nah, it doesnt need to be the same size. let the artist choose their own restrictions beyond mine. it doesnt even need to be 2d. they will know it's maniac-mansion inspired. call it MANICMAZE. you must believe me when i tell you i am good at puns

like MANICMAZE is what it'd be called in DOS, but with 9 characters, transcending the limitations of the form. function (text) and object orientation (books) and open source (wiki) as three sides of the same coin (the forum? the pixel?)

wayofthepixel is a better operating system than DOS - but in the chaos thread remember we only got in three good posts before tierny came in and tried to shut the whole thing down

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(This could easily lead to explaining a few basics of AGS to get more people interested in actually making an adventure game. )

my money's on twine. I CANT MAKE AGS GAMES REALLY, I ONLY KNOW HOW TO PLAY THEM

but i cant talk about twine without first talking about borges.

thats basically a whole different commercial critique, of zork maybe. probably something more recent - I WANT TO SAY 'with those we have alive' by porpentine, or 'the tower' i think is the other one, by max something. THE BARON if thats what its called. lots of pacian games. i can do a twine subforum - also ascii and petscii. call that Textual Art - i tell you, crosspollenisation

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ok, maniac mansion is not my fave. but i will talk about it because its better than 99.999% of games, including its own brilliant sequel, and this is good enough.

[insert the actual art from the game, THE STUFF HELM POSTED BEFORE]
[insert link to where you can play the game in a browser.]


i will talk about 3 of my fav topics:

the ega-style palette
ortho mode
chaos theory (how to escape the grid)

i will also talk about OBJECT ORIENTATION, MANIAC MADNESS, THE TAROT, THE CRITTER CODE, DRAGONS, ERIS, ETC.

ask me anything.

obviously im not allowed to make this thread

Quote from: tocky on February 15, 2015, 11:44:10 pm

just move my posts, piledriver will edit them. good editor, knows formatting

Sorry, but that is not what the mods are there for. PPD is quite busy outside of Pixelation. Let's not assume he wants to do extra work to make your stuff more readable. Put in some more effort of your own to do that.

cant move m own posts or delete them. has to be a mod. piledriver owes me a favor because i did all this shit, it helps us all, but it helps him most, because hes not gonna have to edit my doubleposts anymore. i was discreet last time i was here assertive is better than passive

Quote from: tocky on February 15, 2015, 11:01:24 pm

-snap-

This is beyond piracy though. This is me pirating a game and modifying it slighty and reselling it (or several games and bundling them up).

yeah. thats cloning. but still legal through referencing, or anonymisation. the thing is if the pirates can do it legally so can we all.

referencing and anonymization are both important skills, that i can teach anyone, through the parable of moore. MOORES LAW I GUS i am the rundler.

we just already did one in this thread, move it over there could be all 13 pages, just move the thread