*yoink* ;)
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 26th June 2010. Starting at 19:00 BST (14:00 New York, 20:00 Johannesburg) 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 (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/acirc.htm)) 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.
And a for the shiny trophy ofcourse:
(http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww251/FTUltra/HGFootballTrophy.png)
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?).
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/)
DropBox (https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTE0MTAzMDA5) (Recommended by Magma)
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.
Theme:size=6]Football[/size]
It can be world cup related but it does not has to be.
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 (July the 3rd)
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!
I hope to attend, but as my father is getting married that day I may have to, I may have to do an early submission thing, say a few hours earlier. That cool?
Quote from: magma42 on Wed 23/06/2010 04:05:51
I hope to attend, but as my father is getting married that day I may have to, I may have to do an early submission thing, say a few hours earlier. That cool?
How about 15:00 BST -ish? I'll be in the chat.
If more people want to do an early submission, it might be convenient to do it at the same time, but if that isn't possible then oh well ;).
Early submission for me too please :)
But I know nothing about timezones, could you tell me what time this post is posted in BST?
« Reply #3 on: Today at 12:41 » :D
That's the reason why I never change timezones at forums, time zones confuse me ;).
Could I just make a game in 1 hour on Saturday? And post when I start? I'm also not good with time zones. :(
If you never changed the time offset in the board settings you could just look at the header, it gives the actual time (BST) used for this competition when you refresh (F5). If that still confuses you you can connect to IRC and hang around for a bit, the topic will be announced there too. I need predefined times because I will not be there the whole day.
If that still doesn't work for you, you could join one of the Impromptu Hourgames which happen well... erm.. impromptu, so I have no idea when exactly ;D
You have spelled 'Saturday' incorrectly in the thread title.
I live in America and I have no idea how the 14:00 - 15:00 thing works in Britain. :P
My time zone though is this: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=407
I was just gonna start at around 1:00 PM or whenever the theme is announced.
Hoursong thread:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=41201.0 (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=41201.0)
The hoursong will finish before the hourgame, so there will (hopefully) be songs there available for use.
The hourgame starts in 4 hours and 30 minutes:
19:00 GMT
21:00 Greece Time
But the OP says 19:00 BST.
Quote from: Dataflashsabot on Sat 26/06/2010 16:54:00
But the OP says 19:00 BST.
He probably meant BST, that's the time on top of the forums, I think
OK it is time for...
Football
It can be world cup related but it does not has to be.
For the winner of this competition there is a shiny trophy!:
(http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww251/FTUltra/HGFootballTrophy.png)
Hour song enties:
In pursuit (http://shutupload.com/info/8d9fe6c3b4fa) by me
car chase (http://www.sendspace.com/file/wfdies) by qptain Nemo
Surf-Chasing Dr Doom (http://www.box.net/shared/j3rsfox7ak) by DrWhite
Older:
Wyz's "You've Failed Me Again": http://shutupload.com/dl/d8976a419035/.
Bulbapuck's "Bulba fails": http://shutupload.com/dl/179b62e2f42f/.
Damien's song: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8FB50O7R (alternative: http://www.2shared.com/audio/0hsxfFyX/DHC.html).
Good luck!!!
I couldn't think of an adventure game to make. Bored, I fired up Construct and made this.
Vuvuzela-B-Gone
As this was not made in AGS, I'm guessing it's not admissible, but maybe someone will find it fun :)
Download (http://www.box.net/shared/l32ychh1y8)
Also, the noise is just me buzzing into a microphone. It doesn't sound anything like a vuvuzela, but it's equally annoying, so it serves its purpose :P
Here's mine:
(http://www.kweepa.com/step/ags/games/Vuvuzealous.png)
http://www.kweepa.com/step/ags/games/Vuvuzealous.zip
My comp just rebooted without warning :-[
It wasn't long ago I saved, but it's pretty safe to say I won't make the deadline..
Will post what I've got later.
