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You may add the game to the database, and then simply link to Itch or Steam, which is what most commercial AGS games do. The forum doesn't hold the games for download, that's handled externally in any case.

I'll make sure I purchase this one and grab me some nostalgia from my old Atari ST days. 

Frunobulax!

No, it's not a urinary complaint, it's a game.

Best sale slogan ever!     

Is this a retelling of the story from your games, or is it set somewhere in the continuity? What order do you recommend?

Looking good!

I loved this. Fair warning to all - this is "just" a good read, there are no gameplay elements here. But as an avid reader of graphic novels, I had a good time. It is spectacularly well made. Like, when I click to advance through the pics of the Enterprise launching, and the title tune from Star Trek plays in the background, it adds a lot to the atmosphere.

AGS 2023 GOTY

So far, it's definitely a contender, together with Dreams in the Witchhouse. We'll see which full length games comes out during the remainder of the year. I am sure I will nominate this one in multiple categories. I agree with Wiggy that mother Tiabata is a scene stealer. 

How many accounts has he posted under? Could he also be Icey?! 

He is all of us  except you, Ponch. It started as an April fool joke, then took off a bit.

I played this today, and I have to agree with RootBound. The game is nothing short of great all around.

The first thing you notice, obviously will be that it looks magnificent and sounds superb. But in addition, is is brilliantly written. The world building is fascinating, and the characters came alive to me. I really enjoyed this a lot. 

[NOT recommended]

So, while we wait for https://itch.io/jam/107-adventure-game-challenge ... I thought, why not check out that other adventure jam on Itch, https://itch.io/jam/advjam2023 or Adventure Jam 2023?

And I did, just to find that it had 332 entries! 

No way am I playing all those, I thought. But just as devilish, I wondered, what kind of game actually comes last in this. So I decided to check out the one on the bottom before actually looking at the good games. Thus this first post (if there are others) is just about NOT recommended games.

Card Investigation - Didn't work because of missing files.
Memory Magic - No game to download.
Trek in the Woods - Missing files again.
Harrys_Friends - Game in quarantine, not downloadable.
Space Asteroids - Clearly not an adventure game from the screenshots, so I didn't bother. A comment says ads fill the screen.
Byte Adventure is a platform game. Not recommended, although I did play it and finished it in a couple of minutes.
Fall on Monster Bomb Attack - also quarantined.
Wildwood Nightmares actually is an adventure game, but it is not finished, so it's more of a tech demo now. Not fully playable, unfortunately.
Cool and Slimey Adventures- this looks like it is the same game entered twice. Kind of a short platform game. I played it and beat it in a few goes, so it works, at least.
Rocket Bouncer - This looks like it is made with love, judging from screen shot and description. However, it is clearly a platform game and very far from an adventure, so I didn't want to play it.

So there you go. I wanted to just check out the last one, but ended up checking out the ones placed from #316 to #306. There are clearly some really good games here, too. I hope to play some of them next. 

Thanks, Wiggy! I was able to finish the demo now.

Weird, I was sure I had tried to do it, but I probably used the wrong wording. What I was missing was

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Use book on graffitti.

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Seeing as the case is already solved, (Man, it would be fun to revive the Black Stories with some new cases again.) I thought I'd post a similar example of being absent-minded.

So, my brother has this whole ritual when making his morning coffee. He'll heat water in the coffee maker in order to sort of clean it, then pour the hot water in his mug to heat it up while the actual coffee is brewing. Then empty the mug in the sink, pour the fresh coffee into a mug that is warm and won't cool it down too fast.

A lot of you will probably see where this is heading.

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Making his morning coffee, he did the process described above purely on routine, not being fully awake. And ended up with pouring the fresh coffee into the sink while holding on to the warm mug filled with hot water.

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This looks and plays quite good. Unfortunately, playability of such games are only as good as their parsers, and I got stuck (see the help thread), possibly looking for a word. At such an early stage (if this is indeed a serious project, and not just made for fun for MAGS), the parser is necessarily limited, and then so is the gameplay. But the "Translation" into this style is very well done. I have played lots of text adventures in my day, and would probably play this one through to the end as well if you decide to make it.

