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Hi,

I have planned out my game ....easiest part 

Fred wants to regain his youth and hide his baldness so he goes out and buys a trendy wig...

His wife Marge is not impressed and says it is a white elephant and says he will have to sleep on the sofa until he takes his ridicules wig off!

Of course, getting the wig off is not so easy when you have used too much glue!

Will Fred be forced to sleep on the sofa with his white elephant wig?

[Distance No Object by Slasher]

Here are my thoughts on the two entries.

Distance No Object by Slasher

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The heart of this entry is yet another arcade sequence which I have no idea how was made. Slasher impresses by making the adventure game engine do things it's not designed for. The story is silly and funny and quite easy compared to the arcade bit, which I struggled with before I was successful. The game lacks some proofreading, but that didn't spoil any of my fun.

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This is the Way by KyriakosCH

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Short entry in the visual novel (visual short short story?) genre. There are literally three choices to make and three endings, so this is a quick play. The fun with this type of game lies perhaps more in discussing what the endings mean and what the symbols in the story mean than in actual gameplay. If one likes the Kafka story this is inspired by and derivations of it (which I do), then there is enjoyment to be had. If not, the story will probably leave you cold. I found the possible interpretations to be very open - this could be about death, madness, love, religion, commitment, living or any major choice in life. The best ending seems to be the one where you keep the dream alive and don't force an unveiling. The voice work is moody and well done, except the start of the dream (nightmare) ending, where i simply can't understand what you say. 

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I voted for:

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Distance No Object. I think This is the Way probably works better as a story than a game, while Slasher's entry is a game in all senses of the word. I also prefer laughing to being broody.

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I think we have averted the big finale and are now trying to keep our perp(s) from escaping. But I may be wrong.

Can we (potential solution please retrace our steps and check if the original sites at and between Armstrong Walk and Aldrin Walk have been disturbed?

Chief, I think we ought to send reinforcements to officer Leland...perhaps the fire department or some retired cops in the area could help out somehow?

Thanks, Ian, for those kind words, but I fail to see a distinctive pattern in the message. It looks like a homage to the novel Jack wrote in The Shining, repeating the same sentence over and over. I can't remember if he skipped bullet point 4 as well, but that omission is the only thing that stands out right now.

The end is the beginning is the end (etc.) could be an allusion to a book SK has written that ends in that style, which I won't name here for spoiler reasons. OR it may mean we ought to search the first location again, which was between Armstrong and Aldrin Walk.

But this message is not a new riddle, but rather a hint to how we should interpret the last phone conversation, if I understand this correctly. We can solve this from the phone message alone, but maybe not from this hint alone. So...was Aldrin Armstrong's failsafe?

while I sang this

When will the contest happen? Haven't been part of this before 

The easiest way for you to get a picture of how this works, would be to take a look at the threads for the May and April contests. (Last month had only one entry, so no voting was necessary.)

This looks like fun! I love the little mouse peeking out from its cover. Is the tiny robot the mouse cursor?

You can spell 'climax' using the letters in Smithers Industrial Complex, but that's all I can think of other than what has been proposed already.

Actually, we can spell "spoiled climax". (Then we are left with the letters mithersnustr, which I find no use for.) It could be worth a try? But I'd rather find "failsafe" in some form on the map.

Hi Slasher, I'm not sure if it's a bug or if it's something I'm not doing correctly.

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I've reached the red planet but I can't land on it.

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Thanks

You have to

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click on it.

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Hope that helps you.

McGee singing triumphant: "I shot the sheriff!"

Leland appearing behind her with gun raised: "But you didn't shoot the deputy." 

Perhaps it's that Space Quest IV.5 ? Haven't played it myself yet.

Do you think we only get to try once? 

From how I understood the intro by our esteemed game host, we have now prevented the grand finale and got the victims into protective custody. But I may be wrong, as I have been so many times before in this very entertaining game.

If Ms McGee cycled everywhere, I guess she's on our map and haven't got far. I'm pretty clueless about the message so far. (And I'm indeed on vacation IRL).

Mandle wrote in the other thread:

But I just can't make it more than 20 minutes into this movie before the dead faces of the main puppet characters drive me up the wall.

Puppet shows where the characters only have their body language to express their feelings are fine for 15 minutes, but not for me for a full length movie.

So with that as criteria, Meet the Feebles should be horrible. But boy is it funny! The not-muppets cheat on each other, have Vietnam war flashbacks, produce porn in the basement and do every depraved thing you can think of and a few you didn't.

That norwegian movie Trollhunter surprised me. I read about it many times and I always thought it sounded so stupid. "Looking for trolls in the norwegian wilderness" but it had a good rating so eventually I watched it and man I was blown away. Such an awesome movie. Found footage movies are not for everyone I know but I can really recommend it. Just try to endure the usual 45 minutes of "nothing happens"

I had exactly the same experience with that movie. What an awesome film!!!

And the "nothing happening" parts are very watchable because the characters and world-building are so interesting, especially the troll-hunter himself, and the whole power station storyline.

These are hilarious in-jokes to the Norwegian and perhaps the Scandinavian audience, due to the very real debate about building those power lines through a National Park. I'm always pleasantly surprised to see that this movie apparantly works quite well for an international audience.

[Side note / personal pet peeve: it's Edgar Allan Poe, not Allen ]

I firmly believe that in this universe, existing side by side with ours, the author's name was Edgar Allen Poe. And the director is called Woody Allan.

When Stephen King was confronted with an error in one of his books (The Colorado Kid, IIRC), he answered that it was not an error, but a hint. 

So...the case at hand. If this is another of those letter jumbles, there's only one location with the letter x on the map.

I was sure that all was lost now. I must say I look forward to hearing from Jack what had happened if we had chosen differently in some instances. Great writing, as usual! i particularly liked that the gun coughed out bullets. 

So, gang...do you think the phone call contains our final clue?

My plan to get to ending number 7 brought me to ending number 5 instead. I'd count that one as a good ending, too. But there are some more things to try. I still haven't found ending number 3, in addition to that elusive 7. 

I fully agree with Shadow1000. This game makes the most out of its size! I'm growing more impressed by the minute.

We've already ordered investigations in Alphabet City (which is probably nothing) and Silver Creek (which could very well be it). While we await Jack getting ahead of his busy schedule, we've got to further examine all the clues about our culprit. The spelling sure is odd!

Here's another, admittedly out-there, solution: New (I am not old) ton (my bones do not creak) Haven (I can escape).

Titanic. I so wanted it to be a historic drama, and it partly is. I just didn't want the love story. And the love story isn't exactly bad either, it just kept interferring with me wanting to see the ship sink.