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GAF Steam Sale Hunt

Toma

Let me show you through these halls, my friend, where treasures of indie gaming await...
BigDriggy gets my vote. Super Smash Bros: Beachbrawl.

Damn, I almost thought we had a clear winner. Although I am in the BigDriggy rooting camp, lol.
 

Toma

Let me show you through these halls, my friend, where treasures of indie gaming await...
Open this post in a new tab (right click the number of the post) and F5/update it once in a while. We are going to do this LIVE, ha. Lets see how it goes.
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| Day 1 - Summary |
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First of all, thanks The_Monk for helping.
Lets start with something small first! I thought since we are sort of emulating last years Steam sale, we might as well emulate the achievements! So I thought how I could implement these as a small thank you for participating in the contests. I know they are rather crappy, but hey why not :p

Badge #1 Full Throttle - Participating in all contests on the first day.
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Badge Owners:
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A few nondescript Badges for users who have no avatar (mclem, mannerbot, Tobinish & the last one is Kryptonite, couldnt resist):
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I wont be doing these often alone, since they take too much time, even if crappy. So if anyone wants to take over, feel free to contact me.

Now! Onto the contests.

Edit: Oh no, wait. Forgot one. Lets call it the "Hey! Hey, Listen!" badge :p
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All in good jest though. I'd love to see you continue to participate Terry Crews :)

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| Day 1 - Contest Winners |
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#1 - SpaceChem
-34 participants

And the two winners are LFF and Redrum_82! Congrats! Now onto randomizing what you win. Sorry for taking a while :p

[Done]LFF wins Sonic Generations! (sponsored by S. L.), whereas Redrum_82 wins CS:GO! (sponsored by Retne)
Congrats to the winners. I'll hook you up after I am done with this :)

#2 - Swimsuit Competition
-37 participants

Ranking from the voting:
ektoll: 3
BigDriggy: 3

Firebrand: 2
Terry Crews: 1
alr1ghtstart: 1
Gattsu: 1
LFF: 1
Artofwar420: 1
SalsaShark: 1

I decided that both will win today :) Because why not. We should have enough gifts. So the first 2 out of 3 winners here are Ektoll and BigDriggy! And the third (random one) is Firebrand! Haha, so the third random vote is actually our third highest voted entry too :)

Onto the games.

[Done]Ektoll - Blocks that Matter! (Sponsored by Falxix) (not claimed, back on the gift pile)
[Done]BigDriggy - Supreme Commander Forged Alliance (sponsored by hom3land)
[Done]Firebrand - Legend of Grimrock! (sponsored by Falxix)

Congrats everyone! I'll create the new contest post "soon". Feel free to buy/download the demo of Lara Croft:Guardian of Light already, though. You are going to need it for the next contest! Console version plus camera to take a photo is fine too.
 

LFF

Neo Member
Congrats to everyone who won, and thanks to S.L for Sonic Generations. My brother has been after this for quite some time so it's much appreciated.
Thanks for running these competitions! I'll be back to participate again tomorrow.
 

Toma

Let me show you through these halls, my friend, where treasures of indie gaming await...
Toma you're such a tease.
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Well, it would have taken roughly the same amount of time with live updates or without, since rolling the random stuff took the most time. Figured I might as well keep you updated :)

First off, I work on creating the next contest posts, after that I'll hook up the winners with their prizes.
 

ektoll

Member
Oh wow, I'm surprised and delighted that I won! And I should have started SpacheChem, I want that Full Throttle badge :)


Thanks you Falxix for BTM but I already have this game, on PC and X360 too! So, if you want, you can give it to the winner of your choice.




Now, I think I'll go buy Lara Croft: GoL and please, do another Mspaint contest tomorrow!
 

Firebrand

Member
Oh my, I win the one game on the list I was really interested in! Thanks Falxix! And of course Toma + The_Monk for hosting.
 

mclem

Member
Random aside, probably touched on elsewhere:

Is it possible that Steam could have two promos lined up? The summer sale now, and then in a couple of weeks an Olympic-themed achievement hunt?
 

