AGS money system (on forums)

Babar · Wed 10/05/2006 13:12:55

Yeah. All this "Award for this! Award for that! Recognition for this! Points for that!" stuff I find silly. I even thought that prizes for Sprite Jams was a bad idea. Something I'd much prefer is making posters searchable with this stuff. If I needed help with sprites for a game, I could search for all users with "Character Art" icon under their name, and then look through for those who are actually serious about their claim by seeing if they've won any Sprite Jams, game awards, last active dates, etc.
This would be more useful too, considering the purpose of AGS.

SSH · Wed 10/05/2006 13:22:46

They should give out prizes for making script modulesÃ,Â

While we're on the subject of things to encourage people to make pointless forum posts:

Ishmael · Wed 10/05/2006 13:58:51

The award hassle for sprite jams and such is in my humble opinion just silly.

That reminds me. OROW is the least recognised bigger competition. The ATC winners got something, I don't remember what, and if it still exists out there, MAGS is a thing of it's own, AGS awards need no mentioning, but OROW is just a locked thread sunk somewhere in the C&A forum and a few games among the short games getting put down for being too short in the short games category...

Not that it has something to do with this.

scotch · Wed 10/05/2006 14:51:28

OROW games aren't too short to put in the short games section at all, that's exactly where they should be put, just put on a warning about the super shortness if you want. As I've probably said before, OROW was not originally conceived to be a competition, but I don't think there's any harm in voting on the entries, and it seems to get some people more motivated.

Speaking of which, OROW 4, if we do it on schedule, will be on the 22nd of this month, hopefully there will be enough interest to make it worth doing.

Czar · Wed 10/05/2006 19:20:40

Now that CJ mentioned some kind of show, I'm wondering if it would be possible to take it to the next level.
What I mean is, could that be done live, in an AGS game?
Could the TCP/IP plugin do the job?
Imagine a set with a character you've drawn (or more probably, asked someone to draw it for you) playing a quiz with a live host, controlling him directly from your PC with a live audience that claps and shouts witty remarks (as in: You idiot, you drew yourself three hands! ...or something similar).
That would be a nice and cozy kind of way to participate in the award give-away program.
Actually, the set could be used for all kinds of occasions; AGS Awards, .... err I'm out.

Think about it,
peace.

Tuomas · Wed 10/05/2006 19:24:07

Quote from: m0ds on Tue 09/05/2006 21:49:16
...or having a big penis doesn't need graphical reward.

You know, we could compromise though and give each member a graphical penis under their avatar and make it longer in certain occasions, competitions, awards etc.

Ishmael · Wed 10/05/2006 19:31:47

Big Blue Penis Â¬Â¬

DoorKnobHandle · Wed 10/05/2006 19:33:37

Quote from: Tuomas on Wed 10/05/2006 19:24:07
You know, we could compromise though and give each member a graphical penis under their avatar and make it longer in certain occasions, competitions, awards etc.

Yeah and then everybody's pissed at me whenever I post because this image under my avatar screws up the whole forum layout and right border...

Ishmael · Wed 10/05/2006 19:36:47

And what'd the female members think about having such a graphical presentation by their name..?

Czar · Wed 10/05/2006 19:37:30

Quote from: dkh on Wed 10/05/2006 19:33:37

Yeah and then everybody's pissed at me whenever I post because this image under my avatar screws up the whole forum layout and right border...

That's not necesarry, it just means you will have to roll it tight like the rest of us...

MrColossal · Wed 10/05/2006 19:43:34

Quote from: Ishmael on Wed 10/05/2006 19:36:47
And what'd the female members think about having such a graphical presentation by their name..?

Why "Oh la la!" of course!

lo_res_man · Wed 10/05/2006 19:49:38

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oh ya sure, same thing they say to flashers.

Tuomas · Wed 10/05/2006 20:00:26

Quote from: lo_res_man on Wed 10/05/2006 19:49:38
: oh ya sure, same thing they say to flashers.

Yeah, I get that a lot

hmmm, then make it boobs for females. the longer the penis, the bigger the boobs... Why? because they both mean the world to us men.

Andail · Thu 11/05/2006 15:15:19

Initially, I planned to propose for the grand-slam winners of the competition forum to get some sort of special titles.

Anyhow, what I meant to finish my previous post with (after the "either" clause) was to say "or get rid of them entirely", as I find it strange that only two members should be awarded custom titles and no else.

Especially when those two happen to be genuine crooks.

PS:
Thanks SSH for finally pushing me out of the leet-league