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Might be a bit too much to hope for, but do you have a none jpeg version, with which I mean, it isn't blurred out?

Balls, I thought I saved it as a png.
Sorry. Shall be fixed.

Edit: Rectified. Better?

Okay, Terran has just replied that he may be a bit too busy to host the next round of Photoshop Phriday, so anyone who's interested in hosting a new one may PM me, I may let the first one who comes up with a reasonable topic to start it.

Any development on this?

I sure hope it's not dead.
Can somebody poke it with a stick, please?

[Rules:]

I'm seeing things again.
I seem to keep finding this random shape everywhere I look.



Please, help me figure out what it is I'm seeing.
This means something... This is important...

Rules:
The only stipulation is that it should be obvious where the shape is within your finished image, and that it should... attract attention towards itself. Stand out, like.
Other than that, feel free to rotate and resize, and draw within and without the lines.
No colour or size limits.

The competition ends two weeks froooommmmm... right now! Go!

Have fun playing with the crayons, kids, and trophies will soonly be... trophised. 8)

Cool beans, thanks Matti. 8)

I liked Ghost's angel thing best, personally.

Okay, since Buckethead is absent, Ultramagnus has to start the next competition.

Okay, I'll think some thoughts...

Did I change it too much?

No, it's quite alright.

Cool cool. 8)

'Twas a really cool game. Good concept, great writing.
Give me a tiny sassy female robot and I'm happy.
Plus, the mini-game was a nice touch.

Very much well done, and I'll be watching out for your next offering.

That's really cool, congrats.

Well, that's clearly the outline of a funky gangster duck pimp.



Hangin' out in a pool hall, no less.


I did cut out a little bit between his hat and shades.
Did I change it too much?

Try these suggestions and report back.

I never did get around to solving this, myself.

Have you got the bone?

Spoiler

Use the bone on Dread and she'll snap it in half, then you can use the broken bit as a lockpick.

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Thanks. I thought I'd tried that. :

I knew Dread needed to reach the tissue, but I thought you had to put the chair where the shelf was in order to do it.

I'm so sick of The Beatles, they're not REALLy good songs you know. They just all have good bits in them.

Woah woah woah.   You can say this about the albums "Revolver" and "White Album"? Those albums stand up against ANY contemporary album on a musical level.     Were they released today (no one having heard them before) they would receive just as much praise if not more than back in the day.  Especially if we remove the Beatle's influence on the music industry throughout history (totally inconceivable).

Helter Skelter,  She Said She Said, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

Not to mention the goddamn lyrics!   Forget about it.

I agree with Eggie, The Beatles are way overrated.
I mean, sure Revolver is still a great album, and The White Album has some great parts in it, but most of the rest of their catalogue is very mediocre.

The lyrics are no great shakes, either. Sure, some of them are poetry, but for every "Something in the way she moves" there are a half-dozen "I am the walrus"s.
You yourself posted links to a song about a fairground ride and one about a guy who works in a market and talks gibberish, and I just don't find either particularly inspiring.

And you can't give them too much credit for their "influence", either.
The mid 60s onwards was an era of constant musical evolution and experimentation where bands' ideas were almost freely shared with each other.
The Beatles took as much influence from their peers as they gave, they just had more publicity because they'd already made a name for themselves as a pop band in their early days.

Most of their best stuff came from George Harrison, anyway. 8)

you'd be hard pressed to name a band that musically outmatches the Beatles.

The Who.
Higher class of musicianship and Pete's a better, more consistent songwriter.

I'm pretty sure I've figured out what I need to do, but that broken shelf is in the way.
I think I've tried doing everything to everything with everything, but no luck.

Little help?

Thanks.

Yeah guys, I'm sorry about how the translation turned out.

French has this habit of implying nothing, and I didn't feel like I could take enough liberty with the dialogue to make it really flow in English.

Don't worry about it too much.
As I said, it's functional enough for the most part, and it didn't stop the game being pick of the month.

Congrats on that, by the way.

AGS contains the codec or whatever to play ogg files within it, so people playing your games will be able to hear ogg music reguardless of whether they have anything on their computer that could play them instead.

