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I attempted to play the game once in windowed mode and found that this made it very difficult to trigger the exit cursor compared with playing in fullscreen mode. The reasons for this are obvious, as it's possible to move the mouse off the playing area in a window but not in fullscreen, and you couldn't make the exit collision area too big or else limit the player's ability to interact with the environment.

May I please suggest that you make a note of this in the readme file for the commercial version of the game and recommend that players don't use windowed mode?

Otherwise I'm having a blast with the game so far. Two standouts for me are the banter between Al and the narrator, which is making me want to try everything possible on every screen just to hear all of it. Bravo to Daniel for this. The other standout is the voice of Jonathan Standiford as Bill the Piano Man. I get the feeling you heard his audition and immediately thought "Yes, that's Bill!"

Firstly, congratulations are in order to all members of the Himalaya Studios team for the completion of Al Emmo, and the excellent press that this game has earned. It's hard enough to collaborate on one project where team members are so far apart. The fact that many of you were working on Al Emmo as well as Quest for Glory II VGA at the same time has definitely earned my respect. From a public relations standpoint, I'm also extremely impressed that you've managed to keep your fan community informed on both projects, juggle the different fan expectations involved with an original release and a game based on an existing IP, not to mention your ability to handle the constant pressure of being asked when both of your games are being released.

I was looking through your team member profiles, and most of you were familiar to me from various adventure gaming sites, but one name and picture stood out. I've never seen animator Stuart Murray in the adventure gaming community, but several years ago I used to see him in the school band, not to mention LAN parties hosted by his brothers. Small world, isn't it?