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Thanks for the mouse but I still need to know hoe to make a parser. The tutorials don't seem to tell me, or did I miss something?

I'm sorry but looking around my local Game, Gamestop or Smyths (Possibly only in Ireland) I can't help but notice that the originality in games died shortly after the "new generation" of games popped in throwing the occasional Portal in to make us believe in a future for the industry.

First off there are the rubbish but "sexy" games. Whether it's Lara croft swimming around in a piece of latex or string, Nariko (Heavenly Sword) dancing in a piece of tissue or the creepy japanese hentai games. I can't help but feel that the developers just say "Well listen, we made rubbish games that luckily only last a few hours with awful gameplay, story and controls with no real emotion put into the games because we just love to dish them out to pay for our next rubbish game but don't worry, the high quality graphics mean you can see Lara's cheeks as she swims around in plastic lingerie endeangering sharks, tigers and the only living dinosaurs."

Either that or the mindless "Kill everything in the room" games where, yes, you kill everything in the room with extreme violence (ala God of war) with no real cause except the main character thinks everyone's looking at him funny. Or else the other vvariant of mindless violence wherein you play a game where you hurt people. Manhunt 2 was NOT brilliant, you could just kill people in disgusting ways. Although on my side of the globe you could staart of killing things beore the screen went all "mush peas" and just melded into a big blur where you could imagine what was going on. I spent those moments imagining I was playing a more interesting game.

And finally, sports sims. did they EVER change? Yes you can play Ronaldo in more realistic graphics each year but while graphics get the update, the |AI is the same as it was in 1999 because the game flips a coin as to whether your shot will get in or not or if you'll be tackled or if the damned enemies will just run in circles for hours. And don't worr because while last year you could play as Wayne Rooney kicking a ball up and down a pitch, this year you can do that again, but buy him into a different team  :o! Maybe if they mixed up the formulae by giving the players guns or every now and then turning them all into sheep I'd be interested but no, EA will dish out more of their series by the magic of "Copy+Paste"

Whew.

I know I posted a question a while ago but how do you put a parser into the game and get rid f the mouse curser? Thanks.

Thanks very much for that, Ghost. It's very helpful.

Hi, new to the engine, new to the forum. I was just curious on what exactly is the best program/way of making backgrounds to games. I was looking for something along the lines of Ben "Yhtzee" Croshaw's game: 5 days a stranger ( http://www.adventurelantern.com/reviews/5DaysAStranger/1.JPG )

If there's anyone out there who can possibly point me in the direction of a good, easy program or who would even be willing to draw up the backgrounds for me I would greatly appreciate it. And no, I'm not artistic.
Thanks in advance