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Guys, if you review something, you should at least prepare.
The whole conversation was like 'the game sucks, but we don't know why.'
And Zooty, how can you review a game if you haven't ever finished it! You can't be bothered to use an hour of your life to play this game? If so then don't do the review.

Shame on you, mr. Bush Grundy and Zooty, shame on you.

But you can still hear the download adress if you play AGSPodQuest#13.mp3 backwards. It's in the 6th minute of the show.

I'm not hearing it jet. Should I be listening six minutes in from the backwards version, or six minutes from the end (i.e.-first six minutes normally)?

The first six minutes. The last six minutes contains the part where Zooty kills a virgin monkey. It only works if you glue a silver dollar coin on your mouse though.

Coincidently, I've just finished all the day and night backgrounds for a game.
Turning a day scene into a night scene isn't hard work at all, since there is nothing new to draw. I just adjusted the brightness for every layer seperately, added lighting and used the airbrush for the glow from light sources.

DAY ----- Night

Off course I'm a slacker, not a real artist.

Roomedit.exe brought us to these forums but the atmosphere kept us comming back.
What makes me happy are the members who hang around here that never made a game and are not planning to. They are here to encourage the other members.

You're not missing anything. I played bj5 and it's not all that.

Indeed, the part where Ben Jordan kills himself to come back as a zombie is such cliché, and it goes downwards from there!
Grundy removed the game after getting so much mail saying that the game sucked.
But you can still hear the download adress if you play AGSPodQuest#13.mp3 backwards. It's in the 6th minute of the show.

I wasn't aware that the forums turned into Ebaum's world.

http://www.darvill.clara.net/funnies/funny5.htm
http://www.tes.co.uk/section/staffroom/thread.aspx?story_id=1831485&path=/teaching+assistants/hreadPage=29

Maybe it should be in the Competitions and Activities thread?

How wrong to use your Ezine to bad mouth Iqu. whether you are right or wrong is not the point, you should have kept it professional. Say that you have creative differences and don't mention it again.

The rest of the Ezine wan was nice.

Ah, I thought it was shang-tril-la or something.
I'm the guy who insulted you over the phone at Brittens. Sorry! :'(

And anyway, when it gets to the voting stage, it's highly likely that more people will have played the free games than the commercial ones, so a free game is likely to win the award anyway, just because of that.

You let it sound as it's a bad thing.

Actually, I wanted to include all the award winners of last year, but I couldn't remember them all, so -Tadaa!-

Let me just say this before I wander off wearing nothing but a swimming dress, again.

I though trough it for a time, and my personal opinion was that it's ballanced quite well. Then some snob starts nagging "what about the foreign language games?"
What about them?

And who is Becky?

The AGS forum banner is getting a bit old. So I though we all could make some new ones.



This one is based on the old design, but more radical banners are welcome too.

[I think the differences are for the worse]

Apearently I missed your point. I don't even knowÃ,  if there is a point, but if you have then I missed it.


There is no seperation, everbody is free to vote/nominate/register non english games. Your idea, however, IS seperation.

Voice acting is nice and all, but they are rare. You can't even fill this category with 5 games. So you want a junk category where we put all the other games with rare features in? Seperation!

Next year, everbody is free to vote/nominate/register on Al Emmo: The Lost Dutchman Mine. If it doesn't win, it's because it didn't get enough votes. Just like many freeware games (who might have trouble with their server, and can't be downloaded anymore). Their chances are equal.

Here it gets really vague, really fast.

There isn't much difference between wat Andail said and my idea. Apart for skipping the registration, and a different jury for every category, it's the same.

I think the differences are for the worse, along with your new categories and choosing the Game of the Year on the basis of the most awards.

I think the differences are for the worse I see hard words, but I don't see your motivation.
along with your new categories They aren't 'new' they are merged. And if you don't like merged categories then what is this:

Finally, I think the categories from last year were mostly good, though it might be good to reduce the number of them somewhat. Personally, I'd suggest getting rid of "Best Animation" (highly correlated with best character art), and maybe change "Best Sound Effects" into a "Best Multimedia" including sound effects, voice acting and video. Possibly merge "Best Gameplay" and "Best Puzzles".

So it turns out that your point is you're a hypocrit, and I no longer care what you want to say...

Who is Becky?

Sorry to hear that. I learned from one of your screenshots to make a city by copying houses.
I can read dutch. Give me the source and story notes and I'll finish it for you.