BigDriggy

Neo Member
Thanks to Toma and Monk for hosting and hom3land for the game. And I agree with ektoll, more mspaint contests, that was hilarious...
 

Toma

Let me show you through these halls, my friend, where treasures of indie gaming await...
Random aside, probably touched on elsewhere:

Is it possible that Steam could have two promos lined up? The summer sale now, and then in a couple of weeks an Olympic-themed achievement hunt?

Everything is possible, but no one knows *shrug*

Thanks to Toma and Monk for hosting and hom3land for the game. And I agree with ektoll, more mspaint contests, that was hilarious...

Haha, great avatar. And we'll more if you liked it guys. Still going to mix things up a bit.
 

Falxix

Member
Oh wow, I'm surprised and delighted that I won! And I should have started SpacheChem, I want that Full Throttle badge :)

Thanks you Falxix for BTM but I already have this game, on PC and X360 too! So, if you want, you can give it to the winner of your choice.

I'm sure Toma will do something good with it. Congratulations anyway!
 
Congrats everyone! I'll create the new contest post "soon". Feel free to buy/download the demo of Lara Croft:Guardian of Light already, though. You are going to need it for the next contest! Console version plus camera to take a photo is fine too.

Yeah, congrats everyone!

Aww, I was lucky with SpaceChem because I already had it installed beforehand. I hit my monthly allotment the morning right before the sales began! I have to pay several dollars per gigabyte to use the Internet now until (I think) August :( Must resist urge to compete anyways ... hopefully there will more contests that don't require a large download for me.
 

Toma

Let me show you through these halls, my friend, where treasures of indie gaming await...
Yeah, congrats everyone!

Aww, I was lucky with SpaceChem because I already had it installed beforehand. I hit my monthly allotment the morning right before the sales began! I have to pay several dollars per gigabyte to use the Internet now until (I think) August :( Must resist urge to compete anyways ... hopefully there will more contests that don't require a large download for me.

Yeah, we'll have at least one each day that wont require downloading/ a certain game. And LC:GoL is huge too... sorry about that.
 

Toma

Let me show you through these halls, my friend, where treasures of indie gaming await...
Contest #3: Best time in Lara Croft: Guardian of Light Level 1.

Since the first level is the only one available in the demo, we'll take that one for the contest. Also: note that you dont need to have the best highscore, just the best time! The best time wins, then randomly another winner from all the other entries.

Please dont copy any images from the internet :)

- Contest runs until the next batch of daily deals goes up, so tomorrow 7pm GMT+2.
- Please screenshot the endscreen after a level, not a highscore table somewhere
- You can participate in this contest even with the demo or PS360 versions.
- Dont use any upgrades beyond the first level! Otherwise the demo players wont have any chance to compete.

1 winner will be chosen randomly from all submissions, the other winner is the one with the best time.

Cheap and great game! Buy it if you like the demo!
 

Toma

Let me show you through these halls, my friend, where treasures of indie gaming await...
Thx to Toma for the Avatar and congrats to the winners, they deserved it :).
You can take one of the other two, if you prefer them. They werent in any actual "order".
 

The_Monk

Member
Ok, I'll be doing this just for the fun since any Time Events in any game is the worst for me, so I'll take my time with the demo and then will post it. ;)
 

Toma

Let me show you through these halls, my friend, where treasures of indie gaming await...
Since I am shameless:
Contest #4 - Think'a'Contest!

We are a super awesome community, so I am going to get you to help me out for prizes!

Reading only regular contest ideas would be a bit boring, feel free to recommend ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNYthing. Make stupid, fun, ridiculous or even sincere contest ideas. Everyone can submit more than one idea, but please post them in the same post. If you want to add something, you may state in the thread that you added it with a new reply, BUT remember to add it to your contest post!

