Hourgame Saturday - Winner announced

Wyz · Wed 18/08/2010 16:04:05

Hourgame! Hourgame! Hourgame! Have I mentioned Hourgame? Well... Hourgame! Hourgame! Yep... Good ol' Hourgame... Gotta love it... like Magma loves moving text...
What's an Hourgame competition?
The purpose of Hourgame Saturday is to encourage amateur game-making, or to put it bluntly, to make you plant your ass in your chair and finally make something.
In this activity your task is to make an AGS game within a strict and very short deadline (i.e. one hour).

When will it take place?
This Hourgame session will take place on Saturday 21th August 2010. Starting at 19:00 BST (14:00 New York, 20:00 Hamburg) participants will have an hour to make their games + 15 minutes to beta test / upload (i.e. the deadline is 20:15 BST).

How do I participate?
A theme is set by the previous week's winner and by the contest's host in event of his/her absence. It will be announced on IRC (3 simple steps to IRC) and here.

Why should I participate?
Because it's FUN!
Research shows that Hourgames get the creative juices going and will aid for healthier game building skills.

Additional info:
- 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-existing AGS template for your game (e.g. the Verb-Coin GUI template).
- You cannot use stuff you've made earlier, because this competition is about making something new.
- You are allowed to use previous Hoursongs (Should we create a list somewhere? Yes we should! why? because!).

Camwhoring:
If you have Camtasia or Camtasia-esque software, it would be great to see your "Making of"! Or blog about it, or just open Notepad, do something! No twittering.

Uploading:
Suggested hosts to upload your entry to are:

Recommended:
TerranRich's ShutUpload
DropBox (Recommended by Magma42, referral link)

Not recommended:
http://www.mediafire.com/
http://www.sendspace.com/
http://www.rapidshare.com/

Or your own place.

Theme:
funfairs

Trophy:

Voting:
Just tell us your favourite game. You don't have to enter to vote!
(If you want to tell us what you liked and disliked about all the entries, that would be super nice of you!)
After all games are in you are encouraged to vote, again, you don't have to enter to vote. Voting closes the next Saturday (August 28)

Please post below if you're interested in participating, if the change in time will/won't work for you, or if you have any other questions.

If you are unable to make the scheduled time, but wish to participate anyway, say so in this thread and we can work out a scheduled hour at your convenience to make your submission (Earlier that day for instance).

Hope to see you there!

Rex Mundane · Wed 18/08/2010 23:22:58

Wicked. I'm up but I'll be busy at that time, will there be early entry?

Wyz · Wed 18/08/2010 23:40:16

I'll be there an hour early, but if that does not work either let me know.

bicilotti · Thu 19/08/2010 00:09:47

It's time for me to rejoin this extavagant activity. Count me in!

Kweepa · Thu 19/08/2010 00:54:20

In that case I'm out.

In.

Ogon · Fri 20/08/2010 13:21:48

If I manage to turn up at the correct time (time zones :o) and I'm actually able to think of a fitting game in regards of the yet-unknown concept, then I'll participate aswell (otherwise I will just run away in fear and pretend I never voiced my attempt to join

)

Oh and I'm still in doubt whether I can even create an AGS game in just one hour, no matter how sparse it is, but we will see

Kweepa · Sat 21/08/2010 15:46:06

Hooray! New blood!

Wyz · Sat 21/08/2010 19:00:38

And it starts!

this time with the theme:
Funfairs!

Kweepa · Sat 21/08/2010 20:15:34

Here's my entry:
http://www.kweepa.com/step/ags/games/BarkingMad.zip
I think I'm getting slower...

Wyz · Sat 21/08/2010 20:18:27

Bicilotti did a early submission, here is his entry:
http://shutupload.com/dl/5c7293930947/

Wyz · Sat 21/08/2010 21:08:26

All right then, Time to vote!

bicilotti · Sat 21/08/2010 22:28:07

As usual, Kweepa delivered a nice, tight, surprisingly surprising game. Nice one, one for him!

p.s.: let me state that my game is winnable, try to +++spoiler+++ get very unhappy while on drugs.

Spoiler

solution: obtain crack from the top man, talk to middle man thrice. Once your happymeter is at -2 it will trigger a cutscene.

[close]

Kweepa · Sat 21/08/2010 22:45:29

And as usual, bici's game is visually striking and non-cliched. One vote for bici!

[EDIT] And the ending has to be seen to be believed!

FSi++ · Mon 23/08/2010 15:11:49

played the games and vote Bicilotti for no particular reason

Alun · Mon 23/08/2010 20:19:53

Hmm... hard to decide again. Bici's game was definitely more innovative, but, well, Steve's game seemed more like an actual game. Difficult decision, but I think my vote is going to go to Steve.

Dualnames · Sat 28/08/2010 14:59:50

Steve would win, but bici had some nice tricks that impressed me. So my vote goes to bici.

Spoiler

Killing wheel > everything

[close]

Wyz · Sat 28/08/2010 15:43:38

Just in time Duals, I was just about to wrap things up.

Add one vote for Steve from me and we're right back to a tie. OK, I'm going to give this another day.

Scarab · Sun 29/08/2010 07:40:54

Just got around to playing them, really good puzzles this week, enjoyed them both.
But ultimately, have to pick a favourite, so:

My vote: Kweepa

Wyz · Mon 30/08/2010 00:24:46

Well, that settles it!

Congratulations Steve, you've won and the blatant trophy is yours!

bicilotti · Mon 30/08/2010 01:04:55

nice one steve, one of my fav HGs so far!

Hourgame Saturday - Winner announced

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