EPICon: New Games!






Hello, I'm Titania McGee with the Channel 5 News Team: your BEST source for Subetan news stories! Tension is running high at EPICon this year, with the focus of the week being the unusual challenge between video gamer Nico and tabletop advocate Manwar! EPICon has split itself dramatically between the two teams, and tempers are hot.



In the spirit of the competition, game developers Magicians of the Mesa (brought to wild popularity with their card game Alchemy: the Gathering) and Vega Corporation (known for the classic Turbo the Priggle) have rushed to set up the new games they brought to demo for the con! Unexpectedly, Manwar and Nico have commandeered the games of their respective flavor, and aren't allowing members of the opposing team to play! It seems, however, that Magicians of the Mesa and Vega are encouraging this competition to the limit, making no move to stop them!



The two new games are a card game version of popular tabletop RPG Mazes and Mahars, and a retro 8-bit defense game called Omen Raiders. Rumor has it that the heads of their respective sides will be doling out points for their team for doing well at the games, and the queues are getting deep! They look awfully fun, so I'd suggest interested con-goers get in line now!
December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Ankoku
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I like the card game quite a bit, but I do hope the amount of points are adjusted. This is more fun than restocking for me, but it's really not worth the time for 2 points. ;-;

Also agreeing with those that hope the games stick around after the RS war. c:

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Frost
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You won't believe how glad I am to have joined Manwar's side. :'D Mazes & Mahars FTW.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Jodie
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Card game is great a little slow as a main source of points though, I think I'll stick to restocking but I'd love to play both games after the war is over, I hope they stick around!

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Orlais
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I better stick to my horrible restocking xD

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Lexigraph
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Oops!

What that OUGHT to have said was: I hope Omen Raiders is amazing because Mazes and Mahars is WICKED AWESOME. Yeah.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by InvaderGEL
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I have an alert saying I can play Mazes and Mahars again but the site won't let me. Something wrong with the coding, perhaps?

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Kiarae
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It said it was being beta'd, so I'm looking forward to them working out the kinks of everything! I enjoyed it (and squeed at the game since that's SO old school! I was expecting Pong, but heeee!)

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Veser
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Omen Raider is pretty fun and I FINALLY got some points for a my team! I find it difficult to get this this time around but all these lovely events have been really helping! Will Team Nico ever be able to play Mazes and Mahars, like say after the con/war?

I hope we do something like this again.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by peachette
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I wish I could play the card game... I think it would be more fun...

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by usako
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--FAIL SUBMITTING. Anyway. I'd love to play Mazes and Mahars.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Kristurtle
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Sigh, never mind, the array error & the message about my opponent trying to play a guardian card is back again, and my game is stuck again.... at this rate I'll never even finish 1 game, maybe I'll have to stick to restocking if it keeps glitching out on me ;~;

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by usako
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It'd be nifty if these games stuck around after the RS war. I'm want to play

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Mourningstar
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; border: 1px solid ; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10;">Come back to play again in less than a minute!
The Maze and Mahars won't let me play again?

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Gray
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The card game is fun. I agree that two points is a bit of a wtf-moment when you finish. Still, it's beautifully made and works flawlessly even with a lot of traffic (I'm assuming there's a bazillion players right now).

It would be fun to have a multi-player function.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Nixie_636
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it wont let me play the game

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Malibu
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The card game is quite a bit of fun ^^ Lovely art too.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by hxc
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Only 2 points for that long time. eh.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by silverlunarfox
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I loved space invaders as a kid omen raiders is lots of fun thank you

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Deleted User

FYI it worked on IE, but not on Firefox, so I'm assuming it's a browser compatibility issue for all those posts up there wondering.

Also... two points? Really guys? Even after a 10,000(ish) point score?

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Botanist
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The card game is pretty good (and the art on it is great; excellent job on that!) but that was a long fifteen minutes of clicking to get 2 RS points.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Midnight_916
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; border: 1px solid ; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10;">Double bwa ha ha ha! The Manwar game is turn-based and we can restock while we are playing it!

That's true. Maybe they should make it so the game ends if you don't make your move within a certain amount of minutes

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Viking
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The music of Omen Raiders is so awesome! ♥ Space Invaders of Subeta! You don't know how much I love Space Invaders! Brings back so good childhood memories. C:

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Kristurtle
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Ignore my last comment, after hitting continue 10 times or so, eventually my opponent played a different card .-. All fixed, I guess xD

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by prince
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My game wont let me play cards.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by BlackCherry
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I don't like Omen Raiders :/

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Solsticesprite
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Double bwa ha ha ha! The Manwar game is turn-based and we can restock while we are playing it!

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Damon
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Really, thank you Keith for letting us know.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Lutetium
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I got 9600 points but I only got 2 RS points?

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Keith
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We're figuring out the average scores as everyone plays. I expect that tonight yo uwill be earning far more RS points per game

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Jenni
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Eh scored 10k and I still get 2 points? Seems a little unfair...

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by EMMA_778
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Yeah same. I got my 2 points the first two times, but then I got my highest score and..0 points.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Midnight_916
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Aw. No high-score list? And bah, only 6 points? >.< (2 x 3 plays an hour) Better than nothing I suppose

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Kristurtle
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"Array ( [0] => 1 [1] => 2 [2] => 4 ) You can't play a guardian card while there's already a guardian in play!" My mazes and Mahars game seems to be stuck ;( I'm getting this error on my opponent's turn, when I try to click continue. If I hit back & try again, still get the same error. Looks like I can't do anything/continue playing/etc at this point. Anyone else get this?

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by FLUX
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Same problem as Lacie o.O Just got this:

You earned 252 sP for your score of 2520.

You have sent your score 2 out of 3 times this hour.

You earned 0 restock points for your score.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by BoneCollector
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all works fine now

You have sent your score 1 out of 3 times this hour.

You earned 0 restock points for your score.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Nightingale
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Is there a minimum score? I just got 2420 and earned 0 restock points. Wondering what we have to get to get 1. I figured it'd be something like 1k = 1 point.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Usu
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Yaaay, now I don't have to feel guilty for not having any points! TuT

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by bean
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Bolt, what do you mean by that?

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by fotfoh
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Ah cool its working now for me.. yay! We can send score 3x per hour I think I read after I sent score..

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Bolt
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Oh, seriously? Mazes and Mahars won't let me read the descriptions for all the cards. :/

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by BoneCollector
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okay game works finaly but it seems that it freezes when i use the space bar of my laptop to shoot so i cannot shoot

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Nightingale
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Whoo! It's working! And it looks so cool! Bangin'!

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by FLUX
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Is there a limit on how many times you can send the score?

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Rayen
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Great job! You gained 2 points for our team this game!

Eh, not bad but I think its a little weird? I never seemed to draw a guardian card?

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by simstar
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It doesn't let me play the flash game, but I have the latest version of flash installed

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by BoneCollector
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the game opens very very slow and only part of it shows i guess i better wait a bit until everybody has seen it lol

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Tjulan
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It works with opera

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Bundy
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Man, I wish it was possible to switch teams by forfeiting your points for the other team or something... ever since I selected the video gamer I've been kicking myself. I'd rather play the tabletop game :/

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by fotfoh
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I'm using the latest Firefox and the latest Flash Player and I cant play the game either.. all I get is the prompt to download flash

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by Code_Sumeragi
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Phew. Though it was just me having a problem with the flash. Thanks for the info

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