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Community Projects => Contests => Topic started by: Meiscool on April 16, 2012, 08:40:10 PM
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Jesus Makes a Contest: Part One
Contest Summary: Add text to a video. Interested? Keep reading.
Below is a link to a video I recorded just now. The game it is from is known as FEY, and it is made in rpg maker 2003 by Ashes of Emerald of rpgmaker.net. I have edited out the text of the video and replaced most words with “Blah”. Your job, as contestants, will be to fill in the “blahs” with your own text!
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-AtdbfY-0E&feature=youtu.be
Some notes: Landon is the name of the main character.
How the contest is conducted: Fill out each line of “blah blah blah” with your own text. There should be an equal number of sentences in the video as there are in your entry (minus a thought, which will be gone over later). If a word is actually filled in, such as “Over here!” or “Landon”, then you must use that word in your made up sentence. Your sentences can be as long as you want, but please be reasonable.
Now, just filling in some text isn’t all that interesting, so I’m going to spice up the contest by adding in some additional rules. IF YOU DO NOT FOLLOW THESE RULES, POINTS WILL BE DEDUCTED.
Additional Rules: 1) No mentioning of the words “rodent”, “mouse”, “rat”, or “critter” in their singular or plural form. This does not mean you cannot make mention of them at all, but I want more creative words used. :P
2) The terms “turkey” and “avalanche” must be put into the text somehow. Each word should only be used once. Again, be creative.
2.5) Sentences with the words “turkey” and “avalanche” in them MUST be different than sentences posted by other people who entered the contest. I do not want to see someone posting a sentence like “That turkey took my cheese!”, then another contestant posting “My cheese was taken by a turkey!”. Creativity is the highlight of this contest after all.
3) At some point in your entry, I want one (and only one) period of time where you write a thought that Landon might be having. This may be placed anywhere you want. I gave a few places in the video that this could ideally be done at, so you should have no trouble. Please keep the thought limited to five sentences MAX (thought shorter than that might be better…).
There will be two winners of this contest for the entries Lucas and I will be judging. Categories will be divided into Humor and Relevance. There will be one winner in both categories, and I imagine that it would be hard for someone to rank highest in both (so try to shoot for one or the other ;D). Relevance will be graded on how accurately the text fits into the scene. Humor will be graded on how humorous the entry managed to make the scene seem. Both sections will also be graded on creativity, as well as how well the rules were followed. 1 point will be deducted for each rule not followed, and 1 point will be deducted for each sentence over/under the total number of sentences there are in the video (minus the thought). Point scale will be out of 10. If there is a tie in points between my scores and the scores Lucas gives, then the person that Lucas gave the score to wins (so blame him :P).
If it is ok with the admins, I will make a small sprite for the two winners. So yeah, prizes (yum).
If a person would like to post multiple entries (one for humor and one for relevance) I will allow it.
I intend to keep this contest open till around after the first week of May. That should give people plenty of time. If you are interested, please make a post saying so, then edit that post with your entry when you are done.
Hope you like this contest idea :D
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Interesting, does it require any fancy video editing tools or such?
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I think you just have to create the text. Mic will do the video bit.
ps: interested
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Yes, I will post the video when it finished uploading... for some reason it has gone from slow to sluggish. I may have to re-upload.
Edit: Yeah, you will just post the text and I will fill it in myself. I won't make a video of every single entry, but I will play the video and read the text like a script while it is playing to see how it matches.
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Okay, I'll enter.
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Video link is up now. Sorry about the delay.
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Old man: So Landon. Show me how you'd react in an avalanche emergency.
*you fish*
Old man: Landon! press the Z key to get that bloody fishing rod out of the water!
Old man: That's not how you react in an emergency, Landon!
old man: I swear you have the brain of a turkey, boy. Give me that!
*old man puts rod back*
Old man: NOW GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!
Landon: What should I do in an emergency though, old man?
old man: Look, I've had enough of you. If rocks start falling...
old man: ...Lie down beneath the mountain...
old man: ...And die.
*Landon goes for a walk*
*LANDON'S THOUGHT* Well that wasn't very nice...
Guy: Landon! Over here!
Guy: My left arm keeps hitting me!!!
Landon: Can't you just stop moving your arm?
Guy: ...why didn't I think of that?!
Landon: ...
*rat battle scene*
Guy: Listen Landon, I Really wanna touch your crotch.
Guy: Here, I've give you a sand dollar if you let me do it.
