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I have printed your stories out using company resources and look forward to reading them on my tedious train journey home.

I'm just curious, so I'll ask here fellow AGSers (especially native English speakers).

How do you pronounce UFO?
1. Just spell out: U-F-O
2. Yu-Fo
3. Others.

People here always use 1, but in some places like Japan and Taiwan they prefer 2. I just want to know how westerners in general pronounce the term.

It's 1.. You Eff Oh

Incidentally, in China, unidentified flying objects are also called You Eff Oh's.

Also, curiously, the central business district is called the See Bee Dee.

An attempt at another Forum member.

I reckon it might be icey.

My ~ 1.5 yr old girl plays angry birds like a pro!

I thought I would need to cancel my account once my daughter arrives and you guys even manage to release games.

Yeah, I thought the same thing. But AGS seems compatible to a certain extent.

I've raised 2 kids and am now raising a third.....

Miguel, I knew you had the younger child, but not two others in their late teens! You obviously started early. Was there some scare campaign threatening testicle removal if you didn't procreate pronto?

Fantastic!



This is going straight to the pool room!

Just a few years ago, I had a handful of RAM ghosts floating around. But they're slowly being exhumed, or reincarnated, or something.

Except for this one..



No, not this one. Too many painful memories.

[Best Character:]

Best Character: kconan (for his Alrick character)
Best Plot: Sinitrena (the best plot twist)
Best Homosphere: TheTelephone (felt the most like a Zoo)
Best Word Choice/Style: Durinde, TheTelephone
Best Use of Theme: TheTelephone (The nature of humanity in close confines.. apathetic. Just like my train ride home today.)

What was I like in high school? ... An awkward teenager.

Now? ... Still an awkward teenager. But I'll grow up one day!   

Comedy Quest - downloaded a few months ago but just got round to playing it now. Rated & comment added.

Shitty Quest - played last year. Rated & comment added.

Both awesome games!

[PLANET OF THE CREPES]

My entry is complete! Just in the nick of time! Phew! This writing business is hard! I felt this piece was harder to write than the last one, but maybe it's just because the moon's in Aquarius or something and it's not a particularly creative time. Anyway, it's done! Here it is..

PLANET OF THE CREPES

(Ha! Just thought of this title now, because the story involves pancakes! But a quick Google search shows it has been thought of before, as I suspected. It's a business name for a mobile creperi in Arizona!)

Alternative title:

TO ERR IS HUMANARIUM

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Zarly looked drearily out the porthole of her room, watching the blue-green dust storm whoosh by. Her six tentacles beat a frustrated rhythm on the floor while her antennae twitched idly. Her small blue-green face glumly turned to her homework assignment. She had barely started her creative writing piece on Plutonian poetry.

As Zarly let out a gurgling sigh, her father squelched into the room.

“What's the matter honey? Why so glum?” asked Dad.

“Oh Dad. It's just this creative writing piece. I can't think of anything to write.”

Dad let out a hearty Plutonian chuckle.

“Oh ho ho. Do not worry, young Zarly. You just need to find some inspiration.”

Zarly looked out the porthole again, uninspired.

“Where?” she said forlornly.

Dad pondered this for a moment.

“I suggest you visit the new Humanarium in Sector 424B. I've heard that humans are a pretty creative bunch. You should check them out for some inspiration.”

Zarly vaguely remembered reading about the humans; a relatively bright species that peaked around the 21st century and then quickly descended into chaotic stupidity and near extinction.

“Oh, alright,” she said reluctantly. “I guess that's an idea.”

“Excellent. Off you go then,” said Dad, dismissing Zarly with a wave of his tentacle. “And have fun.”

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The automatic doors whizzed open to the bright plastic world of Sector 424B. Zarly squelched past the assorted exhibits, in awe of the plethora of weird and wonderful creatures. A few burly scruffosaurus slowly plodded circles in their artificial swamp exhibit, and a herd of web-footed wildebeests danced a merry jig in another. Perhaps this wasn't such a bad idea after all, she thought.

Zarly arrived at the human exhibit. She pressed her button nose against the transparent divider to see into the display. It was basically an open plan living-room with an old couch and TV positioned centrally and a small kitchen annex in the corner. A doorway at the rear presumably led to the toilet facilities. The room was in disarray with old clothes and food scraps strewn about as well as other miscellaneous objects including a traffic cone and shopping trolley. There were apparently no humans present.

“Oh, zookeeper!” Zarly cried.

A nearby zoo employee scooted over.

