MAGS November: Time Travel

Klaus · Wed 01/11/2006 11:55:35

What is MAGS?
MAGS is a monthly competition for all amateur adventure game makers. The idea is to use AGS to create a game in under a month, following the rules set by the previous winner.

For more information please visit the Official MAGS Website

Why should I enter MAGS?
We're not here to tell you that you should enter MAGS, but merely allow it as a creative opportunity to help you work to a deadline, improve your skills, and generally as a good kick-start for the new comers (a.k.a n00bies).

MAGS is the perfect opportunity to make a game, and the wonderful prize is to announce the next month's rules, and all competitors get the game placed on the MAGS website.

MAGS is meant to be fun and is aimed at everyone, despite their skill. If you have poor art skills work on graphics, and vice-versa, as the voting is based on "favourite" games, and not the most artistic, you may get help for the competiton, but should try not get anyone else to do any part of the game for you.

You are not allowed to (re)use material already created before this competition, you game must be completely new! An exception goes for sounds and music where you can also use free material that is available to the public.

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Topic: Time Travel

Ever heard about traveling in time? Probably. Is it possible? Who knows... And why should it be done..?
This month it's up to you to create an adventure game based on this topic.

You have to
- let your player character travel in time
but it's up to you to decide from when to when, if he travels 10 minutes back into the past or 10 decades into the future, if he starts in 3033 or in 210 B.C., you can make him travel any distances, in any directions and with any devices (e.g. a usual time machine, a magic spell, a wormhole ... whatever)
- involve following inventory items:
a thing to cook meals, a thing to make light and a thing to wear
- have at least one scrolling room
- one non-human being or thing to talk to

You can have (but it's not so important to have it, since the time might be too short to script this)
- mutliple characters in different times, who change something in their time and so have effects in the other

No further restrictions.

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All entries need to be in by early November 27th.

Please post a download link of your game entry to this thread, best with a screenshot. Thanks and good luck.

Vince Twelve · Wed 01/11/2006 12:06:57

Great topic! I have had a great time travel game in mind for a while, but there's no way I'd finish it in a month...

Radiant · Wed 01/11/2006 13:56:24

All entries have to be in by November 27th, 2004.

Minimi · Wed 01/11/2006 14:09:56

Quote from: Radiant on Wed 01/11/2006 13:56:24
All entries have to be in by November 27th, 2004.

...rolling on the floor laughing!

Mikko · Wed 01/11/2006 14:31:51

Radiant: And how should that help Vince Twelves problem with one month being not enough?

jetxl · Thu 02/11/2006 15:08:32

Quote from: Mikko on Wed 01/11/2006 14:31:51
Radiant: And how should that help Vince Twelves problem with one month being not enough?

Time travel.

KingMick · Thu 02/11/2006 23:09:57

Quick question from someone brand new to MAGS: when you say that someone CAN have multiple characters in different times do things that affect each other, do you mean we can do that in place of having someone actually travel through time?

I've been toying with the idea of making a game where the basic theme is exactly that, but haven't started it yet--thought it might fit this...let me know...

Klaus · Fri 03/11/2006 05:48:42

Quote from: KingMick on Thu 02/11/2006 23:09:57
when you say that someone CAN have multiple characters in different times do things that affect each other, do you mean we can do that in place of having someone actually travel through time?

No. The "you can have" part is an additional rule. So at first place there's the "you have to" things (including the player character traveling in time), these must be there in the end. Then if you have time or like the idea or just want to add it, you can also use the multiple characters part, but it's not a must have, more a suggestion.
I hope you will join the contest anyway. Maybe you can adjust your idea in some way...

KingMick · Fri 03/11/2006 07:31:49

Actually I think I figured out a couple of ways to still do time travel. Nothing conventional--no time machines or wormholes or magical rifts or anything like that--but something a little more believable. Although technically, you know, just living is time travel--every moment I'm moving from the past to the future

. But don't worry, my travel method isn't quite THAT mundane

.

We'll see. I'll get started and if I manage to finish within a month, I'll enter the finished product.

ExoTek · Tue 07/11/2006 20:55:52

Great topic!

I've always loved "time" intrigues

!

Again, I'l try to participate but ...

Abisso · Thu 16/11/2006 15:58:12

Hi, I'm writing from 2050, thanks to Inter-time-net. I would like to enter the competition, but, coming from the future, I already know who'll be the winner, and that's not me!

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Thu 16/11/2006 21:44:51

So, you're not competing because you know you didn't win. But you didn't win because you didn't compete.

Need I say more?

