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I just posted my 5000th post on AGS. At first I was happy. But then I got to realizing that in 5000 posts all I have really achieved is a couple of shitty games no one plays and a couple of frankly genius Points Game solves. Other than that, this place is a complete time suck...

It is now 5am in Japan and I can't sleep. So it is with some regret that I want to express my intention to withdraw from pretending I am a game-designer like everyone else. I have met many okay people over the years and will continue to be active on Twitter, Facebook and Bebo, but I will not be posting here anymore. I will continue my duty as MAGS host for a couple of months until I can find a replacement worthy of the position. It will be a hard task, to be brutally honest.

Sorry, I'd better wrap this up.

So...

Goodbye

Stupot

Yesterday was Pi-day and I just found this article on the BBC about Pi-lish, a kind of writing challenge based on pi.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160311-how-the-number-pi-inspired-a-writing-style

Basically, write a story where the number of letters in each word must correspond to each digit of pi.

There are other challendes like Pi-kus and Piems.

Lets have fun with Pi-lish.

[Topic: New Seasons]

The competition is now closed and the winner is:
A Sloth for Both Seasons by CaptainD, Selmiak and Creamy.

Well done guys.

Topic: New Seasons
This month's guidelines were set by Matt Frith

"It's a new season for all of us but where we are in the world determines which one. Let's see if we can make some games that demonstrate the change from one season to another. For example having the winter snows thaw into the new growth of spring.  You could even create weird and wacky seasonal changes if you want."



Ending:  March 31st

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What is MAGS?

Started in 2001, MAGS is a competition for amateur adventure game makers. The idea is to create a game in under a month, following the rules set by the previous winner. It aims to help you work to a deadline, improve your skills, and provide a kick-start into making adventure games. Regardless of skill, MAGS is for everyone. Voting is based on "favorite" games, and not the most artistic, or the best coded. If you have bad art skills, use it as a chance to do some graphic work. If you're sub-standard at coding, use it as a chance to give scripting a go. Ultimately, people will vote for the most enjoyable entry.

Rules

• You may work in a team to produce an entry.
• You are not allowed to use any material created before the competition. Your game must be completely new! An exception is music and sound; you can use any audio that is freely available to the public.
• Any modules and templates featured in this board are also allowed.

Entering MAGS is simple. First, conceptualise your game following the month's criteria (see top). Second, create your game fueled only by coffee. Finally, post your game in this thread, including:

âÅ"“ A working download link
âÅ"“ The title of your game
âÅ"“ A suitable in-game screenshot

At the end of the month, voting will begin, usually lasting for fifteen days. The winner chooses the next month's theme, and their name and game is immortalised in the MAGS Archive. For more information, please visit the Official MAGS website.

[Home Sweet RON by Darkwater - 3 votes]

Voting has finished and the results are as follows:

• Boogie Bum by Jwalt - 0 votes
• The Case of the Muffin Diver by Retro Wolf - 2 votes
• Home Sweet RON by Darkwater - 3 votes

Well done DarkWater. You will be contacted soon about choosing a topic for April.
Thanks to all the participants and voters.

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	Boogie Bum by Jwalt
	The Case of the Muffin Diver by Retro Wolf
	Home Sweet RoN by DarkWater

Click on the game title to download.

Voting

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR VOTE
Send the title of your favourite game under the subject MAGS FEBRUARY

Remember:
* try all the games before you vote
* vote only once
* vote for your favourite

Voting Ends: March 15th

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Topic: Reality-on-the-Norm
This month's guidelines were set by Hobo, Peder, Atavismus, Jonas

Hey! It's the 15th anniversary of Reality-on-the-Norm this month! Y'all know what that means? It's time for a Reality-on-the-Norm Monthly Adventure Game Studio competition or RotNMAGS (not to be confused with rotten mags)!

Since the whole RoN universe can be a bit overwhelming for non-RoNers and new community members, the competition is not limited to RoN projects only and all other games are also very welcome as long as they are somehow related or include a reference to the RON universe (for example an in-game character is making a RoN game, there's a RoN poster on the wall etc.)

Rules summary:
- Make a RoN game or a game that has a RoN reference in it
- You can (but don't have to) use all the available RoN resources
- Join the anniversary celebration and dress for the occasion (optional)


[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/t3mtc5H.png[/imgzoom]

So what is Reality On The Norm, anyway?
The RON game series formed when some members of the AGS community decided to do a group project - although RON can best be described as a concept, rather than as a project in itself. It involves the creation of a central environment - in our case, the Reality-on-the-Norm town. Each member of the team creates his or her own game as a chapter to be added to all the previously achieved ones, thus creating a collective and diverse "book" of several independent yet coherent chapters.