Cool cool.
That's kinda what I was trying to ask, so thanks.
I have had trouble with videos in AGS that I mentioned in t'other thread, so I wasn't sure.

Just finished the game, and I really did like it. Well done.

Only a couple of criticisms/bugs...
*I think there were too many time cuts. The flashback scenes were used well and to good effect of revealing the plot little by little, but there were just too many of them in my opinion.
*A lot of the time when changing scenes (particularly when going to a character's speaking view, but not always) a little bit of text (not in a text box) would flash up on the screen, far too fast to see what it says, though.
*The ending was a bit... abrupt. It just sort of stopped.
*The English translation still needs work, I'm afraid. An example:-

Spoiler

I couldn't really tell what Dread and Peter were talking about between giving him the map and the pirates turning up.

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The rest was functional enough, but not really fluent.

Other than that, good stuff. Great artwork and music especially.

Yeah, I do believe that. They were the frikkin beatles, ya know, the same people that wrote about Mother Mary and the Yellow submarine? Get your mind out of the gutter, they aren't euphamisms.

Right, and of course The Beatles famously never thought about sex.
That was your point, right?

And they never used poetic license, either, meaning they actually DID all live in a Yellow Submarine?
That's an interesting little fact, there.

Take things literally, and if you don't recognize the difference between love and sex, you aren't gonna be a very satisfying mate for some girl.

Well, that's good to know.
Thanks for the reassurance.

Plus, by saying that Love Me Tender isn't sexual, aren't you contradicting yourself?

I'm admitting that that was the weakest example on the list, and it baffles me that you can acknowledge that one and not the others.

I'd just like to say, sorry to...well everyone, for letting this all turn into a petty arguement, however, I just can't stand to see true talent insulted

You're the only one arguing, here.
I'm merely poking a bear with a stick at this point.

And how is it insulting to say they used poetic license?
Some people would say that that takes more talent than not doing so.

By the way, I've been playing bass (and guitar) and writing music for the past 15 years.
Feel free to say that they're not "real" instruments and therefore my opinion is clearly worth less than your own. 8)

Are you KIDDING?! Love me Tender is perhaps the only one of those songs even REMOTELY close to being about sex. There's a difference between love and sex, and if you don't think so, you need to straighten out some ideas in your head. I Want To Hold Your Hand, by The Beatles??! It's about puppy love!!!

"Love Me Tender" is in fact the only one that could possibly NOT be about sex in that list.
"Will You Love Me Tomorrow" is the equivalent of "will you respect me in the morning?"
"Dream Lover" is too damn obvious if you actually read the lyrics.
And do you seriously believe that a 23 year old man would want to do nothing more than hold hands?

You're a tool of the doghouse makers. :

I'm not saying there isn't a difference between love and sex*, I'm just acknowledging the existence of things callled euphamisms.

* Actually, there may well not be. I'm hardly an expert.

EDIT: The main difference between mp3 and ogg is that mp3 is licensed. (No problem in a freeware game though).
And mp3 adds 0.25 seconds to the beginning and end of a file, which I found out after an hour of wondering why my song didn't loop seamless.

Wait, oggs can do seamless looping?
Why wasn't I informed?

I've never used oggs because of the hassle I encountered just trying to play them a few years back (in the days of Winamp 2.5 or so).
I assume that these days most people will be able to play oggs, right?
So if I use them in a game, there won't be any playback issues?

I must believe if you can't find talent in that song or at least feel some appreciation for it, you aren't quite the musical expert, so maybe this isn't the topic for you.

Translation:-
"If you don't agree with me, you must not know what you're talking about."

I could equally say that if you can't see the talent, or otherwise appreciate the songs on the radio that are "done on a synthesizer about either having premiscuous sex or senselessly killing random people", then you aren't quite the musical expert, so maybe this isn't the topic for you.

Lionmonkey's right, though - love songs have always been about sex.
"Love Me Tender"? "Will You Love Me Tomorrow"? "Dream Lover"? "I Want to Hold Your Hand"?
The only thing that's changed is the use of the language, which just reflects how people these days are less easily shocked/offended.
Of course "Smoke..." is an exception, but there are exceptions these days, too.

But if you can't read subtext, then clearly you aren't quite the musical expert, so maybe this isn't the topic for you.