Frequently Asked Questions

I love to highlight new and upcoming adventure games on my stream, and you are more than welcome to contact me. As far as playing it is concerned, my viewers tend to pick the games that I play. If you do donate the game to the channel, it will be added directly to my queue and funded based on its cost. I will also be happy to play the games trailer and highlight your donation. If you have other ideas that would engage viewers, please contact me. Also, please remember, that my stream is dedicated to adventure games, so please refrain from games outside of the genre.

Votes for gaming in the current vote a calculated based on the following:

1. Each viewer gets a single vote. This vote can be changed at at time, but everyone is limited to a single vote.
2. Taco Bonus: For the modern, retro, and legacy queue, each 10,000 tacos invested in a game on the voting list counts as a single vote. Incentive games do not gain this bonus.
3. Each unique supporter for a game, regardless of how many tacos they have added, gets the game one vote.
4. Supporter Bonus: Bonus votes can be added to a game from: !addvote at the end of the voting period, channel point redemptions, and taco token redemptions.
5. Bonus Votes: These comes of sticky votes, such as votes from VIPs and subscribers, !addvotes after game completion, bonus votes from taco token redemption, channel point votes, and raffle card votes. There may also be other ways to add bonus votes to games
6. Time Bonus: For the legacy queue, the game gets an addition bonus vote for every 50 days that the game has been in the voting queue.

All of these items add up to the total votes that the game receives. The highest total will win the vote.

The Modern and Retro games are derived from the main Voting Queue. The Retro queue has all games on the main Voting Queue the were released 15 years or more ago. The Modern queue was all games that do not qualify from the Retro queue. When a new year occurs, some games will shift from the Modern queue to the Retro queue. Games are not added specifically to these queues, but to the combined Voting Queue.

The Incentive queue is a queue of games that were added by subscribers or tippers to the channel. New paid/prime subscribers, and each recurring 12 month subscription cycle, may add a single game to this queue and the highest donor to the channel (including gift subs, bits, and tips) each month can also add a game to this list. In addition, every 12 gift subs and every 3000 bits grants an incentive pick. The games in the queue are pulled from randomly during the Incentive vote and tacos cannot be added to these game, though bonus votes can. Anyone can vote in the poll, but votes from subscribers are "sticky" and will be add as a bonus vote to the game at the end of the poll. Incentive queue picks can be banked and saved for future use indefinitely. The tier of the sub or gift sub does impact the award, so a single tier 2 sub is the same as 2 tier 1 subs.

My goal on this challenge is to have fun and I do enjoy solving puzzles using my own logic and reasoning. If I find that I'm not enjoying myself, due to a game being poorly designed, extended lack of progress, or puzzles being "moon logic," I will not hesitate to move myself forward using a hint via a walk through or other guide.

There is a list of Home Computers compiled by Wikipedia here. Graphical adventure games on these computer systems would be considered to be part of the challenge as long as the game meant the other requirements. I also do not plan to play a release multiple times on different system if the release was functionally the same (or one of the releases simply has cut content).

The queue in which the games are chosen from differs which each game. This is designed to get a variety of different games played from the retro games to modern games. As such each vote can from a different queue as follows, repeating each time:

• Modern Voting Queue
• Incentive Queue
• Retro Voting Queue
• Incentive Queue
• Legacy Queue (every other cycle)

The games in the modern and retro queue (which is derived from the voting queue) are sorted using the following criteria:

1. The games with the most total votes, including its taco bonus, supporter bonus, and bonus votes.
2. No user can have more than one game in the top 6 of each queue, so the game with the most votes from the user will appear at in the top 6.
3. Any game in the vote must have its prerequisite game completed.

For the Incentive Queue vote, 6 users are chosen among the users with games in the queue and weighted on how many games they have in the queue. Each selected users game with the most votes (or the game they have prioritized) is added to the vote for a total of six games.

For the Legacy Queue, games that have been in the Combined Voting Queue for 1 year or more receive a bonus equal to 1/50th the number of days they have been in the queue plus their normal taco bonus, supporter bonus, and bonus votes. The 6 games with the highest total votes are put into the vote. This queue is meant to take games that have been in the queue for a long period of time and get the most supported ones into a vote.

Once per hour, viewers can add 500 tacos to the investment of a game in order to add to the number of bonus votes that it receives when it enters the vote. Simply type click the "+500" button next to a game you wish to add tacos to on the game list or on the queue list screens. If you want to add a new game to the queue, you can put a one-time investment of up to 100,000 tacos into the game to start it with an additional taco bonus. This is done via the "Fund" button. Games receive a taco bonus of 1 per 10,000 tacos invested in them.

You can use channel points on Twitch to gain the VIP role on Twitch. The VIP role grants the following benefits:

You get a fancy diamond badge next to your name

You get double tacos for time-based awards, such as being in the channel while the stream is live. This is cumulative with subscriber bonuses.

Your votes stay with the games after voting is closed during all votes.

