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[1. Goodbye]

1. Goodbye

That, FSi, was maybe the sickest thing I read today. Congratulations. 

I've recently been playing a fair few 'Escape the Room' games.  They are quite handy for people who want a quick point n click fix but don't have a lot of spare time.

How about we have either:

a) a monthly/weekly/fortnightly 'Escape the Room' contest where the winner of each contests sets the next theme, as per most other contests or...

b)We have a long running thread wherewe can all can submit Escape the Room games as and when we like and keep an updated list in the first post.

I quite like the sound of 'b'.  This way is is more 'activity' than 'competition' and can be on going.  Also it would be could practise for people who want to concentrate on the puzzle element of their games rather than getting bogged down with backgound art.

Any takers?

Count me in.

What he said.

55 words? That's going to be a little tough... 

I'll think it through. Meanwhile, thanks for mirroring!

Cascade Failure, or: To Catch An Oreleant



You play as XAN, the Security AI of good old science vessel Von Grun (just as in the ill-fated and shortlived original Cascade Failure which still lurks on my harddrive, waiting to be finished some day...). Everything goes well, until your data gathering algorithms spot that one of your crew members is obviously an Oreleant and therefore has to be terminated. Since nobody seems to be sure of what that is, things could get... interesting.

Ah, well. There's always the termination option.

[A little rushed, sorry, but this topic looked so empty and sad...)

[_ACCESS]

Well... I sure released one hell of a lot of games last year, so can I nominate myself for Most Productive Crappy Game Producer 2007? 

Now, for the serious part.

_ACCESS

It's sure been a long, long, long time since this was released so it might have gotten a little out of your memory (which is why I'm putting this here... : ) but nevertheless, I'd like to enter it for Best Non-Adventure Game Created with AGS and Best Gameplay 2007. You've GOT to love playing as a hacker!

Also, I'd like to nominate Hindenburg from Washed Ashore (Deluxe) for Best Non-Player Character... come on, he's a senitent floating Zeppelin with a degree in Engineering! Who doesn't love these?

Also also, just for the laughs basically, Me Go Store II and III for Best Dialogue. Yes, both of them.  .

Well, it's nice to see the visuals are getting better at least. Still, you might want to clean them up a little, add more consistent outlines, shapes and perspectives and probably do something about the textures that makes them look less, well, repetitive. Get GIMP, for instance; it's got an own function for filling things with textures, gradients and whatnot. Also, please don't save the images as .JPG files... .PNG will do them much, much more justice, trust me. Seems like there's a game with lots of deep, philosophical meaning in production here... but you still want people to play it, don't you? 

Yeah... I guess you're right. I've re-uploaded it. I'm sooo going to regret that. 

As long as it's not exactly like Diablo... sounds quite a bit promising, but not like the kind of news that would mess with my blood flow. Sorry.

@Akatosh: Laughed out loud (really) at that

Ditto. That's brilliant.

Hehe, thanks. 

(also, post #1.000. Hooray! )

Well, that explains how it got IN my system first, anyway. 

Hide a bunch of post-it notes all over his room with strange codes and symbols on. Number each one 1/16, 2/16 etc. But only hide 15 of them

If he's obsessive-compulsive, it'll most likely drive him stark raving mad. If not... well. 

[SKETCHQUEST!]

Let me introduce you to an alien, unimaginable world...
A world where where the border between imagination and reality is getting thinner and thinner by the very day...
A world where the very principles of matter and time are warped...
The world of-

SKETCHQUEST!



Not actually hand-drawn and it's pretty ugly and pixellated, but you get the idea. Feel free to steal! 

[Sorry, my imagination just ran rampant again and I had to get this out of my system... ]

In that case, I hereby declare Fyntax the official winner! Feel free to start a Mockup / Background Blitz with a theme of your anytime now, and thanks to Crazy and Lionmoney for participating!

In that case, try not to fall through the ground and save often, in different slots.

Wait until he's asleep, then grab a very bright flashlight, sneak up to his bed, point the flashlight directly at his face, then switch it on and shout "TRAAAAAIN!" at the top of your lungs. 

But I won't be able to pretend I didn't know the download links for the two ...Krisis games are broken anymore!   

... oops. 

Alright, people, seems we have a tie between Crazy and Fyntax... if there's another vote within the, let's say next three hours, we have a clear winner, otherwise I'd say Crazy wins because he came first... but feel free to object and vote!

I want to make it so the full room can be seen.

If the game's resolution is set to 320x200, and the background's size is 320x200, the whole screen will be visible at once.

No, it's completely okay... I waited a little longer to see if it would result in more entries, and obviously, it did! 

Right now, it's time for voting, people. Just post which entry you think was best, and why you think so.