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Each of the Bloop the Fish Contest D-Mods had several bugs, and they have all been updated.

Skull's 2001: A Bloop Oddyssey

• Fixed a game breaking bug that had somehow happened when packaging the initial version.
• Fixed a bug with the shopkeeper's save menu, that could allow you to cheat.

Bluedy's Another Fish Named Bloop

• I fixed the speed of the dialogue at the end and some problems with it overlapping.
• Every single problem that has been addressed in the voting segment of the bloop contest have been fixed!
• This should hopefully be the final version. And this time there is no save file either. So this is truly the cleanest, most polished and immersive version yet!

redink1's Bloop's Purpoise

• v1.08 compatibility fixes:
• Game no longer crashes after introduction
• New font colors now correctly set
• Midis now stop when acquiring pearls
• Last pearl text now displayed
• Text displayed even if fade down doesn't work
• Pearl dropped by boss cannot appear within rocks
• Corrected a couple typos

The Bloop the Fish D-Mod Contest began on April 1st, and the deadline was just hours ago. Three entries have been submitted.

Here they are, in order of submission, which is also alphabetical order:

First, Skull has submitted 2001: A Bloop Oddyssey on the very day the contest was announced. It is "An Arcade-style D-Mod starring everybody's favourite fish, Bloop!"

Next, Bluedy submitted Another Fish Named Bloop just a week after the contest was announced, and described it as "My very first, noobly made dmod."

And finally, I submitted Bloop's Purpoise on the last day contest entries were allowed. I describe it as "Bloop discovers why he is a fish."

Best of luck to everyone!

For more details about the voting, please see the comments.

Are you interested in making your own D-Mod? Have you made a few half-finished D-Mods, but never found the motivation to finish one? Do you only make D-Mods when a contest gives you a structure and a deadline? Well, then here's something for you!

Yes, we are holding another contest. This time the contest will be about... Bloop the Fish. Bloop the Fish was a, er, 'charming' D-Mod originally released by old-school Dinker Instalite waaay back on January 22nd, 1999. It was notable for featuring brand new original MSPaint graphics of fish, sharks, and, uh, water.

Since then, there have been two unofficial sequels:

Bloop the Fish 2, from SabreTrout in 2003. As the legendary Paul Pliska stated, "Hate to say it, but the original was better."

A Fish Named Bloop, from iplaydink in 2014. This was a solid adventure that looked great, with new graphics that really take advantage of Dink's 'recent' true-color mode support.

This contest will continue the 'tradition' of Bloop the Fish D-Mods, and will involve a main player character named Bloop who is also a fish.

See the comments for more details.

And out of nowhere a new pollocracy appears! Welcome to the twentyfirst edition of Pollocracy, where your humble pollmaster shares some of the best comments of the past 8 or so polls with you.

Check out the comments for the whole story.

The Last Quest Part 1: The Oraculum has again been updated, this time to v1.2. Updates include:

- Adjusted lantern.c to be more tolerant of varying conditions.
- Fixed extra large gold heart in the southwest corner of the Frozen Wastes (using gheart3.c).

SlipDink's currently very well-regarded d-mod The Last Quest Part 1: The Orcalolum was updated to v1.1a with the following bugfixes:

- globally replaced all say_xy("text", 0, x) with say_xy("text", 1, x) [replaced zero with one]
- replaced sp_kill(&txtsprite,1) with sp_kill(&txtsprite,0) in andso01.c so that the followup sp_nodraw(&txtsprite,1); might work more safely
- replaced sp_kill(&txtsprite,1) with sp_kill(&txtsprite,0) in darkexit.c so that the newly added sp_nodraw(&txtsprite,1); might work more safely
- commented out sp_kill(&gld_glint_sprite, 1); in s1-roc.c

Everyone's favorite Sunday bovidae, Baphomet, submitted his first D-Mod: The Black Skull. In this adventure, Dink is in a race with an evil wizard to retrieve a powerful skull. This is reported to be an Epic, and it looked off to a good start from what I saw. However, this is the first D-Mod I've played that made me scared of title screen button sound effects, which is certainly something I don't think I would have imagined writing before now.

The slipperiest Dink of them all, coincidentally named SlipDink, has released his first D-Mod entitled The Last Quest Part 1: The Oraculum. Just to make sure it wasn't Skurn submitting 'tasteful autobiographical erotica' under an alternative account (... again), I verified that the D-Mod is the real deal. Both the title screen and introduction made me chuckle. That's a pretty good sign!

As you may know, the unsurpassed dictionary.com defines Oraculum as "Did you mean osculum? More suggestions: oracular operculum asculum oracle inoculum oracles aciculum". I think we can all learn a lot from that.

ArcduckShrimp has released an update to his Turn-Based Fight bringing it to version 1.1 and promising that it "now runs on DinkHD (also works with DinkHD fast forward). The script is more readable, cleaner and better in all aspects."

FYI, you will find it listed under Christopher Journey once installed.

Looks like brassweasel has released a very nice new set of custom Trees, bushes, rocks, and plants for use in use that d-mod you might be working on. It looks like you'll have to create your own hardboxes and depth dots for them though.

The Orb of Darkness was just updated to version 2.0 by brassweasel. He writes:

"There are many improvements over the original version. I have updated many of my original graphics and made a few more. The mapping has been tweaked. A few scripts have been altered or added. Warp Magic has been added to make navigating some parts easier. There is more to do. A new area has been added including a new fight. Paul Pliska's Farmer attack graphics has been added. A new sound has been added. Some secret areas have been added. A few subtle hints have been added."

Okay everyone, I'm hoping we have here what looks like the first new Epic in quite a while, The Disciple, courtesy of JugglingDink.

It looks like there's a lot here, so I hope you guys have hours of fun with this.

Looks like leprochaun and Skurn decided to make a splash in our currently stagnant pool of dmods with Fishy dot dmod. It promises to have more bad fish puns than mercury in tuna.

It's time for fun! It's time for defenestration! It is time for Pollocracy!

See the comments for the whole story.

Hey Dan, get on this.