Escape from Nightmare Mansion. Win an XBOX 360 with Kinect!

[KCL]

Can you survive . . . as you fight for survival?

I see The Escapist has hired another verbal ace.

 

[Alphakirby]

I just signed up and already feel like a bastard...For what it's worth, I'm sorry about my fellow Escapists from around the world. Look at it this way, the story behind this reads, "Your fellow Escapists are disappearing." I know a lot of people will be happier with less Americans around.

Now then, *puts on my RP pants*

*ahem*

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"Uuugh...where the hell am I?" *looks around* "Hello?! Can anybody hear me?! Hello!!!"

OOH! That reminds me!
*puts on RP hat,no not that one,the one that goes with your nice suit*

"Well,now that I'm here,I should probably find something of use before the doors-WAIT,THERE ARE NO STICKS,NOOOOOOO-Ah well,I'll find something inside I guess."

 

[Alphakirby]

I wonder how exactly they expect us to be able to find users with the "Undead Monster" badge. Do we just have to watch the leaderboards? Do we just have to scour the forums until we see it beneath people's posts? Seems that the more time you are willing to put in, the better you're able to do.

I don't think it works that way. I think starting Monday,we can enter the mansion and from there it'll be a luck based roam around the mansion for points.
Though that IS only a guess.

 

[Torrasque]

I'm bothered by the fact that every single contest is US-only.

This. It's incredibly bothersome that such an international community only ever gets contests aimed solely at the US.

I am guessing its a "we can only mail the xbox to people who live in the states" thing.
Kinda like how I can order shirts from certain online stores, that ship to Alaska... but can't stop in Alberta on the way TO Alaska -_-

 

[dave1004]

They're actually CONSIDERING US CANADIANS humans and letting us play? HOLY CRAP! That's cool.

But what do I do? There's just an unclickable mansion on my screen...

 

[RagnaThePig]

The leaderboard says I am first with 14 points already, Obviously, the game is not working correctly.

 

[tippy2k2]

Yeah, either this is a bad game or it's not working...

I just clicked on the room a bunch of times, evidently I killed a bunch of monsters in the process, and now a new room opened up. I didn't get to really do anything, just *Click *Click *Click *Click *Click *Click....and I win?

Dang..."I re-entered" the mansion by refreshing the page, now I'm back in the room I started in, losing the room I opened, and I still can't do anything.

 

[Omega Scythe]

The leaderboard says I am first with 14 points already, Obviously, the game is not working correctly.

After seeing your score, I went to look at the mansion again. There was a section of the wall missing to reveal a room; I clicked on it, it revealed another room, and I got a dialogue box.

And then......nothing. I clicked everywhere, and nothing. I proceeded to reload the page, to see if something was wrong, but it just took me back to just having one room revealed, and now clicking did absolutely nothing.

I really hope this is just screwed up. If I accidentally put myself at a disadvantage because the game isn't working properly, I'm going to be extremely upset.

EDIT: Aaaaand now it appears I have a new badge, presumably that "Undead Monster" one they spoke of. Clicking on it does nothing for me; Anyone else want to give it a go?

2ND EDIT: The "welcome to the mansion" dialogue box is back again. Methinks I smell frantic bug fixing behind the scenes....

 

[RagnaThePig]

I clicked that "Denizen of Nightmare Mansion" badge under your avatar but all it did was refreshing the page.

 

[Omega Scythe]

I clicked that "Denizen of Nightmare Mansion" badge under your avatar but all it did was refreshing the page.

I see. So, same effect that I got, then. Well, it seems they're most likely experiencing technical difficulties. Hopefully it won't adversely affect our game efforts.

 

[Sight Unseen]

The leaderboard says I am first with 14 points already, Obviously, the game is not working correctly.

After seeing your score, I went to look at the mansion again. There was a section of the wall missing to reveal a room; I clicked on it, it revealed another room, and I got a dialogue box.

And then......nothing. I clicked everywhere, and nothing. I proceeded to reload the page, to see if something was wrong, but it just took me back to just having one room revealed, and now clicking did absolutely nothing.

I really hope this is just screwed up. If I accidentally put myself at a disadvantage because the game isn't working properly, I'm going to be extremely upset.

EDIT: Aaaaand now it appears I have a new badge, presumably that "Undead Monster" one they spoke of. Clicking on it does nothing for me; Anyone else want to give it a go?

