Competitions? Team game & story design

Ginny · Tue 06/04/2004 22:23:25

I know there was once a group game making competition in which a team of randomly selected people (winamp?

) would create a game in a month (?).
I dunno if it was being hosted by m0ds (
http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=9;action=display;threadid=5333
) or someone else, but is anyone else interested in bringing it back?
I think it's a great concept for a competition, and with some tinkering with the rules it could work nicely. Making games in a team is possibly more challenging than alone, because it requires more organistaion and team-work skills, so I think requiring just a short but interesting game would be good.
Teams could be selected randomly, or people could divide themelves into artists, musicians, programmers, designers, animators..

edit: It seems m0ds was planning to return this in the summer? In that case, foget all I just said

Another thing, and this again depends on how many other people are interested, a competition for writing/designing a game was suggested here:
http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=9;action=display;threadid=12098
suggested by Migs (kinda).
I think this is a good idea, as I like writing game designs personally (some kind of template could be made), anyone else share my opinion?
Maybe Migs will host the comp, but if not I might want to

.

P.s. One problem with such a competition is that once I make a game design, I would want to keep it to myself, and possibly make it someday, and also there might be the issue of people not wanting an idea stolen.

Migs · Tue 06/04/2004 23:11:05

No thanks. You go ahead.

Privateer Puddin' · Tue 06/04/2004 23:16:04

AGS Team 5 is still working on theirs

i wanted to bring up starting a new one not long ago, but was afraid AGA would hit me with a stick

DragonRose · Wed 07/04/2004 01:33:57

For the plot writing competition, we actually had one once. Minimi ran it and it was called Originality-Quest." However, he only ever did the one plot competion, then continued on to an unsucessful dialog writing competition. If someone would be willing to start it up again, that would be awesome!

Ginny · Wed 07/04/2004 09:22:30

Yes, I remember that

Some great stories there! However, the difference is that was for writing short ideas to then be made into a game.. (I remember another competition which asked for ideas and then chose artists etc, but it got stuck there (it was a fantasy idea by SSH). That would be nice too.
What I mean by this is writing a complete game design document, with puzzles, dialogs, behaviour of elements in the game, for a short game.

Hehe, well I hope to see a return of the team comp in the summer, when it really is easier to work in a team.

AGA · Wed 07/04/2004 11:18:05

Quote from: Privateer Puddin' on Tue 06/04/2004 23:16:04
AGS Team 5 is still working on theirs i wanted to bring up starting a new one not long ago, but was afraid AGA would hit me with a stick

Damn right.

Pet Terry · Wed 07/04/2004 16:43:20

Team 2 is still working on their game aswell!

Migs · Wed 07/04/2004 19:06:15

You know, designing a game is no easy task (!!!). It might be worthwhile to design a web site dedicated to these team comps, where people can upload their various entries and vote on what they think should go in the game. That way, it isn't such a loose effort.

What projects are all the teams working on right now?

Vel · Wed 07/04/2004 19:21:22

I say bring back AGS team challenge!

Scummbuddy · Wed 07/04/2004 21:01:04

Team 1 is actually working on their game still too... and we'll beat you all, and still get the best game out there....