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[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition ][/url]Best Independent Adventure, Best Adventure of 2009 Runner-Up,
Best Graphic Design, Best Music, Best Animation
- Aggie
Best Indie Game of 2009 - Gamasutra
Best Traditional Adventure Game of 2009 - AceGamez
Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction - Academy of Interactive Arts
Excellence in Visual Art in 2009 - Independent Game Fesitval
PC Game of the Year 2009 Runner-up - Kotaku

You can add [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition ]Machinarium[/url], indie gold nugget, to your very own ‘Best of’ collection for only $9.99 with 8 wallpapers, full soundtrack (which costs $5 extra elsewhere), 8 avatars, 22 artworks, 114 design sketches, available today on GOG.com.

You may have thought Czech are famous only for pilsner, dumplings, Eva Herzigová and [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/vampire_the_masquerade_redemption" target="_blank]Vampires roaming the streets of Prague[/url]. Now, thanks to a few brilliant people from Amanita Design, the Czech Republic is also known as the homeland of trippy point-and-clicks, giant robo-junkyards, and mechanical cities. In Machinarium, you find a small robot named Josef lying on a scrapheap, kicked out of the strange city of robots. You need to get back to the city to confront and defeat the Evil Black Cap Brotherhood that terrorized robot kind and took away Josef’s girlfriend. The goal of Machinarium is to solve a series of puzzles and brain teasers by clicking on objects that are within Josef’s reach. So, it’s a typical point-and-click, but in the same fashion as The Triplets Of Belleville is a typical animation.

[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition ]Machinarium[/url] is hands down one of the most beautiful games for PCs ever. Of course it’s a matter of taste, but the colored pencil drawings, eerie music, and the clever conversations that involve no dialogues but rather pictographs all combine to create an ethereal atmosphere like in Le Voyage dans la lune or Metropolis. Extraordinary amount of work has been put to detailing the world to perfection, allowing you to discover all the small and big things that make the story of the little robot so artistically unique, brilliantly crafted, imaginatively realised, and fascinating to play. Machinarium is like reading your favorite book in a strange fantastic language you find yourself comprehending after the first few lines.

There is no game quite like [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition ]Machinarium[/url], and you should not be reading this right now. Instead you should be immersed in the imaginative and memorable robo-world for $9.99 only, available now on GOG.com.
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Barry_Woodward: I know it's free but it might not always be available there. I'd prefer to see the two bundled to together.
Samorost 3 on the way. Maybe wait for trilogy ;)
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Catshade: As zeewolf mentioned, there's DotEmu; though you maybe squirm a little since even they have been selling iPhone games for a while.

Edit: Oh, and squirm a little bit more since they (1) do not have GOG's extras, and (2) have regional pricing for some of their games.
I hope they realize there's an opening in the market and start working a bit harder to offer a competitive product.
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Honestly, isn't it a bit too early to start bitching about GOG's new direction? Give them at least the time to get all the announced indie titles out of the pipeline first, and see what's going to happen next.

(I'm not too thrilled about the lineup myself, but considering that for me, GOG has been releasing about one interesting game per month lately, not much has changed, really.)
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Zeewolf: It's a flash game. Try right-clicking.
OK, so it's in a flash player I guess, which means that after hex-editing the *.swf out I could play it native on Ubuntu, yay ^^
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In this business model (old + indie games) , two releases a week is definitely not enough.

I'm outta here.
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bazilisek: Honestly, isn't it a bit too early to start bitching about GOG's new direction? Give them at least the time to get all the announced indie titles out of the pipeline first, and see what's going to happen next.

(I'm not too thrilled about the lineup myself, but considering that for me, GOG has been releasing about one interesting game per month lately, not much has changed, really.)
An internet forum bitching is never to early nor to late, it is always right on time.
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DebugMode: Is it a flash game like Samorost?
Pretty much, yeah. Even though the quality is much higher.
A brilliant game, but if you want it you've already got it.
Ill get this when i have the money since i already have it from a humble bundle deal way back (not collectors edition).
Btw anyone who already has a copy of this game, has it ever crashed your PC?. It did on my windows 7 once. Only other game to do it was Soldner X lol...
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Post edited March 29, 2012 by Merchito
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dirtyharry50: I don't know but let us know if you find one? There was a place I'd grown to love but they seem to be losing interest in releasing classics. :-(
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Catshade: As zeewolf mentioned, there's DotEmu; though you maybe squirm a little since even they have been selling iPhone games for a while.

Edit: Oh, and squirm a little bit more since they (1) do not have GOG's extras, and (2) have regional pricing for some of their games.
I'm not squirming at all. I'm just pissed off that GOG is for now at least, ignoring their bread and butter - classic games. Sorry if you don't like that but I don't care. This place has been built on releasing classic games for newer systems and that is the largest audience of customers here. So one would think GOG would want to pay attention to our desires. Pardon me for venting.
already have it, good game, but not the reason why i am here. I like that they expand but if they will only sell games like this is the coming weeks i will be disappointed.... a lot.
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DebugMode: Is it a flash game like Samorost?
I'd be very surprised if it wasn't because the retail version is. It's not a browser game, and you can run it full screen, but it was still created with Flash.
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SimonG: No old game release this week... For all your assurancesn of not abandoning the core audience I would have loved to see some action behind those words.
I have to agree. Not that I'm annoyed by it personally, since I only just bought Anachronox yesterday and Machinarium is a title worthy of being included in GOG's catalogue, but releasing a good old game today would have been a smart move to dispel the most serious doubts and fears about GOG's future direction. After all those customers who embrace the new games already got more than their share on Tuesday.

Then again, isn't it a little early for the release, don't they usually post the news items at 8:00 EDT? So we can still hope it's just another PR stunt to cause a stir and that they will make up for it in twenty minutes. ;)
Post edited March 29, 2012 by Leroux
No classic game? C'mon GOG pull your finger out, you have a huge backlog to clear as it is and some of us are not interested in purchasing indie games here, especially not ones 2/3rds of us own already. If this is your idea of new and improved, it sucks.

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Merchito: And after all, do we really need to buy two games a week, when playing only one or two a month is actually enough.
Yes but people don't want to buy and play EVERY old game on GOG and people are waiting for game X to come out so they can buy it... all this does is slows down the arrival of game X.
Post edited March 29, 2012 by serpantino
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deshadow52: As soon as I saw this I immediately sensed a disturbance in the force. Expect people to bitch about this not being a "Good Old Game".
Indeed. Although it's not as if this is a brand new, fresh from the devs release in the first place. Hell, with the exception of 'Legend of Grimrock', no game released this week could exactly be called 'new'.

I honestly and sincerely do not understand the issue here, I really don't.