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So I assume as long as original graphics are used it is alright to use the GUI template?

Yes, that's okay.

By death, do you mean the player might face death, or does the player create the act of death.

That's up to you - both (and many other) ways are possible...

Death musto come into place, what means? A simple character-npc death by action, is correct?

It is one option - and there are many others...

Just be creative

[What is MAGS?]

What is MAGS?
MAGS is a monthly competition for all amateur adventure game makers. The idea is to use AGS to create a game in under a month, following the rules set by the previous winner.

For more information please visit the Official MAGS website.

Why should I enter MAGS?
We're not here to tell you that you should enter MAGS, but merely allow it as a creative opportunity to help you work to a deadline, improve your skills, and generally as a good kick-start for the new comers (a.k.a n00bies).

MAGS is the perfect opportunity to make a game, and the wonderful prize is to announce the next month's rules, and all competitors get the game placed on the MAGS website.

MAGS is meant to be fun and is aimed at everyone, despite their skill. If you have poor art skills work on graphics, and vice-versa, as the voting is based on "favourite" games, and not the most artistic, you may get help for the competiton, but should try not get anyone else to do any part of the game for you.

You are not allowed to (re)use material already created before this competition, you game must be completely new! An exception goes for sounds and music where you can also use free material that is available to the public.

Please do not just enter the competition with a rushed entry (a game created in just some hours or a few days)!

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This month's guidelines are set by last month's winner King_wiking (slightly adjusted):

Topic: Evil

June, it's the beginning of summer and the warm and good-natured time of the year is finally here. Apart from this the theme for this month is "Evil". The rules are pretty simple:

1. Your main-character must be evil in some way. That means that there can't be any I-am-good-just-for-the-sake-of-it blonde hero that runs around swinging a rapier with all too tight trousers.
Good examples for main characters are (but of course not limited to): An evil mastermind trying to take over the world, a devil trying to make people do evil things, an orc following his masters plan, a psychopath or something similar. As long as the character's main goal is selfish and/or evil in the game it's fine.

2. At one point in the game "death" must come into place. This could be done by a location (eg. a graveyard), by a character (eg. the Grim Reaper) or by an action - be creative.

That's all, no further limitations. You can put into your inventory whatever you want to
Good luck.

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All games need to be in by June 25th.

Please post a download link of your game entry to this thread, best with a screenshot. Thanks and good luck.

[King_wiking]

... is there some kind of... gasp... conspiracy preventing this thread from wrapping up?

Well, the same conspiracy as (almost) every month - preventing from too many entries...
Even with some time extension now the teaser screenshot and game
announcements didn't turn into entries... So the winner this time is

King_wiking and his entry I'm not crazy, right? - The Cell.

ongratulations and many thanks for joining the contest!
Please check your PM to get to know about the setup of the new rules!

Is normal that the people to abandon the thread like that, and the last day submitt games? xD Or it will be a Ghost-Mags?

Well, all is possible - so we shall see

So time is up and May 25th is near: Please post your games within the next 30 hours (see timestamp of this post) then the voting will begin - if there are any entries here then...

Is there any rules about entering MAGS, if you picked the topic?

You are welcome to enter the competition if you want to! The only restriction is that you can "only" win three times in a row. This happened in 2005 - some of you might remember Wretched and his games.

[What is MAGS?]

What is MAGS?
MAGS is a monthly competition for all amateur adventure game makers. The idea is to use AGS to create a game in under a month, following the rules set by the previous winner.

For more information please visit the Official MAGS website.

Why should I enter MAGS?
We're not here to tell you that you should enter MAGS, but merely allow it as a creative opportunity to help you work to a deadline, improve your skills, and generally as a good kick-start for the new comers (a.k.a n00bies).

MAGS is the perfect opportunity to make a game, and the wonderful prize is to announce the next month's rules, and all competitors get the game placed on the MAGS website.

