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You beat me to the punch. I was going to suggest OpenGameArt.org as well. It's a great place to find characters, items, backgrounds, music or sound effects for your games 

BTW, great theme this month, unfortunately Summer is my busy season and I doubt I'll get the chance to work on anything for it 

You can finds various maps of the town and surrounding area in the F.A.Q. section of the ROtN web site...
http://www.realityonthenorm.info/about.php

There is also a walkthrough of the town on the resources page called "Virtual Reality" that you might find useful for familiarizing yourself with the layout of the town...
http://www.realityonthenorm.info/resources.php

To be honest the one sided rules have kept me from competing in MAGS. According to the rules…

• You are not allowed to use any material created before the competition. Your game must be completely new! An exception is music and sound; you can use any audio that is freely available to the public.
• Any modules and templates featured in this board are also allowed.

So one can use any audio/music freely available on the web, plus any modules/templates here on the forum for coding, but is forced to create graphics from scratch. I can understand not being allowed to enter a game you've already been working on that happens to be close to the theme, but having to make all the character animations and backgrounds can be a bit daunting for a lot of people.

This also sounds like RotN assets normally aren't allowed in MAGS. The only acceptation was the RotN anniversary contest that I entered last year. Were there other themes that caught my attention, which I would have liked to have joined in on? Definitely, if I had the option to use RotN assets or even those graphics available freely on sites like OpenGameArt.

As far as the time constraints, one month seems like plenty of time to draft a simple story plot, peppered with a few clever mini-games.

As far as promoting MAGS goes, mayhaps creating an AGS specific jam on GameJolt to get it out to the general public who may not have even heard of AGS yet?

[Chez Chef]

Before leaving Chez Chef Claudia mentions that she has to get back to work before Richy gets upset, and that the Records won't sell themselves. Now if you already figured out those clues and you just can't find the location, it's on the west side of the square. You can get there by continuing down the sidewalk to the left of Scid's bar.

Hope this helps

Just a heads up, I noticed on GameJolt that AdventureJam 2017 is coming up.
http://jams.gamejolt.io/advjam2017

From the site…
AdventureJam will begin May 5th at 9:00 PM EST, and end precisely 14 days later on May 19th 9:00 PM EST. The voting process will follow immediately after the jam concludes, and will last until June 16th at 9:00 PM EST.

I also noticed on their “Resources” page that “Adventure Game Studio” is the first resource they list

[Realiser]

Sorry about the delay, I was busy over the holidays and didn't see this thread until today.

At the Realiser Mika mentions to Guido that he should go “Home” and wait until he hears from her. I'm not sure how familiar you are with the characters from RoN, but Guido is Chef Lucca's brother, and they both live in a residence adjoining Chef's restaurant.

Hope this helps without giving too much away

If you have any more Q's and I don't reply here in a timely manner, feel free to PM me.

I actually had an idea to make a DOOM game AGS using the original sprites which didn't quite take off. Dunno if I'll be able to put anything together but I wish everyone the best of luck, this seems like a fun theme

A couple years back I was thinking about doing something similar with DOOM sprites/textures, but an RPG version. Question is, would that be an option here? Usually one can't use pre-existing assets with MAGS, or does this month's theme throw that restriction out the window? In the guidelines above it does say “No further restrictions.”

I had a family emergency this past weekend, and haven't had any time free time all week, so it looks like I won't be entering this year.

Good luck to all of you

Yes, that is where she needs to go, but it's not connected to the Yahtzeebrand store.
So lets get you heading in the right direction…

Spoiler

Once you exit Chez Café head west (left) through the center of town, and continue on until you pass Skid's. Make sure you don't go down the alley behind Skid's or on the crosswalk in the street, but continue along on the sidewalk. This will take you to the Westside of town where there are more buildings to explore.

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If you have any other Q's feel free to ask.

[Richy]

I don't want to give too much away for you, so I hope this helps…

Spoiler

While at Chez Café, Claudia tells Chef that “Richy will already be upset that she took an extended lunch”, she then mentions “those Records won't sell themselves.”

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Was that enough to get you going in the right direction?

Same here… I have a main character and backgrounds, now to form a plausible plot and puzzles around them

I've narrowed down my 3 potential scenarios to the one whose plot is most likely to be completed in time. I decided to use the RoN Space Station theme pack, rather then the whole RoN town assets, which should help keep me from going overboard

Also, I took a quick peek at the entries, which is now up to 74, and noticed that someone has enter what, based on their preview pics, looks like more of platformer/sidescoller game

As well as testing yourself, it also helps to get your name out there and on people's radar

You're way ahead of me, I have a couple ideas, but nothing really fleshed out yet. Since you can use open source graphics, and my graphic skills are lacking, I'm considering making another RoN themed game

BTW, I noticed that one of the recent entries mentioned their game is based on an earlier MAGS theme they had an idea for. So it looks like other AGS members are entering the JAM too

Well… it's only been 24 hours and already there are 55 entries.

I did a quick glace through a few of them, and couple already have games uploaded. Yeah, like you waited till Friday to start, and didn't just upload a game you had already been working on for awhile

right on dude not get some planning done !!   and good luck man

Thanx
Hopefully, I can come up with and sketch out rough plot in time

[Q]

Ok, I just checked my email, and I got the reply back from them I was hoping for

On their FAQ page they have a Q regarding if using pre-existing 3D models is allowed, to which their answer was…

“A: Creating a 3D game from the ground up can be rough when it needs to be done within a time span of 2 weeks. You are free to reuse any assets, or use freeware or commercially available assets. We only ask that you do not create any new assets specific to your AdventureJam game until May 6, 9:00PM EST.
If using freeware or commercially available assets, please credit the original creators.”

That answer seemed to be a bit 3D specific, so I had inquired if using freeware/commercially available 2D assets was allowed as well, to which Cassie replied…

“Yes, you can use freeware/commercially available 2D assets.”

Since the Rules/FAQ didn't mention it specifically, I also asked if that goes for sound effects and music as well?
And Cassie's reply was…

“Absolutely! We have some links on our Resources tab if you need an idea on where to look for sound/music “

Since I only have minimal graphics editing/manipulating skills (which is why the only MAGS I've ever entered was the RotN one), I wasn't sure if I could enter. But now that I know for sure that you can use open source graphics, I might just throw my hat into the ring

I'm really thinking about, but it largely depends on the answer to a question I sent them regarding graphics assets.

For those interested, AdventureJam 2016 starts this Friday May 6th and runs until May 20th
http://www.adventurejam.org

When checking out their “Resources” page, I thought it was cool that AGS was the first name on the list

Re: Jackie working at Dominatrix, she didn't until both you and DarkWater decided she did... in two separate games without talking to each other about it, I'd wager.

Yeah, when I first saw jwalt's screen shot in the MAGS RoN thread, I was like how'd he get a screen shot from my game

I guess it's just something about the name of the place and the way she's dressed

Thanx

I still can't believe I actually won  
Not only was this my first MAGS, but my first completed AGS game as well. Thanx again to everyone who played and voted for my game

I know where you're coming from
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