If you're going for a Ron game and don't know where to start:
- Read this F.A.Q. about RoN universe
- Get familiar with some of characters
- Visit the AGS forums Reality-on-the-Norm subsection for extra information and advice
- Play some of the RoN games for inspiration

Two very important RoN policies: don't kill off other people's characters and don't reveal the bum's true identity.

Have a great month of RoN and MAGS everyone!

Ending: February 29th - Hooray for leap years! Extra day of dev

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What is MAGS?

Started in 2001, MAGS is a competition for amateur adventure game makers. The idea is to create a game in under a month, following the rules set by the previous winner. It aims to help you work to a deadline, improve your skills, and provide a kick-start into making adventure games. Regardless of skill, MAGS is for everyone. Voting is based on "favorite" games, and not the most artistic, or the best coded. If you have bad art skills, use it as a chance to do some graphic work. If you're sub-standard at coding, use it as a chance to give scripting a go. Ultimately, people will vote for the most enjoyable entry.

Rules

• You may work in a team to produce an entry.
• You are not allowed to use any material created before the competition. Your game must be completely new! An exception is music and sound; you can use any audio that is freely available to the public.
• Any modules and templates featured in this board are also allowed.

Entering MAGS is simple. First, conceptualise your game following the month's criteria (see top). Second, create your game fueled only by coffee. Finally, post your game in this thread, including:

âÅ"“ A working download link
âÅ"“ The title of your game
âÅ"“ A suitable in-game screenshot

At the end of the month, voting will begin, usually lasting for fifteen days. The winner chooses the next month's theme, and their name and game is immortalised in the MAGS Archive. For more information, please visit the Official MAGS website.

[Spoilers in 'hide' tags of course.]

So, Mulder and Scully are back.
Let's talk about it :-)

Some thoughts about "My Struggle".
Spoilers in 'hide' tags of course.

Spoiler

I tried to avoid reviews but I had read some mixed opinions, mostly negative to be honest. But I mostly liked it.
I was expecting it to be sickeningly fan-servicey, which it was to some extent (the constant repetition of the phrase "want to believe" was bordering on ridiculous) but most of it was handled a bit more tastefully than I gave it credit for. For example, the 'pencils in the ceiling' shot, which I knew was an inevitability was actually handled a lot better than it was in the second movie, where it makes me cringe every time.

Some of the dialogue was sketchy, to say the least. Another wave of script editing might have done the trick. At one point, O'Malley said something like "I want to know my ass is hanging by more than just a slender thread." Sounds like they got three different people to write the beginning, middle and end of that sentence and not tell each other what they'd written.

This episode also highlighted one of the things that always kind of bothered me about The X-Files in general, especially later seasons. The fact that this is a show mostly about one man's quest to find out these deep dark secrets, but then there are just hundreds, if not thousands of scientists, doctors, soldiers and other military personnel, and god knows who else who seem to know all about it. It makes Mulder's look stupid. It was all much more dramatic when it seemed that it was all being done by a small mysterious group of men.

The new direction of the conspiracy seems interesting, although I confess I'm not 100% clear what that actually is. And another problem is that they didn't even acknowledge the the fact that aliens were supposed to have invaded on Decemmber 22nd 2012. Or was that stuff all part of the Massive Lieâ,,¢ that Mulder kept referring to in this episode? I'm a bit confused about that.

I did start this by saying I liked it though, and here's why (other than the simple fact that my favourite show of all time is back on TV):

I liked the Roswell stuff. Roswell has always fascinated me. Something happened on that day and we can only ever speculate as to what that was. This episode put a nice spin on it (although the CG of the injured Alien will not age well).

I actually liked the awkward relationship between Mulder and Scully. A lot of the shippers (who think they are fans of the show but are actually just fans of Mulder ans Scully's relationship) were very pissed off about their break-up, and haven't stopped crying about it on Twitter and giving Chris Carter a hard time. But I think it made sense. In fact it follws on naturally from the 2nd movie, which was already sowing the seeds for some incompatability issues. It worked and I think it is better for the show in that it can now focus more on the pair solving paranormal cases and less about them kissing and cuddling

So overal, yes it was a flawed episode of TV, especially for a mythology episode, but it was by no means as bad as some of the original episodes could be. And I hear stirrings that episodes 2 and 3 are better, so fingers crossed.