*you got a sand dollar*
(Obviously the stuff in asterixes is to help you see where it all goes. Most of it is only any good when actually accompanied by the video (if at all :p) as it relies on the animation)
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Just going to, give up, now, because I suck at this. But here's a nice start for anyone who was going to think of it (and won't be able to use it now!)
"Old man: Okay. Imagine something called a "B button".
Good! Now press the Z button instead. We're not ramming into dinosaurs today."
+1 to anyone who gets the reference.
Can I be a judge? :P
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Just going to, give up, now, because I suck at this. But here's a nice start for anyone who was going to think of it (and won't be able to use it now!)
"Old man: Okay. Imagine something called a "B button".
Good! Now press the Z button instead. We're not ramming into dinosaurs today."
+1 to anyone who gets the reference.
Can I be a judge? :P
I found it funny, but yes, you can be a judge. :)
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Old Man: Man down!
*fishing*
Old Man: Dammit, Landon! A rabid turkey used his z key to paralyze me, so stop wasting time and HELP!
*catches fish*
Old Man: Absolutely incredible, Landon!
Old Man: Your impeccable skills of catching fish at bad times has miraculously cured my paralysis.
*Puts the fish away*
Old Man: Thus, I deduce you are a witch of seaborne sediment; a SAND WITCH!
Landon: You're kidding, right?
Old Man: There is truly no way to know for certain. However, this isn't completely bad news.
Old Man: Our village custom is to kill male witches, but the policy only applies to such wicked men.
Old Man: To become a coveted female witch and avoid your demise, I can get you in touch with a sex change service up north.
*north*
Annoying: Landon! Over Here!
Annoying: Yo, check out this new dance I invented!
*Head north*
Landon: What do you call that, the retarded scarecrow dance?
Annoying: Screw you, too! Why don't you just buzz off, man?!
*Thought*: Here he is, offending all my senses simultaneously, while I run the risk of being prosecuted for being the wrong GENDER. **** this, I'm going to rob his house.
*Mass genocide ensues. Landon exits house*
Annoying: Ok, I guess I deserved to have my pet chinchillas killed. Very well, I'll tell you the quickest way to get a sex change.
Annoying: Here, place this between your legs and run into an avalanche; It's... Uh, an ancient technique that works for Sand Witches!
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+1 to anyone who gets the reference.
Mother 3 ?
Okay so we simply write the dialogue here then? Great, will check on the video later tonight and whip something up.
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ohh, 2 entries already. Very nice.
It is really hard to stop myself from reading them, but I think it would be best if I did till the contest has ended.. that way you can edit things as you like and whatnot.
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*Fishing Scene*
Old Man: Show me how you use your rod, Landon.
...
Old Man: Oh, Landon!
The Z key is how you get it so long!
*catches fish*
Old Man: I see that you can catch other things with that pole, Landon!
Old Man: Here, hand me that stick so I can show you how I use my rod.
*Old Man turns*
Old Man: OH OH!
Old Man: You don't want to see?
Old Man: I'm sorry that I am too old for you Landon. I see now that an old turkey like me means nothing to you.
Old Man: Now since you won't be doing any good here, go back to the house and ruffle someone else's feathers.
Old Man: I have unfinished business.
*Landon leaves*
Crazy Guy: Landon! Over here!
Crazy Guy: Come here!
Crazy Guy: Do I have your attention?
Crazy Guy: Good!!! Landon, are my test subjects loose in the house?!
Landon (to himself): First a horny old man and now this guy? It's like an avalanche of crazies out here...
*After leaving the house*
Blonde Guy: I have a confession for you. I am not actually a guy.
Blonde Not-Guy: Here, I'll give this to you so you'll keep my secret.
Sorry I'm late!! D:
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I would suck at this, so I'll not even try.
But wanted to say I really like this contest idea!
Just an extra crazy idea... When over, anyone who would like to do a voice-over?
Would be fun to "watch and listen" the winning text! :)
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Maybe you should voice the winner, Alex :p That'd raise the profile of this competition quite a bit XD
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No way!
But if you think the idea is interesting (well, if Jesus think it is), we have a fresh new admin... don't we? >:
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We do?
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We do?
Yeah, it's your super important duty as admin to give voice to the forum. Which in this case means this contest
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You guys remember that I barely even speak English, correct?
Ho pensato che noi Admins dovuto apena di parlare italiano!
Edit: Just testing stuff - JiM
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...which will make it even more amusing! :D
Anyway, we need more entries. Do it, prpl.
