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It took me a while to beat this second puzzle on my own.

Now I'm stuck a moment later:

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I stacked 2 objects on the seats but it's not high enough to reach the hatch.

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Some kind of cursor change when you're over a hotspot would be helpful since I can't tell whether I've missed something despite seeming to have clicked everywhere.

+1. Especially when you're using big objects.

Nice game so far.

Please go ahead @RootBound. I'm looking forward to your next theme.

We colab in a few games where I did graphics for his game... but boy did he annoyed me sometimes by requesting hard to do BGs (making me do more work on a BG that I couldn't see how it would possible look better) and then end up using a grab from an online reference pic in game.... or using an unfinished BG when I specifically told him I wasn't finished, and just wanted some feedback to improve it... or picking a sprite and distorting it to fit his "size" (instead of asking me to rendered it again at a bigger size)... but I'll still miss him and his horde of games.

I was under the impression that he never came back to his MAGS games after the month was over.
I sometimes wished he would skip some competitions to polish his most promising ideas, but everyone does as they like.

Dr. Chuckles' miniature world of madness is one of my favorites from Slasher.

We reached the deadline. @RootBound is the only entrant so far. Does someone wants an extension - @Hannah_Banana  maybe - or should I wrap this up?

Sure. I'll set it when I'm back from holidays.

Farewell, man of a thousand games.

Thanks Ponch, Ben Jordan 8 it is then.

FYI, I wanted to nominate Seed by Limpingfish (from OROW, many years ago), but it doesn't seem to have a games page.

Doesn't ring a bell. I can't seem to find it anywhere on internet.

Then I wanted to nominate RoN: Purity of the Surf, but who knows if it would even run on modern systems.

I think it works. I played it a couple of years ago after hearing about it in this thread.

Not really a submission since I host the contest, but here's the first thing that came to my mind when I heard the song:

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2 more weeks to let us know what it evokes you.

Prices for Olympic Games tickets Paris 2024 (I don't have any information about the precedent editions).

They claim that "more than one million tickets will be offered at EUR 24. Nearly 50% of tickets reserved for the general public will have a price less than or equal to EUR 50."
Yet, for some sports like athletics, volleyball or swimming you can't find anything under 170 € - a whole year before the event.

Any game to suggest for August?

Nice. From the screenshots and video, it looks more like a "goo problem" to me 

Ps. And also, after two years I felt it was time to say hi again.

Interesting take @RootBound. Quite different from what I expected but I can see where you're coming from.

Someone forced a big box of chocolates into your mailbox.
They melted all over the place.
You initially thought it was a bad joke but now you start to realize the truth: you've got a secret admirer.

For this Background Blitz, let's try something unusual.

There won't be a written theme or visual cues.
Your only source of inspiration will be this music by Roald Strauss (MisthaLu on Discord):

https://indiegamemusic.com/diskspace/mr_lou/Dreamer160kbps.mp3



Now, imagine this song in a game and give us the background that comes with it. Have fun!

Deadline: August 12th, 2023.

Voting criteria:
- Concept: Your background should tell us something about the place you have depicted.
- Playability: does it have clearly defined walkable areas, things to interact with, etc?
- Artistic Execution: does the image convey the wanted atmosphere? What's the feeling of the place?


Disclaimer: All music at Indie Game Music is free to download and listen to. But you need to pay a license fee (or request a freeware license) if it is actually used in a production.

Belated thank you.

Now, to think of something...

Thank you @Khris and @heltenjon for making some of his games available again.

I never tried myself, but I noticed they are present in the agsarchives torrent tracker found here.

I found a couple of links too (Internet Archive, My Abandonware...). However, the Pick of the month redirects to the AGS page of the game. So its link must be updated.

I guess one could try running them under DosBox, if they are made for MS Dos?

Yes, that's what Khris said. But people may not want to be bothered with DosBox.

Theoretically one could repackage them along with DosBox exe and custom config for DosBox to auto mount and run the game.

I've seen it done on abandonware websites but I've never repackaged a game myself. Plus it needs to be hosted somewhere.

I wanted to choose one of Phil's game for the next pick of the month.
But I had to refrain since you can't run them easily anymore. Plus, the links are all dead.
And to think they were so popular...

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Rootbound!

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I'd like to make a MAGS game in a comic book style someday. With no animation but a lot of quick sketches.