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[pluckyporcupine]

I'd definitely be interested.

[Hangedman]

Shelby:
1) Matagi. No common translation that I can find, and it's written in katakana. Likely a name or something
2) Amigo, transliterated (katakana reads 'Amiigo')
3) 'Colourblind Mercedes'. Really.

Geeze:
1) 'Teikyou o sagasou'. (提供を探そう). It means 'Let's look for a sponsor!' or 'Let's look for funding!'
4) Title is 'Nounaimemoriiwan'. 'Nounai' means cerebral or cranial. So 'Cerebral Memory One', maybe? The lines with gaps on the bottom are a place to write the time and date twice (one above, one below). The rest of it I can't even begin to read.
5) 'Fa Mikko Kurisan'. I think Fa Mikko is a pun on Famicom + 'Miko' (shrine maiden, and shrines usually have gates like that.) It doesn't seem to translate out at all, there's no real 'Fa' sound in japanese. 'Kurisan' could be just about anything, a name maybe. Beneath the title are 'Hai'/'Iie', which are Yes and No. So I'd call it 'Kuri the Famicom Maiden' or something equally 90s.
6) 'Hyakuten Gattai'. (百点合体) Hyakuten means 100 points, but is colloquial for 'Perfect'. And Gattai means 'Union' or 'Combination', which is why giant robot animes use it so often.

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

i'm not gonna participate, but i just want to say that my favorite is this one



i'm imagining a perpetual car chase that lasts until the player dies, with no way to win or get away from the coppers; a dystopia, a police state of perpetual car chases, forever

[Radix]

Everyone in this world is in a perpetual car chase; networks of gangplanks link speeding cars into mobile cities; families live and die and civilisations rise and fall without ever slowing down.

[JWK5]

The problem with the DQ looking one is that it leaves nothing to the imagination. Part of the fun of Famicase is looking at the odd covers and imagining what kind of strange games they could be.

Yo get some imaginations. I saw it as a weird anime-ruined game of thrones license that plays with a blend of RPG and Risk elements like a cutesy fire emblem or sengoku rance or something.

I didn't really imagine it as being a DQ-styled game either, I got a much different vibe from it (especially with the ambiguity of the title and the map in the background).

One of the things I really liked about it was that the title says "King's Road II", meaning you'd have to imagine what the first entry in the series would have been like and how this one relates to it. It's kind of a two-for-one in the imagination department.

Even if you did imagine it as being a DQ-style game, though, that still wouldn't explain anything about the game beyond its general gameplay mechanics (which in that case you could just as easily slap "platformer", "shooter", etc. to it or any other Famicase entry and have a reasonably easy gameplay template to wrap the idea around).

The more naysayers there are for this one the more I am liking it, it is a good sign that other entrants are less likely to choose it.




Anyways, my favorite ones are:

[gingerbeardman]

Making progress with a community site for AGBIC 2012.

...this month.

[eyeliner]

I'll take this one.
Can someone translate?

EDIT:
This one, also:


If there's some valid meaning, I'll take a jab at one of them.

[gingerbeardman]

Something about scribbling on a cartridge lent to you by a friend in order to anger him!?

[Hangedman]

I'll take this one.
Can someone translate?

EDIT:
This one, also:


If there's some valid meaning, I'll take a jab at one of them.

First one is 'Big Orange Explosion Game', poorly written. Like, actually misspelled. And the upper right is BOKAAN, onomatopoeic explosion.
The other I did here: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=25859.msg727808#msg727808 , number 4.

[eyeliner]

Thanks, Hangedman! I'll take the first one, then.

[gingerbeardman]

There is no exclusive taking of each cover, any number of people can choose the same cover as they will end up making a totally different game.

[eyeliner]

Fine by me. I already made my choice, so I can cook up something. :p

[gingerbeardman]

AGBIC site will be going live today!

[gingerbeardman]

OK, folks! The AGBIC site has launched.

http://www.agbic.com

Feel free to come over and join the competition discussion.

[Cthulhu32]

I wrapped up all the Famicase art into one zip, and updated with 2011/2012. I did this for the AGBIC competition, thought I'd do it again for this competition.

http://cthulhu32.kraln.com/misc/FamicaseArt_5.17.2012.zip

Also the recaptcha key is broken for the site registration, so nobody can sign up

[leonelc29]

you can link your account with facebook and other site.

[gingerbeardman]

I wrapped up all the Famicase art into one zip, and updated with 2011/2012. I did this for the AGBIC competition, thought I'd do it again for this competition.

http://cthulhu32.kraln.com/misc/FamicaseArt_5.17.2012.zip

Also the recaptcha key is broken for the site registration, so nobody can sign up

Thanks, I've fixed the recaptcha problem so you can sign up using the standard method.

Do you want me to mirror your AGBIC download or shall I link to it?

[Soulliard]

Someone make this game!

[Cthulhu32]

I wrapped up all the Famicase art into one zip, and updated with 2011/2012. I did this for the AGBIC competition, thought I'd do it again for this competition.

http://cthulhu32.kraln.com/misc/FamicaseArt_5.17.2012.zip

Also the recaptcha key is broken for the site registration, so nobody can sign up

Thanks, I've fixed the recaptcha problem so you can sign up using the standard method.

Do you want me to mirror your AGBIC download or shall I link to it?

Definitely mirror it Thanks for asking.

[Mr. Yes]

Pretty website. I'll enter if this gets some attention by the end of June. I'm hoping!!