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Well then, I suppose its just the two of you then, gents.

Let the Voting Begin!

SteveMcCrea vs Wyz!

Let this be their greatest battle!

Here's a little something I put together in advance. Still a little time to go...

One Fine Day Amid a Verdant Field

And the theme is... Squirrels.

Hourgame is Go!

Also, to the winner goes this amazing trophy

I am choosing to interpret the relative radio silence as indicative of absentmindedness and not avoiding the coming contest, but please do comment if you plan on participating. Again, there will be a trophy, and if you wish to participate early due to being unable to make the scheduled time (19:00 BST, 14:00 New York, 20:00 Johannesburg) I will be in IRC as early as I can so hit me up then.

[What's an Hourgame competition?]

SCROLLING TEXT IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!What's an Hourgame competition?
The purpose of Hourgame Saturday is to encourage amateur game-making, or to put it bluntly, to make you plant your ass in your chair and finally make something.
In this activity your task is to make an AGS game within a strict and very short deadline (i.e. one hour).

When will it take place?
This Hourgame session will take place on Saturday 10th July 2010. Starting at 19:00 BST (14:00 New York, 20:00 Johannesburg) participants will have an hour to make their games + 15 minutes to beta test / upload (i.e. the deadline is 20:15 BST).

How do I participate?
A theme is set by the previous week's winner and by the contest's host in event of his/her absence. It will be announced on IRC (3 simple steps to IRC) and here.

Why should I participate?
Because it's FUN!
Research shows that Hourgames get the creative juices going and will aid for healthier game building skills.
And a for the shiny trophy of course




Additional info:
- While it is not forbidden for the theme-setters to participate in the activity, their games cannot be voted for (to prevent accusations of cheating and to discourage regular participation).
- Instead, theme-setters are encouraged to draw trophies for the contest's winners.
- Making your game from scratch is strongly encouraged, though it is not forbidden to use music or artwork from public sources if you are allowed to (e.g. using public domain music tracks in your game is OK, but not really necessary). It is also possible to use a pre-existing AGS template for your game (e.g. the Verb-Coin GUI template).
- You cannot use stuff you've made earlier, because this competition is about making something new.
- You are allowed to use previous Hoursongs (Should we create a list somewhere?).

Camwhoring:
If you have Camtasia or Camtasia-esque software, it would be great to see your "Making of"! Or blog about it, or just open Notepad, do something! No twittering.

Uploading:
Suggested hosts to upload your entry to are:

Recommended:
TerranRich's ShutUpload
DropBox (Recommended by Magma42, referral link)

Not recommended:
http://www.mediafire.com/
http://www.sendspace.com/
http://www.rapidshare.com/

Or your own place.

Theme:

TBD

Voting:
Just tell us your favourite game. You don't have to enter to vote!
(If you want to tell us what you liked and disliked about all the entries, that would be super nice of you!)
After all games are in you are encouraged to vote, again, you don't have to enter to vote. Voting closes the next Saturday (July 17)

Please post below if you're interested in participating, if the change in time will/won't work for you, or if you have any other questions.

If you are unable to make the scheduled time, but wish to participate anyway, say so in this thread and we can work out a scheduled hour at your convenience to make your submission (Earlier that day for instance).

Hope to see you there!

Hoorah. Well then, same time next week, all. Will be making the proper post in a few days, see yall there.

I cast my vote for Scarab's Earl Ballington, however I do have to take issue with a bit of the content in the game. Sir, it is always time for inseminating females, and I'll thank you to remember that.

I hope to attend, but as my father is getting married that day I may have to, I may have to do an early submission thing, say a few hours earlier. That cool?

Well then its thoroughly settled. A winner is Wyz!

He is entitled to this marvelous commemorative collectors edition limited availability pristine gourmet high-falutin hoity-toity just plain awesome Mike Tyson Hourgame Trophy, along with all the rights and privileges that it confers.

Bumping the thread, going to close the voting sometime tomorrow, but barring a sudden upset or absurdly bad call by Referee Coulibaly (Yay! World Cup Humor!) its looking pretty one sided.

Dang, been three days and no votes? Hell then I'll just start with one vote for Wyz's "Mike's New Hobby." Liked the puzzles, and to judge from the IRC at the time, I may have been the first to work out the solution.

Alright then, I think thats well enough time for everyone to put theirs in. Here's the All In One zip file, so let the voting begin.

