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*pokes the pixles hard with the stick for being so difficult to find!* Thanx again, what would I do without you, Inkoddi?

Just one more question.  

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I have gotten all the way to kicking in the window of the haunted house, but I have no idea how to get down. I though about using toilet paper, but apparent the game didn't think that was a good idea. Help?

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Holy cripes, that was a fast response. Thanx

*waves* hi all. I umm...kinda am lost with that to do. I'm thinking it probobly has somthing to do with the big pointy rock above the cave. I have the shovel, seed, shaken alcohal and I don't know what to do with them all. Anyone, help?

Oh, on the fourth day of Hanukkah my true love gave to me...

4 pairs of socks

3 French Whores

2 calling cards

and a menorah, no Christmas Tree

Christmas is seriously the worst and best holiday in the world, right after Valentine's Day. I hate that day. Reminds me how lonely I am. My gay lover left me so I guess I'm not getting anything from him this year. *sniffle* As to everyone else, CHRISTMAS? Bah Humbug! Yes, humbug I say! All my relatives get together and get drunk and I hate it. Last year, and I am being compleatly serious (no....I really am...) my mom and aunt got so wasted that they argued for an hour about why Jesus was gay and Amelia Airheart was actually a man. And the worst part is I just have to sit there through the whole thing. Christmas! Ha! *storms off to his room to count his pennies and slams the door behind him*

After shaking and sniffing the boxes under the tree...

Lmao  

Hey peoples, I just now found my way back to this thred. I didn't know that my opinion caused an all-out war concerning GUIs.

Lets review, shall we?....

Yada yada yada...."its 2003! New games who use the standard 9-button Give, Pick up, Use, Open, Look at, Push, Close, Talk to, Pull GUI's"...blah blah blah

-Me!

So..um...whats the new and better interface we SHOULD be using?

Look, its just this. I like to have to do as little clicking as possible to get my point across to the game. Its my personal belief that we dont need so many buttons! Just 4 work.

Having one's intentions interpreted the stupid way:
USE cabinet.
"Why would I want to carry that around."
only to be followed by:
TALK TO toilet.
*vomit* "Hey! It's that key I swallowed."

Equivalent objects that each have one use and are not interchangable. This rock you can throw at a bird, and that rock you can drop in a well. The knife is for cutting the string, the scissors are for opening the envelope. A game designer should always try to be sure that when the character says, "That doesn't make sense," the player doesn't scream at the screen, "Yes it does!!!"

These kinds of confusions just get worse with more complicated actions. You have to open and close objects and doors, you have to GIVE objects to people instead of just using them together. Bah, it just annoys me and makes the game longer and not in a good way.

soooo we shouldnt be using ags to make super spectacular 3d games with lensess flares for Gui buttons. there goes my game

Though you probobly know this now, i wasn't talking about how fancey or pretty the GUI looks.

Adventure games are not about guess the verb puzzles... thery're about problem solving with your mind. The problems should be clever enough for you to figure out what to do without having also to guess which verb to use. They (LEC, sierra, etc) learned this a while ago and decided to drop everything down to the 4 basic verbs: Walk, Intereact, Look, and Use Mouth (speak, taste, etc.). So, what this guy meant was that he doesn't like the old 9+ verb interface....

I couldn't have said it better myself, and "this guy" appreciates your clarifying my post for everyone.

Monkey Island 2 / Indy FoA / DoTT SCUMM style is my favourite interface. I like that people still use it for their AGS games, I think it's brilliant. 3 of the best adventure games ever used it, to me that says there's nothing wrong with it.

Yeah, MI, Indy and DoTT were awesome games, and I'll be the first to tell you that I loved their plots, characters and graphics. But I have always hated the multitude of unneeded buttons.

Now look, I'm not out there starting a campaign to reform all adventure games and bring unto the world a new age of GUI enlightenment. The title  asked what I, ME, MYSELF found irritating about adventure games and so I said what I thought didn't work. As to dying in adventure games, yeah. I'm up for it when it makes sense. But not plunging to your death off a cliff because you accidently clicked a river in Kings Quest

Merry xmas.

I took that test too and embarressed by the results. I got dailup and to top it off, I live way out in the vast hillsides of Hickville. Lets just say it came out somewhere around 28.8 Kbps on the chart. *goes to hide in a hole*

Hehe, relax Javier. You are continuing the ancient tradition of a long line of people who have been absulutly furriated and fed up with Pleurghburg. Think of it as an initiation to AGShood.   We've all had to ask a billion question about that game, but its worth it.

[Just some twisted thing from my mind, i hope no jewish people read and take offense. Before you say anything else, add to the song with the corrosponding day...]

OH! On the first day of Hanukkah, my true love gave to meeeee:

A menorah, no Xmas treeeee.

[whomever does the next post makes the 2nd day and repeats this one and so forth.  That shouldn't be too complicated, ya'll know the song.

Glad I could help.   (in my wierd, evil, twisted way...)

That shark with a cake is kickass! anyway, happy birthday, yo and all that. And don't worry, Dr.Jekyll. I swear, you don't look a day over 32.

when does LoTR Lumpy Lads come out? hmm.....nah, I can do better.....Mideval MiddleEarth Munchkins? Gandalf's Gay (as in happy) Guys? umm....hmm.... Gandalf Gollum and Gwendelyn? How about...... *gets thrown out of the thread by two hefty bouncers*

JESUS CHRIST! Try reading the board for a change before you post!  The answer to your question is only 11 topics down, and instead of posting the link to the walkthrough right here, I am going to make you do the very difficult work of going back to the Hints forum and scrolling down the page until you find the "...ARGH!...Pleurghburg!" where the walkthrough is clearly listed! *grumbles and storms off*  

If there is a way to change the content of  the page, aka telling it to move to the next picture without .php or making it a .GIF (because the all need to be .JPG images), then by all means tell me how. But if you can make a page that displays randomly selected images, then surely wouldn't it be possible to tweak the code so that it selects them in a certain order?

The refreshing the page part is not what I am having a problem with. Its complicated, I know, but I guess I am not making myself very clear. All I need is to make a page with nothing on it except for a picture, but when the page is refreshed, the picture will change to the next one in a sequence. Having it change to a random picture doesn't help me much. It sounds silly to ya'll, I know, but if someone could actually figure this out, that would be great.

I liked Snake. He looks like the evil twin brother of Bert from Sesame Street. Anyway, I thought it was really good and the bouncy was the best part.  Biatchhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!  

Yes, and yes that is a must. They have to only change on refresh. So if you took all those frames at made each one its own picture all the same size and then loaded them up in a .php? picture gallery thing, each time you refreashed the next picture would appear in the sequence. Is that possible to do? I know absolutly nothing about .php

Wow thanx. You know a program is good if it shows pictures of naked women on the cover. Amen to that.  : I'll check it out, though, I would really perfer if I could determin  the order of which the images appear and then they would loop back to the first image. Know what I mean? Anyone know how to do this?

Help! help! help! I really have no idea how to do .php stuff, I bearly know html but I need someone to figure out how some  simple code for me? maybe?   Here is how it is; I need to create a webpage which will display one picture, and then  when the page is refreshed, display a new picture in order and so on. In ANYONE knows how to do this please please please help me out.. Thanx a bunch, guys.