MAGS November: Breaking In (Winner announced!)

[Dualnames]

BTW, this is my 3rd year in this community, and who'd have thought I'd end up hosting the MAGS..

Anyway, start the voting people!!

[abstauber]

@Dr. White

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I tried to use the dog leach on the spider and now it's eating a cracker? And the leach is gone... restarting time? Oh and the windows on the backyard are still hotspot 6

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@Bulbapuck

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I'm stuck too. I have the 3 spheres but no clue, in what order to put them. Btw. you left the debug mode on, but that didn't help me either

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--edit: not stuck anymore. Thanks Leon!

[DrWhite]

@ Abstauber
Stupid me. I´ll change that immediately... i beta-testing would have been a good idea.

[abstauber]

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btw. I'm stuck again. I'm inside the building, have the needle and no clue what to do. How do I reach the panel in the last room?

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[DrWhite]

@ Abstauber

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How did you reach the last room without using the needle? You have to stick the needle into the cable of the lamp in the citchen, switch on the light to sabotage the electricity.

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In the last room...

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you have to use Stan and walk under the panel. Then jump onto him with Dog, then climb up with Frank and use the panel.

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@Dualnames
As there where bugs that don´t keep you from finishing the game, but make some puzzle solving unneccessary, I uploaded an updated version. I hope that´s within the rules.

Going to play the other entries now. Seems to be a fine month again.

[abstauber]

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you have to use Stan and walk under the panel. Then jump onto him with Dog, then climb up with Frank and use the panel.

That doesn't seem to work. Dog says; What? or That doesn't work. Depending on using the shell or the whole Stan.
Argh.. and now I have Stan + Stan's Shell in the same room.  Seems like I have to restart again.
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edit: It worked this time. But the camera kept working even after I used the needle. But I'm through anyway

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[Leon]

@Bulbapuck:

Some strange behaviour, no real bugs (apart from the already mentioned debugmode)..

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Joanna can see the panel and the spider though the door is closed.
Phill can't kill the spider, Joanna can... ?

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Typo: Joanna says: It semms to have fallen --> seems..

Sidenote: I don't like the response when interacting with the statues. As explorer, you're supposed to examine and touch things..? Furthermore..

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She has problems with the statue heads but kills the spider without hesitation. Hmmm....

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[OneDollar]

@1$: When I tried to let Alec go through the doorway of the ship, he all of a sudden was at the top of the roof. He can't get down (too heavy & rusty) and can't get to the ship (Suzy already did). Bug? Case of game over & try again?

Yeah, that's a restart. Sorry about that, there seems to be some rare glitch in the AGS pathfinding (seriously, all I'm doing is calling a Walkto ProcessClick. I saw this bug once or twice in the hundreds of times I've played through the start but could never reproduce it on demand. I thought I'd put something in to correct it if something went wrong, but it must have slipped my mind.

If it starts to become a big problem for a lot of people I'll patch the game, but as you requested

2)Partecipators are allowed to patch their games even while the voting but I should be informed via pm or here, and only IF the game has a serious bug that makes it crash. Due to the inability of keeping track of versions of the games, I've settled to this. So you can patch your game, if it crashes or if it can't be completed.

[DrWhite]

@ Abstauber

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In the updated version Stanley should say that he´s standing on the right spot. Then just get him into his shell and use Dog´s jump on him.

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... but I really wonder how you could get Stan and his shell into the same room. Shouldn´t be possible.

[abstauber]

@DrWhite
You should open an own thread for your game where I can file those bugs

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The magical cloning occured when I have been clicking on the doors to skip walking (since Stanley's on the slower side). And the shell can walk too

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Anyhow, your music is really nice. And somehow it reminds me at Nick Knatterton

[Bulbapuck]

@Bulbapuck:

Some strange behaviour, no real bugs (apart from the already mentioned debugmode)..

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Joanna can see the panel and the spider though the door is closed.
Phill can't kill the spider, Joanna can... ?

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Typo: Joanna says: It semms to have fallen --> seems..

Sidenote: I don't like the response when interacting with the statues. As explorer, you're supposed to examine and touch things..? Furthermore..

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She has problems with the statue heads but kills the spider without hesitation. Hmmm....

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Sorry about that, it's a stupid joke I put in because I was reeeeally tired when I finished up the game. Anyway, thanks for the bugreport

I'll uplaoad an updated version when I get home, but before I update it, I need to know:
What is debug mode? (n00bish question, I know...) And how do I turn it off?

[bicilotti]

What is debug mode? (n00bish question, I know...) And how do I turn it off?

General settings -> compiler -> enable debug mode (false)

[DrWhite]

@DrWhite
You should open an own thread for your game where I can file those bugs

I did so.

Anyhow, your music is really nice. And somehow it reminds me at Nick Knatterton

couldn´t get a better compliment, thanks.

[Dualnames]

I find Abstauber's and onedollar's idea to have the game into the database, so I can use that as a download link to allow them to patch the game any time, and me not to bother at all. So if you guys already given your entries and add them to the database, pm me the link of the database so you can patch em up!

EDIT: Updated both Abstaub's links and DrWhite's. You may update your games at will this way.

[Bulbapuck]

Thanks bici for the help

Well here's the game page for my game, however I updated my original post with an updated link (after Leon's excellent report ) so I'd prefer it if people download that. http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=1239

The reason I haven't updated the game page is that I misspelled the password and now can't edit the game...

I hope I have the time to play all the games soon

[OneDollar]

Okay, I've put in a quick workaround that should let you keep on playing if the bug strikes. As I said it seems to be quite rare, so it's probably not worth updating your game unless you're having problems. Anyway, all new downloads are version 1.1 with the fix. If anyone can give me more details about when the problem happens or how to reproduce it I'd be very grateful. It's really got me stumped.

I hope this hasn't spoiled the game for anyone.

The reason I haven't updated the game page is that I misspelled the password and now can't edit the game...

PM a moderator, they'll probably be able to reset it for you.

[Helme]

I hope I have enough time to play all entries. They all look very sweet.

[Helme]

Finished all games and voted!

Alpha Dog: I was involved in the production, so I won't comment it.

The hunt for goldbeard:

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I had fun playing it, but I disliked that lots of puzzles were quite artificial

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Robbing the princess:

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The best puzzles and the team-aspect was well executed.

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Aeronuts:

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What a charming main character!!! The changing facial expression add lot to the athmosphere. The arcade part of the games works well and was lots of fun. The only weak spot is that there is not much of a team-aspect.

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I voted for...

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Aeronuts. Elfie is just so lovely!

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[Dualnames]

Thanks bici for the help

Well here's the game page for my game, however I updated my original post with an updated link (after Leon's excellent report ) so I'd prefer it if people download that. http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=1239

The reason I haven't updated the game page is that I misspelled the password and now can't edit the game...

I hope I have the time to play all the games soon

Done.

Anyway, stop voting one of the voters you guys! I mean one of the entries has all of the votes..(apart from 5 that missed it  ). It's a victory already, but I can't announce it just yet. Too bad though the rest of the entries do deserve some attention, for I find them all to be finest of entries I could hope.

[abstauber]

Anyway, stop voting one of the voters you guys!

Isn't this supposed to be something, a moderater rather shouldn't do?