“Yes?”

“Where are all the humans?”

The zookeeper craned his extendable eye to scan the interior of the exhibit, and then glanced at his watch.

“It's approaching noon. They should be up soon.”

As if on cue, a face as hairy as a scruffosaurus suddenly appeared on the other side of the dividing screen and made Zarly jump with surprise. The hairy face smacked its lips and blinked, apparently trying to regain focus. It bellowed an enchanting grunt and muttered something in Human:

“Ohhhhhh… What a night! Never again…”

The face sank below the bottom of the screen and moments later its associated body could be seen crawling sluggishly towards the couch.

Another human emerged from behind the kitchen bench in a similar display of zombie-like awakening. This human was also hairy but the hair was longer, blond, and draped from its head in a tattered mess.

“I'm making pancakes,” she announced. “Who want's pancakes?”

A hurling noise was audible from the room at the rear and moments later a third, lanky figure appeared at the doorway. He was wearing a toga.

“Pancakes sounds good.”

The hairy human had finally crawled to his destination and retrieved a game controller from the floor before awkwardly pulling himself up onto the couch. He let out a rumbling burp, indicating his approval for pancakes.

The lanky toga wearing human staggered over to the couch to join the hairy one, tripping over the traffic cone in the process. He located a second game controller and plonked himself down onto the couch. Their video game was un-paused and the two stared hypnotically at the TV screen while mashing keys on their controllers.

The female human brought over pancakes and dumped them into the males' laps.

“Sorry, boys. There are no clean plates. Bon appetit!”

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Zarly gawked at the squalid scene in disbelief.

“Is this all they do?” she asked.

“Yep. That's it,” replied the zookeeper. “This is fairly typical morning, err, midday behaviour.”

“I thought humans were supposed to be creative and inspirational,” Zarly complained.

The zookeeper scratched his head and adjusted his antennae.

“Oh, you want inspiration? In that case, don't bother with this lot; they've passed their used-by date. If you want inspiration then there's some fluorescent fungus down that way,” he said, pointing in the direction.

Zarly's little blue-green face lit up. “Of course! I'll go check them out now. Thank-you sir.”

“Don't mention it,” he replied.

As Zarly squelched off to the next exhibit, the zookeeper turned again to look at the humans. He had a bit of a soft-spot for them.

“Beautiful creatures,” he mused. “Thick and inspiring as scruffosaurus shit, but beautiful.”

PM sent..

I'll try to loose the Aussie accent.

Done. I was about to put $0 for annual expenditure on games but then recalled paying some amount for the recent AGS bake sale. I vaguely remember it was around $5 or something. I'm ashamed I didn't pay more.

[The Great and Powerful Wizard has spoken!]

Gibbler, please specify ONE name at a time.

The Great and Powerful Wizard has spoken!

But on the other hand, you don't have to take crap like that Gribbler man. You own this game!

[PETS by PORNO FOR PYROS]

Reminds me of this song:

PETS by PORNO FOR PYROS

I really enjoyed the last writing comp so might have a stab at this one too.

1. Tabby
2. Hobo
3. Siliconangel

Next: Crimson Wizard confronts his arch nemesis.

Hi SilverSpook.

It looks like you've painted this and then taken a photograph? The first picture looks blurry, presumably due to a poor photograph? The colours look too dull for my liking. And the detail needs to be sharper. The building sizes are inconsistent in terms of ordering. The central building is too big where it currently sits in the middle and should be brought to the foreground. The smallest buildings naturally go to the back, and medium size buildings in-between.

I like your second picture, although it's not the style you're trying to achieve. The contrast of the silhouette buildings against the bright skyline colours is more pleasing to the eye. Try to adopt this technique in your first picture.

The woman looks sexy. Good work! I prefer her wearing blue. 

[AGS ANTHEMS]

Listen up, boys and girls!

Presenting..

AGS ANTHEMS





It's the ultimate soundtrack to the rhythmic engine-room that is AGS and its posse of developers. Songs chosen by AGSers for AGSers. It's hip and cool and sexy, and not even remotely daggy! Play it in your car and pump up the volume! Pretend its the 90's and listen to it on your potable CD player while jogging! Or simply enjoy (on a continuous loop) while whittling away the hours working on a game!

DOWNLOAD your copy now!!!

Congrats to everyone! I enjoyed reading your stories and I had fun writing mine. I surprised myself. I thought I was only capable of writing dull engineering reports and half-baked adventure game dialog. And I even got thrown a few votes! Cheers guys!