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[Cassiebsg and MorganW]

As a way of drumming up interest in the MAGGIES and encouraging more voters, I'm putting on a series of short interviews with the creators behind the 12 entries. We'll try to cover as many as possible but one or two of the devs haven't logged in for a while, so they might not get interviewed.

Anyway. Let's get to it. If you have any follow up questions for any of the interviewees, feel free to ask them here in this thread.

First up, Cassiebsg and MorganW, for their work on Space Cross: The BSG Team.


What was your role in the development of the game?
Cassiebsg: Story idea and all the graphics.
morganw: I was mostly assembling the pieces that Cassie had already made, into a game. So scripting, dialogue, plus enough of a design to accommodate a short story.

Can you tell us a bit about how you came up with the idea?
C: I brain stormed with Morgan via IRC. I wanted to do another Galactica (1978) game and the theme crossovers just seemed perfect. I was planing something more like Galactica-Stargate, with Starbuck crashing into another planet (as like in the show, he took turns with Apollo to get us the "crash of the week") and I thought it would be funny if he was so close to Earth (via the Stargate) but never realized it. Then Morgan threw in the A-Team and taking advantage that Starbuck and Faceman were played by the same actor in the 2 tv-shows, which we turned into the recurring joke in the game. 
M: I think Cassie had been making the graphics for a week or two, but there were only about 10 days before the end of the month, so I offered my help to try and make the deadline. I forget exactly how the original story was meant to work after the suggestion to use two Dirk Benedicts, but this was cut down significantly in order to get the game completed.

What are you most proud of about the game?
C: That we managed to make a little fun game (at least I hope it is) also for non-fans. Of course, if you at know all 3 franchise it might be extra fun.  And Morgan did such a great job writing the A-Team's dialogues! I just made sure the Stargate and BSG facts made sense. since he had little knowledge about BSG and Stargate.
M: Probably that it was completed in not a lot of time and some people found it fun. The dialogue was fun to write.

What challenges did you face during the development?
C: Time, I guess. Would have loved to made the game a bit longer.
And the fact that Morgan had little to none knowledge about BSG and Stargate, meant that I had to ask him to fix a few dialogues and character motivation, so that it made sense. But in the end, I can't really remember any of it being a big deal or major problem.
M: Time. I think it was 5 evenings and 1 weekend to go from nothing to a playable game. Also, I hadn't told Cassie that I'd never seen Stargate, and then went on to write lots of dialogue about using a Stargate...

If you'd had more time, what else would you have liked to have included in the game?
C: Probably a final cutscene, with the working Stargate and Hannibal coming to get his "lost" team. Which of course would have included more puzzling, since they first needed to fix the Stargate.
M: Some of puzzle elements were kind of forced due to the time constraints and background layouts, although these restrictions also steered me in writing the story. I guess the most obvious answer is the chance to play as the other Dirk Benedict...

Any final words?
C: I'll be back! Oh wait, wrong sci-fi franchise.
I had a lot of fun doing the game and working with Morgan, and hope we can do it again one of these days.
M: It was fun to work with Cassie, we made something, some people liked it, and it doesn't crash (as far as I know). I can't really ask for more.


And there it is. Our first interview. Thanks very much to Cassie and Morgan. Again, if you have any follow-up questions for either or both of them, fire away.

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@kweepa and Tzachs, these are funny answers but the solution is supposed to be a five-letter word.

Here's one.

CAGE CAGE/CAGE
LOCK bear   CAGE
CAGE CAGE CAGE

The answer is ‘slash'. I made a slash in the cage with a big sword and now the bear is free.

Looking amazing. Can't wait to see the final game.

Thanks again Fernewelten:-)

By the way. I'm sorry I didn't know the full title was Mamma Mia Winter Ice Cream Mayhem. Do you want me to change the information in the voting table and form?

Thanks Fernewelten. Although Cassie is right. The Mamma Mia is not loading. Any more for any more?

Try clicking this arrow. In minimizes/maximizes the avatar and other info at the top of the page.

I imagine the voting will begin almost as soon as the nomination phase ends on Feb 20.

In the red banner there's a slight syntax error.

“ please take the time to nomination”

Haha. As long as you didn't kancho yourself.

That puzzle could easily have been done with just words and I'm not even sure at what point I thought to use emojis instead but it was fun. I felt a bit cheaty putting them in the frame. That wasn't a deliberate red-herring but I needed some way to avoid putting them in a line because the sequence didn't matter.  Otherwise it looked like one of those emoji puzzles where you have to guess a film title.

