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Title: (Fairly) easy way to win free all-access GDC pass.
Post by: simoniker on February 27, 2009, 09:54:57 AM
Hey guys,

Just wanted to point out that Green Label Gaming (the subtle bit of Mountain Dew!) are teaming with us (GDC folks) to give away TWENTY all-access GDC 2009 passes in a competition to help deserving developers with fun ideas come to GDC.

(They're also adding $10,000 to the Seumas McNally Grand Prize for IGF this year, making that prize $30k, and they're not even going to get up on stage and make a fuss about it, which is nice of them.)

Anyhow, because of the short notice (and the fact we already have IGF for actual games!), it's a 'write your thoughts' competition rather than a 'make a game' competition, about imagining games in 2020 (they will probably have more Goatse in them).

But I know a lot of TIGSource folks are pretty perceptive, so you'll probably have a decent chance at winning if you enter something erudite, given there are 20 prizes.

Here's the info:

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2009/02/competition_imagine_the_games.php

Deadline is next Wednesday (4th) or so, winners will be notified in 24 hours.

See you at GDC,
Simon@IGF.


Title: Re: (Fairly) easy way to win free all-access GDC pass.
Post by: Alec on February 27, 2009, 10:47:49 AM
(They're also adding $10,000 to the Seumas McNally Grand Prize for IGF this year, making that prize $30k, and they're not even going to get up on stage and make a fuss about it, which is nice of them.)

That's pretty bad ass.

I was wondering if they'd want to rename the Seamus McNally award like... the Super Extreme Mountain Dew Seamus McNally Grand Prize.

But they didn't. Respect.  :gentleman:


Title: Re: (Fairly) easy way to win free all-access GDC pass.
Post by: Eclipse on February 27, 2009, 11:45:20 AM
(They're also adding $10,000 to the Seumas McNally Grand Prize for IGF this year, making that prize $30k, and they're not even going to get up on stage and make a fuss about it, which is nice of them.)

That's pretty bad ass.

I was wondering if they'd want to rename the Seamus McNally award like... the Super Extreme Mountain Dew Seamus McNally Grand Prize.

But they didn't. Respect.  :gentleman:

I've heard they're making Mountain Dev Drink, the official drink for Indie developers. It will feature a tiger in tophat and monocle.


Title: Re: (Fairly) easy way to win free all-access GDC pass.
Post by: GregWS on February 27, 2009, 12:58:03 PM
Eh, we could just start drinking tiger beer if we want.

http://www.tigerbeer.com/index.html


Title: Re: (Fairly) easy way to win free all-access GDC pass.
Post by: Zaphos on February 28, 2009, 01:24:51 PM
What will be done with the winning entries?


Title: Re: (Fairly) easy way to win free all-access GDC pass.
Post by: PoV on February 28, 2009, 05:31:39 PM
They'll be used to acquire grand riches of course.    :handmoneyL: :eyebrows: :handmoneyR:


Title: Re: (Fairly) easy way to win free all-access GDC pass.
Post by: Matthew on March 01, 2009, 09:43:04 AM
Eh, we could just start drinking tiger beer if we want.

http://www.tigerbeer.com/index.html

I drank a whole hell of a lot of Tiger beer when I was unicycling across Vietnam (http://www.matthewwegner.com/vietnam-unicycle-trip/).

And on topic--this is a sweet opportunity for passes!


Title: Re: (Fairly) easy way to win free all-access GDC pass.
Post by: simoniker on March 01, 2009, 10:01:29 AM
What will be done with the winning entries?

There will be a Gamasutra feature showcasing the winners. We won't 'own' any of the ideas, in case anyone is worried about that, heh.


Title: Re: (Fairly) easy way to win free all-access GDC pass.
Post by: Zaphos on March 01, 2009, 10:26:43 AM
Nice :)

I wasn't worried, was just curious what the audience was, and also if I'd get to see the winners!


Title: Re: (Fairly) easy way to win free all-access GDC pass.
Post by: hamburger on March 06, 2009, 11:05:55 PM
HOOOORRRAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would like to take this opportunity to brag that I won an all-access pass by predicting the future.  :tearsofjoy:

I did sorta cheat a little bit, though. Well, not really. For my game of the future idea, I took my work-in-progress robot programming game (http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=4954.0) and simply futurized it.


Title: Re: (Fairly) easy way to win free all-access GDC pass.
Post by: Corpus on March 07, 2009, 04:33:40 AM
I'd love to enter this, but even if I won I couldn't go :(

Do you think this competition might run next year as well?


Title: Re: (Fairly) easy way to win free all-access GDC pass.
Post by: JamesPopStar on March 07, 2009, 01:11:11 PM
Oh, nuts. I totally missed out on this.  :( Guess I have to pay my way into GDC.  :'(


Title: Re: (Fairly) easy way to win free all-access GDC pass.
Post by: Danc on March 07, 2009, 02:11:43 PM
My entry involved a monocle shaped controller. 

With eye rumble.   :handmetalL::blink::handmetalR: