KEMIKOOL Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 I think we should get some teams and judges together and start our own from-scratch 72 hour game development contest. Everything in the game must be made from scratch including the code. Anyone in with me on this idea? EDIT: Im going to begin making a list, most likely checking it more than twice. After I find some contenders, we can go about teaming up. So far in: me! - programming and or gfx reels - i think hes in 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanguinettiMods Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 If that's the case, that limits people on the ability to use programs like RPG Maker XP and Gamemaker and such. You're basically suggesting that they use a language like Python or C to create a game, and there aren't a whole lot of people that I know of that can do that easily. Especially within 72 hours. Maybe if the contest was a little better thought out, sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEMIKOOL Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 Well the contest isnt exactly thought out yet. Also! Game maker, anything like that, even shitty The Games Factory can be used, just as long as the graphics, music, game code and whatnot is fresh and newly non-plagiarized. so you would be able to use game creating programs, the goal is just to see what a small(or big) team can accomplish in 3 days while having fun(and being frustrated but hey, that comes with everything you enjoy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Fire Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 I'm afraid I agree with Sanguinetti here. Even with those luxuries, 3 days is too short a period in which to make anything good. It takes weeks, months, even years to make something good, even when using Game Maker. As part of the Sonic hacking community, I am a judge in the yearly contests, but even theen, we give several months for people to get something to us. I appreciate your idea, but it needs to be thought out a little better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jotokun Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 I fail to see the problem. I dont think this contest would have to be a full-on RPG, it could be a simpler puzzle game or short platformer. If my C# werent so rusty and I could get Monodevelop running properly on my machine (mac user, so no Visual Studio) I'd probably try entering such a contest. Edit: The concept sounds similar to the Ludum Dare competition. http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdaniel Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 The problem I see is that we don't have many programmers of whatever kind on here. There's some Game Maker and RPG Maker guys, and some people can code in C or C# or so, but I don't think that's enough to get a competition going - Ludum Dare has many contestants from all over the world, this contest would have the few aforementioned people on here. And of those, especially the C/C#/etc. coders, who already has actual game creation experience? Hacking tools or somesuch are one thing, coding a game - no matter how small - from scratch isn't exactly easy, even with something like XNA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EpicEbilninja Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 3 days? Not enough time for anything worth playing... Not even a semi-good gamemaker game can be done in that amount of time. 72 hours isn't really a good amount of time, and even a week may not produce a good game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEMIKOOL Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 i suppose a week would be enough time to create something worthwhile, but yea, xdan, there arent enough programmers i guess.. or people willing to devote a week to a team and at least try, c or gamemaker or whatever you guys use! I was in a 48 hour game dev contest years ago and the programmer did an awesome job on a simple easy engine(it doesnt have to be that hard, im writing a pokeclone as we speak)and i pumped out some pixel art(also easy if youre into it). A week is plenty of time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EpicEbilninja Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 maybe once I learn a lot more about c programming, I may enter something like this, and I really havn't had any time to learn about it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEMIKOOL Posted December 11, 2012 Author Share Posted December 11, 2012 Well in any case, well see whos into the idea and then plan and set a date. Anyone who wants to be a part of it just post here with your main project focus(see first post) and ill add you to the list. Edit: Jotokun im putting you on the list because im assuming you're in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jotokun Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Well in any case, well see whos into the idea and then plan and set a date. Anyone who wants to be a part of it just post here with your main project focus(see first post) and ill add you to the list. Edit: Jotokun im putting you on the list because im assuming you're in Unfortunately, at the moment I'm not. My schedule is a tad busy at this point, and as I mentioned I'm having trouble getting my dev environment properly set up. If those change before your competition starts I'll definitely let you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEMIKOOL Posted December 11, 2012 Author Share Posted December 11, 2012 Look peeps I did this within the past 18 hours, of which i spent probably only 3 hours actually writing and making. If i can do this, you can definitely do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arceny Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 This is a cool idea, doomraider! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinout Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 In total this probably took me about 4-5 hours That being said, it is only fun for 4-5 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEMIKOOL Posted December 15, 2012 Author Share Posted December 15, 2012 ahah is that a dos game? and you gotta love arrays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinout Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Nope, I don't think it's ever even been compiled on a M$ OS (though it is 100% compatible). It uses curses/ncurses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEMIKOOL Posted December 15, 2012 Author Share Posted December 15, 2012 ah yes i too love curses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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