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Posted March 29, 2012
[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition ][/url]Best Independent Adventure, Best Adventure of 2009 Runner-Up,
Best Graphic Design, Best Music, Best Animation - Aggie
Best Indie Game of 2009 - Gamasutra
Best Traditional Adventure Game of 2009 - AceGamez
Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction - Academy of Interactive Arts
Excellence in Visual Art in 2009 - Independent Game Fesitval
PC Game of the Year 2009 Runner-up - Kotaku

You can add [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition ]Machinarium[/url], indie gold nugget, to your very own ‘Best of’ collection for only $9.99 with 8 wallpapers, full soundtrack (which costs $5 extra elsewhere), 8 avatars, 22 artworks, 114 design sketches, available today on GOG.com.

You may have thought Czech are famous only for pilsner, dumplings, Eva Herzigová and [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/vampire_the_masquerade_redemption" target="_blank]Vampires roaming the streets of Prague[/url]. Now, thanks to a few brilliant people from Amanita Design, the Czech Republic is also known as the homeland of trippy point-and-clicks, giant robo-junkyards, and mechanical cities. In Machinarium, you find a small robot named Josef lying on a scrapheap, kicked out of the strange city of robots. You need to get back to the city to confront and defeat the Evil Black Cap Brotherhood that terrorized robot kind and took away Josef’s girlfriend. The goal of Machinarium is to solve a series of puzzles and brain teasers by clicking on objects that are within Josef’s reach. So, it’s a typical point-and-click, but in the same fashion as The Triplets Of Belleville is a typical animation.

[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition ]Machinarium[/url] is hands down one of the most beautiful games for PCs ever. Of course it’s a matter of taste, but the colored pencil drawings, eerie music, and the clever conversations that involve no dialogues but rather pictographs all combine to create an ethereal atmosphere like in Le Voyage dans la lune or Metropolis. Extraordinary amount of work has been put to detailing the world to perfection, allowing you to discover all the small and big things that make the story of the little robot so artistically unique, brilliantly crafted, imaginatively realised, and fascinating to play. Machinarium is like reading your favorite book in a strange fantastic language you find yourself comprehending after the first few lines.

There is no game quite like [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition ]Machinarium[/url], and you should not be reading this right now. Instead you should be immersed in the imaginative and memorable robo-world for $9.99 only, available now on GOG.com.
Posted March 29, 2012
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WBGhiro: Also what's the difference between the collector's edition and the regular one?
You get the soundtrack, exclusive behind the scenes video and 114 design sketches.

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DebugMode: Is it a flash game like Samorost?
No, it's a full PC game.
Posted March 29, 2012
Some of you guys are speculating about what this means for our release schedule and GOG.com in the future as a whole. Let me assure you: we are releasing two classic games--both from before 2006--next week.
Posted March 29, 2012
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mobutu: This is coming from a person who prefers to act like a dog:
Dude: be civil.
Posted March 29, 2012
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iainmet: Yeah, they definately need mods here on the board. Things can get out of hand quick and it turns into a mud slinging match. Then when threads dont get cleaned up after a scrap and new members come along they see bitching in the community and just leave instead of posting and joining in.

I'm a forum Administrator on another site and would have stomped all over people doing stuff like this on the board, pretty sure the mod team would have been all over it by now also.
We don't mod nearly as heavily as most boards. That said: people need to be polite, or people will find they don't get to post.
Posted March 29, 2012
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bazilisek: In general, I like GOG's laissez faire approach to modding, but the forum is steadily descending into territory where it's no longer going to work.
I think that's a bit gloomy, but you're entitled to your opinion.
Posted March 29, 2012
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rampancy: I'll echo others saying that the laissez-faire approach to the boards is a breath of fresh air...but I think the time has come and gone for at least some level of formal forum moderation.
I do agree that as the site grows and more and more personalities meet and clash, that increases the level of attention that threads need to receive from mods, but I've very rarely seen things that require actual mod actions to change.

Some people like to argue, and some people are bad at it and rapidly devolve to ad hominem attacks; if you think that's not what the Internet is like, well, you haven't spent much time out here. I would prefer free speech--even argumentative free speech--over a highly-regulated board.

Right now, it's pretty simple what gets you modded: anything illegal or grossly inappropriate for public consumption. Many other forums have very opaque rules on what is and is not allowed, and people get banned for no obvious reason.