The bonus votes can be bought using tacos after the voting is complete using the !addvote command, votes from Twitch channel point redemptions, bonus votes from raffles, and bonus votes from using a taco tokens. All of these types of bonuses stay with the game between votes. So, if a game doesn't win, it will still maintain those votes for future voting round.

You can earn taco tokens as follows:

1. If you follow the channel, you are awarded 1 taco token (this is for the first follow, unfollowing and following will not grant additional tokens).
2. Paid and Twitch Prime subscribers get 1 taco token each month they are subscribed.
3. Each month of a gift subscription grants the gifter 1 taco token.
4. Every 1000 bits or $10.00 in tips to the channel grants 1 taco token to the tipper and 1 taco token to a random viewer in the chat.
5. A taco token can be won during the raffle on Taco Tuesday, if you select it from the card.
6. Purchasing one using Twitch channel points (Puzzle Pieces).

Taco tokens are banked and can be used in various ways as follows: (a) 3 additional votes in the current game poll (once per vote), excluding special polls, (b) traded in for 10,000 tacos instantly, (c) 12 tokens can be traded in for an incentive queue pick.

The adventure game is list is pulled directly from The Adventure Game Database. You can browse and submit corrections and new additions via the AGDB web site.

I enjoy solving puzzles with the community and I feel like the viewers are playing the game along with me. To that end, I welcome a community effort to solve the puzzles. If, on the other hand, you know the solution to a puzzle because you have played the game before or are looking at a walkthrough, I would prefer you not spoil the puzzle. If I get stuck, I will ask for a hint and looking online for one so that I can continue, but I try to solve the puzzles prior to getting hints.

The viewer points in the channel are called tacos. Here is how you can earn them:

1. By watching the stream, viewers earn 10 tacos every 5 minutes, active viewers in the chat gain 50% more tacos and subscribers get additional tacos based on their subscription tier. Those bonuses are cumulative. You can check how many tacos you get on the user_info page)
2. By being around when a taco party happens in the channel. These events use the Twitch channel points, called "Puzzle Pieces" and give a variable number of tacos based on how many have been held during the stream.
3. By exchanging a taco token, you are automatically given 5,000 tacos. Of course, you can use that taco token for other things as well...
4. By subscribing to the channel through either a paid or Twitch Prime subscription, you will be given 500 tacos.
5. By tipping using bits, you will be given 1 taco per bit donated or 1 taco per cent donated via the donation link.
6. Gifting a subscription to another viewer will also grant you 500 tacos (as well as the other subscription bonuses).
7. Being around for special events where I give out tacos.

My challenge is mainly to play graphical adventure games, but text based adventure game that are part of a series that includes graphical adventure games (such as the Zork series) will be played in order to gain understanding of the series which will help to gain a better understanding and more context to the graphical adventure games in the series.

N/A games are games that I have had a difficult time finding for sale or available anywhere. They cannot be picked until I can find a source for them. I have discovery bounty on all N/A games and will reward 25,000 tacos to a viewer that provides a legal source for the game. To claim the bounty, users can private message me on Discord.

If you donate a game that is on the Adventures in Gaming list to the channel, it will be awarded tacos equal to double the base price of the game. All donations must be legal, licensed versions of the game. I will accept Steam, GOG, or Epic codes, physical copies of a game, or any other method to get a legal copy, either digital or physical of a game. You will also be able to fund the game up to your maximum of 100,000 tacos that the bonus added does not count towards that maximum.

If you donate a game that isn't on the Adventures in Gaming list and it is determine not to be an adventure game, it will either be returned to you, saved for a future special, or donated as part of a giveaway. When you donate a game, it would be preferred if you have a preference on how the game is used (such as if you okay with the game being used during a giveaway).

You can find a significant explanation of what is considered an adventure game on The Adventure Game Database on their website here. All adventure game on the master game list are directly based on games listed on the AGDB site.

After looking at all of the games available, I've realized how many games that I've missed. My favorite genre of game since I can remember has been adventure and puzzle based games. My aim in this series is discover games that I wouldn't have discovered and play as many adventure games as possible. I also realize that a bias exists on my part and therefore, I leave it to the viewers to select the games that I play. That will allow me to get exposure to games that I likely would never have selected myself.

For every game that I'm going to full play through of I have two standard counters, a timer that keeps track of the amount of time that I'm actively playing the game, even if it is looking that instructions during the game and making notes, and a death counter, which is the number of times that I have "died" in the game. The death counter keeps tracks of time when I lost progress or had to reload because of an action, either direct or indirect, that I performed. Deaths that are required by the story or that don't actually cost me progress or require a reload generally are not counted in this number.

During some games, I may have a special counter to keep track of other special events during the game. These counters are specific to the game and updated via special rules determined when they are created.

Since the database is so large, it is not possible to curate every single game properly. As a result, we sometimes start to play a game and realize that does not actually fit into the challenge as an adventure game. These games are de-adventured and removed from the list, but are still counted as a game played, just not as an adventure game completed.