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Is it really October 15 deadline or did you mean September?

[Kastchey and Slasher]

Voting is over and we have a tie!
Congrats to Kastchey and Slasher. You'll be contacted soon about choosing a topic for November.
Commiserations VampireWombat.
Thanks to all entrants and voters.

	Jason and the Golden Apple by Slasher
	Here Be No Sirens by Kastchey
	Sweet Mythery by Vampire Wombat

Topic: Mermaids and Sirens
Chosen by Kastchey



A mermaid is a half-human, half-fish. A male version of this creature is called a merman, but its appearance in tales and popular culture is significantly less common. The mermaid steals the spotlight!
A siren is a human-bird hybrid, most commonly depicted as a large bird with a head of a human female. They would lure the sailors to their dwellings with their singing and crash their ships for the rare delicacy that is mariner meat!

Since these two entirely different mythological creatures are often confused with each other, why not use both for a MAGS theme?

For this month's competition, your challenge is to create a game featuring a mermaid, a merman or a siren.
It can, but does not have to feature the actual living creature. It can be a person disguised as one, it can be a painting, it can even be a homonym (e.g., siren as a warning sound device is also acceptable).

Some ideas to get you started:

1. A merman boy sets out to find his dolphin friend who has gone missing, and rumor has it that there are sharks around! Well only one shark who is old, half blind and missing most of his teeth but to a small merman boy he sure looks scary.

2. A crackpot journalist needs to get footage of a real mermaid to pay the bills, but they just wouldn't show up. Out of better options, she decides to fabricate one.

3. A mermaid gets entangled in a fisherman's net. She needs to free herself and get her tail out of there before anyone spots her.

4. A prankster or an activist wants to hijack the emergency siren system to play a custom sound.

5. A brave adventurer has been tasked with obtaining the priceless plume of a siren.


There is no restriction on the use of pre-made assets.
Don't know where to find free assets? Try AGS Trove!

Ending: September 30th

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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

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:

* A working download link
* The title of your game
* A suitable in-game screenshot

At the end of the month, voting will begin, usually lasting for fourteen 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.
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[SUNDAY NIGHT 23:59 BST]

An extension suits me. It's always more difficult for me when the 1st of the month falls on a weekend.
New Deadline is SUNDAY NIGHT 23:59 BST.

I actually think we're in a golden age of remakes/reboots/reimaginings. Some of them, especially TV series based on old movies, are really really good. I haven't seen Picnic at Hanging Rock (not even the original) but I point to Bates Motel and Fargo as a prime example of great recent TV shows based on old films. I've also heard good things about The Exorcist and Ash Vs. Evil Dead TV shows though I havent seen them yet.

I'm currently watching Scream and I love it. It does a lot of subverting and surprising and delighting, but then that's what Scream always did, isn't it. This TV show is just real.

The high-school-kid-looking-25-30-years-old thing is basically what they do in TV and Films, right. For a start they have acting experience, and secondly I have a major crush on the lead actress of Scream, which would get me in a lot of trouble if she was actually the age of the character she's playing.

No idea but did you notice the cameraman's finger taking up half the screen in the last clue but one?

Just wait. You'll get loads of offers now. Trouble with the recruitment thread is that nobody reads it. Or, somebody replied offering to help and then nobody else feels the needs to offer.

No, I never said Dayowlron is lying. Just that he seems to have chosen to believe you and passed on a message that you asked him to pass on.

Look at them trying to get their stories straight. They clearly realise they've messed up and now their knickers are in their respective twists.

So Dayowlron contacted me and said that Mandle asked him to tell me that he didn't ask him to protect Cat.

So Dayowlron PMed you all telling you something that Mandle asked him to tell you, rather than telling you the truth. Okay. Got it.

[And so I'm now asking the Nurse to PM me with their identity and I can tell that person who to guard in the coming night phase...]

During the night I sensed my mind being probed during my deepest dreams of standing ovations and darkest nightmares of audiences throwing rotten fruit!

And such feelings proved to be slightly more than mere fancy.

Before we gathered together this morning a certain someone tapped my elbow as a signal and pulled me aside to whisper:

"I have psychic powers and have seen that you are but an innocent Guest upon this godforsaken island. You must work with me as my mouthpiece!"

And so I'm now asking the Nurse to PM me with their identity and I can tell that person who to guard in the coming night phase...

Of course, who am I to be trusted about anything I say?

