I've finally reached the end of the disappointment, so I'll give one last disappointing bump!
Comment has been collapsed.
Thank you! :)
I'll probably be disappointed if I have to keep bumping this thing myself all week, but it's better than working on that stupid maze... :)
Comment has been collapsed.
holy moly, that's an awful lot of stuff...
Comment has been collapsed.
And after hours of wandering I finally reached the end...
Can't even imagine how many hours was needed to construct it ><
Comment has been collapsed.
Far too many... And I still managed to make a few mistakes, typos, etc. Hopefully they have all been caught by now. :)
Thank you! :)
Comment has been collapsed.
Bump.
Holy crap. That's a 1,010 giveaways you created for this. If I mathed good. I'm sad for you on how long that probably took :/
I have to go catch a moltres right now, Ill give you another bump when I get back!
Comment has been collapsed.
Yeah, crap is about right, for 99% of it anyway. :)
If I had been doing things more carefully I could give you an exact count, but it's spread out over several files so I don't have a number handy. Lots and lots. I'll have to trust you on 1,010 - more than any sane person would want to enter, that's for sure. :)
Aha, I had no idea what that was, google says a pokeyman, so catch 'em all! :) Or something like that. :)
Thank you! :)
Comment has been collapsed.
Wow. You are an absolute madman. 😆
With this single event you are about to double your amount of gifts sent since you started almost 6 years ago.
Comment has been collapsed.
Hmm, I did have to ask for more slots, which felt like cheating... :( But the only alternative was to spam hundreds of bundle leftover giveaways and gradually work my way up to this enormous pile of even more bundle leftover giveaways, not going to make any friends that way... :)
It's a large quantity of games, but as for quality... There may be a few good ones hiding in there, somewhere... I mean, it is a puzzle after all... But most of them, ahh, umm, aren't. :)
Oh well. :)
Comment has been collapsed.
I'm sure the vast majority here appreciates the time and effort you put into creating this gigantic maze. And a lot of people will be happy to just win something.
Comment has been collapsed.
bump, even if i suck so much i didnt manage to pass even the firstest filter :o
lol, just got the 1st step, i even suck at sucking
2nd step done!!
Comment has been collapsed.
That's good to hear! :) I hope the hints help - not trying to make some impossible super-puzzle here. I suspect the main difficulty is going to be finding enough points to try for all this bundle junk... :) The ones people don't already own, that is. :)
Thank you! :)
Comment has been collapsed.
Yes, probably... It's a bit over the top... :) But good luck... :)
Thank you! :)
Comment has been collapsed.
bump, reached the storage area, but of of time. Maybe next weekend
Thanks for everything, have a nice week ahead!
Comment has been collapsed.
Yeah, I used some vacation to make this but it wasn't enough... :) Wouldn't want to try solving it myself... :)
Thank you, hope you get a nice week also! :) Go for the eyes, Boo! :)
Comment has been collapsed.
Don't understand the question to 2nd puzzle. I decided to give up. Thx for the GAs.
Comment has been collapsed.
Ahh, sorry to hear that... :(
Did you happen to check the hints for the first puzzle, the tutorial part? It's spelled out there, what you're doing in each new area. Same exact puzzle with different pieces, so to speak...
Thank you too! :) And good luck if you give it another try! :)
Comment has been collapsed.
Yea but I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking for.
Comment has been collapsed.
Ahh, hmm, well, I can't exactly give away all the answers, since the tutorial part was supposed to nudge people in the right direction... :(
Where the hint says "One of them is missing. Which one?" - that's the whole puzzle. So I hope you see it if you look in that area long enough...
Comment has been collapsed.
I got it finally lol. Thx for the replies and tips.
Comment has been collapsed.
Ahh, glad to hear it. :) I don't feel bad if someone gets stuck on a difficult part (assuming there even is one), but when someone's stuck in a part I assumed was pretty easy, then I feel like I screwed up.
Good luck with the rest! :) The only "real" puzzle part of this is far, far away... :)
Comment has been collapsed.
Thank you for the awesome puzzle, fiftykyu. This one took me quite a while to reach the break room. It's even harder to imagine how long you needed to create this huge puzzle. Now I'm really exhausted and I need a cup of coffee. :-)
Comment has been collapsed.
Thank you too! :)
Well, too long probably... :) Or not enough, since people keep finding little problems with things... :)
Maybe take a break, the next part's pretty big... :)
Comment has been collapsed.
I'd say it was definitely quite a something... :) But puzzle works, too. :)
Hope you had fun in there, somehow or other... :) Thank you! :)
Comment has been collapsed.
Bump for your effort to make such an amazingly huge maze!! :3
Comment has been collapsed.
If you created this whole thing manually, you are insane... Maybe you were not insane before you started but you surely must be now... Thanks for the monstrous mazes and your amazingly generous giveaways!
Comment has been collapsed.
At the Mountains of Madness, you might say. :) Glad you had fun in there, thank you! :)
Comment has been collapsed.
How much disappointment have you experienced so far? Care to put a number on it?
2*
*because I disappointed both my parents xD
BUMP
Comment has been collapsed.
Ahh, that works. :) Thank you! :) And good luck tomorrow... :)
Comment has been collapsed.
Bump for reaching BREAK ROOM OF DISAPPOINTMENT™! :D
Comment has been collapsed.
30 SEPTEMBER EDIT:
Ok, I finally finished sending all the keys, and added everyone who won a gift copy. So maybe accept if you want to get your game... :)
IF YOU GET A BAD KEY, TELL ME! :)
Seriously, a lot of these games were from dodgy developers, the sort of people who revoke unused keys on a whim, just because they can... What to do? Well, if you get a bad key, tell me and I'll send you some of my spares... If none of those work, I'll buy it from the Steam store. Yay.
