Winners - DarkStar Game and Movie - Winners

The First Place Winner of the DarkStar Game and Movie is manxman.

The winners of the DarkStar Game are oldbroad and lanlynk.

Congratulations to you all and many thanks to J. Allen Williams and Parallax Studios for this opportunity.

Please send me an email (no PM) with your name and address.

You have until June 9th to claim your prize or it will be given to a runner-up.

Happy gaming!

Ana

Congratulations to you lucky Boomer's. Have fun!
Terri

Congratulations to the winners!

Thank you to those responsible for this giveaway.

Oh wow! Thank you so much, GameBoomers. And J. Allen Williams and Parallax Studios, too.

This is so cool!

Hurrah !! And Big Congrats to the Winners !!

And many thanks to Gameboomers and J. Allen Williams and Parallax Studios

Congrats manxman, oldbroad and lanlynk!!

Congratulations, manxman, oldbroad, and lanlynk

Congrat's to the winners and all who made this possible......looks like I have to go order now....:-)

Thank you Ana. I am really looking forward to playing the game.
A big thanks to J. Allen Williams and Parallax Studios for providing the prizes and congrats to the other winners oldbroad and lanlynk

Congrats to all the winners, enjoy the game.

kathy

manxman, I need an email with your name and address please and thank you.

Ana

Congratulations to the winners! Enjoy!

Kay

Congratulations to the winners.
Thanks Gameboomers, not only for these chances to win, but for being here when we are stuck in games and need a little help!!!!
copper

Congrats to the winners.

Wow! My first time entering and I won!!!

Thank you all!!

Ana - I still have that problem though about sending the emails so it shows that it's coming from a gameboomer. Can I just send an email direct to you? If not, please give my game to the next runner up. I will understand.

No worries oldbroad. You can just PM me if you like. YOu won fair and square. I also need an email address included that you want your extras emailed to.

Ana

Ana,

Just sent the PM.

What are the "extras"?

Again, THANK YOU!!

oldbroad, the extras are: Plus all winners will receive from J. Allen Williams, a link to download a set of 8 HD computer desktop images and both versions of the DarkStar Strategy Guide (one is full color and illustrated, the other is b/w printer-friendly).

Ana

Yes, now I remember reading that.

Games have been sent and the extras have been emailed. Please let us know when you get the game and if you received the emails.

BrownEyedTigre: I received the email and have downloaded the extras! What fun. The book and main guide are full of wonderful pictures. There's a printable guide and wallpaper pics, too.

Thought I'd share this little blurb from the PDF Coffee Table Book:
DARKSTAR Books

MAGS = Motorized Automated Girl for SIMON
(SIMON is the "male" robot who made MAGS)

"The addition of MAGS to DARKSTAR occurred very late in production, but the concept lived for several years in the mind of the Director's 10 year-old daughter Maggie. After much persuasion and a pile of submitted crayon drawings, Maggie's concept was added and became a favorite character of everyone involved. Not only did she design the robot, she voiced it as well ..."

MAGS: "There are so many cookies in my in-box, I've got to empty my cache hourly...goes right to my thighs, you know."

So glad you are enjoying the extras as well! Thanks for the positive feedback.

I received the emailed extras and downloaded them but haven't looked that closely at them yet.

Received my game today.
Thank you again!!

Thanks for posting oldbroad! Enjoy!

I just received my game too. It arrived in good shape: hard-plastic DVD case, 2 discs. I've got a couple of other games going now, but I'll install Darkstar soon and let you guys know how it goes!

Thank you again. This is great!

Dark Star arrived today
Thank you

Thanks for letting us know. Enjoy!

Took time to install the game on my desktop this afternoon. I know why they call it an interactive movie: there were a lot of .mov files to install! It took quite awhile. Then I had to install QuickTime and download an update for it too, which also took some time.

I watched the prologue and tried to explore some, get a feel for the controls. This is a QuickTime game; it makes extensive use of the QT viewer. The game itself plays in a window surrounded by a border-like interface. The game viewing area seems to be about half the size of my screen. You can change the levels of three sound types: dialogue, music, sound effects. But there doesn't appear to be any way to tweak the graphics settings. There is a zoom in/out function for getting a closer look at certain things in the game.

The character movement and graphic changes were noticeably slow for me. I have a fairly decent computer (with/Win7), so this doesn't bode well for people trying to play the game on an moderate or lesser computer. I didn't experience any glitches or jerky cursor jumps--just slow response and movements.

The game is a mix of 1st person and 3rd, with the interactive part being done in 1st person view. The graphics are good. The game has atmospheric sounds and music. It's interesting to watch the main character respond to some of the actions you take. You really do need to just kick back and watch the show every now and then, but you can also click out of cut scenes if you want.

The story sets up an intriguing beginning, with a definite hint of villainy. I feel kind of lost as to what I'm suppose to do first here, but that's about par for adventure games! So my plan is to fall back on Rule #1: Explore. The game also comes with a very good walkthrough. Oh, and I did read that you can die, but not sure about the particulars on that ... yet.

Well, there you go. My first impressions of Darkstar. Thanks again to GameBoomers, J. Allen Williams and Parallax Studios. This is an unusual game that promises some solid entertainment!

Thanks for coming back and letting us know what you think.

Ana