Hourgame competition! [winners!]

[Akatosh]

I'll go with the Junkie as well. He has this whole "effort" thing going for him.

Runners-up would be FSi and Babar - the former for all the loot (yaay!), the latter because it features treasure as well, and also the moon.

[Gord10]

Voting for Babar, because I really liked the

Spoiler

dialogue when we examine Moon

[close]

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[Babar]

to be fair and honest, I didn't make that poem up, but if you don't know where it is from, I suggest you play the original game!

[CodeJunkie]

My vote goes to Babar's Treasure of Obese Bob - best graphics and hotspot descriptions.  Grats to everyone, all the games were fun to play!

[bicilotti]

Let me go with Akatosh, since he had like 40 mins to do it all, there are multiple endings and some not so obscure references to other things.

I appreciated much the effort of CJs (nice idea, too) and the poem by mr. Babloyi too!

@ Babar: ok, voting period extended!

[Matt Frith]

After playing all four games and deliberating for an incredible amount of time, I am going to give my vote to....

CodeJunkie

Congratulations!

However, I did like the rest of the entries too.  However, the main puzzle (I guess it was the main puzzle) was a fun idea and swayed my vote.

Maybe I should try an hour game one day...

[bicilotti]

CodeJunkie's Roger finds treasure

Babar's Treasure of Obese Bob

Akatosh's Fuck you I'm corpse!

It was really a nice evening! Congratulations to all!

[Babar]

Congrats, Codie! And all who participated. That was a fun hourgame competition, with more entries than usual.

[IndieBoy]

I just played them all last night and I liked them all. Although, no surprise, I would have voted CodeJunkie. Good work guys, maybe next time I can join you.

[Dualnames]

I think you should ask the mods to allow you to post every week or month or so, an hourgame competition on the Competition topic.

[FSi++]

Yeah, I suggest calling it the Hourgame Saturday or something.

[Gilbert]

Well, I don't have much objection, but we'd need to settle some concerns:
1. I haven't visited the IRC channel for years. Could this really be popular enough to be made into a regular activity that is run so frequently as in a weekly manner?
2. For game making activities, we already have MAGS (together with other non-frequent ones like, say, 1r1w). I understand that they're different as the time allowed for creation differ greatly and that this community is about making games but I doubt whether we can guarantee to have enough contestants in each round since people already making MAGS games may not always (have time to) attend them anyway.
3. As far as I remember most (all?) previous Hourgame rounds were random and they were held whenever people had sudden interest to attend (or on specific instance like this one). Also, based on the short time limit (be it really 1 hour or a few hours) it's actually not that easy to manage such activities in "non-real-time" locations like the forums and it's even more complicated as different people are in different time zones. We still need some real-time locations for people to enter (IRC or other chatroom thingies).

If you think that there is enough interest to make it a regular activity, feel free to start it in the Activity forum. Note: if that happens you may need to think of more concrete rules first, and IMO it doesn't necessary to be a competition every time since hourgame was not started as such anyway. It was supposed to push people to make something and to let them improve on their skills.

Also, cool people who attend this, why don't you add your games to this thread to avoid them to sink into the bottomless abyss in the future?

[Bulbapuck]

Yeah, I suggest calling it the Hourgame Saturday or something.

That would be so awesome

1. I haven't visited the IRC channel for years. Could this really be popular enough to be made into a regular activity that is run so frequently as in a weekly manner?

I would join every week that I have time! The only reason I didn't join this one was that I noticed it too late :'(
Btw, what's IRC?

[Gilbert]

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/acirc.htm

Basically, Hourgame is/was an IRC thingie.

[IndieBoy]

We used to do quite a few competitions on Stickam "back in the day", once every couple of days/a week, and I found them very beneficial. It allowed me to think in that kind of mind set and  I learnt a lot so I vote YAY for a regular hourly games competition. My only problem is that it's on a Saturday, but if it held at the same time every time then I think it wouldn't be a problem.

[FSi++]

We used to do quite a few competitions on Stickam "back in the day", once every couple of days/a week

If only you took your time and posted about them in the Hourgame thread. ._.

[IndieBoy]

Most of them are in the Stickam thread if you want to sieve through it

[FSi++]

Most of them are in the Stickam thread if you want to sieve through it

One of these days I will.

[Babar]

Most of them are expired mediafire files. I knew that as a mistake.


I KNEW IT!

[Bulbapuck]

I think you should ask the mods to allow you to post every week or month or so, an hourgame competition on the Competition topic.

Yeah, I suggest calling it the Hourgame Saturday or something.

Well guys, saturday is here.
Just wanted to say that if something actually happens, I'm in!