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Ooh, I really enjoy reading devlogs for games and your past blog post have always been very interesting and insightful to read. Definitely looking forward to following this journey. And best of luck to you in rediscovering the joys and challenges of AGS!

Congratulations on the release! Got the itch version, hoping to make some time to play it soon as well

Congratulations to all the winners and big thanks to everyone who are helping to keep this event alive and happening year after year!

Played/replayed through all of them today and made my picks. A great selection of various games again this year, had a fun time!

Can you give me the name of your game using this, please ?

Of the released games Echo in the Clouds (Demo) is using this method for both the light and environment effects:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2259-echo-in-the-clouds-demo-/

I've been using a hand drawn light layer with transparency for some of my games, that I then import as a full screen object.
It can be animated if needed and I can use the z-index to move it behind or on top of objects and characters.

As a side note, I would recommend using 320x180 resolution these days for low-res games, because it scales perfectly up to 720p, 1080p and 1440p (for example, 180 x 6 time zoom = 1080). This allows for pixel perfect upscaling for most common resolutions without the distortion of the art.

It comes down to personal preference of course, 200 gives some extra screen space and can be better to emulate the style of old classics.

Looks as (or maybe even more) gorgeous as the first one, your games have the best gifs, keep 'em coming!

Nice to see a steady progress! I also love that they all seem to be always smiling in almost every screenshot 

Playing today... Voting tomorrow... 

Ah, living the best life, I see 

I will probably also do the same over the weekend, it's been a while since I played and voted for MAGS.

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But I have a big problem with the demo: it doesn't even start, I only see a white room with a character that doesn't move although I can hear it's footsteps.

Had the same issue with the itch.io demo, it gives the steam_api.dll is missing error and then proceeds to that white screen. Weirdly, some of the functionality is still there, I can access the settings menu when I fumble around with the controls, for example.

I'm guessing you're using the same game/demo version for all store fronts? In that case, if the game has steam dependencies in the code, I'd recommend leaving the dll in the game folder for other stores as well, I've seen a few other itch games do it. Or you can also compile a new version without the steam stuff.

Congratulations on the release! Had fun testing it!

I think it would make sense if the default "name your own price" sum would match the game actual price, right now it feels a bit confusing

[Concept]

Great to see so many entries in this one and the variety of styles and ideas!

Concept: Nr. 2698
Playability: Hannah_Banana
Artistic Execution: newwaveburritos

It is in AGS? Looks so RPG-Maker...

You haven't played previous Stranga games, I assume? Those were defenitely AGS, I'm confident that this is as well
Looks neat, great to see people doing all sorts of different styles and games with AGS and not sticking only to the default standards

Currently it seems that the demo on itch.io is only available after buying the game, which kind of defeats the purpose of a demo. Or am I missing something or doing it wrong?

These look good! Especially love the texture work in the kitchen scene, great use of pixels.

That's great to hear! Would love to see how the game plays and feels!

Same here, was a bit sluggish yesterday, but all good now.

Congratulations to all the winners! And huge thanks to everyone involved in preparing and running the ceremony! Great show, awesome community!

A great addition to the Outer Zone series. Really love the worldbuilding and visual style of these games, creates an awesome atmosphere. The story was intriguing and left me wanting for more. The cutscenes and music were neat, puzzles solid. Very enjoyable, good job!

By the way, the version that I played still had the debug mode on.

A great jam game. Maybe a bit too dark for my personal taste, but still very enjoyable. Loved the overall visual atmosphere and the color use, cutscenes were neat and puzzles solid. As Shadow1000 mentioned, the divide sign was something new and I also don't think I've ever seen this type of quicktime events in AGS games before. Well done.

Buggies:
The "extension cord" was spelled "extension code" in one place and I think there might have been a couple more spelling errors.
Also, when I started a new game again from the main menu after finishing, it played the opening cutscene, but the game itself didn't reset, so I couldn't actually interact with anything or proceed with the game and already had the inventory items etc.