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Awesome idea, Snarky - the ABC murders revisited.

Got it on 4th try today.

The advantage is, that there is only one per day - you do not risk binging 

I got it today on my 4th try (I've heard four is considered par, so it's fine). Interesting that my mind thought of ALLOY first.

For me, the hard mode is much more interesting. The other way, where you try to get all the letters first is a very mathematical approach, but I enjoy the linguistic challenge of hard mode way better. I like to think about words - words that start with certain letters, end with letters, common collocations of letters (th, sh,..) and discover amazing things like that CATER and WATER are pronounced differently even though they have all letters but one in common.

I also play a German Wordle version and it plays differently. For example, words containing letters like B and G are excellent starters there.

I use STARE.

Hard mode means that once you have figured out a letter, you have to use it in the following guesses. Which means you can't use two completely different words to check the most common 10 letters in your first two guesses.

Who of you is playing wordle?

I started playing a few weeks ago, but I clear my browser cache often, so I don't track my results over time. I think it's a nice challange and I enjoy learning new words. I usually play in regular mode but try to keep to the hard mode rules. This allows for the occasional win on the second guess. Only when I can't think of any more words that could fit (or too many, like still, skill, spill, etc) I use a word to exclude as many characters as possible.
Do you have a standard starting word? How do you play?

Today I got the word on second try

Then you have probably never heard of Enemy Zero and Real Sound from legendary creator Eno Kenji.

Enemy Zero sounds awesome. Real Sound is described as visual novel but audio only, which doesn't appeal to me.

In the game I had in mind, you would play as a blind person. You would have to walk through a town, navigating only by sounds - like the noise of your stick, a dog barking, cars passing by,... but I figured it would be too difficult without tactile interaction.

Haha, so true 

All game ideas seem to have been taken already 

Some time ago I was thinking about making a game where the screen is completely black and you have to navigate solely by sound effects. When I was pointed to this excellent game.

Then I thought about digging up my old game "Steamsquares" again (does anyone remember?) and giving it a complete revamp with also a new name and thought "well, Sliding Pipes would be nice!" so I googled it and there is exactly this game https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=br.gamees.qcpipes&gl=US (of course, I could argue that my first game version was released in 2009, but still...)

Thanks! It only occurred to me that I can do it myself after posting in this thread
Anyway, since you are in charge now, I think it's good to keep things organized here.

[I Rented a Boat]

I was about to write a comment on the game page and struggling with giving this game a rating, because the categories don't work for it, when I realized that this could be as well a great teaser for PotM:

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2530-i-rented-a-boat/

"I Rented a Boat is not only an amazing demonstration of what can be done with AGS on a technical level, but also a very nice gaming experience. A lot of effort has gone into guiding the user through this explorative game."

Creamy, the author of Foggy Dawn, is still active here. I'll PM him and tell him to check the link and also the links of his other old games.

I honestly don't understand what this pic wants to say.

Happy Birthday, Creamy!

I had no idea who he is and had to google him. But I have to admit, there is indeed a slight resemblance

Happy Birthday, Ponch!

Same here - I'm so glad they are up again!

Thank you, Ponch!   

When people who are coughing and sneezing say "It's okay, I'm tested, it's not COVID". I'm vaccinated against COVID but not against the common cold. Could you please keep your germs to your self, no matter what illness?

[Thank You!]

I want to use this opportunity and say a big Thank You! to denzquix on Archive.org (propably Denzil Quixode on the forums) for meticulously uploading AGS games to the archive and categorizing them. (Even though it seems he stopped doing so three years ago)

[Best Innovation: eri0o]

I thought we could reuse this thread for this year as well. Old suggestions might still be relevant.


Best Innovation: eri0o
For making it possible to play AGS Games via browser

Lifetime achievement: Shadow1000

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=10519
Shadow1000 is not a developer but seems to play every game and posts lots of reviews.