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It's time for our annual Something Awful Games Forum holiday celebration! This year we're doing two contests each week for three weeks (6 contests total). Some other contests may slip in-between, though, so make sure to bookmark the thread and keep up to date. How do I thread? Enter any of the six main contests, comment on other people's entries, send gifts or prizes to other posters, run your own contests, etc. This is supposed to be a celebration, so let's make some noise! Active participation will earn you entries into the raffle held on the final day. You can win up to two prizes in the raffle, so try to get as many entries as you can. Fun cash prizes The #1 prize for each contest is a Steam spending spree of varying amounts, so everybody can win something they want no matter what the other prizes are. Other prizes include a featured game for each contest and a pick from a list of other great games. Plus, we'll be holding a raffle at the end with nearly 30 smaller titles and a couple of larger prizes we've reserved especially for the raffle. Rules Be nice and have fun. If you have a complaint, please PM me or Kragger99. Let's keep this thread positive. Contests: #1: Super Game Bros. Bargain Smash Melee #2: HoliJam 2 Jam Harder #3: The Goon Feast #4: Silent Knight #5: Holiday Unlocked #6: Costume Quest 3 seorin fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Dec 20, 2014 |
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#1: Super Game Bros. Bargain Smash Melee Suggested by Lonely Rolling Star in our donation thread. Here's how he described it: quote:Draw, Photoshop or fanfiction up a scenario involving video game characters throwing down to get some sweet holiday deals. Does Master Chief secretly want a Wii U this Christmas? Does he need to trample over several Goombas and right hook Princess Peach to nab one? If he's going in saving $5, then who would be so hypocritical to tell him no? Formats accepted: any Deadline: Friday, December 5th 11:59pm PST (Saturday, December 6th 7:59am GMT) Prizes: 1st Prize: $30 spending spree donated by Dementropy 2nd Prize: Saints Row Franchise Pack donated by Malek 3rd Prize: Your pick from the following list Banner Saga Driftmoon Gauntlet Grimrock II Nekro Saints Row 4 Shadowgate Shadowrun Dragon Fall Shadowrun Returns Tesla Effect Transistor Thank you to Sandweed, Jordan7hm, Kragger99, Malek, and Nekoxid for the above prizes! Your post should include: The title of this contest (including the marios), your contest entry, your steam id, and your pick from the third place prize list for if you win. If you'd prefer the third prize over the second, please indicate that as well.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 03:33 |
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Thanks for taking it over this year! It's a ton of work. I am glad to see the number of contests is toned down. That should drive up the submission quality. I appreciate the work that goes in to things like this, so kudos to everyone involved.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 03:44 |
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#1: Super Game Bros. Bargain Smash Melee http://steamcommunity.com/id/pumpaction1034 Edit: Oops, forgot to pick a third place prize. Let's go with Grimrock 2. Epic Doctor Fetus fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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Hell yeah, this thread is always great and thanks to seorin and Kragger99 for running the show. I'm happy that I got to add my tiny little contribution by providing the graphic in the OP. I can't wait to see the entries.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 03:53 |
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#1: Super Game Bros. Bargain Smash Melee Isaac and the Spelunky crew fighting over the Steam Sale in the middle of the room, an item that makes everything in the store half off for the rest of the game. Wish I could find one that worked in real life. http://steamcommunity.com/id/lestershy My pick from the 3rd place list is Transistor and I'd prefer to take it over 2nd prize if possible.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 04:18 |
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I've never known about this, but it's such a cool thing. Thank you for taking the time to run and organize it (and anyone else who helps out too!). Also, obviously, cheers to the folks who donated games. You can bet I'll be entering some silly stuff. Winning games would be great, but I'm really excited for something very focused to work on for a change. Good luck to everyone else and have fun creating stuff!
