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[hemmingjay]

It's OVER!
thanks for the well wishes everyone. Now for the winners.....
wilsonns
Kweri
MadeOfStarDust
Nighthawk
SquirrelWizard
Japa
Urist McBeanie
scriver
Scelly9
Shadowscales


and a donation will be made to B12 games in the name of Knight of Fools

I will be sending out prizes over the next hour or so. Congrats to the winners!  New contest http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=111552.0


An new management/survival/Gnome game is in Alpha and it looks to offer us a differenttake on the DF genre. In an effort to promote this worthy game I am hosting this giveaway. I will purchase 10 copies and deliver them to the winners after the drawing is over. Also, as a thanks to Bay12, the eleventh name drawn will have a $20 donation made in their name to B12 Games.
http://gnomoria.com/
Images:

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Video from Christonian:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAzkOO2_zvs
Rules:

1) To enter leave your name here and one thing you hope the dev adds to the game.
2) No escaped lunatics at time of drawing. 
3) Drawing will be made at midnight Thursday June 14th EDT/EST(GMT-5)
4) These games can be controversial around here so any negative nasty comments will preclude the commentator from entering my future giveaways. It's cool to have feelings about it, but please leave them in the thread made for that purpose. Thanks!

[Vherid]

Well considering there's really no features page or much info about the game yet, or that I know of hopefully this isn't something already in the game.

I would like to enter, I would be interested to see inner-fort faction warfare/grudgery.

[beefy]

I would like to enter. I'm kinda on the fence but would like to see where this is going; if it does something unique.

Name: beefy
My hopes: It would be cool to see more Dungeon Keeper inspired stuff. A blend between DF and DK! Make special rooms to attract special monsters. That kind of thing. Your gnomes should produce stuff especially for these monster-rooms. This would be fun...

[Sirus]

You rock, hemminjay!

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Not entering. You still rock through

[Scelly9]

Name: Scelly9
I hope that this game has good random terrain. I love seeing what DF comes up with, and it could be even cooler if its in 3D. I also think it would be awesome if the military gets well flushed out.

[Calhoun]

I'd like to enter. My name obviously being my username or the subtext.

Anyways, I'm hoping the dev adds in keyboard hotkeys, because the more things you put into the menu the more obtuse its going to get and there is also an inherent downtime in panning the mouse every which way.

[BuriBuriZaemon]

I would like to enter, please.

The features I'd like the dev to add (inspired by DF):

Roaming wild animals/monsters that may or may not be aggressive, depending on their nature. For instance, a wandering deer would just run away when approached, but a colony of giant fire-ants would try to kill any creature it considers a threat.

Some of these can be domesticated and bred as livestock (food source), pet (happiness source), and/or mount (for both logistic- and war-purpose). However it takes an "animal-taming" skill that must be developed and learned overtime.

I'd also love to have steam-powered mechanism in game.

[RoboB0b]

I'd also love to have steam-powered mechanism in game.

There is a steam engine currently in game to power mechanisms.  It takes coal to run.  I haven't heard of anyone tinkering that far yet though

[RoboB0b]

Name: Scelly9
I hope that this game has good random terrain. I love seeing what DF comes up with, and it could be even cooler if its in 3D. I also think it would be awesome if the military gets well flushed out.

I'm always working on the terrain generation.  I plan on adding some options before generating, later.  I was working on something the other day and got a world with a cool terrain feature that made me want to write the seed down.  You can enter this seed when generating to see: 3175392446  (This will of course work in the demo too)

I made a post yesterday about military plans on the Gnomoria forums: http://forums.gnomoria.com

The short answer is the design goal for the game is to expose the underlying gameplay systems wherever it makes sense.  I'd like to expose the tactic behaviors of the military.  There will be options at the position and formation levels to mess with

[Kweri]

Name: Kweri

Two things I'd like to see:
- In the screenshots I see gnomes with different skin/hair colors. I'd love to have a genetics system in place and possibly even a genealogy option so you could go back and look at a gnome's ancestors. Also I'd like to see an inherited quality to any other stats gnomes have as well - two genetically strong parents producing strong offspring etc. Of course even a weak-born gnome might become strong with work/practice, but never as strong as a practiced strong-born gnome.

- I'm a sucker for taming animals. Give me lots of crazy things to tame and train to use as livestock/defense/etc.

[The Scout]

The Scout.

Love your giveaways, though I never win.

[christonian]

Thanks for linking to my video I already bought a copy but hope the winners will love the game

[Ivefan]

Ivefan

Although it would just give extra work for little gain for the artist, I would love a lot of aesthetic options to show of the wealth of the place.

[ukulele]

Im in, having watched only some images and a little gameplay i really dont know what to expect, but everything in the same general direction as DF has to be good. And if i land on the 11th spot even better booze and plump helmets arent cheap.

EDIT: What we want? isnt that ovbious? MAGMA!

[Matz05]

Matz05
I hope that the variety of mechanisms included are large and the effects allow a lot of emergent behaviour. -- My eyes must have lit up when I heard "The Incredible Machine" mentioned in the influences!
How about pipes and steam pressure, pistons that can extend or retract and even tubes that can launch objects with pressure?