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Bit long for a simple giveaway. I would rather know who won in a few days, so I can make the decision of buying it myself. I've already missed the Steam sale due to another Blackwell bundle giveaway that was not updated in time. If I end up buying it, I will forfeit my entry.

My Google account was accepted, but it wants me to make a Blogger account, as well? No thanks..
Can you accept entries here on the forum, please?

spectreincarnate at gmail dot com
That is also my Steam account name.

Yeah sorry about that, in the past I haven't got much response so I thought it might actually take me over a week juts to get 3 comments.  Then I posted here and of course since then I've had over a dozen entries... d'oh...

Yeah I'll count entries here too, Ponch that goes for you too.  Sorry you missed the sale.  I've contacted Wadjet's PR to see if I can get hold of some more Steam keys and offered some free advertising in exchange, so hopefully there'll be more than 3 winners - but I can't promise anything yet.

No idea why it asked you to make a Blogger account too!!! 

I'd love to enter, but it says I need a Google account to publish a comment. Boo! Unfair! 

Sorry dude, I just got too much spam when I let just anyone comment. 

I'm running a competition to win the entire Blackwell collection (via Steam keys) - I've got 3 sets of keys to give, only one entrant so far (winners chosen at random), so as things stand anyone has a pretty reasonable chance of getting their hands on a copy!

http://www.pcgamereviewsandnews.com/2012/01/blackwell-competition.html

Winners chosen on 1st February.

I've posted about it twice:

http://www.pcgamereviewsandnews.com/2012/01/ags-bake-sale-definitely-now-on.html
http://www.pcgamereviewsandnews.com/2012/01/ags-bake-sale-is-now-on.html

[THE END]

It wasn’t easy growing up.  I mean, when you’re the secret lovechild of Oceanspirit Dennis and Nelly Cootalot, what hope have you got?

Anyway, it was time for me to make a name for myself, so I called up my best buddies, Graham of Daventry, Roger Wilco, Indiana Jones and Zak McKraken, who were all famous even before they worked for the BBC (Big Blue Club), and all of whom could be relied upon to help out.  Unfortunately Graham was too busy at his club telling bad jokes, Roger was either cleaning a toilet or saving the universe (I’m a little hazy as to which, or perhaps it was both); Indy was making up weird tales about aliens and somehow had picked up a son at some point, while Zak was busy writing cheesy headlines for his tabloid.  So it was left to me oldest chum, Ben Jordan.

Now Ben had this really great gig going on â€" he called himself a “Paranormal Investigator”, created a lot of weird events when no-one was looking, fed on peoples’ paranoia, then stopped doing the weird things and pocketed a nice payment along with his client’s eternal thanks.  So we went on a road trip one day to a place called “Reality on the Norm” â€" in the brochures it looked really nice, but when we got there, so many genuinely abnormal things were going on that Ben freaked out and got himself a job as an accountant.  Actually, after that I never saw him again.

Still, after driving down the road from RON, I encountered a nice chap who was hitchhiking.  We enjoyed chatting about how life so often parodies science fiction movies and series, the similarities between real life and adventure games, and how many interesting ways there are to die.  Another hitchhiker jumped in just outside Basingstoke; his name was Arthur Dent, and he had a headache.  Unfortunately in addition to this he was being chased by the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, and this was upsetting him greatly as the best wanted to eat him.

It was due to this that we made a detour to the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment and got a speed-up kit.  We headed towards Plymouth, with the Bugblatter Beast of Traal still hot on our trail, but our increased velocity gave us a comfortable lead.  However after some time we were stopped by a policeman called Larry Vales, but he was too bored to give me a ticket.  He did however do a nice job of feeding the beast, though I don’t think he had actually intended to be a meal. 

In the middle of the road we found a strange man lying down.  His name was Yahtzee, and he explained that he had been a skeptic for 7 days; at some stage he had spent 6 days as a sacrifice and the previous 5 days he had been a stranger.  We asked what he was now, and he didn’t know.  Roadkill was suggested, but he didn’t like that.  In the end he went off with some very cold person who insisted that he worked for Rectangle Enixxxxy.   Just when we thought things couldn’t get any more bizarre some Australian guy called Duzz turned up, who turned out to be an evil twin robotic version of himself, and promptly imploded.

Eventually we arrived at Newquay and went swimming, only to be caught by a better mousetrap while enjoying the purity of the surf.  We were forced to play eye spy with my wadjet eye for many hours, before finally Emily said “Enough!”.  To this day I don’t know who this Emily chick was, but she’d sure had enough that day.  So had I; I went to bed, and reflected on a strange and eventful road trip.  I couldn’t help but think that the whole thing had been a meaningless name-dropping exercise.  As I drifted off to sleep it dawned on me that Jimmy was a troublemaker, and that I’d made a mess that even Limey Lizard would struggle to keep up.  I dreamt of American Girl Scouts. 