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[VOTING]

Another year, another set of engine-breaking, genre-busting, mind-bending interactive experiences, along with some good old-fashioned point and clicks.

Each month you have voted for your favourites. Now it is time to determine the best of the best for 2015.

January "Aftermath"	Mess Goblins by Dropped Monocle Games
February "Losing Something"	Scenario 2B by Hobo
March "Monsters"	Aractaur by Xil
April "Sleeping" (joint)	Somnamulizer: Tales from Olympus U by Eggie
	Power Nap by Stupot
May - no entries
June "Television"	Feng Shui and the Art of TV Reception by Mandle
July "Hendrix"	The Jimi Hendix Case by Gurok and CatPunter
August "It's Summer!" (joint)	Bitstream by Chicky
	All Gone Soon 2 by vertigoaddict
September "Stephen King"	Matilda and the Curse of King Stephen by Grok
October - no contest
November "There be monsters"	Freak Chic by La Tasse Bleue
December "Depleted"	U-Ropa by Atavismus, Hobo, Jonas, Peder

Click on the game titles to download each game or download a zip containing all the games HERE

VOTING
Play as many games as you can (preferably all of them).
Voting will end on March 15th (subject to change)

How to vote:
1) Decide on your three favourite games and assign them a position, 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
2) Send a PM with the subject 'MAGGIES' to the MAGS Host account (by clicking HERE).
3) Your chosen games will receive 5, 3 or 1 point depending on the position you gave them.
4) When voting closes, all points will be tallied. The winner will (hopefully) be announced at the AGS Awards.

Now go off and play, little darlings, and feel free to use this thread to discuss the pros and cons of this year's entries.

Also use this thread to discuss any other MAGS entries last year that you feel deserve a special mention.

:-)

[Among Thorns by Matt Frith - 8 votes]

Voting has finished and the results are as follows:

• Luther in the Hood by Jwalt - 1 vote
• Your Grace by Retro Wolf - 1 vote
• The Dark Plague by CatPunter and Gurok - 1 vote
• Oh du lieber Augustin by Cat and Creamy - 2 votes
• The Farm by Funkpanzer - 5 votes
• Among Thorns by Matt Frith - 8 votes

Well done Matt. You will be contacted soon about choosing a topic for March.
Thanks to all the participants and voters.

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Topic: Black Death
This month's guidelines were set by La Tasse Bleue

The competition has now ended and voting is underway. (Ends February 15th)

	Luther in the Hood by jwalt
	Your Grace by Retro Wolf
	The Dark Plague by CatPunter and Gurok
	Oh du lieber Augustin by Cat and Creamy
	Among Thorns by Matt Frith
	The Farm by Funkpanzer

Click on the game title to download.

Voting

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR VOTE
Send the title of your favourite game under the subject MAGS JANUARY

Remember:
* try all the games before you vote
* vote only once
* vote for your favourite

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The game has to be about Black Death. You could go for horror or historical (medieval for example) or what ever you like (why not contemporary or even a futuristic plague?!).
There is no other restriction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death



Ended: January 31st

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What is MAGS?

Started in 2001, MAGS is a competition for amateur adventure game makers. The idea is to create a game in under a month, following the rules set by the previous winner. It aims to help you work to a deadline, improve your skills, and provide a kick-start into making adventure games. Regardless of skill, MAGS is for everyone. Voting is based on "favorite" games, and not the most artistic, or the best coded. If you have bad art skills, use it as a chance to do some graphic work. If you're sub-standard at coding, use it as a chance to give scripting a go. Ultimately, people will vote for the most enjoyable entry.

Rules

• You may work in a team to produce an entry.
• You are not allowed to use any material created before the competition. Your game must be completely new! An exception is music and sound; you can use any audio that is freely available to the public.
• Any modules and templates featured in this board are also allowed.

Entering MAGS is simple. First, conceptualise your game following the month's criteria (see top). Second, create your game fueled only by coffee. Finally, post your game in this thread, including:

âÅ"“ A working download link
âÅ"“ The title of your game
âÅ"“ A suitable in-game screenshot

At the end of the month, voting will begin, usually lasting for fifteen days. The winner chooses the next month's theme, and their name and game is immortalised in the MAGS Archive. For more information, please visit the Official MAGS website.

Bit stuck in two places:

Spoiler

Ogre fight.

Spoiler

I can't click on anything and always lose the fight. What am I supposed to do here?

[close]

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and

Spoiler

Vampire booze.

