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Thank you for the comments, people.

When and if my laptop feels like it, I'll add more rooms and points.

'Footprint' is not addressed to people who think jeeps are the best choice for city centers.
But it won't appeal to fanatic environmentalists, either.


Jane believes Nature can heal herself for ever. Maple comes in her life to burst her bubble and make her see the wounds people left on Earth. He will try to put the right ideas in Jane's head without her feeling under pressure.

I made Jane completely ignorant, because there are too many people who know nothing about preservation. I made Mr Maple a bit lazy, soft and forgiving because I'm not a very decisive environmentalist myself. I don't think meat eaters are as dangerous as car exhaustions.


Estimated release date: May 2467 

It may end up boring, but I have to try 

I'm not sure everybody is aware of environmental problems, though, or they don't think they are important enough.

Dualnames,

I didn't understand if it's boring as a game or just because it's kind of educational.

If it's about the story and backgrounds, I recognise it's still lacking, but I'm working on it .


PS. It's not addressed to environmnenalists, but to people who think it takes enormous efforts to reduce some waste or replace energy devouring appliances and fear they'll have to change their lives completely.
(mayby I should add this to the description)



Auriond,

I don't know when it's going to be completed, my computer is not fully cooperating.

I have no idea.

I know what the 100 things are but I'm lazy with backgrounds.

[July 07 update]

July 07 update
More rooms, 17/100 points, more of the story, still unfinished.
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This is a small demo of "Footprint", a game that will contain the most basic things (in my opinion) the average person can do to protect the environment.

It's not addressed to environmnenalists, but to people who think it takes enormous efforts to reduce some waste or replace energy devouring appliances and fear they'll have to change their lives completely.

At the moment we have only 9/100, but you get to know  the cast

Maybe it is a computer issue indeed, then. I'll switch laptops and see what happens.
Thanks.

An exception 0xC0000005 occured in AGSEDIT.EXE at EIP = 0x7C911010qACI version 2.72.652 while saving the room.

There's also an error I can't reproduce at the moment, saying that if I have installed it from a cd I might not have rights to the file, so I deleted all things AGS and redownloaded everything, new plugins and all, but it still does it.

AGS editor asks for sql desktop installer when I try to run it on my laptop (win xp). The times I manage to run it, it won't let me save rooms and says I don't have rights to write to the file or that it can't find rooms or  something.
If it's just hardware issues, sorry for bothering you.

Crete is Crete and Mani is Mani. Exceptions. But I do agree it's not just gun control on its own that does anything.

Quite big exeptions, compared to the total population and surface, I think.
Anyway, my point was that laws can't beat tradition.

You have to know that you would use your gun, or the person that threatens you will know you can't  and owning a gun will be kind of pointless. I hate the idea of having one at home, because I'm sure I'd shoot the wrong person or myself. Or I'd freeze and faint, most probably. This is why I don't own a gun.  I'm also afraid that  a burglar might never think that my furniture is worth an arrest so they'll never show up to take it. But my catching my boyfriend/husband in bed with someone else might make me take this gun and shoot them both. Or that my kids will find the gun and kill each other. Or that I feel so stressed at work that I'll blow my brains instead of having a hot bath. In any case, a handy firearm is a bad thing and the possibility to use it by mistake or while in anger is very possible. I'm not sure if I'd use a knife or something because I'd have to be strong, but guns don't require any extra effort.

Somebody said something about strict gun controls in Greece. I'm still laughing (Criti, Mani, vendetta...should I continue?)
Gun control on its own wouldn't solve the problem, because everybody can find everything in the black market. There's no law that could stop the gangs from getting a weapon.

I like it because it feels more like a game than a grammar test.   People will learn or refresh vocabulary without noticing it.  Maybe you could add some extra story, the crew's backgrounds or the hero's opinion about them during the game (which will get you more words and phrases).  Nice graphics, too.

Sorry I can't help with possible grammar mistakes, I'll leave that to the native speakers.

