Sorry, totally couldn't get to the forums earlier, but I am here now, and I'm introducing the second iteration of the Hourgame compo!
The purpose of Hourgame Saturday is, to encourage the amateur game-making, or to put it bluntly, to make you tear your ass off your chair and finally make something.
In this activity your task is to make an AGS game within a strict and a very short deadline (i.e. one hour).
Timeline:
The event takes place every (surely hope so) Saturday, starting at 7:00 pm GMT, when the theme is revealed on the IRC and in this thread. The participants then have one hour to make their entries and 15 more minutes for uploading. In brief: the deadline for entries is 8:15 pm.
Then the voting takes place till the Monday Morning (since I can't use internet on Sunday afternoons, that's what we'll have to settle with).
Basic rules:
- Participants should join IRC for rules and updates, but stickam/tokbox is fine as long as there's someone to relay the information.
- The theme is set by the previous week's winner and by the contest's host in event of his/her absence.
- While it is not forbidden for the theme-setters to participate in the activity, their games cannot be voted for (to prevent accusations of cheating and to discourage regular participation).
- Instead, theme-setters are encouraged to draw trophies for the contest's winners.
- Making your game from scratch is strongly encouraged, though it is not forbidden to use music or artwork from public sources if you are allowed to (e.g. using public domain music tracks in your game is OK, but not really necessary). It is also possible to use a pre-existent AGS template for your game (e.g. that Verb-Coin GUI template).
- You cannot use the stuff you've made earlier, because this competition is about making something new.
Uploading:
Suggested hosts to upload your entry to are:
- http://www.mediafire.com/ (http://www.mediafire.com/)
- http://www.sendspace.com/ (http://www.sendspace.com/)
- http://www.rapidshare.com/ (http://www.rapidshare.com/)
- Or your own place.
Voting:
Just tell us your favourite game (and possibly a couple of less favourite ones), and hopefully someone will do the counting.
P.S.
This time I will post the topic (in approximately hour and a half) first on IRC then here. So you'll have a reason to join IRC.
Ah, great. Hopefully, I will be able to enter this time...
...although I'm also obviously the only one.
Quote from: NsMn on Sat 10/10/2009 18:42:23
Ah, great. Hopefully, I will be able to enter this time...
...although I'm also obviously the only one.
I'd join you, but I can't, being tired and stuff.
Upd:
BECAUSE TODAY IS WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Mental_Health_Day) THE THEME IS
"Pets and Crazy People". YAY.
Since I am too sleepy today to host, you may post your game links till 7AM GMT when I will hopefully wake up. (it's 19-15 now when I post this).
Remember that using more than one hour to work on your game may do harm to your brain!
Don't expect much:
http://coolbluefiles.net/Cat_owning.rar
Geez... All I could come up with is this...
http://www.sendspace.com/file/qix884 (http://www.sendspace.com/file/qix884)
Am I stuck or is it only
Spoiler
the 'look' command?
Spoiler
There's absolutely no game... I spent to much time trying the make all the text be displayed in that window that I didn't have enough time to make puzzles.
Then shall the voting commence! (while I am making trophies and stuff)
Man... I wish I could've joined this one. :'(
But anyway, voting: :)
Despite NsMn's game having some cool mechanics, my vote has to go to Gord10 because Cat_owning fitted the theme best imo.
I re-uploaded it to show at least what I was trying to do:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6nkwd7 (http://www.sendspace.com/file/u1xdwt)
EDit: Fixed the link... I accidently uploaded the old version again.
Quote from: Gord10 on Sat 10/10/2009 20:45:18
Am I stuck or is it only
Spoiler
the 'look' command?
I am at the same stage with your new version
Spoiler
The game recognises look, open and close, but i cant find any nouns or verbs that work
Well, it STILL isn't a game. It's just... nothing, actually :P
There will be a whole game like this later, I promise.
Ok, so it's about time to close the voting and if I am not miscalculating something, Gord10 has won.
Congratulations!