Hourgame Saturday [October 31] [Play the games and vote!]

[bicilotti]

Hourgame Saturday

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 7:30 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 8:45 pm.
Then the voting takes place till the Monday Morning.

Basic rules:
- Participants can join IRC for rules and updates (how do I join IRC?), but every information will be posted here too, so it's your choice.
- 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.sendspace.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.

Important: please post here if you'd like to join but the timeline is not ok for you! Slight changes are always possible!

p.s.: I've started a rather naive form of lobbying in the Comp&Act board. You, as an hourgamer, may want to support it.

[Bulbapuck]

I'm in and I also showed interest in the Comp&activities-move of this thread

A question though; My free trial time for mIRC is about to run out :'( seeing that I am entirely broke at the moment and with no income whatsoever, is there any way to keep on going to the IRC-channel for free?

[NsMn]

There once was a bug that enabled you to just wait until the "continue" button pops up again, click it, wait again, click it again and you can use mIRC. Also, you should actually be able to download to trial version again...

[bicilotti]

A question though; My free trial time for mIRC is about to run out :'( seeing that I am entirely broke at the moment and with no income whatsoever, is there any way to keep on going to the IRC-channel for free?

I use ChatZilla (a FF addon, unsurprisingly enough). Once installed and loaded, just type

/attach irc.adventuregamestudio.co.uk and then /join #AGS

in the command line and that should do the trick.

Or, use FSi's method

A little tip: use http://www.mibbit.com to access the famous AGS IRC channel!

1. click "start chatting"
2. click "server"
3. enter "irc.adventuregamestudio.co.uk" into the server field
4. enter "#ags" into the channel field
5. enter some nick
6. click "go"
and there you are.

which feels more friendly.

[Bulbapuck]

Thank you!! I was getting worried..
See y'all tomorrow

[Bror_Jon]

This might make me make my first game 

[IndieBoy]

I'm interested, but my main problem is getting back to my flat by 7pm as I'm meant to finish work at 6:30pm, but I have had stay on until 7:15pm in the past. So I'm not saying change the time, just that I might start later (possibly very late). If I do decide to enter I will post when I'm starting and that means I may post my entry after the 8:15 deadline. I don't mind if its an accepted entry or not, but at least I've told you all in advance.
Also I'll be in costume while working on it as I'll still be dressed up from work.

@Bulbapuck: I've been using mibbit for ages and its great. Highly recommended.

[NsMn]

Lemme guess, the theme's going to be "Halloween"? 

[bicilotti]

I'm interested, but my main problem is getting back to my flat by 7pm.

Say indie, would 7:30PM GMT do for you? And conversly, would that be acceptable by other contestants?

[IndieBoy]

Most likely, that will be fine. But I don't want to be a hassle

[bicilotti]

Most likely, that will be fine. But I don't want to be a hassle

Ok, the party will start at 19:30 rather than 19:00 (I also encourage the next host to make 19:30 the "official" start-time).

[IndieBoy]

Bicilotti you are the greatest Italian ever.

[Stupot]

Just don't tell Mario.

[abstauber]

Argh! Can't connect - am I too late?

[NsMn]

There is still 2 hours... two fuckin' hours!  :o

[abstauber]

*cough* gmt +1 

That's a shame as this will interefere with my halloween plans

[bicilotti]

Ok, in about 17 minutes I will annnounce the theme here and on #IRC.

Mr ShiderMeSideways has volounteered to make a music track during the competition. It is mandatory you use the track in your game.

[bicilotti]

The theme is:

SKELETONS

As stated before, ShiverMeSideways will compose a track and upload it here shortl. It is mandatory you use it in your game.

[ShiverMeSideways]

Right, hello, everyone. I've just finished the song. You can download it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?jmzthzxoyzx. Really glad I could participate this week too. Good luck to all the game makers!

[NsMn]

Ah. At least I got something done finally, though it's utter crap. But I demand a special prize because I'm first


The annoying wife


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