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How 'bout Ebay. Worked for Fatman. Didn't they sold every copy?

Man, those jedi's sure like to fight on bridges above industial parks.

I'm not impressed. Maybe depressed.
On the bright side, it's the last crappy SW film. (shiver over the though about all the crappy SW games to come)

Its alwais a suprise if a old game work, Windows or Dos. I couldn'd get footstep sounds in AitD 3 but they were there in AitD 1. Some games had memory problems and you had to type in memmaker. Ay, thoose be the days.

I had aÃ,  win95 version of Prisoner of Ice. There was a walktrough in the helpfile written as a story.

>Shameless Cthulhu promotion here<

So the forum has become the victim of it's own succes.

You army boys try everthing to get out of there, don't you.
50 days is still a long way to go.
And remember what happenen to Lt. Blake in M*A*S*H*...

How long does a tour take anyway.

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I'm bored sometimes.

comming next. a horse

Maybe the forum is being overloaded. (to many members. We are the victim of our own succes!)
Or the the data is channeled trough a server with a 56k modem.


one thing. this slow speed is starting to keep me away from the forums.

When I minimalize a script editor window and then close it, I can't reopen the script editor again. I see the appicaition in the Windows workbar but when I click on it, it's not displayed.

I tried it on my laptop and my brothers pc. We got both Windows XP.

I thought EVERBODY already knew it was a rocket/missile.


For some reason, that flash movie is more believeble then the 8 o clock news.
Am I being brainwashed by this movie...
...or could it be that I see all people as potential liars with their own agenda's, nowadays...

[The result.]

The result.

Before* |Ã,  AfterÃ,  

^{*note. This picture was taken before Mittens}

It's shorter then I wanted to, but the hairdresser said "I think it looks much better" and she is the expert.
I'm starting to miss it, but it's only hair. It'll grow back.

I hate hairdressers.
They alwais ask me how I want my hair cut and I alwais say "with scissors would be nice".Ã,  I don't know how I want my hair cut, it's not on my priority list. I don't plot how my hair is cut. I only see my face in the mirror when I wash my hands after taking a dump, anyway!

I only get my hair cut every half year. I let it cut short, then I let it grow for half a year and let it cut short again.
But now I havn't had my hair cut of more then 3/4 year.

I like having long hair. I can't explain why a guy wants to have long hair, until you get it youself. Then you'll understand. You just feel cool and get more self respect. You'll feel more like an individual then a clone.

I also came to the conclusion that my long hair effects other people too. Groups are more afraid of me and old people have less respect for me. Strangers stare at me, like I'm up to no good.



I'm going to get my hair cut next week. Not good timing since it's getting colder again...

What is your oppion and experience about hairlength (or hair colour).
What do girls prefer.

sure.

1. is it polish?
2. is it long?
3. is it a rip-off?

Still doesn't seems to work.
AGS cant find xerxes~5.mp3.

The other files are also bigger then 8 char but CAN be played. Weird.

No, you have to place the code in the room where you want the intro to start.

Code: ags

Ã,  // script for room: First time player enters screen
Ã,  character[GetPlayerCharacter()].x=350;Ã,  //charac start at x350
Ã,  character[GetPlayerCharacter()].y=120;Ã,  //charac start at y120
Ã,  MoveCharacterBlocking(GetPlayerCharacter(),160,120,1);Ã,  //let character walk on screen
Ã,  FaceLocation(GetPlayerCharacter(),160,1000);Ã,  //face screen
Ã,  DisplaySpeech(GetPlayerCharacter(),"I'm here to infotain you.");Ã,  //character says something
Ã,  MoveCharacterBlocking(GetPlayerCharacter(),20,120,1);Ã,  //character walks to the left
Ã,  DisplaySpeech(GetPlayerCharacter(),"Oh, I can't go this way.");Ã,  //say something
Ã,  DisplaySpeechBackground(GetPlayerCharacter(),"Then I'll go that way.");Ã,  //talk while walking
Ã,  MoveCharacterBlocking(GetPlayerCharacter(),160,120,1);Ã,  //walk
Ã,  MoveCharacterBlocking(GetPlayerCharacter(),160,250,1);Ã,  //walk of screen

Try to explain what you want to do in the intro.

To save bits and webspace I have seperated the music files from the game.
Instead of making a music pack I have choosen to let the player download some mp3 files from a free music server. This way my website isn't overloaded and dial-up users can choose if they want to download music.

The problem is that one of the mp3 file strings is to big (25 char) and AGS crashes. I tried ~ but that doesn't work I think.
I can't rename the mp3 file because every player has to rename it, and that's not user friendly. I also can't rename the mp3 file on the server because it isn't mine.

xerxes-the_day_we_met.mp3Ã,  Ã,  Ã, <- filename
xerxes-the_day~.mp3Ã,  <- am I doing this wrong?

all the mp3 files begin with xerxes-

The best marketing is to have your game be reviewed in a magazine or placed on a demo cd. This way other people make money but you get fame.
Also sequals is a good way to get players to your wedsites. When I played Crown Of Gold by Helm, I visited his website every time I could. To see if the sequal was out. (I didn't had internet at home back then and the sequal has never come)


I red an old article about how to distribute your homemade games.

You could contact a publisher but they don't want to take ANY risks* and still want all the royalties.
You could upload your game to BBS servers (that's how old the article was).
Or you could telemarket your game by publishing it on demo cds. This is how Doom got big. The first 1/3 part is free but the last 2/3 comes with a price. This made John Romero a millionair (and then he made a shitty game. Gone reputation).

*(give money away)

I think this is a bit of a one player party game. Fun when you're drunk alone, but has nothing to do with adventure elements like solving puzzles and an interesting story.

I think this game is like Conker's bad furday. I loved it, but the sales were below expectations for a Rare game.

Still, I'll buy it.

I wish Al Lowe would make an amateur freeware LSL Lust in space. But since he doesn't have the rights to Larry, this would be a legal deathtrap.

What's a yatch?
Ah! that's a YATCH!

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Tribal icon.

next, things that make you go hmm.

Cool. Lost of  blood!.

Are you planning it in german or english?

to get the active inventory in the black screen read the manual under Inventory.

The default option is the Sierra-style pop-up inventory window, which is popped up by clicking on the Bag icon on the icon bar (which uses the text script InventoryScreen function to display it). You can also have the current inventory item displayed in its own button on the icon bar by creating a button on the GUI and setting its text to (INV) which stretches the item picture to the button size, or (INVNS) which draws the inventory item picture straight onto the button with no resizing. Finally, (INVSHR) , probably the best option, will draw it at actual size if it will fit, or shrink it if not.

Lots of people (including me) forget this.

http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?topic=14453.0
this might help.