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FANTASTIC!

It's been a long time, but I can also feel the need for a series replay coming on.

Congratulations on the release Mr Cow I greatly look forward to playing it. 

OK, I totally failed this month. Not even a title screen!

The best I can do is one screenshot with 1 background and 2 characters on their way to being finished.



I'm going to try again in April though. Well done to those who got something out.

@Intense Degree That seems like a good place to start 
I promise to have at least the title screen aaand menu music (I like to start with the music )

I like your thinking. If I get time I'm going to try and knock up some music too.

So far life has got in the way a fair bit, but I have 2 character sprites and the beginnings of a background on the way so I am feeling good about getting something done, even if I haven't managed a title screen yet!

OK, it's been too long since I've managed one of these. I've started a few over the last couple of years but then life kept happening. Well this time i'm going to say up front that I am going to release something this month even if it's only a title screen!

I haven't even got an idea yet, but i'm hoping that making this pledge will motivate me to get something done and released for the first time in ages.

Will anyone else join me in the March MAGS At Least A Title Screen Pledge?!

Hey, nice festive theme!

It's been a while since I did any game making, this could be a nice one to try and get back in on. No promises, but I already have an idea or two... 

Voted. Some cool entries last year, looking back on them now it seems that maybe 2020 did go more quickly than I thought after all. 

Thanks Stu for all the work with MAGS, so good to see it still going.

Hey Cool! Recently played the first 2 for award nominations etc. and very much looking forward to continuing the saga. 

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Finished it and had a great time. I love the tone/atmosphere mixed with the Police Quest sort of 'boring' puzzles. It's actually inspired me to blow the dust off a game I haven't worked on for a few years so thanks for an enjoyable game and some much needed inspiration!   

Hmmm, I do have a sort of idea but don't know whether I will have time.

Count me in as a "possibly" I suppose?

I've had a quick play of both entries.

Slasher - I really like the cat and mouse combo, the game is fun and engaging and I liked compiling the meal.

VampireWombat - very intriguing, however I did find a bit of a bug in that if you talk to Da there is no way to exit the conversation and you are stuck there forever!

Spoiler

Adbucting Roger over and over again

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made me laugh!

Time management alien game?  Count me in! 

[Cassie's Poutchie]

Ah, I also may have forgotten about this... 

My vote goes to Cassie's Poutchie. Looks fluffy and cuddly and cool.

One more possible bug with The Bouncer: at the beginning of level 5 (I think), the first person on the right hand side queued near the end of the line instead of the beginning and would not change tint. I could summon the ID checking interface when I clicked her and after she was through, the next person in the queue stepped forward and changed tint as he should.

Screenshot below:
https://i.ibb.co/G2fK7T3/bouncer2.png

The perpetrator is the fair haired lass in a green dress

Edit: Actually, 6. Level 6.

Ah, this looks like the same thing Sinitrena found before and I think I may now understand it. Looks like the ladies in question might have just slipped off the walkable area, which I guess happened when characters passed each other. If 2 had arrived for the queue at more or less the same time and one had been rejected and met them coming the other way one of them may have been nudged too low...

No time to look now, but I might try a cheeky and carefully placed eAnywhere for the relevant walk commands later on.

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A bug report for Rain & Snow - The Bouncer

Firstly, thank you so much for this, it really helped track the problem. So I have tidied up the function in question and I am assuming all is good but I have still not been able to reproduce this bug in the first place - before the fix! So if anyone comes across it again please do let me know.

Download links updated, or click here http://www.mediafire.com/file/j95jv79dbuswcxs/Rain_%2526_Snow_-_The_Bouncer_1.11.7z/file

I have been pretty busy recently, but have started to play the other games here. Not done with them yet but I have to say that so far the standard has been absolutely breathtaking. What a MAGS!

Just a quick one.

The initial idea to get kids to eat healthily by making fruit & veg cool through toys may not have been entirely without merit, but the decision to hand off the design and production to the cheapest bidder resulted in the 3-wheeled-cob series of toys. With wheels that don't move and all the beauty of a cheap plastic finish, poor old Corny-Wheels was destined for the Island of Misfit Toys!

[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/zkeAM74.png[/imgzoom]

OK v1.1 is up and running! http://www.mediafire.com/file/j95jv79dbuswcxs/Rain_%2526_Snow_-_The_Bouncer_1.11.7z/file

I've adjusted the difficulty and made sure that you can't be too unlucky.