Spoiler

He won't take the jar of alcohol.

[close]

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Any hints?

I'm also stuck at the first rhyme.

Spoiler

What's this about chalk? Where do I get that from?

[close]

[U-Ropa by Atavismus, Hobo, Jonas, Peder - 6 votes]

Voting has finished and the results are as follows:

Outta Juice by Funkpanzer - 1 vote
Space Tunneller by CaptainD - 1 vote
U-Ropa by Atavismus, Hobo, Jonas, Peder - 6 votes

Well done team U-Ropa. You will be contacted soon about choosing a topic for February.
Thanks to all the participants and voters.

	Space Tunneler by CaptainD
	Outta' Juice by Funkpanzer
	U-ROPA by Atavismus, Hobo, Jonas and Peder

Click on the game title to download.

Voting
This month we're going to try PM voting again and see how it goes.
CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR VOTE

Remember:
* try all the games before you vote
* vote only once
* vote for your favourite

Voting ends: January 15th

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Topic: Depleted
This month's guidelines were set by Chicky and vertigoaddict

"Depleted", for example people can make a game about a person all dehydrated in the desert trying to find an oasis or an abandoned android trying to find a re-charge source compatiable with it's model or something like that. As long as the theme concentrates on the idea of something depleted, running out or burnt out, empty, about to be.



Ending: December 31st

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What is MAGS?

Started in 2001, MAGS is a competition for amateur adventure game makers. The idea is to create a game in under a month, following the rules set by the previous winner. It aims to help you work to a deadline, improve your skills, and provide a kick-start into making adventure games. Regardless of skill, MAGS is for everyone. Voting is based on "favorite" games, and not the most artistic, or the best coded. If you have bad art skills, use it as a chance to do some graphic work. If you're sub-standard at coding, use it as a chance to give scripting a go. Ultimately, people will vote for the most enjoyable entry.

Rules

• You may work in a team to produce an entry.
• You are not allowed to use any material created before the competition. Your game must be completely new! An exception is music and sound; you can use any audio that is freely available to the public.
• Any modules and templates featured in this board are also allowed.

Entering MAGS is simple. First, conceptualise your game following the month's criteria (see top). Second, create your game fueled only by coffee. Finally, post your game in this thread, including:

âÅ"“ A working download link
âÅ"“ The title of your game
âÅ"“ A suitable in-game screenshot

At the end of the month, voting will begin, usually lasting for fifteen days. The winner chooses the next month's theme, and their name and game is immortalised in the MAGS Archive. For more information, please visit the Official MAGS website.

[Freak Chic by Atavismus et. al. - 12*]

After a false start, voting is OVER.  Thanks to all the entrants for a great first time as host. All the games were enjoyable. My personal vote went to Song Animals. What a gorgeous piece indeed.

The votes have been counted and the results are THUS:

The Man That Only I Can See by Chicky - 1 vote
Monster Wants In by Mandle - 1 votes
OCEANSPIRIT DENNIS: The Terror of the Ice Princess by MiteWiseAcreLives - 3 votes
Song Animals by Emont - 4 votes
Scylla And Charybdis: A Grecian Ship From Olympus U by Eggie - 4 votes
Freak Chic by Atavismus et. al. - 12*

Well done to the the Frenchies :-)
You'll be contacted soon about choosing a topic for January.

(*Freak Chic still had a bunch of votes, but enough of them (5) were from non-French IP addresses to conclude that it likely would still have won.)

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	Song Animals by Emont
	Monster Wants In by Mandle
	OCEANSPIRIT DENNIS: The Terror of the Ice Princess by MiteWiseacreLives!
	The Man That Only I Can See by Chicky
	Freak Chic by Atavismus, Marion, Bilibis et. al.
	Scylla And Charybdis: A Grecian Ship From Olympus U by Eggie

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After a month off, MAGS is back. Let's make it a good one.

Topic: There be Monsters!
This month's guidelines were set by Grok

On a Dark and Dreary Night
Monsters gives a Dreadful Fright
to achieve MAGS' Fame
make of that a Game
and include Lines that Rhyme
that's the Special Rule this Time

The game should be about monsters. You pick the monsters. You could go for horror or comedy or what ever else you might like. But the game must contain rhyming as a part with some sort of significance for the game.



Ending: November 30th

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What is MAGS?

