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confide.zip

Yesterday I got an email in my inbox asking for my participation (as a "employee" aka "useful idiot") in a penny stock scam. I've been caught up in one before, so I felt inspired to convey the general tone and feeling of such operations in ZZT form.

Although this game is fictional, the techniques described are pretty close to reality. One only needs to visit InvestorsHub and browse around a little to find shining examples of this particular formula in action. It really is all about emotional state and maintaining that balance of "fear vs. greed" to keep the victim involved. But eventually your money disappears, and....well, nothing happens after that! (I came out of it okay, in the end.)

Some of the techniques not depicted in this game:

-Encourage a "community" of victims and make them start reassuring each other and reaching out to their friends to help in rationalizing a logically unsound investment(a friend got me drawn in, in my own case)
-Include accomplices to make in-person visits to victims that support your image. They could be "partners," "common men made millionares," "skeptics," or any number of character archetypes that weave a story that barely holds itself together. The sky's the limit.
-Turn business into war - e.g. "get back at the evil bankers manipulating the market" or "help revolutionize (industry x)". If the foes are big and vague, they're easy to blame, and your cause looks all the better, regardless of how poor its fundamentals are.
-Make bold claims that might hook people not familiar with the particular industry, such as these gems from my email:

...A start-up funded through two rounds of engineering and now with a manufacturing agreement in place with a NASDAQ traded global top ten contract manufacturer.

...A former computer science professor at USC, Sacramento commented on *redacted* as follows:

“Based on my experience, I can testify that this is a fresh idea, highly innovative, and, in my opinion, something that the general public would love to use. Most users do belong to several social networks. This tool makes the social network environment easy to navigate … and user friendly. This is a required application on the same level as something like Instagram. Instagram fell into an innovative and rapid to market category, which captured a large market really fast. *redacted* has similar characteristics and falls into this category of being innovative and reaching a large market.”

(I followed up to that email telling the guy "I don't work for equity, but I will work for $250,000 up front" and he politely declined. He doesn't know what he's missing out on...)

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Superugh.zip

This one's a trip down memory lane, and a little bit of a refurb from the older upload/zip. I think I took out some curses last year back in the day though there might still be some in the commentary track as this production inspired Feature Thinkers, the first extras production company that would think of things you could put in your game, like dvdrom features and the like. It even had a pirate kid as a logo and was the first known use of piratekid other than the classy wanted posters from 2001, so essentially an UG production from premordial times. This is sort of a landmark from that time and while potentially time may make it unkind, it is one of the first unofficial ug documents that predates the official ZZT ug even, which is #piratekid on irc.oftc.net . It may not be the most welcoming place and can't be held liable for people losing their sanity for joining, myself included, but it's the place to be if zzt is your thing. That is all, enjoy the title screen if nothing else.

-- Plenty of Interactive / Gameplay Boards
-- Feature thinker Extras, like for a dvd or something
-- Piratekid
-- Smiley Faces that always look up
-- Unnecessary violence towards animals
-- But Clean for the kids (I think?)

TAKE A PONCHO It's raining ug out there.

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KillingFriends.zip

Play-fighting at it's finest. Hit the other guy of the stage! Victory dance! Repeat! For 1 or 2 players.

Have been itching to enter a competition lately... was on an international flight during the klik-of-the-month, so I went searching for an alternative. Drunken Coders (.com) was hosting their 2009 winter nintendo ds programming competition with a deadline of march 19th. Sounded good to me!
So in what limited time I could find to code, I threw together this little puzzle game.
It is pretty silly and was a real rushed job, so I thought I would share it here on glorious trainwrecks (though I'm not sure it's glorious enough, hee hee)

Hope you enjoy...
http://squarenipple.com/onionzoo/galactic-winter-games.zip

edit:note that this is meant to be played on a real nintendo ds or a good nds emulator (if you must)

Game File: 

NARKOMANIA.zip

DRUGS ARE BAD! I NEVER TOUCH THEM. I HAVE FRIENDS WHO DIED!

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Survival Time.zip

Survive the treacherous ocean and eat the fishies!

Controls: Arrow Keys

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DevilishDancer.zip

Dance your way to the ending! Press 'X' to jump! Collect computers to get points! Avoid pitchforks! If your score drops below zero, you'll have to start over. The game is different EVERY TIME YOU PLAY IT.

http://www.boxofmystery.com/games/mi2complete.html

In an alternate reality, LucasArts fires Ron Gilbert after dismal sales of Monkey Island 1. Dejected, Ron gives up game development and takes a low-paying job as an usher at a local theater. His life dismally continues day after day, but as the new millennium approaches, he begins to feel hope once more. 1999 brings The Matrix to theaters. 2000 brings Mission Impossible 2. Inspired to action by these action movies, Ron Gilbert picks up a bootleg copy of Klik and Play, and sets out making the sequel George Lucas never wanted anyone to see.

