Messages

Oh, the "Illinois Nazis" was used in a game?

The original line is from the movie "The Blues Brothers". The game devs must have used as an easter egg reference.

"Illinois Nazis" just sounded like the same kind of joke name for an American football team to me as the "Washington 4 Skins" from Ion Fury.
No real connection, other than my own amused mental bridging of the two. 

[Durinde with The Timbershot Companions]

Dammit! I missed the writing deadline again! :C Had to organize a LAN party and moving to a new flat... excuses, excuses! ENDLESS EXCUSES!
Oh well, I shall do what I can and vote. 


Durinde with The Timbershot Companions
Nostalgia duly fulfilled. I think we might have been reading the same kinds of fantasy books back in the day, and while the final chapter starts with a bith of a hasty tone with the wizard (in media res -style), what follows later manages to catch the right feel.

Mandle with That Fucking House on That Fucking Hill
Overuse of expletives put me off at first, I'll admit. First person narratives also rub me the wrong way, so I feel I may not have been the right target audience for this one. I got a good chuckle out of the ending, though, so that must count for something. As long as that comedic undertone was the intent, that is.

Sinitrena with Kimberly's Choice
Points for using the back-cover blurb to set the premise, rather than treating us to it after the main story like the other two. Helps give the reader context and eases the mind into the setting better. As for the story, I feel it shows that you picked a challenging topic. To show the aftermath of a court case without knowing the specifics, the aftermath of a love story without knowing more than the blurb provides, it's difficult to read into. At least for me.


-


Best Character: Mandle with That Fucking House on That Fucking Hill
Best Atmosphere: Durinde with The Timbershot Companions
Best Writing:Durinde with The Timbershot Companions
Best Blurb: Durinde with The Timbershot Companions
Best Ending: Durinde with The Timbershot Companions

Good ol' Rammstein paid a visit to my city not long ago, and sparked some fresh interest in the band. We also had a retro LAN party with chiptune music, demoscene stuff etc.
Thus...

AUSLANDER!

As someone who lives in the country that lost 6.000.000 citizens I dare to say: all massive killings in last century started from chanting, marching and singins that no one stopped when it was possible. I know who was marching and chanting in 30s. And what they did next.

And you think punching some people in the street is what will stop that from happening again? I admire your optimism, and pity your utter idiocy.
It wasn't the flag waving or shouting that killed people, it was the fact that so many people subscribed to violent ideologies and believed they needed to act them out. Funny how some people think that appyling their own violent ideologies is somehow better and less dangerous a path for a society to take.

EDIT: So as not to spam the thread further and give Snarky a headache, I'll stopreplying here for now and let you folks get back to the original topic. I just feel that whenever I see people calling for mindless violence, someone needs to step in and make a stand against such violent ideologies so that people at least think twice before succumbing to such low acts. If anyone wishes to carry on the conversation, my PM's are open and I can be found on the AGS Discord as well.

The ones who keep holding rallies, recruiting disillusioned young white males on youtube, and, oh right, murdering people. Which is the actual terrorism going on, right-wing terrorism.

Punching them is not exactly vigilante justice; it's supposed to humiliate them. Who cares whether their jaw hurts for a few hours? They're fucking nazis.

Criminals and terrorists are handled by law. And they should be handled by law. That is why we as a society have set up a codified system of laws and have centralized organizations responsible for upholding those laws.

You saying you want to punch people to humiliate them only forces people like me to do something we REALLY don't want to do: side with the goddamn nazis! I don't want to side with the nazis or alt-right, I'd much prefer if we ignored them and let them be and hold their silly parades and wave their silly flags. Neither of those things is illegal or harmful. Waving a flag doesn't kill people. Marching and chanting and singing don't kill people.

Punching people can kill people. And so, if I saw on a street a genuine armband-wearing flag-waving goose-stepping nazi, and you: I'd always step in on the side of the one being punched.

Now kindly stop turning idiots into victims of oppression and giving them free political points. We all know how that went back in the 30's.

Self-proclaimed Nazis have held several marches right outside my window.

Are they breaking the law? If so: call the police.
Are they peacefully demonstrating? If so: watch them, know them, and oppose them in legal ways. Organize your own demonstrations. Speak against their views publicly and openly. Vote in elections to ensure these people do not gain power. Keep an eye on them and call the law enforcement on them if they break the law.

These "self-proclaimed Nazis" are a tiny minority with no authority or credibility. Sure, great, let's say you have 2 000 people in an organization that exists inside a nation of 10 million people. So what? You have 2 000 idiots who cannot hope to accomplish anything, at least as long as we don't give them validation by addressing them as some kind of grand force to be reckoned with. It is when we overreact that we give them power they would otherwise not have.

This same group has paraded through my city. A member of theirs killed someone in our capital, and now sits behind bars while the organization is banned from operating openly in the country. The law comes for them when they break the law.

If you enact vigilante justice on them, however, then you are the criminal and you need to be put behind bars. It's really simple how that works.


EDIT: I gave the NRM too much clout before, when I said they had "10 000" members. In reality they have about 2 000, so I edited the post above to reflect this reality.

Wham, why should I care about a Nazi's right to their own views and opinions?

Because of the law.

Even if you find a real Nazi today, which is about as likely as finding a unicorn or a leprechaun with a pot of gold, you have no right to enact violence on them. A genuine nazi seeking to inflict death and destruction is in violation of the law, which makes their actions an issue for law enforcement and the justice system to deal with. Moral crusaders taking it upon themselves to enact vigilante justice and mob rule only serves to push our societies further and further away from the rule of law and closer to a point where any act of violence against anyone can be justified by calling the victim the right keyword.

The word "Nazi" is thrown about so eagerly today, so randomly and so completely without adhering to any kind of sensible definition that it is a completely useless word for defining anything that has existed after the 1940's.

