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Thanks to Creamy and Selmiak the full version is now available - basically the same game as the MAGS version but with extra animations and effects, and French / German translations.  Enjoy!  Take your sloth to love and freedom, and stuff.

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2035/

My CD games follow the format of "Captain Disaster in:" followed by a 6 word title, so I should have a while before I start too run out

[* Have a long, unskippable animated sequence every time something that regularly needs to be done in the game is done.* Make moving from one location to another such a slow and tedious affair that you start to grow grey hairs between locations.* Make long, unskippable dialogue sequences that you have to play the whole way through every time even though it accomplishes nothing useful and says nothing new.* Ensure that the only way to complete a puzzle in room 10 is to have found an item which is a pixel hunt and for which no clues are given anywhere back in Room 1. * Make tricky puzzles for which the only clue is a passing reference much earlier in the game (in a dialogue that cannot be repeated).]

* Have a long, unskippable animated sequence every time something that regularly needs to be done in the game is done.

* Make moving from one location to another such a slow and tedious affair that you start to grow grey hairs between locations.

* Make long, unskippable dialogue sequences that you have to play the whole way through every time even though it accomplishes nothing useful and says nothing new.

* Ensure that the only way to complete a puzzle in room 10 is to have found an item which is a pixel hunt and for which no clues are given anywhere back in Room 1. 

* Make tricky puzzles for which the only clue is a passing reference much earlier in the game (in a dialogue that cannot be repeated).

Jul-10   20:00   Portugal  1  vs  3 France

[that was unexpected!!!!!]

I just played it again, determined to finish the 4th voyage to reach the 5th, and did it - by the skin of my teeth!

Then the 5th voyage... well, I don't want to spoil it for anyone else, but all I will say is... that was unexpected!!!!!

(Oh and I will also add that, when I managed to sail a near-perfect 2nd voyage, it was more gratifying than I'd expected it to be!)

Congrats CaptainD, on hitting the correct score!

Thanks!  I only saw the last 20 minutes, just in time to see the second goal, and from then on was willing both teams to miss!!!!

Welcome Luis!  We'll be hearing some of your music in an updated game release pretty soon

Posting simply to commend Stupot+ for his use of the word "prolificity"

Don't think I have time for this one but am interested to see what people do with the theme.

At the World Ultimate Chopstick Championship, reigning champion Daliette has been undefeated for several years.  Young hopeful William Griggerson has made it to the final, but he's given no chance at all of winning.  By means of distraction and imaginative use of inventory items, he manages to nobble 5 of her 6 arms, and thus become the winner!

Also protests that he is expected to eat soup with chopsticks.

Er... ah... er... um...

Jul-6   20:00   Portugal   0   vs   1   Wales - ah why not, I think this Welsh side have got it in them.  Would be hilarious (and brilliant) to see them in a major final!!
Jul-7   20:00   Germany   0   vs 2      France - really tough to call, I think the home crowd will roar France on to victory though.

Or was there actually a "Time Team" game?!?

Good entries, but I have to vote for SinSin.  In fact I might try to nab that for a game (don't know what game, but I really feel it deserves to be in a game!).

Whilst trapped on a dessert island I, Thomas McKlopipus the Third, hereby write my last will and testament.  Since I have no worldly possessions this will be not a list of inheritance items, but rather an explanation of the secrets of this island.  I have no living relatives that I am aware of, so my inheritance goes to whosoever finds this missive.

You probably read the “dessert island” and assumed I had merely inserted an extra “s” by mistake, but in fact no â€" this island is full of desserts.  This is why I have stayed alive so long without any visible sources of food â€" it is also why I am probably going to die of raging diabetes rather than starvation.   My permanent hyperglycaemia has given me a rather sweet outlook on life, but my diet is bad for the blood, not to mention the teeth…

Still, without doubt this strange island's ability to conjure up trifle and banana splits on demand saved my life.  I was shipwrecked and suffering with sunstroke when I discovered a bowl in the middle of the deep ravine just south of the tallest palm tree in a cluster of 6 (all other clusters are of 2 or 3, so you will soon find it).  I looked at this bowl, so out of place here, and began imagining it filled to the brim with chicken and chips.  Alas, this resulted in nothing.  Being a chap of noble bearing who had been brought up right and proper, I uttered no oath, curse or cuss; rather I just said “oh sugar”.  Strangely, when I looked down, there was sugar in the bowl.

I actually went on to live on just sugar for a couple of days, supplemented by rain water that had gathered in a small rocky formation (you will find that I have since then made several water barrels, as there is no indigenous water on the island, but a decent rainfall occurs every couple of weeks).  It did not occur to me that anything  else could be made, and in truth I felt that I was probably hallucinating the whole thing.

Then one day I was near that bowl, not thinking about food, but reciting a story I had been told during my youth about a bear who loved honey.  Well, when I never went to the bowl to ask for more sugar, I found it full of honey!  Intrigued, I said “ice cream” and … well, you can guess what happened.

Ever since then I have been on an island with no food (these palm trees don't even grow coconuts!) feasting on apple pie, rhubarb crumble, Eton Mess, profiteroles or whatever else I can think of.  Sometimes I feel that my knowledge is rather limited in the realm of pastries and puddings, but I have done fairly well over the years, and even invented some recipes of my own (you really must try my Pineapple Cointreau Dumping Bomb!) â€" yes, alcohol could be made by the bowl, ANYTHING could be made, but only as long as it closely enough pertained to desserts.  It may sound like a dream to have an endless procession of puddings to eat, but you have no idea how much I have longed for roast beef with horseradish, accompanied by roast potatoes, veg and gravy… alas, it is not to be.  I did try to fool the bowl by wishing for roast beef sundae, but… well, let's just say that I never asked for it again.  The nearest thing to proper food I got was a chimichunga.  Alas, it does not understand that cheese and biscuits can be counted as a dessert.

I have no idea how or why this device exists, who created it, or if it will work only for me.  But whoever finds and reads this will, I suggest trying it, and if it works for you, set up the island as a tourist attraction with the best cake shop in the world â€" and you won't even have to pay for ingredients â€" or indeed a Pastry Chef!  If only I were not to perish here…

Wait, is that a ship I see on the horizon?  Maybe I'd better hide this document…




(This story was sort of inspired by Cat and Miez's MAGS game "Toffee Trouble in Creamville!")

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams!

Haha yeah, I couldn't resist.   Back to you!

Okay how about this:

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Great Giana Sisters?

Well... I have a 100% record of being completely and utterly wrong in this round...

Is this a trick, Snarky?  Rope bridge, that hat... would suggest Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.  But./.. for some reason I'm veering more towards King Solomon's Mine, I think it might be a young Sharon Stone underneath that hat.

Gattaca?