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["1.) You should not use asylums, psychiatric institutes, medical professionals or violent/antipathic/'insane' patients as settings or triggers."]

I figured I'll just share this as I'm always angry finding out there was a gamejam with an interesting theme and I didn't know about it...
Though I fear 2 days are not quite enought to write a cool horror story and creepy characters, that's mainly what makes a horror adventure game work...



Asylum Jam is back for 2016, and we're celebrating four straight years!

This year, we'll be giving out an optional theme at the beginning of the jam period, for those of you that want an extra challenge! Stay tuned.

Asylum Jam is a 48 hour long game jam where game developers are challenged to make a horror game and explore the genre without negative mental health or medical stereotypes. This year, Asylum Jam will be taking place from November 11th to 13th for whatever 48 hour period that is most convenient for you in your timezone. The ticker here is set to 12AM GMT+13, and the jam timer has been set to cover four days (so it will encompass a two day period anywhere in the world - though please only spend 48 hours on your entry! This is a trust system.)

The challenge, as always, is to create a horror game following this one rule:

"1.) You should not use asylums, psychiatric institutes, medical professionals or violent/antipathic/'insane' patients as settings or triggers."

We've had hundreds of participants and games over the past three years - amazing procedurally generated dungeons, gorgeous visual novels and some really interesting forays into horror gaming.

If you're flying solo or want to participate in a team, the Looking for Group/Looking for More document will be up soon! Keep an eye here, or on @AsylumJam.

http://www.asylumjam.com/

I found this nice game through some clicking around and hard investigative work and the like... anyways, it is really fun!

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/659792

and someone please tell me how to continue playing when there is no ball

Now that's what I call artistic nudes:
https://www.instagram.com/daniolivier_abstract_nudes/

especially some of the bottoms are hypnotizing when moving towards the cam.
I just thought I'd share it here, so you all know what dirtysexy stuff I like when not making or playing game 

So since AGS can do 1920x1080 too now (and basically every other resolution) I'm throwing thoughts around for a project in HD and glorious 1920x1080.
Are there oldschool people around the AGS community that have graphics cards that won't even display this? Does Ponch have cowvision? Is 960x540 the better way to go and lose some details but make sure more people can play the finished game and the HD folks can just upscale to 2x resolution and have the HD?
Or rather 1440x810 (3/4 HD)? But this can't easily be upscaled to normal HD with a standard upscaling filter...

It is easy to use the automatic outline function in AGS but then the outline is always black.
I use a bitmap font, looks good with the auto-outline, can I somehow use the auto-outline to generate the already outlined font as a new font so I can then somehow set the color of the outline font?
Or if I manually paint the outline with e.g. radiants editor and import the result as a new font to AGS, set the new outlinefont as the outline of the normal font, can I set the color of this outline font somwhere? When using a textlabel I only found settings for one font and only colorsettings for one font and that is for the normal font and not the outline of course.

[Write a (more or less) short story about the opposite of Christmas.]

Yes, my thought process for the theme went exactly how you'd imagine it:
Well, it's christmas, everything is about christmas, why not have a competition about the opposite of Christmas?
But what is the opposite if Christmas?
Well, let's have the creative writers of the AGS Forums find out.

And that's why there are no pictures in this post.

Your theme for this contest is : Write a (more or less) short story about the opposite of Christmas.
No more and no less!

You have time to write your story until the 4th of January 2016.
Should be enough to sober up from eating too much and excessive new year celebrations.

Voting will happen in the following categories:
Best Protagonist: Was the porotagonist likeable? Or so unlikeable that the protagonist stands out even more?
Best Plot: What's it all about?
Best Atmosphere: Did it capture the spirit of not Christmas?
Best Writing Style: words good?
Best Worldbuilding: Is it just a glimpse into some place somewhere or did you feel like it hints at a bigger world?




< previous competition - Concrete Poetry <

yamipanda and me are still working on a bigger version of Hybrid. But as of late I can't compile the project files yami sends me.
We both use:

AGS Editor .NET (Build 3.3.4.2)
v3.3.4, July 2015

I can't even open the compiled files under win7. It just shows the round loading icon and nothing else. But in the taskmanagers processes tab it shows three 112K Hybrid.exe processes for me that I can't shut down. the files for testing: *where is it gone?  *. Please feel free to test if you can run this. please report back if you can run this, then it is my PC, or report if the same happens again. also... help please

previous BG Blitz! Big / Small        next BG Blitz! PYROTEK

There are way too little interesting things happening in telephone booths in adventure games,
so for this background Blitz you should go out make something interesting happen in an adventuregame background that has a phonebooth in it

Maybe the phonebooth is the main attraction of the background or it is blended into the scenery.
Will you show us the insides of a telephonebooth as a GUI with lots of clickable buttons and things?
Maybe there is something interesting happening inside the phonebooth or something is happening to the booth?
Is it in a crowded city or in a remote place in the country side? Next to a rundown building, a prison or is it even in the future?
You show us where you receive the best call in an adventure game.


