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Just a few suggestions:

Lower the head & thicken the neck. At the moment he looks like some kind of giraffe-cowboy.

Try to make him a little more.......symmetrical. The arms are different thicknesses - his right arm is thicker. Also, I'd make his actual arms a little thicker - they are a bit......strawy (for want of a better word).

To sort out the face a little, perhaps add some hair & try to make the nose look a little more realistic - do this by studying your own nose in a mirror perhaps & try to copy the shape.

Also, to make him more of a definate cowboy, I'd suggest studying a lot of cowboy pictures to see what clothing they wear. You could get the colours & general style & look better this way:

Google image search for cowboys

But still, not a bad start . You're on your way to having a great sprite.

Ah, I think I can help you there HotSpot:

Spoiler

Have you gotten into the forbidden dungeon by using the wizard's key? If so, get up to level 17 & use the infectious badger with the old man's magic blanket. When you have done that, talk to Bill Cosby until the option 'But Mr Cosby, I don't HAVE any drugs left' comes up. When it does, use the monkey on the nut (a monkey wrench? geddit?), & pick up two tickets to Gotham City. When at the airport, pull on the broken vending machine until a troll falls out. When you have spoken to the troll, you will have to give the copy of "Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit" to the Jesus lookalike & you're done!

Remember, throughout all this, do not pass Go, do not collect £200.

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And I am working on a new theme. I'm just using that one while I work on the new one.

By 'theme' I think he meant, like, a thing for your potential users to talk about.

Like the AGS forums are here to talk (mainly) about AGS & adventure games. Our love for those items lead to discussions in Gen Gen, but without AGS, there would be no point for these forums (& we wouldn't be friends).

Another example: the Gamefaqs forums are there for people to discuss 1337ness & how they pwn things.

My point is, people are not going to want to talk there without something to talk about, & from what I've seen there is not enough on your site to warrant great discussions on your forums. But hey, who am I to judge?

but who's gonna make you breakfast in the morning when ure dead from disease!!!!!!

I will!

Anyway, Flip, happy birthday. I never really thought about how old you were before. This means you'll have exams around nowish, won't you (like moi)? Good luck in it all.....or.....erm........hope you did well (I dunno when the GCSEs start or finish....).

Sadly (for you guys anyway, I don't really care much ), from what I've heard Lucas wants to make even more changes to the OT when they come out on DVD.

I have heard in several places that Hayden Christensen will be replacing that other guy in the final scene (although those screenies don't look real, I think it will still happen), something to do with the other guy not getting any money or something? I wasn't 100% sure on this, I have the attention span of a.........what was I saying?

So deal with it. The DVDs will not be the OT, nor even the SE.

I founded this for ya:

http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?topic=10621.0

This also seems a good topic to bring up the wonders of Rinkworks:

Sha-ZAMM!

Yeah, I'm sure many of you have read these before, but hey! Read them again. It'a a good site.

Hmmmm, I spent half an hour downloading the flash demo, but I still don't really understand.

Have you got any pictures of final printouts for us to look at? That demo didn't have any, just a cartoon showcasing various parts of the machine.

EDIT: Nevermind, I did find a couple on the site, & I must say, I am impressed. This looks like a good development.

I was just thinking, the music one would be REALLY hard to do, because everyone has different methods of composing, and we all have our different favourite software.

So? That's the same with graphics as well, and, to some extent, scripting (everyone has their own techniques & stuff). Everyone has their own styles & ways of doing things, and this project could show them all.

That's true actually, I've never thought about it like that.

From a production point of view, the original light saber battles were better. But I still find the Yoda one more entertaining, despite how it was made. It was definately a lot more lively than the originals (have you SEEN the originals? vwing.........................10 mins later.....................another vwing...................), & surely the final product should justify the means?

Although, I agree with that Bruce Lee comment. I find that sort of stuff 10 times more interesting & entertaining than any of your modern slow-motion-bullets-flying-kick-off-the-wall-jump-10-foot-high-computer-generated stuff that people seem to like at the moment.

So I suppose I'm split here. I dunno whether to agree or not.

ARGH! Damn you Eric, you have messed me up with your damn opinions!

I always feel guilty when I click a link to the Gimp......'cos I know my dad's gonna come later to look throught the history for something & see 'www.gimp.org'. Just HOW am I gonna explain this one?

Terran, seeing as it's not your birthday anymore, go work on By The Sword again.

NOW!

Nah, you know I'm kidding, hope you had a great day!

I agree with Eric here to some extent.

Now, I wasn't around when Star Wars first came out of course, but I did love it as a young kid (as opposed to an older kid like I am now). My dad got me the videos to watch, & I thought the whole thing was spectacular.

But lately, I've been looking at the whole thing from a different perspective: I now think Star Wars is overrated.

The basic plot is fair enough - good vs evil. Fine. I can deal with that.

But now I also look at the acting & dialogue (terribly wooden, in my opinion) & I can't help but look at it all in a new light.

Sure, the special effects were magnificant for the time, but I like to think that effects shouldn't matter much in a movie - that's really what was wrong with The Matrices, they relied too much on effects.

I watched episodes I & II recently, & tried my best to compare them to the originals. Farlander is right, the new ones do focus a lot on battles from a wider perspective & stuff, but a lot of the lightsaber stuff is a lot better than before (the Yoda battle from Episode II is amazing, better than any other in my opinion).

I came to the conclusion that the two new ones aren't that bad, that people look through the old ones with rose tinted glasses too much. Lucas even said himself something along the lines of how he made the new ones (for the most part) for the audience that his old (70s) audience used to be - the excited 10 year old boys.

Perhaps the problem for a lot of people now is that the...........'adventure' of space travel doesn't appeal to them anymore. Nowadays, when you think NASA, you think high tech & moon rocks. People aren't fascinated as much by all this as much as they were in the late 70s.

Anyway, that's my two cents. Or rather, my two pence as I live in Britain.

I liked the other thing on this guy's site as well:

http://www.enzine.cyborgcow.net/intellectualart.wmv

6 min long movie, but I think it was worth it.

On a side note, I quite like Maths, but I do believe I am quite good at it (don't want to sound arrogant here, but well.......). I'll have to wait 'til August to find out for sure, of course

When I read VeryWeirdGuy (dude, can't you change your nick to something simpler?)

Call me VWG

See, my opinion on this depends largely on the level of detail & quality found in the rest of the game.

When people see this, they are going to expect such a high level of character & background art within the game. I can't remember seeing any of your other stuff, so I can't comment on this, just something to think about.

I do like the title screen, by the way.

Heh, you'd kinda have to know about a lot of stuff like the AGS shows & stuff to get it the most. It's pretty funny when you know the type of guy Chris Jones is 'n' stuff.

Ah right, I see what you mean. And I'd have to agree. There are a lot of angry angry people here who will do anything to strike out at the newbies, I'm even ashamed to say I've done it a couple of times .

I realise now a lot of the newbies ARE excited to be starting on a new 'adventure' (geddit? adventure? Ho ho ho), I remember that even I was when I started. I was more of an asshole then than I am now (if that's possible), & everyone needs time to calm down a little like I did (at least, I hope that's how people see me.....).

If Legge reads this, I'd like to wish him every luck in any games he decides to make.

(Which was the name of that guy who wanted to make music for adventure games without giving a sample of his work?)

His name was OrionOrbit.

Yeah....me too.............

Have we earned a fame as an easy to annoy community? I did not know that. This is the only forum I visit, so I wouldn't know.