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I liked how the full room was revealed after the first couple interactions, creating sort of an interactive intro sequence. Nice.

As heltenjon said, the story flow is somewhat odd.

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We needed the barista's permission to snatch a donut, but we had no issue getting the bus driver to choke on the gravel (that's what I assume happened), stealing his keys and hijacking the bus? Are we playing a psychopath? 

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If you don't have animations, you could perhaps consider using first person perspective. Maybe with the protagonist's portrait sewn into the GUI somewhere if you want the player to know what he looks like. For a training game it probably doesn't matter much, but if you're planning to continue using static graphics in your projects, this may be a good way to work around the lack of animations without making the games feel like a work in progress.

I'm sorry to hear that it happened to you. Like I said, this coming from a person you know (or so you think) lowers your guard.
I tried to reach everyone I could via my new Discord account, but I did not remember all the people I spoke to over Discord specifically, or their Discord names. Contact Discord support from your original email that was used to create your account, and hope for the best. Fingers crossed.

No, that wasn't finished at all. Count me out of this one, I did find time to yank a new module and a little ags, but unfortunately couldn't fit a game, too many things happened outside of ags this month.

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setting up a nursery here.

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Congrats =]

If the virus copies your session tokens, it might be a good idea to change the passwords of every account you're currently logged into. 

Already did. Formatted my entire PC, too.

By the way, thanks for telling us what happened.

Sure. It's embarrassing to openly admit to being scammed, but I wanted to alert everyone whom the thief might be reaching out to, as well as raise the general awareness. As a game making community, we are extra vulnerable because we do share files as part of our hobby. Or work, in case of some.

I'm still gutted that I didn't manage to get through to Dualnames before the "hacker" did. I hope everyone else is safe.

I was contacted by "Kastchey" when the account was hacked, but the whole interaction raised some red flags straight away:

hii
> ...
how are u?
> ...
good
do u have a 5 min?

I don't know if the hackers can read the past message history, but that's not a very good Kastchey impression.

That is a very good point. If you know someone well enough to recognize their expression patterns, you're already well equipped to detect a red flag.
And if you don't know the person that well, you should probably not click or download anything they send you.

In practice, it may not be that easy because scammers may coincidentally speak in a fashion that's not very far off from the person they are pretending to be, or use some cunning social engineering tactics that just happens to strike the right chord. But it's a good question to ask yourself the moment you receive something from someone.

I'm back on Discord, but with another account. The main one is still in hands of the account thief, so stay on guard.

The thief got lucky by hitting the right moment with the right account from a familiar server (not AGS). I was expecting someone to send me something, and the file they sent didn't trigger any alarms (I did scan it with anti-malware and anti-virus, both reputable and up to date).

The fact that the threat may (and often will) come from a source you trust makes it a whole lot more dangerous.

Same happened with Duals I guess, we share links and files every now and then, so he could have easily thought it was legit.

2FA helps, but it's not a guarantee so don't rely on that. Same with anti-virus software. Sometimes it will detect a threat, sometimes malware will slip through defenses.

I guess the only way to protect yourself is always triple check if you are really speaking with the person you know. Even if the person fits the profile and had sent you safe files or links before. Ask questions and if something feels off, confirm via another channel, like email or another social platform.

Don't rely on technology to protect you.

Hey everyone,

My Discord account got hacked. Please don't reply to anything you receive from me, until further notice.

For the safety, you might want to remove me from your friend list, too.

Thanks!

Seems so. Not sure how relevant hiring a person to do a BJ is to emotional fulfillment, but one thing is certain - there's no stopping the invasion of sex toys into modern society 

I got this little thing collecting dust since May 2019:



I gave up on this one pretty quickly, because I realized I wasn't going to get enough time that month, and because I couldn't think of a story and a puzzle sequence that made enough sense. Maybe I can give it another go.

Yess! Thank you, Brian Eggs! 

If any of the winners would like a signature banner with the awards they won this year, please send me a message.

Congratulations, 1$! Well deserved 

Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you everyone who attended the ceremony last night! It's amazing to see such a great turnout, and I'm glad that almost all the winners were there to accept the award in person.

Apologies to Manu who couldn't collect the award for Best Non-Adventure Game 2023 personally, due to the Mac client issue. I'm glad that you could at least join us via stream (a shout-out to Scavenger for hosting the live stream).

(Also, sorry Kini for accidentally summoning you to the stage. I try not to misclick, but it does happen!)

Linux mirror here: https://easyupload.io/knaqsa

(The date of the README is 2023 but today is 2024, the ceremony is for the games of 2023.) 

Yeah well, admittedly, it may be confusing 

Mac mirror is up: https://easyupload.io/6nju4d

Hello everyone. Unfortunately I will not be able to arrive on time for the ceremony. I wish the best of luck to all the nominees!!

Sorry to hear that! If that helps anything, you can join anytime you like, even late in the ceremony. You can also join via IRC, or watch the live stream. And if nothing of this works for you today, there will be a recording later so you can catch up

Here's a mirror for the Windows client:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10MN9f9LED3e_NVbt_MiqCJas0N1AaxEQ/view?usp=sharing
Windows mirror 2:
https://we.tl/t-FvgTfgK19h

Mac mirror: https://easyupload.io/6nju4d

Linux mirror: https://easyupload.io/knaqsa

I will mirror the other versions as quickly as I can.

It's too late now, but we will fix it for the next year Thanks!

(and sorry if I mixed them up!)

Thanks a lot for reporting, let me ping Duals!

We still have a couple presenter spots left! Let me know if you'd like to give it a go, it's fun

I'll send you all the information you need via PM.