Use as many colors as you like, draw or pixel in any style you like,
the only restriction is that the background has to be AGS compatible
(with a normal aspect ratio...)

Voting will happen in 3 categories once time is up.
The categories are: Concept, Artistic Execution, Playability

And here are the Trophies:
every participant can get the blue phonebooth!
Enter now!
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/wDiVhQr.png[/imgzoom]
(This trophy is absolutely NOT for participants that
don't want to receive any votes! )


the winners are

3rd
Kumpel / Crimson Wizard

2nd
Kastchey / Monsieur OUXX

1st
SilverSpook



The entrants are:
Grok
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/Tmv2fGZ.png[/imgzoom]

jwalt
[imgzoom]http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o756/jwalt10705/neonTele1_zpstzbfrdgm.gif[/imgzoom]

Kastchey
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/dxse5bd.png[/imgzoom]

Kumpel
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/niVq6Cf.png[/imgzoom]

SilverSpook
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/HB8de0Y.jpg[/imgzoom]

Dor Hajaj
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/OVd3dba.png[/imgzoom]

Crinson Wizard
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/TrlPuDX.png[/imgzoom]

Cassibsg
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/L1qooIu.jpg[/imgzoom]

Monsieur OUXX
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/HSOQ0bj.png[/imgzoom]

it costs $150 normally and you can get it for $6+ in the weekly humble bundle atm. I'm considering getting that. Is learning scripting in it easy? is it even better than AGS?
https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

besides that this makes me feel old, Ron Gilbert wrote up some interesting things about Monkey Island and production and testing at Lucas Arts back in the days:

http://grumpygamer.com/monkey25

There is a very interesting youtube series about the 12 Principles of Animation as described by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston in their book "The Illusion of Life".
and here they are:

[embed=720,405]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haa7n3UGyDc[/embed]

[embed=720,405]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8OtE60T8yU[/embed]

[embed=720,405]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-SXLaQGg50[/embed]

[embed=720,405]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8quCbt4C-c[/embed]

[embed=720,405]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OxphYV8W3E[/embed]

[embed=720,405]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQBFsTqbKhY[/embed]

art is how we decorate rooms
music is how we decorate time


I found this quote on the internet some time ago, attributeted to i forgot, but it seems so powerful, it came back to me and it made me wonder, what are games?
decorating bordeom? decorating your instinct to explore?

Like more crazy graphics and an even weirder story spanning more times?

Or be Tim Schafer in a MMORPGRLS and create more realities?

I just met this poor fellow and had to take a picture

[Methods of Transportation]

Welcome to the new Coloring Ball.

The theme this time is Methods of Transportation. Anything goes, a train, a car, a bus, a spaceship, a snowboard, no matter what, at least it has to be able to transport people. Or just goods. You don't even have to add passengers, but of course this is a nice extra touch.

And here is the form:

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/WonsFRW.png[/imgzoom]



What you can do:
Color the dark outline.
Rotate and also mirror the shape.
You can use all the color you like.

What you can't do:
You can't change the shape.
You can't distort the shape.
You can't make the shape bigger.

Happy painting. And don't hurt your head trying to figure out how to cram some vehicle into the form 

Please submit your painting until the 25th of February 2015.

Move your vehicle (and your ass) to earn one of these unvaluable shiny bling bling rim trophys to get rolling even more!




Entries

I<3Pindorama
A TRUE STORY IN A BAR TABLE

Spoiler

- A trip? What do you mean?

- Are you gonna travel or what?

- I know... you gonna to Machu Pichu!

- Chapada Diamantina!

- Arembepe!

- No my friends...another place... look!

* Since my daughter was born I relearned to marvel with the simple and beautiful things. I could go again to a infinitude of emotions and feelings that so long ago I had forgotten. In the real episode was a jet plane... those who leave a trail of "smoke"...you know...

When my little girl was 3 years old she was so excited to see them... she told me... with a big smile... "Look daddy...! Is the Chihiro's dragon!"... and wherever we were she always called me to see them flying and we did "Byeeeee" with our hands... "byeeeee"... as I did when I was a kid ...

From these moments  I created this habit... every time i see a  plane across the sky I stop everything that I'm doing and look at the top in silence with a big smile... like a passenger... losting my mind in the infinity blue... oh man...in this times some people look at me with a strange face (lol)...  but i never care... I'm flying and I will never lose this heaven again...

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AprilSkies
space van
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/uGxkFLk.png[/imgzoom]

Tabata
spaceelevator
[imgzoom]http://fs1.directupload.net/images/user/150223/iqbbdkix.gif[/imgzoom]

Mandle
XEVIOUS
[imgzoom]http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c201/Mandle/Carrier08_zps3397d9ff.png[/imgzoom]

WRK
teleportation device
[imgzoom]http://www.werke.pl/game/tele_01.gif[/imgzoom]


And the final results are here:

1) Mandle

2) I<Pindorama

3) Tabata

[BANG!]