In the US today you have black people and Jews being called Nazis for their political views.
In the UK you have left-wing politicians being called anti-semites and Nazis for their personal preferences.
On this site, and most others with social interaction, there are fanatics throwing around the label against anyone they don't like.

Hell, in my previous post I could easily turn the word on you. You said you wanted to attack and inflict violence on people, which I view as an extremely negative and authoritarian thing to do. Thus I could call you a Nazi, because you are a violent person harming others for reasons I don't see as valid, which sounds like a thing the Nazis did, and I could use that to justify violence against you. All this accomplishes either way is pointless violence that does nothing to better our societies, only provides mob justice and street violence excuses, making them more acceptable and prevalent. If this is what you people want, then... well, you know what could be argued here. Let's not go there.

I hate Illinois Nazi's!

They have no hope against the Washington 4 Skins. (Ion Fury is a damn fun game!)

If you're a Nazi, you're making a tacit choice, and have a will to carry out genocide. Your very existence as a Nazi, while you are a Nazi, is an act of violence on your victims.

Funnily enough a lot of people getting punched around the world are just regular people with the "wrong" politics, who have shown no interest in genocide. It's almost as if the Nazi label is being abused and misused.

I'm perfectly fine with punching Nazis btw.

I'm perfectly fine with punching people who punch other people unprovoked, in order to defend people's right to have their own views and opinions. Basic human rights, that is.
The only times violence is acceptable is in defense of the self or others on whom violence is being inflicted.

Any other act of violence on a person is assault, and if politically motivated: terrorism.

Ah, right, thanks!

Stuck again though, kind of:

Spoiler

I used the manipulator once, and now I have to set the chip to fix it. I already tried 6, 7 and 3. Is there a hint regarding the correct number?

[close]

Hint:

Spoiler

You have to put your reading glasses on for some green text.

[close]

Outright spoiler:

Spoiler

Check the paper on the table on which you found the manipulator, down in the containment room. The number changes each time you play, because I'm that kind of evil when it comes to developing games.

[close]

I'm playing this again, and got stuck again:

Spoiler

I fixed the rail and the elevator but can't get past the GRUE on the top floor.

[close]

Gah! I forgot about this old thread.

Hint

Spoiler

You need to use an item to REPEL the GRUE.

[close]

Outright spoiler

Spoiler

You can find the MANIPULATOR on the bottom floor. You need to double-click on it to examine it closer, then ensure it is set to the correct mode, so you don't accidentally ATTRACT the GRUE with disastrous consequences.

[close]

I have created a precompiled version of AGS 3.4.4, in which you only have to put your game files. But you obviously need a beta tester for that.

Applications on macOS are actually directories with a certain structure. You may have to zip that for distribution.

Kind regards
Dennis

I'll look into it over the coming week, see what I can do.

Well... releasing a direct download would have allowed me to provide you with a macOS version.

Anyways, please add a macOS version.

Thaaank you.

Kind regards

Dennis

Any suggestions on how to make a Mac version? I know Steam has options for uploading one, but I've no idea how to make one since I don't dabble in the Apple machines.

BOOM! Last-minute votes!

Plot: Baron
Character(s): Baron
Language: JudasFM
Message: Baron

I'm not much for poetry, but I gotta hand it to JudasFM for the effort and craft here. The rest of the categories go to Baron in my view, for the simply excellent execution that is true to form considering the subject matter.

Welcome aboard!
The AGS forums are a unique little heaven of helpfulness, with quite a few skilled and capable people around to help those in need. It's what helped me get started back in the day, and I'm sure you'll find all the help you could ever need here.

And I admit, I'm one of the 700 or so people to have added this game to my library and not downloaded or played it yet.

Do you feel like you're being judged right now?
Because you are!

My goal for this game is to accumulate 1000 lifetime downloads at some point down the line. If I can reach that, I'll feel the project has been fully worth all the time, effort and money!

Did you just pick a number from the air?
Did you just guess a number because you don't like DRM-free?

Well, yeah.
Just like you declared that "many of us will miss this game" because it's on Steam. At this point the confirmed number of people missing the game is 1 (one).
I'd be happy to see some actual statistics on how many people pass on a free game due to Steam as a platform, of course.
Until then all we have to work with are gut feelings and guesses, which work just as well for me as they do for you.

It's a shame many of us will miss this game because Wham hates DRM-free that much.   
It would be so easy to offer Direct Download, Itch.Io, or Humble Bundle.

By my estimate, releasing on Steam means that you and maybe three other people in the world will miss the game. A reasonable loss, I think. 

Can you tell us how many downloads this game is getting via Steam? I'm just curious.

Thanks to Steam, I actually can.
About 800 people have clicked to add the game to their games libraries, but just under 100 have downloaded AND played the game so far, which seems roughly accurate considering I haven't done any marketing aside from posting here and the Whamgames Facebook page.

Odd thing I noticed, wasn't sure where to post so I'll stick it here and hope someone wiser notices: this game doesn't seem to show up in my profile, under the list of games I've worked on, unlike my previous games.

Anyone have any ideas on what I might have done wrong in adding the game to the AGS database?

Why cut off so much of you audience by forcing DRM into the game?  It makes no sense. 

I doubt I'll lose more than a handful of people at most, all things considered. The reason I wanted to put my game on Steam was the decade-old dream and goal of having my game on that platform, and GNRBLEX fulfilled that goal at last.

Not everyone cares about achievements.
And not everyone likes steam-DRM.  It's a shame you're going down that path.  Many of us won't download it because of that reason. 

Considering how widespread Steam is nowadays, I can't imagine this limiting the audience too much. I am sorry to hear you'll be skipping the game, however.