I think that we have to keep it serious to get the best solution, Vince. :-)

More awards = more fun. Having 100 categories from best speech font to best sequal is fun? I disagree.
I don't know 5 games with voice action. I haven't played a single non-english game. The people deside which games are best, and if people can't play games because they are commercial then bad luck to the creators. At least they got money to wipe their tears. (Mystery Manor is a piece of shit anyway)
Less categories, however, is more fun, exciting and suprising.

There isn't much difference between wat Andail said and my idea. Apart for skipping the registration, and a different jury for every category, it's the same.

I couldn't find the results of last year, but didn't ToaK won Best Game, Best Dialog and Best Story? Didn't they won most awards as well?


[Teh BIG List of 2005: 168 games]
Principles of Evil: Volume I Divot Design Medium length games 02 Jan 2005
Star Wars Shadows of the Empire: Grap... Death Star Games Demos 05 Jan 2005
Barn Runner 3: Don't Jerk The Trigger... Ponch Non-adventure games 07 Jan 2005
DG: the search of the batteries Robin Gravel Short games 09 Jan 2005
Barn Runner 1: The Armageddon Eclair Ponch Medium length games 14 Jan 2005
Satch's Quest Diego Barutta Joke games 26 Jan 2005
Zooreal Neil Dnuma MAGS games 27 Jan 2005
Mikes Room Candle Short games 28 Jan 2005
Earl Bobby is looking for his shoes Le Woltaire Short games 29 Jan 2005
A Tale In The Zoo Rani Hasan a.k.a.... Short games 31 Jan 2005
Legend of Rovendale part1 Endrews Medium length games 02 Feb 2005
Floyd SB the Company Man Stephen R. Owens Medium length games 02 Feb 2005
Jack Trasheater Chapter I - pain house Massimo Nardelli Short games 03 Feb 2005
Battle Warriors DEMO 3.0 Endrews Non-adventure games 05 Feb 2005
The Princess and all the Kingdom Matthew G. & Tadd H. Short games 07 Feb 2005
Beyond the door Bulrog Medium length games 09 Feb 2005
The Lone Loser PS-Soft Demos 09 Feb 2005
Troopers Tech Beta mamarulez Demos 13 Feb 2005
Catacombic jetxl Medium length games 16 Feb 2005
Supergirl in We Don't Need Another Hero Ronn A. Mann Medium length games 23 Feb 2005
Pixel Hunt SuperScottishHero MAGS games 25 Feb 2005
Hotel Hijinks Pelican MAGS games 25 Feb 2005
Missing since Midnight Maxileen MAGS games 26 Feb 2005
Hit the Freak Hector Montaner Short games 27 Feb 2005
Pester Quest Scummbuddy Joke games 28 Feb 2005
The Majestic Conspiracy demo Tim Hengeveld a.k... Demos 03 Mar 2005
Escape the ship AnInhumer Short games 03 Mar 2005
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator C... Francisco Gonzalez Medium length games 05 Mar 2005
Norbi's quest 2 Pilcz Studios Medium length games 07 Mar 2005
Battle Warriors : Rovendale Tactics (... Endrews Medium length games 07 Mar 2005
IG: Space Adventurer MillsJROSS Short games 08 Mar 2005
Wolf Country (DEMO) aussie Demos 09 Mar 2005
Norbi Winter Special Pilcz Studios Short games 09 Mar 2005
Recess 2 Velislav Ivanov Short games 13 Mar 2005
COP the Game Tuntis Short games 18 Mar 2005
The Draft Drifter Who Dashed Doctor D... Stefan Lohner Medium length games 19 Mar 2005
Inspector Gismoe Gijs Dekker Short games 20 Mar 2005
Maniac Mansion Mania - Episode 1: Sib... LucasFan Games Short games 23 Mar 2005
Maniac Mansion Mania - Episode 4: Mim... DasJan Short games 26 Mar 2005
Frank the Farmhand Part 2 Mattias Jeppsson Full length games 30 Mar 2005
ShortCUT Andy White (FrogM... Short games 03 Apr 2005
Lassi & Roger: Meet the God jannar85 Short games 03 Apr 2005
Robotragedy Pijin Pastrana Full length games 03 Apr 2005
Asap Adventure [stripped] jannar85 Short games 03 Apr 2005
Fasmo gonzo29 Short games 06 Apr 2005
