Charas Game Making Contest!!!

[Glitch]

I like that you are willing to give it a shot instead of just saying, "Who cares, it's gonna fail anyway"


Would anyone care if I just deleted this waste of a thread and started this anew as a thread to discuss the upcoming contest?


But yeah, Sai recommended to me that I try and make it charas related, and I have some ideas. And the judges for this contest have been very helpful for developing this into a contest I believe will succeed!

[Meiscool-2]

Originally posted by Dragonium
So instead of just saying "lol, make a game", could we do something similar to that? I mean, it's not based around a holiday or real theme, so we'd get a good range of different ideas.

Hell, I may take part. Thing is a lot of people won't because they know that things like this usually fail.

But hey, we've had that many failed contest, think how cool it'd be to actually have one that was successful. Only way to do that is to keep on trying, right?

I just now read this. This reminds me of an old idea I had.

Basically, one person hosts the game and it's ideas. Several people donate one map to the game, with whatever events, chipsets, and graphics they want. All they are required to do is put in an event related to the plot. People would zip up the map and graphics used in the map, and send it to the person who hosts the game. That person would then put the maps in order, and we would have a completely random game of a random quest of a prechosen topic. I've seen this work before, over 20 maps of a game. Because so many people with good humour entered the game making, it lead to a really random, funny outcome.

Of course, this would be something for a later time. Glitch has worked hard on getting everything sorted out for this contest and getting all the judges around. If enough people like the above idea, maybe I'll host it a month from now.

[Desimodontidae]

I like the idea. Uhm. More info maybe? Like.. deadline?

[Glitch]

I'm officially starting the contest next month, all official rules and deadlines will be posted then. In the meantime, start thinking of ideas, gathering resources, do some basic work, etc.

I'll give some more pertinent details after work.

[Moosetroop11]

Sounds fun, mebbe. But I don't have time even for my current game as it is

[aboutasoandthis]

I wonder if I can do something isometric. If not, I'd love to make a minigame or something for this. All I need is a plot.

As for game making spirit, I agree. We should have more finished games. I think it's a morale thing. The reasons I still work on mine come from constant encouragement.

[WarxePB]

An interesting concept, no doubt.

I give permission to everyone to verbally abuse me into tears if I don't complete something for this project. But in agreeing to that, you also give me the same liberty.

[Glitch]

I like that people are supportive,


+5 in encouragement.

If you guys have any ideas as to ways to make this more likely to succeed then go ahead and suggest. Myself and the judges will talk it over before this contest begins. For instance, what would be more encouraging to you, a really short time limit or a bit more lax one to give you time to get things right.


I'm off work now, so check in later on the first post for detailed explination of what is goin on.

[MrMister]

Originally posted by Glitch
I like that people are supportive,


+5 in encouragement.

If you guys have any ideas as to ways to make this more likely to succeed then go ahead and suggest. Myself and the judges will talk it over before this contest begins. For instance, what would be more encouraging to you, a really short time limit or a bit more lax one to give you time to get things right.


I'm off work now, so check in later on the first post for detailed explination of what is goin on.

A month? Can you at least tell us if we need to use RPG Maker or not?

[DragonBlaze]

I'll be entering too

Anyway, I like the idea behind this contest. I got some ideas brewing for a cool short game. I don't know if I'll be adding many cool scripts and such to my game due to my lack of time, which is kinda ironic since I'll be judging the programming aspects of the games. Oh well, it'll be fun

[X_marks_the_ed]

I'd enter, but none of NFT is actually complete except the resources. Just various scattered maps from different parts of it, but if I ever get the drive to ever complete section 1, I'll enter it. however, due to lack of time, it will probably lack part of the beginning movie.

Still waiting for Dragonblaze's CBS to be finished. Then I could at least complete up to the first fight with Ace (half of part 1/6).

[ZeroKirbyX]

I'd like to assume we are expected to make a game for the contest started as of late, not enter a game we've been working on for awhile right?

[X_marks_the_ed]

Originally posted by ZeroKirbyX
I'd like to assume we are expected to make a game for the contest started as of late, not enter a game we've been working on for awhile right?

You have a point, ZKX. We can't just allow projects far into work, like Metal Tears and Omega seal. There should be some limit for projects that were under heavy work before the contest.

+20 agreement

[DragonBlaze]

Originally posted by ZeroKirbyX
I'd like to assume we are expected to make a game for the contest started as of late, not enter a game we've been working on for awhile right?

That still really hasn't been decided. You can't submit a project that you've already made. Basically, I'm thinking that you'll be able to use stuff from current games, but you can't use the games themselves. Like you could use some maps and stuff like that, but you can't just take your game and just add a few things and submit that.

 

Still waiting for Dragonblaze's CBS to be finished.  Then I could at least complete up to the first fight with Ace (half of part 1/6).

Lol, funny thing about that. I've been working on it a lot, and I've been transfering my project to and from school a lot, so I just decided to put the cbs on my jump drive and run it off of there. Well the thing is, as of yesturday, I lost my jumpdrive    I'm sure it'll pop up somewhere soon enough, but I don't know where it is right now Otherwise, I keep backups on my computers, so if its gone or something, I'll still have a fairly new version.

Anyway, if I submit a game in this contest, I'll most likely be using my cbs in that. My cbs is at a point where everything works, just not everything is added yet. So if I don't get my cbs done by time this project is done, you'll all be able to see a sneek peek at what it'll be like.

[MrMister]

Originally posted by X_marks_the_ed
I'd enter, but none of NFT is actually complete except the resources. Just various scattered maps from different parts of it, but if I ever get the drive to ever complete section 1, I'll enter it. however, due to lack of time, it will probably lack part of the beginning movie.

Still waiting for Dragonblaze's CBS to be finished. Then I could at least complete up to the first fight with Ace (half of part 1/6).

So you skip that part and do everything after it!
It doesn't take a genius to figure that out!