MAGS is meant to be fun and is aimed at everyone, despite their skill. If you have poor art skills work on graphics, and vice-versa, as the voting is based on "favourite" games, and not the most artistic, you may get help for the competiton, but should try not get anyone else to do any part of the game for you.

You are not allowed to (re)use material already created before this competition, you game must be completely new! An exception goes for sounds and music where you can also use free material that is available to the public.

Please do not just enter the competition with a rushed entry (a game created in just some hours or a few days)!

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This month's guidelines are set by last month's winner ShonenAiGuy:

Topic: Conspiracy

There are many stories about conspiracies: aliens, crop circles, sinister government agencies,...
Now it is up to you to tell a tale like this... There is no restriction in which way your story should go.
Use your imagination!

Items to include (these must appear in your inventory at some time):
- Some type of spy gadget
- Dark suits

Things to include (optional, to give you some ideas):
- Black shades
- Aliens
- Evil scientist
- Foreign spies

There are no further restrictions so you are very free in terms of game design. Good luck!

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All games need to be in by May 25th.

Please post a download link of your game entry to this thread, best with a screenshot. Thanks and good luck.

[ShonenAiGu]

So the deadline passed by ... and we already have a winner:

Congratulations go to
ShonenAiGu and his entry A Walk in The Park

Many thanks for joining the contest!
Please check your PM to get to know about the setup of the new rules!

The deadline is near: Please submit your entries within the next 24 hours (see timestamp of this posting) then the voting will begin (or we'll have a winner by default)...

[What is MAGS?]

What is MAGS?
MAGS is a monthly competition for all amateur adventure game makers. The idea is to use AGS to create a game in under a month, following the rules set by the previous winner.

For more information please visit the Official MAGS website.

Why should I enter MAGS?
We're not here to tell you that you should enter MAGS, but merely allow it as a creative opportunity to help you work to a deadline, improve your skills, and generally as a good kick-start for the new comers (a.k.a n00bies).

MAGS is the perfect opportunity to make a game, and the wonderful prize is to announce the next month's rules, and all competitors get the game placed on the MAGS website.

MAGS is meant to be fun and is aimed at everyone, despite their skill. If you have poor art skills work on graphics, and vice-versa, as the voting is based on "favourite" games, and not the most artistic, you may get help for the competiton, but should try not get anyone else to do any part of the game for you.

You are not allowed to (re)use material already created before this competition, you game must be completely new! An exception goes for sounds and music where you can also use free material that is available to the public.

Please do not just enter the competition with a rushed entry (a game created in just some hours or a few days)!

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This month's guidelines are set by last month's winner TwinMoon:

Topic: Love Is In The Air

It's springtime! The season of rejuvenation - trees start to blossom and the world awakens after its wintery sleep.
It's also the season where it's getting warmer: girls start wearing short skirts again and guys start wearing tight t-shirts again.

Which brings me to the following rules:
1. The main character in your game must fall in love.
2. There must be a ladybug in your game. (It doesn't have to be any part of the story or a puzzle, just put one or more in there somewhere. And since I like ladybugs, it's not allowed to let the player kill any).

Your game should include at least two things from the following list:
- a valentine card arriving too late
- blossom (in a tree, in someone's hair, in your inventory, use your imagination!)
- a bird's nest with an egg in it
- a common snowdrop (flower)
- a poem or some lines of poetry being read out loud
- an inventory item having something to do with Romeo & Juliet (a DVD, a book, a costume for Romeo)

(By the way, it's National Poetry Month in America in April, you might do something with that.)

Make sure you have a good obstacle which prevents the lovers from being together; like a protective dad, the girl playing hard to get or a canal which prevents the lovers from reaching each other.

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All games need to be in by April 25th.

Please post a download link of your game entry to this thread, best with a screenshot. Thanks and good luck.

[TwinMoon]

Time out - voting is over!

It was a very close finish but one game made it clearly to the top...
The winner this time is

TwinMoon and his entry Unintelligent Design

Congratulations! Also many thanks to all other participants for making this such a great contest.

