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Rex and Sissi in Pink Cult



From AGS database:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1765/

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=49925.new#new

Rex and Sissi in Pink Cult

[imgzoom]http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/images/games/1765_1.png[/imgzoom]

Help Rex and Sissi to go back to home.

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1765/

This is MAGS January 2014
"Something Cold, Something Burrowed, Something Pink".

Have fun

Robin Gravel

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Almost done.

It works!

Thank you for the advice.

I worked on Space Trash today.

I noted if the player skips the cutscene, sound effects still playing.

Is there a way to prevent sound effects playing if the cutscene is skipped?

Hmmmm....

Shouldn't ending FYC first by setting a deadline, then start nominees and vote.

Each time a game's added we need to go to nominates games again.

Let me see.

Something cold:
[imgzoom]http://www.atariage.com/forums/gallery_ips/gallery/album_185/gallery_1196_185_7014.png[/imgzoom]

Something burrowed & something pink:
[imgzoom]http://www.atariage.com/forums/gallery_ips/gallery/album_185/gallery_1196_185_2138.png[/imgzoom]

Did you ask to the authors first? Few authors might not like to compete.

Common sense suggests to use that option when the author hasn't been around lately.

Also, I noted both games Adventure Island and Educating Adventures of Girl and Rabbit have no link from database. It would be great if they add those links to follow the rules.

There is a rule to add the game to the DB, but rereading my FYC post, there is no requirement to provide a link to the DB (even though it always nice to have a link to the DB).

Ok. The games need to be in the database but not need to link to them.

Thank you to clarify. I was confusing.

I just saw a post in the FYC thread to promote a worthy game which could have been missed as the author hasn't been around lately.
Do you think there are more of these games? Go on and tell us in the For your Consideration thread too!

You will help fellow players who are frantically going through game after game (because you are frantically going through game after game, right? Right?)

Did you ask to the authors first? Few authors might not like to compete.

Also, I noted both games Adventure Island and Educating Adventures of Girl and Rabbit
have no link from database. It would be great if they add those links to follow the rules.

I need to work on my story if I can enter in this mags.

Something cold, something burrowed, something pink.

It's tempting for me.

I think there're no commercial games for MAGS. So MAGS won't apply with new ags awards rules.

I disagree with best overall game. A commercial game might win with that.

Is there any reasons P3n1s category removed?

[There should be one single Best Game award for each year!]

Damn, I've been ignoring this discussion at my peril!

My top two cents:

There should be one single Best Game award for each year! Whatever we do about commercial and free games, I think there really must be a "top" prize, the one game we as a community hold up as the best thing created with AGS.
Games that missed the database submission in 2012 were explicitly told that they could compete in 2013. Whether or not this way of doing it is the best, it would be extremely unfair to disqualify them now.

Additional cents...

Categories in general:

• The many categories is part of the charm of the AGS awards, and an opportunity to honor oddball achievements. But this is probably incompatible with splitting every category into commercial and free.
• Should we add an award for best mobile/tablet (iPad/Android) release?  There aren't that many of them (explicit platform ports rather than games that can run with ports of the engine, I mean), and they're mostly Wadjet Eye titles, but this is such an important part of the future of adventure gaming.
• I feel like I say this every year, but "Best Gameplay" is a confusing and vague category, and I'm not convinced different people interpret it at all the same. To me it's "the experience of playing the game, as determined by the balance of puzzles, exploration and other challenges and in-game activities", CaptainD couldn't tell it apart from "Best Game", and bicilotti's explanation sounds to me like "Best UI".
• In addition to the game awards, we should still have the Lifetime Achievement and Innovation awards, obviously.