Also going to just toss in my not-at-all-eligible entry here, Mike Tyson's Church Bakesale.

Hourgame is Begun! The theme this week:

Today marks the five-year anniversary of Mike Tyson's retirement from Heavyweight Boxing. How has he been spending his retirement?

Winner this week will take home the highly coveted and like totally prestigious Mike Tyson Hourgame Trophy.



Given the nature of the theme I thought it might be entertaining to provide some available music for those participating if you'd like to use it. I'm linking here, to the soundtrack for Mike Tyson's Punchout, and providing his Sprite Sheet below.

I'm presently in the IRC channel, anyone who wanted to participate but enter early can find me there or private message me on the forum. Everyone else, see you at the appointed hour.

Think early saturday might be best, want to see if anyone else needs to do the play-early-by-email thing. That work for you? say starting at 13:00 GMT, which I think is 9:00am EST, gives you an hour and change to put it all together?

You can still participate if you like, we can work out a separate time before Saturday to give the theme, set aside an hour and you can email your submission.

[What's an Hourgame competition?]

HOURGAME SATURDAY!
What's an Hourgame competition?
The purpose of Hourgame Saturday is to encourage amateur game-making, or to put it bluntly, to make you plant your ass in your chair and finally make something.
In this activity your task is to make an AGS game within a strict and very short deadline (i.e. one hour).

When will it take place?
This Hourgame session will take place on Saturday 12th June 2010. Starting at 19:00 BST (14:00 New York, 20:00 Budapest) participants will have an hour to make their games + 15 minutes to beta test / upload (i.e. the deadline is 20:15 BST).

How do I participate?
A theme is set by the previous week's winner and by the contest's host in event of his/her absence. It will be announced on IRC (3 simple steps to IRC) and here.

Why should I participate?
Because it's FUN!
The more the merrier, and it's great pactice for the ol' game making skills.
And the winner will be provided with a marvelous little trophy, resplendent in its 48x48pxl greatness.


Additional info:
- While it is not forbidden for the theme-setters to participate in the activity, their games cannot be voted for (to prevent accusations of cheating and to discourage regular participation).
- Instead, theme-setters are encouraged to draw trophies for the contest's winners.
- Making your game from scratch is strongly encouraged, though it is not forbidden to use music or artwork from public sources if you are allowed to (e.g. using public domain music tracks in your game is OK, but not really necessary). It is also possible to use a pre-existing AGS template for your game (e.g. the Verb-Coin GUI template).
- You cannot use stuff you've made earlier, because this competition is about making something new.

Camwhoring:
If you have Camtasia or Camtasia-esque software, it would be great to see your "Making of"! Or blog about it, or just open Notepad, do something! No twittering.

Uploading:
Suggested hosts to upload your entry to are:

Recommended:
TerranRich's ShutUpload
I personally recommend DropBox, and not least of all because, by clicking on that referral link, you and I can both get an additional 250mb free storage in addition to the 2gb you get by default. I use it, as do all people I respect and admire.

Not recommended:
http://www.mediafire.com/
http://www.sendspace.com/
http://www.rapidshare.com/

Or your own place.

Voting:
Just tell us your favourite game. You don't have to enter to vote!
(If you want to tell us what you liked and disliked about all the entries, that would be super nice of you!)
The voting will end when all the entrants have voted, or on the following Friday, 18th June, whichever I arbitrarily feel like.

Please post below if you're interested in participating, if the change in time will/won't work for you, or if you have any other questions.

If you are unable to make the scheduled time, but wish to participate anyway, say so in this thread and we can work out a scheduled hour at your convenience to make your submission.

Hope to see you there!

Hourgame On!

Theme this week is How has Mike Tyson been spending his retirement. The winner will recieve the prestigious trophy shown below.



Here's the All-In-One download for the Hourgames this week. Let the voting begin!

And so I shall.

So, same bat-time, same bat-channel this saturday good for everyone?

Odd theme this week, as towels immediately lead about half of us to sex for some reason. Ah Well.


Bici, not enough feces.
Wonkyth and Nsmn, seems both of you just programmed the one single interaction. Pretty simplistic, dont you think?
Dual, nicely done, several interactions, interface was a bit unnecessarily odd though, I felt.
Kweepa, Nice art, Simple puzzle with an unconventional solution, me like.

Vote Kweepa

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