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What with this compo being three dee and so many people dropping out, do you think maybe it would make sense to ask to extend the deadline by a week?

This is kind of selfish of me to suggest as I am also running late with my stuff due to some nasty computer problems, but I thought maybe we all could use an extra week to polish the entries.

That would be great.

If the deadline is extended, I'll enter.  There's a game I think I can shoehorn, and I've lost momentum recently, so it'd be great.

Anyway, extending deadlines is a great idea :)

i was hoping someone would suggest this!  :beer:

A week ago, I would have immediately voted "yes".

Now that I'm actually confident that I can get a halfassed game out in time. Every developer would like "a little more time", because there's always something to add or polish. So honestly, I'm conflicted, but it's selfish of me to vote in interest of just my game. I'm voting towards granting a week extension, no more.

Honestly, I think the dropout games (don't mean that term in a derogatory sense, of course) are going to stay dropped-out. I have no idea how far along those people have gotten, but I wouldn't think a week would be enough for them to push through and finish the game, a lot of them seem to be dead in the water, or the dropout was caused by real-life events. I am sure I'm biased by my own game, which has vast amounts of tiny little details that are required for the gameplay to be complete.

The best argument for extending the deadline is that 3D is harder than 2D, even simple 3D, so some extra time is really par for the course. The theme strongly encourages people to make first-person games, which complicates the underlying math even more (compare mouse-picking objects in 2D versus 3D... AABB collide versus complex ray scene queries). Also, all the late-comers will be a lot happier and fill up the void left by the dropouts.

My girlfriend will be pissed.  Tiggros before 'hos, amirite? :tiger:

I'm not actually making anything for this compo unfortunately (because I have that noir project I'm still working on very slowly), but I'm voting yes, because not only do I hope for some of these awesome entries to be finished so that I can play them, but also, I don't know about everyone else, but I've found this month to be a little distracting with the GDC and of course the news from IGF, so I think there's a logical reason for extending the deadline.

That was one long statement I just typed out...

I voted YES. I completely shrugged off making or asking for any music, so my game would be completely silent (Except SFX). I also need to make 5 more worlds in my game... but I'm going to work as hard as if the deadline were still coming and not take this week for granted, because then I'd just be rushed anyway and we cant be totally sure this will happen anyway.  :shrug2:

Extending a TIG comp deadline? how unprecedented!

I'm getting pretty pooped out working on my entry and kind of want this thing to end. But I'll vote yes, if only to see if Fuzz can be responsible for > 50% of the submitted games.

another week would be a godsend

agreed, I was going to enter, but havent found the time and now the wife is out of town, so i ahve plenty of free time. i am going to try and enter anywyas at least get a tech demo together, but it will be much more polished if i had the extra week.

I'll try to make at least twenty games for A Cockpit Game a Day (http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=5428.0)! :D

I had something in mind for this, but didn't have the time to put anything together this month. I'd love it if the contest was extended :)

I have yet to see a compo without an extension
That said, an additional week would make it possible for me to deliver a demo of a masterpiece upon you all little wagging bitches my good fellows.
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I won't need an extension for my own poopy little game but I don't have any problem with an extension for everyone else. So I didn't vote at all.

While an extension would be greatly appreciated (I'm involved in a project that's being deployed on April 1st at work, and that has eaten into my anticipated development time considerably) I do have to say that I think think it's amusing that we generally don't ever have compos that finish on time.

We need to attach a unit of time to our compo name, like "TIGMonth" or "TIGMoon" (one month is about the time it takes for the moon to go from new to full to new) or something. That way, we feel an urge to stick to it, like Pyweek, 7 Day Roguelike, or LD48. :wizard:

There seems to be an overwhelming majority wanting an extension, but how exactly would an extension happen? Does someone need to PM Derek?

I would guess, seeing as he's the guy who made the original post with the dates.

Well, he runs Tigsource and the forums and all that.

EDIT: Just PM'd Derek.

Sure, an extension sounds good!

I would've voted for the "finish it on time" option, but that's not exactly...nice, when you have an entry that's close to completion.

Great, I should be able to finish my entry now. :)

Is it official now? Because that will determine whether I get to sleep tonight.

Everything Derek says is official.

Ah, but is it official-official? Officially official? Official officially?

It's probably only officially official when it goes on the front page.

Everything Derek says is official.

Especially when you know him... intimally...

Oh thank fudge! - that means I don't need to pull an all-nighter after all  :coffee:

extension is for puppies.  :handforkL::durr::handknifeR:

nawh, it's great, now I can go to sleep. it's bloody 3:00AM.

Yay extension! I might have time to turn the 'game mechanic sketch' I wrote on the GDCplane into a game.

Yup, One more week would be so cool !  :panda:

Well, I was going to have SOMETHING done for the deadline,. now I will have something NICER done in another weeks time.  ;D  perhaps I will just post a new demo for the original deadline,. :gentleman:  is a good thing as i really did sleep in this morning,. losing a load of time. or building up energy for a major push? 

I voted yes just to be helpful.

was just packaging a cut down version of my initial idea, but with one more week I will be able to make the full scope of it  :gentleman:
will release a demo tonight though .   :beer:

Voted yes to see more finished projects.

One extra week would definitely go a long way towards a finished game.  :tired:

Well, now it's officially official. Look at that topic title edit Derek made! :beer:

...OR IS IT?  :o

Offaliciously official?

OFFICIALTASTIC!

Oh bummer, I'd like to create a quick entry for this, but the theme is really not for me.

May I ask when is the exact deadline then? :)

The 5th.

Correct!

The 5 @23h59 right?

So it ends monday at 00:00,not sunday at 00:00 right?
I'm going to run with that :beg:

Me too. Otherwise I'm not going to be finished.

Just curious... how many hours I have left? :beg:

Is it based on local time when it ends...?
Right now it's 10:00 AM for me but will it be due when MY clock strikes 12 AM, Monday?

Yeah, it's not GMT.

The competition ends 12 hours from now (on Monday, 12:01am PST).  But I don't usually check entries until I wake up on Monday.

Very well then :gentleman: