Hourgame Saturday [V for Valentine - VVinner announced!]

[bicilotti]

thanks for the time ext, on saturday night connection drops more often than not! So, who managed to make a game?

edit: crap, double post

[Bulbapuck]

Sorry I'm late, there was a bug that took like forever to find...

But here it is: Present for valentines:
http://shutupload.com/dl/c295ddcffbe0/

[Vukul]

Okay, okay, this competition is closed!

*how can I change the topic name, btw? (noobish question, I know...)

[Wyz]

By editing the first post

[Rex Mundane]

Okay, here's my little mess, late and lame as ever. Dont know if it disqualifies me but whatever.  Hope this link works better than my last one did.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1410300/Heart%20Attack.7z

[Kweepa]

bici:
* nice minigame, but too hard to play with a trackpad

Wyz:
* great idea, and nice cup graphics!

Bulbapuck:
* lots of interaction responses
* puzzles!
* animated characters!

magma:
* multiple rooms
* some great dialog
- late
- I need a walkthrough!

I vote for Bulba!

[Vukul]

Ola

By editing the first post

Thank you very much!

So, voting has begun.
In the morning I'll post the link to the whole package, and decide the trophy.
Voting is open till 'round Tuesday, so help yourself to games, please! :-)

[bicilotti]

Well, vote time!

Steve McCrea Massacre: very enjoyable game! I especially liked the graphics choice and the dialogue with the policeman Not too hard, not too easy, solid production.

Wyz's Cup-o-Valentine: one of the most refined depiction ever seen of a blue cup . It is very good on graphics but lacks a bit of sharpness: gameplay is quite light (there's not a "real" puzzle) and same goes for dialogues. It's difficult to make good graphics and a game in one hour though, so this one is a worthy effort!

Bulbapuck's Present for Valentine's: simple and cute graphics, talk and walk animations, brilliant dialogues, many response, effective characters and two endings! The things that bugger me are the misplaced cursor's hotspot (which adds some frustration) and the lack of responses when looking at an inventory item (strikes me, because hotspots & character have one). And Bulbapuck managed to stuff all that in just one hour (or a bit more)!

Magma42's heart attack: the longest hourgame I've ever played, with 3 backgrounds, 3 puzzles, many inventory objects (some of wich where... translucent ). I was a bit puzzled by some items (nuclear shoe?) but in the end it was not too difficult to get to the desired solution. It was also the only game not to use a Valentine's cliche, so yay for it!

My vote goes to Bulbapuck!

edit: dualnames and FSi, what happened to you?

[Rex Mundane]

Kweepa - The art is okay, dont know what the point of the cop and the storekeeper are if they don't affect the game. Not sure if its a bug but, if I buy the card and the flowers, why do I only give her the card?

Wyz - Like the graphics, but very short, kept thinking I was supposed to move the lamp to the other side of the desk, should have known I had to talk to the telephone I suppose.

bici - Like the idea of a minigame, but the point wasn't really explained very well. plus the random movement is kinda cheap, I dunno.

Bulba - Best Art, multiple endings, more interactions. Cursor hotspots a bit bugged I think, but otherwise great.

I vote Bulba

[Kweepa]

Kweepa - The art is okay, dont know what the point of the cop and the storekeeper are if they don't affect the game. Not sure if its a bug but, if I buy the card and the flowers, why do I only give her the card?

Spoiler

Cop: try leaving the house without clicking on the clothes.
Storekeeper: no point really. I drew the backgrounds first. If I had time I might have worked her into the game better.
Bug: Try that with your girlfriend, and see if you get credit for the flowers.

[close]

[Wyz]

I took this contest as a chance to test a template I'm working on, and need to say the blue cup is part of it. I don't like to cheat, just had fun, so if someon has problems with this, I will withdraw from the contest.

SteveMcCrea:
Nice little game, I had to do some backtracking, but that was actually funny.

Bicilotti:
I like the looks of this mini game, but did not really get the hang of it.

Bulbapuck:
Backgrounds, animating characters, dialogues and two endings, in just one hour, its like magic.

Magma42:
A hour game with more then one room is rare, puzzles were a bit weird, but not impossible.

I'm going to vote for Bulbapuck.

[Dualnames]

Not a valid entry

I've tried to work on this to catch the one hour limit, but it was rather impossible..
Anyway, here's of what would have been my entry:



ROGER Will Not Comply
Download Here

Sorry no proper hinting as I wanted.

[Vukul]

Okay, here's the hourgame package - enjoy!

http://files.mail.ru/A0NK1B
(click the disk icon to download)

Really good participance here: 5 entries + 1 bonus

The trophy is almost ready, and I almost foresee who will get it

[david]

I go for McCrea 

very solid games overall 
thanks

[NsMn]

My vote herewith goes to bicilotti,
because I love minigames. And it had Ragtime music!!

[FSi++]

I vote Bulbapuck. Because fish is sexy.

[Bulbapuck]

Ok. I finally decided who to vote for. It was an incredibly hard decition though, awesome games guys

Kweepa - A very fun idea, which was executed really well. I was highly entertained

Wyz - This game is absolutely beautiful, for an hourgame the graphics were really awesome.

Bici - I will never get how you can script like that for an hourgame Awesome as always, but maybe a bit too easy?

Magma - This game is BIG for being an hourgame. Nice graphics and several puzzles made this game great. This is a definate improvement from your last hourgame, good job!

My vote goes to SteveMcCrea.

[Vukul]

This competition produced many good games... which can be actually called "games"
I think, it's a good tendancy.

But due to that also, I've found it extremely difficult to vote...
So, my thoughts:

bicilotti - Valentine game
So, it is not an adventure game, but still very interesting and fun to play. And definitely wins the "Best Scripting in an hourgame" (if we had that category, of course ).

Bulbapuck - Present for valentines
Very nice and polished game, I should say. I join to everyone above who metioned lots of responses (some of them very witty and fun), animation, different endings... Much effort put into an hour. Good game!

magma42 - Heart Attack
Oh my, I've met them again: the Sour Smiley and the (Nuclear) Shoe of Mass Destruction! I think, it becomes a tendency. I'm looking forward to seeing other games with these and whether you'll be able to blend them in any topic
And also, very non-standard approach to the theme stated.

Steve McCrea - Massacre
Very nice graphics and interesting gameplay. Multiple endings, too... Reminded me somehow an IF classics, 9.05 - in fact it provokes you to restart the game several times to get all possible variants of the plot development!

Wyz - Cup-o-Valentine
Very thought-provoking story about two cups (can it be called 'a c(o)uple' in English? )... and good in graphics. A bit awkward in control, though.

And, my vote goes for...
Steve McCrea

[Vukul]

Okay, now I guess, I should do the counting and announce the winner.

So, here we have:

3rd place - bicilotti, Valentine game (1 vote)

2nd place - Steve McCrea, Massacre (3 votes)

1st place (winner!) - Bulbapuck, Present for Valentines (5 votes)

Thanks everybody for good participation and solid entries!

And yes, Bulbapuck can claim his trophy:

[Bulbapuck]

*YAY*
Thanks for all the kind words guys And thanks Vukul for hosting and the trophy .
(I can't add the trophy yet due to a lack of space, I'll add it tonight)

I hope the next one will be as awesome as this one, I think I have an idea already...

See you then