["What You Expected" Compo]

Since I haven't seen anyone bring it in here from the IB thread:

"What You Expected" Compo
Make what you thought a game was going to be like before you played it, based on its name, screenshots, description, or early gameplay videos (or even wildly inaccurate reviews by someone who just woke up feeling particularly angry for some reason, then stubbed their toe as he sat down to play a beta version of the game, and their keyboard was sticky with some unknown substance making their experience severely unpleasant). Ideally, it should not be like the actual final release of the game you're basing it on.

That's a terrible idea for my sanity, because I'd start looking up the early descriptions of Fable or something.

Black&White ... or just hit several games with one boulder and remake Peter Molyneux.

What language?

I actually think that cacti are more likley to grow on rock than in pure sand

I thought the 3D-stuff was just a joke. Three dimensions is so 2003. Ah well. Hopefully Clonk Extreme will fail horribly, prompting them to go back to making Clonk awesome.

If you go with a higher resolution (or just non-pixelated) remember to use anti-aliasing 

I'm wondering how doable it is. I'm thinking it would be hard to get the thresholds right, so that the faces become all-black or evenly gray.

Life bars for every status, woo!

Sweet!

But wouldn't it be better to have two images:
1) outline + inner heart
2) chunky inner
(and possibly another for the special-red-border).

Then you could simply draw parts of the inner and color it, as needed.

Hey everyone. I just wanted to apologize for my stupid behavior.  Last night I acted like an excited, little kid (which I was), and am sorry for wrongfully trying to steal others helpful advice as my own. It was wrong of me to do so.  I really hope you all forgive me and don't think any less of me. Just to let you all know, I'm also restarting the environment I was creating, baring in mind the advice all you helpful TIGers offered, but not completely tracing it.

Just don't be too discouraged. If some guy (who knows a guy) gave you his email and told you to send him stuff: do so! By all means, do so. You probably won’t get any work, but may very well get some useful advice. (Or just a standard “wow, that’s good for a kid”). But you will learn how to better communicate your work. Being able to sell yourself is a skill you are going to need when you become an awesome illustrator looking for work. The first step on that road is getting rejected (and so are the second and the third). The sooner you start getting rejected, the better!

[Redoubtable Trout]

As Lucaz declared that we use the Boatmurdered rules, it's actually Redoubtable Trout's turn now.

Lucaz, what say you?

We have now decided to officially abandon this project. Drawing everything by hand was too much for pen and I am tired of C++. Pen has decided that object-oriented level design is a better idea and I have discovered that Java is where I feel at home.

I had plans to do a small tech-demo up until a few days ago. But as the tech demo won't be fleshed out into a full game (with me leaving C++) I think we could put our energy to better use. Aka: we have lots of new and exciting projects we'd rather focus on

If anyone wants to play with the game or the code I'm happy to give it to you. But it's not much. The only thing you can do in the game is to jump around in front of pen's (gorgeous) artwork. But that artwork can be found in this thread, so it's mostly pointless.

Thanks again for all the kind comments and we hope to see you around for our future projects!

Masna: I've really enjoyed watching your progress on this, during the night

I still think that the games can coexist. Your game has a strategic depth and complexity they can't compete with. Their game is an easily accsessible, nice little Flash game.

Personally I love that you guys keep being a creative force. For every Oxeye-like person, we get tens of thousands of people who rebuild, copy and polish.

Perhaps you should hire a polish-monkey in the future.

Genitalia.

Size.

Yes?

I figure it's not a question of how much you take, it's how much you add.

Wow, dude. Profound.

Hollow Cadaver, I apologize on behalf of humanity.

I decline the apology on behalf of Hollow Cadaver.

I accept the leftover apology.

Hehe, two man babies register to bash me, I feel sad now.

That will teach you not to attempt anything new or creative. Know your place jeb!

There is no spoon!?

[EDIT:]

Interesting.

My only concern is that the Adult compo may become a sexist-infested mess. Combining it with Edutainment is a stroke of genius.

EDIT: There is actually a reason to have a Very Short Games compo. (Preferably where "short" is defined as an exact value, like 1 minute or 100 seconds). It may not be very thought-provoking, but I think the result would be totally amazing.

It has a very inviting feeling, saying that there is no need to create something huge. Sure, it's just a stupid mental block many of us have, but it would be nice to get help breaking it. Seeing how procedural stuff now is common-place in the community, I think that people would feel more at ease making small games after a VSG compo.

Secondly: it would put detail and polish in focus. Instead of spending time on creating something huge, we would instead be forced to create a concentrate of a game. A game where all the effort is put into the few seconds of play. I love the idea of having lost of small, polished games to play. Bringing me to my last point:

It would be fantastic to play all the games. There would be lots of small games, designed to be experienced during a very short time frame. I've honestly had a hard time getting into all the games of previous compos - one of the reasons being that I've never known when the "fun" was supposed to begin in a given game. "Will this game become fun if I keep playing it, or am I playing a practical joke?" Not that all big games are like that, but in a compo you get lots of half-finished games, making it very hard to know what to expect from them.

This being said just for future reference (there will be compos it the autumn too, right? )

I think there should be a Hotseat game competition. A game where multiple people can sit at one keyboard and duke it out. Like Mr. Blocko or Project Hotseat.

yes, yeS, yES, YES!
This gets my vote. Like, totally.

I say: choose a language and read a tutorial for it. A good, basic tutorial will give you enough knowledge to figure out how to make that program. Personally I like Java. It has a great, standardized API (containing loads of useful classes) and good official tutorials.

But anything works. Python is probably a great choice too.