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You can split it into two (or more) functions.

Code: ags

function dialog_request2(int parameter){
  if(parameter==76){
    ...
  }
  else ...
}

function dialog_request(int parameter){
  if(parameter==1){
    ...
  }

  ...

  else if(parameter==75){
    ...
  }
  else{
    dialog_request2(parameter);
  }
}

will get you on your way.

However versions 3.1 (I think) and above allow scripts right in the dialogs which will save you a lot of headaches.

According to my counting, Image Submission 3.5 had exactly the same number of votes as Submission 1.7, which means Wyz snatched 2 golden pens.

Holy crap.  The man is right.  Darn my finger counting!

Wyz got two golds!  Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.  8)

As a postmortem on the activity, I think it went off relatively well.  A few mistakes I made:

-Starting batch of sentences should have been larger.  I had originally planned on just assigning one to each team, but instead decided to let them pick, which led to having two (four?) stories with relatively similar plots.
-Roping people into a writing activity and making them draw.  I tried to make this as easy as pie, requiring only a google image search, but some people still had trouble with this step.  Sorry!

Other than that, I think things went really well, despite the handful of people who vanished without a trace (or worse, kept saying they'd finish, got extensions and THEN vanished without a trace).  I told myself I wouldn't do another one of these that required me to serve as the hub because it's kind of a lot of work, but then I had this wacky idea and it pretty much needed someone to serve as the hub.

If I host again, it will definitely be something where the order gets listed in the forum and when you're done writing you just send it straight to the next person.  But maybe require them to CC me on the email so I could make sure people were meeting deadlines.  Without someone serving that function, this activity stands too high of a chance of just falling apart.

Stu, if you want to host next, it's all yours.  If you want to flesh out your ideas or talk about some of the lessons I've learned from hosting this, PM me!

Sure. Are you setting that up?

[Best Image Submission]

Ok, I declare this activity officially over!  Congrats to all the participants and to all the participants' pants.  Also another big thanks to Jim Reed for the trophies I'm about to give out!

The wieners are:

Best Image Submission

Third Place (tie):

Story 1:
    Submitter 5: Andail
    Submitter 6: AtelierGames
Story 2:
    Submitter 1:  Bulbapuck
    Submitter 6: [Cameron]
Story 3:
    Submitter 4: Tuomas

Second Place (tie):

Story 2:
    Submitter 3: Jim Reed
    Submitter 7: Ascovel
Story 3:
    Submitter 7: Babar

First Place:

Story 1:
    Submitter 7: Wyz

Story 3:
     Submitter 5: Wyz

Wyz went twice because of me having to skip a couple people and wound up spiking TWO first places!  Well done!

Best Chain Story

Second Place (tie):

    Story 1: The Steel Balance
         Authors:
              Jim Reed
              Tuomas
              ShiverMeSideways
              Privateer Puddin'
              [Cameron]
              Babar
              Akatosh

    Story 2: When the Moon Doesn’t Watch
         Authors:
              Stupot
              AtelierGames
              Vince Twelve
              Andail
              Wyz
              tzachs
              NsMn

First Place:

    Story 3: The New Breed
         Authors:
              Scarab
              wonkyth
              Dualnames
              discordance
              Ascovel
              Bulbapuck
              discordance

Best Telephone Story

Third Place:

    Story 2:
         Authors:
              Babar
              Privateer Puddin'
              Akatosh
              Vince Twelve
              discordance
              Andail
              AtelierGames

Second Place:

    Story 1:
         Authors:
              Ascovel
              Wyz
              AtelierGames
              NsMn
              Bulbapuck
              Dualnames
              Jim Reed

First Place:

    Story 3:
         Authors:
              [Cameron]
              tzachs
              Jim Reed
              ShiverMeSideways
              Andail
              Stupot
              Scarab

Congratulations to everybody!  Let me know if I screwed anything up here.  I'll be updating the HTML pages to show who did what for each story and image.  Hopefully you all had a giggle.  Now put your trophies in your sig and make everybody else jealous for not taking part in the coolest forum activity ever!

Oops!  That is a mistake only on the html version.  If you download the doc from the top of the page you'll see it in there.  I'll put that last paragraph into the html version ASAP.  It was on the document passed to the last writer and didn't affect the ending, so no worries there!

EDIT: One more day for voting!

Telephone Story 1 has two parts that are the same, from two authors, which is highly improbible. I think something went worng there.

Ack.  No. That's a copy/paste error on my part.  I fixed it.  Sorry.

Also, just in case there was confusion, the three votes for images do not need to be one from each set.  They can be from any story.

