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Pledged too! I'm still looking into a hotel. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Does anyone know, is there going to be an AdventureX this year?

I bloody well hope so!

The weekend of the 23rd looks pretty bad for me, but I will certainly make an effort to put in an appearance!

Congratulations to all contestants! Great entries, each of which I really enjoyed playing. And extra congrats to Slasher: good job!

Good turnout this time! Looking forward to playing the entries...

So curious what you all come up with! Looking forward to playing the entries.  If time had permitted,  I'd have loved to participate. Some rip roaring Mayan adventure or a steamy neanderthal love story... Ah well, next time

Damn ... Sweden is not so far away and I'd really like to attend. But I've taken a long (long!), hard look at my work schedule en financial situation and sadly I won't be able to make it this year.
I'll just start saving for next year.

Is that a familiar face peeking out of the workshop?

These are not the droids you're looking for...

Yay!

I thought the theme could be interpreted in many different ways, so I expected to see some more entries. Ah well, too bad. At least Harry Caine and Toffee Bakewell weren't a total disaster

So, considering this, if there ever were to be a sequel, it would have to be

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a cleaning simulation

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"Toffee Comes Clean"

Toffee Trouble was superb, and I've posted in the CGA board.

Thanks!

Hahahaha!

So one more question:

Whose diary page is this with the 14-year-old girl talking about giving the necklace to her boyfriend in the '90's?

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I really don't know! I needed some inspiration for the volcano-catapult minigame GUI and I thought that Toffee might be the kind of person to have a pink diary or notebook at hand.

I'm still hoping to play 'Eruption' one day though.  I was even halfway up a volcano this time yesterday :-)

Well, to be fairly honest: there was never any substance to Eruption! It was all just a bit of a laugh really
There was so little substance to it that I didn't even make any of those screenshots... let's take a look, ok?



this started out as an anonymous picture that I got from a Google search for "volcano" and "16 bit". I'd like to attribute it to someone but I was never able to find the original creator:



Flipped it, extended it to 640x360, added a cheesy title and a couple of fake buttons. Done!

This "in game" shot:



Started out as a lo-res picture of the map for Rust and some random scientist (sorry, random scientist):



Convert to 640x360, add some hoohah and nonsense in Photoshop and you're done.

The final "VR" shot:



Was a Google Earth picture of Mount Fuji, a Google search for "flaming sky", a bit of simulated smoke, some dragon outlines and some screenshots from Hunter - an ancient Amiga game:



So yeah, nothing about Eruption! was ever real. It was fun to do in between all the cupcakes and butter cream though!

At best I think someone may get a laugh or two out of what it is so far...

"is that... is that a FOX!?"

Hilarious!

You are teh crazies! I was totally sold on that gigadeath thing, but this is so sweet!!!

No GIGADEATH in Creamville, I'm afraid. Lots of STICKY SITUATIONS though!

DAMN! The deal with Ubisoft fell through I told Cat we shouldn't have accepted that offer from those Russian hackers. I knew things were getting bad when they started skyping about "keyloggers"...

Let's hope we can cobble something (anything!) together in the nick of time to at least save our MAGS credentials

This has really turned into a bit of a disaster.

Still discussing if we want to go with Ubisoft or Activision...

You should try Infocom

Nah, we're going for the BIG money. So perhaps EA?

Still discussing if we want to go with Ubisoft or Activision...

Holy cow! Is this for real or are you a month late for April Fools'?
I trust you'll keep us updated.

No no, completely above board, 100% true, no exaggeration or fakery AT ALL.

How are you guys going with Eruption?

Eruption! development is going really well. I'd say we're 95% done and just this morning I received a reply to the email we sent to Ubisoft. To quote:

Dear Mr van Laatum,
please could you forward us the Skype details of your team members so we can have a conference call on May 3rd, 17:00 GMT with Darren Fitzgerald (head of marketing Europe) and Flummery Bakewell (licenses and third party development)?
We are still very excited about the prospects of including your title 'Eruption!' into our extensive portfolio, and developing it further for Xbox One, PS4 and the new Nintendo platform.
Yours with kind regards, Frostine le Miel / Ubisoft Paris / f.lemiel@development.ubisoft.com