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Maybe it would be an idea to start a thread where AGS’ers could share job leads that cross their path? I see UAE-based jobs pop up here from time to time that I could pass on.

Wait, what the hell?! 

I will~ thanks very much for the recommendation. Random: are living in Taiwan?

Kyriakos - oh yeah, I should have listed that, too. I finished the game as a kid (with the help of a tutorial I found online), and I think there may have been a bit of dust in my eye when they sailed off on the back of that dragon-thing in the end. 

Mandle - I remember the days when you couldn't open a gaming mag without seeing an ad for Unreal. I never played it, but it sounds like it must have been an early mover in the modding world.

Stupot - Alright, I've heard enough about FF7 ~ I got to try this! Looks like it has a Steam version, so maybe I'll finally have the experience for myself. Thanks for the recommendation. Yes, my brother and I played Ocarina of Time, too. Like you said, games will resonate in different ways depending on when you play them, so I think I sort of missed the boat on this one as I was transitioning to university at the time and was having deep and lasting emotional experiences outside of gaming, but I could totally see how this title would end up on someone's shortlist.

Olleh - If I had a dollar for every time someone told me Resident Evil made them 'sh*t their pants', I'd have around, well, maybe 8 bucks or so (but that's seriously high on pants sh*tting scale! ) I've only sat in on friends playing it, so I barely remember anything from the games. Never played them myself.

FormosaFalanstar - I've never heard of those, but my wife is a Mainlander so we're familiar with the Water Margin story (I'm just reading in the Wiki that the game is based on this story). Thanks for sharing ~ I'll check it out.

I’m interested to hear about games that deeply resonated with AGS members and/or provided them with what might be described an almost spiritual or deeply emotional experience. I don’t think this necessarily is the same thing as a ‘favourite game’. I’m more interested to hear about a gaming experience that deeply connected with you in some way, regardless of whether you think the game, as a game, was good or bad.

In my own case, and I’m aware this is a bit cliche, I’d have to say the Minecraft demo, where you essentially have five ‘days’ to build a little shelter and explore/carry out simple errands before the narrator announces you last day as you watch the sunrise. The whole thing opens some sort of emotional connection to the tree fort building days of my childhood, especially when you can do things in the game like build a little shelter and then rest in it and watch the afternoon clouds float by from you window, then swim way out in the water and look back at your shelter as the sun sets.

I also found the plot and character depth of Lisa: The Painful to be something I will never forget. I’m really not crazy about the game, but the way it grapples with the subject of redemption, and the truly tormented, self-loathing protagonist is really unique compared to anything I’ve seen elsewhere.

Finally, I’d list Fez only because I got so invested in the Phil Fish drama long before I ever played the game (the game is excellent, btw). I got to have this very meta experience while playing such a great game which was deeply enjoyable in some weird way I have not encountered with other titles.

How about you? Are there games you would say changed your life?

Is that movie any good? I like Lisa Kudrow in other stuff.

Alright new one coming soon...

I never saw it, but I think the screencap was in the preview. “Well we’re not the ones who got pregnant.”

Something like Romi and Michelle’s high school reunion?

I’m also looking for professional options, and have been trying to find online networking options. I came across meetcafecito.com, but it’s mostly tech industry.

Can you share another screenshot?

High school reunion?

The cages on the northern gate of the city are the last place any thief would want to end up in. The gate just leads to the forest and the charcoal burners hut (and maybe one or two bands of robbers have their hideout here too), so this seems to be the ideal place to get rid of the city's trash. The rubbish heap is filled with all kinds of domestic waste, including, but not limited to, rotting food. It smells abysmally here. Nobody knows why a farmer decided to store his pile of straw here.

That's a really nice entry! Question: what brush effect are you using on the tree trunks? I have seen this used in other submissions, and I think it looks cool.

I'm drawing a blank. Is this a crushed robot on the left? And a parachute on the right?

Oh I thought the style looked similar to the chunky EGA graphics of SQ3. (I'm not suggesting my skill is anywhere near that! Just thought the thick outlines and limited spectrum sort of looked like it.)

Yes, a crushed robot. The 'parachute' is supposed to be some sort of glistening chemical pool that's draining into an open sewer. I'll keep practising in upcoming blitzes. I was kind of going for a junkyard from the future or from another planet.

Interesting track, Galen. Don’t think I could listen to that upsetting story more than once, though!

(Btw I thought a painting of an A-hole would be too obvious. ) Your go!

Yep that’s it. I love that movie. The cast is great, but Schwartzman really makes that movie.

No to both

That’s a good guess, but no.