HourGame Saturday - April 3 - New Time

Rex Mundane · Mon 29/03/2010 21:16:38

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 April 3, 2010. Per requests last week, the time has changed. Starting at 16:00 GMT (12:00 EST, 09:00 PDT) participants will have an hour to make their games + 15 minutes to beta test / upload (i.e. the deadline is 17:15 GMT).

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.

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

Not recommended:
http://www.mediafire.com/
http://www.sendspace.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 Wednesday, April 7, whichever comes sooner.

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. There will be a trophy for the winner this week, so be sure to compete for the inspiring glory of 48 by 48 pixels of animated gif-ness.

So, because I can't be trusted to know what time it is and showed up late to my own party, the theme is/was "Where is Magma?" And the winner will receive the coveted "Where is Magma" Trophy seen below.

Kweepa · Mon 29/03/2010 23:04:38

I think I'm in.
(Your "3 simple steps to IRC" are missing.)

Rex Mundane · Tue 30/03/2010 05:12:17

Eep! *fixafixafix*

Bulbapuck · Tue 30/03/2010 14:16:58

Sadly won't be joining this one either.... I think.

Damn computer T_T

Wyz · Tue 30/03/2010 23:23:41

The time doesn't work for me. :'(

Rex Mundane · Wed 31/03/2010 00:23:15

Dang... would later be better? Last time there were so few entries owing, it seemed, to scheduling conflicts, game started too late for some, don't want to have fixed it so much its too early for others now.

Bulbapuck · Fri 02/04/2010 14:32:45

Quote from: Bulbapuck on Tue 30/03/2010 14:16:58
Sadly won't be joining this one either.... I think.

Damn computer T_T

Hahaaaa, I LIED!!!!
I think my computer is okay now. So I will join.

The time is awesome, I don't really think later would work for me.

Dataflashsabot · Fri 02/04/2010 15:32:05

No idea if I can join or not, but I'd like to. Count me in as a maybe.

Jim Reed · Fri 02/04/2010 17:23:06

Damn, that's tomorrow. I'll try to make time.

Rex Mundane · Fri 02/04/2010 22:00:29

Alright then, barring any potential upcoming objections, HourGame Saturday is on for tomorrow, 16:00 GMT, 12:00 EST, 9:00 PDT. Looking forward to seeing everyone in IRC then.

Kweepa · Sat 03/04/2010 15:46:28

15 minutes to go! Get thee to irc.

Bulbapuck · Sat 03/04/2010 16:03:44

Since Magma never showed up the topic is now:

WHERE MAGMA WENT

let's go!

Bulbapuck · Sat 03/04/2010 16:34:03

For the first hourgame ever, I give up...
I did not have enough coffee..

:'(

I won't even post what I've got as I accidentally made the character bigger than the screen

It's SOOO ugly.
It's a shame, as I had a good idea.

Best of luck to you guys

Rex Mundane · Sat 03/04/2010 16:54:18

*headdesk* goddam time zone converter... as of now its 11:50 est and 16:50 gmt, because I'm stupid as all hell.

Okay, so I have no idea how this will play so here goes: Regular Hourgame rules still apply, everyone who expected it to start 16:00 GMT and is now playing with the theme "Where Magma Went" will finish 17:30 ish as per usual, and everyone waiting for 12:00 est will play with the original theme I was going to do, and will announce momentarily. May end up with a different winner for each of the two themes, or one grand winner who incorporated both somehow... Disregard this, since nobody was left waiting for the 12:00est time.

Kripes but I'm sorry on this one, all, teach me to trust a website to tell the time.

Kweepa · Sat 03/04/2010 17:16:31

Oops, did we jump the gun?
Anyway, here's my entry:

http://www.kweepa.com/step/ags/games/WheresMagma.zip

Rex Mundane · Sat 03/04/2010 18:16:20

Well okay then, since Steve is the only one to have completed a game this week (and a fine one at that) he is the winner of this weeks Hourgame and gets the Where's Magma prize-trophy-gif-thing.