2ND EDIT: The "welcome to the mansion" dialogue box is back again. Methinks I smell frantic bug fixing behind the scenes....

This thing exactly just happened to me. Is this bugged?

EDIT: except that the default welcome isn't back, and I have 1 point on the leaderboards

 

[Erana]

I clicked that "Denizen of Nightmare Mansion" badge under your avatar but all it did was refreshing the page.

I see. So, same effect that I got, then. Well, it seems they're most likely experiencing technical difficulties. Hopefully it won't adversely affect our game efforts.

Hopefully they'll just reset the score or something- let us do some beta testing now and start the game at a later date?

 

[Blazingdragoon04]

I'm having some trouble signing up for this, much like the El Shaddai contest. I enter all my information and then click on the "click here to begin" page, and from there it just takes me back to the same page to enter all my information again, thus preventing me from ever starting this contest. Any help on how to get this started, I really don't want to miss out on another contest...

 

[RagnaThePig]

Hopefully they'll just reset the score or something- let us do some beta testing now and start the game at a later date?

A few people are getting around a dozen points already, I am wondering if this is normal or not. I know this is one of these games with limited actions every day but it should be clearer about what we can still do and what we have accomplished so far. Echo Bazaar did this well. Here, I have no idea if everything is glitching or if this is normal but poorly explained.

 

[dalek sec]

Well my current score is 6 (no idea how good that is) and my spot is #14 on the leadership rankings (no idea how I got any points at all). Can someone please explain how we are going to get points or "fight" the monsters at all? I'm very lost here. D:

 

[Selerik]

What is happening is that you get a chance, per click, to kill a monster.

If you do, +1 point and you can click 'that room' again.

If you don't, new room appears and you get no points.

So each day we have a random chance to rack up points. A few people were very lucky on day one.

Also, they must have the 'Undead Monster' badge on their profile to be clicked for a chance to gain/lose points. I havn't seen anyone with THAT badge yet.

This seems to match the rules stated in the introduction more or less spot on.

 

[Erana]

What is happening is that you get a chance, per click, to kill a monster.

If you do, +1 point and you can click 'that room' again.

If you don't, new room appears and you get no points.

So each day we have a random chance to rack up points. A few people were very lucky on day one.

Also, they must have the 'Undead Monster' badge on their profile to be clicked for a chance to gain/lose points. I havn't seen anyone with THAT badge yet.

This seems to match the rules stated in the introduction more or less spot on.

So, this is day one, then?
That's different than the El Shaddai thing...

 

[Wanzer]

So yeah, I just joined it, but after i got to the second thing, it just kinda cut out now i can't even see my result.

 

[silent_J]

What is happening is that you get a chance, per click, to kill a monster.

If you do, +1 point and you can click 'that room' again.

If you don't, new room appears and you get no points.

So each day we have a random chance to rack up points. A few people were very lucky on day one.

Also, they must have the 'Undead Monster' badge on their profile to be clicked for a chance to gain/lose points. I havn't seen anyone with THAT badge yet.

This seems to match the rules stated in the introduction more or less spot on.

You kind of missed the point and just reposted info we already have. Which doesn't help at all.

Some people have points and did nothing. The Denizen badge also says "Fight me if you dare" which leads us to believe it's the "Undead Minion" badge referred to, with the "correct" name. The rules/OP does have some other conflicting information after all, so it's not a stretch to think the badge name is wrong.

If you don't really know anything, please don't pretend to. Because it only causes confusion. Thanks.

 

[Selerik]

You kind of missed the point and just reposted info we already have. Which doesn't help at all.

Some people have points and did nothing. The Denizen badge also says "Fight me if you dare" which leads us to believe it's the "Undead Minion" badge referred to, with the "correct" name. The rules/OP does have some other conflicting information after all, so it's not a stretch to think the badge name is wrong.

My comments were based on playing the game myself and talking with a few others playing.

We also did things such as read the flavor text (some of us) to have a clue as to what was taking place each click.

If what you're saying about people doing nothing is accurate, then yeah, I can't explain it. Its looking like in more than a few cases, they're simply confused. My post was meant to try to help with that confusion.

If you don't really know anything, please don't pretend to. Because it only causes confusion. Thanks.

First post, new account.. Yeah.