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[Tanner]

This could definitely churn out some awesome results.
Hell, one of my favorite games is pretty much entirely pg. NOCTIS.

[zradick]

I have a concept, but I don't know if it's what you would call PG exactly...  More like procedurally scrambled, ala a randomized Rubik's Cube.  Would that fit the contest?

I tend to try to do puzzle style games because I don't have the time to make lots of art assets (full time job writing software, pregnant wife, cats, house, etc, etc).

--Zack

[increpare]

I have a concept, but I don't know if it's what you would call PG exactly...  More like procedurally scrambled, ala a randomized Rubik's Cube.  Would that fit the contest?

I'd guess so.  But don't take my word for it.

I tend to try to do puzzle style games because I don't have the time to make lots of art assets (full time job writing software, pregnant wife, cats, house, etc, etc).

Pregnant wife *and* cats?  Gosh, you really must get around...

increpare, you know that OSX comes with vim, right?

I didn't know that in particular.  I have aquamacs installed though, which I use for certain things.  For very small things I generally use nano out of habit.  And currently I'm at a protyping phase, so

[Ivan]

I'm in like bathtub gin

[mewse]

I have a concept, but I don't know if it's what you would call PG exactly...  More like procedurally scrambled, ala a randomized Rubik's Cube.  Would that fit the contest?

I reckon that as long as a particular player can see challenges that the game author never saw during development, then you can make a pretty strong argument that it's procedurally generated.

Of course, it'll be up to individual judges to decide for themselves whether they count particular games as "procedural" during the voting process. 

[AClarkFS]

So how do I enter? Just reply here and say im in? cause id like to give it a shot.

I've been checking the main page here for over a year so I figure its time to jump in. Assuming my AI class isnt too tough this month then I think my entry will turn out well.

[Hinchy]

I'm in, doing a collab with the aforeposted Mr. Yes. I'll post more about our project as soon as I'm awake tomorrow.

[joshg]

Sweet!  Now I just have to see if I can make time for this.

If I release some shmup code I've cooked up in the past for public consumption and reuse, can I call it a "library" and then use it as a basis for whatever I do for the compo? 

(I might just scrap it all and start over, but I don't know how much time I'll have to make that happen.)

[Owen Butler]

First post for me.  I'm really excited about this site, the competitions and I'm in.  I'm totally in.

[Izzimach]

Posting my in-ness.  I promise to use terrible programmer art just like the last compo 

[___]

Competitions attract the man babies!  The tigsource clique community grows every day.

[Melly]

Most of them don't survive past the compo's end, so I'm not worried.

Would like to state that work on my entry has begun, though I'm waiting to figure out a name for it (and a tantalizing advertizing artwork for the hype machine) to create a thread.

[gustav]

I might be in on this. I have an idea but how procedural it is is another question. Also, it's quite ambitious... We shall see!

[lexaloffle]

Ah.. sweet temptation. I've always wanted to try out PG raycasted landscapes. Maybe I could manage a tech demo..

Posting my in-ness.  I promise to use terrible programmer art just like the last compo 

If it's a PCG game, you don't even need to do that. You can use terrible programmed art instead.

[Flink]

I'm so game! But the question is what to do, I aint feeling to do any rougelike generated dungeon game, so this will require som brainstorming!

[William Broom]

My game is already well underway and fun... to look at. Not so much to play so far, but that will be fixed soon enough

[Sar]

Most of them don't survive past the compo's end, so I'm not worried.

This sounds like a challenge.


Anyway. I'm kind of pretty interested in this, I guess. I've been skulking on the shmup-dev forums for a little while now, and there's been some talk over there about generated shooters - so it's something I've already thought about a bit and am quite interested in...

...now I just have to find some free time at all over the few weeks...

[Rostiger]

As stated in the comments before, unfortunately not my thang, but I'm looking forward to the entries already - people here always come up with something good.

FAIGHT!

[Ciardhubh]

What is a "competit.n" and is it related to tits?

Exactly my first thought when I saw the post: Yay, tits!

I'll see if I can come up with a neat idea (with or without said tits). I have a few concerns though. Is it really worth coming up with something new and original, if in the end some game playing the retro card will win? My money's on a rogue-like or platformer :D. Hm ... we'll see.

By the way: it still says "Currently running: Video Game Name Generator Competition" in the forum overview under the competitions forum.

[sergiocornaga]

How acceptable would it be to let the player define the variables which influence the game i.e. through slider bars or something? I understand that usually anything goes in these competitions, but would that still technically count as procedurally generated?