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Agreed. Come on peoples, have some forum spirit! It is fun :D
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Old man: Catch me some dinner you wretched boy!
*throwing the line*
Old man:Are you completely daft Landon! The Z key is the key you have to press!
*retrieves fish*
Old man:Friggin finally Landon!
Old man:You fish like a real turkey, took like forever!
*returns rod*
Old man:YOU BROKE MY ROD!
Landon: Did I do that?
Old man:Yes you did you badger-nudged sack of potatoes.
You better learn to fish right or you'll get the belt.
Old man:I don't even remember why I, the blacksmith
took on such a worthless punk.
Old man:Seriously.
*walks away*
Pete: Landon!
Over here!
Pete: Don't cry!!!
Landon: You'll hug me?
Pete: No!
Sheez, Just don't start crying again okay?!
*Enter building*
Landon's thoughts:
Those super mean people are so mean. Why do I even stay here when they are totally hurting my feelings. I'm just so filled with sadness that I want to use Z to attack some of their furry cattle.
*attacks furry cattle*
*Exits building*
Pete: Now that was rather unnecessary.
Now how are we going to get enough kebab food for the annual avalanche.
Pete: Here, Give me some real money in exchange for this imaginary currency I invented.
*money exchange*
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I'll have some spirit when my soul returns after finals.
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I can't honestly say I've got anything resembling an idea of how to approach this. I like that we're getting community fun-time back up and running, but I don't plan to participate this time. If things are a bit more my speed next go around, I'll hop on it.
So, like, just showing my support, guys.
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Four entries isn't too bad. It could be worse. haha
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I was hoping that with exams over more people would have time to enter :(
I'll leave this open for a little bit more, then begin the judging.
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Judging:
Note - Since the amount of entries were so low, I'm gonna be lax on the rules. Therefore I did not count exact sentences and such. However, the word rules still will be evaluated. On to the ratings:
~Moosetroop11~
Personal Comments: Loved it. I laughed several times, especially at the "My left arm keeps hitting me" part. The sexual portions were lovely as well. Your "Landon's Though" is kind of boring and plain compared to the rest of your text, but I guess you were trying to keep him the 'normal' character.
Relevance: As far as relevance goes, the text fits, but since there was really no mentioning of Landon killing the rats, I can't rate that very high. You did well with creativity and placing your words. I feel if you had put more of the actions occurring in the text (such as why Landon was walking into the house) you would have rated higher here. 6/10.
Humor: I get the feeling that humor was the subject you were working towards. You made me laugh several times, and the humor was relevant to the events and correlated with the animations very nicely. 8/10
~Bluhman~
Personal Comments: Insanely creative and funny! I love how you use the words too. Most people used them at the beginning, but you saving avalanche till the end was a nice build up and very original use.
Relevance: Even though those exact words wouldn't be used in a serious game, the premise remains that you did explain why Landon walked north, into the house, and why he received the sand dollar. I assume the capital letters are for when the old man turned around and the explanation marks flew out. That is the only part that doesn't really fit in my opinion, since it sounds like a normal sentence then turns into the loud shocking wordage at the end, when in the movie the whole sentence is capitalized. Otherwise, excellent. 9/10
Humor: This made me laugh a great deal. I love the absurdity of it, and the fact that the humor was related to what Landon was doing made it even better. Other people did the "dancing man" section better than you did, but I think you come out on top everywhere else, especially with the old man and the end reward. Don't ever stop with the randomness Bluhman, I LOVED IT. 9/10
~AFL~
Personal Comments: Let me just say that you messed up a little with who should've been saying what. Though it isn't completely thrown on there, the (...) bubbles and the change in the color of the text box show when Landon is talking. You didn't give Landon any lines, which kind of messes me up when reading the script while watching the video. This isn't to say that you did poorly or anything, just that I can't get as 'into' your text as the other entries.
Relevance: All the text works fine. You made sure to mention why Landon was walking where he was, and you picked a good place to have Landon's though. Putting avalanche in the thought was something I didn't expect people to do, so points for originality and minus points for laziness (since you can pretty much through anything into a thought easily). As for my gripes you didn't really make any mention of why Landon killed the crazy guy's test subjects, which ruins the relevance a bit. 7.5/10
Humor: I really enjoyed the sexual tension at the beginning. I feel you had a really unique approach to the fishing escapades. However, after the first sexual joke I could predict the next one and the next one. I found reading it very amusing, but since I knew what was cuming I didn't laugh as much as I might have were the jokes a bit more random. I did get a kick out of the "Not-Guy" part, but can't give you too much for that since it is pretty obvious that this game doesn't have a name and colon before the text. 6/10
~Prpl_Mage~
Personal Comments: I really liked this one. I feel like it could actually be in the game. Mild humor that isn't distracting, with randomness that is still relevant to the situations. Very nicely done, no complaints.
