#104418 - dovoto - Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:08 pm
I am announcing the Christmas Game compo a bit early and toying with the idea of doing a Halloween themed one as well. Any thoughts or donation ideas would be appreciated.
www.drunkencoders.com/compo/compo.htm
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#104420 - DekuTree64 - Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:33 pm
I doubt I'll have time to enter the christmas compo, but I might be up for a quick halloween themed demo. It's been far too long since I did any nice effects.
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#104421 - dovoto - Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:37 pm
| DekuTree64 wrote: |
| I doubt I'll have time to enter the christmas compo, but I might be up for a quick halloween themed demo. It's been far too long since I did any nice effects. |
I was thinking the Halloween would be a bit lower key so maybe just a Demo compo?
Does anyone even write demos any more?
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#104422 - Lick - Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:56 pm
Well.. I want to see useful things that make us go "WOW!!".
Perhaps an open creativity compo?
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[edit] BTW, typo in the topic title!
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#104423 - dovoto - Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:04 pm
| Lick wrote: |
Well.. I want to see useful things that make us go "WOW!!".
Perhaps an open creativity compo?
- Lick
[edit] BTW, typo in the topic title! |
I am not sure how a themed compo could produce anything useful...other than perhaps some interesting source code.
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#104424 - tepples - Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:05 pm
Unless somebody decides to run with the "Christ" part of Christmas and makes a Bible reader or something.
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#104432 - silent_code - Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:24 am
| tepples wrote: |
| Unless somebody decides to run with the "Christ" part of Christmas and makes a Bible reader or something. |
an INTERACTIVE bible... with the google (tm) bible bar (tm) *lol*
some nice halloween demos (like themepark booths or rollercoasters or something) would be nice, though.
#104433 - socket - Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:42 am
Sounds like a cool idea to me. I'll be up for donating at least something...
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#104445 - ecurtz - Fri Sep 29, 2006 6:29 am
As usual I have no time to participate, but I'd kick in a donation. I think it would be cool to do a contest with an engine (or a least partial engine) provided at some point. It could also be a good community project putting that together. However I guess maybe there are so few entries anyway that would be counterproductive.
#104453 - Sektor - Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:09 am
Halloween theme is ok by me, better than xmas theme. The dcemu.co.uk contest ends at the same time as the Xmas compo, not a problem but it might be better if they didn't overlap. It's good to have them at different times just in case you miss a deadline but there's still plenty of time to create an entry for both.
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#104483 - headspin - Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:31 pm
Why have a theme? Just say to have a halloween themed splash screen so it dosn't limit people to a halloween themed game or app.
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#104493 - dovoto - Fri Sep 29, 2006 6:58 pm
| headspin wrote: |
| Why have a theme? Just say to have a halloween themed splash screen so it dosn't limit people to a halloween themed game or app. |
Because i like themes...It has a tendency to both focus people as well as prevent 15 tetris clones. There are a couple of bigger compos floating about without themes for those that have the time to do bigger things.
That being said the enforcement of the theme is pretty loose. No entry will be disqualified based on adherance to theme but they will be judged more criticaly.
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#104506 - Lynx - Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:41 pm
Just replace your Mario character with a guy in a hockey mask.. Boom Bam.. Holloween theme! :)
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#104509 - dovoto - Fri Sep 29, 2006 10:43 pm
| Lynx wrote: |
| Just replace your Mario character with a guy in a hockey mask.. Boom Bam.. Holloween theme! :) |
see...Lynx is all over this!
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#104510 - jester - Fri Sep 29, 2006 10:52 pm
well i will be entering this compo what are the prizes??
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#104512 - Lick - Fri Sep 29, 2006 11:20 pm
* Lick foresees a tetrisclone with falling presents instead of blocks.
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#104519 - tepples - Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:54 am
That or elven interns building toys out of blocks, where every time you send a garbage line, a new part of the toy is connected appears.
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#104547 - Lick - Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:29 am
That's pretty cool actually. On the graphical side, I'd like to see it use both the screens as one uberbig screen. That would look nice!
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#104573 - Lynx - Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:48 pm
So now we need to see if we can come up with 15 unique ideas for a Christmas theme for tetris.. :D
Edit: oops.. I put 12 instead of 15.. :)
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#104643 - ecurtz - Sun Oct 01, 2006 2:35 am
What if the tetris piece presents on the top screen open up when you complete lines and dump pieces for some sort of bejeweled clone onto the bottom screen? Just think of the casual gaming synergy!