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I'm in, if you handover the keys to the blog. Man, wouldn't this be the perfect oppurtunity, if I wasn't working, going to uni, having the MAGS, being part of two (possible three projects), having a life, had a girlfriend, almost hosted the Forego's..And having to administer 3 sites.

Stop being so lazy.

-Bill

#1, 100%

Sounds like it would be a really cool game.  The others were kind of "meh" in my opinion.


-Bill

Uhm, you have 2 posts.

The 1st post you made was in July of 2008, asking essentially the exact same thing...  Francisco (the creator of the games) even told you that it didn't have voice acting..

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=35030.msg458571#msg458571

What gives?

-Bill

Well, to be honest Francisco, you're kind of my idol when it comes to AGS (you were totally the inspiration for me getting into this), and if 2.72 is good enough for Ben Jordan then it is good enough for me 

-Bill

Very cool, Steve!

PM incoming, I tried it but 1/2 the screen is taken up by the effect, even the dry land.

Thanks!

-Bill

I ask because I use and make all my games with 2.72.  I like the GUI, functionality and stuff better than the newer versions.  Maybe I will get around to learning the new system eventually, but for now, I like my old-school version

-Bill

I agree with Mods.  I am not a fan of the comics, but my brother is a big fan.  We watched it at his place when it came out on DVD and he pointed out a LOT of little things I would have missed not being a fan of the books.  He was nerd-gasming about like I would be if they made movies from the Riftwar, Fire & Ice or Amber series of books    

It was a really good movie, and Robert Downey Jr. is an amazing actor when he is off the drugs.

-Bill

OMG rehash of a 5-year-old thread!!

IN BEFORE THE LOCK!!!



-Bill

A good thing (in my opinion) is to start with the originals..  The classics..  Police Quest, Kings Quest, etc.  The old Sierra games.  People have done remakes of a few King's Quest games, a few Space Quest games and Quest For Glory 2. 

-Bill

Screw it.  I'm moving.  Any room in Europe?

I guess it is a good thing that nobody I know believes in that trash.  That is just way to freaking high of a percentage.

-Bill

Oh my...   :o

That is an amazing water effect.

I will see if paint.net is capable of doing something like that.  I found one tutorial which basically made the water look like strange swirls..  Not water, but better than nothing.

I will see if I can replicate this in paint.net

Thanks!

-Bill

That is not true, not at all.  There are many differnet TYPES of beliefs regarding evolution vs creationism.  Hell, I found 3 different poll/studies from 3 different (news) sources within 10 minutes which go against the numbers you are stating:

CBS News : http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/22/opinion/polls/main965223.shtml

51% say we Evolved, but God guided the process
30% say we Evolved, but God did NOT guide the process
15% say it was Creationism, and NOT evolution.

81% belief in Evolution,  that is a far cry from the numbers you listed.


Here is another one..

Gallup Poll for Darwin's birthday : http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/02/11/gallup-darwins-birthday-poll-fewer-than-four-in-ten-believe-in-evolution.html

Basically saying education plays a big role in this.  Idiots with lots of religion play into the belief system, while 70+% with college graduate degrees believe in evolution.   This one says 39 percent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution.  25% say they don't believe in evolution, and 36% say they have no opinion.



And the third one:

National Geographic : http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060810-evolution.html

Basically saying Americans are less likely than other Western nations to believe in evolution.  The numbers given though are 25% of Americans rejecting evolution, versis 7% in GBR and 15% in the Netherlands.  


So the numbers here are higher than Europe, but by no means 50%.  I think it again goes into the theory that many Europeans have a negative stereotype of Americans being bumbling, bible thumping idiots.  Sure, some are, but that is the way in every country (as was established earlier).


**EDIT:  And I am allowed to hijack this thread, since I started it lol**

-Bill

Here are some of the popular ones, at least here in America where we recognize that commercialism is the true point of Christmas, and not that pesky Jesus' birthday stuff..   :

1) The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
2) A Christmas Story (AWESOME movie, a must see, so funny)
3) Santa Claus Is Coming To Down
4) The Life and Times of Santa Claus (by Roald Dahl, kind of morbid and dark)
5) Frosty the Snowman
6) The Night Before Christmas
7) A Christmas Carol
8 ) Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer

And others..

**Edited because my #8 above turned into a smiley


-Bill

[Calin:]

Wow this thread has blown up..  Several things I want to respond to:

Calin: The evolution thing, and the "American Denial" is just ridiculous.  It is not the nationality, it isn't even a majority of our nation that believes that.  It is the super-religious zealots who are so caught up in their religion that they have no conception of science.  I seriously hope you don't believe that 50% of Americans believe this.

Stupot / Others: Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammar) is just well spoken.  Like Ponch mentioned, his accent is learned/acted, it isn't natural.  It is the 1950s/1960s high-society accent that used to be spoken here (think of the Millionaire character on the TV show Gilligan's Island).  If you hear him talk in real life, he sounds like an average Joe.  I live in the mid/north-atlantic (right outside Washington, D.C.), and we don't speak like that   I would think most Americans think that type of speaking sounds old-timey and out dated, maybe even weird.

Stupot: Canadians do sound differently than Americans.  They tend to draw out their OO sounds.  The word "About" is perfect as an example.  Americans pronounce it "Abowt", but canadians generally pronounce it "Aboot".  See the South Park movie for further examples

Bedminster: The New York accent isn't all of New York.  There are separate, extremely "thick" or "strong" accents in several regions of New York.  There is the Long Island accent, the Manhattan accent, and a few others.  Then there is New Jersey... Don't even get me started on New Jersey

Most of America (Florida and California for example) have the same accent.  In my personal opinion, the majority of places where the accent is non-standard are those which were rural for many many years before seeing migrants, and those which were the settling points for colonists from England back in the 1700s.  Places like Boston and New York have very distinct and very pronounced accents as compared to other eastern coast states here.  Places like Alabama and Georgia have southern accents, but those were more isolated for a longer period of time.  Again, just my opinion.

-Bill

I will work on the rest of the image, and then re-post for help

Art isn't my strongest point, sorry for the confusion lol

-Bill

I am working on one of the backgrounds for Murran 3 and ran into a bit of a snag...

I realized after I began that I have absolutely no experience (and idea) how to do a large-ish body of water (I use paint.net).


**EDIT**

After the comments below I went back and filled in the background with the items needed for perspective.  This is my initial draft, and lots of finishing will go in, but you can see the shapes, shading and grass layout along with the shore of the pond.

I tried the idea of a water texture with the gradient blue over it, but it didn't look right.  I dislike the solid blue, but don't really know what to do..  Maybe a blue gradient with it faded out and the "bottom" of the pond beneath it?

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.




Thanks in advance,

Bill

I am amazed at how many people like the character to reflect on things, or to use a method other than the popup text boxes that I am accustomed to (and use).

-Bill

I much prefer the text-box narrator style method.

No real heavy-duty reasons, I just do

-Bill

Get a Mr. Fusion.  Then you won't NEED roads!

-Bill

Oh no Monkey!  Double whammy!  

Interesting thoughts on the subject.  My wife was in Paris for a few weeks while in college and had similar problems with preceonceived stereotypes about Americans.  

I don't know which I dislike more, the fact that Europeans feel that way about us, or the fact that so many of my countrymen must have been bumbling idiots in a public way for this to have become the norm...

-Bill