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Thought this might be of interest who wants a legit free copy of Photoshop - it's a few years old but it still does the trick nicely.

Adobe giving away Creative Suite 2 for free.

Full disclaimer: I haven't actually been able to get it myself yet - looks like they're having a bit of a site overload right now - but I've seen enough happy commenters to verify it. You need a (free) Adobe account to get it, so get going! Enjoy!

EDIT: If you're having difficulty accessing the site, some kind soul has offered direct links to the software, as well as the serial keys (seem to be the same keys for everyone), here: http://www.hotukdeals.com/freebies/adobe-cs2-creative-suite-free-1437132

Calin LeafShade, I find your post very immature. Why don't you read the forum rules and maybe grow up. This place is becoming a mess. You will never make a game unless you read the forum rules. I am an expert in telling people how to act on the internet. Forum rules.

I've been playing with Stencyl, it seems pretty good for platformers.

But then again this isn't really my area of expertise.

OH OH also Gamesalad recently launched for PC. I have no experience with it but people seem to like it? I dunno.

Thanks guys! I was coming here to wish CJ a happy birthday (if he checks this thread), but thanks to everyone who wished ME one! I love you all.

Is it a cheese?

I'm still going with this.

I already told Ben this I think, but I loved this game. It's hilarious. 'In my opinion.'

I'm just worried that if they make a fourth Star Wars film they might damage the franchise somehow.

"I'm making an erotic My Little Pony game, but I'm a bit embarrassed about it and would like to keep my forum name out of it. Can I set up another account just for this game?"

Embarrassed?

I'm going to bump this, but not as an attention whoring thing (wah wah no-one was interested in my thing), but because 3 or 4 people on IRC didn't even know it existed, implying this topic passed everyone by somehow?

That said, a couple of lovely AGSers have contributed (thanks, lovely AGSers!), and I've made a short follow-up video, with more to come soon hopefully!

[embed=425,349]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whvbxj8njRY[/embed]

Inspired by this story I chose to restore The Scream:

Here's the new game people! We're doing dramatic readings of excerpts of this text. Here's mine:

I hear a dog barking in the beginning. Is it a dog of war?

She barks...for JUSTICE. She wants war my WHAM.

Anyway, someone else dramatise it.

Here's the new game people! We're doing dramatic readings of excerpts of this text. Here's mine:

http://soundcloud.com/veryweirdguy/dramatic-reading

Hello friends!

I'm looking to fund my new animation series on Indiegogo (yes, another one of those) and I was hoping to look to the great AGS community for support!

Announcing...THE BRAVE AND HANDSOME SQUAD:

OH MY GOODNESS LOOK AT IT HERE!!!

Even if you can't contribute, any help is appreciated - tell your friends, your family, your WORST NEMESIS, and I'll make it up to you someday, maybe!

Thanks for listening, fellas and fella-ettes.

Looks like I have a code for Eets. Not 100% sure it will work, but I will give it to whoever PMs me first!

This whole discussion came at EXACTLY the right time for me, having just finished a game with no idea what to work on next. You guys are the bestestest.

It's simultaneously extremely liberating/satisfying and frustrating when someone swoops in and makes your point better than you did. Thanks Snarky!

It's true, personal attacks do no good. That's what I'm saying - making it personal against your critic, questioning their work, is no better than their unfair attack on you. Judge the criticism based on its own merits!

If you think someone is talking out their ass, just ignore them. Whenever I see high profile creators lash back at unfair criticism on Twitter or whatever, it just seems petty and pathetic.

I'm not even sure responding to criticism vocally does any good. Listen to it, be honest with yourself, accept the parts that make sense and move forward.

Just completed! Loved it!

Is it possible to finish and not have 100 points? I was all proud of myself for getting it all, but the more I think about it...

Gonna try and get the secret ending now I think.

EDIT: Found it, thanks to the Hints and Tips forum!

Spoiler

a little Silent Hill reference I gather?

NOW, does now following Alice change the ending significantly? I've done the kill/don't kill endings after seeing her in the cemetery, but I'm curious how else things can differ.

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But yes, great work Grundi! Looking forward to whatever's next.

I still disagree! It never matters what they have created. An unfair criticism is unfair regardless of their body of work - what would you do if, say, you felt Steven Spielberg gave you an unfair criticism?

It's okay to disregard or ignore criticism if you feel it is careless and not thought out, but being able to tell valid criticism from invalid criticism is a skill in itself, and getting personal against the critic doesn't help with this.

then challenge the critic and ask to see what they have created.

I call foul! You don't need to have created something to be able to rationally critique someone else's work. I have never made a feature length movie, but I could write 2000 words on why Transformers is garbage.

I've found that in general, people take criticism to heart much more than positive comments - so much so that it apparently takes something like 14 positive remarks to make up for 1 negative one (in people's minds.) Those are difficult odds to beat, even if your work is a masterpiece.

That said, I'd prefer any feedback to being ignored. I've had several projects (from comics to animation to games) with little to no attention given to them, and to release your hard work into the wild with no return is difficult.