The Klik of the Month Klub meets right here on this very website on the third Saturday of every month at 4pm Pacific Time (taking daylight savings into consideration) for a two hour Klik & Play Showdown. Everyone who participates gets two hours to create something from scratch in Klik & Play. Abusing the stock objects is encouraged. If you really loathe Klik & Play you can use whatever game development platform you want. Two hours is a pretty tight time limit, though, so choose wisely!

Klik & Play is absolutely free to download, and learning it takes minutes, so everyone can get in on the action.

Want to talk to your fellow Klikwreckers? Join us on IRC -- server irc.freenode.net, channel #glorioustrainwrecks. We've also got a Mumble voice chat server -- just connect to glorioustrainwrecks.com using Mumble and you can talk to us like real human beings! Join the mayhem!

After you've made your game, you should upload it here!

For more information, check out the KotM N00B FAQ.

Sign up below if you want to get reminded by email the day before the klikkening begins!

Games made for Klik of the Month Klub #53

21 games made!
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Name	Created	By	Screenshot	Comments
Devil Disco Dancer!	11/21/2011 - 02:12	thesycophant		3
le Enfant du Mortedis	11/20/2011 - 06:06	Louisload		3
giftopia	11/19/2011 - 20:29	SpindleyQ		7
Mormon Temple	11/19/2011 - 19:49	lilith-rusalka		2
Reactor Control	11/19/2011 - 19:24	oh_cripes		6
Dracula X	11/19/2011 - 19:21	the_muteKi		0
Voluntary Servitude	11/19/2011 - 19:12	ExciteMike		2
Penguin Fiesta	11/19/2011 - 19:05	ellaguro		2
TIME WORM!!!	11/19/2011 - 19:00	sergiocornaga		3
kotm53 thingy	11/19/2011 - 18:58	SophieH		3
police bear	11/19/2011 - 18:47	dessgeega		2
Tummy Jigglers	11/19/2011 - 18:46	mkapolk		4
stanley melberg: enchanted accountant	11/19/2011 - 18:39	hugs		4
Demon	11/19/2011 - 17:45	anne laplantine		1
Demon Challenge	11/19/2011 - 17:40	bistouflex		0
Unplayable Asteroids	11/19/2011 - 16:01	mcc		7
International day for the elimination of violence against women: an educational	11/19/2011 - 15:49	rhetoricstu		0
Blink Gunner	11/19/2011 - 11:22	L		3
thurs day part ii	11/19/2011 - 08:21	sergiocornaga		6
Worker & Parasite: The Game	11/19/2011 - 08:12	sergiocornaga		14
Snowglobe	11/19/2011 - 02:01	mcc		6

Begin a Knytt Story for a week. Finish another Knytt Story for a week. The classic formula to Knytt Swapsies.

This is scheduled way off in the future (right now is April 3rd) as not to butt heads with the Rosetta Stone Game Jam, but hey, if you're interested, feel free to sign up. First part runs from May 25th to June 1st, and second part runs from June 1st to June 8th.

For further information, refer to this edited version of sergio's plan from the original Knytt Swapsies:

WEEK ONE IS GO WEEK TWO IS BEGIN!

Week 1 - 2018/5/25-2018/6/1
Participants work on levels. They get half-completed, then uploaded to this event in the comments. Or you can just keep it private, in which case it will be your responsibility to send it to the next person.

Week 2 - 2018/6/1-2018/6/8
Levels are randomly allocated to participants (through random.org). They get finished off, and submitted to this event as games.

Tips

• All skill levels and aesthetics are welcome! Seeing little relaxation zones transition into sprawling wallswim-ridden glitchscapes will probably be part of the fun (but matching tone is just as appreciated).
• Knytt Stories mods (KS+, KS Ex, etc.) and custom assets are very much allowed!
• Try to use less than 12 characters for the author field when creating your level, as there should be room for two and Knytt Stories only displays the first 25 characters.
• In week 2, add your author credit by putting " & [yourname]" after the existing author. You'll need to edit the folder name and the Author field in World.ini, and you could put more detailed credits in Info.png if you want.

And hey, maybe I'll participate in this too.

Games made for KNYTT SWAPSIES II

5 games made!
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Name	Created	By	Screenshot	Comments
Tomatoes! Gaiden	12/06/2020 - 14:06	wibi		3
Sergio Cornaga • Gliperal - An Impeccable Cat Hunt	06/12/2018 - 00:42	Gliperal		3
Exclusion	06/10/2018 - 22:22	zilard		3
Compare and Contrast	06/08/2018 - 18:28	StraightFlame		0
Juni's Nihilistic Outlook [OUR ACTUAL LEVEL IS STILL BEING WORKED ON AND WILL BE RELEASED SOMETIME SOON!]	06/07/2018 - 14:55	ixMarcel		1