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Birthday fun and gifts (for you!)
GOG.com 5th birthday celebration continues, and we came up with some fun activities essential to every nerd party in the universe. Namely, we want to play some trivia with you! There will be prizes, of course, because there have to be gifts in a birthday celebration. Since it is our party, you get to keep the gifts! We wouldn't have it any other way. But, just to make it more fun, you'll have to put some effort into getting them. For the next couple of days (let's say: until Sunday), we'll post a daily activity for you. A quiz, a puzzle, some trivia--you know: fun stuff. Each day you'll get a chance to prove your gaming knowledge and familiarity with GOG.com for a chance to get some free games. Our activity of choice today: word search!

UPDATE:
We got word from our support, that some users aren't sure where they should send the answers. Let's pretend that finding the e-mail address on the picture below is a little warm-up exercise before the actual word search. If you can't handle that task, there's probably not much point in wasting your time looking for the 40 titles. And one more thing: we didn't notice it ourselves, but there's actually 41 hidden titles in the picture (apart from the highlighted "FEZ"). That's because one of the longer ones contains another one, shorter. Still--we don't expect more than 40, and that gives you a bit of an advantage.

GOG.com Birthday Word Search

You've got time until Thursday, September 26, at 14:59PM GMT. That's 24 hours. Have fun! :-)

SOLUTION:

Here's an image provided by our user. Thanks Dan!
GOG.com Birthday Word Search Solution

The hidden titles are as follows:

1. Alan Wake
2. Alpha Centauri
3. Arcanum
4. Baldur's Gate
5. Bioforge
6. Blood
7. Caesar
8. Carmageddon
9. Descent
10. Dungeon Keeper
11. Fallout
12. Freespace
13. FTL
14. Gabriel Knight
15. Hotline Miami
16. Master of Magic
17. Master of Orion
18. Might and Magic
19. Myst
20. Nox
21. Outcast
22. Painkiller
23. Pharaoah
24. Pid
25. Populous
26. Postal
27. Psychonauts
28. Quest For Glory
29. Resonance
30. Sacrifice
31. Sim City
32. Star Control
33. Syndicate
34. The Witcher
35. Theme Hospital
36. Thief
37. To The Moon
38. Ultima
39. Wing Commander
40. Zeus
+ BONUS
41. ArmA (hiding within Carmageddon)

The 40 quickest winners should have the prizes in their email inboxes now. The draw of the other 20 will be done later today.

Congratulations to all winners!
Post edited September 26, 2013 by G-Doc
Hmmm...I've found half a title...dunno if it counts or not, but it's too obscure to be random, I think :P
Finally 40 :D
39...

I found one interesting word... "EZ BAIT"... you're telling me!
LOL! I've been sitting of 40 for ages, but I forgot to write one on my list so I thought I was still on 39!

Edit: And when going through them to see which one I missed, I realize I accidentally counted Fez ;_;
Post edited September 25, 2013 by fraien08
oops
Post edited September 25, 2013 by vDub
^^^^
SPOILERS dude spoilers! Use the PMs!
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Melhelix: ^^^^
SPOILERS dude spoilers! Use the PMs!
That's what I meant to do, but my head hurts so I clicked on the wrong button..but I quickly erased it once I realized my mistake. *lol*
only 2... I'm going cross eyed with this.
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vDub: That's what I meant to do, but my head hurts so I clicked on the wrong button..but I quickly erased it once I realized my mistake. *lol*
It's all good. :D Congratulations on how many you've found so far!
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nitrom: First step: Getting a list of games on GOG: easy.
Next step: Generate data structures for each reading direction of the search box.
Next step: Program a brute force search.
Next step: ???
Last step: profit!

Pretty simple to do that, if I did not miss anything. The worst part is probably step 2, but even typing it all would not take that long. Doable, tho I dont know whether it the invested time is really worth a 9.99$ game. And I doubt that anyone could have done the whole thing faster than the quickest manual searchers...
Actually, the hard part for me was the first step. Specifically, getting a USABLE list of games on GOG. Lots of games have subtitles or supertitles (e.g. this isn't in the wordsearch, but "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time" could appear as "SANDSOFTIME"). I found 38 titles once I had worked the kinks out of my quick python script. The other 4 I had to do some manual searching for.

It wasn't faster than the quickest manual searchers, or even some of the slower ones, but it was a much more enjoyable method for me! And I wrote it while I was waiting for a work-related program to run on my other machine.

Now to send it in...

Fears

P.S. If anyone wants the program or any of the supporting files (game list, word search table), PM me and I'll send them after the deadline.
Just finished all 40 (not included FEZ) after hours of trying... It better be right... GOG.... I'll never forgive you for this.
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SpiderFighter: Hmmm...I've found half a title...dunno if it counts or not, but it's too obscure to be random, I think :P
I think some none-solution words were intentionally entered into the riddle as distractors. examples are "Foot" or "Total". Could still be pure chance though.
Just one game missing. Damned :)
40 Finally....the hardest part was doing it at work without getting into trouble ;)
I think I finally managed to find them all, with thanks going to Psyringe for the assist on the last one I needed.