I awoke and got tech support from a yeti in a call centre.  I went to work feeling grumpy.  The man with two names (both of which I forget) greeted me warmly;  “Good morning, Ponch!”.  Ponch refused to let my entry win because this story seems to suggest that he is the secret lovechild of Oceanspirit Dennis and Nelly Cootalot.

THE END (finally...).

Clearly, we are even cooler than I thought.  8)

Wait... how is that even possible?!?  8) 8)

Will there be updates on the amount of money raised, or just a total when it's all finished?

I still can't get through to Paypal to complete the transaction... 

Try buying through this link: https://secure.bmtmicro.com/servlets/Orders.ShoppingCart?CID=6694&PRODUCTID=66940013

Just been talking someone through it who had paypal problems and it worked!

Cheers Ben, that worked for me.

I still can't get through to Paypal to complete the transaction... 

Wait... the project is "in jeopardy" on minute and the next you release a preview trailer?!?  What's going on?  :o  

We'll expect to see this released in a week then huh? 

Looks interesting, and I hope you manage to bring something new to the room escape idea.  Is it one room that you can view from 4 directions?

Looks good so far, I hope you're going to try to stick to the book as much as possible though (?).

Also I'm curious.. if you can't use the official music are you determined to use MIDI tunes?  Anyway, there are a lot of good musicians around the AGS forums, so if you decide to go for original music you should be able to find one easily enough - but wouldn't it be better to get MP£ or OGG music?  (Unless you were planning on using MIDI music for the retro effect... but I can't see why this would be if you were hoping to use the orchestral score.)  Anyway, if you need a musician, you can try posting in the Recruit a Team thread.

I hope you manage to progress with this game, we don't see enough HG Wells in the AGS community!  (Just my opinion...  )

[A Game Of Cards About Powerhungry Wizards Who Try To Wreck Each Other's Tower With Spells And Beasts While Keeping Their Own Tower Intact]

I think Acromage was in M&M VIII as well.  Loved it!  (But did complete the main quest, stupid though it was - never completed M&MVII, too buggy trying to get it to work on Vista even in compatability mode).

Anyway, I digress - I can't wait to play A Game Of Cards About Powerhungry Wizards Who Try To Wreck Each Other's Tower With Spells And Beasts While Keeping Their Own Tower Intact!  A name that Leonard of Quirm himself would be proud of! 

You could always call it AGOCAPWWTTWEOTWSABWKEOTI for short.

Actually, Agocapwa has a nice ring to it.

I thought Stan had moved on from his previously-owned coffin business?!?! 

Pretty much everything Ghost said - looks very interesting, and experimental in a good way.  I also like the idea that every interaction is possible, no matter how bizarre!

Interesting theme Ponch, will try to come up with something!

(So there you have... 2 placeholders and one half-baked sort of promise.) 

[DrewCCU]

Idea - DrewCCU - I like this end of the road idea, wouldn't seem out of place in a Road Runner cartoon
Atmosphere - gameboy - (top picture) - beautifully bleak landscape, lovely sky
Design - DrewCCU - great layout and colours
Composition - straydogstrut - spooky and effective!
Functionality - gameboy - I can easily see this background working in an adventure game
Technique - gameboy - while I liked the others, they didn't look quite finished (as the artists admitted themselves) - gameboy's looked like the finished article (well, before he added that person and car...  )

That is one of the most impressive game trailers I've seen for a long time... but I have 2 other SQ games to complete before I even get to this one, and my PC is playing up!  Aurgh!

Code: ags

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Of course, you may want to find your own image host rather than use the Captain's bandwidth. I don't know if he wants to keep that image up forever.

I'm not too worried about the bandwidth, but you might want to host it yourself so you don't have such a hideously long URL!

[THE GLORIOUS WINNER!]

Ah, glad I didn't make this post before you remembered to vote! 


So, the final results...

THE GLORIOUS WINNER!

Ponch - 8



THE VALIANT RUNNERS-UP!

Sane. Co - 4
Bogdan - 4



THE ELEGANT THIRD-PLACED ENTRANTS!
Ekeko - 3
FSi++ - 3


THE SUPERB BUT UNDER-APPRECIATED 4TH PLACED ENTRANT!

Armageddon - 2

I felt bad for Armageddon as I really enjoyed his entry and he just missed out on a trophy, so I made this one so he doesn't feel left out:



He's.... erm... trapped in an ice(y?) crystal, or time capsule, or something.  If you look very, very closely, he's wearing a T-shirt which says "I entered the Fortnightly Writing Competition on the AGS Forums, and all I got was this lousy trophy".

Some fine entries here, and many a fatal syntax error.  Rejoice in the joyously awful cheesiness of your trophies!

Well Ponch, you are our victor!  Over to you for the next one.