the same way as if I'd look over the edge of a cliff or a tall building. But still, since the post WAS made on the 1st of April at exactly 00.00 hours it had to be so...

But you guys here have made me hesitate. It seems to be true. AGS is becoming shareware.

It makes me sad. This is a place where I have been lurking around for at least three years. I know I have not been posting much, merely reading and learning, but still this community and all the people around it has become something I admire. The freedom and friendlyness people interested in computers so often try to achieve has actually dwelled right here. The work put into this engine is immense and has been driven by one man's interest in program developing and overcoming challenges. Work to which gratitude is shown every day right here on the forums.

I believe putting a fee on the use of AGS is equivalent to killing the community. The playfulness and joy will fade in the shadow of money. Believing that this kind of amateur games will start paying themselves is nothing but hubris. The fun of making a silly game and present it to the world will be exchanged with greed.

Some AGS users are excellent game makers. Their games might actually make money when finished. Most are not. Most are happy amateurs. I believe that charging a fee when AGS is used for commercial purposes is fair. In fact I have always wondered why no money was asked for in the case that someone would want to sell ag game made with AGS. A company/person interested in making money when producing a game is also capable of making a budget in which the purchase of a commercial licence for AGS is covered.

For the amateur game producer I believe other financing solutions, if money is the only way of keeping this going, are better. Ads in the editor is an alternative aswell as on the AGS site. A non-commercial version at a much lower price is reasonable. Even a slightly less advanced editor at a lower cost with no commercial licence might also be an idea. Or to just stop developing AGS any further and leave enhancements to volunteering plug-in programmers with more spare time. Or, dare I say, let the code go? Let new AGS versions evolve from this wonderful base by people with a burning will to go on. (I can see this option being somewhat risky...)

I'm a proud member of the AGS community. I'm proud to recently having presented my first game here on the forums. I'm glad I could do this while the engine still was free. I sincerely hope my first stomach tingeling was right, this is all a joke. If not I beg Chris to rethink. It sure would be sad to see this beautiful community die.

Would this person be in your signature?

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I think the plane is great! The trees look a little flat because of the black outlines, maybe try removing them. Remove the black line at the top of grass too and have some grass sticking up instead.

EDIT - 2 other replies in the time it took me to type the message  

Anything with an attachment in my inbox gets DELETED without me even looking at it.

Nice background, the sound effects you put in should bring this background alive! I think shadows under the objects could improve it though.

For cutscenes i don't mind if you can't skip the text or not, but of course during normal gameplay I would want to be able to skip text whenever I wanted to.

As much as I like my PS2, the moment Fable comes out for the Xbox it's bye bye PS2, only if i can't scrape up enough cash.

[213.93.124.148]

I can connect nicely using 213.93.124.148 without the port number. I've selected "Active" and put my IP address in but i'm having trouble getting people's file list, passive doesn't do much either. There is about 12 people in here right now.

I have a router so i think i'll have to open some ports... anyone else have an SMC router that knows how to do this properly? Is it TCP or UDP?? Grr.

EDIT - OK, i've managed to open port 1050 on my router and i can access people's files now, wooh :).

This is good news for adventure games at least. I hope they don't use the BS3 engine since the game's only in pre-production and by the time it's released it won't look too great, the BS3 doesn't even look that great now.

I vote Darth A

I think the news panel in Klaus would be strange since it'd probably never be updated and leave new users feeling like it's abandoned and i'm not sure about the pictures used. At first glance you can't tell what the site is about. Darth's is the most fun looking and i think that's what drew me to it and it's what AGS is all about! Fun! If i hadn't been away i would've entered :(

All of the designs are worthy winners in the end since they are all good :)

I beg to differ.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0081693/

2.0/10 (602 votes)

No no no, the best film ever is Bubba Ho-Tep starring Bruce Campbell as Elvis!!
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/bubba_ho-tep/small.html

You know it's gotta be great when they have a trailer posted and it's got the Stargate theme music in the background.  No expense spared.

You're right, it's the same music. How can they get away with it!

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Er... I still don't get it.

Remixor's right, it isn't working anymore :(. I ALMOST took a screenshot of it after i had read it, oh well!

512kbs cable modem, hopefully i can afford 1mb sooooon.

I get 55Kib/s download and 15Kib/s upload.

http://www.buildtolearn.com

20Mb space (+5 per 50 forum posts)
200Mb per month bandwidth (+50 per 50 forum posts)
Ftp
PHP
2 Mysql databases
Cpanel X
Free!

Unsolicited email is now ILLEGAL in the UK.

http://www.netimperative.com/cmn/viewdoc.jsp?cat=all&docid=BEP1_News_0000060211

http://www.e-consultancy.com/newsfeatures/153570/uk-anti-spam-laws-help-the-fight-against-spam.html

It's not going to help much since most of the spam we get is from outside the UK, but at least they're doing SOMETHING.