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This trailer is amazing! And MHD's character designs are out of this world, I can't wait to see the match ups. This is really cool.

Yes! THUNDERDOME!!!

Thunderdome!!!!

Speaking of... When's my match with RK? After the mods, maybe.

Your match with RK and me you mean?

Yep! Sorry, forgot you joined.

I love this. :D

Wow, that looks amazing! Did you make it?

Mizal is my favorite artist

Lol of course there are unlockables. This is brilliant.

This is super cool.

Crap, where did I put my bag of quarters again?

Yahoo!

Well seeing as I know MHD created this, I commended her post in the thread instead.

I am in awe 🫢 

This is amazing!

So this is what the new pfps meant. This is the one of the best trailers I have seen, I really love the art style. Looking forward to seeing what happens next in the Thunderdome!

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Remember. Not reading and rating mod stories is high treason <3

All those who don't vote will be promptly deported :~)

I wonder who the 9k one could've been...

In Story A vs Story B, I'll go with Story B. Story A was really cool, tho

Story C vs Story D: I choose B.

I mean, they were both well-written, but neither one really drew me in. If I have to pick, I'll pick D

Between A and B... who am I kidding, I didn't read B because of my age. Maybe when I'm 20 or something, I can come back and read it. As such, my vote for this one is non-existent.

Between C and D, though, I would go with D. I feel like I didn't find everything for D because of the endless combinations you could do with how it was done, but the world felt more fleshed out, even though we didn't see much of it.

Not sure how this is gonna end. Will it be the highest score ever? Or will I be stuck in an ironic hell loop, unable to cease destroying the top score for all eternity?

Might just be the bargain you made with Death.

Never make a deal with Death, the Devil, or a mortgage broker.

Our mod battles have awoken a site founder! :kittywow:

@march5th00

Hi!

We still love you! Muaaah!

That video game introduction was epic. All the quarters.

That's all @MadHattersDaughter, she grew up really good at drawing things and then making the things move.

The little art updates here and there around the site are hers too.

That gazette is really something too. Think there’s any interest in an “interview march and Alex” edition?

hell yes! We got a legend in the house! I didn't think you were around anymore, this is so cool! You should check out the new games. We'd love to interview you.

Thanks for making the site!

Why are you back in this account? Lol.

I forgot my password again. I'm really sorry I got to make a better password. I was going to ask, but then I saw March was back and was super excited because apart from the "help and info" page, I've never seen him on the site. So it was too cool to not say anything.

Oh damn, I'm sure there would be.

I was actually going to email Alex over the weekend here too, Anthraxus has expressed some interested in working on the code.

Absolutely. Hell yes.

Thank you!!

Here's another comm for summoning one of the ancients with it.

Our mod battles have awoken another site founder! :kittywow:

In A vs B, it's already a hard decision. I'm not entirely sure whether to go with the written path or the game, but I think I enjoyed the creativity of the game inside the story more, so I'm going to go with Story A.

Between C and D, it's not even close. While story C was good, story D was GREAT. I vote Story D.

First of all, before voting, I'd just like to thank the Mod team for putting together such a cool and unique event. Seriously, y'all are awesome!

It was such a hoot to see the initial trailer. It was one of the best marketed Thunderdomes, and it came out of nowhere! I really loved the trailer and all the work MHD put into it, it's definitely one of her best works.

This was such a fun thunder dome, and I hope you guys have more surprise events like these planned.

I'd also like to commend you guys for making a Thunderdome where you make short story games. That was such a cool concept, and I think the mods really made the most out of this! Well done Sherb, Sent, Mizal, and MHD, these are some really good games! And for games made in such a short time, with such a narrow word restriction, are really good!

As for the stories, both A and B are awesome! I liked how Story A essentially coded an entire pinball game, that was so cool!

And Story B was very good too! It was hard to review, because of the advanced vocabulary, and somewhat strange narrative choices, including which parts were emphasized, but the author's skill and humor shone through. It was genuinely a really funny story, and it's a good example of how to execute humor in an unexpected and original way. I can guarantee no one else on the site besides the author(or at least very few people), could write dense paragraphs with complex vocabulary hat occasionally overstay their welcome, and still have it be as funny. The comedic timing in this piece was great.

I'd probably vote for Story B, because while Story A's technological skill/uniqueness in using the editor in an unexpected way was cool, the story was ultimately more of a demonstration of pinball. Meanwhile B was fascinating, and clearly the author knows how to write well even if they made choices that seemed strange, and at times unnecessary, to me.

Moving on to the next set of stories:

I will give the win to Story D. Story D was awesome! It's so simple, yet so brilliant that it took my breath away. It's a cat and mouse game, where an interrogator attempts to get information from a suspect who continuously denies everything. I loved the way that we had to probe and be careful with our questions, and essentially follow a specific line of questioning. I loved the concept of resetting, I thought it was pretty creative, because even though you reset their memory, they're still the same person so if you try the same strategy 1000 times, you'll be stuck there 1000 times. But the way the MC played on the suspect's uncertainty and fear of what he might have said when he was reset was a cool strategy. I liked the 2 endings, and I got to give the win to this one.

I hope whoever wrote Story D expands upon it. I would love to know more about the Dominion and the Monster, as well as the mole's moss addiction.

Story C was decent. The writing was quite great! But for me, I found story D to be more compelling and intriguing. Story D had a really cool game element, and just did a little more with the prompt, so I vote for D.

My votes: B and D.

Story A vs. Story B: Story A

Story C vs. Story D: Story D

My votes are for B and D

For the first battle of A vs B:

Although it was a very tough decision: I think Story A has my vote. It was simple, the plot was obvious, and the fact there was 3 full blown pinball games in there was great. Replayability is high due to that. At the same time, I can't really fault Story B at all - it really just came down to fun factor in my opinion.

Voting for Story A.

I'll return to this thread and vote for C or D once I'm done reading them.

story C reads like Sethaniel. is he still around?

Nope, he's long gone.

I think he got kind of disgruntled at 3J about Kiel being removed, basically disappeared for awhile and then came back only briefly to try and push a Kickstarter for a VN. Then just took the money and ghosted everybody lol. Except for coming back at some point much later and taking his games down.

C & D are the 2 best stories.
the face offs are harder.
Put me down for a vote for A and C.

Now Alex is here!

Two founders at once, is it the end times?!

I realized house of horrors and Locked out remain broken & barked at him.

Yahoo! What an eventful episode!

house of horrors and locked out should now be playable and published! let me know if you all can see them!

I see House of Horrors and it appears to be functional, same with the original Locked Out.
In any case it'll be cool to have these back, there's really nothing else quite like them on the site.

i wont say they're good. I will say they were important for the development of the website!