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@ R4L: Glad to hear you enjoyed the game! Be sure to also give feedback, unless you were too hasty to skip the credits, that is. 

@ Snake: I cannot confirm or deny your expectations. 

[> Eat pizza minis (regain hit points)]

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> Eat pizza minis (regain hit points)
> Eat and put some in your pocket for use later.

You scarf down several semi-forzen pizza mini's. They are crunchy and cold, but as they begin to melt in your mouth, you begin to enjoy the synthetic tastes. You also try with all your might to recover some health, but unfortunately all you manage to do is get you belly full. You pocket one of the single-packted bundles of "tasty" in your pocket. Your pockets are now bulging and you don't think you can fit anymore items in them without the use of exessive force.



> Feel room behind iron grate for items with queue

You poke the grill with the pool que, feeling around for any medikits or pistol ammo that might have been left lying around in the ventilation. You feel what seems to be a sturdy metal fan behind the bars, although it is not spinning at the moment.

"What this place needs is a good WAR!"
(can't remember who said that, I think it was an actor in some play or movie, but heck, it's accurate!)

EDIT:

Also "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
- Me and some other guy from the past

No worries dual. The demo was specifically designed to not spoil the main game, but rather function as a showcase of the full game's potential, as well as get the player asking questions about the story and characters of the main game.

Give it a whirl and let me know what you thought!

On one hand there is never a good reason to start a war.
On the other hand there always is a good reason to start a war (For the Nazis it was mostly Lebensraum and international political power)

How I see it, the main reason for the Nazi regime's anti-Jew plans was twofold: Jews were a minority and thus easy to turn into scapegoats to unite the majority of the German people. In addition, in many areas it was the Jew populace that held great sums of money in gold, stocks and investments, and "relieving" these people of their riches was an easy way for the Nazis to fund their plans.

When you dig deep enough, there is always a reason for things like this. Whether or not it's a good or a bad thing depends on who you ask and how well the offender does his job.

If the Nazis had won the war, I highly doubt we would be here, pondering on "the poor Jews" and their misery. However, since the war went the way it did, the event we have labelled "the Holocaust" is seen in a purely negative light. No, I am not saying the Holocaus did not happen, nor that it wasn't a terrible thing to do, but what I am trying to do is have historical perspective and neutrality on the subject, instead of jumping on the global "oh the poor Jews" -bandwagon.

Only pet peeve is the seemingly unskippable dialogue - especially since you can still see the hotspot names appearing when you hover the mouse around during the them.

All I can say is: the dialogue is not unskippable. Read the instructions. I tend to hide all sorts of nifty secret tricks in the cleverly hidden readme -file. 

[The demo has been released, download link below:http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?category=&action=detail&id=1477]

The demo has been released, download link below:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?category=&action=detail&id=1477

Oh well, it wasn't ready, BUT IT WILL BE!
I've been doing some last minute fixes on bugs I found at the last minute, and due to feedback I decided to add some keyboard shortcuts to the GUI. I also need to sleep, but expect to see a release in 24 hours time!

It's crunch time, baby!

[> Open box. Food!]

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> Open box. Food!

You open one of the light-blue boxes and peer inside.
The box appears to contain frozen Hot Pocket Pizza Minis. You feel your mouth water with expectation.

You steal a glance at the vent on the wall. It looks like you might fit through, but there are sturdy metal bars covering the vent.

One child dies every 6 seconds in Africa, but that's f@#@% democratic.

GRAMMAR NAZI ATTACK! That last word should be "demographic"!!! SIEG HEIL!
</bashing>

Oh there are so many things I could say right now... So many arguments I could go for in that post, but I'll walk away for now.

@Kconan: true, so true. And still I can't help but feel thankful for them for saving our asses from the Russians in the Continuation War.

Having Germans do the explaining would be quite pointless. It has been beaten into their minds that it was THEIR nation who caused all the misery in the world ever, and they are having the worst nationwide guilt-trip ever. The damn nation is so afraid of the swastika that showing it is strictly illegal, for chrissakes!

I realize they did bad things, AND I realize they did good things.
Hey, isn't that true for ALL ruling powers in the world?

This Nazi discussion is actually quite pointless, so I will drop it for my part now.
The major difference is that I live in a country that was allied to the Nazis during The War and most of you guys lived, to my understanding, in countries who fought the Nazis.

And now we come back to what makes things "questionable".

What I proposed is questionable at the moment, but may not be so in the future.

If the Germans had won "The War" we would be having this exact same conversation, except for the fact that we would replace all swastikas with "stars-and-stripes" or "hammers-and-sicles", and instead of talking about how nazi's were evil, we would be talking about how the communists and capitalists were evil.

Names change, ideas do not.

The link between all three terms is: they are all things that were at one point considered "suspect" but are such no more, or vice-versa. Opinions change as times change, and things that were once acceptable / unacceptable, might have their classification changed in the minds of men. Thus the TERMS and SYMBOLS are meaningless and should not be given a negative response beyond the time they are used in the questionable context.

I can completely understand an American man looking at a picture with a swastika in a local newspaper in 1945 and thinkig: "That is outrageous! How dare they show that here!". If another American man sees the same image in 2011 and still thinks exactly the same thing, the connection he is making is dated and irrelevant.

The fact that something is not currently "suspect" does not mean it should not be or that it will never be.
For proof, see: "Nazis", "National Socialism", "Gays"... the list goes on.

Times change and I hope they change for the better, and I will do what I can to direct my community to what I believe is the right direction.

Now that my secret agendas have been so cleverly unveiled, I've decided to update my avatar temporarily.
Hope you people enjoy this. Kthxbai!

EDIT: Meh, Goebbels felt too mundane, so I decided to go with the highest military award ever presented in Finland, the Mannerheim Cross. It's got a swastika, so that CLEARLY means that all those soldiers who fought in the war and were awarded these were Nazi's and therefore EVIL, right? RIGHT!? FUCKING RIGHT!?!?!?

I should really stop coming to this thread, but it seems my points keep getting misunderstood for some reason.

In any case, Mr. OUXX, what I have been promoting is harsh and decisive action to remove criminal elements from society, and turning this venture from the drain on government funds into a productive and profitable proposition through commercialization of the process (a concept proven as viable a couple of millenia ago, and time and time again after that). If we can accomplish this, we will see less criminal elements and as managing these criminal elements are less of an issue we will have greater resources at our disposal in maintaining public services, physical and mental healthcare, support for the needy and so forth.

I know this proposition alone is not the magical solution to all of mankind's ills and shortcomings, but I believe it is the most direct and immediate way towards the improvement process.