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#1
Making computer games is a job that needs multiple fields of knowledge, from graphics, sound, story, puzzle, design, coding, etc. Rarely a single person is gifted in all of the skills needed, which in turn leads to games having very weak presentation in some form or another. Teaming up is an option, but the communication between team members gives an overhead of work that needs to be managed along with everything else, and 30 days is not a lot of time. Stressful as it might be due to the time crunch, mags is a great way to build up useful game making skills, from planing to executing your ideas to building up a finished game. Allowing pre-made, publicly available assets is one way of easing the strain on the game developers.

Aside from that, there is a limited user base here on the forums, and you cannot expect that there will be 10 entries every month. Every mags that has at least one game finished is a good mags imo, but sometimes the theme is attractive to a larger number of people, and circumstances leave them with enough time and energy to give it a go. Quantity and quality are both positive here, and if you want more quantity, growing the AGS user base would logically mean the attendance would expand. As for quality; the skills of the developers are the main factor, and helping them increase them through tutorials, twitch streams, videos, demo games, open source projects and the like is the way to go. If you are active in the community and contribute, the activity level rises, which in turn makes other people more active, which in turn makes you more active and so on and so forth. Start from yourself, contribute what you can, the effort might be small or large (which is relative anyway) but it all adds up.

Also a shout out to Slasher who has been extremely active in mags competitions, there is not much I want to say, just a hearty applause.
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Mon 04/06/2018 08:49:22
Happy level up Nemo.
#3
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Sun 04/06/2017 13:54:24
Thanks everyone, happy BDay to my brother form another mother, qptain_Nemo!
#4
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Sat 04/06/2016 18:51:56
Thanks for all the wishes, also happy birthday qptain_Nemo!
#5
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Wed 07/10/2015 21:22:18
Happy Birthday Peder, the most awesome awesomest guy on the planet!!!!
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Tue 23/06/2015 13:59:43
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#7
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Fri 05/06/2015 09:21:06
Thanks for all the wishes guys and none of the money!
#8
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Wed 03/06/2015 22:58:02
Happy Birth Day qptain_Nemo!!! One day closer to dying!

#9
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Fri 29/05/2015 09:48:13
Happy Birthday bicilotti!
#10
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Tue 26/05/2015 14:25:11
Happy Birthday Wyz!!!
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Mon 25/05/2015 09:07:44
Happy Birthday AprilSkies, =D =D =D =D =D <III mVIII. It is truly a honour to know you!

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Tue 07/06/2011 19:57:18
Thank you! I love you all! *lies shamefully*
#13
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Sun 22/05/2011 11:03:50
Have a happy one, CodeJunkie.
#14
You're one scary motherf***er Domino.
#15
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Fri 18/03/2011 13:33:46
Happy birthday to the man that make all girls tremble and all pirates shiver!
#16
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Tue 15/02/2011 23:01:38
Happy birthday AngelicCharon! How about droping by sometimes?
#17
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Mon 10/01/2011 00:24:10
FSi too? Damn.

Sretan Rođendan!
#18
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Mon 10/01/2011 00:03:07
Damn, almost didn't see it. Happy birthday you greek bastard! =P
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Fri 24/09/2010 15:32:28
Happy birthday to the bearded pokemon! Shall we see the evolved avatar soon?
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Sat 04/09/2010 18:49:07
Happy Bday to the russian sorcerer, the devourer or vodka, dragon-bane, the meanest hook west of Ural, the cool, the coolest and all around good guy Crimson Wizard!
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