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If I'm understanding you correctly, you deleted the room script pointing to hotspots, thinking that would erase the hotspots. But in order to do so, you have to use the menus in the editor, or else whatever you have set up under the lightning bolt (like left click on hotspot) will try to find the script you have deleted.

I got my first Clean Talk blocks today...because I reported several messages as spam in less than 80 seconds. 

But it's a bit disheartening that apparently some bots can get through the registration form. I wouldn't have thought it likely when you see it.

One cool feature in the Wordle Ordlek league is the after-match analysis.

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>Tell her you're out. Go home and eat biscuits.

>Ask her excitedly what kind of safe it is, a bit more calmly what riches she expects to find, and business-like what alarm systems this place is supposed to have.

[Awesome Quest]

Awesome Quest is a nice little two-roomer. It can be found here.

And Scavenger rescued his sister's (Gemmalah) game The Dragon Slayers from being lost, currently hosting it here. This is a cute game where you play a kid who has to find weapons before going on a quest to slay a dragon with his friends. Fully voiced!

[Ramorama]

Thank you very much, Ramorama! 

could be also a plot for a Twillight Zone episode!

Hollywood people! If anyone of you is reading this, you can have the rights to the story for a million dollars or two, I'm that humble!

Two dollars it is, then. 

Thanks for your efforts, Gabriel! Also thanks to The TMD who managed to find the game and make it run, and to my friend Lars for hosting it. The db page should very soon provide a workable link again.

I just (finally) played the demo/chapter one. It's been on my to-do-list for a while now.

How to describe the look...It's in the lane of roblox, minecraft or lego. 3d pixel art is about right. I think the city looks beautiful, with very strong Blade Runner vibes. You've also added a lot of animation (after one of the comments, I guess), which all add tons to the atmosphere.

I also liked the story so far, investigating and getting to know a few people. The score system looks interesting, particularly how the player earns relationship points regarding other people, both police and villains. I guess you have a plan for using that later on in the story.

What can get better? I'd say adding more interactive items or hotspots. First off, every possible interaction should get a reply. It's a good idea to make a standard reply if the player tries to do something you haven't made a custom reply for. Like "I only talk to people and bots" or "I see nothing special". It's even better to actually have custom replies, of course. As this is an investigative game, I think the potential crime scenes would benefit from having several hotspots to examine, including some not relevant to the case. Basically, the more the merrier. It's a bit laborious, I know.

Even without added hotspots, I recommend people to give this demo a go. It would be worth it just for the neon city and the fluid flying animations alone. I didn't think of the similarities of Rik Vargard and Rick Deckard until now, but I enjoyed the chance of being a cop in a Blade Runner-inspired city. Good stuff!

I played the demo yesterday, and it sucked me right into the story. I was glad when I discovered the button for requesting a repeat of the important lines...I had forgotten the name of the shop and dreaded having to start over. 

Good, Ega-style graphics, a text input interface that makes sense and enhances gameplay instead of just being there, believable characters and a compelling story. If there's one thing I would have changed, I guess it would be the need to write down and punch in correct phone numbers. It may be accurate and realistic, but it's not fun like finding new locations on the map is fun. But all in all, a very good effort so far. 

I played the demo and enjoyed the relaxed tone of it. As far as the demo goes, as there's no real case yet, it will appeal to people familiar with the characters. Fortunately, that's most of us. 

I especially liked the close-ups where Holmes could make his observations and prepare for deductions later on. You also nail the characters pretty good. While they can be interpreted differently, I'm all aboard with how they behave here. Nice that Mycroft was included, too.

The art is beautiful. At the moment where Holmes stepped outside the cottage, the colour of his jacket and the colour of the wall were a bit similar, so I actually didn't see where he was at first. Other than that, you'll hear only praise from me.

The ending

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reminded me of thoughts expressed in my own silly little Batman game Prep Time. So of course, I liked it. 

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I tried a quick game and the solution (which I could only find with a helper tool) was "JOHNS" - which seems to be only a name and not a real word. On the other hand, it didn't recognize "JOINS" as word.

Could be a bug, of course. It definitely should recognize "joins". "Johns" could be plural form of "John", which could mean a toilet or a prostitute customer, and possibly other things I don't know.

[Ordlek]

Over at https://wordfeud.aasmul.net/Default.aspx , the home of wordfeud league of honor and several spin-off leagues (mostly quiz games, but also chess and yatzy and others), there's now recently established a league in a Wordle-like game. I'm currently playing in the Norwegian and the English league.

It's called Ordlek (literally "word-game"), presumably to avoid trademark infringement. The way it goes, is that I go to my table page, then click a link to open up a wordle-like game. I play it and get points according to how many attempts I had to use to solve it. Now, my opponent in the match can also play the same game with the same solution. When both have played, I can see the opponents attempts, and the result is entered into the table automatically. If you do not play in the allotted time (I think two or three days), you will be scored a zero in that match.

In other words, instead of one solution per day, like in NYC wordle, there is one solution per match. The words are drawn from the most commonly used words in their forum, in addition to five-letter words available in the Wordfeud dictionary (which is basically Scrabble on a cell phone app, if you've never heard of it). A season lasts 14 days, and I get about 10-12 opponents a season. It's still in the early stages, so there's bound to be some bugs. If you want try solving a puzzle for fun, go to the site, then to the Ordlek English table, and click on the link underneath to go to the match. As you aren't signed up, you will get to train and solve wordle puzzles without an opponent.

Babar has it. I'm half expecting another time travel show now! 

Damnit, Snarky already mentioned Continuum!

Quick, into the time machine! You need to post it before he mentions it! 

I don't know the show you're posting now, so I'll just go slightly off-topic to mention my favourite Batman time travel line: [offtopic]Justice League is stranded in prehistoric times with a broken time machine. All the powerful heroes stand around doing nothing while Batman makes use of a soldering iron to fix it.
Superman: Hurry up! He's getting away!
Batman: (pause) It's a time machine.

Cracks me up when I think of it.[/offtopic]

[Voodoo Dave and the Tablecloth Mystery]

Does anyone have Voodoo Dave and the Tablecloth Mystery? There's a version at archive.org, but it gives me error messages when unzipping.

Edit: Game found

As an afficianado of time travel media, I can say "Travellers".

The initial shot just had me in a blur of all those low budget streaming sci-fi shows, but I remember the characters shown in the second shot

That's absolutely correct! I thought of the show due to some comments in the AI thread. I liked this series a lot, both the premise and the cast fell to my liking. I didn't get to post the more obvious shots, including the team leader before you nailed it.

Babar has it. I'm half expecting another time travel show now! 

Here's another clue.

>Signal back with the signal you and Shoshana use. Then turn off headlight and approach.

Ok, here's another one.

I'm back to getting blocked by CleanTalk when I'm behind a VPN.

I seem to be able to post even with VPN active.

I guess it must be An Affair at Styles (or something like that).