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 05:48 |
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holy poo poo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i had no idea is an emote
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 06:21 |
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We're on our third event already???? I'm looking forward to seeing submissions and possibly entering one or two myself. Are there any hidden prizes this year? (The typo/editor game, etc.) Also a huge thanks for keeping this event going, the steam gifting thread community has some of the most genuine nice people around. El Topo Magnifico fucked around with this message at 06:37 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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El Topo Magnifico posted:We're on our third event already???? For sure, there will be secret/hidden prizes throughout the contests. Keep your eyes peeled. In fact, there's a good chance you may see a word scramble very soon. So fun!
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 06:51 |
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Kragger99 posted:For sure, there will be secret/hidden prizes throughout the contests. Keep your eyes peeled. In fact, there's a good chance you may see a word scramble very soon. So fun! hmm fsrlhtoifomf
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 06:56 |
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Lift-off something? grr
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 06:59 |
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Mr "Ho" Lifts Off? EDIT: Welcome to the first annual "Ms. Ho Flirt Off!" The Joe Man fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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The Joe Man posted:Mr "Ho" Lifts Off? Nope. Like that one though. I'll be heading to bed soon but I'll check to see if anyone gets this in about 8 hours. Also, a prize has already been won.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 07:12 |
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Short film off?
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Kragger99 posted:Nope. And thanks for the first entry gift! Edit: Solved it: It's "hot milf orffs." I'm assuming that's the Canadian spelling of orifice. Epic Doctor Fetus fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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Fish from loft? Epic Doctor Fetus posted:shot from film? Too many m's. EDIT: I am now convinced that the anagram spells out Mohr Liftoffs, and I'm spending some time trying to draw connections between Christian Otto Mohr and Airplanes. If I uncover the paper trail that kragger obviously wants us to find you will all be the first to know. I only hope that for his sake, his alluding to 'sleep' in his last post isn't a euphemism and that I may already be too late. Ernie. fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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'Forms of filth', surely. No, it's not that sort of puzzle. The answer is Forget Santa, real legends have to only impress friends on middling forums. Gromit fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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The best I have so far is: short film off fish form loft flirt mosh off El Topo Magnifico fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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Firm Sloth Off? That sounds like another contest. I'm excited to see all the entries. I might enter myself, I don't know. Oh, try not to become sick. I'm glad I got that out of the way already.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 08:09 |
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"Of poo poo from LF" I hope I can participate in this first contest, but my plate might be full of other animation poo poo. In case I can, though, what are some options for places to host absolutely huge gifs? I'm talking like 10+MB. I doubt it'll reach that size but I can't judge how big this is gonna be and I wanna be safe.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 08:24 |
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#1: Super Game Bros. Bargain Smash Melee quote:Wario and Waluigi had been waiting all year for this day. Black Friday. They charged into the Best Buy, brutally fighting their way through the crowds of people, leaving dozens of bodies in their wake as they pressed forward towards their true goal. Wario, throwing fatal punch after punch at random shopper's skulls, Waluigi cleaving off heads with his tennis racket, they drew closer to their ultimate objective. Soon, they finally found what they had sought. The last copy of Halo: Master Chief Collection, 60% off. I tried a ton of different things and somehow this crazy mess of mushroom ultraviolence was the best thing I could settle on. If this somehow lands me on second place, I already have SR2 and 3 and all the DLC so I'd rather go down to third and just get Saints Row 4. http://steamcommunity.com/id/SaxColonel/
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 08:31 |
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The White Dragon posted:"Of poo poo from LF" http://gfycat.com/about Try this?