[Here's how voting works:]

Phew, 2.5 weeks!  It's been a long haul!  But all the stories are in and here for your judging!  For those who are just showing up to read these crazy stories, you might want to understand how it worked by reading the rules here.

The three people who started the chain stories were given four sentences to choose from to start their stories.  The sentences were provided by our "celebrity" guest writer: Britain's reigning "Lit Idol" (because they cancelled the competition after he won it in 2005), my father, Otis Twelve! 

1)  Totally, completely, deliciously, and no doubt illegally naked, Tanya knew her clothes had to be in her car, but she had no idea where she’d left the damned thing.
2)  Randolf’s feet were beginning to burn, and the piano was getting heavier by the second.
3)  Poised on the event horizon, Sheila took exactly one billion years to sneeze.
4)  Melanie knew their marriage as over when she caught Harry eating baking powder straight from the box.


And what you're all here for: the stories!  Here they are!

Set 1!

Set 2!

Set 3!

We will have a vote to pick the best Chain Story, best Telephone Story and the best individual Image Contributions.

Here's how voting works:

*

Best team Chain Story - Vote for your favorite of the three Chain Stories.  These are the stories with the purple background.  Choose the one where you think the team worked together the best to create an interesting and entertaining story.  Just choose one.

*

Best team Telephone Story - Vote for your favorite of the three Telephone Stories.  These are the stories with the beige background.  Choose the one where you think the team worked together the best to create an interesting and entertaining story while sticking closely to the images that they were provided.  Just choose one.

*

Best individual image contribution - Vote for your favorite three images that you think best represented the story sections that they were assigned to illustrate.

EDIT: Just in case there was confusion, the three votes for images do not need to be one from each set.  They can be from any story.

All discussions welcome below!  I will reveal the names of each author/submitter after the voting is done.  Congrats and well done to all participants!  Voting lasts 48 hours.  GO!

*Awesome trophies by Jim Reed

I'll start a new thread in a couple minutes for discussions of the stories themselves and voting!  This one can be locked!

It's done!  Give me a bit!!!

That sound was Atelier realizing who the last writer is!    He's got 24 hours left on the timer though!

[RIGHT?]

Could be today.  Right?  RIGHT?

2 conversations:

1) Remake the winsetup interface to allow, ideally, customization of which options to allow the users to set.  Doable and desirable.  I was planning on doing something like this for Resonance which does not support certain settings, and I'd rather them not be there.

2) Overcome Vista/Windows 7's draconian security which does not allow a program to write to the program files directory without being elevated to Administrator level.  Not Doable as far as I know, since the program that you make will still need Administrator rights.

Conversation 2 really only applies to games that are installed into program files directory.  Seems like the only solution is to default install the game somewhere other than program files.

[RIGHT?]

I did turn in my first assignment about 2 hours after getting your email, the other 2 took me more. I was curious if you need all 3 to be done so quickly to be eligible for a "fast turnaround" mark.

So you did!  I probably just forgot to add you to the list!

I also think the really slow people should be named and shamed aswell

Considered that.  Felt too mean... 

I want to read these now!

I just had to skip another person, so... we're getting there.  Just very slowly...  Shouldn't be more than a couple days now.  Right? RIGHT?

I dunno.  Couple hours.  Whenever I notice.     Did you have one that I overlooked?

Just thinking out loud here.  I think you could make the game itself modify the configuration file to, say, toggle between full screen and windows.  It wouldn't take effect, obviously until the game shut down and restarted, so you'd have pop up a box that says the game will shut down and the player will have to start the game again.

Obviously not ideal since the game can't restart itself automatically, but you could even implement something that makes an auto save before shut down, then on restart it could load the save and get you right back to wherever you were.

Something to think about for future games?

Edit: though now that I think about it further, it's quite possible that the game would also not be able to write to the config file due to the security settings unless the game was run in admin mode.  So... maybe not.  Blah.

[Tuomas]

A number of people, like Andail, faced with an insurmountable mountain of confusion, handled it very well by turning the story in a new direction and planting tongue firmly in cheek.  They're all fun!

EDIT:

Woo!  And the first set is done.  Set three should be done pretty darn soon, but set two might be a bit depending on how long people take.  Hopefully we have no more skips!  Get 'er done!

Tuomas you have twelve hours to complete!

I saw it and it made perfect sense!  I completely understood how disappointed I was.

Let's hope these stories make even less sense than Lost did.

I'd say you're going to be pleased then. 

Who died and made me Jacob?  I wish I could finish games like you can!  No, that game was actually sweet.  Too sweet for it's own pedigree.  I would love to play a longer game like that with a slightly more fleshed out battle system.  Travel around the world map fighting ridiculous pirates, earn money to improve your ship or hire more mateys, terrible grammar.  The works!  Love it.