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Cool!
Depending on how desperate you are to avoid setting up an account (and how adventurous you are), you can try using another IDE.
MonoDevelop is free and open source and no registration is needed.
VSCode is another free and open source and no registration is needed, but you might need to work harder to make it work there (as it's general purpose, not c# specific like MonoDevelop, so you'll need to install a bunch of plugins and configure stuff).

Eventually I'll get to try those out myself (I have used MonoDevelop on Linux, actually, but did not try on Windows) and probably add a small tutorial for setting those up (if needed).

I figured, but thanks for the heads up.
My efforts are currently still targeted at having a functional working editor, and I'll update when I have something to show (going to take a while).

Does the strongname signing give any other benefit for AGS rather than making settings system have consistent path?

List of benefits here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2354129/why-use-strong-named-assemblies

Whether AGS actually needs any of this, idk.

Nicely done, the game sounds even better now, and I'd be interested in hearing more about the gossip-based mechanic.
You should totally do this game (after, of course, finishing up your long awaited OSD game).

For some reason I thought The Antidote might be tzachs.

Realized I forgot to reply to this: nope.

I'll take Madame Sky, thanks (which appears twice in your list, btw).

Sounds cool, I'm in.

[1: The Grapes Are Always Sweeter]

My feedback:

Spoiler

1: The Grapes Are Always Sweeter

Also got the "Jean de Florette" vibes, which I vaguely remember, but I think I enjoyed. Nice premise, lost points on the word limit breaking.

2: Amandarin

This was my 2nd favorite. Playing the imaginary friend sounds really interesting.

(Speculation: Is this the pitch that tzachs was thinking of having Britney Spears star in?)

lol, nope (and OUCH).

3: Young Crone

Got my vote (and congrats). The world + story just instantly grabbed me.

4: What Could Have Been

I found the mechanics interesting but the premise was too depressing for me.

5: Dragonville

Somebody's trying to avoid drawing walk-cycles... Could be fun, I guess, but felt too "Disney" for me.

6: Background Battle

This was my 3rd favorite. I like it a lot, my main concern here is execution. I'm saying this because I've also dabbled with a similar idea of an AI-controlled future,
but the way I see it, the AI in the future will be so much smarter than any of us now (I mean, if the difference between the dumbest person and the smartest person on earth is X, then the difference
between the smartest person on earth and the AI will be 10000000000X) , so how can you portray something like this in a game? And how can a person actually have an influence
on something which is that much smarter than you? The natural instinct will be to go with some flaw in the AI, but then it kinda ruins it for me. It can be interesting if the technician thinks she/he's changing stuff but really makes zero impact (or maybe used by the AI)- but again, this can easily fall on execution.

7: Inside These White Walls

I really like the premise, but reading this I felt like I've seen this before, several times. It can still be a very good game, though.

8: Naive

It's intriguing but didn't give enough feel about what's this game really is about.

9: The Antidote

"The 3 musketeers" meets "Shardlight": interesting but also felt like I've seen this before (though, again, can make for a good game).

10: Meet Me in the Rings

Sounds like fun but I had ethical problems with it: Saving space whales- I approve; saving burger joints- morally oppose, they should all be destroyed (unless it's veggie burgers, then I might be on board with this game).

11: Verb Coins

The mechanics are interesting, but it doesn't work as the main hook of the game for me. It can be the "something extra" you tell people AFTER you told them what the game is about: "oh, and btw, it also has this interesting mechanic where you earn more verbs as you progress through the game".

[close]

And now a few probably wrong guesses:

Mandle- Young Crone
Snarky- Amandarin
horusr- Naive
Bulbapack- Meet Me in the Rings
Creamy- Dragonville
Stupot- Inside these white walls
CaptainD- What could have been
Durinde- The Grapes Are Always Sweeter

I was so pissed that I even took a break from the forum (which no one seemed to have noticed anyway).

I noticed 😥

Thanks for the great hosting and story-telling again, it was fun.

Regarding the rules, I don't think that you at any point should have stopped the game on your own, but a rule allowing the last murderer to forfeit sounds about right to me.

Another rule I'd like to discuss, is that dead people were not allowed to post on the thread anymore but can still PM everybody. I found it kind of silly. Mandle PMed the entire group, which is exactly like posting in the thread except outsiders (and the host) can't enjoy what's happening. So, I think, either this rule should be cancelled, OR, an interesting alternative would be to change it into a "last words" post. Anybody who dies is allowed one last post in the thread and then no further communications with that person are allowed until the end of the game (this would shift the balance a bit for the benefit of the murderers though).

On a completely different note, it is interesting that the game structure required the good side to lynch one of their own to ensure a victory. What a strange situation! And interesting to learn that it can be beneficial to other roles than the fool to lynch themselves.

