I haven't really talked about the adventure game I'm making much here, so for starters I'd like to relay an amusing development anecdote that transpired only minutes ago, but is already a classic.

I got a PM from someone at the AdventureGameStudio forums yesterday, expressing interest in my game and offering his services as beta-tester and proof-reader. Sounds good I thought, so I tell him to look me up on MSN so I can hook him up with the beta.

Next day he shows up and one of the most peculiar conversations starts:

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Him: the storyline is pretty good.
Me: thanks
Him: this is kind of like HITMAN" game
Him: anything else you want to send?
Him: Sent a wink:
Me: theres a bit of that in there yeah
Him: ok
Him: anything else you want to send me?
Me: ill upload a recent beta in a minute
Him: ok
Me: have you played the demo?
Him: no i have not
Him: if you want, you can send me your work, and I can try to help you.
Him: I know some about dialogues
Him: just basic stuff
Me: thanks
Me: i could maybe use some help with writing dialogues and such
Him: ok
Him: send me all of your work you have done so far
Him: we can be partners on this
Him: Now, I do not have whole bunches of experience, so you will have to bear with me.
Him: I am learning a lot
Him: because I want to try to make my own game
Me: yes I saw you were working on a game
Him: yes I am, just started it.
Him: anyways
Him: send me your files
Him: brb
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Cleary, I immediately do not feel comfortable with this guy. I vaguely hint to my aversion with such lines as "We will see about that", "I don't need much help with the other stuff", and "I'm a little touchy on my property", all the while thinking "Ohoo hell no son you ain't getting any of my source code you little thievin' jerk!"

He assures me I'll be in control, he'll just look through the code and fix things. He's a college-level proof reader you know...

I supply him with the beta, which I don't really feel good about either now, and ask he just compile his findings and email them to me later. I say I gotta 'get back to work' and leave.

5 minutes later he emails me, telling me he found SO MUCH spelling errors in the first 3 minutes alone that he can not possibly list them, so I should send him all my files. I ignore it and discuss this situation with my good friend and THRUSTWORTHY beta-tester/creative-inputter Mozesh, during which he PM's me again telling me to get on msn or respond to my email!! Yes, with two exclamation marks.

Goodbye credibility.

I considered filling up a fake sourcecode zip with 400 mb worth of horse porn, but I guess that wouldn't be very pleasant for me either, so I am turning this into a little contest: whoever can come up with the best way to destroy this man will get their likeness put into in the finished game as an NPC of their choosing, and will receive a copy of the finished game on disk.

So knock yourselves out.

Ofcourse if your name is Thalasion feel free to do the horseporn thing anyway.