I found a small bug: If you unlock your trunk several times, you score two points each time.

Edit: Finished it with some help from Wiggy. I see that you don't intend to do a full remake. And to be honest, I would rather have you produce your own material, as I enjoy that a lot.

I seem to be stuck at 20 points on the crime scene. One of the screenshots on the game page shows the police station...and 21 points. I guess that means there is only one more thing to do on on the crime scene.

Is it possible to somehow mark the second body? Chalk or tape somehow? Is there a special word command that needs to be used to tell Chester to start taking photos? Is there a way to mark the graffitti as interesting? Or am I missing something else? Any help will be appreciated. 

Take your time, @WHAM, and if you want to return to this somewhere down the line, we will appreciate it. If not, we appreciate what you have given, and you don't owe us a thing. All the best wishes.

I have managed to get 42/55 achievement points so far. Any hints would be appreciated.

Here are the achievements I have found so far, listed in the order I got them:
(Titles only in the spoiler. Safe to read if you want a hint.)

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Prickly Pear
Let Your Guard Down
Having a Ball
The Mother of Invention
Hitchhikers
Slick Moves
Have a Nice Trip
Boy-yoy-yoing
If You Liked it, then You Should have put a Rim on it
Double-Knotted
Hoarder
Fire!
The Gun Show is Cancelled
Hot Wheels!
Kaboom!
Roadblock
All About that Bus
Thievery
I Like Enya
Super Packrat
Duct Tape and Chewing Gum
Now I Need New Gloves

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[The Roadtrip]

Here are my thoughts this month.

The Roadtrip by 4KbShort

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The game has a creepyness to it, but the mood is broken by comments breaking the fourth wall and talking directly to the player. The giant fuse was amusing, and I liked the shack in the woods. Pretty straightforward in gameplay and puzzles.

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Mad Max Jack: Brakedown Shakedown by RootBound

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This one-room game kept me entertained for a while. I had fun trying to combine items and using them on the vehicles. I haven't found all the achievements yet, and after finding most of them, I kept wishing that I could control which vehicle should appear next in order to try out my ideas. But the game deserves credit for effective graphics, nice Matyas music and satisfying sound effects.

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I voted for

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Brakedown Shakedown, because there are more puzzles and longer playtime than in the other game.

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@4KbShort, please add your game to the database on the game page!

The sense of humour is great, and the premise is well executed. I got to 42/55 achievement points and really have no idea what more to do. I hope the ones I am missing are actually stuff it's possible to think of trying. I must admit I got some by luck.

Nice work!

In the dialogue script, you can use normal script commands if you start a line with a space or two. You should be able to use this to add this animation/change view at the start of the dialogue, and remove it when your character says "bye" to end the conversation.

Does that help any?

Big congratulations to everyone nominated and awarded! I haven't been able to be very active in the community lately, so it was really great to tune in and meet the flock (I guess we need to be called that now...) again.

Apparently, I was, unbeknownst to me, cast as this year's trophy thief. As fortune would have it, just as I was put on stage to grab NewWaveBurrito's runner-up MAGGIES prize, my pc finished its countdown to an update, making me seemingly disappear with the stolen trophy. Some gags can be classified as "you had to be there", but this one is clearly a "you had to not be there". 

And who knew that the Great Prophet Zarquon was a sheep? (Maybe only DualNames will get that one.)

About the other entry, the author is "Luis Angel Aleixandre Arnau" and the game looks a lot like his unsuccessful kickstarter "The Seeds of Vala".
He probably reused some of the assets for this AdvJam entry.

Yes, I noticed that, too. He's not been active on this community since 2019, but you could try reaching out. Seeds of Vala uses the nine-verbs, though, while the jam game looks like it is made with the BASS template. The settings look a lot like the gameplay video posted for Seeds of Vala, so you may very well be right.