One Room, One Week Competition - WINNER: AUTOMATION BY MR COLOSSAL

[Vel]

Most of those games are really cool, especially love "The Bar" and Caverns(for no other reason but Zigmund Freud, though the pixel hunting is nothing short of irritating)
It's going to be a tough competition.

[scotch]

Did you read the plugin error message?

[Wretched]

Any chance you can split the download file into 2 so us poor 28k dialup users with 2hr cutoffs can download from the 'this site does not allow resuming' site.

[DystopianRhetoric]

Some very nice games here. "The Criminalist" could do with a little more polish however. It seems like a first game, but even so, the limited storyline is... odd.

SPOILERS FOLLOW:

I mean, you are a "criminalist"? I assume this is a way of saying detective... and you go to a home to investigate a murder. Unfortunately you aren't very good at your job it would seem. No batteries for your camera? Stealing from the victim's home for no good reason? Not wanting to know what happened to the murder victim? And why did the door end up locked?

[Domino]

Damn, i tried 4 of these games and the level of quality just boggles my mind.  They look so professional!!! I am so friggin jealous.  I can see that alot of time was spent on working on a one room game, i just wonder what some of these people could do with a full length adventure.

I have great computer skills and am a decent artist, but i couldn't ever pull this kind of quality out within a one week time limit.

Great Job People.  I applaud you for your efforts. 

[dasjoe]

try playing it in full-screen mode. worked for me.

edit: er, not full-screen. play it in 320x200, not 640x400. the agi plugin can't handle that resolution.

[AGA]

I've managed to play The Lion's Den in full-screen and windowed...

EDIT: yes, the AGI plugin doesn't support 640x resolution. It can only be run at 320x, which is the default in the game, I think.

[AGA]

Right, voting is now open here. You will need to be registered and signed in at these forums to vote. Obviously you can only vote once. It is hoped that you will have played, and will vote for, all the games. If you're completely stuck in one of the entries, there is a walkthrough pack available here. Voting will last until around the middle of next week.

[aussie]

I'm very impressed, I must say.

Eleven quality games, all in one week.

Congrats on organising this comp. It really works.


EDIT: Just one thing. For the voting I'm assuming 5 is five points (best), and 1 is one point (worst). Right?

But I'm not going to vote until this is made clear.

[AGA]

Yeah, I should have specified that, I guess. 5 is excellent, 1 is sub-par.

[aussie]

Thanks AGA for making that clear. Perhaps it's worthwhile to put it a the top of the voting page. Just a suggestion.

[AGA]

Way ahead of you

[aussie]

Never in doubt...

[AGA]

Okay guys, so far there have been 100 downloads, and only 23 votes. If you downloaded the pack and still haven't voted, please do so. If you're stuck in one of the games, consult the walkthroughs pack. I definitely expect the 4 of you who made entries and still haven't voted to do so...

Vote, vote, vote!!

[DontTreadOnMe]

we're allowed to? I take it we just put "havent played" next to our own game?

Edit: assuming we must b able to, as there is only four of us that havent I've voted. I left quite a few of the musics didnt play as my speakers have been buggering up lately. And i still wasnt able to run in the lions den as apparently loop 0 of daniels sumat or otehr was missing. Hope thats all ok. (i take by AGAs attempts to get more votes in that the comp is drawing to a close...)

edit2: Ah phooey! It wont let me leave out the music catagory! What should i do?

[edmundito]

You should put a nice thing up there on top of the forums. who cares about the foregos anyway?

[Al_Ninio]

I do!

[AGA]

Try just voting all 3s for music then. If enough people vote, the votes of 1 person won't make a huge difference.

And yeah, vote for your own game, just vote as honestly as you can. I doubt anyone honestly thinks their game is worth all 5s...

The competition doesn't draw to a close until I decide enough people have voted, so everyone vote!

[Barbarian]

Oh, I didn't realize that we, the game-creators, who entered this contest were allowed to vote as well  Okay, I will go do so now, and, of course I will try to be as fair in my marks as I can. Hey, I admit that some of the other games were ahead of mine in some areas. 

[Kweepa]

When I voted, I just left my own game as "unplayed".
That way you can't push your score up by being too optimistic and you can't drag your score down by being too critical.

So, AGA, what is the magic number of votes you're looking for, and how close are we?