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[future]

Ooh, beginning and end with no middle, that can actually be a great theme for a future competition!

Only 4 more days, the future is almost here!
Let's see some entries, if you don't write stories, there won't be any future!!!

You should try sending him a PM.
A message such as this from a fan can convince lot of game makers to resume work on their game.

Great show, and this was the best episode yet!
Definitely gonna kill a Morales in my next adventure game.. Eventually he will end up like Kenny..

Welcome back Ghost!!

Here's to you:

The deadline: 18/11 (which, surprisingly enough, is in the future!)

Are you telling me that I can write a story that will appear right here in this thread... in the future?! But what if I choose not to write one? Will that be changing the future? Or am I supposed to write one and not writing it will change the future.

Oh noes! I don't want to destroy the universe with a paradox. But I don't want to risk not not destroying it either. What am I supposed to do?!? 

In the future, you have already written the story, so you don't really have a choice now, you have to write the story.
Also, don't listen to miguel, you have to publish it too! So does miguel, for that matter! And Ghost too, now that he's come back from the dead! And everybody else also! Write stories!

What is the future preparing for us?
You tell me!
These are the rules:
1. Think of one aspect of the future that can change. Rephrase it in a "what if" sentence: "What if this and this will happen?"
2. Think of the answer, how will people's lives change?
3. Create your story around that.

For example:
1. What if there will be a hologram above people's heads showing their last score in a universal intelligence test?
2. It will motivate people to learn more and the average intelligence will rise. People who have lower scores will be ridiculed, they'll get frustrated and driven to crime. There will be an entire industry dedicated to cheat through those tests. There will be an underground movement that wants to stop it.
3. The story will tell of two best friends, where one tries to cheat through the intelligence test and the other joins the underground, and this difference tears them apart.

If you need more inspiration and haven't seen it already, I recommend watching Black Mirror.

The deadline: 18/11 (which, surprisingly enough, is in the future!)

Thanks guys!
Next competition is coming up shortly, please stay tuned...

Oooh, great art and great concept!
This will be a hell of a game...

Happy birthday, old fart!

As for your question, if you have an iphone ther's an app for saving the game of life.
But restoring is not implemented yet...

I'd go with kconan.
All stories were fun to read. Frodo cracked me up and selmiak made my insides turn in disgust, but kconan's story had a very good vibe to it, and got me hooked till the very end.

[Two spoons of terror]

Two spoons of terror

They sat at the dinner table.
They ate in silence.
Jenny started to say something about her day in school, about how the chemistry teacher fell and broke his nose.
She instantly regretted it.
"No talking while eating, it'll make you fat!", her father would say.
"Like she isn't fat already", Tommy would answer and laugh.
She put another piece of lemon bread in her mouth.
Tommy is not really there, anymore, now, is he?

Nope.
It was just her parents and her little brother, Ben.
Ben was just 4 years old, but already beginning to grow some spare tires.
Something moved across the window, Jenny ignored it.
Her father used to yell at poor Ben for his weight while his mother fed him.
It's the same story all over again, she thought.
It moved again, this time making a little shrieking noise, making her mother move uneasily on her chair.

How was it that Tommy wasn't fat at all?
He was as skinny as a skeleton, and a thin one at that.
He somehow managed to get out of this circle of terror.
She knew why.
He just took it out on her, making her take two spoons of terror.
She wouldn't do that to Ben.
No, she wouldn't lose two brothers.

"Did you hear that?", her father said.
"I think it was the doorbell", her mother replied.
"I'll go check", her father went to the door.
Jenny could have sworn she didn't hear a doorbell.
Suddenly, her mother came close to her.
She whispered to her daughter's ears:
"Jenny, take Ben and run the hell away from here. Do it now!"
She never looked so frightened.
She never looked so human.

"Mom, what are you talking about?"
"No time. Run, now!"
Jenny stood up and took Ben in her arms.
She just started running when she felt something slice through her left hand.
She fell on the floor and poor Ben fell with her, hitting his back on the legs of the table.
He started to cry.
"Nobody is going anywhere", her father said. His voice wasn't his usual voice.
Her mom started to scream.

He slapped her hard on her face.
"You're always like that. Always losing proportions!"
His eyes, there was something different in his eyes.
"No, please, no!", she begged him.
He ignored her: "Jenny, pull up a chair and sit across me."
Jenny hesitated.
"Do as I say!", he snapped.
Jenny stood up, just barely, her hand still dripping with blood from the thing that cut her.
She sat.

"Jenny, there's a time to grow up and that time is now."
He didn't seem to care at all for her hand, or for his weeping son.
"I'm offering you a choice. You have 3 minutes to decide."
"Decide what?", she muttered, barely audible.
"You know what", he said, looking at Ben.
Her mother begged again, "Please, don't!"
He slapped her again. "Ok, that's it, I'm done with her!"
He was talking to someone who wasn't there.
He took a knife that was lying down on the floor.
She saw the blood on the knife and realized it was her blood.
He jammed the knife in her mother's stomach, joining her blood with her mother's.

She looked at her mother as she took her last breaths, and shrieked.
He turned back to her.
"Ok, no more playing around, choose!"
"But why, dad, why?", she honestly wanted to understand.
He sighed.
"Frankly, Jenny, we're just too tired living this double life anymore."
She now saw him, for the first time, as who he truly was.

"Take me, dad. Take me."
He looked at her and smiled.
It wasn't a fatherly smile but it reassured her all the same.
He would keep his word.
"You're just like your brother, Tommy."
She looked at him in horror.
"Goodbye, Jenny."
Ben was still crying.

Congratulations!
May I suggest naming the child "Ron" is it's a boy?

Great pic!! Gonna frame it and hang above my bed!

Though I have never seen Halloween except in movies and TV shows, I feel compelled to join this competition!

I hereby declare that I'm doing this out of my free will with no outside pressure what-so-ever.

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HELP!!

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Congratulations!! 
I'm very happy for you, will play the game when I finish up my queue (BJ8, Gemini Rue, SummerBatch)...

[a lot]

Nothing would please me more than removing those ugly hack(s) that were made in the script editor to workaround the WM_DESTROY issue.
However moving to the new scintilla version sounds like a lot of work.

Note that it's not just an old scintilla version embedded in the code, it's an old modified version.
I wouldn't be surprised if those modifications will no longer be needed with the new version, but it would have to be handled very delicately.

@tzachs - Yes, stats would be useful, but really in the worst case we can always provide the .net distribution as part of the installation (I don't think it's mandatory but it's just a better install practice to provide this with the installer or download it if it's missing).

Yes, I tend to agree.

Another consideration is how will it affect the possibility of porting the editor to mono.
Afaik, mono is the best option we have in order to be able to compile games for iOS directly from the editor in the future (since it needs a MAC), so I consider this a top priority.
I'm assuming that .Net 4 is supported by mono but it needs to be verified before the transition.

Me & Noa are definite maybes!!

Personally I'm neutral regarding urban vs. rural, I can see the benefits both in the city or in the forest, and all the places look equally great to me.

Here's what CJ had to say when I wanted a transition to .Net 3.5:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=42104.msg564183#msg564183

Since it's been almost two years I'm guessing moving to .Net 3.5 would be ok.
I don't know about .Net 4, I wonder if CJ could pop up with updated statistics so we can be wiser..

Apparently CJ hates the Irish and French?

Isn't that a trait of all English people?

Anyways, looks like you had a great time, will definitely consider Germany for next year.
Those few leaked photos look sweet, and thank you Fransisco for educating me about Disneyland, finally!
MOARRR photos!!