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[Born on the 4th of July]

I haven't seen the movie, but since I only know three films with people in wheel chairs, and it's not Rear Window or Intouchables... is it Born on the 4th of July?

[Harry Hefner]

As everyone always says, don't start out trying to make a huge game. Even a short little game is surprisingly time-consuming to make, and the practice will give you a better sense of what you can and cannot do.

That said, there's nothing stopping you from making a LSL-like game, just with a different main character. What about...

A game (set in the 70s, maybe) where you play as Harry Hefner. Your cousin is a famous playboy/publisher, but even though he's your role model, you've never managed to live up to the Hefner name. However, you've recently landed a job as a reporter for a small-town newspaper, moved out of your mother's home, and you know that this is the start of your new life as a sophisticated ladies' man and swinging bachelor! You'll fill the paper with sexy articles and features, your cousin will notice you, and bam! you'll be living in the mansion as his second-in-command and wingman. Unfortunately, your single-mindedness, obliviousness and naiveté makes you miss the real story of what's going on behind the small-town facade...

[did]

On the other hand, The Silver Lining did run into problems, and was almost forced to shut down.

Another point is that the Leisure Suit Larry license is has remained more active than most of the other Sierra series, what with those crappy 3D games and now the remake of LSL1 just released. It's owned by Activision, so they're the ones you would have to get in touch with. I don't think you'll have much luck, though. It would probably be easier to just go ahead and take the risk of a cease-and-desist.

[The Sleeping Car Murders]

Thank you! 

The English title is The Sleeping Car Murders, but I think it's mostly known by its original title.

Well, it's been two days. If this isn't enough for someone to guess it, I seriously have to wonder...

Spoiler

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[sleeping compartment]

Because they're goofing around.

Since I guess no one has been able to spot it yet, they're in a sleeping compartment on a train. The guys in the previous image (later in the film) are murder police. If you've heard of the film, that should be enough to get it, but here's another shot anyway:



Edit: Made the hint even more obvious. If I now say that it was the first film by a famous Greek-born director, maybe someone will get it? Or be able to Google it?

Nope. If you can work out the setting, that would really help:

Yeah, sure there is. Save the sprites in PNG with transparent background. Your game needs to be 32 bit, and when you import the sprites, say you want to use the alpha channel from the image.

It's not Casablanca (that's not Bogey, just someone who looks a bit like him) and it's not Rocky IV 

Nope.



(If you look closely at the background, it might give you a clue about the movie.)

Wow, that was pretty much a stab in the dark! I just noticed everyone had black hair, and I vaguely remembered something about the yellow mist being used as some kind of disinfectant or cure or what have you...

I have a feeling this is going to be a tricky one, so let me say by way of a hint that it's a French movie, but not by a French director:

The Host?

What I'd do is make a copy of the layer where you want to un-antialias the edges, then darken it repeatedly (using brightness/contrast and levels) until it's completely black, without affecting the alpha. Then put it on top of a white layer and merge them together. Then threshold at 50%. Then invert. This is your mask that you can use to make all <50% opaque pixels completely transparent.

There's no real good way to make partially transparent pixels 100% opaque (though this thread talks about a "Filter Factory" plug-in that can do it); the best way is to duplicate the layer and merge the two copies. This cuts transparency in half (Edit: actually, it reduces it by the square: from 50% to 50%*50% = 25%, but from 25% to 25%*25%=6.25%, to 0.39%, to essentially 0), and if you do that 10 4 times it should round it down to 0 on anything more than 50% opaque to begin with. You could program it as an action if you need to do it on several layers.

Then you apply your mask to the multi-merged layer, and you should be set!

Absolutely. (Not an obscure film at all, I would have thought.) Your go!

Well, I know Walken, Wallach, Burgess Meredith and I think that's Jerry Orbach.

It is! Lennie Briscoe in the flesh.

But I don't think I've ever seen this movie.

No, one would think you'd know it by now if you had.

This kind of feels like cheating, because I've never seen the film...the only thing that gave it away was the director's recent death and the fact that he filmed something in my home town (both facts I'd come across recently) - would it still count for me to post the movie, since I kind of googled it based on that info...? 

Sure, go ahead. It's not like people haven't had a chance to recognize it, and with all the actors already identified it would be trivial for anyone to look it up anyway.

No. Final image before I just give it away:



(Anyone recognize that guy?) The main character is the woman in red at the center. It's a 1976 or '77 movie (sources differ), kind of a Rosemary's Baby/The Exorcist riff by a director famous for bloody action movies who died earlier this year.

Wow, is this stumping the movie guessers? You're both right about the actors. Here's another snapshot:



I could also add that it's a horror movie, and that there are at least two other (unrelated) films by the same title.

Ooooh-kay... No guesses from anybody? Here's another clue, then:

OK, since Esseb hasn't taken his turn, I'll kick it off again with another screencap:

Did you you uncheck the aa box before drawing the mask?

Oh yes, you're right, maybe i didn't do it in the correct order. I've been searching for the cause of the issue and tried many things so it got a bit mixed up.
But I had no idea the order was important, since in photoshop a lot of things are calculated on-the-fly (like the dropped shadows, etc.). Thus I thought one first drew the pixel-perfect outline and then Photoshop would do the corresponding processing depending on whether or not the box is ticked.

Although Photoshop shows the selection as a "pixel-perfect" outline, that's just for display. The actual selection is made as you select, and can cover pixels partially, but the outline just marks pixels that are more than 50% selected. It's all done on the fly, so yeah, you have to set anti-aliasing the way you want it before you draw your selection. (It can sometimes be useful to turn the anti-aliasing options on and off as you're creating the selection, so some parts are anti-aliased and some are not.) With the "refine edge" option you can see which parts are fully and partially selected, and edit it further using filters etc. If you are deleting regions, it can also sometimes be useful to use layer masks rather than just raw selections.