MAGS February "Missing Body Part" (VOTING)

VampireWombat · Tue 25/02/2025 13:34:24

Quote from: Stupot on Tue 25/02/2025 04:19:33How are we getting on, campers?

I've completely lacked any creativity this month. I did come up with a different idea yesterday, but I'd need an extension if I'm going to have anything more than two characters and a single room.

jfrisby · Tue 25/02/2025 23:05:48

We've been working on something and the scope definitely got out of control (my fault). Surely that conveniently placed upcoming weekend is part of February?

cat · Wed 26/02/2025 07:43:00

Quote from: jfrisby on Tue 25/02/2025 23:05:48Surely that conveniently placed upcoming weekend is part of February?

What are you talking about? Sunday is the 30th of February. I mean, every month has 30 or 31 days, right?

heltenjon · Wed 26/02/2025 08:24:34

Quote from: cat on Wed 26/02/2025 07:43:00
Quote from: jfrisby on Tue 25/02/2025 23:05:48Surely that conveniently placed upcoming weekend is part of February?

What are you talking about? Sunday is the 30th of February. I mean, every month has 30 or 31 days, right?

Code: ags

ELSE \\\define Dwarf Month

cat · Wed 26/02/2025 09:53:12

I asked the Copilot AI to draw me a Dwarf Month. This is what I got

Spoiler

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heltenjon · Wed 26/02/2025 12:00:19

Looks just like February at my place.

(Except for the candles in broad daylight.)

pell · Thu 27/02/2025 08:34:35

I mistakenly deleted the virtual machine drive I had to run the AGS editor in Linux, and setting it all up again is proving to be a pain as usual (getting the editor working is the hassle, not setting up a virtual machine). So I probably won't make this one.

Edit: Also, as usual, I'm too stubborn to know when to quit. So I got it working eventually. So it looks like I'm still in.

Stupot · Fri 28/02/2025 20:30:38

Well, wudja lookit that. Turns out the Year of MAGS is a threeap-year

. So February has three more days than usual!

Deadline extended to February 31st, or March 3rd in Muggle terms.

pell · Sat 01/03/2025 05:20:29

The editor keeps crashing on me, and I'm losing changes even with saving after everything I do. So I won't meet my goal of making it by midnight, but I still plan to get something in before I go to bed.

soulstuff · Sat 01/03/2025 06:18:12

Holy batcrackers I actually finished something with AGS

WELCOME TO LIMBLOB
A short and simple adventure

Story:

You arrived at the adventure game afterlife. Sadly, your poor
performance in your last game has left you a blob with no mouth or limbs.

You need to find a way to get limbs to be able to leave the afterlife and go into your next adventure.

DOWNLOAD LINK

Use of the theme: (light spoilers)

Spoiler

As you get more parts for your body you get access to actions or verbs. For example getting a mouth allows you to talk to people and since some of them are removable having them or not resolve different things.

[close]

pell · Sat 01/03/2025 12:40:11

I'm still too far behind. But I'll definitely have something by the new deadline.

VampireWombat · Sat 01/03/2025 14:04:22

I'm mildly sick and struggling with the art style. I'll have something, I just might not be happy with the art and it might end up with 2 backgrounds instead of the planned 3.

Kara Jo Kalinowski · Mon 03/03/2025 02:04:45

Edit: Deleted info about the game, since I ended up actually making it.

jfrisby · Mon 03/03/2025 15:55:46

Well, we got a bit too ambitious and tried to make a 17 room game set in a mall with a new fancy UI, health items and damage meter... and we didn't finish

However in the spirit of THE YEAR OF MAGS, here is the big empty mall to walk around in - with a few tiny placeholder puzzles: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YSOQSw4RD1iR6IBUlAJjVv_-7ZAAVADB/view?usp=sharing

Everything is unfinished, title is placeholder, gameplay doesn't exist... If you click the button for your missing cell phone you feel pain and it hurts you.

We hopefully will get back to it, or maybe open source it for people someday

Stupot, please leave us out of the vote!

Edit: pulling this down for now to polish, we'll finish it eventually if you missed it!

pell · Mon 03/03/2025 16:23:10

I'm mostly done. After a few final touches, I'll be in by midnight my time.

VampireWombat · Mon 03/03/2025 22:18:47

I fear I've completely failed. I simply didn't get enough done to have anything remotely passing for a game.

Good luck to those who are still working.

pell · Tue 04/03/2025 06:29:45

Here's mine. It still has placeholder art, but it's playable. There are multiple endings, depending upon your choices during the game.

https://gamesbypell.itch.io/finding-balzac

soulstuff · Tue 04/03/2025 16:58:55

Quote from: pell on Tue 04/03/2025 06:29:45Here's mine.

Migth be just me but isnt the windows build missing like the main exe file? I havent tried running the Linux one but that one looks ok

pell · Wed 05/03/2025 02:50:15

Quote from: soulstuff on Tue 04/03/2025 16:58:55
Quote from: pell on Tue 04/03/2025 06:29:45Here's mine.

Migth be just me but isnt the windows build missing like the main exe file? I havent tried running the Linux one but that one looks ok

The download is fixed now.

This happened last month too. Now I understand what's happening. If I run the game from the editor after building it, as soon as the game launches, the build files disappear.

pell · Wed 05/03/2025 04:45:04

Quote from: soulstuff on Sat 01/03/2025 06:18:12Holy batcrackers I actually finished something with AGS

WELCOME TO LIMBLOB
A short and simple adventure

Story:

You arrived at the adventure game afterlife. Sadly, your poor
performance in your last game has left you a blob with no mouth or limbs.

You need to find a way to get limbs to be able to leave the afterlife and go into your next adventure.

DOWNLOAD LINK

Use of the theme: (light spoilers)
Spoiler
As you get more parts for your body you get access to actions or verbs. For example getting a mouth allows you to talk to people and since some of them are removable having them or not resolve different things.
[close]

Nicely done. And the puzzles were challenging enough that I even restarted once to make sure I hadn't overlooked something.

MAGS February "Missing Body Part" (VOTING)

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