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Actually the gif is pretty misleading, because it's not a black and white movie.

And it's not japanese either. It's Czech.

I saw this one not too long ago. I'm pretty sure it's Dr. Terror's House of Horrors.

Correct!



It's pretty bad overall, to be honest, but the idea of "several people telling stories on a train bound to hell and a mysterious figure who could be the/a devil or Death himself" was the starting point for If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers! (In case it wasn't obvious )

Over to you!

OMAM! (*) How didn't I recognize this?

(*) Oh my Alanis Morrisette!

Hahaha

Alright, here's mine. I have the weird feeling that I might have posted this movie already a long time ago, but there it goes anyway.

My love for you is like a truck, BERSERKER!
Would you like some making fuck, BERSERKER!

Ahm, anyway, it's Clerks

Ha! Are you deutsch, Mouth For War?
Only the italiani and the deutschs love the Spencer - Hill movies! 

Wrong! They were absolute classics in Spain too

[PaxAnimo]

Close, very close, LameNick! But PaxAnimo nailed it

This show looks so strange!

Oh, you have NO idea of just how strange

The last image with the beds made me think of Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason cover.
Anyway, I obviously have no idea of what show it is

Definitely!

I see that this is going to be a tough one to crack There goes another one!

Sorry, I totally forgot to check in to this thread.

It's a miniature set? Even if I go to full-size it's very hard to tell. If it's a miniature it's incredibly good!

Not quite a miniature, but I read that the adult puppets are around 25 cm, which is about the standard size for stop-motion I guess?

Here's another shot:

Finally! Wishlisted, can't wait!

omg this is JAM!

BINGO!!!  To me its an absolute gem. Though anyone who wants to check it out I tell ya, beware! its sharp, its heavy, its dark and its probably cursed.

That's what makes it so amazing though And the music choices were such a huge part of the unsettling, dreamy, unreal atmosphere! Really a one-of-a-kind series.

I'm going to go with another bizarre, off-the-wall show. Probably an easy guess for anybody who's watched even one episode:

One of my most beloved artists passed away today. Rest in peace, Mark.

To the stars, my love
To the sea
To the wheels, my love
'Til they roll all over me

omg this is JAM!

I meant more there's an hyphen in your game dir, after a space character, I don't know if this may trigger something somewhere to think the directory may be a parameter. (Yes, I should escape characters as needed, but I am still writing the escaping code so for now it's not good :/)

My game dir was "ioawn4t - Android", so I changed it to "ioawn4tAndroid" and moved it to a path with no spaces or hyphens whatsoever, and I'm still getting the same error.

Anyhow, if you set the password for the keystore and the keystore location in the AGS Editor -> Preferences -> Advanced -> the things under Android, when setting the Android Keystore path the Editor do checks to see if it's really there. There's also a very weird thing that Android Studio asks now is that the keystore and the key passwords are the same. I haven't tried using different ones to see what kinda of error message it outputs. I am out of home now, will check when I get back.

Both passwords are the same, yes. And the .jks file is definitely there in the path that I entered (no spaces or anything there either).

btw, when I close the editor, the process OpenJDK Platform Binary keeps running hogging a ton of memory, and it keeps some files locked until I kill it from the Task Manager. Not sure if this is useful to know!

[@Laura Hunt]

@Laura Hunt, I will investigate, it may be something like special characters on path, spaces on a folder name or something else not related. I will try to reproduce here and see if I can figure it out.

There are no special characters or spaces in the path or anything of the sort, so it's likely that I've done something wrong at some point, given that it works for Mehrdad and Joseph. If you can figure it out or provide detailed instructions as to how to create a keystore that would be great, but if not, no worries. At least Mehrdad has confirmed that it works correctly, and I'm sure somebody else will step in to test it too

With the new build I'm not getting the reported errors anymore, but:

> Task :app:validateSigningRelease FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:validateSigningRelease'.
> Keystore file 'C:\Users\xxxxx\Documents\AGS Projects\ioawn4t - Android\Compiled\Android\mygame\app\Î"?¬C:\Users\xxxxx\keystore.jks' not found for signing config 'release'.

I guess this error is on my side, but I generated my key through Android Studio itself so I have no idea what might have gone wrong (Build->Generate APK->Create new->Filled everything out->Selected 'release' as build variant.)

I installed everything though Android Studio, the latest version 2021.1.1 Patch 1. The path is correct, C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\jre.

Unfortunately, this did not work for me. First I got the following error:



And then on subsequent tries, this one:



This is a short extract (it was much longer) of the error message that can't be seen in the screenshot (with my Windows username redacted):

symbol:   variable key_ctrlx
  location: class id
C:\Users\xxxxx\Documents\AGS Projects\ioawn4t - Android\Compiled\Android\library\runtime\src\main\java\uk\co\adventuregamestudio\runtime\AGSRuntimeActivity.java:238: error: cannot find symbol
        } else if(id == R.id.exitgame) {
                            ^
  symbol:   variable exitgame
  location: class id
C:\Users\xxxxx\Documents\AGS Projects\ioawn4t - Android\Compiled\Android\library\runtime\src\main\java\uk\co\adventuregamestudio\runtime\AGSRuntimeActivity.java:240: error: cannot find symbol
        } else if(id == R.id.toggle_keyboard) {
                            ^
  symbol:   variable toggle_keyboard
  location: class id
C:\Users\xxxxx\Documents\AGS Projects\ioawn4t - Android\Compiled\Android\library\runtime\src\main\java\uk\co\adventuregamestudio\runtime\AGSRuntimeActivity.java:251: error: cannot find symbol
        return R.menu.default_ingame;
                ^
  symbol:   variable menu
  location: class R
Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.

I'm not sure if this is because I was using a game with script compatibility level set to 3.4.1, but right now I don't have a game compiled with 3.6.0 to test.

Also, an interesting side effect was that in the compiled Windows version, frame-linked sounds were not playing at all. I don't know what this has to do with the changes introduced for the Android build, but I can confirm that when I compiled and ran my game with the "vanilla" AGS 3.6.0.17 Alpha 18 build, those sounds played correctly.

I'll try to test this today and report my findings. I remember however that back when I tried out the Android wrapper for AGS 3.5.0, right clicks didn't work and I wasn't able to bring up the phone keyboard either for a section of the game in which you have to type some numbers, but I assume these issues have been dealt with in the meantime?

Hill Street Blues?

Of course! Over to you.

I was living in the US when TGAH aired, so unfortunately it's etched in my brain forever together with stuff like The Dukes of Hazzard (ugh). But hey, not everything was awful. This was also from the same period and it still holds up pretty well today:



Again, pretty easy if you've watched it, I guess!