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Further to that, "may" often (not always) carries connotations of choice and "might" of trying.

So for instance:

"If I choose to, I may become a doctor. Otherwise I may go into law or teaching." (The ability is not in doubt, only the choice)

And

"I might become a doctor, if I can pass all the exams." (The ability is in doubt)

Or to put it another way with a slightly different emphasis:

“OK, you may become a doctor.” - i.e. you are allowed to become a doctor if you want
“OK, you might become a doctor.” - i.e. If you are able to achieve it, you could become a doctor.

(That isn't the only way of reading any of those sentences and, as Tramp said, both can mean a possibility with "may" being more likely than "might").

Dear MT

So yesterday morning, shortly before 6 AM, my eldest daughter started wailing saying she couldn't get out of her room to get to the toilet.

I dragged myself out of bed and sure enough the door handle wasn't working. I found a screwdriver and took the handle off from the outside, but the inside was completely knackered and I couldn't get the mechanism to turn and open the door.

I was tired, the girls were wailing, so I just kicked it in (luckily minimal damage to the doorframe) and the crisis was averted.

HOWEVER. I can't help feeling that, as an adventure gamer, there must have been some ingenious and elegant solution involving inventory items, distracting a guard or maybe a sliding tile puzzle or something that I overlooked in rescuing my children from the horrors of their bedroom. In other words, there is no way I got maximum points from my solution to that puzzle.

So MT, what was the optimum solution?

(To be honest, I'm not sure that Mrs Degree would be too understanding if I reloaded from an earlier save where they were still trapped in the room, but it would be good to know for future reference).

I don't know what your policy on Jamiroquai is but 7 days in sunny June always makes me think of chilling out in Summer!

Had a great time over the weekend, some really interesting stuff and cool people. Well done to Mark and all the team who organised it. Nice to meet those of you I managed to speak to over the weekend too!

The problem with that code is that you only check whether the timer is expired once, straight after setting it and therefore it will never have expired.

You need to perform the check in the repeatedly_execute function in global script to ensure you check whether the timer has expired every game loop, rather than just once.

I only wish some of the answers could have been higher!

Which questions, specifically? Hours spent playing? Because I doubt anyone actually spends over $9000 every year on gaming.

No, no, I meant my answers rather than the available options, as in I wish I could spend more time and money on games!

Done.

I only wish some of the answers could have been higher!

Last year was good, I'll definitely try and come along again this year!

Nice! I had fun with this one.

I may well be wrong about this but isn't it the case that AnyClick() isn't triggered by Walk mode? I'm sure I had a problem with that before.

EDIT: Sorry, didn't read the thread properly, Khris has already said that.

The misuse of literally is definitely rife where I am. The Jamie Oliver example above is one thing, but it is not at all uncommon to hear something like I heard one girl say to a friend last week; "OMG I was so embarrassed, I literally died!". Oh no you didn't madam!

Still very much in love with the Barn Runner series, an absolute must for any fans of comedy and sci-fi. The second part of the first game remains the funniest thing I have ever played.

In terms of commercial games, maybe Resonance or the Samaritan Paradox - both truly excellent games.

There really are too many other great games to list here.

Not that I'm an artist in any way but...(yep, still gonna give you my opinion )

1. It looks like the legs need to be a bit further over to the left - i.e. "under" the torso more
2. The legs don't look rotated to the same degree as the torso.

Otherwise she looks good - a nice design for la souris dangereux!

Brilliant!

If this game contains Nanny smashing through a wall shouting "I'll get it duckypoos" then it already has my vote for game of the year!

Intense Degree & AGA. Well done from such small clues. Yes its DM (with a little Duckula). Didn't want to reveal that at this stage as its very early in its development, but couldnt leave your guesses just hanging there. Guess I'll have to post an announcement earlier than  I'd wanted to.

Danger Mouse is definitely just as good, looking forward to seeing how it goes!

... British cartoon... very English comedy style... from the 80s...

Please be Duckula! *crosses fingers

[12-Jul Brazil 2 - 0 Netherlands13-Jul Germany 2 - 1 Argentina]

12-Jul  Brazil 2 - 0 Netherlands
13-Jul  Germany 2 - 1 Argentina

[Jul-08 2100 Brazil 1 vs 2 Germany]

OK, despite my terrible form here, I'm hoping the long weekend I've just had on a stag do in the chavy end of Ibiza will assist somehow! 

Jul-08        2100    Brazil 1 vs 2 Germany
Jul-09        2100    Netherlands 0 vs 0 Argentina

So difficult to call, but will hopefully be as entertaining to watch as most of the rest of the tournament.

Not that I'm much of a programmer, but my way in was similar to many people here, BASIC at around 8 or 9 years old on an Amstrad CPC 6128.

The system came with a huge book on BASIC which included a large glossary of keywords and examples, some lessons and quite a few sample programs you could type in yourself (mostly rubbish games) and play around with. Just thinking about it makes me want to go on ebay and track a copy down!

I can still remember how cool I thought it was to find and change the line "Lives = Lives - 1" in various games - NOW I AM INDESTRUCTIBLE!

Other than that, the only things I have spent any serious time with are QBasic and AGS script, despite having dabbled but never really got into a few other things.

...I'm pretty sure the only people that would say that are English!

Probably very true!