Started in 2001, MAGS is a competition for amateur adventure game makers. The idea is to create a game in under a month, following the rules set by the previous winner. It aims to help you work to a deadline, improve your skills, and provide a kick-start into making adventure games. Regardless of skill, MAGS is for everyone. Voting is based on "favorite" games, and not the most artistic, or the best coded. If you have bad art skills, use it as a chance to do some graphic work. If you're sub-standard at coding, use it as a chance to give scripting a go. Ultimately, people will vote for the most enjoyable entry.

Rules

• You may work in a team to produce an entry.
• You are not allowed to use any material created before the competition. Your game must be completely new! An exception is music and sound; you can use any audio that is freely available to the public.
• Any modules and templates featured in this board are also allowed.

Entering MAGS is simple. First, conceptualise your game following the month's criteria (see top). Second, create your game fueled only by coffee. Finally, post your game in this thread, including:

âÅ"“ A working download link
âÅ"“ The title of your game
âÅ"“ A suitable in-game screenshot

At the end of the month, voting will begin, usually lasting for fifteen days. The winner chooses the next month's theme, and their name and game is immortalised in the MAGS Archive. For more information, please visit the Official MAGS website.

[AGS Darts Chalkboard.]

Any darts enthusiasts out there?

I used to played for my local vilage club, but it has been about 8 or 9 years since I was really into it. But a while ago I picked up a dartboard in a recycle shop and have finally got around to putting up.

Darts is an expensive hobby in Japan and they mostly use those awful soft-tip electronic machines where you're lucky if it even registers your score properly. Still I managed to get hold of some cheap steel-tips and off I go.

But then I thought: what I really need to top off my new set-up is a chalkboard. Of course I could have just bought a cheap one. But why buy anything when you can make it in AGS. So I did.

Here is my AGS Darts Chalkboard.
Download it here!



Feel free to check it out. It's probably only useful to me. If you don't play darts, you don't need it, and if you do you probably already have a real chalkboard.  But this was just a bit of a time-killing coding exercise.

Let me know what you think. And by all means, let's use this thread to talk about darts in general, if you are interested :-)

Sorry if this is easy peasy, but I can't work out what to do.

I'm making a scoreboard that writes each new score underneath the previous one. I thought I could do this with an unclickable list box, adding each new score as a new item on the list.

However, I can't get the score to display an integer. I thought it should work in the same way as displaying numbers through labels or display windows, like this:

Code: ags

listPlayerOne.AddItem("%d", playerOneScore);

but it doesn't seem to like it at all.

Is there another easy way to do this?

Thanks.

For those interested, the Premier League season kicks off in just a few days.

Goalscorer Challenge is kind of a mini, no-hassle version of Fantasy Football but, instead of choosing a whole team for the season and worrying about budget and transfers, here you simply select one player each Gameweek and how ever many goals he scores are added to your points total. Easy.

The only catch is you can only ever select any player once.

If you like how that sounds go here and sign up:
http://goalscorerchallenge.co.uk/

Once you've registered, had a look around and decided you want to have a go, then join the mini league I have created, The Big Blue Cup:
http://goalscorerchallenge.co.uk/minileagues
And type this password into the 'Join An Existing Minileague' field.

Spoiler

69c43ab7

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Hope to see a few of you there :-)

If you do just want to follow and not play along, you can see the Big Blue Cup group here:
http://www.goalscorerchallenge.co.uk/standings/league:455

[reduce those numbers!]

Games that nobody has rated yet: 235 208
Games that still have less than five votes: 909 910

Let's reduce those numbers!
I especially want to make a severe dent in the top figure. No game should go completely unrated.
No special tasks this time. Just everybody play and rate as many games as you can from those lists.
You are also invited to leave a comment on at least some of the games that you rate, though this is not a rule.

So... Who's in?

To save you some time, here is a list of games known to have Broken Links:

