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I like AGS, so I've kept using it. But it's occurred to me recently that I've never really considered the benefits and drawbacks of using AGS.
Then I started thinking about how some people will choose a game engine, start working on their game for a while, find a problem with the game engine, choose another game engine, recreate their game up to the same point, find another problem, and just keep doing that over and over until they either give up on the project or settle on a game engine. (Usually the former.)
So then I started thinking about the various pros and cons of every game engine.

For Adventure games alone, you have:

• The Unity Plugin "Adventure Creator"
• Adventure Game Studio (of course)
• Sludge
• Visionaire
• And Wintermute

(assuming I haven't forgotten one)

For more generic game engines, you have:

• Unreal Engine
• Unity
• Game Maker Studio
• Or a custom built engine

So what would you say are the pros and cons of the various engines? Why would someone choose AGS over the others, or reject AGS over the others?
Personally I think a big pro for AGS is that it's completely free and open source, with an active community.
But I think a big con for AGS is that it's really difficult if not downright impossible for multiple coders to work on the game at the same time. It's not really a drawback that affects most of us, since we generally work on games on our own, but I still think it's a major drawback.

Thoughts? 

When people who are coughing and sneezing say "It's okay, I'm tested, it's not COVID". I'm vaccinated against COVID but not against the common cold. Could you please keep your germs to your self, no matter what illness?

I thought it was common sense even before Covid hit to sneeze in your elbow and not on other people.

Anyway, something that really grinds my gears is how the new TV series Squid Game seems to be spreading among kids.

You'd think it would be common sense to sneeze in your elbow before Covid hit. But it certainly wasn't where I lived. I remember having to teach someone ELSE that, when doing a health and safety in the kitchen course.

As for Squid Game spreading among kids. Personally, I'm already on the hate-bandwagon, especially since I can think of half a dozen anime with the same premise, all of which were probably done better.
But now that you've mentioned it, it is kind of disturbing that kids are playing it when you think about it. I mean, I actually know of a school which played a form of it! 

But, with that being said, even though I find it a little disturbing, I've got no problem with it. Mostly because kids are a bunch of scary psychopaths anyway. I should know, I have strong memories of my childhood. I remember always shooting the kid dead on Deus Ex, after giving him the chocolate bar and him giving me the code, because I wanted my chocolate bar!
Not to mention the dystopian stories I used to come up with... and that I didn't realize were dystopian until I reflected on them in my adulthood.

And while you might think that parents are being too lax nowadays, I personally think they're being too strict. I've heard of parents who won't let their kids watch superhero movies until a certain age, because they're too violent!
Meanwhile, here's my parents letting me watch horror movies when I was little kid. I think exposing kids to that kind of content (within reason of course), helps them learn the difference between fantasy and fiction before they're incapable of learning it (which in my opinion results in the type of people who say video games cause violence). But like you said, age restrictions exist for a reason. I mean, letting your kid onto social media unsupervised isn't exactly a great idea.
But hey, if it's become popular among kids, you aren't going to stop them from watching it. I remember cartoons from the 90s which had episodes covering that. 

The Borgias?

Maybe AGS 4 should be 64 bits and ditch retro-compatibility.

As someone who occasionally has to use an old 32-bit Vista laptop, I'm all for this. Despite sometimes having to use that old 32-bit Vista laptop.
If I recall correctly, AGS 4 is going to practically be a fresh start, so ditching the 32-bit support altogether makes sense if it results in a better overall product, especially since so few computers are 32-bit nowadays.
But if there wouldn't be any affect by ditching the 32-bit support, then of course I say keep it.

That's just my two-cents on the matter.

For instance, years ago several people were advocating for Lua (there even has been a Lua plugin).

Ugh, Lua. I'm glad that change wasn't implemented. 

Uh... Gold Rush? 
Or maybe Caren and the Tangled Tentacles? 

An average of 11 people are killed by H20 every day in the US. 
It really is very dangerous stuff.

Yet, punctuation is absent... 

At least they used "your" correctly. 

This is so accurate! 

I couldn't agree more! 

Dora the Explorer?

