2DGamers Triannual Game Dev. Competition

[rharpe]

Over at http://2dgamers.zapto.org , I am having a game design competition 3 times a year. This gives the designer 4 months to complete his/her entry. I feel this much time is necessary to make a good entry. If anyone here is interested in making a game and entering the competition, you are welcome to do so.

The rules are as follows:

Theme: True Love
Playing window size: [Full Screen or an option to do Full Screen] 640 x 480 (unlimited colors)
File size restriction: Less than 10MB
Levels or Rooms required: Must have at least 4
Teams: No teams! (Must be done by yourself... to keep things fair.)
Ripped Backgrounds: No
Ripped Sprites: No
Ripped Animation: No
Ripped Music: Yes (If you want to.)

Awarded to the Winner:
- Choice of how the next competition is setup on MAY 1st
- Added to the main page as a headline success story.
- And a surprise.... 

So get started everyone, you only have 4 months!!!

YES, you may use AGS or whatever type of language you like. The genre is up to you as well. (Platform, adventure, rpg, etc.)

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

File size restriction: Less than 10MB

Might want to rethink this rule with the 640x480 resolution you're requiring.

[Radiant]

File size restriction: Less than 10MB

Might want to rethink this rule with the 640x480 resolution you're requiring.

Hardly. It's quite feasible to make a high-res game in a few megabytes, as long as you don't use large bitmapped backgrounds. If you use either vector graphics or tiled backgrounds, you won't run into trouble. Alternatively, use a good compression algorithm. Okay, all this is somewhat tricky with AGS, but it's still possible. For instance, META has twenty rooms in 800x600, and clocks in just below 10 Megs.

[rharpe]

Yes, the 640 x 480 (viewable) area is a very controversial size. I can't change it because everyone that is entering and have started their projects are going by this restriction.

10MB was for e-mailing reasons. I probably should have set a 20MB file size limit, but I don't have a clue to how many entries I will be receiving. Many free e-mail services only allow 10MB attachments for bandwidth and storage reasons.

Again, as I said before, you may use whatever authoring/programming language you like.

[Renal Shutdown]

Why don't you just get them to upload it somewhere, and have them email you the link?

[rharpe]

Why don't you just get them to upload it somewhere, and have them email you the link?

That could work. Not sure how technically savvy everyone is though.

[Steel Drummer]

If one technically savvy enough to create a game, they can sure as heck email the link for it to someone else.

[Hammerite]

If one technically savvy enough to create a game, they can sure as heck email the link for it to someone else.

say hell, heck doesnt work there..
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