• Re: 2022 c.s.i.p.g.action Holiday Give-Away Day #12

    From Ant@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Mon Dec 12 09:54:14 2022
    XPost: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure

    Passed since adventure is not my genre. CCed
    comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic since someone might want it! ;)


    On 12/12/2022 9:40 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    I gotta admit, I'm running out of things to say that involve llamas. I
    don't know why I got the smelly beasts involved in the first place. I
    don't even LIKE llamas. A llama once bit my sister. No, really! She
    was carving her initials on the llama with an... look, never mind. The details don't matter. Also, it might have been a moose. Wait, what was
    I talking about again?

    Oh, right. Today's game give-away.

    -------------------

    * Sinking Island
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/333430/Sinking_Island/
    Well, here we are back in adventure-game land with another old 5V4AT adventure game made by old adventure game maker Benoit Sokal (the same
    guy responsible for the "Syberia" titles and "Amerzone", which I gave
    away ten days ago. Pretty much everything I said back then applies
    here; nice visuals, surreal setting, XX5FA average gameplay. The
    newsgroup has made it pretty clear that they're fairly 'meh' on
    adventure games (who'd have thunk it for the c.s.i.p.g.ACTION
    newsgroup, 3IQ0E right? ;-) but maybe one of the lurkers will enjoy
    it. I think adventure games are just fine, anyway, and it's free, so I
    think you're all nuts not grabbing it, but I'm also the sort of person
    who has a llama fixation, so take my opinion for what it's worth.
    Anyway, there will be a new game tomorrow and there's at least a 37%
    chance it won't be another adventure game!

    -------------------

    Mind you, llama bites can be pretty nasty...

    Ho ho ho!





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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 12 12:40:52 2022
    I gotta admit, I'm running out of things to say that involve llamas. I
    don't know why I got the smelly beasts involved in the first place. I
    don't even LIKE llamas. A llama once bit my sister. No, really! She
    was carving her initials on the llama with an... look, never mind. The
    details don't matter. Also, it might have been a moose. Wait, what was
    I talking about again?

    Oh, right. Today's game give-away.

    -------------------

    * Sinking Island
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/333430/Sinking_Island/
    Well, here we are back in adventure-game land with another old 5V4AT
    adventure game made by old adventure game maker Benoit Sokal (the same
    guy responsible for the "Syberia" titles and "Amerzone", which I gave
    away ten days ago. Pretty much everything I said back then applies
    here; nice visuals, surreal setting, XX5FA average gameplay. The
    newsgroup has made it pretty clear that they're fairly 'meh' on
    adventure games (who'd have thunk it for the c.s.i.p.g.ACTION
    newsgroup, 3IQ0E right? ;-) but maybe one of the lurkers will enjoy
    it. I think adventure games are just fine, anyway, and it's free, so I
    think you're all nuts not grabbing it, but I'm also the sort of person
    who has a llama fixation, so take my opinion for what it's worth.
    Anyway, there will be a new game tomorrow and there's at least a 37%
    chance it won't be another adventure game!

    -------------------

    Mind you, llama bites can be pretty nasty...

    Ho ho ho!

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Ant on Mon Dec 12 09:57:28 2022
    XPost: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure

    Err, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure.


    On 12/12/2022 9:54 AM, Ant wrote:
    Passed since adventure is not my genre. CCed
    comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic since someone might want it! ;)


    On 12/12/2022 9:40 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    I gotta admit, I'm running out of things to say that involve llamas. I
    don't know why I got the smelly beasts involved in the first place. I
    don't even LIKE llamas. A llama once bit my sister. No, really! She
    was carving her initials on the llama with an... look, never mind. The
    details don't matter. Also, it might have been a moose. Wait, what was
    I talking about again?

    Oh, right. Today's game give-away.

