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Just put

Code: ags

Display("Game saved!");

as the line right before SaveGameSlot (otherwise it will display after a save game is loaded as well).

SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED! Thanks to everyone for a great number of entries. 

Please use the poll above to cast your vote! There should be plenty of time to read all the entries.

Also, I encourage everyone to comment with their reactions. (I'm very happy to hear any responses to mine as well even though it wasn't a formal entry). Let us know why you voted the way you did!

Good luck, everyone! 

Really a massive achievement. You can tell it's been so much work by so many people to create such an immersive experience and what looks to be some complex and variable gameplay. Also, I can't get over how great the punching animation is!

Wow, what a bumper crop of entries! Amazing work, everyone! Before I close out the contest at the end of the day, one quick question--how long does the voting phase usually last? One week?

Thanks!

In case anyone is wondering, my entry would be Jake, from The cat from outerspace (loved the movie when I was little and amused by silliness I guess.

Amazing.    I actually re-watched this recently and it is still very entertaining. I would love to play a fan game where you use the telekinetic collar to manipulate different objects.

Just a few days left! Any last entries, now's the time to finish!

@Stupot With regard to the previous winner not picking a theme, it could simply be that the "finish your entry" winner doesn't pick anything, and the winner the month before the finish-old-things theme picks the theme for the month after it. Just one possibility, of course.

[jwalt]

Well, voting once for each contestant might make my votes mathematically inconsequential, but... 

In game usability: jwalt
Capturing original character: newwaveburritos
Technique: Creamy

There, that wasn't too difficult! (Only the first 3 frames are unique).



And this is a public domain (CC0) frog sound:

https://freesound.org/people/egomassive/sounds/536759/

Is frog going to be an animated object?

Maybe! If the player clicks on it, the frog could perhaps make a noise and puff itself up.

I would just go with your first version and add a "return;" inside the end of the first if statement, which makes sure that only the first if statement runs. Otherwise the changes made by the first statement then cause the else if statement to run as well (if I'm reading it right).

1 week left! 2 solid entries so far. Best of luck to those of you still working on your own writing. I hope you finish!

[So this is what the room would look like when the player enters it:]

Finally finished the room background! (Here's hoping the interior room doesn't take me as long!)

So this is what the room would look like when the player enters it:



HOWEVER, because the doors need to open and close, the actual ROOM BACKGROUND IMAGE would be this:



My thinking is that the purple balcony fence and the leaves above it can be a walk-behind, and both the player and the door object can appear behind it.

Here are the images for the open and closed doors:
Front door (left is closed, right is open)

Upper door (left is open, right is closed)


The door images have a larger transparent area behind them so that whether the door is open or closed, the door object does not need to have its coordinates moved - it would simply have its sprite changed.

The result would look like this:



I can also upload the doors merged into the background layer if that's preferable. I have everything separated in the .ase file.

How is this looking?? I'm feeling pretty happy with it. 

Hey all,

Version 1.2 is now live!    Updates include the addition of new achievements and a new power-up/character, which I believe improve the gameplay. Many thanks to @Nahuel for (again) compiling the Mac version. I didn't end up calling it the "2024" version because my conscience wouldn't let me pass it off as a new game.

Enjoy!

Hey all,

While discussing next month's MAGS theme with @Stupot I proposed the option of bringing back the "finish a previous unfinished MAGS entry" option which has been done in the past, but not for several years. I like the rules for it that are formulated here.

Ultimately, for December I went with a different theme (still to be announced), but it seemed worthwhile to post the "finish an old unfinished entry" idea here and see if it's something people would like to see again in the future, perhaps once a year.

Any interest? Would that make people more likely to finish old entries and create more participation in the competition? I think the rules linked above are pretty good.

[my non-entry which will not be included in the voting.]

Gonna be a busy week for me with the Thanksgiving holiday and everything, so I finished up my writing piece ahead of time. So without further ado, here is my non-entry which will not be included in the voting. 

Hope you enjoy!

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Traces

Shrapnel from the habitat dome littered the yellow rock plateau in front of Tess—pieces of plexiglass, carbon fiber, and aluminum, all charred at the edges. Through her helmet, everything felt sealed off and distant, even when she bent to pick up a copper coil from one of the environmental regulator systems that had sparked the fire. Her spacesuit glove as thick as three layers of blanket.

All the bodies had been recovered already, along with personal artifacts and salvageable tech. Once Tess finished this final official comb-through and climbed back into her cleanup freighter, she'd leave this place abandoned.

She dropped the coil into the robo-bin behind her, and kept walking. The robo-bin followed, its many wheels lifting and falling in waves as it rolled over useless wreckage.

Glaring sky and yellow ground made everything too bright to see. Tess pulled the sun visor down on her helmet. Another layer insulating her from the tragedy.

On a hospital cruiser in orbit, the few survivors still struggled in intensive care—this settlement's weak but beating heart. Tess lifted another of its shattered bones.

Underneath lay a houseplant, desiccated by airless cold. Long leaves mummified into curled strings.

Next to it, a plastic arm from a pair of eyeglasses. An overlooked personal effect.

Tess had known no one here, but the proximity to someone's death seeped through her suit and stirred her gut. No insulation could block it.

She knelt and used tongs to lift the plastic arm from the charred yellow gravel and sealed it in a padded bag. The robo-bin dutifully opened a drawer, where she stowed it.

The withered houseplant, its base a potless tangle of root, didn't qualify for recovery.

Still kneeling, Tess breathed and ran a gloved finger along one dried leaf, the touch imperceptible through her layers. Likely the only evidence left of people here—with all other traces swept up for next of kin, this rubble could have belonged to some automated outpost.

Her heart bristled at that. If she were to die on her cleanup freighter, she'd want her coffin assembled from its pieces. It existed for someone to fly it. For her to fly.

The families deserved any belongings, but the settlers' lives had been here. A scavenged debris field didn't make an especially reverent grave.

She couldn't abandon this place yet.

Tess sheltered the papery dead plant under a dome-shaped shard, and laid strips of blackened siding around it, radiating like petals.

Back on her feet, she regarded the crude flower she'd laid on this grave. Then she continued on, hoping her spacesuit could still dull the act of picking bones clean.

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Thanks for playing and for all your votes, everyone! I'll get thinking about the next theme.

We'll see what happens. I'll have something written either way, and if we get at least 3 other entries, I will post it as a non-entry.

Side note, not a big deal, but I realized I've never been clear about my pronouns on here, so, added them to my signature.

Love this understanding of our hallowed rules.  Cue further debate! 

I mean, if I'm wrong that's totally fine--I would sort of feel weird about entering while hosting anyway.    I'm hoping we get enough participation that I won't need to enter. 

Spoiler

I actually did just sit down and write something short, though. Because I wanted to.    We'll see whether it's necessary to enter it.

[close]

The background still isn't finished (and I haven't even started the interior) but little by little I am making progress. Here's a detail from it, just because I'm happy about this little 13x9 pixel frog.