Radiant · Fri 17/11/2006 11:36:10

What you should obviously do is give the winning game to your younger self, and submit it before the one who actually wrote it does so. Of course, this will lead to you becoming a casino tycoon living in the jacuzzi-filled penthouse of a hotel that includes a museum in your name, only to be struck down at a critical point by a Meddling Kid in a flying car.

Hm, interestingly, Infinite Monkeys still qualifies for this month's contest rules

guess infinity is larger than I thought.

Buckethead · Fri 17/11/2006 15:12:02

might aswell take care of world peace and stop hunger while you are at it then.

Candle · Mon 20/11/2006 01:18:00

And stop scrolling text too.

Peder 🚀 · Tue 21/11/2006 22:03:00

I am a bit late for this, but I will try anyway.

Play_Pretend · Wed 22/11/2006 10:24:23

I'm also trying desperately to get one in...backgrounds 100%, plot 100%, main characters and their animations 50%, now I just need to go on a 48 hour weekend scripting bender.

Even if I don't make it in time, I'll release "Stone Age" sometime in the next week or two.

Peder 🚀 · Sat 25/11/2006 15:33:22

I to far behind schedule to make it, but I will still try my best.

If I dont make it the game will be released when its done!

Klaus · Sat 25/11/2006 16:05:13

Talking about the deadline let's get more exact now:
Please submit your entries within the next 48 hours (see timestamp of this post) then the voting will begin.

Buckethead · Sat 25/11/2006 18:07:04

what if no one enters? :o

ExoTek · Sun 26/11/2006 05:51:23

Then no one wins and Klaus restart something totaly new. And if that hapends too often, the thread will die...

Play_Pretend · Sun 26/11/2006 23:23:14

I'm pushing as hard as I can...I've been going on minimum sleep and maximum scripting this weekend...it's been more like a week-long game than a month for me because of the little time available, but I'm pretty sure it'll be out in time. (I just hope people don't mind my two-frame walkcycles, heh. )

Update: Wokay, no way in heckfire am I gonna make it. I guess I'll just aim for releasing a week or two from now. Good luck to any competitors!

Radiant · Mon 27/11/2006 11:50:21

We are entering. Give me a few hours to wrap it up and upload.

Radiant · Mon 27/11/2006 16:59:20

It's time for the final exams at Warthogs Magic School, and notorious slacker Larry Lotter is about to flunk all of them because he spent less time studying and more time drinking beer. But there is yet hope! Using a spell to travel back in time, he gets the chance to do his day over again and pull some tricks to pass the exams anyway! And he has to, because it's his Destiny.

Join Rob Greasley, Calliope DeRanged and Professor Mumblemore in this short Harry Potter parody, loosely based on the greatly admired books by J.K. Rowling. Watch the other characters act and interact off their own accord, and spin time back and forth to interfere.

Download here

This game is admittedly a bit rushed to meet the deadline; I'll post a more polished version later this week.

Thanks to Fizzii for the background art, Meerbat for the portraits, and J.K. Rowling for the awesome series of books, of which I desperately await Part Seven.

Klaus · Mon 27/11/2006 18:29:38

Abisso why didn't you tell us earlier that this all will end like that?

So I guess all time travellers should have posted their games by now... Hm... I hope those who didn't yet find the way back to this thread will publish their games at another time then.

So voting is difficult this time as there's ~~so many entries~~ only one entry. But a very good looking one (I didn't yet play it). Okay, it's not the best way to win by default - anyway:

The winner this time is Radiant and his game Warthogs. Congratulations!

marlamoe · Mon 27/11/2006 21:08:01

Radiant when walking up and down the stairs I have gotten this message twice and then game stops. Sorry, don't know how to post screenshot.

Error: run_test1:error -6 running function "repeatedly_execute':
Error: Script appears to be hung (9150001 while loop iterations without an update) in Character script (line 323)
from Global scrpt (line 326)

Play_Pretend · Mon 27/11/2006 21:42:10

Yep, I just got the same one when I tried to look at a portrait in the stairwell. Otherwise this game freaking kicks tail! Congratulations guys!

Radiant · Mon 27/11/2006 21:59:32

Got it. Sorry about that guys, like I said I was in a hurry (which is kind of ironic if the topic is time travel). I'll polish up and post a new version in a day or two.

Peder 🚀 · Mon 27/11/2006 23:31:14

Congrats Radiant!

It looks great, I have downloaded it but havent had time to try it yet.

I tried to finish my entry in time but I was not even close.
I WILL finish my game though and will post it on the forum when its done!!