Commercial/free categories:

• I tend to agree with m0ds that the awards are for honoring things made with AGS, and that separating commercial and freeware games is irrelevant to that purpose. Also, the separation isn't necessarily clean: You have commercial games that are later released for free (the Bakesale games, for example), free games that go commercial (The Shivah, The Journey Down - though not in AGS), games that raise voluntary donations through Kickstarter, IndieGogo or Paypal in order to fund a proper "commercial" development budget...
• The number of commercial releases in any given year may not support having them compete in a whole set of independent categories, particularly if we keep the number of categories high. For this reason, I don't think the idea of splitting each category in two is workable.
• I don't like the idea of disqualifying commercial games from every category except a special "Best Commercial Game" one. I think it would diminish the value of the other awards if some of the best games couldn't compete. Instead, if we're worried about commercial games squeezing out the free ones, how about just one category set aside for freeware games: "Best Free Game"?

Eligibility:

• I personally think we should use database submission date as the qualifying criterion for nomination, since it gives us a "definite list" of released games to choose nominations from. If we don't like the idea of games being added to the database to compete years after the original release, we could add a rule that they are only eligible in the year they were originally released or the following one.
• We need to require accounts for voting, because otherwise there's no telling the kind of ballot-box stuffing there might be. (And we the mods should probably keep an eye on suspicious voting patterns to see if there are any handpuppets taking part.)

We're talking about games they are released. The authors won't change their mind to turn their games as freeware/commercial than much later, maybe one year after their release.

IF a game in 2013 is a commercial and become freeware in 2014, the game will count like a commercial since it's a commercial game in 2013.

I voted.

I'd suggest to keep that current rules for 2013 games to be fair for everybody but change them for 2014 games.

So here's my idea of a list:

I'm not seeing any issues with the current list of categories; we traditionally get sufficient and diverse votes for each. So I don't really see the point in reducing it. Perhaps we need to scrap one or two categories, but I think a proposal of "scrapping most of them" goes much too far.

With this in mind, these are the categories I think could be dropped without too much issue:

    Best Demo
    Best Player Character
    Best Non-Player Character
    Best Tutorial or Documentation

I still think other categories could be combined, though.  Maybe not to the extent that I recommended earlier, but some combinations wouldn't be unreasonable.

If the best demo is removed i'll remove my game from FYC topic.

Personally, I think a game should only be eligible for the year it was released.

If we need a requirement, I'm not sure if the database entry should be necessary, but perhaps a Completed Game Announcement would be a better requirement.  It seems sometimes people either forget about the database, or take their time getting around to it, but most people make an Announcement topic when their game is released.  Then again, it might not be needed at all.  Since we have this topic, people could simply post in there that they are interested in eligibility for the awards, and if they meet the criteria, they're in!

About categories, I also think there are too many.  I think we should keep the best Non-Adventure Game category.  Other categories could be combined, as long as everyone understands what is included.  For example, I like Best Sound over Best Music, because Sound would include Sound Effects and Voice Acting.  I'd also like to see commercial games separated from free games.  It could simply be the Best Commercial Game award, or it could be a complete split in categories.  Either is fine.

So here's my idea of a list:

    Best Free Game Created with AGS
    Best Commercial Game Created with AGS
    Best Gameplay (Puzzles, Programming)
    Best Writing (Story, Dialogue)
    Best Art (Background, Character, Animation)
    Best Sound (Effects, Music, Voice)
    Best Non-Adventure Game Created with AGS

Again, not sure if we need an entirely different set of categories for Commercial Games, but there should at least be a separation for the Best Game category.

I disagree.

We need an entirely different set of categories for Commercial Games too.

Because commercial games have better artists and they will win most of the awards left free games behind.

My mistake. Thank you to fix it.

I added a new game two days ago.

Space Trash demo.

This game does not show in my profil while under my name Robin Gravel, two games do.

Did I miss something?

Nomination games should take consideration with both database and announcements in the messageboard.

The oldest date should be taken.

Space Trash Demo

[imgzoom]http://agisite.zxq.net/spacetrash1a.gif[/imgzoom][imgzoom]http://agisite.zxq.net/spacetrash1b.gif[/imgzoom]

Four heroes got abducted by a strange light and they are inside of a spaceship named Pacifia.

You can choose one of four characters to play with.

- Carl Himdalls

- Robin Brocoli

- Inconcia Abomina

- Anne Trankyll

Here the link
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1750/

Nominate Space Trash for worst best Demo.