Proxecto Percebe (DEMO) Alejandro Fandiño Demos 06 Apr 2005
Great Stroke Off!, The Barbarian Full length games 07 Apr 2005
7th Sense, The Abisso Short games 07 Apr 2005
Lifeboat: Story of Cedrick: The Direc... OsUltimo Short games 10 Apr 2005
Stan's Revenge Nethros Joke games 10 Apr 2005
Ahmet's AGS Fight Game (with Source C... CoolBlue-Gord10 Non-adventure games 13 Apr 2005
Hero Of Infamous Kingdoms Silver Sphinx Stu... Joke games 16 Apr 2005
Simpsons Adventure Game Joseph DiPerla Demos 21 Apr 2005
Knight's Quest IV - Here Today, Gone ... Frequentor Medium length games 24 Apr 2005
Elevator, The Barbarian Short games 24 Apr 2005
PONG mamarulez Non-adventure games 02 May 2005
The Young Gabriel King Chronicles Steve McCrea Short games 04 May 2005
Maniac Mansion Mania Episode 8 - 'The... hansa_export Medium length games 04 May 2005
James Peris es el agente 00,5 Oriol Roselló Full length games 06 May 2005
The Medical Theories of Dr. Kur R. Higgins Medium length games 06 May 2005
Silent Knight - Chapter 1 : The Medio... Niels H. Sørensen Medium length games 07 May 2005
Where's M' Hat Ma ? Wretched MAGS games 08 May 2005
Detention! Stuart Lowndes Short games 08 May 2005
Saturday School Edmundo Ruiz Short games 08 May 2005
Maniac Mansion Mania Episode 15: Plac... Problem Short games 09 May 2005
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Warrior Within... Edmundo Ruiz Joke games 10 May 2005
Secrets Of sultan Kanuni proximity Medium length games 10 May 2005
Invincible Island Remake Andy Mason Medium length games 13 May 2005
Line Game gonzo29 Non-adventure games 16 May 2005
The Quest To Zooloo - Full Talkie Yotam Elal Full length games 16 May 2005
Duke Stanley: National Hero IN The 30... DontTreadOnMe Short games 22 May 2005
The Bar Niels H. Sørensen Short games 26 May 2005
Aswin's Dream Coffeesoft - Aswin Short games 27 May 2005
Unfinished Tales Julián Zorzeón Short games 28 May 2005
Starship Caramba Boris Zdero (AKA ... MAGS games 29 May 2005
Apprentice 1 Deluxe Herculean Effort ... Medium length games 29 May 2005
The Zero Hero Magintz Demos 17 Jun 2005
Long expected Friday- small fixes cp Medium length games 18 Jun 2005
Spacewar( episode 1 the crystal) Sameera Wijesundera Short games 20 Jun 2005
Rapstar 1.5 proximity Non-adventure games 20 Jun 2005
Shemwood Plains IdiotBox Medium length games 22 Jun 2005
Valis - !!! Updated Demo !!! V1.10 Willy Picard Demos 25 Jun 2005
The Bunker Erenan MAGS games 27 Jun 2005
Spacewar episode 2 ( Curien strikes b... Sameera Wijesundera Medium length games 29 Jun 2005
Bear Story v1.3 IceMan Short games 03 Jul 2005
Aazor: The Life of a Demon - Part I: ... Ben Roberts Short games 09 Jul 2005
Da New Guys IceMan Medium length games 13 Jul 2005
Walters Astroid Gurki Medium length games 23 Jul 2005
Da New Guys: Day of the Jackass IceMan Demos 24 Jul 2005
Jessica Plunkenstein and the Düssseld... Greg Edwards Full length games 25 Jul 2005
Pennis: The Ultimate in Pong! OsUltimo Non-adventure games 27 Jul 2005
Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulo... Yahtzee Medium length games 27 Jul 2005
Belusebius Arrival Djokic Bojan DJOK... Short games 28 Jul 2005
Unfinished bluber MAGS games 30 Jul 2005
PiXiA: Rainbow of Havoc Alias MAGS games 31 Jul 2005
Laura Bow in: The Road to Murder gamecourier Short games 01 Aug 2005
Guy Slug: Private Eye RoboPenguin Short games 03 Aug 2005
He's Gone Historical (Calacver) calacver Medium length games 03 Aug 2005
One Bradley Walker Non-adventure games 04 Aug 2005
Alone in the Night AJA Short games 05 Aug 2005
Vitlausi leikurinn Fribbi Short games 05 Aug 2005
The Black Sky Fribbi Short games 09 Aug 2005
