MAGS February "Missing Body Part" (RESULT)

[soulstuff]

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

Nice! I really had a laugh with all the endings.

[Kara Jo Kalinowski]

The deadline is passed, but voting hasn't started yet, so if it's not too late, here is mine. If it's too late for the voting, that's okay. I got a new computer and was dealing with headache of OS stopping working after a few minutes and like 5 or so OS reinstalls.

MAGSMan - a simple hangman style game made for MAGS Feb 2025 - Missing a body part

Created by Kara Jo Kalinowski

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/game/2832/

5000-more-common.txt is a list containing 5000 words that have been marked as common. This list was generated by Michael Wehar and is released into the public domain - https://github.com/MichaelWehar/Public-Domain-Word-Lists/blob/master/README.md. Note that this word list was generated while utilizing OPTED - http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~ralph/OPTED/

(The original download link contained a small bug with the 10th letter being displayed offscreen for words length 10 or longer, that's been fixed.)

[Stupot]

Sorry for the delay. It has been a struggle finding time to sit down at my laptop.
But finally it is time to vote:

Please vote using the poll above.

	Limblob by Soulstuff
	Finding Balzac by pell
	MAGSMan by Kara Jo Kalinowski

Let me know if I've missed anything.

[pell]

The deadline is passed, but voting hasn't started yet, so if it's not too late, here is mine. If it's too late for the voting, that's okay. I got a new computer and was dealing with headache of OS stopping working after a few minutes and like 5 or so OS reinstalls.

MAGSMan - a simple hangman style game made for MAGS Feb 2025 - Missing a body part

Created by Kara Jo Kalinowski

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/game/2832/

5000-more-common.txt is a list containing 5000 words that have been marked as common. This list was generated by Michael Wehar and is released into the public domain - https://github.com/MichaelWehar/Public-Domain-Word-Lists/blob/master/README.md. Note that this word list was generated while utilizing OPTED - http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~ralph/OPTED/

(The original download link contained a small bug with the 10th letter being displayed offscreen for words length 10 or longer, that's been fixed.)

It was fun playing hangman for the first time in a while.

[Kara Jo Kalinowski]

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]

I enjoyed the blob character and the game overall - I left a review on the game itself.

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

A quick funny little game, with a certain kind of humor. I appreciated the multiple endings, not a whole lot of games do that, especially MAGS games. A streamer playing the MAGS games thought that the game might have been hand drawn and scanned in, I was curious if it was that or if you used a tablet or something.

[heltenjon]

Here are my thoughts this month:

Limblob by Soulstuff:

Spoiler

This is your first game, right? I think you have done a good job. I liked the different walking/bouncing animations, and the blob population reminded me of Shape Village, which is not a bad thing in my book. There's a clear objective in the game, and fair (if easy) puzzles to get there. Well done. Next time, try to add sound or music as well.

[close]

Finding Balzac by Pell:

Spoiler

Short visual novel, four endings, placeholder sketches (which work fine, actually) and a clumsy/evil doc inspired by yours truly.    I'm honored! This was the funniest entry and had me laughing several times. Downside - unfinished and probably shorter than it was planned to be.

[close]

MAGSMan by Kara Jo Kalinowski:

Spoiler

I wish I had not read your idea before playing! Anyway, Hangman is a classic, and the quite large word list makes the game replayable as a casual game. Downside - no other extras like sound makes the game bare-bones. It's not an original idea, of course, which may count for something in a MAGS vote, even if it may live on my hard drive for a while.

[close]

Mall Quest (Unfinished) by Babar and jfrisby:

Spoiler

Ooohhh, I am getting Commodore 64 vibes again, partly because of the soundtrack, no doubt. I hope you finish this later on. I like the scenarios where the player runs around from npc to npc, fixing their problems and getting other items in return. (Reminding me of the bazaar in Sierra's Conquests of Camelot.) I found the ending, but I don't think a finished game will be spoiled.

[close]

[Kara Jo Kalinowski]

Here are my thoughts this month:

Limblob by Soulstuff:

Spoiler

This is your first game, right? I think you have done a good job. I liked the different walking/bouncing animations, and the blob population reminded me of Shape Village, which is not a bad thing in my book. There's a clear objective in the game, and fair (if easy) puzzles to get there. Well done. Next time, try to add sound or music as well.

[close]

Finding Balzac by Pell:

Spoiler

Short visual novel, four endings, placeholder sketches (which work fine, actually) and a clumsy/evil doc inspired by yours truly.    I'm honored! This was the funniest entry and had me laughing several times. Downside - unfinished and probably shorter than it was planned to be.

[close]

MAGSMan by Kara Jo Kalinowski:

Spoiler

I wish I had not read your idea before playing! Anyway, Hangman is a classic, and the quite large word list makes the game replayable as a casual game. Downside - no other extras like sound makes the game bare-bones. It's not an original idea, of course, which may count for something in a MAGS vote, even if it may live on my hard drive for a while.

[close]

Mall Quest (Unfinished) by Babar and jfrisby:

Spoiler

Ooohhh, I am getting Commodore 64 vibes again, partly because of the soundtrack, no doubt. I hope you finish this later on. I like the scenarios where the player runs around from npc to npc, fixing their problems and getting other items in return. (Reminding me of the bazaar in Sierra's Conquests of Camelot.) I found the ending, but I don't think a finished game will be spoiled.

[close]

Yeah I wasn't planning to submit due to changing computers and whatnot but after going through all the frustrating things with my pcs and it still being open I decided to make it after all. Thanks for playing!

[soulstuff]

Here are my thoughts this month:

Limblob by Soulstuff:

Spoiler

This is your first game, right? I think you have done a good job. I liked the different walking/bouncing animations, and the blob population reminded me of Shape Village, which is not a bad thing in my book. There's a clear objective in the game, and fair (if easy) puzzles to get there. Well done. Next time, try to add sound or music as well.