Few rules:
- Only the first dedicated contest #4 post, however many suggestions it contains, will be voted on! (so that we dont have to click through 20 posts per user to read suggestions)
- Either directly related to a game that could still be on sale (Highscore..) or a real life activity somehow related to gaming (make a picture of yourself with a gaming hat made from paper.., record yourself humming a videogame melody...)
- Feel free to run wild with ideas, however crazy they are. We dont actually need to do them. If I get a few good ideas out of this, that would be great, but we'll see.
- Feel free to post huge lists of topics you might want to see in further creative (MS paint drawings for example) contests too. "Unbelievable videogame love affairs", "Greatest videogame secret no one saw coming.." etc.

What we vote on:
Anything, whether you personally liked the ideas, or whether its a stupidly big amount of ideas. We'll rate which single post we liked best. Highest voted post gets 1 prize from the pile, another prize for a random entry.

Ends the same time as always. When the new daily deals go up.
 
Since I am shameless:
Contest #4 - Think'a'Contest!

I like the idea if we have enough gifts to have a best score or quickest team through one of the levels in Payday the Heist. It's cheap and I am sure loads of people on here will already own the game anyway.
 

The_Monk

Member
Here's my time. Like I said it was just for fun, not to mention I get distracted by shinny things :p

Contest #3

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Humm, now I want the game. =/




EDIT: And Contest #4 is about suggesting a idea?
 

Toma

Let me show you through these halls, my friend, where treasures of indie gaming await...
I like the idea if we have enough gifts to have a best score or quickest team through one of the levels in Payday the Heist. It's cheap and I am sure loads of people on here will already own the game anyway.

Any opinions on that? If tomorrows games are bad, we could do that tomorrow (since games run for 32 hours right now). If more people want to do it, hands up ;)

Here's my time. Like I said it was just for fun, not to mention I get distracted by shinny things :p

Contest #3

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Humm, now I want the game. =/

Told you, its a fun game.
 

Toma

Let me show you through these halls, my friend, where treasures of indie gaming await...
Contest #5: Build a home in Terraria

Its still on sale for the next 8 hours or so. I apologize to anyone who is not reading this in time before the sale runs out, but many people own it plus todays offers are kinda meh for our contests.

Please dont copy any images from the internet :)

- Build a house/home whatever you may call it where you character will live the rest of his life!
- Take a screenshot of the house
- Fun and ridiculous homes will probably fly great with the voting.
- Unfortunately no demo, but its a cheap game right now and fun too, especially if you like block building games like MineCraft.
- I cant control that, but please, please, please only use a screenshot of a world you created AFTER this contest started (fairness to other players).

2 winners, 1 by community vote and another random entry.
 

Toma

Let me show you through these halls, my friend, where treasures of indie gaming await...
Alright, thats all for today. Enjoy playing and brainstorming ;p
 

Razakin

Member
Here's my attempt at speedrunning the first level in GoL:

And a link to the Steam community page.

Slow as hell, but as it seems that GoL feels like a fun title, I think I'll try to make my time better. Wish I had the money for it at the moment. Oh well, if nothing else, I'll wait for the christmas sales.

And for Contest #4, perhaps a small post why you should win a contest? Either a serious post with reasons or just complete off the walls.

Or some oddball inappropriate advertising screenshot of a game, either related to current sales or game you love.
 
Here's my attempt at speedrunning the first level in GoL:


And a link to the Steam community page.

Slow as hell, but as it seems that GoL feels like a fun title, I think I'll try to make my time better. Wish I had the money for it at the moment. Oh well, if nothing else, I'll wait for the christmas sales.

And for Contest #4, perhaps a small post why you should win a contest? Either a serious post with reasons or just complete off the walls.

Or some oddball inappropriate advertising screenshot of a game, either related to current sales or game you love.

Damn you! Now I have to play the game again! Did you do it single player or co-op? and does deaths account for time?
 
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