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 08:33 |
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Kragger99 posted:For sure, there will be secret/hidden prizes throughout the contests. Keep your eyes peeled. In fact, there's a good chance you may see a word scramble very soon. So fun! I got it. It was so simple, sitting right under our noses, that we almost completely missed it. The answer is obviously "FSR-LHT-OIF-OMF," which is, of course, the serial number for Kragger's copy of "Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey." How I discovered this was quite simple. First I looked at Kragger's Steam profile to see what games he's been playing recently. For obvious reasons, "Letter Quest" jumped out at me. Then it was simply a matter of brute forcing my way into Kragger's Steam account and looking up the serial number. I'm pretty embarrassed that it took all of us this long to figure out a rather simple and pedestrian puzzle.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 08:44 |
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I got it: fsrlhtoIfomf = fifth from sol, so the real answer is Jupiter Edit: the decimal point is missing in the banner! El Topo Magnifico fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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El Topo Magnifico posted:I got it: Nailed it! Great work! As for the missing decimal, that wasn't a planned hidden thing. but I added a small prize in there for you for that as well. Kragger99 fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Dec 2, 2014 |
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Good luck to all participants, I'm just glad i don't have to personally handle the prize giving this year.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 13:55 |
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Epic Doctor Fetus posted:#1: Super Game Bros. Bargain Smash Melee This is awesome. How long does something like that take to make?
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 16:44 |
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Trastion posted:This is awesome. How long does something like that take to make? Probably about 15-20 minutes. Google Image Search and knowing your way around Photoshop/ImageReady help speed it up quite a bit. Mario, the line of people, and the sliding door I grabbed off of GIS. The background eraser tool and layer blending modes do a quick job of "clipping" the images. Then it's just a matter of copying layers and moving them around to animate it in ImageReady.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 18:01 |
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#1: Super Game Bros. Bargain Smash Melee The job market is rough for video game characters. They have to resort to more lucrative activities to cover Steam sale costs, like Battlebots. Edit: Oh yeah, Grimrock II would be rad. Ragequit fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Dec 3, 2014 |
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Kragger99 posted:Nailed it! Wow! Thank you so much for Child of Light + DLC, and Tomb Raider: Underworld! For those who are on the fence about participating, these were all on my wishlist. I highly recommend entering anything that sounds fun to you because you never know when someone might give you a prize!
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#1: Super Game Bros. Bargain Smash Melee quote:Crono sighed as he drew his Rainbow. I couldn't decide if I wanted to be depressing or ridiculous, so how about both? Apologies for disjointedness/stupidity/not matching CANON. Third place prize would be Transistor. I'll drop to third and take that anyway if I somehow score second place, I already own all the Saint's Row stuff. http://steamcommunity.com/id/philmoscowitz
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 23:07 |
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Wow, I need to look at kittens after reading about Crono.
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# ? Dec 3, 2014 00:12 |
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Big Mad Drongo posted:#1: Super Game Bros. Bargain Smash Melee Chrono Trigger had Mid Tonics, not Hi-Potions; voted 1/5. (Holy poo poo this is amazing.)
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# ? Dec 3, 2014 00:18 |
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Can we still donate to the prize pool? I somehow missed that this year. Also, good luck everyone!
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# ? Dec 3, 2014 01:00 |
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Anarch posted:Can we still donate to the prize pool? I somehow missed that this year. Absolutely. I'm still planning on some more hidden prizes, and we have the raffle at the end of it all. The more prizes in the raffle, the more winners. Just contact seorin or I. Kragger Kragger Kragger
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# ? Dec 3, 2014 03:04 |
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Kragger99 posted:Kragger If we say that into a PC monitor do you appear and bestow a steam gift, or take a game from our steam accounts?
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# ? Dec 3, 2014 03:16 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:If we say that into a PC monitor do you appear and bestow a steam gift, or take a game from our steam accounts? He appears and makes you say Derek Smart three times. Once DSmart appears you have to 100% his games and review them or you die in three days. Or you have to join the KKK maybe? Not sure about this puzzle.
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# ? Dec 3, 2014 03:27 |
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Kragger99 posted:Absolutely. I'm still planning on some more hidden prizes, and we have the raffle at the end of it all. The more prizes in the raffle, the more winners. I have a few ideas, but I'm going to wait a day or two. I don't want to hog all the crypto/stenography fun. (I might actually take this time and create one of my own.)
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