Fortnightly Writing Contest: TEXT ADVENTURE!

[CaptainD]

Oh, forgot my votes!


Best Story: Sane Co.
Best use of Syntax: Sane Co.  (can I give an extra point for using "> Speak esparanto to deranged goldfish and tell him to hit errant entomologist with his tail."?  No?  Pity...)
Funniest Entry: Ekeko (mainly for his use of archaic English  )

I'm almost sorry to vote for the same person in 2 categories as I really enjoyed other entries, but I'm sticking with my gut feeling.

[Ekeko]

Thou shall receive Ye Flask for thy generous compliment  

[Sane Co.]

Best story: Bogdan
Best syntax: Fsi++
Funiest entry: Ponch

[Armageddon]

Best story: Ekeko
Best syntax: Fsi++
Funiest entry: Ponch

[Ponch]

Best Story: Bogdan
Best use of Syntax: Armageddon (his story reminds me of why I don't miss the text parser)
Funniest Entry: Sane Co. (The out of nowhere Esperanto line cracked me up)

[CaptainD]

Well this is close!  The votes so far:

Sane. Co - 4
Ekeko - 3
FSi++ - 3
Bogdan - 3
Ponch - 3
Armageddon - 2

[Kweepa]

Best story: Ponch
Best use of syntax: Ponch (look at those multi-command sentences!)
Funniest entry: Ponch

[Ponch]

Thanks for all the votes, Kweepa. I shall now mail you all that money I promised you in return for the votes. You have my thanks! 

[CaptainD]

Any more votes?   

[FSi++]

Any more votes?   

Oh right, VOTES

- Best Story
Ponch
- Best use of Syntax
Bogdan
- Funniest Entry
Pwnch

[CaptainD]

Ah, glad I didn't make this post before you remembered to vote! 


So, the final results...

THE GLORIOUS WINNER!

Ponch - 8



THE VALIANT RUNNERS-UP!

Sane. Co - 4
Bogdan - 4



THE ELEGANT THIRD-PLACED ENTRANTS!
Ekeko - 3
FSi++ - 3


THE SUPERB BUT UNDER-APPRECIATED 4TH PLACED ENTRANT!

Armageddon - 2

I felt bad for Armageddon as I really enjoyed his entry and he just missed out on a trophy, so I made this one so he doesn't feel left out:



He's.... erm... trapped in an ice(y?) crystal, or time capsule, or something.  If you look very, very closely, he's wearing a T-shirt which says "I entered the Fortnightly Writing Competition on the AGS Forums, and all I got was this lousy trophy".

Some fine entries here, and many a fatal syntax error.  Rejoice in the joyously awful cheesiness of your trophies!

Well Ponch, you are our victor!  Over to you for the next one.

[Dualnames]

Congrats Ponch, now you've matched my winnings, and we're in the tie with 4 wins. BUT THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE.


Joke aside, I can't write shit anymore. 

[Ponch]

Hooray! A winner is me!

Thanks for the votes, everyone. It was money well spent. Give me a day or two to get a new theme together and we'll do this again. 

[Sane Co.]

Just a simple question, how do I put the trophy in my signature?

[Ponch]

Go to "Profile" (at the top of the page) and then "Forum Profile Information" (it's in the bar to the left of that screen). In the box marked "Signature" enter this image code.

Code: ags

[IMG]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-m6nZvgYlhc8/TvsGBRaYGMI/AAAAAAAAHcY/7eePMaW2lfk/s73/TA2.PNG [/img]

Of course, you may want to find your own image host rather than use the Captain's bandwidth. I don't know if he wants to keep that image up forever.

Hope that helps.

[CaptainD]

Code: ags

[IMG]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-m6nZvgYlhc8/TvsGBRaYGMI/AAAAAAAAHcY/7eePMaW2lfk/s73/TA2.PNG [/img]

Of course, you may want to find your own image host rather than use the Captain's bandwidth. I don't know if he wants to keep that image up forever.

I'm not too worried about the bandwidth, but you might want to host it yourself so you don't have such a hideously long URL!

[Sane Co.]

Another question, how do I host and find the image when I do that?

[Ponch]

Another question, how do I host and find the image when I do that?

There are lots of image hosts around. I think our own Peder Johnson offers file hosting. Once you have the image uploaded somewhere, just change the url link in the code I posted above to point to the place where you uploaded the file.

[FSi++]

Another question, how do I host and find the image when I do that?

There are lots of image hosts around. I think our own Peder Johnson offers file hosting. Once you have the image uploaded somewhere, just change the url link in the code I posted above to point to the place where you uploaded the file.

Peder, in fact, offers everything hosting and is quite awesome. I think you should contact him otherwise, there are plenty of freebie image hosting services, like Imgur or Tinypic or (ugh) photobucket.