Noisy Mountain Fightmeyer Medium length games 11 Aug 2005
RoN-The Outbreak Djokic Bojan Djok... Short games 14 Aug 2005
Labyrinth Akumayo Non-adventure games 15 Aug 2005
Chick Chaser aussie Full length games 17 Aug 2005
Emily Enough: Imprisoned Logan Medium length games 18 Aug 2005
The Oracle Eugene Couto Demos 22 Aug 2005
Knight's Quest III - Tides of Merania Frequentor Medium length games 25 Aug 2005
Magsic Wretched MAGS games 26 Aug 2005
Anna Vince Twelve Short games 26 Aug 2005
Buna Wants Beer Aapeli Kutila MAGS games 26 Aug 2005
C.U.T.E. The Marvellous Adventures of... SuperScottishHero Short games 30 Aug 2005
ESPER: The Town on the Edge of Darkness Cal Souza Short games 31 Aug 2005
Otaku Rivals calacver Medium length games 31 Aug 2005
Into The Light etchersquaredgames Short games 31 Aug 2005
Return to Civilization misterskipperdoo Medium length games 03 Sep 2005
Maniac Mansion Mania - Episode 9 - ra... Rocco Medium length games 05 Sep 2005
Magsic II Wretched Medium length games 06 Sep 2005
Soviet Unterzögersdorf monochrom, cccp.at Full length games 06 Sep 2005
Frog Island Audunsoft Short games 06 Sep 2005
Horror Hospital Incomplete Demo Redrum89 Demos 07 Sep 2005
The Dark Trial Pilcz Studios Demos 11 Sep 2005
Alien Time Zone Babar Short games 19 Sep 2005
Mordy: On Holiday Mordalles Medium length games 20 Sep 2005
Chalk's Quest Aapeli Kutila Joke games 26 Sep 2005
La Gran Castanya Arnau Bernat Full length games 27 Sep 2005
Crave Wretched MAGS games 28 Sep 2005
1 MIssing In Action foz Non-adventure games 30 Sep 2005
Slug Princess Wretched Short games 01 Oct 2005
Power Unlimited boardgame jetxl Non-adventure games 07 Oct 2005
No, I Am Spartacus! OsUltimo Short games 14 Oct 2005
Silent Knight: Chapter 2 - The Consci... Niels H. Sørensen Medium length games 16 Oct 2005
Force majeure II: The Zone Leo Nordwall Full length games 17 Oct 2005
Goose Quest 1 DEMO King_Nipper Demos 20 Oct 2005
Adventure Game Demo Thomas VoàŸ Demos 23 Oct 2005
Dance Til' You Drop! ProgZmax Medium length games 24 Oct 2005
Stargate Adventure Sektor 13 Medium length games 29 Oct 2005
Zugzwang Wretched MAGS games 29 Oct 2005
Domestic Conspiracy Demo Vince Twelve Demos 30 Oct 2005
Dark of Night Barbarian Short games 30 Oct 2005
Deflus Technical Demo Ralph & Aapeli Demos 30 Oct 2005
Bunny Quest Wretched Joke games 31 Oct 2005
Legend of Rovendale 2 Mystic Island Endrews Full length games 03 Nov 2005
Class Notes juasma Short games 06 Nov 2005
Lost In The Nightmare v1.1 CoolBlue-Gord10 Medium length games 07 Nov 2005
The Winter Rose BaRoN Medium length games 09 Nov 2005
Prodigal Trisk Full length games 09 Nov 2005
Operation Novi He-Man Non-adventure games 21 Nov 2005
Mind's Eye ProgZmax Full length games 22 Nov 2005
Bob Goes Home mozza Short games 23 Nov 2005
Hell's Satans mozza Non-adventure games 23 Nov 2005
MOTLPAA Radiant Non-adventure games 24 Nov 2005
The Paramecium Complex BaRoN MAGS games 26 Nov 2005
Javelin Catch Erenan Joke games 27 Nov 2005
Legends Of Mardaram Orange Medium length games 06 Dec 2005
META Radiant Short games 08 Dec 2005
A walk in da tomb Pmdee Short games 09 Dec 2005
AS Racing Manager Endrews Medium length games 12 Dec 2005
Princess Marian VIII: Snowfight SuperScottishHero Non-adventure games 16 Dec 2005
Der verschwundene Husky Timo Becker Medium length games 17 Dec 2005
EXIT Willy Damuz Short games 18 Dec 2005
AGS Chess! Akumayo Non-adventure games 22 Dec 2005
Elf Motors Inc. Erenan MAGS games 24 Dec 2005
A Knight's Pursuit I buloght Short games 24 Dec 2005
ELFO:Rescue Craby DarkArcangel MAGS games 24 Dec 2005
Cedric and the Revolution Bernie MAGS games 24 Dec 2005
1213 Episode I Yahtzee Medium length games 30 Dec 2005

