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Can we maybe decide on a date and time, announce it in the top bar of the forum (instead of the Mittens announcement) and if the client is ready by then, use the client, otherwise just do it in IRC chat?

Cassiebsg: 6pts
Kumpel: No.
Stupot+: 8pts
Danvzare: 9pts

Come on Cassiebsg, almost there!

Wheeeee! I'm super happy!
I thought it was a great topic for MAGS.

Harry Caine made me laugh a lot. I was so entranced storm gradually getting worse (and by the "eel") that I ran the game right through until the storm literally stopped. Looking forward to the finished version

Me too :-)

Yes, indeed! I said it would be a quick and easy round

Cassiebsg: 4pts

Sorry, due to the forum downtime I couldn't answer earlier.

Danvzare: 6pts
Cassiebsg: 7pts
Kumpel: 8pts
Stupot+: 9pts
Cassiebsg: 1pt
Cassiebsg: 2pts

Thanks guys! We are really happy to get so much positive feedback


About the ending:

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I just want to point out, that while the game ends in chaos, it's not really THAT bad. Sure, everything is a mess (and Canelle's handbag is now probably damaged beyond repair), but noone was hurt and they just have to clean up A LOT. It was also due to the topic of "Natural disasters" that we wanted to include more than just the eruption at the beginning.

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So, considering this, if there ever were to be a sequel, it would have to be

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a cleaning simulation

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Luckily it's still the same

Cassiebsg: 4pts

I love those squirrel pics!

Ok, let's do a very easy one for a change:

Cassiebsg: 2 pts

SOLUTION: 1 point for each set of all letters of the previous poster's name.

cat

Gurok

Cornelius Cat has a resolution of 1280x720 and some people experienced problems there. Also, keep in mind that AGS is not super efficient with big resolutions and alpha.

I guess it all comes down to who your target audience is. Pro gamers will expect a high resolution and have the equipment needed for it, whereas casual games as well as the usual AGS crowd probably don't care much about the resolution and most likely will not have high-end hardware.

Wow, that looks awesome!

And I'm also happy that the forums are such a friendly place, where people think of artistic light installations as "dirtysexy stuff"

Awesome idea! Let's see if I can come up with something.

I'm with Snarky here. I absolutely prefer to have just an IRC chat ceremony or last year's client with updated nominees over moving it again just for having a new (untested) client.

Finished playing!

It was a nice little game. I was a bit worried how a comedy in a war setting would be, but it actually worked really well!

The pros:
I really liked the graphics, they worked really well.
The characters were well depicted (literally and also from a writing point of view).
The writing was very good and made the game world believable.
Switching between characters and meeting in various places was a nice idea.

Some cons:
The game lacks polish. There are several glitches with walkable areas and walkbehinds, only default responses where there could be more specific ones, typos, boring default font, default wait cursor,...
I personally did not like that I have to click away the text. I prefer this to be automatic.

The puzzles were a mixed bunch:

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I did like the 'sneaking' puzzle at the end, some easy inventory usage and item combinations. I found the solution of getting Olga's underwear hilarious.
However, the dialog puzzle where the soldiers would kill me I only solved by guessing and trying several options.

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It is a very good first game, but it could be so much better with just one week of additional testing, proofreading and fine-tuning. I hope that you will put in the little extra work that could make the game go from good to great.

So, will it happen this Sunday?
Last year, there was a test-run for the client. Is there going to be such a thing this year as well? If you need people to test it, you should tell us here.

It does not make sense either way because in rep_ex_always you are never allowed to use blocking functions...

I guess we have to wait for monkey0506.

Hahaha, no, it is not my diary.

Just tried the Harry Caine demo - the voice acting and flying things are hilarious! Also the scrolling scene and changing weather conditions are impressive. Is there already some interaction in this version? Anyway, I'm looking forward to the full game!

Great news! Looking forward to using it with the next project.