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Palamedes · 12-24-2017, 03:38 PM

WINTER GAME GIVEAWAY
2018 EDITION

Hosted, as (almost) always, by your friendly neighbourhood Pala!

It's that time of year again, where good forumites gather round their subforums and get a bunch of free games, complementary of various generous donors while attempting to finally clear my backlog of extras. I'm sure by now many of you have heard this song and dance before, but I'll rehash everything again for those who haven't.

Over the past few years, giveaways have been run (kudos to Coldblooded, SupahKiven, Chirality, and SupahKiven again for their leadership/assistance).
Each basically entails me throwing out free games (both my own and ones donated by others on the forums) to anyone interested, letting people get games they've always wanted, be they big new releases, indie hits, or even just older ones they've never had but seemed interesting.
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The penny sale system from the previous giveaways remains in place, and here are the specifics, as cobbled together by Coldblooded, Chirality, and myself:

Quote:It works like this: Every single game up for grabs will be revealed right at the very beginning of the game. (Or a bit before, more likely.) Every player is then given 100 points to divide among whichever games that they like best. After everybody has distributed their points, we will then determine the winners of the four most popular games currently on the table. The more points that somebody has placed into a game, the better their odds of walking away with it.

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SpoilerFor example, imagine that a game has 200 points on it, with the points distributed like so:
Player A - 100 points
Player B - 50 points
Player C - 25 points
Player D - 25 points

Player A has a 50% of winning that game since they have 50% of the points sitting on it right now. Player B has a 25% chance of winning it, and Players C and D each have a 12.5% chance of winning it. If any other players decide to jump onto the game before the deadline, it drags down the odds for each of the other four players by however many points that they happen to throw in.

If Player D decides that they don't like sharing these odds with the rest of the pack, they can always pull back out and move those points elsewhere.

Once a deadline is reached the top games of the round will be raffled off. In order to promote activity, players will gain 25 points at the end of each round. Players who have bid and didn't win their game will also receive a consolation prize of 50% of their lost points back (rounded to the nearest multiple of five)! This means that you don't have to worry as much about going big and losing it all on a popular game, since you can be right back in the fight after.

Finally, while you are free to change your points up to the deadline, please only ever do so in a new post - this makes figuring out who voted for what much easier since we don't have to go through the entire thread post by post every time we're calculating who wins what.

I'm going to look over the previous givaways and determine if any other rules would make things better, but those will be announced in thread if they occur.
In addition, if anyone has any suggestions based on previous giveaways to make things better feel more than free to message me!

Unlike last year, Steam has unfortunately changed their policies to demolish the inventory system, meaning that gifting through Steam is going to be next to impossible for any games not purchased before the change. If you're looking to buy games to donate, I recommend looking into GOG
and Humble Bundle, with the former having a sale until the 26th.

Here's the link set up for that. If you're thinking of donating a game to the sale, please make sure to check here. Having an extra copy of a big game isn't a big deal, but having forty copies of Bad Rats wouldn't end well for anyone. Just post what you're donating (or planning on donating) openly or anonymously and we'll keep a more organized version of the list here. Make sure to only post the names of donated games in the quicktopic, send the actual code or link via PM.

Finally, to take part in the giveaway you must have:
1) Been part of the forum before this thread was created.
2) Have signed up in the thread prior to the sale ending and giveaway beginning.
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To sign up and get your game, you're going to need is a Steam account and an interest in free games. If you don't already have an account, they're free and very easy to set up.

This game is also being run simultaneously on the Chocolate Pi Forums as well, in case you want to keep tabs on all of your competitors or something.

Signups end January 4th. If we get a lot of late signups/interest this deadline can be pushed back a couple of days but that's going to be it for now.

P.S. A special thank you to Coldblooded, Kocel, and all of our donors for the inspiration, help, and donations that make this whole thing possible.

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Spoiler1. Gatr - Set sail for the Grand Line D1, found the first of many medallions D2, so hacked into the system and started destroying buildings D5, until he went insane D6.
2. Vancho1 - Began painting D1, but got one last case D2, beat out his rival D3, solved the mystery but was stabbed and thrown to his death D6.
3. Supernerd - Went to war with the fruit powered machines and an elemental hedgehog D4, but was taken down by a Megaman knockoff D5.
4. Druplesnubb - Sought an audience with the queen D4, but fell in battle only to be revived to save the world again D5, ran afoul of the Black Cap Brotherhood and turned into a spirit D6.
5. ICan'tGiveCredit - Arrived at the manor D1, explored the new city around it D2, entered an endless dungeon controlled by his own friends D3, who shot him down D6.
6. chimericWilder - Got to the mountain and fell straight down into the depths D2, where he was made king of the underworld D6, trapped on a grid and overwhelmed by robots in the end.
7. SupahKiven - Sent out a scout ship to find the key D1, found out that people would move every time they did D3, had to try and salvage some scraps but succumbed to a curse D5.
8. Paranoia - Made a wasteland because his neighbours wouldn't let him have a good night's sleep D3, founded a weapon shop in a zombie swarmed area but failed to make it through D8.
9. Granolaman - Chose a faction D1, planned to depose the king with a giant runaway truck D2, found him in an ancient temple D4, hunted down by gnomes D8.
10. Coldblooded - Returned to Possum Springs and hunted by mysterious agents D1, found out all about Big Brother's control D2, confronted the AI running it all D5, only to be killed by a runaway goat D7.
11. Sunspider - Made an enemy of the False Queen and had to flee across the wastes and past countless dangers below Kentucky D3, was caught and locked away forever in a mental asylum D4.
12. spümpkin - Blew everything up and sent out to fix it D4, gained unnatural powers to do so D5, entered a tournament but died naked and afraid on an abandoned island D7.

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