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Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Someone had a little fun dressing up this pirate. Sadly he doesn't seem to approve.
I had fun though



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Yay nice trophies  Thank you abstauber. I loved Twirlly's entry and I'm glad to see it won! 

Alright! - It's time to close this ball

1st place goes to Twirly
I like your sunken ship, and the continued story. It makes me want to know more about what happended
And you included a background

2nd place goes to Ghost
Your entry is really funny though I'm not really sure what's going on in there

3rd place goes to Akatosh
A paddle? That was unexpected

Geraduatuza: Your entry was also very creative, but I feel it's unfair to judge it on the same scale as the other handdrawn entries since it was a copy'n'paste thingy. I'm sorry.


Thank you for participating!

LOL! Twirly, I love your entry 

And yes I agree - Come on and make some entries.
Or else this will end up as the first animation competition where the only participants were the pink price hunters.. I think 

Domino - Don't give up. I would really like to see the idea you came up with!

Let's give this a start
The reason why Genie In A Bottle does NOT work.

HAHA  Nice one Ghost!

Wow... No replies at all.. 
Come on folks. Is it really that bad?

Weirdest thing for me is that my dreams always come with a "GUI" of some sort. As in, when they're starting to turn into nightmares, I usually find myself thinking "fuck this" and "quitting" the dream via a pop-up menu, thus waking up. Maybe I've played too many computer games. No lucid dreams, sleep paralysis or alien abductions here, though.

Lol! Why don't I have a GUI in my dreams??

Anyway my dreams are always weird. I never experience ordinary things when I sleep. It's always weird places, weird creatures and stuff. Sometimes.. well most times.. They're good dreams where I just wander about.
I haven't had nightmares for years (like some of you mentioned). However they've come back now.
I have them almost every night.
I'm certain the reason I have them, is because I got a new job, and I'm not yet at this point where I can take it easy. - Every day is a new challenge to me where I get uncertain and anxious and of couse this results in bad dreams.

E.g. I've had a nightmare where I thought I'd woken up in the kitchen with a glass of water in my hand. Going into the livingroom, I see three large white blankets that have been hung op, dividing the livingroom in two.
The lighting in the room comes from a small white lamp in the corner, that glows rather bright for its size.
The sofa is also cowered with a blanket and when I see it i realize that I am actually tired, so I lie down. Something about the hanging blankets disturb me and as I try to focus on the darkness behind them I wake up for real in my bed by some sudden noise.
I guess it doesn't sound that scary, but I was a bit confused because I thought I was already awake.

[Rules:]

Here's the story -

You've gone for a long walk, and suddenly finds yourself in a place you haven't been to before.
It seems your thoughts have kept you busy as your legs did theirs to get you here.

As you stop to look around your new surroundings, your eye catches something... A bottle!?
You decide to take a closer look at it........



And this is where YOU come in! What is that bottle?? Or what's in it? Perhaps a tiny village full of people, or a message? Or is it just empty? (Or has it fooled you to think that?)

Rules:
You may rotate the image, but not scale it.
You can not alter the outline.
No colour limit
Including a background is a bonus!

Have fun!

Thank you pilferinloot.
I'll start a new one soon!

I hope the outline shows clearly enough. Otherwise let me know, and I'll post another version.


Upon opening my fridge, I am confronted with.........



Oh my... what IS that??!
....
*SWOOSH* *CRUNCH*

.oO(I guess I was the snack tonight)

I'm a girl in disguise but don't tell anyone  8)

**EDIT**

Darrgh! I should never have looked in this thread.. Now look what you made me do!!

Please reload the page -- This animation is 1 minute long, so you might want to watch it from the beginning!
I decided to post this double sized version for better viewing. Hope you don't mind abstauber


Hope to see more participants!

TassieDevil >> I realize that I did make some pixelhunting in the game though it was not my intention. I plan to release a version 1.1 sometime in the future. Thanks for the feedback 

neon >> Thank you very much! I'm very glad you liked it 

My only criticism is to look over the interface a bit - the menus are fine but sometimes over exits they confuse the cursor, and cycling looks a bit odd on the title screen.

Yes, about the title screen, I tried to disable the function that makes the cursor cycle when the user right clicks but I couldn't figure out how. The only thing I could do was to tell the game, that when the user right clicks, the cursor would (still) be a pointer. But when you right click, the next cursor shows in a blink and I couldn't get rid of it.

Given that there are only 2 modes a left-use right-look interface might feel more fluid.

- Hmm you've got a point there.

I'm glad you liked the game! And thank you very much for your feedback. It's really appreciated!

Just finished the game and I liked it, although I found it confusing that the main character didn't comment on being in a unfamiliar place when the game started, I first thougt the place was the characters "usual" surroundings. She could say something along the lines of "what am I doing here?" or "what is this place?" or whatever... All in all I enjoyed it.

