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// Raises his glass and waits for everyone to follow suit so he can drain the contents.

I pretty much only use WinRAR. Have I been doing life wrong?

[Hank Fellows]

Hank Fellows

// walks around the edge of the room eyeing up the drinks on offer. Takes a champagne and stands, smiling rather awkwardly.

// glances at everyone's lips, trying to catch bits of conversation. Approaches Miss Penelope almost as if for instructions.

Oh, is this round two weeks? I hadn't noticed. I just removed a reference to when an entry was/would be submitted, to preserve anonymity.

Whew... I've been studying a lot of disturbing stuff about quantum mechanics lately and I got paranoid that it had affected my time/reality frame or something...

We know. You told us this tomorrow.

[1.FALL FLAT]

There have been four entries so far. I haven't had a lot of time the last couple of days so I was waiting until there was a small handful to do a few at once.

1.
FALL FLAT
5 people wake up free-falling in the skies, with no memory of how they got there.

No time for chitchat when you're falling to your death.

"Who are those people? do I know them? What is that thing we're falling towards?
What are those devices we carry?
One of the devices is a communication device, and somebody is talking!
It looks broken, though (on purpose?)."

As they try to figure things out, they'll start to experience (playable) flashbacks which will slowly reveal what's going on.

Will they make it in time, or will they.. FALL FLAT?


2.
N00b
A game thriller set where you live: On the Internet!

Kara is the founder and admin of a tight-knit online community, until one day her identity is stolen and she is locked out of her own site. With a new account and a collection of hacker tools, she sets out to rebuild her status, uncover the usurpers and take back control before it's too late. But how far will she go?

N00b is a simulated alternate reality game with chats, video, images, etc. across multiple social sites and services.


3.
Homo-Sapiens
Find out the secret of the exodus. A true classic point&click adventure.

Half a millennium ago the last remnants of the homo sapient left Earth and settled in a planet to and start a new life.

While cleaning your parents' attic you find an old metal box, which reveals a 500 year old journal! It account for life on Earth, leaving it and their hopes for the future. What you do not find is the answer you always wanted to know: Why?

Intrigued you decide to embark on a journey to Earth.


4.
Town of nightmares
Save the town of Braden!

In the small town of Braden the townsfolk are plagued by nightmares from which some never wake. As the sheriff of Braden you have to find what's causing it.
Gameplay is divided into two parts, day and night. During the day you're investigating, while on the nights you enter a nightmare where you try and save the townsfolk from a grim monster. Your actions during the day have consequences at night, so remember, the monster is after you too.


For me:

Spoiler

#.

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[Cyborg Seppuku]

The voting is over and the people have spoken.
The winner of MAGS August, with a whopping 9 points is Mr Outer-the-blue himself, The Outer Zone for Cyborg Seppuku.

Congratulations on the impressive win. You will be contacted by PM soon about choosing a topic for MAGS October.

While, Snarky is away on Mittness, I've set up the next Competition.

Head over to Round 6. http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=56466.0

[The object of the competition is to present the best possible "elevator pitch" for an original adventure game.]

While Snarky is away on Mittness, I'm sharing Game Pitch duties. so I hope you're ready.  It's time for another...

Game Pitch Competition â€" Round 6: "The Pitch-hiker"

The object of the competition is to present the best possible "elevator pitch" for an original adventure game.
So, come up with a cool idea, and explain it very briefly to someone in order to catch their interest and make them excited about it.

We're being strict about the word limits so if you go above the max length, the remaining part will be placed behind a spoiler tag, and voters may choose to ignore that part of the pitch.

Procedure

• Submit your game pitch via this form.
• I will post the entries (anonymously) as they come in. Hopefully this will inspire others to join.
• Submissions close October 1st. I will then open a thread poll for voting.
• Voting will last 1 week (until October 8th). Discussion and feedback on the entries is encouraged, but make sure to maintain anonymity.
• After voting is over, the results become public. I will post the list of participants, and we can then work to identify the authors and discuss the entries further.

Rules

• The pitch should be for some kind of adventure game (under a broad definition of the genre).
• Try to stick more or less to the word limits: An elevator ride is not that long!
• You may submit only one entry in the round.
• The entry should be anonymous. Do not reveal your authorship until voting closes.
• Do not vote for your own entry. It's not cool.

All clear?
Then start sending in those pitches!


Here are all nine entries:

Spoiler

1.
FALL FLAT
5 people wake up free-falling in the skies, with no memory of how they got there.

No time for chitchat when you're falling to your death.

"Who are those people? do I know them? What is that thing we're falling towards?
What are those devices we carry?
One of the devices is a communication device, and somebody is talking!
It looks broken, though (on purpose?)."

As they try to figure things out, they'll start to experience (playable) flashbacks which will slowly reveal what's going on.

Will they make it in time, or will they.. FALL FLAT?


2.
N00b
A game thriller set where you live: On the Internet!

Kara is the founder and admin of a tight-knit online community, until one day her identity is stolen and she is locked out of her own site. With a new account and a collection of hacker tools, she sets out to rebuild her status, uncover the usurpers and take back control before it's too late. But how far will she go?

N00b is a simulated alternate reality game with chats, video, images, etc. across multiple social sites and services.


3.
Homo-Sapiens
Find out the secret of the exodus. A true classic point&click adventure.

Half a millennium ago the last remnants of the homo sapient left Earth and settled in a planet to and start a new life.

While cleaning your parents' attic you find an old metal box, which reveals a 500 year old journal! It account for life on Earth, leaving it and their hopes for the future. What you do not find is the answer you always wanted to know: Why?

Intrigued you decide to embark on a journey to Earth.


