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I think this justifies returning from the grave.

I'm still dyson.sphere (AT) web (DOT) de.

[FSi]

Alright, I'll have to make this short... I'll go with FSi, on account of giant killbots and a surprisingly "polished" aura despite the whole hourgame thang.

I made a faithful adaption of The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem. Click the cover to download.



(And no, there's really nothing to do. I didn't have time to make any puzzles. Let's call it an eight of an ass?)

/EDIT: This version has more animation, but it was finished very slightly after the deadline.

But I'm pretty sure this won't stop people from changing their system time to bypass the block.  Correct me if I'm wrong.

It indeed won't. You can always resort to trickery - such as creating a small file once the time has been registered as "expired" once and having the game refuse to run if said file exists, that kind of thing - but it's quite possible to bypass that.

Alright, thanks for the advice. Here's the new version...



...with some added manual dithering (for graininess) and an attempt at anti-aliasing (blatantly fashioned after Khris' paintover). 11 colors, unless I miscounted, although I probably could cut it down to 9 or 10 without much trouble.

So, yeah. For some reason (I blame solar flares), I've gone temporarily mad and was successfully convinced by a friend to try my hand at pixel art again... specifically, a 32x32 teabag icon. This is what I came up with:


(4x, in case you're interested)

Compared to my previous attempts at this kind of thing, it's... tolerable, I guess, but I'm not really satisfied with it. Any suggestions?

(Also, yay for randomly vanishing for two months.  )

Note that NsMn's code only works if the user is asked and inputs a number, however, and allows the player to access any room by inputting the correct one... the InputBox function is a quick and simple way to do this, but you'll need slightly more sophisticated scripting.

/EDIT:

Code: ags

String GoTo;
while ((GoTo.LowerCase()!="attic")&&(GoTo.LowerCase()!="bedroom")) GoToRoom=Game.InputBox("Where would you like to go - attic or bedroom?");
if (GoTo.LowerCase()=="attic") player.ChangeRoom(4);
else player.ChangeRoom(5);

Would be a quick'n'dirty, but HOPEFULLY workable example.

[FSi]

I somehow couldn't get past the woman in Akatosh's game, which is a shame, it had a nice atmosphere.

Just in case anybody was interested, the correct sequence of actions should be something like

Spoiler

Wait until the medieval war scene
? and ! the corpse
Wait until it's the tranquil castle scene again
? and ! the peasant
Wait for the next transition
! the red soldier
Wait until the next transition
! the blue soldier
Wait for the next loop to begin, then quickly ! the survivor
Wait for the end, then ! the General Ripper expy
Be disappointed by the ending.

Fun how a game called 160 Seconds an Adventure cannot possibly be completed in less than 480 seconds without cheating, huh?

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As for my thoughts... well, watch this space, I still have to play some of those games.

Okay, played them all now... I liked all of them quite a bit (even if ARGH featured Comic "Satan" Sans! ) and I had a hard time deciding for whom to vote... in the end, however, I'll go with FSi, both for the visual style and the dialogue.

And ShiverMeSideways does, indeed, r0xx0r.

Take the music.vox from this file
and the other ones from this

(or this one, but that was technically finished after the deadline)

Sorry for any inconvenience, stuff may not actually work and/or go out of sync, I had no time to playtest. Concept was too frigging ambitious.

/EDIT: Goes out of sync if you ? the first or ! the second peasant or ! the second living soldier see the "waiting" cursor. So read fast.

/EDIT2: Not if you use the version I linked to third. Complicated I know.

I've got some scribbles. Watch this space. I suck. A lot.

Well, I did start the GameRanger program thingamajiggibob... does that count as setting it up?

Neat. I'll have enough time for a round.

Well, I received them now. If anybody's up for a few rounds of StarCraft tomorrow evening (by GMT standards) and/or during the weekend, I'd love to participate.

Registered, waiting for activation e-mail to arrive... so not much different over here. 

/EDIT: ...yeah, forget this. I'll play with you guys another time, when I get this set up. Sorry 'bout this.

The latter... it's taking its sweet time.

I think I've got it mostly set up... but it refuses to let me log in or send an activation e-mail.

Oh, hey... StarCraft. I haven't played that in years... may be fun to see just how far my skills have atrophied. (I'm not really sure what you guys mean by "iccup channel ags", though... ).

Oh, hey. Just when you thought they couldn't really try to get their hands at even more avenues of communication. I mean... seriously, it's getting ridiculous. 

I'll go with "no, thanks" as usually. But my opinion on that corporation ("like Dollar Bill Gate'$ Mikkkro$haft") should be well-known already. 

[FSi]

Another vote for FSi here. You gotta admire that much determination to participate. Also, the game's pretty fun. 

About one hour left for voting, people. Better hurry up a bit.

So, unless I miscounted... victory goes to FSi, Mazoliin and Gord are tied for second place. Congratulations to all of you, and thanks to all participants! No trophies because I suck. Now bedtime.

Alright... all the games are there, so let the voting commence! (And end exactly 24h from now. Refer to the timestamp.)