Here is the early submission of Scarab
Earl Ballington (download 800k) (http://shutupload.com/dl/ea62d94e0d25/)
(http://scarab117.webs.com/photos/happy/EarlBallScreen.png) (http://shutupload.com/dl/ea62d94e0d25/)
Enjoy!
ps.
Early submissions are posted with actual offset to the others.
Here we are, sorry for delay.
Dead football:
http://shutupload.com/dl/4a174335572a/ (http://shutupload.com/dl/4a174335572a/)
Thanks to Wyz for music :)
http://shutupload.com/dl/43139c3a0795/
my enrty
Another early submission entry! This one is by Magma42
A tale of Feets and Balls (download 2.5 megs) (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1410300/A%20Tale%20of%20Feets%20and%20Balls%20-%20Magma42.zip)
Enjoy!
ps.
Again with actual offset, Magma had some difficulties with his cruel virus protection software--it kept messing with his files--so he's got 20 minutes extra to sort it out.
Ok, 6 entries are in, perfect!
A lot of computers were failing, so we are a bit late this time but oh well. After all, great turn up! Thanks all everyone for entering.
For your convenience all the submission in a single file:
Download (5.9 megs) (http://shutupload.com/dl/177784f03988/)
Let the voting commence!!! ;D
I cast my vote for Scarab's Earl Ballington, however I do have to take issue with a bit of the content in the game. Sir, it is always time for inseminating females, and I'll thank you to remember that.
A Tale of Feets and Spheres: As per bloody usual, very funny. The puzzle wasn't quite up to snuff, but the bouncing football animation was awesome.
Dead Football: I didn't quite see what I did to finish this one, but it was an interesting take on the theme.
Earl Ballington: Again, very funny. Seemed a bit buggy at the end as it took me many tries to get past the distracted keeper.
Astrofootball: Nice idea, somewhat let down by the collision and bounce mechanics. Good tutorial at the start!
Vuvuzela-B-Gone: I can't really judge this one as I have no idea what went into it. :=
My vote goes to magma42 and A Tale of Feets and Spheres.
[EDIT] Oh, by the way, the all-in-one zip seems to be missing the games with Vuvuzela in the title (Vuvuzealous and Vuvuzela-B-Gone) - is that deliberate? :)
Quote from: SteveMcCrea on Sun 27/06/2010 00:23:28
[EDIT] Oh, by the way, the all-in-one zip seems to be missing the games with Vuvuzela in the title (Vuvuzealous and Vuvuzela-B-Gone) - is that deliberate? :)
Ok, I have no idea how that happened ??? but it is fixed now.
Played all of them, my vote has to go to Vuvuzealous.
I'm going to vote for A Tale of Feets and Spheres.
I'm also gonna vote for Magma's A tale of feet and spheres as it had an awesome animation and it made me laugh.
A Tale of Feets and Balls - Magma42
A funny game which like the others already made me laugh. Good job.
Dead football - Bulbapuck
Nice looking game, three endings! well done.
Earl Ballington - Scarab
Also an enjoyable game, had a few problems though. Ow yes, and ofcourse, tits ;)
Football HG - Bicilotti
Concept is cool, but the collision detection is a bit dodgy unfortunately. You should redevelop this game someday. :)
Vuvusela-B-Gone - Dataflashsabot
Fun little arcade game but you can't kill them all. I found it a rather good exercise to train for RSI. ;)
Vuvuzealous - SteveMcCrea
I liked the idea very much, but it would have been more fun with a score I guess. It did render the atmosfeer well.
Well, my vote is not going to do much but I go by Magma's
Time to wrap this thing up!
I present to you all, winner of the golden football,... I mean soccer ball, no I DO mean football: Magma42!!!
(http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww251/FTUltra/HGFootballTrophy.png)
Congrats!
Along with this shiny trophy comes the responsibility hosting the next hourgame, well you know the drill. See you the next Saturday.
Cheers!
Hoorah. Well then, same time next week, all. Will be making the proper post in a few days, see yall there.