I couldn't track down the exact source of the bug reported. I have re-worked one or two bits and have not been able to reproduce the bug in 10+ attempts so hoping all is fine.

If you play and get that bug again it would be really helpful if you could let me know when it happened and the circumstances as best you can. Perhaps I'm just being thick but I cannot trace the problem in the code or while playing the game to any one specific thing. In fact I can't reproduce the problem at all. Hoping that's a good thing!

Ah, I got the same bug as Shadow. It crashed twice (Edit: three times - I give up for now) for me in the second night (both times when I clicked the admit button, if this helps). Good to know you're already looking into this.

Ah. Haven't had time to look properly yet, but will get the fine tooth comb out later on. Thanks for tracking it to an admission.

As for difficulty: The people are completely random, aren't they? I had one runthrough of the first day where I admitted three people and after that every single person for the rest of the night was someone I had to send away (at least 20 people), making it impossible to win.

Interesting game, though. I would like to get past the second night. 

Yeah, they are random. It should be a 1 in 3 chance of a refusal for the first few levels so you must have been really unlucky. Lost count of the number of times I have played through and never had it that bad! I will do some re-jigging for v1.1 once i've hunted down that bug.

Sorry about that... I thought we straightened out the settings.

Hey, no need to apologise, easily done and easily fixed. 

@TheBitPriest - only just downloaded it, but just to say I saw the message about needing to be run windowed and notice that you've moved the winsetup file so it can't easily be changed. Unfortunately it defaulted to fullscreen for me so I had to manually move the winsetup file back and tick that 'windowed' box. Not that much hassle, but assume you meant to set it to run windowed by default before moving the setup file.

Will play and proper comments later.

@Mandle - hope you're feeling better soon and the game gets to see the light of day at some point. 

I got halfway through level 2 and it crashed. Something about a character not being in a room? I think I get the general idea of the game. How many levels are there?

Ah rats, I haven't seen one of those for days and thought I had ironed that problem out after I increased the NPC number to 60. I'll have another look.

And 6 levels by the way. It's pretty easy to get the idea but it does get a lot more involved as you go through the levels.

The difficulty is influenced by one random event, and that is how long it takes before the patrons start to line up. If it takes 30 minutes + of in-game time before the first guest approaches, it will be a lot harder than if someone walks straight into the queue.

Hmmm, the first character comes in after 3 minutes of in game time (3 seconds) and after that it's random, I think 2 - 5 seconds or something. Obviously if they come in from the right it takes longer to get into the queue so if you're unlucky enough to get the first few characters in from the right I suppose that could take a while. I'll have a think about ensuring you get one from the left quickly.

I found it quite hard to pitch the difficulty because obviously I have played it lots in repeatedly testing things, so maybe I'm better at it than I think! I was hoping the first level was fairly easy but perhaps not...

[Rain & Snow - The Bouncer]

OK, I think I've done about as much bug squashing as I'm going to manage. Thanks for the extension, it has many less bugs now and a 'tutorial' type thing that seems to work OK.

Is it bug free? Well put it this way, I will guarantee a bug free playing experience if you refrain from performing any action which causes a bug when you play it! 

Rain & Snow - The Bouncer



Based on everyone's favourite pub admit-em-up 'Not Tonight' you must man the door at one inexplicably popular and really badly drawn pub. I think they're so busy because of the absolute tunes being played every night, but you'll have to make up your own mind about that.

Can you sort the underage from the of-age, the fake photos, unstamped ID's and chancers of this world without issued tickets? Are they even on the guestlist? In the immortal words of the bouncer if "your name's not down, you're not coming in!".

GET IT HERE http://www.mediafire.com/file/j95jv79dbuswcxs/Rain_%2526_Snow_-_The_Bouncer_1.11.7z/file

In all seriousness, if you have time to play do let me know of any bugs. Also please do tell me if it's too easy or hard. I think I have a balance of sorts struck but... well...

Looking forward to playing the other entries. 

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Was just about to upload a buggy mess of a game at the eleventh hour when I come here and see about the extension!

OK then, a bit more time to try and knock this attempt at a game into shape.

While I'm here, I'll just drop a screenshot...



See, barely copying 'Not tonight' at all!!!