4.
Town of nightmares
Save the town of Braden!

In the small town of Braden the townsfolk are plagued by nightmares from which some never wake. As the sheriff of Braden you have to find what's causing it.
Gameplay is divided into two parts, day and night. During the day you're investigating, while on the nights you enter a nightmare where you try and save the townsfolk from a grim monster. Your actions during the day have consequences at night, so remember, the monster is after you too.


5.
Chekhov's Balance


A short adventure where two friends have to deal with slice-of-life topics (first love, bullying, trying stuff out). They are writing a fantasy novel, the progress of which the player can take part of in dialogues between the two (simplified: “Should we kill this side character?” â€" “Yes/no!”), but thus also affecting the game world which respectively also reacts to your decisions, forcing you to balance between an interesting and a boring story for the sake of your characters' well-being.

6.
A Break From Reality
Why is reality starting to break down?!

The plane you are travelling on has to ditch in the ocean near a coastline. Upon exiting the plane you find that it is now too small for you to fit back inside. One wet arrival at the nearby coastal town later and you find reality breaking everywhere. A man disappears/reappears every 17 seconds. Posters of famous people are not them. Outdoor spaces shrink while indoor ones stretch. Combination adventure/survival gameplay.

7.
Happy Scrappy Hero Pup
A little good dog in a big bad world

The dog Scrappy must save his human friend Baby kidnapped by filthy people then moved in an occupied mall! He have to make his way through devasted stores, weird guys and girls who crave something. And find the kidnappers hideout before some very bad happen to Baby! But he can count on his fine nose, his smartness and the power of his happyful smile!

8.
The other paperclip
A kidnapped engineer has to escape a strange city that's an amalgamation of alien tech and various human cultures

An engineer finds himself kidnapped by aliens and sent to their planet. He soon learns that the aliens are using a human workforce to terraform the planet, and in addition to a large native population of humans descended from slaves taken centuries ago, the aliens have in regularly kidnapped various earth scientists in order to expand their knowledge. An elderly german scientist, himself abducted in the 1950's, tells the engineer that this their version of ""Operation Paperclip"".

The engineer has

Spoiler

to pretend to go along with the engineering tasks he's given while devising a way to reverse-engineer the alien technology and find a way back to Earth.

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9.
Found Footage
A comedy adventure game that revolves around the found footage craze of the early 2000s. No monsters, just real problems.

It's fall of the year 2000, and you've secured funding to shoot a found footage horror movie on an island in the Atlantic Ocean. You as the director only have a week to overcome a number of challenges related to shooting in an isolated environment. Deal with odd locals, manage a B-movie diva, convince the crotchety widower to let you shoot on his lawn, and engineer props out of the materials on hand. Can you produce a found footage hit?
Screen reader support enabled.

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Enjoy Mittens, everyone. Keep us updated with piccies ands gossip. X

Bought and downloaded ready to play when I get home from work tonight.

Congratulations on the release and may the bucks come rolling in.

...

So far all guess about my entry are wrong. Dragonville, Inside These White Walls and The Antidote are not mine.

One week left to vote. The vote count is quite low still so a few more would be nice.

Please, don't forget to add some feedback on games you play on the database page 

+1

Not all MAGS entries have an AGS page but if they do, comments and ratings are always a nice touch to complement your NAGS votes.

The house is the Cook Mansion, in Piru, California.
It's appeared in lots of films and TV shows...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piru_Mansion#Film_and_television

That explains why I recognize it. I probably saw it in The X-Files.

I recognize that house.
Is it Sabrina the teenage witch?

[Shine one on the other's trademark. What do you get?]

As for Ghost's one, I was going to suggest breaking it down and dealing with each line one by one. But I got nothing. So I resorted to a bit of Google.

It turns out those are verses from two different songs:

Anything My Mama Don't Like by Helloween
Under a Violet Moon by Blackmore's Night

But we still have to solve this part:

Shine one on the other's trademark. What do you get?

No idea...

[Cola Skunkette: A Bit of Cleanup]

The contest is over and voting us underway. Six fine-looking entries. Thank you everyone.

I checked and double-checked but I'm paranoid that I've forgotten somebody, so please let me know if I have.

Vote using the poll at the top of the page.

	Cola Skunkette: A Bit of Cleanup by DBoyWheeler
	The Campaign Of Daphne White by Slasher
	Cyborg Seppuku by The Outer Zone
	The Man Who Liked Cats by Mandle
	Vacant Bodies by VampireWombat
	Fists of Murder by Jack

Haha. Josiah. Your kind guiltiness almost played into our hands. When everyone voted to lynch me and you were the only one sticking up for me it must have looked certain that you were my partner. When I knew I was almost certainly out I was considering that I might write some kind of parting letter (or PM after the fact) acknowledging my guilt and then “accidentally” type ‘sorry, Jo, I'm out'.

I chose not to because a) people probably will have worked out it was s trick and b) that would have been a real dick move, especially after you were the only one who didn't vote for me.

I must also apologise to Cat. Kastchey and I genuinely became convinced that Cat was working will Mandle, and if we could convince everyone else that they were in cahoots then maybe it would have been reasonable that they were the murderers. Trying to pick holes in Mandle's account of events was fun but exhausting.

Also I wasn't as engaged as I should have been, especially as a wolf. It took some effort to keep up with the thread, let alone try to analyze all the ins and outs. So apologies to Kastchey for pretty much letting him do all the work, strategy-wise, but for future reference, he's a good person to have on your team if you are a baddie.

Thanks for the entries, folks. Voting will be sorted out as soon as I have a spare half an hour at a computer, which should be soon but could be never.

Ahh okay. I was just checking. That's a generous deadline. Might give this a go myself.