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[RULES:]

Coloring Ball:
Twisted Siamese Twins

Alright, the new Coloring Ball has arrived.

Use the shape below to create a Siamese Twin. But wait, this one comes with a twist:
One of them is a ugly hideous deformed/misshapen person while the other is quite normal looking.






RULES:

Feel free to:
flip and/or rotate the shape in anyway.
use as many colors as you want
color the outline

Please do not:
Alter the outline shape (except for changing the color)



Entries should be submitted by June 28th.


ENJOY!

The Throphies:

And as bonus for their awesome entries,
for all 7 contestant the:
Twisted Twins 'CGA Bonus Edition' Trophy

The entries so far:
(chronol. order)

	guess which one isn't normal by HourGlassGames
	Stop playing with my telescopic eye, bro! by AprilSkies
	What the heck by jwalt
	Wall-crawling, sea-creature-befriending, colour-changing superhero 'James' by Ghost
	Two dogs connected by the tail trying on their owners shoes by Bulbapuck
	I neeeed to pee! Do you mind opening the zipper? by Tabata
	The TinTin/Barney twins by Intense Degree

As I'm sure there are still some things 'off' in my BG, I'd really like
to receive some feedback on it so I might be able to improve it a bit more.

[imgzoom]http://tdepaus.home.xs4all.nl/arj0n/AGSBG/Island2b.png[/imgzoom]

Thanx.
-arj0n

Free copy of Escape Goat as giveaway (This giveaway is only viewable to members of the Adventure Game Studio Steam group)

Click image to go to the giveaway page to join the contest.


Winner will be announced at Friday after 14:00h.

Hi,

I'm looking for a tutorials about dithering since I do not understand much about dithering yet.
Did a search on the forum but no results (or my way of search terms sucks ).

Anyway, can someone please advice me a good tutorial that includes dithering (for pixelart)?

Thanx,
-arj0n

In stead of games, anyone here who also still own old vintage software?
If so, share a photo 

Still got this one on the shelf: Broderbund Software's BannerMania from 1989.
Used this program quite a lot for school projects back when I was about 14 years old.
[imgzoom]http://tdepaus.home.xs4all.nl/arj0n/BanerManiaPhoto.jpg[/imgzoom]

I'd like to know how I can use a charactername (cEgo for example) in a variable so I can use the variable and only have to declare the specific name once.
Example:

Code: AGS

// room script file
String Player1;

function room_AfterFadeIn()
{
Player1 = cEgo;
}

function room_RepExec()
{
if (player==Player1)
  {
if (((NpcIsFollowing == false) && ((cEgo.x <= (cMerchant.x))......
//more code//
}

With for example 'String' I get a 'Type mismatch: cannot convert 'Character*' to 'String*'' at the 'Player1 = cEgo;' line.

Is there a way to script a check which game language (translation) a player has chosen besides reading it out from the acsetup.cfg file?

How can I determine if a npc is following the player and if so, activate the roomchange immediately?

Having something like this in the room_RepExec will only activate cMerchant to follow cJack
(in stead of checking if he is following cJack, immediately followed by the roomchange):

Code: AGS

if (cMerchant.FollowCharacter(cJack) == true) 
      {
      player.ChangeRoom (1, 200, 2000);
      }

[I need someone living in the USA where I can ship this item to and this person then need to forward/send it to me...]

I want to buy an item from amazon.com but unfortunately amazon won't allow it to be shipped to the Netherlands 
(because: [quoting amazon] "it is software and may not be compatible with systems in other parts of the world.")

A solution they suggest is: to find someone in the US who can forward it to me. Otherwise there may be a forwarding service available.

So, is there anyone around here from the USA who can help me out here?

I need someone living in the USA where I can ship this item to and this person then need to forward/send it to me...
(of course I pay you for the forwarding costs)

PM me if you can help me out.

Edit:
Or does anyone know of a good mail/package forwarding service (like for example http://www.shipito.com) for shipping from the USA to The Netherlands?

Link under avatar incorrect.

Under my avatar the following linked text is shown:
I can help with AGS tutoring (linki: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=8169#help_music)
I can help with play testing (link: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=8169#help_playtesting)

But on my forum-profile page I filled in 'Music' & 'Playtesting'.

So the 'music' is switched with 'AGS tutoring'
The 'playtesting' link seems OK (although I would prefer to see it named 'beta testing' in stead of 'playtesting' because these 2 are not the same...)