It's almost as if I am posting stuff if I find them funny.

There's nothing wrong with you finding what you post to be funny, but you've got to think about your audience before you post it.
If I posted everything that I found funny, you'd think I was a sick bastard. (For example, I quite literally giggled in the cinema while watching IT Part 1, at the section where Georgie had his arm ripped off.)

Besides, simply finding a decomposing bat in your salad isn't funny. Someone actually taking a bite out of it before realizing it was there, now that's hilarious. 

I bet if you brought together all of the unused assets from all of the unfinished Space Quest 3 remakes, you might actually have a finished game. 

This looks good though, and it looks like you've already gotten quite a lot done. I especially like the artstyle, it kinda has a Monkey Island look to it.
Good luck with it. 

Definitely the second one. 

Welcome to the forums Giacomo. I look forward to seeing what you make.
Good luck with becoming a programming. It sounds like you're making great headway on that, so I'm happy for you.

Also a little bit of advice. If you want to get better at pixel art, but you're not very good at art in general. I highly recommend practicing drawing with a pencil and paper. It might not seem like it, but traditional art skills carry over to all types of art, including pixel art. My pixel art came along in leaps and bounds when I started learning myself how to draw. If you already have a reasonable drawing ability though, then you can ignore what I just said. 

It grinds my gears when someone leaves a voicemail, asking you to call back, and then quickly saying the phone number and hanging up.
I usually have to listen to the same message a dozen times just to be able to write down the number.
The audio quality already makes it difficult to understand the numbers. Saying it quickly doesn't help! And it's even worse when there's a long introduction before they get to the telephone number, so you have to spend even more time listening to the message.

Why can't people just say the number slowly, giving noticeable pauses every three or four numbers, and repeating it all at least once. That's what TV adverts do, and they actually have good audio quality!
Or better yet, leave a text! 

At first I was wondering why you two were posting pictures of empty rooms, thinking maybe there was some sort of running joke that I wasn't getting.
...
Then I noticed it and quite literally burst out laughing. 

I've never watched Katla, but I have encountered a few movies and TV shows that have had the same annoying thing. But I can't name any of them from the top of my head, so they couldn't have been that memorable.
From the sounds of things though, that Katla sounds like it takes things to an entirely different level. I felt myself getting frustrated from your description alone! 

I disagree of course, because that would make changing the calendar on your fridge, a game. But that doesn't matter, since I've already agreed with you about there being multiple definitions. and yours being completely valid in this case.

Dude, you can gamify anything.

So every morning my alarm goes off at 8:05.  It takes me a bit to get out of bed and make my way downstairs.  But if I can tear off yesterday's calendar date by 8:15 every morning, I win for the day.

I just scored a point for myself in my own little game of life by coming up with this reply.

Yeah, I know. Snarky corrected me on it. 

This is the first time I've come across this thread at a time when I can legitimately post something to it.
Right now, I've been listening to the soundtrack for Princess Maker 2.

I recently started playing the first game in the series, the terrible translation of the old MSX version to be specific. (Speaking of which, the third disk is corrupted.)
The game is surprisingly fun. And even more surprisingly messed up (the game should be renamed to "deadbeat dad simulator").
With my newfound interest, I looked up the game to learn some more, I then found out about the attempt to officially release a translation of the sequel for MS-DOS (decades years before the steam release), and that eventually led to me listening to the soundtrack. The comments on this particular video, learnt me quite a bit about the game's soundtrack.

[killed real people]

I find it hard to laugh at any of that knowing that Alec Minassian is a real mass murderer who's killed real people, and I find it in poor taste posting this as some funny anecdote on par with cartoon memes.

It's not a funny video either, it's not some comedy sketch, from what I've seen of it, it's a serious documentary/analysis on murderous incels, and their too real fantasies of murdering women, minorities, and LGBTQ people,
and I can't believe I'm the only one to get a knot in my stomach when seeing that presented as just some silly goof we're meant to laugh at.

This might be a bit presumptuous but I think the only reason you're the only one to get a knot in your stomach over it so far, is because no one else knows who he is, and didn't bother to click on the video.