It depends on the students level, really.
Mature students could enjoy a game based on authentic texts: puzzles based on books they read or on films they see, quests where they'll need to interpete the clues correctly (double meaning or different uses of prepositions)... I'm working on a mystery story solved using ten specific internet pages  people will get redirected to (within the same, controlled website, of course, since it's for students)
For kids, familiar grammar and vocabulary exercises are more beneficial, though.

PS. cp didn't abandon the french project. Yet. 

Lovely backgrounds, I think you should use them, too bad to waste them like that.

There was a period that both bloggers existed, now google has moved everything to the new. Almost everybody has had problems. It should let yu log in in your old one, but only once. Maybe you logged  in and now it goes immediately to the new one without notice.
Either switch to the new one immediately, or move to some other platform.

Thanks CP for trying to help. I found the Chinese map but can't figure what to do next. I supposed to find a chinese moon I guess but I cannot go outside of the house. Any hints?

Spoiler

Go to the game's map and visit the new location. After you talk to the woman at the cinema, the game takes you to another location

[close]

Never mind, I figured the desert scene out. Now I don't know what to do since I returned.

[I gave Jack the burger but what do I do now/]

Spoiler

He mentions a book. Look at the bookcase and "open" the book. Look in it and take what's inside. Then go to the map.

[close]

Well, 'cause frankly, after playing the first one, now I'd like to play Fluffy Bunny Buddies in the land of Much Candy (the kid's version, to clarify)!

That's very brave! Me, I play nothing but Mahjong now.

I liked  Prodigal. It was not scary as in "horror scary" but there was tension, a constant feeling of threat and I wanted to get out of there "now!"

Asking for the members with children 5 days without them (in 5 years!) is not much, IMHO.

Yes, but not all parents are THAT comfortable with leaving their children at home and worrying about their safety. Or should one parent stay at home while teh otehr is abroad on holidays.
I though the idea was to go somewhere and people with children would be somewhere nearby. I can't see my self baby-sitting or watching a toddler making sprites :. Still, they could come and live nearby. I could spend a couple of hours TOTALÃ,  in the families company, or else AGS would seem exclusive. But judging from the growing numbers of the attendees, separate meeting might be a reality befor we know it.

........ And everything else, saying that "we want to freeze the time", "we are exlusive" and "we life in bubbles" is a correct dialectic tactic, but is still uncorrect (bullshit, in common lenguajeÃ,  ), because that's not what we are discussing. Sorry.

I said "would you rather..blah blah freeze time, would you rather trap AGS in a time bubble" meaning that it's not what you re actually doing, thatÃ,  you don't want to freeze time etc etc

I didn't assume you haven't done any sightseeing, I said I'd do too much of it, more than it's normal on holidays. I meant I would spend too much time away from the group which I'd be supposed to hang out with. Even my friends are not happy about this habit of mine, let alone the strangers.

It was more about "things unrelated to AGS that you do during mittens".  I believe you all do such things during mittens and I wanted to stress that fact and that it's not a problem for people which means many different people can attend.

I'm in this forum. I'm not an internet drunk nerd. Why would I assume that you are?

I didn't say anyone prohibited anything. I think I said "different " gatherings.

Both meetings together wouldn't work, especially at one house, but two different meetings at the same region with overlapping schedules some of the time could. I couldn't be near kids, because I'd have to watch my mouth and it would feel like office hours etc. I wouldn't like it, but I could live with it for a couple of hours if it could help some people meet others.

I don't expect anyone to be able to attend mittens. Some people can't afford it, some people work at the time of the meeting, some people fall ill and there are one milion other things that can get in the way. I didn't even make it to the mittens in Greece. How's that for forward planning?  :

While reading all post mittens, next mittens and family mittens threads, I had the impression that it excludes some people. It must be the way some phrases were written.  My mistake.
I have to believe you since you were there and I wasn't. It was just an impression. Sorry if I misunderstood the meaning of those threads.