Spoiler

[Into the series] Mythical Gambit
[Into the series] OceanSpirit Dennis
[Into the series] PMQ Legends
[Into the series] PMQ Spin-offs
[Into the series] Portable Knights: PMQ
[Into the series] Pub master quest
[Into the series] Pub Master Quest 3
[Into the series] Pub master quest.2
[Into the series] Shogin Crystal Legends B2
[Into the series] Shogin Crystal Legends B3
[Into the series]Carrot Adventures PMQ
2 Dennis, 1 Bug [MAGS]
A.L.I.
Absent: Part I - Innocent Until Proven Guilty
Access - Demo 2
Access (Demo)
Achar chronicles: Oblitus
Adventures of Max Fax 1
Agent Trinity - Episode 0 - The Ultimatum
AGS Quit Game Dialog: The Game
Akdamar
Aliens Inc. (demo)
All the magical things
An Egypt Adventure
Are We There Yet? 2
Awakening - Part 1: Escape
Bang Bang You're Dead
bird
Bizarre Earthquake
Block PAD
CHA Brett
CHA Cassandra
Coming together
Connect 4
Connect 4 v.2.1
CosmoKid (DEMO)
CosmoKid 0.9
Crap Quest
Crazy Mansion / Maniac Mansion 3
D.Jones: Deceased
Dan Finds His Beard
Day of School
Desktop Adventures: The 11 Minute Game
Dirk Chafberg
Domestic Conspiracy Demo
Dragon Orb
Dreamagine
Edmundand the potato
El Ammo & the Flying Dutchman\'s Mine
Epic adventures of Barry
Everlot-Demo
Eyes of the Jade Sphinx
FAR NOWHERE
final fantasy XV fanmade
Firefly story 3d
Forgetten Death Demo (Turkish Version)
Fractal Creator
Frankenpooper
Fribbeldib
FSi's SymDefecation
FSi's Vacuum Cleaner Gone Mad!
Fun With Numbers
Gear Bladeé‚Æ'ï½¢.DX
Gerald Ratcliff I
Gil: The Trillion Dollar Journey DEMO
Goose Quest 1 DEMO
Happy Birthday, Zemp
Harrys Strange Day
Horror Hospital Incomplete Demo
Horse Park Fantasy
Hotel Hell
I Forgot
I Need A Wee!
Indy y la Abadia de Effel
James Bondage
John Harris and the Treasure of the Pharaoh
John Sinclair- Voodoo in London(new Demo)
Johnny Rockett Adventure
Keys of a gamespace. An expressive game
Kill Davy Jones (demo)
Kill Rem vol. 1(fixed bugs)
Kiselyova Unleashed!
Klaus Kerner and the Fate of Atlantis
KoffeeKrisis - Episode I - Demo
La Cicuta
Legend of Rovendale 2 Mystic Island
Living Nightmare Deluxe
Living Nightmare: Endless Dreams
Living Nightmare: Freedom
Lorry Len
Lost In The Nightmare - Demo
Marshmallows Of Everalasting Realms
Matt and James Amazing Game For Everyone
MAYAK: lost way game
Meaning Quest DEMO
Medieval Prisoner
Messed-Up Mother Goose ï¾Æ'｢竄ｬ窶� DELUXE MY ASS: ENHANCED
Mimis the rat
Mittens Mystery Extravaganza
Music Tools
My 40 bullets (v1.1)
Mythical Gambit Tales of the OceanSpirit[Demo]
neku's new trip (chap1)
neku's new trip[complete book]
New frontier
Nightmare Demo
OceanSpirit Dennis 2 beta
OceanSpirit Dennis: A Ray of Hope
Oh no not again!
Oldman's Quest
Only The Good Die Young
OSD LAST BOSS Dennis Returns 1.5 HD ReMIX
Oz Orwell and the Crawling Chaos [DEMO]
Princess Marian's Pigeon Pinger
pSyCHo!@!
Pub master quest Legends v3.0
QN2 [Demo]
Quikstrike89\'s Stupid Test Game
Ramses Porter and the Relay for Love
Revenge of a guy derogatorily referred to as the n-word!
Ringo\'s Big Adventure
Road of Destiny
Robot Psychiatrist
Rocky roams
Roger's Lame Adventure
rough diamond demo (working link)
Run bitch Run! 1.03
Sam&Moos and the treasure of grandpa
Scum Pub
Secret Santa Generator
Sherlock - The Dark Arts
Shooting Gallery
Simpsons Adventure Game
Sims Hogwarts
SkyTower Rescue Demo
SL vs AUS O7
Sleight of Hand - Demo
Slime Quest 2 Demo
Smile or Die Nonplayable Demo
Soldier of Misforune
Soldier: Demonstartion
Space Madness
Spilakassinn
SQ Kubik
Stickman RPG
Stranger in Stickworld
Supernatural: The Terror Trio
Supernatural: The Terror Trio Demo
Sweet Nightmare
Sweet_Nightmare
T.I.T
Tales of Chickenry Chapter I
Teh EvuL CliCk GaMe
Tempus Fugit
The 24 Hour Game
The Agency: Part one The Conspiracy
The Agnostic Chicken - The Quest For The Bottle Opener
The Alien and the Hick
The Case (Demo)
The Chronicles of the Shoe: Part 1 DEMO (V1.3)
The Death of Luke Simpson
The Endless Night
The Holocaust Museum
The Legacy of Taft Demo
the lord of the bytes
The New Familiar
The Oracle (Demo)
The Pubicle
The Quest for my Raincoat (aka DickBoy)
The Secret of Chunky Salsa
The Strange Day
TimeSink of Chronos
Time-Space Escape
Totaskalan
Troopers Tech Beta
Update Quest
Warrior of Might
Who Killed Who?
William in the USA
Would You Be My Lover ? Demo
Zelda Dance Remix
Zelda Dance Remix II