And here are the dramatic results of this 55 word story compo, the drama edition.
Thanks everyone who participated and everyone who will vote.
Happy reading, please pick your 3 favourite stories and then vote for them.

*** Please use the topic for discussion about the stories, the authors identity, to reveal your authorship if you want to and whotnot. ***
*** Please no voting per posts, please wait until a poll is added by a mod who can do this***


If I messed up you story, please tell me ASAP.

Without further ado, here are the storyies:

#1

A true story. A tale of pure drama. I was made aware of the fifty-five-words story competition just 4 minutes before midnight. Time for me to read the rules, it was already three to midnight. Was I going to make it? The clock was ticking. Counting the words... Only a few seconds left. Midnight. Ther--

#2

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Hello...

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...

[close]

     
   

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Anyone here?

[close]

     
   

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...

[close]

     
   

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I hear your breath... i know that you're here...

[close]

   
   

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...iH

[close]

     
   

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Please tell me where this place is? where are we?

[close]

     
   

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? ees uoy od tahW

[close]

     
   

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Nothing... it's all dark...

[close]

   
   

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...gnihton ot emocleW

[close]

     
   

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What's that noises?

[close]

   
   

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? sesion tahW   

[close]

     
   

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This noises sounding "click"...

[close]

     
   

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...uoy dna em neewteb etteluor naissur fo emag a tsuj s'tI

[close]

   
   

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BANG!

[close]

#3

The plate explodes against the wall behind me and I let out an agonized scream. Another hisses past my flinching shoulder. She grabs a kitchen knife and as she raises her arm to throw it, the door behind her swings open knocking the knife out of her hand and into the skull of our son.

#4

”Take you back? After what you said, you expect me to believe that you suddenly care about me again?”
”My sweetheart, you're overreacting, I've always loved you! You must've misheard!”
”I know what I heard.”
”But, honey, I just said…”
”Yes? What did you say?”
”I just said… 'frankly, dear, I'd want me some ham!'”

#5

„Deer!“ she screamed and grabbed the wheel. She made the car pass by the deer faster than he ever could have reacted.

Then he lost control over the car, slipped off the road and crashed into a tree. Three passengers painfully died in the resulting fire. Safety belts are hard to open when you're injured.

#6

VIPER IN THE GRASS

“So I say, Whatever!  And I put on her pants instead!”
The company roared with laughter as Reggie shook his hips sassily and made his imitation of a feminine gait around the table.  He sat down to back-slapping and another Coors Light.
His wife sipped her dry martini, and plotted.

#7

"How're things with your girlfriend?"
Esteban swallowed and ran his fingers through his hair. He tried to sip some water but his hands were shaking and it spilled.
"What?" I pressed.
His face darkened. His eyes darted from the surface of the table, to the wall behind me.
"Esteban?"
Finally he croaked "She's my sister."

#8
Beryl looked at her husband and sighed.  It was their 60th wedding anniversary on Sunday, but he wouldn't know it â€" or who she was.  Hell, he wouldn't even know himself â€" apart from as a mischievous schoolboy!  That's what dementia had done to him.  To Beryl… she was no longer his wife, she was his carer.

[The rules are simple:]

The last edition of the 55 word story competition is over way too long,
so fear not creative writers of the few words,
Andail, the host of the other competitions
generously allowed me to host this edition, so, with even less words,
here is the Drama edition of the 55 word story competition


The rules are simple:

You have until the 8th of February to PM me your story.
Just imagine friday as the deadline for the 55 words you want to write,
if you don't make it till sunday night there will be no extension.

Every story must be exactly 55 words.
If you want a title, it must be included in the word count.

This edition of the competition is all about the drama.
people talk about their weird and interesting problems.
Someone reaches a dramatic (turning) point.
What's your 55 word drama.

I'll just copy + paste your spelling errors and
creative formatting into the voting topic,
so have it all set.

Don't post your entry into the topic,
all entries and voting and results are
anonymous from the competition side.






After the deadline, I will publish all stories anonymously and the community will vote for the top 3 candidates.
Once we start voting, you may discuss the entries in the thread, but not reveal any identities.


For some entertaining 55 word stories, you can find the stories from the previous rounds here:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=50706.0
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=50528.0

pretty please?!
someone creative here might even come up with a cool icon for something that is not visible

Since multiple platform support is in alpha already I guess it's about time to start adding slots for more links than just windows+mirror when adding a game.

And a windows version should be necessary for the game to be added to the DB, even if the editor is run under linux only and the game is compiled under linux and the author is a linux nerd and windows hater and wants to distribute only a linux version to convert everyone to a linux user

I'm currently (trying to) implementing a cyrillic translation for eternal chrysalis. I have the cyrillic font running but on the @OVERHOTSPOT@ label the outline still only shows ? ? ? ? ? ?
How can I disable the outline on a label?

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/jLTtubg.jpg[/imgzoom]

first one with auto outline, 2nd pic without auto outline. So this seems like a second, additional outline.