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I just completed the game.

Excellent job at engaging the player and messing with emotions. I think different people will react differently so it will be interesting to see what people say.

Great job!

Congrats, Retrowolf!

This theme dovetails with my real life so much that it's scary.

I'm shutting down the school I have worked at and run for the last 21 years by the end of this month.

Won't have time to join this MAGS most likely but... Very poignant theme nonetheless for me...

Oh man...best of luck in future endevours...

Congrats! Well done

Sounds fun! How far along is the game?

Not very far in terms of the game itself being built, but I have most of the story and some of the gameplay mapped out.

Looks so awesome that I want to play NOW!!

De Portugal

Muito bom! Muito prazer em conhecê-lo. Eu sou canadense; eu nasci e moro em Toronto. Mas, eu estou aprendendo português porque gosto muito da língua

So cool, never knew this community had so many Portuguese speakers

Um abraço a todos os falantes da maravilhosa lingua de Camões

Você também? De onde você é?

Se necessitas de ajuda diz. 

Você tentou jogar...? Acho que eles falam com sotaque nordestino, né?

Nordestino ? ahauhhuahuahuahua não para min não pareceu, só parece meio robotico as vozes

Então, onde vc mora...?

Minas Gerais, Araguari

Nossa! Que legal!

...e seja bem-vindo....

Se necessitas de ajuda diz. 

Você tentou jogar...? Acho que eles falam com sotaque nordestino, né?

Nordestino ? ahauhhuahuahuahua não para min não pareceu, só parece meio robotico as vozes

Então, onde vc mora...?

Yeap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obrigado!

Mas não dá pra entender a descrição

Se quiser, manda a descrição pra mim em português e vou traduzer quando puder...

Hello people of AGS Community so i redo the game em thats the file now!!! and this is the picture of the protagonist
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EyujnySmB05IXecCcv3kfziSU2Bv4wJo/view?usp=sharing

And yes !!! i'm a robot!!!
thats true !!!

Oi, Igor!

Eu gostei do jogo.

Porém, tem algumas regras aqui. Você leu e entendeu as regras?

Você tem que postar pelo menos uma imagem e uma descrição do jogo. Além disso, ninguém sabe que o jogo é em português! Falantes de inglês não podem jogar...

Obrigado

@Limpingfish: Looking at Igor's profile, it seems that he came to the forum, posted and hasn't logged back in. I can explain the rules in Portuguese but it's probably not worth it...

Se necessitas de ajuda diz. 

Você tentou jogar...? Acho que eles falam com sotaque nordestino, né?

Igor:

I've been playing the game and I like the idea. However most people on this forum don't understand Portuguese.

As Slasher pointed out, there's a number of rules that have to be followed before posting, so if you don't understand English, maybe someone can help you comply? It really is a cute and creative game so I hope you don't give up!

Boa sorte!

Thanks to VampireWombat for the download link.

I actually did not use the save, after all that! Last night I got stuck at the same place as Cassie, and the hints got me past there. I have the same concern that was already mentioned and honestly, I don't think I would have solved the end without the hints.

I understand it too and I always meant to add it.

I don't want be unfair to the other contestants but I don't want to annoy the players either.

On the game page, the mirror link now takes you to a post MAGS version. Click on the floppy disk in the lower right corner to save.

Hmm...I don't see the updated version...

I can understand how not being able to save makes the game hardly playable. Adding f5 and f7 hotkeys to invoke the standard save and restore GUIs should be a quick fix, I think

I actually tried hitting some function keys just in case. I got the F9 which restarted the game. Better than getting shot

Here are my comments on the games:

Hydrate:

Spoiler

Great graphics and animation. Decent puzzles, even if on the easier side. I liked the combination of inventory and dialogue and things to do. Cool backstory and how it relates to the theme of the month.

[close]

Flukie:

Spoiler

Some nice graphics and animation. Not much gameplay but I realize it's not easy considering the deadline! There certainly was a glass of water in there 

[close]

Suspicious Mind

Spoiler

Outstanding work! I love the graphics and effects, and I love the challenge of knowing that you are always ONE step away from dying! It creates a real feeling of tension and compulsion to do things right and continue. The theme of the month, while not central to the game, definitely plays a role.

Unfortunately, I did not complete the game. A LOT of the game is trial and error (I don't want to give spoilers but you'll see what I mean pretty fast) and learning what's going to set off the villain. Since any wrong move results in death, and that requires a complete restart, I only had so much patience to go through the same motions so many times before reluctantly having to turn the game off. If there were some checkpoints if not a save function, I would LOVE to try again. To summarize: puzzle solving includes trial and error. If the result of error means repeatedly restarting and replaying the current progress, many players will lose patience.

[close]

My vote went to:

Spoiler

Hydrate. Not only is it the most complete, polished and playable game, I give bonus points to the fact that the MAGS theme is so central to the game rather than just being injected into the plot somewhere to meet the requirements

[close]

Honestly, it should serve as a model for how MAGS entries are done well...

Mm.. Possibly.. you don't? I made GUI elements for loading, but I'm not sure if Creamy had a chance to add the script.
We had a tight time budget

Exactly. I've coded the load button but not the save one.
The closure was really hectic. That's the charm of MAGS competitions 

Completely understood. Do you think you might add this in and re-release the game, even though the contest is closed? I'll explain why this is important for this game in my comments.

Here you go:

It's untested and probably buggy as hell but finishable.

Suspicious mind

WARNING: contains violence and strong language.

Cool game. How do you save?