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The Humble Bundle folks offer the option to split the price you pay as you like it. A preset like 5% to the community and 95% to the charity wouldn't seem greedy and most people probably wouldn't oppose. If thats not too complicated anyway.

I dont think anything political is a good idea as that will probablay always offend somebody.

Charity-wise I like Heifer but they have nothing to do with gaming besides toppling cows and chasing chicken.

It should say something about thick or unusual paper...maybe you interacted with the wrong item?

Just finished your game. I really enjoyed it. Especially the very diverse characters.

The ten years were defintely put to good use. The graphics gave a great feel to the game, the use of the internet and the code-riddles hit right up my alley and the background of the characters left nothing to wish for ...I especially loved the thought of

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the baby chatting with mr. nightly.

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+ its the first game I know of (probably the only one in excistence) that has a Burgman in it. I've traveled with mine to most parts of west Europe. I might have squealed a little by the sight of it 

One mild annoyance was the inventory which was pretty full all the time. An extra inventory for all the pictures and writings might be a nice addition.

you do not say!  :o

As I found just black and white reference material I'm not sure about the uniform...that is not to be understood as an offending...I feel obliged to say that because he probably fought against us...rightly so



Next, to stay with Ehkber's strange theme:

a conservative canadian ... on a rocket!

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I got a little carried away with the story while drawing. Actually I like it more than the sprite...which doesn't make much sense without the story

uh...and...1st competition, have mercy 
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"Your turn, kiddo."
My father's voice echoed through the ship. Well, not exactly my father's. Minutes before his death he feeded the board computer with his memory engrams. So I wouldn't go crazy. Alone. On this ship.
"No need to rush, old man."
I had nothing but time. 30 years the ship were on its mission. 25 of them I've been alone. Damn SZCRAs.
Slowly I moved the King, glancing to the mechanical arm controlled by my father's ghost or whatever you want to call it. I set the figure down. The little metal finger twitched. Damn.
"Got you again, kiddo!"
"You sure you're using just the assigned RAM? I'm gonna see it if you cheat again, dad."
I've gotten real good in the last years. Usually I would win one in a hundred games on this setting. I was due since 243.
"Nope, just what you gave me. It's time for recalibrations, you know."
"One more game, old man. I have a good feeling."
We had to change course every now and then. The SZCRAs were on our back and the last fight exhausted our hydrogen. I had enough water for two weeks more but the weapons wouldn't function without a heavy supply. So we were on our way to an ice meteorite on a seemingly random course.
"Suit yourself. Your last good feeling was 50 games ago and that sure was a good one."
Good feeling. The last time I had really one of those was back on earth, when I bought Granny her first cat. Grandpa died a few weeks before and i thought it a good idea. Two weeks later she had 20 of them. Like those cat ladys we used to laugh about. I still can't sleep because of that one cat. I placed the figures.
"You start, and don't forget, the first pawn decides everything. But who am I telling that, eh?"
Who indeed. My grandmother was a legend, you know. She invented a brilliant AI and the basics to space travel I use today. But after her husband died, she was pretty beaten. Somehow the cats gave her hope again...but not a good kind of hope. More like crazy. She went from cat lady to mad scientist in rapid speed. She found a way to prolong live. It didn't work with everyone. Well, at first it did. But after a year or so half the population of earth (everyone wants a longer life) turned into a sort of zombie. My granny cracked about that. She was determined to correct her mistake and designed a robot army. Well, they helped. The zombies were beaten and the earth more spacey. And my granny was done. She shut her cats and herself out from everybody. Until she died. Until almost everyone died. To the day of the SZCRAs.
I opened with a scotch game and, to show a little halfhearted humor, I took a sip from a bottle of whiskey I have never far from me. Water is rare out here. Luckily whiskey isn't. I brought plenty.
"Ha, the first time this week you made the joke, boy! You in a good mood?"
"As I said, I have a feeling..."
And then I saw it. First a flash. Then the portal opened. The SZCRAs found us. Somehow, I was glad it was over.
As my thoughts finished and I settled for a last sip of whiskey, I heard my father say "Check mate, kiddo."



     
Space-Zombie Cat-Robot Automaton (definitly no living organism)
attacking out of the portal  8)

@mdm: The poor hamster...try something else as a basis

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glue the letters back on the magazine

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@Cosmo: Look at the door, there is something you want

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Use the magazine and than the frozen noodle on the door

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Hey, thanks for playing and not giving up

The hose alone won't work, have a look at the flyer again to get some tips.