No no, that's not it. The pages aren't loading for me at all. Which is weird if they work for you... I'll just try again later.

Oh, okay... Well in that case you might want to grab The Book Unfinished and Unintelligent Design from my server (only located there until the end of the voting).

The link to enveloop's game did not work.
Twin-moon's download link doesn't work for me either...

Hm... I just checked out both of them and they work fine for me. Do not try to download via "save target" - use the standard left mouse button click as it will take you to a downlad page. Maybe that's the problem?

March 25th is gone so here now we go...
For voting please visit the MAGS site or make your choice right here:

Unintelligent Design by Twin Moon
The Book Unfinished by enveloop
Hypnotoad by Radiant
Curse of the Vampire by Shaden

Please vote only once and be sure to have played all games before sending your voice! Good luck to all participants.

You are not allowed to (re)use material already created before this competition

could there be made an exception to the rules allowing us to use graphics from our own failed MAGS games?

The idea sounds very good and it wouldn't be cool to break it with this rule. The "problem" is that you save time that other participants would need to create backgrouds - may yours be complete or not. If you do not work "mega intensive" on the game I'd say it's okay. You get the point: Everyone should have one month for the whole game creation, so take a timeout for what you already created and everything's fine. Do you think that might work?

could I download this paper thingy and use it for my game?

Yes that's possible. I don't know about copyright of this image but that's up to you then

[What is MAGS?]

What is MAGS?
MAGS is a monthly competition for all amateur adventure game makers. The idea is to use AGS to create a game in under a month, following the rules set by the previous winner.

For more information please visit the Official MAGS website.

Why should I enter MAGS?
We're not here to tell you that you should enter MAGS, but merely allow it as a creative opportunity to help you work to a deadline, improve your skills, and generally as a good kick-start for the new comers (a.k.a n00bies).

MAGS is the perfect opportunity to make a game, and the wonderful prize is to announce the next month's rules, and all competitors get the game placed on the MAGS website.

MAGS is meant to be fun and is aimed at everyone, despite their skill. If you have poor art skills work on graphics, and vice-versa, as the voting is based on "favourite" games, and not the most artistic, you may get help for the competiton, but should try not get anyone else to do any part of the game for you.

You are not allowed to (re)use material already created before this competition, you game must be completely new! An exception goes for sounds and music where you can also use free material that is available to the public.

Please do not just enter the competition with a rushed entry (a game created in just some hours or a few days)!

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This month's guidelines are set by last month's winner BaRoN:

Topic: Work in Progress

You must create a game that is incomplete, but it must of course still have an ending.  For example the graphics could be left as rough sketches, or partially not polished; placeholder graphics could be ubiquitous (i.e. the blue cup or Roger); or messages could frequently display "not implemented yet" or "coming soon!"  Interpret "incomplete" as you like, but the characters in the game should recognize that it's not complete - in other words, they should not believe that everything is as it was envisaged to be.

Only Mandatory Rule: The incompleteness of the game must somehow be a part of at least one puzzle.  For example a door might not have been drawn in the wall yet, so how can you get inside?  You know you're supposed to cut the red wire, but they haven't been coloured yet.  Something like that.

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All games need to be in by March 25th.

Please post a download link of your game entry to this thread, best with a screenshot. Thanks and good luck.

[BaRoN]

Sometimes we see a big discussion during the voting period - this time there's nothing at all...
But okay: Time for voting is over now and we have a winner...

Congratulations go to BaRoN with his game Studio Mediocre. He made it on top this month!
Also many thanks to Twin Moon for joining the contest! Two cool games for a demanding topic.

Okay so I think we can start voting now... Here we go:

For voting please visit the MAGS site or make your choice right here:

Studio Mediocre by BaRoN
Dead of Winter by Twin Moon

Please vote only once and be sure to have played all games before sending your voice! Good luck to all participants.

Don't panik - if you (both or even some more people) need just some extra "minutes" it's not a big problem... How about extending it all by 12 hours?