Bring back AGS team challenge!

[PeteRenton]

man, that does sound most inorexicaly splangeriffic! this kinda thing must get started again, cos i like the sound of it, takes the other jobs off you so you can concentrate onyour feild of expertise. id love to do animtion /. bg art or voices.

[Czar]

Yes, enough questions.
Vel or m0ds or anyone must take initiative cuz this will then turn up to be another AGS-TV thread(not that it aint progressing).... 8)

But i think us old teams should be able to continue, i dont see why not, maybe we should be disqualified, but believe me, we didnt do THAT much, we(mostly Scumm ) have made a 5 hard day work in this year and a half... So we aint in much advantage.
There is the idea and basic plot progress with some basic BGs.... not too much.
Tho i know LGM and the team have almost half of the game(as I've seen )...

Enough talking, let's do business.

[Vel]

I could, but someone else'd have to cast the die, because I want to participate too.

[Andail]

Vel, I endorse this project whole-heartedly.

You go ahead and participate, I can be the official "host", if Mods doesn't want to. Or if he wants to participate. This might also inspire those people who have problems with doing anything related to the name of Vel. Sad but true, this could be an issue to some.

[Vel]

Andail, I already started the thread, and scotch is casting the die via Roger on IRC, so I gess you can be the host/judge. Or maybe there should be open voting?

[Andail]

As for the voting; in my opinion, a jury has many advantages over an open voting.

Firstly,  the jury is guaranteed to give each game the same amount of attention, and base the decisions on the same premises. In an open election, everybody can cast a vote just if they like the name of the game; nothing ensures that they have given the games an honest chance.
Secondly, the jury will be more or less uinbiased, in contrast to all those who can vote who are also involved in the project.
The jury's decision will also come with a motivation.
Lastly, an open elelction runs the risk of being awfully overdued, because of low participation.

So, IMO, a jury is much better in all aspects.
Please give me your views.

PS:
Mods, I also want to know whether you want to a) help organising the project (like jury-duty or similar), b) participate in the project or c) have nothing to do with it.

[Vel]

O-kay, so I guess a jury of five or so people would be just fine.

[m0ds]

How many teams will there be? I'd like to host the completed games on the Screen 7 website. I don't think I'll be able to host a website though, my web creation capabilities on this computer are limited. I'd like to participate, too.

I can look after the actual running of the challenge, setting the teams, the start - finish dates etc, but I think someone else should create a website where as said, reviews, progress reports etc can be uploaded.

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m0ds

[Andail]

Mods, Vel already set the dates, and I believe Scotch will arrange the teams with some sort of random generator.
Right now it seems to be quite many participants, judging from the amount of people who signed up since only yesterday.

If you by participate mean compete in one of the teams, let me handle the administration and focus on your game instead.
Otherwise I'd love to see you host the project.

I will also select a good jury with trusted, experienced game creators/players.

[Vel]

If everything stays as it is, there will be five teams, but my predicion is that there will be at least 7 or 8.

[rtf]

...someone else'd have to cast the die...

Excuse my ignorance, but what is "The Die"?  (I wasn't able to be on IRC last week)

[Haddas]

A slangword for dice

[Vel]

Its the singular of dice, as far as I know.

[scotch]

Dice is the plural of die, actually
He means someone else will have to pick the teams, and that will be Roger, in IRC, in jsut under a week.

[Haddas]

yes, thank you for correcting me