character art and background art can't be grouped together. Its not the same at all.

You are correct.
Maybe merge character art with animation?

I'm happy that we have a discussion about the awards.
Last year was chaos. Way too many categories. Poor Pesty.

I'm afraid that if Best Game, Best Story, Best Plot and Best Dialog have their own category, some people will just copy-paste 'Stargate' in every one of them. We want to give the good games their awards but stop omni-voting as well. Less categories with a lot of difference between them will force people to thing longer about their votes, and let one award mean something more.

-Edmundo- Did you add your game in the database? You could have added it under 'Joke game'...

This was my idea for the nomination.
Jury members are selected.

SSH, because he is a scottish super hero, nuf said.
AGA, because he has computer hacking skills.
Rui Pires, because he collects all the games.
Joyce,
jane,
Rosie,
Ida,
sunshinegold, these people pritty much run the hintip forum. They played and finished at least half of all the ags games out there.
[other rightfull members who know, played and finished a lot of ags games]

The jury members nominate games for every category by selecting the games they think deserves an award.
They can add as much games as they see fit.
The lists are merged into one big list, where the common folk can vote on the games by selecting one game in each category.
The game with the most awards wins the Best Game award.
The moderators can argue about who wins the lifetime achiefment award.

pros:

Simple, not chaotic.
Jury doesn't have to argue with eachother.
Members only have to vote once.
Experts chose the games, but the members still deside the final vote.
The nominated games are very good games.
Omni-voting is for a part stopped.

If a certan game isn't nominated, it's because it didn't made an impression on any of the jury members. The same thing would have happened in the old system, but on a larger scale.

I quite like that idea, Jet, but I would keep the best sound -category as it was before. Sounds effects are a great way to create atmosphere and I think the game with best sound effects should be judged by the way the sound effects are used and how well they work to create atmosphere.

Sound is indeed important to a game, but I don't think it is strong enough to have its own category. Nobody ever says something like "Boy, MI4 was crap, but the sound effects made it worth playing."
Almost all the sound effects used in ags games are ripped from other games or found somewere else. And why not, it is easier, the quality is better and there is a lot of choice (my personal sound collection for opening a door has the normal door, wooden door, squeeking door, iron door and church door).
I don't think you should get an AGS award for just finding the right sound effect, unless you made them yourself by creating the sound of footsteps by recording your fists punching the litter box, gunshots by hitting your ruler on the desk and the sound of an alien eating human flesh by ripping a lettuce apart. Untill most ags games use home made sound effects, it can go into the Best Music category.

I want the AGS awards to be seen as a real achievement. A way to define a quality ags game.
No more wonky categories like Most Pimped Game.

-edit- Simulacra, speech and video sequences are just not used in enough games to have their own categories.
Less is more.

Okay, so I snuk into the Bat cave© and translated the message using the Bat computer© and came to the conclusion that Theatrx wants CJ to program promotial games for buzinesses.

There are two reasons why this won't happen.

1: Theatrx, your post is unclear, You use '...' 41 times, you even say that you are a "smchuk" and your only input in this bussines venture is "I want a simple 'Look at my business'' kind of approach... nothing hard."
Things that doesn't make people want to trust you, especially when money is involved. No harm in asking though.

2: Now, I can't speak for Chris, and I'm not claiming that I know CJ just because I met him in real life, but CJ isn't interested in money or games. He has said this several times in interviews and in person. He never aksed anyone for sprites for a game or even money to pay for the forums. And that shareware joke proves that CJ has no intention of making AGS not freeware anymore.
[size=0](plus, he's ashamed of what we represent)[/size]