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Power?

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That is the answer I had in mind. Well done, Frighter.

As mentioned in the other thread, I am looking for people to volunteer to make a gameplay video for some of the titles above.

If anyone can help out, I would be really grateful.

These are the games that still need a video:

Space Cross: The BSG-Team
Hydrate
Cave of Avarice
Hopping Homeward
Thrymly Disguised
Mamma Mia!
A Christmas Nightmare
TRAVELERS (prototype)
Mr Bear Teaches English
Escape Literature
Desmond: The 'Thing' from Another World
Jake's Very Last Journey

Oh. And as always. Please do let me know if I've made any mistakes, forgotten some detail, miscredited somebody or anything else like that. Thank you.

Thanks for your input everyone. The official MAGGIES voting thread is now open.

This thread can be locked to avoid confusion.

[It's MAGGIES time again.]

It's MAGGIES time again.

Massive thank you to everyone who has entered a MAGS game throughout 2019. And to those of you who voted each month. We now have a complete shortlist of all the most highly voted games for each month of the year.

All that's left is to choose the best of the best.

Things are a little simplified this year. Instead of giving point values to your top three choices, you simply have to choose a best three in no particular order. The game with the highest overall vote tally will be crowned winner of MAGGIES 2019.

A few requests before you proceed:

1) Please make sure you have played (or at least sampled) as many of the games as possible (preferably all of them). If you really don't have much time to play every game, some of them have videos you can watch instead.

2) Only one submission per person.

3) Please vote for games based on their own merits (visual, enjoyment, puzzles etc.). Don't just vote for your friend or fellow countryman's games.

4) You do not have to be logged into a Google account but you will be asked for your AGS forum name for verification purposes.

Click here to vote
Deadline: Saturday February 29th

January "Crossover" Space Cross: The BSG-Team by Cassiebsg and Morganw Watch video Read interview	February "Dressing Up" Thrymly Disguised by Blondbraid and Cassiebsg Watch video Read interview	March "Hydrate" Hydrate by Retro Wolf Watch video Read interview
April "End of an Era" TRAVELERS (Prototype) by LostTrainDude Watch video Read interview	May "What Are They Doing In There?" Cave of Avarice by Blondbraid, cat and Slasher Watch video Read interview	June "Little-Known Traditions" Mamma Mia! by fernewelten Watch video Read interview
July "Animal Protagonists" Hopping Homeward by NuggetSeb Watch video	August "Huts or Hats" Mr Bear Teaches English by cat, Marcin K and CaptainD Read interview	September "Magic" Escape Literature by Reiter Read interview
October "Kids" Desmond: The 'Thing' from Another World by Slasher Read interview	November "Cloud" Jake's Very Last Journey by fernewelten Read interview	December "Create Your Own Christmas Adventure" A Christmas Nightmare by Alan v.Drake Watch video Read interview

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[A Christmas Nightmare]

The voting is over and the winner is: A Christmas Nightmare by Alan v.Drake

Well done Alan. I haven't had a chance to play the game myself yet, but it looks incredible and judging by the comment, it is. I'll contact you soon about choosing a topic for February.

Thanks to the others who entered and to everyone who voted.

No correct guesses so far but your last post was barking up the closest tree.

Any more votes before we close out December?

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Frame?

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Nope.

I should probably check while it's still early. Can everyone see the four emojis, and not just a table frame?

Good job Stu! Too easy?

The first one was very easy but the second one took a bit more thinking.

Here's a new one.

🧠🔥 🌸🐎

I'm looking for volunteers.

Ideally everyone who votes should have played, or at least sampled, all of the games before voting. But I understand that this is not always going to be easy for most people. And I don't want to scare away potential voters by making anyone feel that they can't vote because they didn't play all the games.

To that end, I'm looking for people to make Let's Play videos of all of the MAGGIES entries that I can attach to the voting thread. I already have four of them (thanks to Selmiak).

If you fancy having a go, or if indeed you have already made such a video, please contact me via PM.

Cheers

Games that we need videos of:

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Space Cross: The BSG-Team
Hydrate
Cave of Avarice
Hopping Homeward
Thrymly Disguised
TRAVELERS (prototype)
Mamma Mia
Mr Bear Teaches English
Escape Literature
Desmond: The 'Thing' from Another World
Jake's Very Last Journey
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