Hourgame Saturday again!
I know the last one was just a week ago, but as I understand it the awards is somewhere around next saturday?
Anyway, to avoid collisions it's this week instead.
Inspired by how original Vukul was in writing the rules again instead of copy-pasting, I decided to also be original by being the first to copy-paste his text, with the rules written by bici:
What's an hourgame competition?
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).
When will it take place?
This hourgame session will take place on Feb 20, 2010, Saturday (what a coincidence!). It will start at 19:00GMT and participants will have an hour to make their games + 15 minutes to beta test / upload (i.e. deadline is 20:15GMT).
The time has been tested by several competitions already, so I think, it is generally suitable. If not, see below.
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 annouced on IRC* and here.
Additional infos
- 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:
Recommended:
- TerranRich's ShutUpload (http://shutupload.com/)
Not recommended...
- http://www.mediafire.com/
- http://www.sendspace.com/
- http://www.rapidshare.com/
I disaproove of ads..
- 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!
Hooray for hourgames!
Hooray indeed!
Considering an entry. Haven't used the engine since 2005, but I'll give it a bashing!
Awesome mätzyboy :D
Choose your topic:
Future or Futurism
Begin! ;D
Arrrgh!
It's painful but...
I give up! Not used to the new AGS and I screwed up the EGO graphics by creating "shadows" that came out bright... And I'm overdue before having gotten further than one view in the editor. Couldn't figure out the room editor and spent too much time...
This is intriguing though! I might have another go next week...
Sorry chaps!
EDIT:
I'll share a little stuff anyway, so you can see where I got to.
Here's the main character Glenn:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/matzyboy/glenn2.png)
And here's the main "room", outside the Fortune Teller's caravan... The path to certain death, according to the prediction...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/matzyboy/outsidesmall.png)
I also have various dethtraps and the fortune teller drawn...
Oh well...
OK, here is my half-assed entry.
FSi's
FUTUROBOTS (http://misendeavour.com/files/fsi_-_futurobots.rar)
While the main link doesn't work yet, you may try to download it here at rghost (http://rghost.net/1024210) (because either I am too stupid or shutupload doesn't work for me).
Spoiler
A screenshot that spoils everything: http://i45.tinypic.com/jqordg.png
Spoiler
I didn't tell you this, but there's an (as unofficial as it can possibly be) soundtrack for it somewhere around here: hxxp://rghost.net/1024251
Here's my quarter-assed entry:
(http://www.kweepa.com/step/ags/games/Valet.png)
http://www.kweepa.com/step/ags/games/Valet.zip
[EDIT] Fixed version!
I made a faithful adaption of The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem. Click the cover to download.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0f/Futurological_congress_cover.jpg/200px-Futurological_congress_cover.jpg) (http://shutupload.com/dl/aee4c662d938/)
(And no, there's really nothing to do. I didn't have time to make any puzzles. Let's call it an eight of an ass?)
/EDIT: This version has more animation, but it was finished very slightly after the deadline. (http://shutupload.com/dl/459c81280ea2/)
http://shutupload.com/info/4c0b323a5eb7
akatosh improved version (i.e. without a tremendous bug which made the game unbeatable)
Mine is late, owing to me trying to do too much that I hadn't done before. If its disqualified, then thems the breaks, but I just wanted to finish it anyway.
Behold!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1410300/Future%20Ho.zip
Okay, I had this finsiehd for like one hour, but I was thinking whether it should be a good idea to post it. So it's done within an hour, and it's rather obvious..but anyways if you want it disqualified do so.
HHGTG: Restaurant at the End of the Universe
(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/dasrestautandamendedesuob0.jpg)
Download it Here (http://www.ledzepforever.googlepages.com/hourgames/VERY_VERY_BAD_JOKE_BUT_COULDN_T_HELP_IT!!.rar)
Dual, getting a 404 when I click the link, so with no game to review I can't really score it. The following opinion is subject to change if its earth shattering stuff, however.
bicilotti's thing with the triangle - Broadly liked the idea, graphics were weak but interesting implementation of the central puzzle. Would have helped if I could have referenced the note in the beginning again after reading it in the intro.
akatosh's Futurological Chronicles - Um, hm. I don't know anything about the book so... I guess its accurate? Or not, and that was the point? Its, um... very emoticon-ish.
fsi's Futurobots - Is it possible to win this? I'm pretty sure I've gotten every possible pixel on the floor red, and got a score of 1000 before accidentally breaking it by hitting tab. anyway, like the idea, music's cool.
kweepa's Valet - I gather I'm not supposed to die at the end, and as such don't know how I'm supposed to win this. nevertheless, like the art, the camera-puzzle, and I'm sure the part of the game that I cant work out that allows me to survive reactivating the robot is pretty nice too, whatever it is.