DON'T WORRY, YOU WILL GET YOUR SHOVELWARE! :)
So this ZIGGURAT OF DISAPPOINTMENT™ was a huge pile of bundle leftovers, with some non-bundle games hiding behind mazes or puzzles or whatever. Now, purely by accident some of those bundle leftovers were actually good games, but most were, umm, not. It was the sort of stuff I'd use in other puzzles for key dumps that hide messages. This time, they became a bunch of giveaways instead. No special reason.
To save time:
TUTORIAL, IN THE CAR PARK OF DISAPPOINTMENT™ - 4 bundle leftovers.
TUTORIAL, IN THE QUEUE OF DISAPPOINTMENT™ - The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - super ultra removed game! Woohoo! :)
TUTORIAL, IN THE QUEUE OF DISAPPOINTMENT™ - first itstoohard puzzle!
THE CUBICLE FARM OF DISAPPOINTMENT™ - 8x8 = 64 bundle leftovers.
LEAVING THE CUBICLE FARM OF DISAPPOINTMENT™ - Call of Cthulhu® preorder! Woohoo! :)
LEAVING THE CUBICLE FARM OF DISAPPOINTMENT™ - second itstoohard puzzle!
ASCENDING IN THE ELEVATOR OF DISAPPOINTMENT™ - Assassin's Creed® Odyssey preorder! Woohoo! :)
THE WAREHOUSE OF DISAPPOINTMENT™ - 17x17 = 289 bundle leftovers.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN THE WAREHOUSE OF DISAPPOINTMENT™ - third itstoohard puzzle!
AT THE BREAK ROOM OF DISAPPOINTMENT™ - Metro Exodus preorder! Woohoo! :)
INSIDE THE SADISTICALLY OVERSIZED MAZE-LIKE FORGOTTEN UNDERGROUND STORAGE AREA OF DISAPPOINTMENT™ - 24x24 = 576 bundle leftovers.
Also some boobie games in a pity wormhole, because I felt sorry for all those boobie hounds:
ChronoClock! Dunno what it is, but Boobies! Woohoo! :)
Club Naughty! It's garbage! And Boobies! Woohoo! :)
Fate/EXTELLA! No idea what it is, but Boobies?!?! Hopefully! Woohoo! :)
Foto Flash! No clue what this is either, but Boobies! Woohoo! :)
Hentai University! It looks like a pile of crap! And Boobies! Woohoo! :)
Ladykiller in a Bind! It's awesome! And
Christmas SweatersBoobies! Woohoo! :)Porno Studio Tycoon! I ain't paying 20 bucks to find out, but probably Boobies! Woohoo! :)
Treasure Hunter Claire! Over 50 people entered, but nobody said a word! Probably because everyone hates RPGMaker but loves Boobies! Woohoo! :)
Back to the puzzle:
So very close to the ZIGGURAT OF DISAPPOINTMENT™, NORMAL END - fourth itstoohard puzzle!
THE ZIGGURAT OF DISAPPOINTMENT™, NORMAL END - Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - preorder! Woohoo! :)
THE ZIGGURAT OF DISAPPOINTMENT™, BRIEF INTERLUDE - final itstoohard puzzle!
THE ZIGGURAT OF DISAPPOINTMENT™, TRUE END, starting with
DARK SOULS™: Can't Purchase This™ Edition - My last gift copy! Woohoo! :)
Passing through some other things, some great, some good, some ok, some ehh, I dunno... Spoiler: games I won on Steamgifts.
And finally, one more chance for:
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - preorder! Yes, another one! Because I don't care about Total War, and you can't buy Cyberpunk 2077 yet! Woohoo! :)
Lazy puzzle explanation:
The giveaways are arranged in a square, two boring areas and two mazes. You walk north, south, east or west, making a map and looking for the exit.
Additionally, in some of the areas you see an extra thing. When you have walked through the entire area you should notice they are all the same sort of thing, part of a set, but one is missing. The first four itstoohard puzzles are "Here are a bunch of things, with one missing. What is the missing thing?"
Spoiler: the maps were important, not only to avoid getting lost, but also to mark the location of the "extra things" for the final part of the puzzle.
So, because I'm lazy, here's the solution links:
A 2x2 square, http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/cVkdZYdA/7RmCTKtD
A 8x8 square maze http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/h7EAeXNT/VLaDcshb
A 17x17 square, http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/NS2454GN/LkQIEWeg
A 24x24 square maze, http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/gDnG4CMu/MLoPF4zt
Finally you reached the last itstoohard puzzle, where you had to look at your maps. If you made a note on your maps every time you found an "extra thing" you probably noticed they were pixels, drawing something. If you didn't do that, you were screwed, sorry!
By the way, the last time I did one of these it was a bit difficult to read, so this one was in a different font "Shaston 8" which was also difficult to read, but hopefully not as difficult... :)
The final puzzle, drawing dots on your maps, http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/R22Aq9Ky/i31WVkHg
I should probably say this was fun, but it turns out making 1000 giveaways is a massive pain. And giveaway mazes really suck. :) So let's just pretend we had a great time, ok? :)
Thank you for playing, everyone! :)
Original message:
Road trip, woohoo! To visit the ZIGGURAT OF DISAPPOINTMENT™. It's sure to be fun. What's inside? I dunno.
Oh, right, I do know. It's a steaming pile of bundle leftovers. And some dumb puzzle crap, hiding who knows what?
It's hardly worth the trouble, but if you insist... Bring along some of this, this, and maybe even one of these.
And seriously, everyone: MAKE A MAP. Just ask any of the people who didn't make a map, and had to walk through the whole thing all over again...
ENTER HERE.
Comment has been collapsed.