Relevance: This takes the cake for relevance, hands down. The text isn't ridiculous, and the thought you gave explained a lot of what was going on. I gave a 5 sentence cap on the thought; you were the only person to take advantage of the cap and it helped you greatly here with the scoring. You made "Pete" a very believable character, as well as made it seem like he is not just some random person but is actually a character that Landon knows fairly well. English teacher analysis of the literature aside, the text works very well with the video, explains everything that is going on, fulfills the requirements placed on the contest, and is creative. I see no reason to not give this a perfect score.... aside from your second sentence not actually being a question :P 10/10
Humor: Not gonna dive real deep into this one. The randomness was pleasant, not distracting, and gave me chuckles. The use of "furry cattle" as a substitute for rats made me nearly spit out my drink, but other than that nothing else made me 'lol'. An amusing read, but not the best. Great use of avalanche too; I snickered at the thought of an annual avalanche. 7/10
All that is left to do is get the second judge's opinions and name the winners. Thanks to everyone that entered; I hope you had as much fun writing these as I had reading them.
Tips/ideas for the next contest are welcome (Archem :P).
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Ack! I wasn't really thinking about relevance at all, in that way! I guess randomly going into a house and killing rats without provocation is a bit weird :p
Nice to see the judging begin! I reckon the next contest will get at least one more person.
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I always go straight for the avatar contest vote, simply because I'm the highest-winning member.
Alternatively, how about
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Meh. I probably could've written a better one. I totally went with the "..." as being silence for some reason. XD I completely agree with your judging though.
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I'm glad you guys thought my ratings were fair.. I tried to put a lot of time into evaluating stuff.
Also, Lucas, get your butt down here and judge stuff.
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I'm glad you guys thought my ratings were fair.. I tried to put a lot of time into evaluating stuff.
They were well formulated ratings. Also liked my score.
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Oh, yeah, I'm the other judge. Completely forgot.
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Okay, I don't want to repeat everything MIC said so I'll just get down to the scores and write some short descriptions for each.
MT11
Relevance: 7/10
Humour: 7/10
I liked it, but some parts feel forced, and others don't go too well with the video. Still loads of fun, though.
Bluhman:
Relevance: 8/10
Humour: 10/10
Okay, that was hilarious. Insanely creative, too.
AFL:
Relevance: 8/10
Humour: 5/10
I'll be honest and say that I didn't laugh at the sex jokes, though you did do the relevance thing quite well. You explained why he killed all the rats, and the money-giving came up pretty nicely. The use of avalanche was also pretty original.
Prpl:
Relevance: 9/10
Humour: 7/10
Okay, you did quite well in keeping up with the video, but other than the wonderful "furry cattle", I wasn't able to laugh much.
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With that I announce Prpl the relevance winner and Bluhman the humor winner. Congratz guys. When awards come back as a working system, bug me and I'll make something for ya if desired.
Still taking suggestions for the next contest idea. I've heard avatar contests are fun here, but I tried looking for one and did not find any... just a bunch of art contests and failed game contests.
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It was a "monthly" avatar contest that we had. Indirectly started off by... I forgot. lonewolf? He had his avatar resembling Almeidaboo, and this eventually lead to a "monthly" avatar contest. I think that's it, at least...
There (http://www.charas-project.net/forum/index.php?topic=24864.0)
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That was Warxe. Yeah.
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Yeah, but I think it all started after lonewolf made an Almeidaboo avatar. I think... Warxe started the bi-weeks thing, though... and not month. Not sure where I got the month. But whatever.
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Ah, it was in all of all huh. I've give it a look through. Seems like it had a lot of popularity.
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It had, but as with everything else here, it eventually died. Which is a shame. Was kinda fun.
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We should make a rule in which Archem has to join every biweek but isn't allowed to win two times in a row.
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This is a witch hunt!
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Ah, it was in all of all huh.
Since people didn't seem to check the contest board often enough.
it eventually died. Which is a shame.
We should make a rule in which Archem has to join every biweek but isn't allowed to win two times in a row.
Don't know if these two are related but it's a hypothesis. Archem is simply too awesome when it comes to avatars.
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You're pretty damn good, too, but I have the advantage of animated things.