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I sucked at drawing whether on the computer or on paper(my entry into the last sprite jam was probably a huge embarrassment but at least it looked like what it was, an axe.) How about instead of a beginner's bmags, a beginners sprite jam because the last one was one of the easiest I have seen for ages and that's why I felt I could at least enter. Or optionally you could have both.

A beginner's sprite jam could have both a slightly longer time limit but as the quality of the graphics of the main reasons for choosing winners, beginner's, like me could submit not so brilliant sprite without concern that theirs would be the worse and it'd encourage beginner's to improve their sprite drawing skills, eventually they'd like to move up to the regular one in most cases. In addition to this the specifications for the sprite jam could be simpler things to draw than the usual sprite jam ones, the most current one was an excellent example but many more can be thought of if you try.

I realise some may perceive this as a possible hijacking of this thread and that I have hostile intentions, in that I squash the authors idea in order to get mine chose. This is mostly untrue. While I think my idea is better I support the idea of beginner's areas for most competitions here and bmag is one that I would support. I'd just like to see sprite jam get a similar deal. Having beginner's competitions, spin offs of the main ones is a great way of getting people who have little drawing/audio making, etc. experience to give it a try, when before they might have usually decided not to due to the great ability of the people entering the normal comps. Also this could very well lead to them gaining interest in continuing to practice whatever form of creativity they enter a beginner's competition for and then perhaps eventually if they stick with it they may even one day be good enough to win a prize in the normal comps.

After all these activities are supposed designed to"Practice your art, music, writing and game making skills in the forum competitions." and most of the people who enter these comps from what I've seen need little practice in certain areas, whereas beginner's need lots.

[Inventory]

On General Settings, look for Inventory and set "Use selected inventory graphic for cursor" to false.

I tried this but it affect every inventory item, I just want to pick and choose what ones have the same or similar effect, is that even possible. If not, whenever a inventory item can't be used for anything but reference I'll merely attach a message to the bottom of what it says when the player chooses to look at the item.

Is there any way to de-activate the use button for an inventory item or simply not allow them to use it. For example one of my inventory items is just meant to be looked at for reference as it contains information they'll need or might not need to use in the game but that's about it.

I decided to post this as a possible bug after starting this topic
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=34204.0

The topic should read
-10 line(possible bug), could someone please change that for me?

Code: ags

function paper_Look()
{
DisplayMessage(0);
if (Game.DoOnceOnly("player name"))
  {
    ShowScore(2);
  }
}

You're missing one } there, behind ShowScore(2);
Hey, the error message says line -10? That looks like a bug.

Thanks, that fixed it up. Do you think I should report the -10 thing as a bug?

One of my room scripts is showing this error and upon checking my code I don't understand what to do to fix it.

Code: ags

// room script file

function painting_Look()
  {
    character[0].FaceLocation(0, 0);
    DisplayMessage(3);
  }

function Notepad_Look()
{
  DisplayMessage(11);
}

function windows_Look()
{
  DisplayMessage(5);
  if (Game.DoOnceOnly("bedroom windows"))
  {
    ShowScore(1);
  }
}

function Notepad_PickUp()
{
DisplayMessage(12);
if (Game.DoOnceOnly("take first page of notepad"))
  {
    ShowScore(4);
  }
}


function paper_Look()
{
DisplayMessage(0);
if (Game.DoOnceOnly("player name"))
  {
    ShowScore(2);
}

Lol Domino!  You and the outer space creatures.  You did the 'creature from space' in the last coloring ball too.  Lol  He looks like Homer

Alright I'll take a good look at this silhouette and try to come up with something.

Actually I think it looks more like Grandpa from "The Simpsons" than Homer.

I can't draw for well you know, so this image is rather lame but I thought I'd at least contribute because I've wanted to enter one of these activites for a little while now.



It's just an axe, simply use it to chop your way through the door(saying "here's Johhny" is optional!

The image slot looks a little incorrect because my copy and paste didn't go as well as I thought but it's not intentional!

I had to delete something like 20 "hahaha, it's April Fool's!!!" posts from this thread. Why do people feel the need to spoil a good thing? Next time, either play along, or shut up!

Eh... if you deleted them, how could we know before posting any new message?

I think the point is not to do it at all.

But he didn't advise us. The first instinct of the majority of the people that read through the thread will be post ''first april lol'' specially because these kind of ''play along'' jokes don't translate well to Internet forums.

That makes no sense, how can he advise you of something that is supposed to be a joke to  fool others!

I had to delete something like 20 "hahaha, it's April Fool's!!!" posts from this thread. Why do people feel the need to spoil a good thing? Next time, either play along, or shut up!

Eh... if you deleted them, how could we know before posting any new message?

I think the point is not to do it at all.

I'm pretty much over it.

It doesn't matter, I'm over it.

IMO it was way too obvious.

You pulled the exact same prank last year.

I admit, you went to more trouble this year, but next yearm i think your going to need to be more original

Well I agree and not because I was whining about the joke, because maybe something about CJ being arrested or that he's being sued(I'm not saying this as because I don't like him but it would be really different and people would be more likely to fall for it, especially if you create a whole, official looking online newspaper page to support the joke).

There was nothing cruel about this joke.

You had people panicking about whether they could continue to even use AGS anymore, how is that not cruel? Yeah you probably think people like me that fell for it are morons but us morons have feelings.

Well I didn't sign up to try and let people know it was a joke(oh and I didn't know work it out at first) but frankly it was not funny and don't you guys care that there were actually people that were sucked in and really worried about this, or do you find that funny too? Stop going overboard with the jokes, the Playstation one was funny but freaking people out isn't!

it's a joke, right? Today it's April 1st... (aka April Fools' Day) 

Yes, congratulations. I guess it's past midday in most of the world now so the joke is probably over. Thanks to everyone who played along, and a big  to those people who inevitably felt the need to post "it's an april fool" to try and ruin the fun for everyone else.

I've now reverted the website back to its usual self.

Well I'm glad CJ isn't sticking it to people and I don't think Lemmy101 meant mostly what they said that I replied to them with that sticking it to people bit. OK, I was fooled but this was a cruel joke, seriously guys next time try to make the jokes a bit less cruel, yeah some of you guys that figured it out earlier thought reactions like mine were funny but there's a lot of people that aren't familiar with this board's yearly joke tradition and some times you can go too far with these things!

And ruin the fun, it wasn't fun, it was overboard, I was glad people were posting that it was a joke to put people's mind's at rest because it was not a funny joke at all!

what evidence?

Never mind, I know think it may be a joke, the temp homepage is only to be used for 24 hours, there's no downloads to any new engine and no mods have confirmed its true.

Some people still seem to think this is an April fools joke but I think they need to look at the evidence and realise it's probably not.

Basically for AGS to run in the future you will need to download, run install and subsequently delete anything that is listed on the AGS site

And how do you know this?

I talked to one of the beta testers.

Miez: did you phone tech support? I usually find them most helpful!

So then it's probably true that any games made with AGS(the latest version before the unbranded one comes out) will no longer be able to be distributed, nor will any games made with AGS and that the AGS 3 engine is basically history?

Basically for AGS to run in the future you will need to download, run install and subsequently delete anything that is listed on the AGS site

And how do you know this?