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[Feng Shui and the Art of TV Reception]

Okay, voting is now CLOSED and the results are as follows:

In third place... Fanbots with 3 votes.
In second place... Wrong Channel with 6 votes.
In first place... Feng Shui and the Art of TV Reception with 7 votes.

Well done to Mandle. Nice job, mate. FSATAOTVR was a fun and clever game indeed.

	Wrong Channel by Xil
	Feng Shui and the Art of TV Reception by Mandle
	Fanbots by LostTrainDude, Kastchey and CaptainD

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Atelier sends his regards.

Topic: 'Television'

This month's guidelines were set by Stupot and Eggie:

Ends: July 3rd

If the revolution will be televised, then television will be revolutionized. And you, AGSers, are the revolting ones.

The theme for this month is 'Television'. How you interpret that is up to you. Maybe your protagonist is an actual TV set. Maybe you choose to provide a satirical critique of the televisual arts. Or maybe your gameplay is inspired by your favourite show: Interactive TV shows; sitcom adventure game with it's own laugh track; 60s Batman with Telltale style moral choices; 24 with interaction in every split screen; Too Many Cooks: The Survival Horror... The possibilities are endless.



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What is MAGS?

MAGS is a monthly competition for amateur adventure game makers. The idea is to create a game in under a month, following the rules set by the previous winner. It aims to help you work to a deadline, improve your skills, or provide a kick-start into making adventure games. Regardless of skill, MAGS is for everyone. Voting is based on "favourite" games, and not the most artistic, or the best coded. If you have bad art skills, use it as a chance to do some graphic work. If you're sub-standard at coding, use it as a chance to give scripting a go. Ultimately, people will vote for the most enjoyable entry.

You may get help for the competition, although you must end up doing something yourself. You should however be warned that it proves difficult to organize a big team within thirty days. You are not allowed to use material already created before this competition. Your game must be completely new! Music and sound is an exception; you can use free material that is available to the public, if you wish. Modules and templates are also allowed.

Entering MAGS is simple. First, conceptualise your game following the month's criteria (see top). Second, create your game fueled only by coffee. Finally, post your game in this thread, including:


âÅ"“ A working download link

âÅ"“ The title of your game

âÅ"“ A suitable in-game screenshot


At the end of the month, voting will begin, usually lasting for fifteen days. The winner chooses the next month's theme, and their name and game is immortalised in the MAGS Archive. For more information, please visit the Official MAGS website.

On Wednesday, Cat and Raeff, Mandle and his wife Misa, and myself met up in Kawagoe, an area outside Tokyo famous for its old Edo-era shops and its own brand of tasty beer.

After that, Mandle took us to an off-the-beaten-track shrine and up a mountain to a hidden, overgrown cemetery. An adventurers paradise.

Then we went for cake and coffee before going our seperate ways.

It was great to meet some AGSers in the flesh. Thanks to Cat and Raeff for coming and I hope you enjoy the rest of your Japan adventure. And thanks to Mandle and Misa for taking us to some cool places.

I'll upload more pics soon, but in the meantime here's one of the five of us enjoying cake :-)

(from left: Stupot Mandle Misa Cat Raeff)

[Power Nap Walkthrough]

I took the time to make a UHS-style walkthrough for Power Nap in case anyone finds it useful.

Power Nap Walkthrough

How do I play Power Nap?

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To play this game you only need to remember two things.
Left-click = interact
Right-click = inventory

Power Nap is all about the quest for the perfect power nap. You win the game only when you have met all of the requirements for the perfect 20-minute power nap. When you think you have met the requirements, press the 'Take a nap' button.

What are these 'perfect requirements'?

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There are five requirements in total.
1) Get rid of the drilling noise outside.
2) Make sure there are no distractions.
3) Do something to block out the bright lights.
4) Find a nice cosy spot to take your nap.
5) Make sure the boss can't catch you napping on the job.


How do I stop the drilling noise?

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This is the easiest 'puzzle' in the whole game. Simply close the window by clicking on it once.

