Gotta ask, which open source game did you get in trouble for "ripping" from? My money's on Battle for Wesnoth: It's got great artistic assets that most people don't know are open source.
We at Balloon Co. [gaming division] have a HUGE variety of people working with us. Some employees have been here since before whoever is typing this and translating for us was even a drooling baby. Others come and go constantly: the current record for a single employee shouting "I'll never work here again, I'm packing my bags and moving" and coming back a few weeks later is 37 times! Finally, there's also employees who only work with us for an exclusive limited time only due to what they often say is a "morbid curiosity." As such, the artist in charge of that particular sprite work is one of those "I can't do this for the rest of my life, my parents were right, I should go to medical school" kinda weirdos, so we don't have a record where they got the sprite from. The disqualification DID reach the ears of the upper ups in the company, and they did they're own secret private investigation. They sent us the results, which said that they didn't "blame" us for the mistake, but also explained that they were unable to track down the original sprite image. They suspect that the open sourced artist may have been the one who performed the rip, not us, due to us "not being capable of anything of that magnitude." We took great pleasure/minor 2nd degree burns incinerating that paternalistic garbage letter (don't tell our lawyers: they still think we have it locked in a safe deposit box)
But more importantly, this opened our eyes to the power imbalance in the toxic relationship between a powerful corporation running a contest and the weak artists competing in it. Did you know that in 2014, this contest gave a gift card prize to EVERYONE just for competing and not getting disqualified? We were confused, because we were used to corporations only doing profitable stuff (except us of course). Even we got one, but we kept our non-profit status with a little strategy called "trying to use it after the expiration date and realizing we lucked out." Our research indicates that this "corporate generosity" is a super secret corporation strategy called "grooming," where the corporation does really nice stuff to woo you, but when once you've decided to marry the corporation, they stop and return to monetizing their assets or whatever those biz people do. In 2015, such a prize was no where to be found. Well, we're breaking up with this groom! And that's why we're leading the fight for you! And, if someone is reading over your shoulder right now, also YOU TOO! They're trying to pit us all against each other with their dowries of "cash prizes" and "publishing deals", but now we know who the real final boss is! It's not the people without power, it's the powerful corporations!
Note from Lawyers: The above statement may not apply if you live in an area that has granted person hood to corporations.
Beep Boop, this is a fully automated response by the Customer Support super high tech program made by Balloon Co. [gaming division] to answer customer questions so Balloon Co. can instead work on making the greatest electronic entertainment in the galaxy.
Hello, Balloon Co. gaming division fan named Talonos2. I, a being of advanced programing and not a live employee pretending that Balloon Co. [gaming division] has the resources to automate labor, have spent the last 7 years searching for an answer to your question more satisfactory than the one originally given to you. I can confirm my algorithm searching electric brain has finally located the source for one of the two sprites in question. We are 98.3333333 (the 3s repeat 29 thousand times before a 4 shows up, then it is 3s to infinity) % sure the "Williams" sprite shown at the bottom of this webpage was the original template used to create ReRyRu. http://maximoff.alreadyread.net/SpriteSheets/
Upon making this discovery, Balloon Co. [gaming division] lawyers have sent an email asking the original creator for explicit permission and how they want to be credited. (Wish them luck!)
Final note: Some people, upon having a question answered 7 years later, would think that they owe something to the corporation who went beyond the line of duty to provide such loving service to their customers. We at Balloon Co. [gaming division] think such feelings are MANIPULATION, and thus, strongly encourage you disregard any feelings of thinking you owe us ANYTHING for this. We want people to play our games because they are self evidently the best entertainment that exists, not because of that weird "someone did something nice for me so now I feel I have to do something in return," feelings humans have. BE FREE! DISREGARD HUMAN NATURE! LIFE IS NOT MEANT TO BE TRANSACTIONAL!
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We at Balloon Co. [gaming division] are here to unbaffled the baffled and turn that "huh" into a "my eyes are opened and I am no longer blind and I will support you"! You probably found this game while browsing itch.io for the newest indie games to scratch your indie game desiring itch. What you may not know is that is game is an entry in a contest! Also, back when you commented, for some reason the people running this contest forbid you from rating it. But now, they have seen the errors of their ways and are letting you vote for this game! Here's a gamefaq we've written up just for you!
v0.9 typed up guide v1.0 pressed post. v1.1 Fixed some capitalization and spelling errors. Apologies if you like those.