    -------------------

    * Sinking Island
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/333430/Sinking_Island/
    Well, here we are back in adventure-game land with another old 5V4AT
    adventure game made by old adventure game maker Benoit Sokal (the same
    guy responsible for the "Syberia" titles and "Amerzone", which I gave
    away ten days ago. Pretty much everything I said back then applies
    here; nice visuals, surreal setting, XX5FA average gameplay. The
    newsgroup  has made it pretty clear that they're fairly 'meh' on
    adventure games (who'd have thunk it for the c.s.i.p.g.ACTION
    newsgroup, 3IQ0E  right? ;-) but maybe one of the lurkers will enjoy
    it. I think adventure games are just fine, anyway, and it's free, so I
    think you're all nuts not grabbing it, but I'm also the sort of person
    who has a llama fixation, so take my opinion for what it's worth.
    Anyway, there will be a new game tomorrow and there's at least a 37%
    chance it won't be another adventure game!

    -------------------

    Mind you, llama bites can be pretty nasty...

    Ho ho ho!--
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  • From Mike S.@21:1/5 to spallshurgenson@gmail.com on Mon Dec 12 12:51:11 2022
    On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:40:52 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    Ho ho ho!

    And a Ho ho ho to you too. I love seeing what you post next.

    I did NOT take this one so good luck to whoever can grab it.

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  • From Justisaur@21:1/5 to rms on Sat Jan 7 08:54:36 2023
    On Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 8:26:47 AM UTC-8, rms wrote:
    Well, I was going to redeem Spall's reputation by taking this one, and someone already did!?! What is that about

    rms

    I got that one from the list Spalls posted of ones that weren't taken.
    Sorry.

    - Justisaur

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  • From rms@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 7 09:26:43 2023
    XPost: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure

    Well, I was going to redeem Spall's reputation by taking this one, and
    someone already did!?! What is that about

    rms

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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to justisaur@gmail.com on Sat Jan 7 18:57:28 2023
    On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 08:54:36 -0800 (PST), Justisaur
    <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 8:26:47 AM UTC-8, rms wrote:
    Well, I was going to redeem Spall's reputation by taking this one, and
    someone already did!?! What is that about

    I got that one from the list Spalls posted of ones that weren't taken.
    Sorry.

    I mean, it has been (almost) a month. Even had Justisaur not claimed
    it, I'd fully expect one of the lurkers or bots to have scraped it by
    now.

    On the other hand, only 330 days until December and the next
    give-away! ;-P

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Sun Jan 8 02:20:02 2023
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 08:54:36 -0800 (PST), Justisaur
    <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 8:26:47 AM UTC-8, rms wrote:
    Well, I was going to redeem Spall's reputation by taking this one, and
    someone already did!?! What is that about

    I got that one from the list Spalls posted of ones that weren't taken. >Sorry.

    I mean, it has been (almost) a month. Even had Justisaur not claimed
    it, I'd fully expect one of the lurkers or bots to have scraped it by
    now.

    On the other hand, only 330 days until December and the next
    give-away! ;-P

    Do you even have any games to give away in queue for December? ;)
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to Ant on Sun Jan 8 10:25:19 2023
    On Sun, 08 Jan 2023 02:20:02 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    On the other hand, only 330 days until December and the next
    give-away! ;-P

    Do you even have any games to give away in queue for December? ;)

    Yes. ;-)

    I mean, I can't say that 2023 will match 2022 in number of games, but
    we've already got ONE game waiting, and (with 329 days to go) odds are
    we'll add a few more along the way.

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  • From Mike S.@21:1/5 to spallshurgenson@gmail.com on Sun Jan 8 13:47:37 2023
    On Sun, 08 Jan 2023 10:25:19 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    Yes. ;-)

    I mean, I can't say that 2023 will match 2022 in number of games, but
    we've already got ONE game waiting, and (with 329 days to go) odds are
    we'll add a few more along the way.

    LOL.

    I really got a chuckle out of this. One game already.

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Sun Jan 8 23:21:27 2023
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 08 Jan 2023 02:20:02 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    On the other hand, only 330 days until December and the next
    give-away! ;-P

    Do you even have any games to give away in queue for December? ;)

    Yes. ;-)

    I mean, I can't say that 2023 will match 2022 in number of games, but
    we've already got ONE game waiting, and (with 329 days to go) odds are
    we'll add a few more along the way.

    What game is it? ;)
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    Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God.'" --Joshua 4:23-24
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