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This looks so good! On to the waiting list of games to play soon. 

For the sense of finality, I got around to playing the last game I hadn't tried yet, Down the Elephant.

This was certainly a somewhat unusual experience. The GUI was a bit cumbersome until I realized I could move around using the cursor keys. The player is a cult member, and the religion is in crisis. And it is up to the acolyte to decide what the future will hold. The graphics are in stylish black and white/shades of gray, and it invoked a creepy feeling in me. Not very long or difficult, the emphasis is on subtle storytelling.

Just watched this. Great stuff!

That's correct, LimpingFish! I held off showing Priscilla Presley, but apparently I made it a bit too hard.

I've seen it at some movie clubs, at least. I tried searching for some youtube clips showing some one-liners, but they were too long...simply too difficult to choose, I suppose. I guess my fave is "So many assholes....so few bullets!"


Well, after that thrilling display of my taste for the apparantly distasteful, it's your turn, LimpingFish!

I'm sure noone will be mad if you give the answer then, Vampire Wombat. 

This is a movie I and my friends are quoting most weeks, but it may be it's only an underground hit in Norway and a bomb everywhere else. 

Maybe this film isn't as famøus as I thought.

Rant received and understood. I totally get that there's no time to do a GUI for such a thing in a MAGS. Your screen looks exactly like mine, so I guess I can delete all those screenshots I just made.  Though it's no fault of yours, I failed to understand that this was a box for typing, probably because the bottom line/cursor is invisible. Somehow, I thought that this box would fill up with items I could offer the shoes after gathering them. User error. 

But I agree. If there is an easy way to make this command show the entire box (with air around it) in an update, this would probably make life easier in such cases as this. On the other hand, not many games use typing.

My problem was that

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The dialogue box wasn't showing. I didn't know that I could type anything. This ought to be inside a square, I think.

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In my opinion, that's more of a bug in the AGS than a coding error: I am using the command "Game.Inputbox()" and that should show the box no matter what. If there is a way to reproduce the error, we might report it. I've had no luck reproducing it on my system.

How is the input box supposed to look? It might be some setup of mine that's the culprit here. EDIT: The Save/Load commands doesn't match with the squares on my screen either. I suppose they do on yours.

There's one leap of logic that escapes me:

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After striking a deal, Bumbley will suddenly remove the curtain. Perhaps he could say something in the camera to make the player know that from now on, something will be different? I don't entirely get why he won't even check for curtain parts earlier.

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Other than that: Great humour and funny characters that I'd love to see more of. The musical themes work very well! And we get right from the start that Bumbley will understand significantly less than the player, that's the deal here. The movement of the shoes are very "alive"!

I thought so. What a great birthday gift! 

My problem was that

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The dialogue box wasn't showing. I didn't know that I could type anything. This ought to be inside a square, I think.

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That was charming. 

I guess the protagonists are recognizable for the people who knows them?

I'm stuck on the shoes puzzle. I've exhausted the dialogue, and the shoes basically tell me

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that they want to be polished.

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This may mean either

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that I'm supposed to polish them, for instance by rubbing them with the curtain, bedcover or pillow (annoying that I can't do that),

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or perhaps

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that I'm supposed to make them dirty first, in order to make them need polishing. There's dust under the bed and white painting scraps on the top of the bed, but I can't kick the shoes underneath the bed.

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Another idea (in order to give you some feedback about play progression) that doesn't fit with the hints in the dialogue, is that

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I could simply jump down on the shoes from the top of the nightstand.

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I had already

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examined the canopy and discovered the need for brushes. This didn't feel like any progress until you hinted about it, because the count also said he had no talent.

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The wardrobe

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is locked. He says he's such a pushover, so I guess I could interpret that as a hint to push it over, however, I haven't found a way to do that.

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I don't like that there are hotspots with the same name, like on the nightstand. I don't know if this is also the case other places, but I hope not.

It annoys me a bit that I can't look in the bowl or open the nightstand

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perhaps to polish the shoes with a dirty sock?

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, but I think that's mostly because I'm stuck.

I hope it's not a case of

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choosing the right dialogue options in order, because I can't find any hints about any set order.

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Help is appreciated. Perhaps we ought to open a hint thread instead?

Shadow1000:

I assume you haven't found the alarm clock.

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Check all the hotspots in and surrounding the bed.

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This book is judged by its cover. It's a _big_ book.

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So I've noticed. 

These shoes are made for talking... 

Very funny so far, but I haven't managed to solve it on my two first goes. I'll have to ponder it overnight.

Perhaps more clues will help?

Nope, that's not it.

I've played this the last few days. These games are recommended if you think it's funny to mash all sorts of series/movies/games into one universe. (I do.) The game is hard at times, as there are only the bare bones of gameplay implemented - little in the way of extra descriptions and so on. This sometimes made me a bit uncertain about what to do next. I also missed a few hotspots and had to check the video walkthrough for hints. (I didn't discover the exit to the park, for instance.)

The story is off-the-wall crazy and entertaining. I actually thought I had finished the game when I was halfway through. My favourite part is probably down in Atlantis.
I found the following franchises (there are probably more!):

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Back to the Future, E.T., Terminator, Indiana Jones, Robocop, The Goonies.

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Here's another pic.

Ok, let's try an easy one.