I agree, that was a fun discovery (not sure if it was that much fun for cat, though).

[Kastchey, locked.]

Well played, guys.

Kastchey, locked.

She's ALIVE!
She was not breathing when I got there, but I gave her some of that wolfsbane mojito and she immediately responded. She's a strong one, that cat. I think she still has 8 souls left in her.

Hmmm, Kastchey, you did make me a little bit suspicious, I must confess. Like a last desperate attempt to stir things up. Though I guess it's possible that you really do feel guilty (but why? it IS just a game, and it's for the good of the people, hmmmm).
Interested to hear what cat has to say, do you want us to lynch Kastchey instead of you or do you want to jump out of the window again (but maybe this time from the second floor)?

Right, I messed up the example, but the logic stands: if we lynch cat we definitely win, if we don't lynch anybody it's not a guaranteed win.
Are we all agreeing on that?

* Back from a stroll on the beach *
Did I just see cat jumping out of the window? From the first floor? We should go check, she might still be alive.

Since town wins anyway, I guess we could refrain from voting a potential scapegoat today

If we don't lynch anybody today, then this can happen:
murderer murders the psychic + psychic scans a guest.
Then we're 3-1 the next day, with 2 guests clear and 2 candidates for murderers and without a psychic, so it's not a guaranteed win.

As much as it hurts, killing an innocent person is better than not killing at all.
This might have been the first time ever this statement has ever been true.

[cat]

Josiah, can you confirm that you spoke with the psychic and verified her/his identity with Mandle?

Assuming yes, so:
Vote: cat

Oh, and to avoid any misunderstandings, josiah should verify with Mandle the identity of the psychic -> so we won't have any last minute shenanigans from the party host.

For all the people not in the group and interested to know what's going on, we've all been informed by a ghost that josiah1221 is a trustworthy person.

So I think we win (like Kastchey said earlier), and the party host can just forfeit. Let's see:
josiah should make a vote, and we should all follow whoever he chooses. We have 33% of guessing correctly.
If we fail, then the psychic has 2 people to choose to scan, so she/he will know the identity of the murderer ANYWAY tomorrow, and it doesn't matter if the psychic or the psychic's target gets killed.
We'll be 2-1, the psychic will say who's the murderer, josiah/Mandle can confirm that's the real psychic and we're done.

Right?

So Mandle was saying the truth all along? Huh.
We will avenge you, dear Mandle!

Also, I thank the murderers who listened to me and made this a clean murder without any blood. Nice, kind murderers- I will write a good yelp review on you guys.

Alright, so back to business: we now know that the psych scanned Mandle on night 1 and Stupot on night 2, both are now dead, so it's almost like starting a new game.
If the psych scanned the party host last night, she/he should come forward now. If it's true, we win tonight, if it's wrong, we'll win tomorrow.
If the psych scanned a guest, then, well.. I'm not sure what should be the next step (except obviously the psych should tell the guest that), any thoughts?

I finished cleaning up all of the blood, so I can cook for you something if you want, Stupot.
There's not much, I'm afraid. I found some stale rice and we still have some more crackers left, but that's about it.
So I guess I can make, rice cakes?

Of course, if we're desperate, there is something else I can cook...

[Mandle]

If Stupot is "scum" and gets lynched then come tomorrow we will know Mandle has been telling the truth, for the most part. If Stupot is the Psychic then we will know Mandle has been lying the whole time. I know this is gonna seem very suspicious and possibly get me killed but I vote: Mandle

At this point Stupot's story checks out more than Mandle's story, but I still think that lynching Stupot is the right move for us. Here's the breakdown of all scenarios:

Stupot lynched and is psych -> we win (we're 3-2 but know that Mandle & Cat are the murderers)
Stupot lynched and is scum -> we're 4-1
Mandle lynched and is town -> we're 2-1 (after we lynch Stupot the following day)
Mandle lynched and is scum -> we're 4-1 (and no, we still won't be able to take Stupot at his word that Cat is the other murderer, because it's possible that Mandle and Stupot are the 2 murderers)

So lynching Stupot is clearly the right thing to do, even if you're 99% certain that Mandle is the murderer and Stupot is the psych.

Anyway, here's another nail in Mandle's coffin: dayowlron has responded to my question, and no, he did not contact the actual psych, he chose to believe Mandle at his word. If Mandle is telling the truth, then it simply boggles the mind that the psych did not contact dayowlron to verify Mandle's story yet.
If Mandle is lying, then it's also weird that the real psych didn't contact dayowlron to contradict Mandle's story, however if Stupot is the psych and only read the thread after already being accused by Mandle, then it does make sense that Stupot simply chose to come clean in front of everybody and then telling dayowlron is irrelevant.