I suppose she could say something along those lines, but I don’t know if I’ll change it.

Is it wanted that the debug shortkeys (CTRL+X, CTRL+S) are still active?

: ..I can't believe I forgot to disable that. Thanks for telling me.

I've just started playing and I'm not very far in. I really can't find any objects despite much random clicking and there isn't any glaring clue in sight, so... Well, I'm stuck. Needless to say I find the game quite difficult.

The graphics are gorgeous and the music creates a really nice atmosphere. I've no particular complaints about the gameplay. It took me a few moments to get used to but as there's nothing ground-breaking there it eventually works fine.

I'd just like to point out that this game is quite dark and as such a complete nightmare to play on a laptop like I am. I had to turn the brightness to the maximum setting to actually see anything.

If it doesn't get too frustratingly difficult, this looks like a very enjoyable game.

I'm sorry you find the game that difficult but I hope much of the difficulty is because of the graphics being too dark. I stuck to the random clicking because any help from the cursor would let you finish the game in no time. It's very short. Hopefully you'll see when you finish it

I wanted to lighten the graphics a tad before releasing the game, but the thought of importing all the graphics and backgrounds all over again was just too much for me. It is not the slightest dark on my own screen, so I’ve not realized the problem until yesterday when I downloaded it at my dad’s, only to see the graphics were almost completely black That really bothered me, so perhaps you can expect a version 1.1 coming up with lightened graphics. That is IF I can get over my laziness..

I like this game, nice work. Good atmosphere and scenery.

Totally stuck just short of finishing it I think! Asked for some help in the hints thread. Must be missing something.

Edit: I figured it out finally! Cool game.

I’m glad you liked it

To all: Thank you for your feedback. I really appreciate it!

[Fading Shades now released]

Fading Shades now released

So, since the betatest version was released, I actually didn't change that much.

That doesn't mean I didn't listen to your feedback, but some of the stuff you suggested was just not that easy to fix.

If you'd bother reading my excuses, they are listed below. Otherwise you can download the game here.

Spoiler

Eg. The spelling errors in the diary. As the diary was hand written about two years ago, the original pages somehow got lost. I tried to fix the errors in photoshop, but it was too obvious that it didn't fit in with the other writing.

As for the rather confusing navigation, people will just have to adapt to it. I thought for a while about including a map, but since the game is so small, it seemed silly to me.

When starting the game, the cursor was a hand in the beta version. It still is. It was suggested that I could make it an arrow instead, but I don't think it would solve anything. The hand suggests everything can be interacted with while the arrow suggests the opposite. I don't know which is worse. ;-)

The inventory / options bar at the top annoyed a few people. I would have made a change to it so that it popped up on mouseover, but I couldn't figure out how to do it.

Some didn't like the cowbar puzzle, but I kind of liked the decoy effect about it, so I didn't change that either. The red pearl puzzle is also still "out of place", since I was fresh out of clever ideas to implement hints.

The graphics are too dark on some screens, and I'd really like to brighten them up, but all the work required afterwards with importing the graphics and objects all over again was too much. I'm sorry but I guess I'm really lazy.

[close]

I hope you can forgive me my laziness. I will certaintly keep your advice in mind for future games!

Fading Shades is a small 1st person adventure game, set in an unknown location.
The only way out is by crossing the rainbow bridge but you can't as long as there are colours missing...

It's my first game and I know a lot of things could be improved, but I must admit that after working on it for the past 3 years, I just want to finish the project instead of risking it ending up never released.

--- Download it here ---

Is it pre-rendered screens or do you actually walk around like in an FPS?

If pre-rendered means static images, then yes.

It seems everyone has said what needs to be said, so I thank everyone who took the time to test the game and give feedback

A nice game; like others have said, a very good atmosphere and it looks spiffy That said, I'm stuck near the end

Ok a hint:

Spoiler

You've practically solved it. The crowbar might be good at opening things, but besides that, it's also long ;-) I know it's not a very logical solution, but this way, the crowbar serves as a decoy because of what you normally would use it to.

[close]

I found the graphics a tad dark, but my monitor is kind of old and I've had that problem before.

Ok, you're the first to say it's too dark, so I guess I'll wait and see if there are others too. Otherwise I don't think I'll change it.

One suggestion I have is that the narrator not refer to the player (eg. "I don't know what you want me to do").  Since the story seems to be a very personal one to the narrator, I think it kind of breaks the fourth wall to have the player reminded that they're directing another person, not doing things themselves.

You're right. I didn't think about that. It will be corrected. Thank you. :-)

Congratulations on the imminent release of your first game!

Thank you very much :-)