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Welcome to The Hundredth Tile. 8 pawns are stood on the starting podium, ready to go down the 100 tile path!



And what a path it is! It's made of 7 x 7 squares with big white numbers imported in from Lyonfortland. Good quality.



Of course, all of the competitors today want to get to here-the God's Portals! Because if they do, they WIN!

So yeah, this is the Hundredth tile with Minecraft images. For those of you who don't know how to play, here is a nice spoiler with the rules in it.


With all of that out of the way, feel free to claim a pawn! We have Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Orange, Purple, Brown and Grey (It's one of the Blue ones, I kinda derped with them). First come first served.

So yeah, me and a few friends (Namely, myself, Sirwho, Projeck and Kisame) have decided to make silly Let's Plays on a silly game. Hilarity ensues. We use the Lyoncraft server as our main hangout, so if you see us there, we're probably recording. And without further adieu, some linkies.

Our Channel
Minecraft Playlist
Portal 2 Playlist

And that's about it.

Ladies and gentlemen (Read: Vector, and everyone else), this board has existed for 5 years. Over them, there have been many a great game, many a great gamer, and many a great guffaw. (I wanted a word begining with g that meant laugh. There aren't many of them.) None of them have acutally ever recieved any actual award for their efforts-aside from praise and signature space. But, on New Year's Day, 2012, there will be 25 awards, and up to 25 recipients. Hosts and gamers alike will be able to select their favourite moments from over the years, and some will recieve the ultimate award-a Bay Gamer Award. If this gets enough interest, I'll do one next year as well.

The whole process will take up two stages. First and foremost, there is the nominations stage. This is where you, the general public, elect games, posts and players to be chosen for the awards. This will take us until the 1st December, at which point, I will take a shortlist of the top 5/10 for each category and you will be able to privately vote on who you think should take each award. That will take us until New Year's Eve. Then, I will collate all the votes (Read: Look at a nice chart and locate the most popular answers) and I will declare the most popular ones on New Year's Day. Maybe with a YouTube video. Who knows? Either way, it will be an INTERESTING two-and-a-half months.

Now, I bet you want to start submitting more than a few entries right away. Well, I can't blame you, but we need to run through a few rules first.

• You can make as many nominations as you see fit to this. Just don't whine if they don't all end up on the shortlist.
• You have to post which category you want your submission to be entered in. I need to know this.
• Once submitted, a nomination must be backed by two other people in the form of a quote pyramid so I can easily tell it's been backed. If it's already got two backings, don't bother.
• Nominations and backings can only be made by people who have joined BEFORE the opening date of these submissions. Sorry, new people, but some people will spam alt accounts to get their subs in. At least, I think they will.
• You can't submit or back anything by me (ExKirby) or yourself (Whoever you are). Let's keep this fair. Posts made in the same game that I was in don't count.
• All submissions pertaining to a post or game must be linked in the submission post.
• Each post, game and person can only be entered into one category. However, that isn't to say that you could nominate X person for A category, and have his posts P, Q and R nominated for B, C, and D respectively.
• You can only submit entities that existed before the opening date. Their time will be next year.

With the formalities out of the way, the categories! All 25!

   The Original Mechanic Award
For the game with the most original and interesting mechanic that has come from the game creator.

   The Greatest Quote Award
For the quotation that will live in our hearts-and our signatures-for the rest of our lives.

   The Inventive Suggestion Award
For the action which is so clever, amusing or just downright insane that made the host update right on the spot.

   The Artist Appreciation Award
For the piece of artwork-canon or fanart-which deserves to be put right next to the Mona Lisa.

   The (Un)Happily Ever After Award
For the game which had an ending which can be considered an ending, but is also an award-worthy one.

   The Dungeon Dragon Award
For the P&P/Roleplay host that not only had the insanity to run a P&P game, but also had the skill to make it good.

   The Night 0 Award
For the Mafia host that has inventive fluff, roles, and other nicenesses that made their game stand out.

   The Random Number God Award
For the RtD host who need not have had the most complicated RtD in the world, but had the best.

   The You Are Winner Award
For the suggestion game that takes any and all biscuits in sight when it comes to impressiveness.

   The Other Game Award
For the host who doesn't stick to standards and invents a game completely different other, which is awesome.

   The Uber Update Award
For the game update which stands out from the thousands of other updates that exist on these forums.

   The Dungeon Crawler Award
For the P&Per/Roleplayer who takes no moment to wait before turning the game into the best one ever.

