Some mockups with explanation.







Of course the goal is to be the last alive.

[WHAT]

WHAT
A one button foreign policy RTS simulator - a mix between Staline trust, Churchill will, Roosevelt sickness, and De Gaule prose.  Gameplay rules will come later...

WHY
The idea came by playing Pax Britannica (brillant) and reading a book about allies relationship during the last years of world war II.

HOW
Code with open framework in c++.  Design with colors and circle.

Hi,

I'm glad to invite you all again this year tigsourcer to the Bivouac Urbain an outside 36 hours game prototyping competition that is held in downtown Quebec city:

http://www.bivouacurbain.com/en/

We are hoping to get between 160 to 200 competitors!  An we want you!.  What a better occasion to plan a road trip with firends to beautiful Quebec city! For 90$, you get all your meals, a tshirt and chance to met a lot of new friends!

This year jury will be Jenova Chen!

The theme will be pretty exciting!   

p.s. There's also an animated short and concept arts competition!

Here's a images from last year edition!

Some pictures :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41395095@N04/

@thegamedesigner  that would be nice!   If some of you guys want to come I can help you with lodging!

We opened up the competition to any frameworks or language who can compile a .exe  (+ .swf)!  It's really more about creativity then the technology !

You bring your own soft and hardware...  but if you really can't bring it (something I doubt) ... we will find you some old 486 or something!  :D 

Polyromi represent.

Nice Heather!  Was great to meet you at the Toy Company 4 last saturday!

Nobody from the Est coast interested? 

Imagine 48 hours in a big top with fellow game developpers!!! it will be a blast!   

There's also a big party plane with a lot of 8bits love!!!

Héhé but you get the BIG !  I've cross Germany on my bicycle in 2007, I really enjoyed your country!

Hi everybody!,

I present myself, Philippe Lehoux, I'm organizing an Arts & games festival call Bivouac Urbain in downtown Quebec city this summer.

A game prototyping competition will be held during the course of the week-end (7 to 9 august) in a outside Big Top.  For the moment all the documentation on the web site is in french, but if some of you guys are interested in coming I can easily translate it english.

Inscription are 60$CAN but the foods is include for the week-end and there is more than 10 000$ in prize. (including three adobe creative suite).  The competition is held in action script and open source frame work are allowed.  It's 80% creativity, 20% technicality.

If you are broke and you still want to come, there's surely a way to make a deal! ;-)  I can find really cheap accommodation alternative!

I invest a lot in this event!!  I would really love to see some you make the trip to Quebec.  If you want to plan some tourist activity around your trip there's lot  things to do in Quebec during august:

A new and free Outdoor Crique Du Soleil show called : Le rêve.

The biggest architectural projection in the world : http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/07/10/qc-lepage-cp-0710.html

Nightlife is great!

Have any question... i'm there!!

p.s. here is the french poster...

 

I'm wondering what you guys are thinking of the game Baby Shaker?  If you haven't heard of the controversy just google it and you will find loads of articles about it.

Here's a video of the iphone game in action:




I don't know what were the motive behind the conception of the game, and for me the only perspective of shacking a baby make me feel sick.

But is it possible that by portraying such an horrifying behavior the developper wanted to raise concern and awareness?  That today we are talking about it and we're more likely to denounce it?

I did not find the developer side of the story... but would be intertesting to know for sure? 

Bade taste, greed (the app was price .99 cents)  like all media are reporting?
or
The desire to be controversial to raise awareness?