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combine the hose with the bottleneck, and the result with the valve.

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After completing that, your weapon, there is another hotspot in the cellar you may have missed:

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You have to pull the plug of the freezer

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That is indeed the solution...last minute changes forced me to replace one bug with two others, as usual.

The download above links to the new version...sorry about that 

My contribution to Maniac Mansion Mania, now available in English (thanks to Paolo for great help and proofreading).
While playing keep in mind that this is part of a series. There are some gags refering to earlier episodes and of course Maniac Mansion, so I recommend playing all of them

The default language is German, so you have to change that in the setup.



Hoagie gets kidnapped by two mysterious bad guys. Bernard, as the only witness, picks up their trail and starts a rescue mission. To his disposal are his boundless wits, Michael and the incredible rescue car.

Features:

-multiple playable characters
-three different areas to explore
-mind-boggling riddles
-5 eastereggs
-lovely animations
-a hamster

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I'm still in need of a proofreader for my translation. As soon as that is done, the game is ready to go.

Looks fun.

Maybe you could split it in one offensive melee barbarian/berserker class type and the ranged/melee ranger type after woodsman.

Like Lumberjack -> Woodsman -> Ranger -> Archon of Forrests
                                                 -> Savage -> Rage of Forrests

hard feelings on that one   

I'm officially settled on using some french words, should be sufficiant and nobody gets stressed out 

Thanks again everybody

Ah monsiur, you arrrr lookiing on 'ow ta wrat ah franch assornt a haw haw haw?
Sankfooly ah am le expére on sooch mattres! Steeck wiz me an' yoo will tek too ee' lahke a doock to watre a haw haw haw!!

I stared 5 minutes at this until I got it, damn duck.

Here's what I would do: find some native French speakers and ask them to translate some dialog, then translate it back and see for example how French speech patterns are reflected in the result.

That's a bit much for it, the char isn't really involved in the game, it's just a little cameo. But being french helps to understand to whom the char is referring, so it's kind of important.

Please don't use "ze" for the. That is such a cliché!

A cliché sounds actually just about right for my purposes...is it an very offensive one?

Sounds reasonable, which explains why I didn't think of it. Thank you all!

I have a character in my game speaking english with a french accent. I tried to do that with a lot of z's and stressed vowels, like this:

I am wiz a scientific group from Pari'.
Zat is a seecret to be solved in zee very last ....

Now it was pointed out to me that that could easily be taken for a german accent too. So I need some input on how to write that accent in a distinctive way.

arj0n suggested the way Officer Crabtree from 'Allo 'Allo speaks:

* God Moaning. The resist-once have accqo-aired a bum. They are going to ex-plod the whaleway brodge.
* I was pissing by the door, when I heard two shats. You are holding in your hand a smoking goon; you are clearly the guilty potty.
* Hole Hotler!
* My lips are soiled.
* I am disgeesed as poloceman so I am oble to move aboot with complate frodom.
* The troon carrying the painting has been bummed by the RAF.
* I am wicking this woo because my poloceman's troosers are full of deenamote.
* There was a wetness at the bonk.
* Dearly belivid. We are gathered here todoo to join this min and this women in haley weedlock.
* Then they will be taken to the arbour where a small boot will be waiting by the dis-used dick.
* Do not wirry
* I'm half Itolioen. I'm from Niples.
* I have bad nose.
* I have a massage from Michèlle.

I don't know if thats recognizable enough, but I'm from Germany and no native speaker so I am in need of some suggestions.
If the Crabtree-style is the way to go I would need help from someone who would be so kind to write my not very long dialogue in this style as I can't wrap my head around this.

Suggestions and help are most welcome.

Thats just great...thats exactly how my grandpa acted in his last months. I was quite sorry when it ended because it really felt like I was in his head. Thanks, man.

Hey there,

I'm about to finish my AGS adventure, a contribution to Maniac Mansion Mania and I'm looking for some beta testers who also would check the english spelling/grammar/generel sense-making of my translation.

I'd send you the game and the translation file, though I'd much prefered it if you would actually play the game in regard to above mentioned sense-making of the translation... and the sure to be found occasional bug

Nonetheless a quick view over the translation file would be nice, too, to catch the stuff that didn't come up in the game.

If interested, pm me.
Thanks and greets, mukk