Competition Idea - Name that GameStar!!

PsychicHeart · Thu 08/12/2005 06:38:34

Hey peoples,
For a recent homework assignment, we had to create a group activity that would appeal to one of the following groups:
1. Video Gamer
2. Athlete
3. Fashioner
4. Musichead

I chose 1., and i decided to do a game where there was a distorted videogame character, ranging from 1990-Present.
This worked pretty well, and there were a few different levels of difficulty, there was Easy ( Super Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog etc.) which pretty close to 100% of the class knew. Then there was Medium (Tommy Vercetti, CJ, Wario) which around 75% of the class got, and then there was Hard (Guybrush Threepwood, Alex Kidd and Shinobi), which only a few got.
Anyway, it got me thinking we should do something like this as a competition!
Get a videogame character, distort it (pixelation, colour switcharoos etc.)
What do you guys think?
If i get a decent amount of OKs i'll start a thread in the Competition forum.
Cheers,
Fluke.

Gilbert · Thu 08/12/2005 06:43:22

Similar idea can be done with Sprite Jam and Photoshop Phriday already, probably not worth making it into a new activity.

esper · Thu 08/12/2005 06:57:43

It IS a good idea, but only temporarily. We would run out of things after not too long, and interest would drop right off. Good idea, yeah. I don't necessarily agree with Gil. It isn't worth making into a thread because it would be too short lived. He might have had a point, though... If you can win a competition, take it over as this type of game for a week or two. Or, if you don't think you can win, maybe a winner will read this thread and think it's a good idea and implement it.

PsychicHeart · Thu 08/12/2005 07:12:43

Short Lived? I thought if we did 1 a fortnight, the winner takes over etc., it could last at least a year.
But, yes, any Graphic Comp winners, what do you think?

Gilbert · Thu 08/12/2005 07:24:48

I think similar idea had been used in SJ and PP already, it's up to the competition winners to decide what's next, so it's their choices whether the next competitions will use this idea.

esper · Thu 08/12/2005 07:49:10

Think it through, though... How can you make this last a fortnight?

Guess who this game character is.

"That's Sonic the Hedgehog..."

Okay, that phase of the activity is over. How would you make it last a fortnight? Would you have everyone wait two weeks and then post who they think it is? What happens if more than one person gets it? You can't give it to the first to answer, because that's unfair to the people from multiple time zones. What do you do when no one can come up with a suitable character anymore? If I run out of ideas, can i use my level 24 Dwarven Hunter from World of Warcraft? Can I choose Jessica from Lunar: the Silver Star (one other person on these forums might know who I'm talking about) or Mai from True Love (a hentai game)?

Even if you were able to come up with a set of rules that somehow, miraculously, gave everyone a fair chance to win and could successfully last a fortnight, you would still face the consequences of putting the loose term "game characters" up for a varied group of people with very variable tastes, interests, and experiences.

The only way for this to work is, like Gil and I both said, to let the winner of a comp decide to use it for one session of that comp. Even then, I'm not sure how it would work.

"Draw a distorted game character." Who wins that one? There is no guessing involved.

It's a good idea, just not a practical one.

Kinoko · Thu 08/12/2005 08:15:39

I just peed my pants seeing that picture again. Oh esper

You have true class.

mätzyboy · Thu 08/12/2005 11:02:51

I think this would be an excellent choice for a private homepage. You could with time have a pretty huge database with different characters if you let the users submit their own entries. A fairly simple java applet could display different levels of distorsion and time how long it took for the player to guess the right answer. The best 3 times for each picture would make it to a high score list. And you wouldn't have to limit yourself to game characters, you could make different categories with actors, politicians, animals... You name it!

Quality entertainment as an online game thingy, but not suitable for a forum competition. That's my 2 pieces of eight...

DGMacphee · Fri 09/12/2005 01:00:17

Quote from: esper on Thu 08/12/2005 07:49:10
Think it through, though... How can you make this last a fortnight?

Guess who this game character is.

Well played, slick.

PsychicHeart · Fri 09/12/2005 04:45:40

even though it was aimed as a brutal and harsh mockery of myself, i can't help but say "that was slick", in admiration.

esper · Fri 09/12/2005 06:17:51

It WAS pretty damn slick, wasn't it? Don't worry though, Fluke. I'm getting used to ya. Otherwise, my first post would have been simply...

"Oh, you mean like this? GUESS THS CHARACTER!11!!eighteen!!1!" Followed by the offending pic of Sonic the Tardhog.

Don't worry, pal. To tell you the truth, I think you have gained some degree of acceptance around here just by sticking around so long and through so much. Don't screw it up by getting all emotional when people jank you. Janking is fun. A very wise man (myself) once said, "If you can't laugh at yourself, you ought to just kick yourself in the nuts and be done with it..." I also once said "Go with the flow, joker."

Welcome aboard. Seriously. This wasn't an attack on you, but a "josh," whatever the hell a "josh" is. As in "I'ma just joshin' ya, Fluke!" When people start "joshing" (dammit, I need to stop using that word) it means they don't mind you so much anymore. As a matter of fact, I've only been around here about six months or so myself. DG wasn't complimenting me by saying "well played, slick." It was sarcastic. He prolly still enjoyed the hell out of it, and it wasn't bad-natured sarcasm... I think... But it was sarcasm nonetheless.

You've done a tough thing, wee cracker. Most of us here are 18-25, some even older. What you've done is the equivalent of a white kid going to an all black school and joining the local chapter of the West Side Posse. You stick out like a sore thumb, but you're in...

AND BY THE WAY, congratulations on actually starting a thread to benefit the community. Just because the idea was turned down doesn't mean it wasn't a good idea (it would have just been hard to work out a workable format for the forums).

Now, if someone says "You suck and I hate you, muhfuggah," then yeah, get upset. But good-natured jos.... ummmmmmm.... Well, you get the picture.

PsychicHeart · Fri 09/12/2005 06:43:14

DG's post was sarcastic? Mine wasn't!!
But, thanks.
BTW, that is a fantastic analogy!!

Khris · Fri 09/12/2005 08:44:15

Yay! Sonic the Retardhog is back

DGMacphee · Fri 09/12/2005 13:16:24

Quote from: esper on Fri 09/12/2005 06:17:51DG wasn't complimenting me by saying "well played, slick." It was sarcastic. He prolly still enjoyed the hell out of it, and it wasn't bad-natured sarcasm... I think... But it was sarcasm nonetheless.

It wasn't sarcasm. I was geniunely complimenting you, doofus! It was well played. I added the "slick" because I thought it was very nicely done. Very slick.

Where'd everyone get the idea I was some kind of sarcastic bastar... oh wait, those last four years. I keep forgetting about that. Whoopsie doodle!

TheYak · Fri 09/12/2005 13:22:38

Happy opposite day! \o/

Perhaps if you wanted to turn over a new leaf and express the positive side of your yin-yang for a change, you should've snuck in under a new nick (or at least dropped that chew-your-nipples-off-looking pic).

DGMacphee · Fri 09/12/2005 13:39:31

Nah, sounds too complicated. I like my way better.

esper · Fri 09/12/2005 14:28:01

Well, there goes my point. I could care less whether or not you were being sarcastic... It just sounded right...

But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

DGMacphee · Fri 09/12/2005 14:50:41

And you would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for us meddling kids!