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Getting bored of living on a campsite, a young girl sets off to find a promised city where dreams come true and everyone is blessed with eternal happiness.
Will it offer a chance at a new life or a decision she'll always regret?

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This is a slightly extended version of the game we made for the OROW 9 competition, featuring things that we had planned to include, but ran out of time. These include more responses for interactions, a couple of extra mini-puzzles, re-drafted dialogue in some places, and general bug fixes.

The game plays as an interactive comic book, and is mostly driven by the story and characters, revolving around the dialogue that changes depending on the choices you make. It is also the prelude to a larger story currently in the making.


THE TEAM:
Cuiki: Story, writing and graphics
Ultra Magnus: Coding and writing
(with music from BenSound.com)

[THEME:]

Secret messages are a real thing. Backmasking is the work of Satan, designed to corrupt young unsuspecting souls for his own evil agenda.
You have been warned. Share this on all your social media in the next seven minutes or else Satan will enter through your ears and take over your feeble mind. Take Sammy for example. He didn't listen to this advice, and went on to become a rock musician. He now writes songs that contain Satanic messages when played backwards. He can make all sorts of claims about coincidence, tendency to hear what you want to hear and deliberate jokes, but deep down... deep down he knows he has now become the Messenger of Satan.

THEME:

For this tune contest, I'd like you to make a track with a short hidden message in it. Go for any genre you want, and there are no restrictions on the length (but try to make it longer than 20 seconds or so). The only rule is that somewhere in there you hide a backward message, which can be anything from your own recorded voice to a sample you found on the internet. You can even go for something like Morse code - as long as your chosen format lets you convey some sort of message.

When you're posting the track, post it without the "unreversed" version, so that people can find and decode the message for themselves.

If you're looking for some inspiration, check out the first minute of Electric Light Orchestra's Fire on High Fire on High. (Feel free to make your entry subtler or less deep than that, of course. )

The contest will close on 25th May, unless somebody asks for an extention.
Have fun... and don't listen to those songs in a dark room with headphones on at the full volume.

[5 new AGS games came out this week: Gabriel Knightley, Escape from the Wonky Island, Gyst, Oceanspirit Tennis and Day of the Ten Tacos. You're really excited and want to play all of them today, one after another, but you want to leave the Wonky Island until last, and you want to play Oceanspirit Tennis as soon as possible, that is either first or second. In how many different ways can you play those games?]

Who needs more riddle threads?
Everyone!!

So I propose we play... combinatorics and probability!

Here's a fairly easy (and fairly tedious) permutation exercise to get things started:

5 new AGS games came out this week: Gabriel Knightley, Escape from the Wonky Island, Gyst, Oceanspirit Tennis and Day of the Ten Tacos.

You're really excited and want to play all of them today, one after another, but you want to leave the Wonky Island until last, and you want to play Oceanspirit Tennis as soon as possible, that is either first or second. In how many different ways can you play those games?


If you think you know the answer, post it together with some sort of explanation, either a proper mathematical one or just something you make up as you go along. I guess you could also use brute force while you can (which would be typing out all the possible combinations and then counting them).

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Also, if you don't know where to start, here's a cool site explaining the basics of combinations and permutations in an easy-to-understand manner:
http://www.mathsisfun.com/combinatorics/combinations-permutations.html

Hey,
I currently have no access to Bugs and Suggestions Tracker (due to being a member of an elite AGS group), so I'll just post here.

I was working in AGS 3.3.0 when the properties pane (suddenly) disappeared for whatever reason. It stayed like that even after reinstalling/upgrading to 3.3.2. If I go to Window -> Properties, it looks like the properties are turned on, but they just don't appear anywhere.

Any clues?

[Well, well, well, what have we here?]

I finally present you a polished and more bug-free-than-ever version of an OROW VI entry:

Well, well, well, what have we here?


It's a short game made for One room, one week competition by Ultra Magnus and me, but since it wasn't properly tested and developed due to lack of time, we decided to fix a couple of things afterwards and rerelease it.


A screenshot:


Follow the lead of a mysterious stone lying on the ground and unravel the mysteries hidden under the surface.

Download it HERE.


The making of and special thanks:
Having almost no experience at all with AGS, I decided to enter OROW and finally make a first step towards game-developing. I spent the first six days designing puzzles, graphics and stuff like that, but I barely touched AGS itself.
It occured to me no sooner than the last day that I wouldn't be able to do all the scripting by myself in one day (or in a couple of weeks, for that matter), so I came in touch with Ultra Magnus, who saved me from a certain fail by setting up the entire game out of scratch in only a couple of hours!
He's been of great help to me even after the competition closed; he fixed all the remaining bugs as well as giving me advice on dialogue and puzzle design.

I therefore owe a big thanks to Ultra Magnus. Without you, I could never have made it in time.

I'd also like to thank Oskar for helping me with graphics and the last puzzle as well as suggesting a few really cool dialogue lines when the time was running out. Thanks for all the precious advice, love and support, too. I couldn't have made it without you either.

And last but not the least, thanks to Matic for writing me such awesome music.


Finally, I'd like to apologize to all of you who were getting frustrated with the first version and all its errors. I'd be glad to hear you took time to play it again and hopefully you'll be a bit more satisfied this time.

Any kind of comments much appreciated!

When I try to run the program I get an error message saying that the program has encountered a problem and it has to close.



Computer specs are:
Athlon 3200+
Asus A8N-E Motherboard
3 GB DDR1 ram
Geforce 6600gt
DirectX 9.0c
.NET Framework 1.1, 2.0 SP1, 3.0 SP1, 3.5 all installed

Any ideas?

"Let's see if you have made any progress. I am going to show you an outline and you tell me what do you see inside it. Please, don't threaten to kill me again, just try to think a little and tell me what do you make of it."
You see of course a bald doctor with an evil look in his eyes who is trying his best to kill you with a sheet of paper. You just want to gut him like a pig. But no! they'll send you back! You must obbey his order and tell him what do you see inside this outline. Or better, draw it.



-you must fill in the outline
-you may resize, flip or rotate the image
-you have until 22th August to finish it

Trophies are also available.

Good luck!