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Ok, this one I think I will enter. Is there a minimum length the games should be...?

Winter Landscape by Casper David Friedrich


What warmth he had managed to carry with him from his night nestled in the hay of that barn was now just a tortuous memory, the frozen wastes of his once welcoming homeland having enveloped his one working leg, freezing the splint to the other, numbing him entirely from the waste down.

The snow was driving so hard that at times he felt as though he was being forced into the ground, great sheets of ice clinging to his clothing and hair, weighing him down so he could barley lift his foot for one step or carry himself on his battered crutches for the next.  With each new lurching movement, his body engulfed in a searing pain, his once battle hardened spirit continued to fade until he could barely keep in mind the reason he had left his home, his family, all those months before.

After what felt like years he saw an oasis in that blizzard battered waste â€" nestled together, as if for warmth, a group of conifers and a rock at least a mans height rising up from the snow.  He had seen the place where he knew his life would end and with that came a focus, a goal which, unlike the castle and his king, was a goal he knew he would reach. 

As he approached his journeys end finally the snow ceased to fall revealing, amongst the trees, a vision of his lord, upon his cross, waiting to embrace him in the warmth that comes with death.  “You are with me” came a voice so clear and true that all thoughts of cold and pain vanished from his mind as he abandoned his crutches and strode, a man in his prime, before collapsing against his rock, eyes closed, hands held up in prayer.

The kudos go to Akatosh then, a worthy winner

My attempt at a prize for who ever comes out on top (sorry it's not uber-great, and I wasn't sure of what size to make it but thought too big would be better than too small)

Sorry about this - once again my haphazardness leads to confusion 
But yes, voting... I'm going give my nod to Dudeman Thingface, though was a damn tough call.

That has got to be:

Spoiler

Deus Ex

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And if it is, good freakin choice as well

I'd have to say I'm right with Ben on this one.

As for spoils for the winner, I'm a pantstastic artist but will try and rustle up a pizza-trophy or some such for whoever ends up triumphant

Every game needs a badly drawn Mexican boss...



(And I will try and bother learning to do transparencies, promise)

Two good, though quite different entries so far.

Akatosh, I'm willing to let the extra 23 words slide, though I think it would be interesting to see if they could be taken out and still maitain the stong stucture and flow that the piece has got now (but then again I'm an obsessive editor, with editing taking longer than the actual writing)

I'd love to enter this - and I'd do the Yellow Wallpaper as it's only short, mostly set in one room and odd as ten - but alas I really don't think I could come up with something that would either do the book justice or be worth entering.

Great idea for a MAGs though, can't wait to see what get produced.

The competition this time round is to write the first passage of a novel which stars your favorite gaming character (or any game character you'd like to write about, you don't have play favorites)

The passage could be come from a whole new adventure for the character or from a novelisation of the game they featured in, it's up to you.  Also you're not bound by the location/period/genre of the original game, you can do what ever you want with the character.

There is a word limit of 300 words - just think of it as the first page of the novel where you have to prepare the reader for the story to come.

So, have fun and voting will start on the 9th (unless I've completely misunderstood the format in which case I'm sure someone will let me know...)

Sorry, being a (relative) n00b I've okly just realised it's on me to do the next comp. I'll get right on it when I get in from work (there's only so much I can do with the internet on my phone...)

That's some good work duelnames, I feel honored

This game Looks really nice (a word I don't usually like but I think is appropriate here)  Plus I like the fact that the central character seems to be played Jebediah Springfield's silver tongue...

A (badly drawn) scene from The Omen...

That's the joy of working with pen and paper on a short game.  True it may not feature any of that artistic ability stuff or be even be that pleasant to look at, but as the all of the art work from Stediddy 1 took my about 2 hours tops there was no time for any "Stupid Improvements".  Shame Really...

Not to make this to much of a mutual appreciation society but I'm going to side with Aljoho and pick Mr Flibble's chuckle-worthy entry

Well played on the game - I'm enjoying it so far, its made me smile a good few time.  And don't take the 1/5 to bad, I don't think my game was ever even deemed worth grading.

Kudo's to you

I thought I'd pitch in.  It's not great but I couldn't sleep last night and it gave me something to do...

Socks

Found on  a small number of planetoids and inhabitable meteorites the Sock is an unusual and unfortunate creature.  Born blind but gifted with a remarkable sense of smell the Sock spends its depressingly short life attempting to reach one of it's incredibly scarce breeding grounds, though due to it's misplaced sense of its own importance and ridiculously high standards when it comes to choosing a mate the vast majority are destined to die alone.

Of notable exception among Socks are the Betastrane Sock found only on Nikilio-Parlaeex.  Over the millennia these genetic mutations have developed a complex honor code by which to live they're life â€" a code in fact so complex that a Manikin-Parlaeex Betastrane Sock finds its own existence so abhorrent that has no choice but to end its own life only minutes after birth.

On a number of occasions scientists have attempted to study the Sock but to no avail finding that if the test subjects are left unobserved for even the briefest period of time they will either have managed to escape or expired due to the effort of escaping, if nothing else proving the inexorable draw of the breeding grounds.

I have now updated my FileFront page with the new version of the game, as well as the patch that Ali has made.

Cyrus â€" I’m kind of constrained by my lack of any real artistic ability but for the next instalment I am going to try to combine the Stediddy look with some other styles.  What those other styles are I’m not sure yet, but I’ll have fun trying to find out.

This is the first AGS game I've played and having just finished it I have to say I enjoyed it a vast amount, it was both funny and interesting with a really strong sense of it's own identity. Well played Montague, well played indeed.

Now, what's next...