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Good heavens...

anyone who plants a device ``that would cause a person reasonably to believe that such device is an infernal machine'' could face 30 months to five years in jail and be fined $5,000.

So a lite brite showing a cartoon character flipping the bird is mistaken, "by experts on the scene," as an "infernal machine?" Makes me feel really comfortable about the "experts" in this country.

Thanks so much, George Dubya, for purposely instilling fear in this country so you can wrap it around your finger. We cringe and cower every time someone spills some baby powder or displays a light-up cartoon character and you get richer and richer thanks to your oil crusades in the Middle East that no one stands up to you about because we are too concerned about Orange Terror Alerts.  Pretty brilliant plan for an imbecile.

IMHO, I'd rather have "ads shoved in my face" for a cartoon that mocks that crap than listen to everything the government tries to pass off as logical for all the stoolies that sit around and listen to it. And, by the way, enough taxpayer dollars go to testing the flow rate of ketchup and the effects of second hand smoke on dogs that "taxpayer dollars" being wasted anywhere doesn't bother me anymore. WHAT THE HELL actually cost the city of Boston $750,000.00 ?!??!!!?!?!??

"I'm an expert."
"Is that a bomb."
"Yeeeesssssss......"
"Okay. Good enough for me. Here's three quarters of a million dollars..."

@Evil: apparently, three weeks ago they set up little 1 foot tall by 1 foot wide "lite brites" with light bulbs in the shape of Err flipping people off. They had magnetic backs and thus stuck to metallic surfaces. According to the news report, it was the "batteries and wires" that made them "very sinister in appearance." With that fully explained, you tell me how they were mistaken for bombs.

My guess: profound mental retardation. 

EDIT: Just caught Kevin Pereira's take on this on Attack of the Show... He put it really well when he said "I doubt any terrorists have the sense of humor to use a bomb in the image of a cartoon character flipping us off." Then I was treated to ridiculous televised images of SWAT teams trying to disarm Inignokt.

I think the "old" business isn't from the downcast-ness of his face, but rather the homer-simpsonish area around where his "stubble" would be if he were older. Ordinarily, the younger a person, the less detailed the face.

And the "ski-cycle" thing is more important than the oldification. Make him step a little more forward and less to the side.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombscare/index.html

Ever heard of Inignokt and Err from Aqua Teen Hunger Force? Well, they're terrorists now. Damn this friggin' moronic country...

Simple until I got to the last level. Never lost a single life, then I lost them all at once...

There was a Fall of the House of Usher game. I forget all about it though. I think FotHoU might have been one of the scenarios in The Dark Eye, but I don't know.

And Progzy, in my version of ST:25th Anniversary there was a long trailer advertising Judgment Rites. Alas, I searched high and low for it, and could never find it.

Most games I've seen that require doors in the foreground just show indentations in the floor leading to them, which seems much less intrusive then drawing a dithered semitransparency in the middle of the screen. It might not be too bad for one door, but four... It's taking up the whole screen, really detracting, IMHO...

While it didn't seem logical before, this seems even less logical. EBay supposedly whomps the hell out of people who post false bids just as much as they do lousy sellers. You'd think that the people bidding in excess of a quarter million with no intent to pay would get screwed, and, if it's true that they are also legitimate salespeople on EBay, that they would have their sellers license revoked. Last I heard, EBay was very hard on scammers and people just screwing around in order to maintain their image.

One of my favorite all-time (commercial) point-and-click adventure games was star Trek 25th Anniversary Edition from Interplay. Interplay just makes good games, especially back in the day (I call your attention to Bard's Tale, Wasteland, Tass Times in Tonetown, and the non-adventure Battle Chess), but I loved ST25AE. It played out exactly like eight episodes of the show. I played the original on my Tandy, and then when I got my first regular PC I got the talkie version starring the original cast. Good times.

Dang it, Ashen, I thought for a half hour about Diagnosis: Murder and wound up completely drawing a blank and mentioning the Simpsons games instead.

[SHAMELESS PLUG!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!] I've got one... In fact, I've got two. ESPER and HEART OF ABRAXAS. Check my profile. ESPER comes with a free short story too!      [/SHAMELESS PLUG!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!]

Nice! If I wasn't hard at work on my own project right now, I could be coerced into making a Monk game. In fact, I still could lend a hand, if needed...

