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@4KbShort I've just seen your last post. How is that last-ditch entry looking?

If you need a couple of days extension, that can be arranged.

Not as good as it was a week ago. Although the idea was as simple as I could make it and it follows some of the same design choices I made in "The Errand" there's more parts to it so it's taking a little longer than expected with my other projects and work getting in the way.

It could probably be finished in a day or less if I sit and just work on it and nothing else. Only downside is I start work again on the 1st and am out of the loop for 5 days save for a few hours here and there and that would put the deadline out to the 6th or 7th (my next weekend).

Who knows, I may catch a *cough cough* little bug tomorrow. It'd still be a late entry, regardless.

Getting close to the deadline and it seems like not a lot has been posted.
I've poked at this idea a couple of times throughout the month and came up with an "okay" idea and made half a single background image, but other things have gotten in the way.
However, due to a strange coincidence I have the last two days of the month off.

So since I don't want to see this month's Jam go down without a fight I'll be doing my darndest to get an entry in by EOD May 31st. Fingers crossed!

Any early interest?
It's a great theme.

It is a fantastic theme and it keeps coming up in my mind from time to time, but I have a bunch of other projects I think I want to work on in the next few weeks with what free time I have. Since I usually think about it for half the month then cram out a game in a weekend or when I have a few hours to spare I feel like my entries have been less game than practice demos tending to miss the puzzle part of the adventure game genre.

Still, I watched Spaceballs recently and "technically" that's a story about air... in a way.

This is the last full day I have to work on my game so I just decided to finish it! 

This time I made sure the page was publicly displayed and I downloaded the archive and tested it so hopefully no errors in that department.

Please have a go and enjoy!

https://4kbshort.itch.io/the-errand

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How are we getting on, gang?

Hmm, it seems @Coco the Clown has deleted their profile. And @MOCCA hasn't posted since their first and only post last week.

Is anyone else working on something?

As usual, I started late, but here's an upscaled screenshot of a background I made. Warning: Excessive use of dithering!

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Congrats @RootBound for winning the month! It really is a great game and you deserve it!

@Creamy Thanks for playing The Gift I really appreciate the feedback! It's also illegal to sell human elements within the United States or to pay for them, but Plasma centers get around this by stating they're paying you for your "Time". It's a loophole, but the services are regulated by federal agencies so it seems to be a legitimate thing. I've worked in Plasma for a very long time and it can be very stressful for people, but in most cases people don't realize you can earn money and help others by donating plasma as direct blood donations are not compensated like plasma.

Hey there, I'm also new and also heard about MAGS and AGS from a video. Thought I'd give MAGS a try to learn the engine though I'm starting to think I might've bitten off more than I can chew without much gamedev experience. Nonetheless, I got the characters walking and animating and interacting with things, so I'm hoping I can push through to the end and maybe get a short game done by the deadline! Here's a little work in progress screenshot:

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Good first screenshot and welcome to making games! I've worked with a lot of "make a game" engines in the past and can say that AGS is very intuitive and easy to pick up for making adventure games. Much more so than making your own engine in another language or IDE. Good luck on finishing and I look forward to playing your entry!

Hey @4KbShort I played and enjoyed your game - it's interesting how opposite our approaches to the topic were. Yours was upbeat and positive the entire way through. Meanwhile I'm over here trying to write a tearjerker with some literal lifting-up. I had fun. Hope to see more AGS games from you in the future!

Thank you! I enjoyed your game as well. Great music, very atmospheric. It did get a little difficult at the end, but it wasn't enough to make it frustrating and the ending was very uplifting! Great work!

Hey @4KbShort, it looks like your downloadable archive doesn't actually contain a game executable file. Am I overlooking something? Thanks.

Nope, not just you. Don't know how it wasn't included in the ZIP, but it has been re-compiled, re-zipped, re-uploaded and I downloaded the file to test it and it's in there now. So sorry for everyone who downloaded the game with no way to run it.

Thank you for letting me know!

Hi @4KbShort, welcome to MAGS. This is indeed where to post your entry. Well done on making a game in just one week.

It seems the link you have provided is broken though. Could you check the link and edit the post if necessary? Cheers.

Fixed! Thank you!

Hey everyone! I did the best research I could and I *think* this is where I post my entry?

The game is "The Gift" and it's my first AGS game and I did it in about a week (I only heard about AGS on the 22nd or so...) so it's a very rough and short game. I may fix it up later, but I'm out of time due to work so here's the best I can do in a week of work!

Edit: It's downloadable now! I forgot to actually publish the page. XD

The Gift:
https://4kbshort.itch.io/thegift