Vote kweepa.
Check the link... again.
...damn you.
mätzyboy: Shame you couldn't get finished on time. I like what you had done so far.
FSi's FUTUROBOTS: A nice bit of scripting and nice animations for the people running and being crushed.
Akatosh's Futurological Congress: Some interesting and amusing dialog as usual! Lovely animation of a walking emoticon. Are you saying that in the future people will be reduced to emoticons? It's either prescient or crazy!
bicilotti's Futurist Picture: Bonus points for choosing Futurism! I must be old but I couldn't read the flashed message and it wouldn't repeat it, so I couldn't get any further. Nice animation of the eye opening.
magma42's Future Ho: Very complete game! Impressive to have an intro and an outro, and a lot of responses to actions. Entertaining too, if a little hard to follow (what happened?). Unfortunately it's not really an hour game.
dual's (what else?) HHGTTG game: I also couldn't download it.
My vote goes to
bici!
magma:
Unless you downloaded my game in the 10 minutes I had the unwinnable version up there, it should be possible to win.
Spoiler
You just need to look at everything (panel, bedistors) before interacting.
Quote from: magma42 on Sat 20/02/2010 22:44:41
fsi's Futurobots - Is it possible to win this? I'm pretty sure I've gotten every possible pixel on the floor red, and got a score of 1000 before accidentally breaking it by hitting tab. anyway, like the idea, music's cool.
No, it's unbeatable. Couldn't script that in time. :'(
Sorry I left early last night, but I had to go :(
Great entries though, every one of them ;D
FSi - Great graphics and scripting :D Really nice for an hourgame. No reward for painting the whole floor is the only bad part.
Kweepa - Really quite a great game! Puzzles and interactions, this game has a lot going for it! However after fixing the robot nothing happened really, which is sad because the rest was awesome!
Akatosh - Interesting graphics, sadly not a lot to do.
Bici - Very interesting! The first puzzle was really nice. Simple, yet rewarding. The second one you had to replay the game a couple of times to get. But really a great game!
Magma - This was a bit late, but it's still absolutely remarkable for a game made in such a small amount of time!
Spoiler
I didn't get a good look at the man in the end, but I have a pretty good idea of who it was ;) (It is him right?)
As the host I'm not going to disqualify you for a late entry, but when people vote they will probably take that into consideration.
Dualy - The link doesn't work...
My vote goes to
bici
Quote from: Bulbapuck on Sun 21/02/2010 16:29:14
However after fixing the robot nothing happened really, which is sad
Oops. I meant to add a
QuitGame(0); there. Please imagine the game ends suddenly and irritatingly with a windows "clunk" sound effect.
So let me get this straight you have to start a game from scratch and create a game within an hour ...
Animations, Music, Items, Rooms the lot + a nice story ftw
What a challenge
Quote from: Sinsin on Sun 21/02/2010 19:09:12
So let me get this straight you have to start a game from scratch and create a game within an hour ...
Animations, Music, Items, Rooms the lot + a nice story ftw
What a challenge
Yup, pretty much.
Coffee helps :P
Quote from: Sinsin on Sun 21/02/2010 19:09:12
Animations, Music, Items, Rooms the lot + a nice story ftw
To be fair, not many entries have all of those elements produced within the hour.
Animation is occasionally limited to Roger walking around.
Music is often absent or a midi lifted from the internet.
Some games have no inventory.
There is sometimes only a single room.
And nice stories are rare!
But yes, a whole game in an hour. It's like doing an AGS exam. Get everything laid out beforehand: open up AGS, open up a paint package with a few blank canvases. Limit yourself: I spend 20 minutes drawing; 20 minutes creating rooms, hotspots and functions; and 20 minutes scripting and testing. And then the last minute rush to pencils down.
Im so in lolz
People, about my game, just edit the link, it's a ends with .rar, but replace it with .zip.
Quote from: Dualnames on Sun 21/02/2010 20:51:29
People, about my game, just edit the link, it's a ends with .rar, but replace it with .zip.
It still doesn't work for me...
Quote from: Bulbapuck on Sun 21/02/2010 21:02:43
Quote from: Dualnames on Sun 21/02/2010 20:51:29
People, about my game, just edit the link, it's a ends with .rar, but replace it with .zip.
It still doesn't work for me...
For the love of Mods, read the link! Carefully, as slow as possible!
I tried .rar, .zip, .7z, .gzip. Nothing worked. Not even .terrible_joke_that_we're_going_to_ignore worked. Can you try re-uploading somewhere else?
