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The competitions rules may should state how to proceed in case a competition is running past it's supposed end date (like current Background Blitz!) or has not been re-iterated yet (like current Sprite JAM).
Also if we could have a RELEASE SOMETHING! 2021 in upcoming September.

[bicilotti]

https://www.scummvm.org/news/20210404/

The hype is real.

Also thanks to bicilotti for the link to this news from Apr 4, 2021 (this fellow  deserves an AGS lifetime award..)

- CLOSED - it because unrealistic, true. Maybe an AGShotel is a more viable way. Still thanks to everyone responding.

Imagine there's a town in rural Italy, surrounded by soft hills, where people know (and love) each other.
Every day, they meet at the impressive ancient Roman fountain, and eat freshly baked bread from the stone oven, dunking it into a blue cup with minestrone soup. This enchanting place is named AGSvillaggio or Jonestown.

There are apparently beautiful 1-EUR-homes in crumbling rural areas. The ideal spot for likeminded people of a community to get an own home here.

Sometimes I wonder if such a community place, as hypothetically the thought is, would be a shared vision of others too.

Thx for clarifying. Right, everything said here should be taken with a grain of salt, since it's only a hobbyist forum. And you are a woman; gonna try to be my best. 

Very sorry for putting established people off here. Of course the wording was overexaggerated, just to state a far edged point of view which may is not totally invalid. And yet I still stand by that core message:

The community aspect here is by far the strongest point for me. Still is, and should be emphasized.

Yet the typical gameplay (interface, puzzle design,room-based) of adventures (derived from those text/image hybrids of Legend Interactive interfaces) is clearly something to revisit. Even established veterans like Charles Cecil sorta agree on the shortcomings of it. How to achieve such needed non-linearity and compelling narrative design for the semiprofessional allrounder is a adifficult question, both in theoretical mechanism as well as codewise implementation .

But ok, I am a dumb and an ignorant troll.

@Sinitrena Thank you for bringing the wonderful JAM back!

- reserving space -

Guess we outweighingly all agree that classical point n'click adventures are the most boring thing ever existed. They simply jangle with their linear clunkiness between annoying puzzles and unavoidable dialogues speedclicking. And that's why there is so little, if at all, feedback for authors even here (since no one can be bothered to play them).

So what has been the secret success secret of this forum: It's communion. One could find many likeminded people here, dedicated to their dreams they want to self-express. Originally this lame genre was an ok'ish purpose in the 90's for writing, composing tracks or pixelating. Don't get me wrong, each of these artsy disciplines are still great for itself. But foremost, it has always been great fun to hang out here, with these rare 2,3% people on the playful scale. Most of them rather outsidey snowflakes, but decent. Like you and me.

Yet with holding on this tediously boring game concept until today, less and less usable "really good friend" material can be found here. Increasingly unable to connect to soulmates, people got angry and bitter. And moved away to other shores, a lucky few with their friendships established here.

Though not me. I gonna stay here and endure. In case anyone humble and smart seeks an honest friend, don't hesitate to PM me, so I can send you the questionnaire.