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it looks so much like they are parting water in the first screen


come on, someone guess this already, it looks pretty nice! Actually, don't guess it, then we can see more screens of it

and the question is: How will breaking bad end?

bible adventures?

Cool stuff!

*wonders what it is you're up to*

whoopsie, must have missed it in a second of microsleep

I finally started watching the series, but the damsel in the fridge in the second episode made me yawn and I turned it off.
But I like how she always mentions the old Donkey Kong where a giant ape kidnaps your gilrfriend and you have to rescue her and in no way she mentions that this could be inspired by a classic movie with impressive imagery that the videogamemakers might wanted to recreate and might have used as a trope in itself, nope, it is the same old damsel in distress...

She has some points but she presents them very one sided. All the oldschool jump and runs she mentions basically had no story besides the kidnapped girl, that was a way to show how evil your tropeistic enemy is without having to kill someone on the nintendo system and having a revenge plot. And between the kidnapping and the rescuing there was a whole freaking game with no more story scenes, it's about stomping on heads of goombas and killing other enemies and other gameplay elements... I couldn't care less if I play these games as a male mario, a female character, an alien, a robot, a piece of meat, a pixel or a jumping sack filled with more sacks... so in the end it's a marketing decision if mario or peach sell better when printed on T-Shirts and there she has her point as I wouldn't wear a Peach shirt as she is trapped in her trope

one of these Bandit movies?

But there are indeed examples of other women physical aspects in games...

but there is also a character limit which makes it impossible to include more than 3 or 4 trophys as single images and link to the corresponding threads.

His list appears to mostly boring games, but I of course disagree with his point that women can only make boring games.  Sadly, there aren't any popular and hugely successful ones that I know of outside of King's Quest.

Say hello to Jade Raymond.


also complaining that videogames are sexist towards woman depends. I know you can get some weird sexual satisfaction when sticking your 4 pieces long straigth tetris piece into the hole that waits for it, but it is very consensual (though they both lose and disappear in the end). So it's mostly about stories where characters are shallow and stereotypical. So what? People playing these games also don't mind fighting the same monster in randomly appearing battles over and over again to gain some more EXP to finally be able to fight against the next boss only to be forced to fight against minor foes again before defeating the next big boss. So people doing this might also be a little shallow.
So this mostly is true for RPGs, but in defense of them, I enjoy some Final Fantasy games, if not for the levelgrinding but for the story, so some RPGs have interesting stories and characters, so compaining about bad examples is like complaining that Monkey Island 4 was in 3D and an uninteresting, bad game.

sure thing, do it. These small icons are really small!

also the blue font in the header png is unreadable on the blue background.

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=45903.0

I'm very interested, dunno if I can make it, but for now, I'm in!

*rates all OROW games*

not much a bug but...

open forum search page; expand categories; notice Creative Production is on the left, the boards for it are on the right; get nervous...

dunno how much can be done about this without breaking compatibility with adding in new boards or deleting some, but it just looks out of place.
And can the boards on the search page please be expanded on default?



when rating a game a link back to that game's page would be appropriate and helpful. atm rating a game feels like a dead end


on this page the 'from the forums' shows the loginname, not the displayname
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/community/


and why is there the /site/ part in every url anyways? is this a rewrite of site.php?page= ? Not that it bugs me all that much or that I would have to type that out manually in any way, but it's probably not very search engine friendly for game authors, and the displayed results may look strange. Especially the /site/games/game/####/ double games thingy on the gamepages.

Also not a bug report, but seemed the best place to post it: be more appropriate if you ask me if the Title that appears on the top of the browser and in the tab labels was just the last part of the whole thing. Like for this page, it'd just be "Bug Reports". I don't know about others, but I often have many tabs open in the browser or windows open in the taskbar, and always having "Adventure Game..." is a bit unhelpful in immediately identifying it.
Not a major problem or anything, but it'd be cool if it could be changed.

+1 on that, sounds like a really useful change *stares at 6 forum tabs all called the same atm*

1) add the demo link to the first post, I searched for it way too long
2) looking very good and promising
3) that's why some things just caught my attention:
having the inventory over the screen while the character speaks (to describe what he sees in that inventory item) is just annoying
some strange slipping effect (walk to canoe (over the wrapped one), also happening when running sometimes)
running looks cool, but the frames for running are obviously bigger (longer, higher) than the normal frames, so when switching from running to standing still it looks like something is cut off.
I want to use that damned hapoon!
the verbline changes only to 'run to' when using keyboard controls, not on clicking run to on the verb list
no keyboard shortcut for pick up?
clickable character can get annoying when he stands in front of a hotspot
the inventory items have no indication of where the click happens
rightclicking open inventory, so it should also close the inventory on rightclick
clicking outside of the inventory should also close it to make it easier for the player
and last but not least, from all the screens you already posted and how far the game is (supposed to be) completed, this demo is rather lame *MORE!* screw that, I also got stuck in the first scene already, and thought this is a demo to demonstrate the gamemechanics...

keep people making trophys for their competition if they want, don't force standard trophys.
Small icons under the avatars are a cool idea, especially with a link to each individual contest. But when cramming all this info under the avatar it will sure get messy.
So my idea: let's have icons for each contest in the color of the highest rank ever reach in that kind of contest displayed under the avatar with a hovertext of how often which place was achieved in that kind of contest. When you click the small icon under the avatar you are linked to the user's page with the links to the individual contest and the contest's tropy next to it with the image hosted savely on some AGS related server. The trophys should be listed below the games the user has worked on obviously. an addidtion to the list could be contest in which the user participated and didn't win... also on the user page.

where is waldo, christmas edition?

haha, funny short game with a really cool chiptune soundtrack

The Fifth Element tinfoilhat edition