Managed to finally download it Dual. Art was nice, but can I ask, why all the anti-semitism? seemed a bit excessive.
Quote from: Dualnames on Sun 21/02/2010 21:04:31
Quote from: Bulbapuck on Sun 21/02/2010 21:02:43
Quote from: Dualnames on Sun 21/02/2010 20:51:29
People, about my game, just edit the link, it's a ends with .rar, but replace it with .zip.
It still doesn't work for me...
For the love of Mods, read the link! Carefully, as slow as possible!
wha-wha-huuuuuhh??? ???
Is downloading the game a puzzle?
Is it a joke and there is no game to download?
I don't understand this at all...
Quote from: magma42 on Sun 21/02/2010 22:13:48
Managed to finally download it Dual.
wait..what?.... how?
Quote from: SteveMcCrea on Sun 21/02/2010 21:21:28
I tried .rar, .zip, .7z, .gzip. Nothing worked. Not even .terrible_joke_that_we're_going_to_ignore worked. Can you try re-uploading somewhere else?
Lol, I just thought you guys weren't able to see it or anything, and yes terrible joke, I wanted to enter the competition to be honest, but I just wished Bulba would have said something like I'll start around 8:)) gmt, just a day earlier, so I could really join, because i missed this for half an hour only. Ah well, thanks for the support there Magma42..:P
And thanks for the boohoos Steve.
Played em!
Interesting stuff...having a hard time voting between steve's and magma's... but I think my vote goes to magma.
Magma even it was made slightly more than an hour :)
For me Magma had a good game going on but it was unfortunate that he could not get it in in time. :-\
Bici Nice animation, nice puzzle, nice scripting good work
FSI Nice graphics and a nice bit of scripting there, pity no end game
Dual Downloaded as soon as I opened the link thank you for brightening my day lol,
Kweepa nice and amusing tidy little game again no end tho
Akatosh Nice use of characters hahhah dialogue was cool too
Bici gets my vote (if it counts )
Ok, I'll be brief since I'm posting this while pretending to work:
FSi: a wonderful experience. I enjoyed it even more than the other folks since I know how difficult it is to script something unique in less than an hour. Many were disappointed by the "no end", but violence never ends, so thumbs up.
Steve: solid production, as the previous one. I liked the artoftheftesque puzzle. Again, a missing QuitGame(0) annoyed many, but not me. Bonus points for multiple "endings", multiple location (and most importantly, for avign recognized my game as inspired by futuristic art :P).
Akatosh: I really enjoyed this one. Even though it is a bit clumsy there's a lot to do here and some clever scripting. Some of the predictions may even turn true, who knows! For sure underdeveloped, but classy!
magma: This one suffers from the well know 2hour Original Sin. I found it immensely enjoyable, with some really witty lines. Quality work!
In the end my vote goes to FSi, because that kind of blitz-scripting should really get some praise.
Alright, I'll have to make this short... I'll go with FSi, on account of giant killbots and a surprisingly "polished" aura despite the whole hourgame thang.
Alright then, unless I've miscounted, as of... *checks watch* right-now, here-standard-time, the score totals are:
Akatosh - 0
SteveMcCrea - 1
Magma42 - 2
FSi - 2
Bici - 3
Think we're waiting on FSi's vote, but barring a sudden upset (or how long is voting kept open? been 48 hours) looks like a winner am Bici so far.
Quote from: magma42 on Mon 22/02/2010 19:33:56
Alright then, unless I've miscounted, as of... *checks watch* right-now, here-standard-time, the score totals are:
Akatosh - 0
SteveMcCrea - 1
Magma42 - 2
FSi - 2
Bici - 3
Think we're waiting on FSi's vote, but barring a sudden upset (or how long is voting kept open? been 48 hours) looks like a winner am Bici so far.
What's the rush? The next one isn't until the 6th of march anyway :P
But you have a point, to get some structure let's have voting open 24 hours more.
So voting ends tomorrow at 20:00 GMT. Vote now unless you already have!
I have to apologise to Akatosh - I totally missed the prediction generator when I played the game the first time.
Great stuff!
So, unless math has betrayed both me and magma, we have a winner!
Congratulations to bici yay
Thanks everyone for making this hourgame so awesome :)
Quote from: Bulbapuck on Wed 24/02/2010 11:43:29
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Yay! I'm glad people enjoyed some ideas of my unpolished game! See you in two weeks then!
Is tomorrow still on?
Quote from: SteveMcCrea on Fri 05/03/2010 18:41:45
Is tomorrow still on?
Is.
*bicilotti runs to open a new thread