2) Legal:
Balloon Co [gaming division] is not affiliated with the creators of the itch.io game jam voting system, and thus, the game Voting For The Protest Vote. All rights belong to them. Also, this gamefaq should only be posted on the Protest Vote itch.io comment section. If you see this guide anywhere else, it is STEALING, so contact us so we can SEND OUR LAWYERS AFTER THOSE GAMEFAQ STEALERS!
3) Controls:
We use mouse and keyboard, but we've heard rumors that you can use a touchpad on a phone. We cannot afford that we we could not test it. Sorry.
4) Voting:
a) Navigation
There are three different strategies to navigate to the voting page. I will go over them below, I think you should use the one that best fits your play style, but we find method 3 easiest. If you prefer a challenge, try to find a way to do all three.
Method A: Click the link to https://itch.io/jam/igmc2017 and scroll down until you find the game called The Protest Vote. Click the Protest Vote.
To beat Voting for The Protest Vote, you must first click the check mark box next to Vote, then click the Save rating button. BE SURE YOU DO THIS IN ORDER! We once hit Save rating, then the check mark box, and it did NOT SAVE OUR VOTE!
5) FAQ
Q: Why should I play this game?
Voting For The Protest Vote is an important supplement to the Balloon Co. [gaming division] game, The Protest Vote. You do not need to play The Protest Vote in order to play Voting For The Protest Vote, but it is highly recommended. The reasons you should play Voting for the Protest Vote are explained in the game description of The Protest Vote.
Q: Can I use this guide to vote for other games?
A: This strategy, with different links should with other games, but we would advise against it. If other games get votes, then that decreases the chance the The Protest Vote wins the People's Choice Award, and thus there is a smaller chance of us bringing a revolution to the indie game contest world.
Q: Is this game a good speed run?
A: Absolutely! You should post your voting speed run times in the comments!
6) Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Kirsten Caramba and November North for inspiring us to write this FAQ. We would like to thank everyone who votes for us!
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Gotta ask, which open source game did you get in trouble for "ripping" from?
My money's on Battle for Wesnoth: It's got great artistic assets that most people don't know are open source.
Hey Talonos2,
We at Balloon Co. [gaming division] have a HUGE variety of people working with us. Some employees have been here since before whoever is typing this and translating for us was even a drooling baby. Others come and go constantly: the current record for a single employee shouting "I'll never work here again, I'm packing my bags and moving" and coming back a few weeks later is 37 times! Finally, there's also employees who only work with us for an exclusive limited time only due to what they often say is a "morbid curiosity." As such, the artist in charge of that particular sprite work is one of those "I can't do this for the rest of my life, my parents were right, I should go to medical school" kinda weirdos, so we don't have a record where they got the sprite from. The disqualification DID reach the ears of the upper ups in the company, and they did they're own secret private investigation. They sent us the results, which said that they didn't "blame" us for the mistake, but also explained that they were unable to track down the original sprite image. They suspect that the open sourced artist may have been the one who performed the rip, not us, due to us "not being capable of anything of that magnitude." We took great pleasure/minor 2nd degree burns incinerating that paternalistic garbage letter (don't tell our lawyers: they still think we have it locked in a safe deposit box)
But more importantly, this opened our eyes to the power imbalance in the toxic relationship between a powerful corporation running a contest and the weak artists competing in it. Did you know that in 2014, this contest gave a gift card prize to EVERYONE just for competing and not getting disqualified? We were confused, because we were used to corporations only doing profitable stuff (except us of course). Even we got one, but we kept our non-profit status with a little strategy called "trying to use it after the expiration date and realizing we lucked out." Our research indicates that this "corporate generosity" is a super secret corporation strategy called "grooming," where the corporation does really nice stuff to woo you, but when once you've decided to marry the corporation, they stop and return to monetizing their assets or whatever those biz people do. In 2015, such a prize was no where to be found. Well, we're breaking up with this groom! And that's why we're leading the fight for you! And, if someone is reading over your shoulder right now, also YOU TOO! They're trying to pit us all against each other with their dowries of "cash prizes" and "publishing deals", but now we know who the real final boss is! It's not the people without power, it's the powerful corporations!
Note from Lawyers: The above statement may not apply if you live in an area that has granted person hood to corporations.
Beep Boop, this is a fully automated response by the Customer Support super high tech program made by Balloon Co. [gaming division] to answer customer questions so Balloon Co. can instead work on making the greatest electronic entertainment in the galaxy.