[close]

Finding Balzac by Pell:

Spoiler

Short visual novel, four endings, placeholder sketches (which work fine, actually) and a clumsy/evil doc inspired by yours truly.    I'm honored! This was the funniest entry and had me laughing several times. Downside - unfinished and probably shorter than it was planned to be.

[close]

MAGSMan by Kara Jo Kalinowski:

Spoiler

I wish I had not read your idea before playing! Anyway, Hangman is a classic, and the quite large word list makes the game replayable as a casual game. Downside - no other extras like sound makes the game bare-bones. It's not an original idea, of course, which may count for something in a MAGS vote, even if it may live on my hard drive for a while.

[close]

Mall Quest (Unfinished) by Babar and jfrisby:

Spoiler

Ooohhh, I am getting Commodore 64 vibes again, partly because of the soundtrack, no doubt. I hope you finish this later on. I like the scenarios where the player runs around from npc to npc, fixing their problems and getting other items in return. (Reminding me of the bazaar in Sierra's Conquests of Camelot.) I found the ending, but I don't think a finished game will be spoiled.

[close]

Yep very first one. I got inspired by recent mags to start finally and make something. My background is in codig so music was the first thing i cut when the deadline was near since my objective was to finish something for starters  .
Thanks for playing and the kind words!

[WHAM]

Behold, WHAM's Regular Monthly MAGS Videos (WRMMAGSV)! As always, play the games yourself if able, but if you just can't find the time, check out the videos and consider voting.

Limblob (by Soulstuff)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLehNMEmN8k

Finding Balzac (by pell)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF8aYnVGMzw

MAGSMan by (Kara Jo Kalinowski)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWYNCPwOM3M

[pell]

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]

I enjoyed the blob character and the game overall - I left a review on the game itself.

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

A quick funny little game, with a certain kind of humor. I appreciated the multiple endings, not a whole lot of games do that, especially MAGS games. A streamer playing the MAGS games thought that the game might have been hand drawn and scanned in, I was curious if it was that or if you used a tablet or something.

Thank you. I'd never made an AGS game with dialog before, so I wanted to try it out. The game I need to finish with heltenjon has a lot of dialog in it, so now I've got some experience with coding that.

Those were digital drawings done with a tablet.

[pell]

Here are my thoughts this month:

Limblob by Soulstuff:

Spoiler

This is your first game, right? I think you have done a good job. I liked the different walking/bouncing animations, and the blob population reminded me of Shape Village, which is not a bad thing in my book. There's a clear objective in the game, and fair (if easy) puzzles to get there. Well done. Next time, try to add sound or music as well.

[close]

Finding Balzac by Pell:

Spoiler

Short visual novel, four endings, placeholder sketches (which work fine, actually) and a clumsy/evil doc inspired by yours truly.    I'm honored! This was the funniest entry and had me laughing several times. Downside - unfinished and probably shorter than it was planned to be.

[close]

MAGSMan by Kara Jo Kalinowski:

Spoiler

I wish I had not read your idea before playing! Anyway, Hangman is a classic, and the quite large word list makes the game replayable as a casual game. Downside - no other extras like sound makes the game bare-bones. It's not an original idea, of course, which may count for something in a MAGS vote, even if it may live on my hard drive for a while.

[close]

Mall Quest (Unfinished) by Babar and jfrisby:

Spoiler

Ooohhh, I am getting Commodore 64 vibes again, partly because of the soundtrack, no doubt. I hope you finish this later on. I like the scenarios where the player runs around from npc to npc, fixing their problems and getting other items in return. (Reminding me of the bazaar in Sierra's Conquests of Camelot.) I found the ending, but I don't think a finished game will be spoiled.

[close]

Thank you. It's really an interactive gag cartoon with multiple endings to make it a game. Without the multiple endings, one of them would have been the punchline panel. I intended more polished graphics, but a late start and technical issues prevented that.

[Stupot]

The winner of MAGS February is Limblob by Soulstuff. Well done Soulstuff. Look out for a PM about choosing a theme for April.

Thanks to everyone who took part and voted.

[heltenjon]

Congratulations, @soulstuff ! How cool is it to win with your first game?  Hope you become a MAGS regular now. 

[pell]

Good job, @soulstuff.

[cat]

Congrats!

Here are some mini reviews:

Limblob (by Soulstuff)

Spoiler

Fun and short game with some nice details like the circle hole in the door. Good effort for a first game!

[close]

Finding Balzac (by pell)

Spoiler

A joke that can be viewed in different ways. Funny but not really a game.

[close]

MAGSMan by (Kara Jo Kalinowski)

Spoiler

Nice take on the topic and the classic game. When the word is not solved, I would like to see the solution.

[close]

[Kara Jo Kalinowski]

Congrats!

Here are some mini reviews:

Limblob (by Soulstuff)

Spoiler

Fun and short game with some nice details like the circle hole in the door. Good effort for a first game!

[close]

Finding Balzac (by pell)

Spoiler

A joke that can be viewed in different ways. Funny but not really a game.

[close]

MAGSMan by (Kara Jo Kalinowski)

Spoiler

Nice take on the topic and the classic game. When the word is not solved, I would like to see the solution.

[close]

Thanks for the feedback. I also realized this issue, but too late, and I couldn't edit it during voting. But I can maybe add it in now.

Congrats to the winner. Another competition where I didn't get any votes, but I also wasn't expecting any - Maybe one of these competitions I'll make a game that takes a full month to do...

[soulstuff]

Oh wow I won!
Thank you all for playing the game. I cut so many corners in it trying to learn the engine. I hope this is the 1st of many MAGS since it was MAGS games that actually got me the push to start making games!