HOURGAME SATURDAY!
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 12th June 2010. Starting at 19:00 BST (14:00 New York, 20:00 Budapest) 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!
The more the merrier, and it's great pactice for the ol' game making skills.
And the winner will be provided with a marvelous little trophy, resplendent in its 48x48pxl greatness.
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.
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 (http://www.shutupload.com/)
I personally recommend DropBox (https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTE0MTAzMDA5), and not least of all because, by clicking on that referral link, you and I can both get an additional 250mb free storage in addition to the 2gb you get by default. I use it, as do all people I respect and admire.
Not recommended:
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. 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!)
The voting will end when all the entrants have voted, or on the following Friday, 18th June, whichever I arbitrarily feel like.
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.
Hope to see you there!
Hourgame On!Theme this week is How has Mike Tyson been spending his retirement. The winner will recieve the prestigious trophy shown below.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1410300/Tyson-Trophy.png)
Here's the All-In-One download (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1410300/Mike%20Tyson%27s%20Hourgames.zip) for the Hourgames this week. Let the voting begin!
Aaaaand to post the hoursongs:
Wyz's "You've Failed Me Again": http://shutupload.com/dl/d8976a419035/ (http://shutupload.com/dl/d8976a419035/).
Bulbapuck's "Bulba fails": http://shutupload.com/dl/179b62e2f42f/ (http://shutupload.com/dl/179b62e2f42f/).
Damien's song: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8FB50O7R (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8FB50O7R) (alternative: http://www.2shared.com/audio/0hsxfFyX/DHC.html (http://www.2shared.com/audio/0hsxfFyX/DHC.html)).
:)
You forgot the link for "3 simple steps to IRC".
I wanted to join this week but I can't. It's like I'm cursed to always be busy every other saturday :P This one I just found out that a bachelor party was moved 'til the 12th.. Typical.
Come sunday though, I will play and vote. Good luck guys :)
You can still participate if you like, we can work out a separate time before Saturday to give the theme, set aside an hour and you can email your submission.
Sweet! Let's do that :D
I'm available:
Today - any time really
Tomorrow - Any time before 16 pm GMT
Saturday - Any time before 15 pm GMT
Think early saturday might be best, want to see if anyone else needs to do the play-early-by-email thing. That work for you? say starting at 13:00 GMT, which I think is 9:00am EST, gives you an hour and change to put it all together?
Quote from: magma42 on Thu 10/06/2010 19:38:44
Think early saturday might be best, want to see if anyone else needs to do the play-early-by-email thing. That work for you? say starting at 13:00 GMT, which I think is 9:00am EST, gives you an hour and change to put it all together?
Sounds perfect :) I'll be in the IRC.
If I'm doing it this week, I'll have to do it that way as well.
I don't yet know when I can, tomorrow or today(in 3 hours maybe?).
I'm presently in the IRC channel, anyone who wanted to participate but enter early can find me there or private message me on the forum. Everyone else, see you at the appointed hour.
Hourgame is Begun! The theme this week:
Today marks the five-year anniversary of Mike Tyson's retirement from Heavyweight Boxing. How has he been spending his retirement?
Winner this week will take home the highly coveted and like totally prestigious Mike Tyson Hourgame Trophy.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1410300/Tyson-Trophy.png)
Given the nature of the theme I thought it might be entertaining to provide some available music for those participating if you'd like to use it. I'm linking here (http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/mike-tysons-punch-out-original-game-rip), to the soundtrack for Mike Tyson's Punchout, and providing his Sprite Sheet below.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1410300/punchout_miketyson_sheet.png)
Here is mine:
http://www.kweepa.com/step/ags/games/MunchOut.zip
Ran out of time to polish it... :(
LEMONS
(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/Bathroom.png)
Download shiftiness HERE (http://www.xenogiagames.com/dngames/Lemons.zip)
Ran out of good ideas.
Presenting...
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q200/Bobbix/titscreen.png)
Mike Tyson's Out of Punch!
http://shutupload.com/dl/3c8b0c829283/
Late:
Mike's new hobbyFeaturing: Bulba's entry for the Hoursong compo
http://shutupload.com/dl/e2735e7f83c8/
Just in case someone gets stuck:
Spoiler
How do I disable the security
Spoiler
Maybe you don't need to
Spoiler
The security panel is a diversion
#############################
The laser keeps tripping
Spoiler
You need to be able to see it
Spoiler
Maybe some dust works
Spoiler
hit the dusty wall (right corner)
#############################
The weight sensor keeps tripping
Spoiler
You need to fool the sensor
Spoiler
Maybe something that is similar to the trophy
Spoiler
Grab the ear of the statue and use it on the trophy
Oh ballscocksmotherfucker I forgot. Ah well, wouldn't have had any ideas anyway.
Alright then, I think thats well enough time for everyone to put theirs in. Here's the All In One zip file, (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1410300/Mike%20Tyson%27s%20Hourgames.zip) so let the voting begin.
Also going to just toss in my not-at-all-eligible entry here, Mike Tyson's Church Bakesale.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1410300/MikeScreen.png) (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1410300/Mike%20Tyson%27s%20Church%20Bakesale%21.zip)
Mike Tyson! Terror of the Seas! (http://shutupload.com/dl/12adfe9c2229/)
Spoiler
He became a pirate =P
Quote from: Dataflashsabot on Sat 12/06/2010 21:05:51
Oh ballscocksmotherfucker I forgot. Ah well, wouldn't have had any ideas anyway.
me too :'(
Dang, been three days and no votes? Hell then I'll just start with one vote for Wyz's "Mike's New Hobby." Liked the puzzles, and to judge from the IRC at the time, I may have been the first to work out the solution.
Quote from: magma42 on Wed 16/06/2010 01:57:47
Dang, been three days and no votes? Hell then I'll just start with one vote for Wyz's "Mike's New Hobby." Liked the puzzles, and to judge from the IRC at the time, I may have been the first to work out the solution.
Hey! :D
I'm voting for Wyz too. I also liked Steve's entry!
I will third the vote for Wyz.
Yeah, It's really hard to go past Wyz's entry, That's where my vote goes too.
Steve:
It's fun, the depth perception works fairly well, needs a timer and score though.
Captain Lexington:
Nice little game, too bad for the cat though ;)
Duals:
Wait, no sex? :D Lemons, that's pretty good too. ;D
Magma:
That last line was really good :D
Captain Lexington gets my vote.
Bumping the thread, going to close the voting sometime tomorrow, but barring a sudden upset or absurdly bad call by Referee Coulibaly (Yay! World Cup Humor!) its looking pretty one sided.
Well then its thoroughly settled. A winner is Wyz!
He is entitled to this marvelous commemorative collectors edition limited availability pristine gourmet high-falutin hoity-toity just plain awesome Mike Tyson Hourgame Trophy, along with all the rights and privileges that it confers.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1410300/Tyson-Trophy.png)
Yay!
Tyson will be remembered in my sig, with that awesome trophy! ;D
See you all next Saturday.