Happy birthday! This is a giant birthday video I’ve been wanting to make for a while now. I had no chance at all time-wise last year, and I almost didn’t make it this year! While I definitely have my own ends with this video, I tried to keep it entertaining also. Hope you find something in it you like!

Here are the threads related to the birthday topics:

Ross tries to get you to join in on his birthday.

Related threads here:

MMO Stories

Soundtracks

Art

Mouse Printing

Custom Software

Also believe it or not, the suggested Youtube thumbnail images didn’t have one with me in it, so I left it on the default one.

Merry almost-not-Christmas! I managed to get this Christmas episode out pretty late, but it should still be Christmas in the timezones I’m aiming for! I almost covered this game last winter, but it got to be too late and there wasn’t any snow left on the ground, so I saved it for this one, since we of course have snow everywhere. Everyone has snow. Everywhere. Enjoy the episode.

After much deliberating, we now have the winners of the screenshot contest for the free games giveaway! I want to give big thanks to everyone who contributed a game, and to danielsangeo, who organized most of this and we wouldn’t have been able to do this contest without him.

I unfortunately have to announce that I decided to change the rules. The simple reason: there were too many good entries. It would have been hell to try and figure out who is #34, 35, 37, etc. We had 481 entries and 124 winners. A lot of people had multiple great entries, but we picked only one per person just to keep things sane. So instead of a big numbered list of winners, they were broken up into tiers. You can view the winning entries below:

GOLD TIER:
These were ones I thought were either amazing, genius, or extremely funny.

SILVER TIER:
These were generally really good, they just didn’t ignite quite the same spark to me that the gold tier did.

BRONZE TIER:
These were ones I thought were cool in some way, just not mind-blowing.

This whole thing was super-subjective, so don’t get too disappointed if you didn’t win. You may yet still have a chance to win something later on.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR GAME:
1. First confirm you were one of the winners (a master list is located here)
2. Check the Games List for games you’re interested in. This will be frequently updated as people claim them.
3. Make a small list of games you want, in the order you want them. Email [email protected] with this list. If your game is still available, it will be sent to you. If not, we’ll go to the next game on your list.
4. If you submitted your entry on the forum instead of email, let us know which one your entry was (we can find out, but this will make it go faster).
5. Games will be sent first by tier, then FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE. So everyone in the gold tier will get a chance to pick before silver tier, then bronze tier.
6. Have patience. Silver entries won’t get served until everyone in gold picks a winner or a week passes, whichever comes first. So it could be a couple weeks before you get your game, depending on how things go. Once you email us letting us know what games you want, your place in line is secured.
7. In the event there are no games left that you want, please just tell us “pass” in an email.

Sorry about changing the rules and make it a semi-free-for-all, but it was the only way to retain our sanity. We had so many fantastic entries, thanks a bunch to everyone who participated. I highly recommend people check out the winners. Also since we had more games than winners, once every winner has gotten a chance to pick something, I’ll make a new post about the remaining games later. After all, I don’t think Daikatana is going to fly off the shelf.

Part 2 here (for adults only)

Merry Christmas triple-Eve! Here is the first Christmas episode coming out this month for Game Dungeon. This is an episode I knew I wanted to do, but had some concerns about it, so I decided on a halfway solution. This episode is split into 2 parts. The first half everyone can watch and should help your holiday mood. The second half is for adults only and I made it age-restricted on Youtube because I think this is the most intense game I’ve had on the show so far. This is one case where I feel like censoring it would have really misrepresented the game. You’ll hear this in part 1, but definitely do not watch part 2 if you’re easily disturbed.

The next video I’ll get done ASAP, though it’s going to be close whether or not it gets made in time for Christmas or not. It can be kind of amazing how long simple details end up taking to do. So while I can’t promise dates, expect 2 more videos this month!

Hey everyone, in the interest of giving everyone enough notice, I wanted to announce the next videochat will be at 4PM EST on January 3rd. It will be on twitch again, located here:

http://www.twitch.tv/rossbroadcast/

I may switch and use a different videochat service later on, but I need more time to test other ones and I wanted to make the announcement ASAP to give people plenty of notice.

Upon user suggestions, this next chat will be more structured than the previous ones. I’ll start out with announcements again, but then I’ll start answering questions or discuss topics that people can submit ahead of time. If there’s something you’d like to hear me talk about, either leave a post in the comments to this post, or else email [email protected] with your question or topic you want discussed. I’ll try and cover as many questions / topics as I can during the live chat and try to respond to any additional stuff in the chat. This is still an evolving thing, but I think will get more refined as time goes on. Also for those wondering, I’m still using my old email address for normal emails, this new one is simply for contemporary events like this.

In the meantime, I’m working on the videos, expect the first Christmas episode in a couple days!