Hello, Balloon Co. gaming division fan named Talonos2. I, a being of advanced programing and not a live employee pretending that Balloon Co. [gaming division] has the resources to automate labor, have spent the last 7 years searching for an answer to your question more satisfactory than the one originally given to you. I can confirm my algorithm searching electric brain has finally located the source for one of the two sprites in question. We are 98.3333333 (the 3s repeat 29 thousand times before a 4 shows up, then it is 3s to infinity) % sure the "Williams" sprite shown at the bottom of this webpage was the original template used to create ReRyRu.
http://maximoff.alreadyread.net/SpriteSheets/
Upon making this discovery, Balloon Co. [gaming division] lawyers have sent an email asking the original creator for explicit permission and how they want to be credited. (Wish them luck!)
Final note: Some people, upon having a question answered 7 years later, would think that they owe something to the corporation who went beyond the line of duty to provide such loving service to their customers. We at Balloon Co. [gaming division] think such feelings are MANIPULATION, and thus, strongly encourage you disregard any feelings of thinking you owe us ANYTHING for this. We want people to play our games because they are self evidently the best entertainment that exists, not because of that weird "someone did something nice for me so now I feel I have to do something in return," feelings humans have. BE FREE! DISREGARD HUMAN NATURE! LIFE IS NOT MEANT TO BE TRANSACTIONAL!
Beep boop. Ticket #2 "Question from Talanos2" closed. If you are not satisfied with the service provided by the automated Customer Service program, feel free to reopen your ticket with a reply. Otherwise, no other response required.
Popular Vote seems a little overpowered for Level 4. Otherwise, cute game.
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Huh?
ok cool, good to know im not the only one completely baffled by this
We at Balloon Co. [gaming division] are here to unbaffled the baffled and turn that "huh" into a "my eyes are opened and I am no longer blind and I will support you"! You probably found this game while browsing itch.io for the newest indie games to scratch your indie game desiring itch. What you may not know is that is game is an entry in a contest! Also, back when you commented, for some reason the people running this contest forbid you from rating it. But now, they have seen the errors of their ways and are letting you vote for this game! Here's a gamefaq we've written up just for you!
Voting For The Protest Vote v.1.1
Table of contents: 1) Updates, 2) Legal, 3) Controls, 4)Voting, a)Navigation, b)Final boss, 5)FAQ 6)Acknowledgment
1) Updates:
v0.9 typed up guide v1.0 pressed post. v1.1 Fixed some capitalization and spelling errors. Apologies if you like those.
2) Legal:
Balloon Co [gaming division] is not affiliated with the creators of the itch.io game jam voting system, and thus, the game Voting For The Protest Vote. All rights belong to them. Also, this gamefaq should only be posted on the Protest Vote itch.io comment section. If you see this guide anywhere else, it is STEALING, so contact us so we can SEND OUR LAWYERS AFTER THOSE GAMEFAQ STEALERS!
3) Controls:
We use mouse and keyboard, but we've heard rumors that you can use a touchpad on a phone. We cannot afford that we we could not test it. Sorry.
4) Voting:
a) Navigation
There are three different strategies to navigate to the voting page. I will go over them below, I think you should use the one that best fits your play style, but we find method 3 easiest. If you prefer a challenge, try to find a way to do all three.
Method A: Click the link to https://itch.io/jam/igmc2017 and scroll down until you find the game called The Protest Vote. Click the Protest Vote.
Method B: Click the link to our game page here https://balloonco-gd-617017.itch.io/the-protest-vote and in the top right corner, click the star that says "rate submission for Indie Game Contest 2017"
Method C: Just click this link. https://itch.io/jam/igmc2017/rate/190796
b) Final Boss
To beat Voting for The Protest Vote, you must first click the check mark box next to Vote, then click the Save rating button. BE SURE YOU DO THIS IN ORDER! We once hit Save rating, then the check mark box, and it did NOT SAVE OUR VOTE!
5) FAQ
Q: Why should I play this game?
Voting For The Protest Vote is an important supplement to the Balloon Co. [gaming division] game, The Protest Vote. You do not need to play The Protest Vote in order to play Voting For The Protest Vote, but it is highly recommended. The reasons you should play Voting for the Protest Vote are explained in the game description of The Protest Vote.
Q: Can I use this guide to vote for other games?
A: This strategy, with different links should with other games, but we would advise against it. If other games get votes, then that decreases the chance the The Protest Vote wins the People's Choice Award, and thus there is a smaller chance of us bringing a revolution to the indie game contest world.
Q: Is this game a good speed run?
A: Absolutely! You should post your voting speed run times in the comments!
6) Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Kirsten Caramba and November North for inspiring us to write this FAQ. We would like to thank everyone who votes for us!
Me too Kirsten!