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About five days left - how's progress everybody?

Thank you for the entry Cleanic, I declare you winner!

it was his decision to delete the account

I thought you can't delete your own account anymore? Or can you? I noticed a while ago he was gone and I hope you're right and he hasn't been banned or something...

That means you may actually try to make a game one day before competition is closed .

Technically true - but don't do this just to win by default, if there are no other entries!

Here it is, although it's locked now. Really nice to see this rereleased. You don't often see AGS games with graphics like this, in a good way!

So one would need to get permission for every post they make from a different account, irrespective of whether the post is being used for bumping, praising, voting etc for the parent account? This must be the case because nobody is stupid enough to ask permission to post a vote for themselves.

[Topic: 'Fangame']

Topic: 'Fangame'

This month's guidelines were set by Nightfable:

Choose an old adventure game that you love and make a short continuation. It could be a sequel or remake of the original with a twist.



Ending on 3rd October



What is MAGS?

MAGS is a monthly competition for all amateur adventure game makers. The idea is to create a game in under a month, following the rules set by the previous winner. It aims to help you work to a deadline, improve your skills, or provide a kick-start into making adventure games. Regardless of skill, MAGS is for everyone. Voting is based on "favorite" games, and not the most artistic, or the best coded. If you have bad art skills, use it as a chance to do some graphic work. If you're sub-standard at coding, use it as a chance to give scripting a go. Ultimately, people will vote for the most enjoyable entry.

You may get help for the competition, although you must end up doing something yourself. You should however be warned that it proves difficult to organize a big team within thirty days. You are not allowed to use material already created before this competition. Your game must be completely new! Music and sound is an exception; you can use free material that is available to the public, if you wish. Modules and templates are also allowed. Please do not enter the competition with a rushed entry (a game created last minute). Sure, you can make a game and rush it - but don't do this just to win by default.

Entering MAGS is simple. First, conceptualise your game following the month's criteria (see top). Second, create your game fueled only by coffee. Third, finally, and most importantly, post your game here, including:

âœ" A working download link.
âœ" The title of your game.
âœ" A suitable screenshot.

At the end of the month, the all-important voting will begin! This period usually lasts fifteen days. Should you win, along with announcing the next month's rules, your name and game will be immortalised in the MAGS Archive. Yet hopefully, at the end of the month, the accomplishment of finishing a game will be your greatest prize. For more information please visit the Official MAGS website.

Nope, MAGS September is up in a minute. Right now stuff outside the forums is making me tardy, sorry all for the delays every month.

[15th September]

Really as long as you need until you're happy it's finished. But 15th September would be a good date to work to as we need to do voting and the like.

Thanks for the entry Cleanic, that month's theme was awesome. Ofc use the extra time if you need to.

Or, if you have an Android phone, there's a free app on Google store that will automatically take a bald-ified photo using your phone's camera.

Ah yeah great idea! If only I had an Android... but maybe I can borrow one. Khris I'll try your idea first, thanks.

I need a little Photoshop help. Anyone know the best way to alter a photo to make someone bald? We're talking pure Grade 0 here.

I've tried the clone stamp tool but find that using portions of a person's forehead makes the result a bit unrealistic, because it disrupts the shadow and is not shiny enough. I've tried practising on Keira Knightly with the clone stamp technique but was wondering whether anybody can suggest another method?

PS. Shaving the subject in real life is impractical.

Edit: practising not practicing

Woah steady on, I've been away all day But no, Ponch is the winner anyway cos I managed a lot but it's disjointed, as bits are missing from the middle and end. Ponch's is better too!

Awesome Cleanic!

Don't forget everybody that this month there's practically no deadline (ok, it would take the mick to go until December). So if people will have more time in September, then they can use that month too.

But you don't even have udders. By all acounts that makes you a sorry excuse for a cow.

I'll write something tomorrow, would say a one day extension be ok? I don't like the prospect of winning by default though

Landing on the Moon is complicated, but not so much that everything would explode if the minutest detail was wrong. All you need to do is ensure complex organisms like humans can survive when they're in a lander and suit by adapting technology they already had. Getting into orbit from Earth is the hardest part of the journey, easier than just essentially giving the lander a push to escape the Moon's gravitational field. I knew you weren't a troll and to be fair I partially subscribe to some Illuminati/MK Ultra theories, but like you, only because I haven't found explanations, not because I want to be trendy

Seriously guys, </3 I know there are lots of people who could enter this month. Pretty much anything goes, even if you only thought about entering for month X. Is there any reason why there are only two takers?

Probably not the best time to say I don't believe he had actually ever landed on the moon then?....

I hope you are trolling.

This is very profound. I think the glaring colours but blurred edges of the shapes are alluding to the intensity of human desire in all its immediacy, but such emotion is never clear-cut. The red symbolises passion, and the black shows how desire is one and the same with emptiness and despair through longing. In this piece, desire is likened to fire and so is portrayed as a destructive albeit complex and thoroughly human emotion. Ig, this is an absolutely breathtaking piece which really makes you stop and think about humanity.

Wow I'd never heard of Foldit but it's a brilliant concept.