I could have had blood on my hands this morning before washing them in the cold water sinks in our rooms for all anyone knows.

The Nurse is welcome to doubt me but it's really just a coin-toss.

If you believe my bold claims then PM me and we can begin to work together to guard both myself and the Psychic. This is a fast-track course for a town win!

If you do not believe me then do not PM me but consider guarding me tonight as the murder(s) will be out to kill the Psychic's spokesman if they have no leads on who the Psychic themself is.

You knew who the nurse was because you asked him to PM you. He did and you believed he wasn't lying. You got lucky.

I know Cat isn't the psychic because I AM. But you will have tried to convince the nurse (Dayowlron) to protect either yourself or the other killer. The reason I assumed you requested him to protect Cat is that Owl would have been less likely to have believed you if you asked him to protect you, rather than someone else. You really did a number on him.

Goosebumps smchoosebumps.

[MANDLE]

Dammit. It looks like I have no choice. But...

DON'T BELIEVE A WORD MANDLE SAYS!
I AN THE PSYCHIC!!

I scanned Cat on night one. CAT IS A KILLER! I needed someone to trust so I scanned Mandle on night two because I had convinced myself that he was the nurse. But as it turned out, MANDLE IS THE PARTY HOST!! (aka the other killer)

The upshot of this is that I still haven't scanned a normal guest so I don't have anyone on my side, but I am NOT a killer.

If you ask Dayowlron, he will tell you that Mandle asked him to protect Cat. This is because Mandle and Cat are working together.

You must believe me and change your vote to MANDLE! We can deal with Cat the following night.

Just to reiterate. I'm voting for MANDLE and so should you.

I'm always up for another round. When we have enough of these we could hold a MAGS where the theme is to make a game based on one of these pitches :-)

You've got this, man. Here's hoping for a swift resolution and a huge settlement.

Quite the opposite. I haven't spent enough Time thinking about it.

I just have no idea and I haven't really had enough time to really sit and analyze the posts properly. Everyone's being super reserved compared with previous games and not really giving any opinions regarding who to lynch. It's the second day but unless I've missed something we're still at the stage where lynching anyone is fairly random. We probably should lynch someone but I don't wanna be the one to lead the charge because it would be basically random.

When I said ‘torn between two' I just meant there were two people in my radar as just a little bit more suspicious than the others, and that I was torn as to which one of them to vote for to lynch. One of which was Dayowlron because he seemed quite quick to accuse you (Mandle) early on. He's cooled of a bit now but I wonder if that's just because I scared him with my preliminary non-yet-vote.

The other one is someone who hasn't posted much and I don't really have a special reason to vote for them other than their being suspiciously quiet.

I get the feeling that Mandle is sort of telling the truth but has something up his sleeve. I feel that if he he's lying about anything it is because he is in fact himself the nurse or something like that and he is testing to see if someone else comes forward. If this is true then he may or may not have been genuinely contacted by the psychic. Hopefully we'll find out tomorrow because the psychic can scan another town member and let us know whether Mandle has been making it all up. In which case we lynch him.

As for who the killers are, I am none the wiser. Just based on behaviour I'm torn between two.

Yeah, I'm not really into the guessing game either. It's not really fun unless you know who all of the entrants are.

Sweet. I'm hyped for this.

Oh, lord. That poor lady. If only she had screamed for help or given us some clue or or or... something. I could have done something to help. To think I ever called myself a doctor... I've... I've failed myself and my profession. And still no sign of our... DAMNED host?

No, I've got a bad feeling about all this. I agree with cat. One of US is a murderer. It's just a question of who.

As a man of science, I'm a little disturbed by Mandle's assertion that he has been contacted in his dreams by some... some voice. But I'm hungover and this no ordinary island. Anything seems possible right now. And perhaps this voice was merely a manifestation of some deeper intuition. What disturbs me more is dayowlron's slight overreaction to what Mandle had to say. He sounded like someone quite desperate to accuse the first person with any kind of a lead. Which suggests to me thatbHE might be the one hiding something.

I suggest this night we choose one person to lock away in the dungeon. My suggestion is dayowlron. (Not an official bold vote yet. I'm still mulling over the last night's events)

OOC
As someone who has been in Mandle's position (if he's telling the truth) where the seer contacted me on the first night, I wish I had thought of this tactic of being the seer's spokesperson. It seems so obvious. Of course you have to work out if they're telling the truth but I'm willing to guess that he is.

Maybe Yahtzee will roll in at some point.