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[Craig Stern]

EGP, a rapid game-prototyping project originally set up by Kyle Gabler and Kyle Gray, has returned from the dead. Apparently they're holding monthly game-making competitions on various themes. Check it out.

[Pishtaco]

So can anyone enter the competition, and is there a theme for the July one? It's not really clear from the website what's going on.

[AdamAtomic]

No July theme yet, and I'm not sure if anybody can enter or not, but my guess is probably! 

[team_q]

I think that is the July theme, as it was posted on July 6th!

[Iamthejuggler]

Glad to see they're back online. I used to oggle that site pretty frequently.

[Craig Stern]

I think that is the July theme, as it was posted on July 6th!

Yeah, that's a little confusing. I think the gist is that they have a 7-day game design compo once a month. So maybe the Unexperimental Shooter one just ended, and they haven't started the next one yet?

[team_q]

My understanding is they give the concept at the start of the month, and you can do it any time that month, but you can only use 7 days to do it in.

[dspencer]

Given the banner says "JUNE 2009 GAME THEME" I think this was the theme for the last month. I hope they give out the theme in advance so others can participate - even if they can't put their games on the site. EDIT: Also, they say "expect to see a new theme announcement for the month." So, we just need to hold tight.

[Pishtaco]

If you have a day job , can you take more than seven days?

[mewse]

If you have a day job , can you take more than seven days?

If you take more than seven days, is it still a seven day game?

When I've done seven day games while working a full-time job, I always took care to start on a Monday, so that during the work week I would use commute time to think about design, and maybe get a half hour of work done each night, and then worked all-out on the weekends to finish up.  In general, I didn't even know what I was going to be doing until Thursday, anyhow, so I don't think that the full time job really slowed me down by much.

Although I'll grant that I didn't get many video games played or much television watched during those periods.  But that's not necessarily a bad thing.

[Pishtaco]

I was thinking of an interview or something with those guys that I read a while back. They were talking about how they made games in seven days. It seemed like the way they worked suited a student project where you can spend all your time on it (although perhaps they had other courses as well; I don't know). I'm just wondering if it's possible to capture the same spirit, if you only have five evenings and a weekend.

[AdamAtomic]

'll grant that I didn't get many video games played or much television watched during those periods.

I think this would apply to like the last five years for me