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Woohoo!

Alright, sticking to my trend of cheesy 80s movies that I loved when I was a kid.



Good luck!

-Bill

BAAHHH!!!  WHAAAAAT?!!?!?


lol I thought about it for a second and realized I was a movie off....

I believe that's actually him in King Kong...  With the nasty beard and the jacket...  yeah...

-Bill

It's STAR MAN!!!!

I LOVED that movie back in the day.  

**edit - Haven't seen it in almost 20 years, so now I'm doubting it.  But I had that flash of recognition and excitement when I saw the pic.  So here's hoping **

-Bill

Aye aye captain.

Bill

I have a question:

If Dual is Kirk, SSH is Scotty, and the new guy is Bones...

Who gets to be Khan?

ProgZ? RickJ? Mods?

Can I be the rubbery reptile guy that Kirk shoots with a homemade cannon?  

Wait, I don't want to be Bones.  He whines a lot...  Can I be Spock?  Or Uhura?  Hehe.

Bill

Hi all,

Just wanted to let anyone who was interested know that I wrote my first article for the AGS blog dealing with character development, how to work on it, what to do and not to do, etc. 

If anyone was interested, it can be seen at http://ags-ssh.blogspot.com/2011/11/character-development.html

There might be a few tips you can use when developing your next game.

-Bill

Looks like Yoda and ET had a baby.

I don't know this one.

Bill

I'll only buy this if each game has a cake for an icon.

Mine will be a cake in the shape of a rotten brain.

MINE WILL FEATURE ROBO-PORN. So yeah, beat that.

Check, and mate.

(no pun intended... kinda)

-Bill

That looks so damn familiar, but for the life of me I can't place it.

Any hints?  That is gunna drive me nuts lol

-Bill

Updated main post to show:

-Additional screenshots
-Character-changing GUI
-New character sprites
-Consolidated information about the game

Thanks,

Bill

Amazing lol, thanks so much.  

I can see the blacked out icons on my laptop here.  On my PC I am using to write the game, it looked solid black...

Bill

I am working on my entry for the Bake Sale, and I noticed a weird bug..  This is my first attempt using the new AGS (all other games have been in 2.7).

When I use the save or load GUI, which is the default GUI for now, for testing purposes, the game works fine, saves, loads, etc.

Now the problem is when I close the GUI.  Whether I save/load or not, it doesn't matter.  The screen is cut.  The background vanishes about 20-30 pixels or so from the top.  The mouse can still go up over it, and be visible, and my Mouse-To-Top-Of-Screen GUI which is bigger than the black cutoff area still shows up, but only under the area which is now cut off.

I don't have any custom GUIs which would cause it.  It happens on any room I am on.

Screenshot:



Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Bill

Alrighty, well, here is one more screenie:




Googling this guy and the first one will probably give you the movie name, since I highly doubt they were ever in more than this one movie together lol

-Bill

....

What?! 

-Bill

Ooo I think I found out what movie it was. Not going to say what I believe it is as I don't have anything to post. If it is that movie, I loved it when I was a kid too.

I definitely don't remember the music though.

PM me with it if you'd like, I can verify it (or crush your hopes and dreams).

But the music / soundtrack for the movie had like 15-16 platinum artists on it all with original songs.  Amazing, amazing, amazing soundtrack.

-Bill

Yup.  It is Jeremy Piven.  But this movie came out WELL before he got famous.  It is actually older than Grosse Point Blank.  

The people in this movie, I can honestly say with the exception of the oscar winner, would now all be billed AFTER Piven in the credits.  As it is, he was a relative unknown when this movie came out.

-Bill

I recognized the chick from seeing the movie ages ago

My submission...

A movie I liked a lot when it came out (I was in high school), but the soundtrack to it got worn out to the point I had to buy a 2nd copy of the CD (this was before music downloads lol):

It has a fairly popular cast, including an oscar winner.




-Bill

Is it Legend?

-Bill

I've shortened it down to 4 total playable characters. 

Still very impressive! Do you get all four during the course of one game, or is this like Maniac Mansion where you "pick a team"?

They are all in your adventuring party.  Think along the lines of Final Fanstasy, where you are travelling in a pack.  You can select to become any of the characters at any time and use their abilities or interact with the world.  You have them all with you all the time, so no picking and choosing who is with you at any given time.

Thanks,

Bill

Glad people are liking it.

I think I was a bit too ambitious given the timeframe.  I've shortened it down to 4 total playable characters.  Who knows, if people like the story, gameplay and such, maybe eventually a Deluxe edition can be made with the original cast of characters

I think that given the point of this whole exercise, having a smaller and more polished game is a better idea than content with less time to test and fine tune it.

-Bill