   The Mafia Hitman Award
For the Mafia player who takes the game to new levels every time he/Vector steps into the firing line.

   The Dodging Rollout Award
For the RtD player who is intelligent, manipulative or just downright crazy enough to dominate the RtD fields.

   The You Are Suggester Award
For the player who will ALWAYS suggest the best action to every game that asks for them. All of them.

   The Mastermind Award
For the player who showed tactical skill beyond all the others, and will simply dominate all others.

   The All Downhill Award
For the game which looked like it would be good... but turned out to be rubbish.

   The Real Slim Shady Award
For the player who has managed to stick to the character he/she is playing flawlessly.

   The Layton's Apprentice Award
For the game which had a puzzle which, while it may not be hard, was very amusing and clever.

   The Graveyard Game Award
For the game sadly died, but of which if it carried on it would have been great.

   The No Work No Play Award
For the thread inthis board which isn't a game as such, but helps magagement, ideas etc. for them.

   The Greatest Host Award
For the best game hoster from this entire board. The individual awards are for the best in their area, but this is for all.

Sean Mirrsen

   The Greatest Character Award
For the player who had invented one of the greatest characters of all times for our enjoyment of reading about him/her.

   The Greatest Game Award
For the game which takes any and all biscuits that are in sight. Competition for this will be tight.

   The Greatest Player Award
For the player who dedicated their lives, souls and children to developing this board to the state that it has rosen to today.

Nominations will end December 1st, and start.... uh.... NOW. Get them search bars and find them classic games!

Basically, I had another one of my brilliant ideas. On many a forum, there are systems that involve some tag system that can be used to quickly browse through topics to find something of interest. I thought it might be worthwhile to design a system for these boards that can be used to identify games. I can see two obvious advantages from this-one being that if you're looking for a specific kind of game, the tags give you a clue as to what the game is. The other being that, if you can't find a game or remember its name, you can search the tag and pick it from the search. There might be others, and because this probably won't become a stone-engraved rule, use of it would be optional. A few tag examples would be;

[YOU] You are X games.
[SUG] Suggestion games.
[RP] Roleplay games.
[D&D] We probably have enough D&D games to warrant this.
[OOC] Need I explain?
[DISC] ussion threads.

And so on, so forth. Basically, would people be interested in using in this system to warrant its existance? Obviously, if nobody wants it, then I won't bother with it, but if people want it, then I'd gladly flesh it out.

You wake up in a room. It is a very bland and grey room, with four walls, a ceiling and a floor. The only splash of colour in it is the one white wall at the end of the room. You notice there is what seems to be what a CCTV camera would look like if Apple designed it-very curved and brilliant white. You look at yourself-you appear to be wearing a brightly coloured jumpsuit with a nametag on it. You look around and see that there are five others around you, each wearing similar clotes, but different colours.

"Ah, finally, you're awake." A mechanical voice booms from no known location. "I had given up all hope of ever doing science again... but clearly we are alright now. I should probably let you out of your containment chamber now, for science." At that, a grey portal appears in front of you, which seems to lead to what appears to be the room your room is placed in. you can see a light blue transparent door and a solid grey one beyond. "I recommend you move quickly. I have plenty of other test subjects waiting for the chance to do science, and I don't think you are any better than they are."

I tried running something like this a while back, it sadly died, but I digress. Most Text Adventures have one man being the man who writes the adventure, and all of the others being the people who provide commands.

This is not that adventure.

Here, you post an action... AND the result that goes with it. It's anything goes, bar a few things for sanity measures.

1. No random main character killing. Sub-character holocausts are fine.
2. Nothing too stupid. Can't go from a serious final showdown to eating cake in your room directly. However, feel free to lighten the mood by aplying fluffy hats.
3. Uh... there isn't a 3.

So, to get the ball rolling, I'll...

>Game: Start

A person of unknown gender, age and features is standing in an equaly unknown room. Let's just clear some of that up, shall we? For starters, what is he/she/its/Justin Bieber's (Yes, Justin Bieber requires his own category) name?

A young man stands in his room. While it is unknown how many years ago he was born, we DO know that it his birthday. And that he needs a name. What shall said name be?

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So, I've been playing MicroVolts for a while now, without telling anyone. It's a free third-person shooter, in which you play as anime-style toys. You get to wield all kinds of weapons, and you basically just run around shooting people. I'm bad at describing, but the link is here.

So, what does everyone think? It has its pros and noobs, like any other game, but you can easily kill both =3