[Netherlands]

There's an item on amazon.com I would like to buy.
But when finishing the order I got the following message:

"We're sorry. This item can't be shipped to your selected destination. You may either change the shipping address or delete the item from your order."

But when I look at the seller info, it states:

Placing Orders from Outside the United States

Seller orders can only be placed from international locations if the buyer is in a supported country (see the list below). Standard International shipping is the only shipping option available for seller orders fulfilled by Amazon.com.
Europe: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guernsey, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Jersey, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales)

So I don't get this:
My country listed as "shippable" but when I want to buy the item it shows the message "can't ship to address"...

Do you know of a way so I am able to buy this item anyway?

['regular AGS error message']

Not sure if this is the right place to report a crash but I couldn't enter the Bug and Suggestion Tracker.

Crash while removing some buttons from a gui in edit mode.
I couldn't close the messages, there was a loop between the 'Unhandled Error' message popup and the 'regular AGS error message' popup:


'regular AGS error message'
(---------------------------
Adventure Game Studio
---------------------------
A serious error occurred and the AGS Editor may now be in an unstable state. You are STRONGLY ADVISED to shut down the editor and restart it. Before saving your work, make a backup copy of your game folder in case any data has been corrupted.
---------------------------
OK   
---------------------------
)


'Unhandled Error' message
Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Version: AGS 3.2.1.111

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at AGS.Editor.GUIEditor.MoveControlWithMouse(Int32 mouseX, Int32 mouseY)
   at AGS.Editor.GUIEditor.bgPanel_MouseMove(Object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnMouseMove(MouseEventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseMove(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

So I bought and installed the upgrade version of win8 (which is the "Downloadable Pro for $39.99 ERP") on my win7pro machine.
After (or during) the install I created the win8 image file.

I now need to reinstall it so I booted this image (from dvd)
It collects info (step 1) and during step 2 it asks for the product key.
The problem: it won't accept my product key!
Did I made any typo's: no.

Did anyone had this same issue or does someone know what to do now?

I didn't try the next 2 options because now I still have win8 running and option 2 might result in not getting win8 installed at all...:
1. download the win8 manager from the official site and run it
2. reinstall win7pro and download the win8 manager from the official site and run it

??

I often see these 2 words used for game collection
As in (for example): Vintage Games Collection or Retro Games Collection

But I wonder: what is the exact definition of Vintage and Retro?

So far I think the definitions are as something like this:
Vintage: 20 years old or older.
Retro: Something that looks like something from an older time period (but can be new as in produced in this time period).

Is that correct? Any thoughts?

Is it possible to move two object at the same time while also using eBlock and if yes, how?

Sierra On-Line Inc. did often release more then one edition of their classic adventure games like KQ and LSL.

I own two editions of King's Quest 1, 2 and 3: SRL-109 (1st edition) and SRL-117 (2nd edition).
Don't know if KQ4 and up does have more then 1 edition.

Now I noticed that they seem to have released more then 1 edition of Leisure Suit Larry 1 (in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, the original not the remake).

The version I own has "SRL-117" on the info sticker. But there seems to be another one around with the number "LSS-101".

Now, there must be other retro games collectors around here, so I'd like to ask you:
* Can you please check your boxed original LSL1 versions and tell me what number is printed on the info sticker at the front of the box?
* and, are there also more then 1 edition of LSL 2, 3 and 5 and King's Quest 4 and 5?

Thanx!

So I would like to know: what do you think are the pros and the cons of this game?

I was wandering:
How is it possible that a gamecatalog program like DataCrow - which uses the Mobygames Server for importing games info - isn't being sued or stopped by Mobygames?
Datacrow can use several sources besides Mobygames, like amazon, metacritics, softpedia, etc. Maybe that does the trick law-wise?

Any thoughts?

I've been working again on my game Blockz since a few weeks, it now contains 75 levels and it's graphical design has been modified.
The only level of difficulty the game now have is the limited numbers of moves per level.
I removed the time-restriction because some people said that a time limit is/can be annoying.

Q:
I wish I could implement/use something that makes the game harder and harder to beat once you finished more and more levels,
but with only having the limited numbers of moves, the level of difficulty is pretty 'linear' throughout the whole game...
Or is the limited numbers of moves per level enough as difficulty level?
Any ideas?

Can't find them so maybe there just aren't any, but are there any other AGS game exe parameters besides '--setup'?