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Wow, the grass looks really nice. How did you do it?

Yes.
You would use

MoveCharacter (EGO, GetHotSpotPointX(THEHOTSPOTNUMBER), GetHotSpotPointY(THEHOTSPOTNUMBER));

[game.auto_use_walkto_points]

Yes, the latest beta has a new variable:

game.auto_use_walkto_points
Default 1; set to 0 to stop AGS automatically using hotspot walk-to points.

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I also condensed the tables on the side so they're not so seperated. I think I like it more ... but what do you guys think?

I liked it better before. It's easier to tell the sections apart at a glance.

Ok, now that we have come to the point of discussing the overall structure, here are my suggestions:

Home
- About
- Features
- News
- License (AGS & all components)
Download
- AGS (incl. older versions!)
- Plug-Ins
- Extras (Fonts, Graphics, GUIs & other stuff. User-submittable links?)
Community
- Forums
- Members List
- Member Websites
- World Map
- Chat (=IRC, incl. quotefile, stats)
Games (More categories & Login)
- All games
- Award Winners
- In Production
- Hints & tips (Walkthroughs, forum-link etc.)
Help
- Tutorials
- FAQ
- Knowledge base (Integrate in tech archives?)
- Bug reports (Link to forums; What about the Bug tracker?)
- Documentation (Manual, Changes.txt, Future.txt, Techinfo.txt, Plugin API)
- Contact (CJ & Moderators, with pointer to forums)
Links

I agree.
Another reason why I switched to Firefox. It has an integrated pop-up blocker.

Wow, the side-nav is actually pretty nice. My vote for side-nav.

the tiled collage looks quite repetitive, and I'm viewing it at 1024x768.

I agree, it was just to show what I mean.
The final collages would be a lot wider of course. In fact, if you were to incorporate random collages, each one could be just a different "viewport" of a single ultra-wide image.

Also the top logo, with the games banner aligned left, and the AGS logo aligned right.

That's basically a good idea. However, I've noticed it looks more awkward the higher your screen resolution is due to the blank space in the middle.
I suggest to use the montages as tiled table cell backgrounds and make the logo an alpha-blended png.
Take a look here to see what I mean.
You will notice the cell and thus the montage is 1 pixel bigger than the logo, so that has to be fixed if possible.

Excellent idea.
May I suggest to require the contestants to state whether the sound effect is free to use or not?
Something like License: Free for all (with credit) / Free for non-commercial use

This way someone could collect them for use in an AGS game resource website along with fan-made sprites and stuff much like insta-game.

Sure, you can adjust the light level of every region in the editor.

In script, you can access the light level with the SetAreaLightLevel command.

All your code seems to be missing those brackets.

Technically, if there's only one line of code, you don't need the brackets. But I also recommend adding them in case you decide to add something later.

Your problem is bracket-related, though:

if (interface == INVENTORY) {
// They clicked a button on the Inventory GUI

   if (button == 1) {
      // They pressed SELECT, so switch to the Get cursor
      SetCursorMode (MODE_USE);
      // But, override the appearance to look like the arrow
      SetMouseCursor (6);
   }
   if (button == 2) {
      // They pressed LOOK, so switch to that mode
      SetActiveInventory(-1);
      SetCursorMode(MODE_LOOK);
   }
   if (button == 3) {
      // They pressed the OK button, close the GUI
     GUIOff (INVENTORY);
     SetDefaultCursor();
   }
   if ((button == 4) && (game.top_inv_item < game.num_inv_items - game.num_inv_displayed)) {
      // scroll down
      game.top_inv_item = game.top_inv_item + game.items_per_line;
   }
   if ((button == 5) && (game.top_inv_item > 0)){
      // scroll up
      game.top_inv_item = game.top_inv_item - game.items_per_line;
   }
   if (interface == QUITGUI) {
      if (button == 0) {
         QuitGame (0);
      }
      if (button == 2) {
         GUIOff (QUITGUI);
      }
      if (button == 1) {
         Display("WHAT!? ARE YOU TRYING TO CHEAT!!! Save often");
         GUIOff (QUITGUI);
      }
   }
}

Just formatted it to show the logic. Do you see it?

EDIT: Meh, too late...

Is the Rar the updated one as well? I suppose the Exe is an installer?
Maybe you should name the files accordingly, razors20.rar etc.
I'm looking forward to playing it, but I always wait a few days before playing new games until the major bugs are fixed.

(...) but any other browers who haven't got their heads outta their butts uses a boring nav.

I think it's really unfair to critisize other browsers for not implementing (as I understand it) proprietary Microsoft features.
If it's any help, the drop-down menus at CargoGuy work with Firefox.

dots to a blue color instead of green

I like the green.

Maybe emphasize the submenu a bit more? Bold or add another horizontal line below it?

does the nav-system work?

Not for me (Firefox 0.8). Where is it?

Most excellent. I love it.

Do we want drop downs?

I don't think they're necessary, but they don't hurt either.

Do we want to restructure the nav system?

I vote for changing "forum" to "community" like Klaus did, so that that page can house such links like the world map or the AGS member websites.

Doing a 'Game of the Month' feature on top of the Games table

Good idea. That way people see that the community is active.

I think a dialog script command like "option-off 0" to turn off the dialog startup after the first time would be very useful.
It was first mentioned in this thread in the beginner's forum.

Thanks.

Very nice, but when you zoom in, you can see you missed quite a few pixels of the original image you painted over.
And the pillars look flat, I have no idea how to make them seem rounder though.
Otherwise it's great.

I came across this the other day but haven't tested it yet.

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