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text_speed_modifier is in the dropdownbox, but it's not in the manual.

* Added option to continue running game loops while dialog options are displayed

Wow. Great stuff, Chris!

I wonder if anyone could come up with something weirder than Ernst himself already did?
If I can think of something, I'm gonna enter. I'm a big fan of those early surrealists.

Just came across this conversion of the original Dragonfire, thought it might interest people.
For those who'd like to appreciate Castle of Fire to it's fullest, but have never played the original, compare!

And then play Castle of Fire of course!

Rep_exe is used to do something every game cycle.
So every game cycle, trans is set to 100 and object[0] fades in.

Move everything in room_RepExec to room_AfterFadein to the function room_Load, that should fix your problem.

Have you tried changing any of the font sizes at 'Display Properties->Appearance->Advanced' ?

[Erotic]

Last time winner Bartimeus was unable to host, and number two Jens couldn't be reached, so Viking ended up with me (barely number three).


The theme this time is Erotic !

My eyes were fixed on her the moment she walked into my office, all feminine and full of curves.
She had eyes you could drown in, legs you'd like to suck on for a while and a bra that was struggling under its load.
With a dark, seductive voice, she said: "You must be Mr.Bogard?"
"Please," I said, "call me Horny. Um...I mean Johnny."


Write some sensual music that would go well with the scene above.
No limit on the length.


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• Voting will end on July 16 at GMT 0:00

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Entries:

• #1  Erotic
• #2  Dangerous Seduction
• #3  Please I Said
• #4  Lola
• #5  Moment of Delight

Whoops, forgot I entered this 

Congrats to Matti, really deserved it for the effort put into it!

I vote for Jeffer's (the details really added to the story) and Colxfile's (the telling of the real story while the main character lets his mind wander gave it a strong tension)

(with EST you meant the GMT-5 one, right?)

If you don't know Fate by Numbers you might like it.
Orginally it was commercial, but it sold poorly and as a promotional stunt to raise money for a sequel, they put it out for free. (It's a pretty hefty download: 0.8 gb minimum or 1.2 gb for the full version, but you get FMV for that.)

It has a great noir mood; you play a detective who needs to find a suitcase but of course the story quickly gets complicated.

Welcome, impressive stuff!
Good melody, it's still sticking in my head. Might be a little bit too busy to be used as background music though.

If you're offering your services, you might also want to post in this thread.

High score? Oh yeah, you had that with the first version as well.
I have 6710 (twice actually, I haven't made it past those disappearing bridges).

SIX playable characters at once? This must be a record, I'm very curious what kind of puzzles you got in store for us.

Getting it now...

I think the fireballs on the bridge work fine.
You can hide in the right castle, watch the fireball pattern and make a run for it after the two fireballs come at once.

Ah well, in the jungle, the mighty jungle, my lion sleeps tonight.

Hm, what would he mean by that?

I just like songs with double meanings, because I think it enriches the song.
And it's not just one meaning or the other, those trumpets you mentioned are trumpets and genitalia at the same time.

And I should check my facts, thanks Neil.

Tom Petty also didn't sing about smoking marijuana, but Dancing with Mary Jane (sorry if I spoilt this song for you forever )

And Puff the magic dragon was not about smoking weed, and Yellow submarine was not about drugs, and Michael Bolton's 'Can I touch you there' is not...oh wait a second, it is .

And I meant this the other way around, if he did write a song called "Last Time I smoked some weed" it would have been a lesser lyric then "Last Dance with Mary Jane", because it's just a nice metaphor which can also relate to other things: if I were to sell my car I could say "Well, it's the last dance with Mary Jane" which for me makes the song better.
Hm, this might make not a lot sense to you, but that's my opinion.

I always thought "Love Me Tender" was about the sexual act? Especially when sung by Elvis, he just had sex oozing off of him...

Well, of course most songs are love songs, because love is kind of important. I think a lot of people are not annoyed by the fact that's it's about sex nowadays, but that it's more explicit.

In my opinion a song which is just pornographic is flat and boring. Using metaphors makes things a lot more interesting. The song "Milkshake" by Kelis still makes me smile a little, even when it is the grossest metaphor for boobs ever.
Tom Petty also didn't sing about smoking marijuana, but Dancing with Mary Jane (sorry if I spoilt this song for you forever )
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for saying everything you want. I wouldn't want Tori Amos to censor herself.
I just like music more when you can interpret instead of having it all spelt out for you.

Also, synthesizer music does require talent. The synthesizer doesn't write the music for you. I'm not fond of Jean Michel Jarre, OMD or Kraftwerk, but I recognize they have talent.

Don't forget Mozart and Schubert; both dead before turning 30. (seems Schubert got to 31)

Oh, well, here's something that can still make me cry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUwTdqPkluY
(the song was written in 1939 while were on the subject of old songs)

Yeah, mainstream music from the sixties was crap too.
We think that the rolling stones and led zeppelin were mainstream back then, but they weren't. Someone like Fabian was the James Blunt of 1958-1961, but nobody knows who he is anymore (don't go look it up, it's crap).

Since about ten years ago everyone started looking back: you got people making big band music (Brian Setzer) doing fifties pop/jazz (Jamie McCullum & to a lesser degree Robbie Williams), people did sixties rock, disco came back (Madonna) oldschool hiphop got back, you name it.
Music is richer now than it ever was, because everyone's doing something else. I like it anyway. Just don't listen to commercial radio, but go look for something else.
One Giant Leap for instance mixes western music and world music. Marvellous album.


Some old stuff I like:
1964: Coltrane "A Love Supreme" (free jazz)
1971: Marvine Gaye "What's Going On" (soul / gospel with socially conscious lyrics)
1960's: Sam Cooke (great voice)
1973: Joni Mitchell "Blue" (singer/songwriter, brilliant, I love her)

Some older stuff I like:
"I Put a Spell on You" a song by Screamin' Jay Hawkins (best rock 'n roll ever)
"Blue Velvet" a song by ... ehm... can't remember.
"Autumn Leaves" a song by Johnny Mercer
Ella Fitzgerald ("Pure Ella" is my favourite album, just her voice and a piano)

Some really old songs I like:
"The Wild Rover", "Women of Ireland", "Waltzing Mathilda", "A pub with no beer" (all from before 1900 I think)

Some really, really old stuff I like:
Bach's Mattheus Passion, Mozarts Requiem.


Sorry, ranted a bit. Music is very dear to me. (Quote from Kurt Vonnegut: "Music to me is proof of the existence of God. It's so extraordinary.")


@Babar: Surely you know "Earth Angel" from the Back to the Future movie? It's also by the Platters.

I didn't know Don Rosa - I'm more acquainted with Carl Barks simple style. But Funkmast's style does resemble Don Rosas, so good job on that!