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How do I make sure there are no distractions?

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Perhaps there is a way to stop the phone from ringing.

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Try unplugging the phone.

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How do I block out the lights?

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If the boss sees that your light is off, or that your blind is closed, it may arouse suspicion. Maybe there is some other way to stop light from reaching your eyes.

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Maybe you could use a blindfold.

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Try fashioning one yourself from the items you are carrying.

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Are you carrying the elastic band? (If not, click on the desk.)

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Are you carrying the two leaves? (If not, click on the plant on the shelf)

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Combine the leaves and the rubber band to make a rudimentary blindfold.

(You don't have to do anything with the blindfold. Simply having it means you have solved this puzzle.)

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How do I find a nice cosy space?

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You can't sleep at your desk. The boss could see you through the window.

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How about that big open space on the floor beneath the notice board? Try clicking on the space. Oh. It says you need some sort of pillow.

How do I make a pillow/cushion?

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Well what is a cushion? It's a piece of fabric with some kind of stuffing.

How do I make stuffing?

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Maybe you can use the shredder for this?

What do I shred?

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Try clicking on the small note of the noticeboard for a clue.

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The note says the newspapers will be ready soon. Try calling reception again. This time you can request a newspaper.

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What can I stuff?

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How about some item of clothing?

Okay, but the cushion is falling apart. How can I keep it together?

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There must be some generic piece of office equipment designed for just this kind of problem.

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Use the stuffed jumper on the stapler. Now you have a cushion.

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What do I do once I have a cushion.

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Use it on the space beneath the notice board. Now you have a cosy place for your nap.

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How do I make sure the boss can't catch me.

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You have to make it look as though you are still sitting awake at your desk.

How do I do that?

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Perhaps if you had a picture of yourself.

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You can photocopy your own face.

But the photocopier won't work.

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It needs more paper. There is some on the shelf.

Thanks. So what now?

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Well, presuming you have sellotape and ruler, you can just stick the photocopy to the ruler.

What sellotape? What ruler?

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Did you even try searching the desk?

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Oh. Whoops.

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Whoops, indeed.

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Okay. So I think I've done the five tasks. What next?

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Well now you can take a nap.  So what better time is there to press the 'Take a nap' button.  If you are still yet to fulfil the requirements, the game will let you know.

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I've finished the game, but...

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It says I got the BAD ending. How do I get the good ending?

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This means you either you got defensive with Janine in your answer machine message, or you questioned her logic. Either that or you just didn't call her and leave a message at all.

To get the good ending you should have apologised to her. That's all she wanted. Why not play again and see?

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It says I got the GOOD ending. How do I get the bad ending?

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This means you apologised to Janine in the answer machine message. Had you done otherwise, things may not have worked out quite as planned. Why not play again and see?

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I've played both endings. Now what?

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Well, you could always leave a rating and a comment for Power Nap on the AGS game page: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1912/
and, if there is still time, you could also vote for Power Nap on the game's Adventure Jam entry page here: http://jams.gamejolt.io/adventurejam/games/power-nap/58788

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['Power Nap']

Much of my spare time over the past two weeks has been spent making a game for Adventure Jam and MAGS on the theme of 'Sleeping'.

That game is 'Power Nap'.

Join our intrepid hero, Greg, on a quest for the perfect power nap. Twenty minutes of pure bliss awaits. Only trouble is, the boss is cracking down on nappers. Can you get a decent power nap without getting fired?

The game features hand-painted watercolours that I think are a notable improvement over those of Hen Man. There are also two endings based on a decision made earlier in the game. Also featuring is an awesome song I found on the Free Music Archive called 'Nap' by a band called Wimps. They are my new favourite band and you should check them out.


<sub>Gorgeous hand-painted title screen


Gorgeous hand-painted inventory


Gorgeous photo-realistic photocopier</sub>

640x400 32-bit colour

I think that's about it...

Oh wait...

Download .Zip Here
The AGS game page is here (although at the moment it just refers to the same Gamejolt page): http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1912/
And you can even vote for it here (if you want): http://jams.gamejolt.io/adventurejam/games/power-nap/58788

Please enjoy it. And as always, feedback is gratefully received :-)

I'm sure I'm being thick, but how do I get the mouse cursor to change graphic over a hotspot and ONLY on the hotspot? It's one thing getting to to change over the hotspot, but when I roll off the hotspot again I want it to automatically go back to the original graphic.

I know this is easy but I just can't seem to work it out.
Cheers x