contests?

[Seraph]

when are your contests held? when is the next one?

[Valkysas]

Re: contests?

contests are held whenever I have an idea for one and there's enough "downtime" in the community for people to participate, since people won't drop their normal projects to create a contest game in most situations. they also need enough free time to make a game.

there won't be any more contests for a while due to low participation in them lately. the garbage contests get a good amount of entries, but we're not doing another one of those with the current batch of RPG Makers.

[Seraph]

Re: contests?

there won't be any more contests for a while due to low participation in them lately. the garbage contests get a good amount of entries, but we're not doing another one of those with the current batch of RPG Makers.

Am I too late then? Do you mean ever?

[Valkysas]

Re: contests?

there are no contests planned right now.

the only contests that get good turnouts are the "garbage contests" (where the goal is to make the worst game possible), and we're likely not doing another one with the current RPG Makers. when a new RPG Maker comes out, we'll do another garbage contest, but not before.

[irate giraffe]

Re: contests?

The mag's sequelpalooza contest ends in one month.

http://www.rpgmmag.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3968

Good luck getting an entry done in time.

[Vonwert]

Re: contests?

I am working hard on getting my game done for the mag's contest.

[hitogoroshi]

Re: contests?

Of course we can just run our own contest and probably get front-page support from Valk if we asked nice. The real problem is finding judges that the community will accept and are willing to do it.

[Ixzion]

Re: contests?

The Mag contest has 1 month left. You could make a really short game off of one of the eligible games, if you start now.

[Valkysas]

Re: contests?

Of course we can just run our own contest and probably get front-page support from Valk if we asked nice. The real problem is finding judges that the community will accept and are willing to do it.

That'd be a sure thing. I'd add it to the contest section and everything. it'd be treated like an official contest, just one I had no involvement with.

[Trebsay]

Re: contests?

I would actually like there to be a contest where we made short games, like 30 minutes - 2 hours of gameplay.

[irate giraffe]

Re: contests?

Then why don't you set it up, Demonweave?

[Ωbright]

Re: contests?

I've been thinking...what if there was a contest for some small facet of game making...like a world map contest, where people tried to make the most impressive world map, or a puzzle room contest, where people tried to make a room that was tricky to get out of somehow? Or a boss battle contest, where people tried to make a fun boss battle? I dunno...I like the world map contest idea the most out of those. I would definitely judge....but I'd rather compete.

Hmm....anybody interested?

[irate giraffe]

Re: contests?

I'm all about the world map one, but it'd be hard for me to top the map in the game I am submitting to the mag's contest, which has 6 interconnecting fields, including trails up to and down from a mountain top.

[Lausen]

Re: contests?

I'm game for any of them as long as they are shorter.

[orius]

Re: contests?

A short game contest would be cool. Would it be for just completed games, or stuff like demos and/or concepts as well? If the site runs the contest, I might save the monster capturing game demo thing I've been working on for it.