Some other movies/shows which have become AGS games or are becoming AGS games include Doctor Who and The Simpsons. Personally, I had no idea there was a game based on Cube, but I would definitely play it. My game ESPER: Town on the Edge of Darkness is KINDA based on a film, if a no-budget indie film I made in high school counts

At first I thought it was Grundislav and SSH, but then I remembered that I really didn't have anything to base that on except the Grundislav Games ditty (which, I suppose, is Solomon Grundy himself)... And I think I heard the supposed Grundislav mention Zooty as well. But, wait... SSH is Scottish, so why does he have a regular British accent??

Okay, it was probably Billy Crystal. Disregard my guess.

Funny, he calculates shipping and handling... but he doesn't calculate that all those games together bought at a yard sale would only go for a combined 38 cents. Or completely free, if you weren't against emulation.

However, domino, can we hold you to that? Because I really wouldn't put it past the confused gamers of the 1980's...

I'd be in on that, if it weren't for how gay that would be. If my girlfriend came over and saw me painting that guy, she'd have some serious questions for me.

Here's a plan... Paint an actual, un-hidden penis and submit it to him as a portrait.

How's that guy writing a book... and a third book, no less. His grammar is about as atrocious as my granddad's junk. If I were pretty like him, could I get my stuff published?

Let's not harsh on the p3n1s. First, people say "I don't like that, it's degrading." Then you get rid of it. Next you know, someone says "I don't think it's fair that my game didn't get any nominations, I worked hard, and put alot of effort into it. Since my skills aren't as good as Grundislav's or Yahtzee's I had to work a lot harder to make a good game. Why isn't mine up there? It's not fair, and it's degrading to me as an indie game developer." Then, the next thing you know, the whole AGS awards is down the drain, and the whole AGS community as we know it gets taken over by the n00bs and the trolls and becomes a totally politically correct, boring-ass environment.

Besides, the thing that bothered me... which, by the way, didn't start bothering me until AFTER I voted for Trilby's Notes all up and down the line, is that a game by someone who left the forums some time ago and doesn't even post his own games here, letting Rui, M0ds, and AGA do it for him, gets nominated all up and down the boards. If we kept the voting entirely "in the family," so to speak, it would have eliminated the Himalaya problem...

...and more people will have a chance in 2007 without having to go up against 6DAS... said the guy who's currently producing a game due out later this year...

EDIT: yes, I know, that makes me  a coward. But Yahtzee's games are just so good.

Well, first off, that would defeat the purpose... I would like to showcase the work of a musician who is a part of AGS. But I agree... I have Dead Rising and would love to have "Gone Guru" by Lifeseeker (the song they play during the fight with the convicts in the courtyard).

I could use it, as I have the MP3 (downloaded off Lifeseeker's MySpace page), but I also would like to try to not use copyrighted shiznazzles.

::waves fist at sky:: DAAAAAHHHHHNNNNN!!!!!!!!!

Well, let me help the kid out by posting a serious suggestion for a game idea.

I've been looking for a game like this for a very long time, but no one seems to want to make it. I would really, really like to play a game where you are a young captain being offered the command of your first starship. You would get to select and outfit your vessel and hire your crew, then investigate a never-before charted galaxy. The entire game would be from the first-person perspective of the captain, and instead of controlling the ship, you would control the crew by giving them orders. You could chart the galaxy, be given military or science missions, take a shuttle or a fighter out and pilot it through the galaxy, or "beam" down to a planet to explore or deal with some Star-Trekkian away team mission.

It would be doubly cool if it could be multiplayer, with each player being in command of a different ship.

I found out a couple years ago about a game called "Battlecruiser Millenium," and it's successor "Universal Combat." Such a good idea wasted by such a moronic game creator...

I was always of the understanding that the p3n1s award wasn't for the worst AGS game, but... you know.... the n00biest, or the crappiest on purpose... You know, like "I Am Spartacus." It was shit, but it was supposed to be. I agree that criteria shouldn't change because the game is commercial, and I was always of the understanding (I guess now that I was wrong) that EVERY AGS game nominated for anything was nominated by a member of the team that made it.

Then again, I've been away for a while. Can someone catch me up to speed on this Al Emmo thing? It doesn't LOOk like it deserved the p3n1s, but...