I don't think that having healthy, living, loud discussions in our forum is unprofessional, but in either case only something like 5% of any given online store actually visits the community areas. As such, we're not going to be leaving an impression on our potential buyers all that often anyway.

Be cool, guys, and be civil to each other. That's all you need to do to avoid a confrontation with the Loving Mallet of Correction.
Posted March 29, 2012
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Merchito: Frankly, I haven't been for a minute under the impression I was trolling by expressing some of my worries. But after all I read just now, I wonder... Was I?
Just in case, I've deleted all my posts in this thread.
You're not usually going to be on the receiving end of a banhammer if you don't do anything illegal, make personal attacks, or do anything that is obviously spammy.

EDIT: My modding philosophy is pretty simple. It's a quote from--I think--Internet Famous Guy John Scalzi: "If your comments are full of assholes, it's your fault."

Don't be an asshole, and I won't have to muzzle you.
Post edited March 29, 2012 by TheEnigmaticT
Posted March 29, 2012
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keeveek: Two releases a week is not enought with current catalogue imho. 2 games a week when you're going to release old games, AAA titles, preorders and indie games? Damn to little...
That doesn't include any other releases we may be making next week as well.
Posted March 29, 2012
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TheEnigmaticT: That doesn't include any other releases we may be making next week as well.
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Poulscath: Why did I just visualise someone throwing blood into shark infested waters? ;)
Because every once and a while I love to troll. :D
Posted March 29, 2012
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Lexor: Please do not replace times of release GOGs with new games :(
That's a lovely schedule, and in a perfect world we might adopt something that's kind of like that.

In the messy truth of the real world, I can't commit to any kind of schedule at the moment, but do trust that we will continue to do our best to get you guys all of the classic PC greats we can each week.
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gameon: I've seen people getting jailed for twitter/facebook comments (due to racism etc) so obviously i want these forums to moderate accordingly. No horrible comments etc.
What offends people is a very difficult scale to base moderation on. Me? I'm nearly impossible to offend; I know some people who get upset at words like "Darn." At the moment, it's best to moderate simply by the idea that "the moderator who moderates best, moderates least."

Also why I'm very leery of bringing in volunteer mods; it's easy for a community to be very damaged by one abusive mod.
Post edited March 29, 2012 by TheEnigmaticT
Posted March 29, 2012
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Lexor: Yes, I know a lot about missing the perfect world. But can you promise me to try to release at least one "real" GOG per week?
According to our (rather rough) release schedule, we'll be releasing a minimum of one classic per week for the next two months, while we'll generally be doing more than that. I'll be talking more about that at the CDP Spring conference next week, since this is hardly the most public place to assuage any concerns about our release schedule. ;)

Of course, weird things can happen on the legal side at the very last minute--as has happened more than a few times before when I make a promise like this--or we can find a sudden bug on a final regression check. So I can't make guarantees. But we know what you guys want, and we'd be foolish to not try and deliver it to you.
Posted March 29, 2012
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gameon: hey, i'm cool on it all. I only seem to see you modding, and no one else really. If the site grows, i was thinking you'd have alot of work/hassle.
You're correct; this *does* take a lot of time I should spend doing other things. We do have a plan in place to help manage board moderation 'round the clock, but it's a ways off before we implement it.
Posted March 29, 2012
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ne_zavarj: Honestly . Fuck your Steam key and shut up .
You are getting on my nerves .
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keeveek: So kill yourself?
Play nice, guys. Both of you. No need to attack each other.
Posted April 02, 2012
My word. I see we've been getting a little bit argumentative here.

Let's all calm down and not call each other names, guys.

We had dozens and dozens and dozens of thousands of you guys answer the survey, and the votes were overwhelmingly in favor of newer games. Of course, I'm sorry if this is upsetting to some of you, and I know that there's a continued worry about what this means for releasing classic games as well as newer ones.

All I can say is: historically, I think we've done a pretty good job of treating our gamers well. That doesn't happen by accident; we're looking at what you guys say you want, what you actually want (based on what you buy), and what we can provide you, and then we're acting on that. If you're worried that we're suddenly going to go kiting off and try to bring in millions of COD fans to GOG.com, well: don't.

We won't forget you guys. Be cool, and see what great surprises we have for you in the upcoming weeks. ;)
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