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Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!
At least a solid half of my critical omission suggestions on IRC have been bad.

No, I will not stop making them.

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Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!

xzzy posted:

I'm guessing if that theme gets picked, at least half a dozen games will be 2d side scrollers with no jumping.
"2D platformer with no jumping" was brought up by someone else in IRC.

My response was "2D platformer with no ground. Technically just a falling game."

And then someone else added "2D platformer with no gravity."

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!

Deki posted:

I was kind of thinking of a platformer where you have no legs and have to crawl along surfaces and up blocks, but I can't think of a way to make it fun.
During initial theme suggestions, I had even put in "1D game", and it now occurs to me that if Critical Omission is picked, it can still be done: "2D platformer missing an entire dimension."

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!
Modern folklore.

Internet folklore.

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!

GlyphGryph posted:

SA folklore?
Strangely, my first reaction to this was not Zybourne Clock. No, that was my second reaction.

The first was Groverhaus.

The third was Doobie Dogs.

The fourth was that one of the judges is basically a living legend.

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!
Assertion/Oversimplification: Folklore is basically poo poo people made up, and people never stopped making poo poo up.

Therefore, Local Color: "My uncle works at Nintendo..."

Each blatant lie is associated with a mechanic. As the game progresses, a random lie is announced at certain intervals and the associated mechanic is activated.

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

I just pictured a civil war battle missing rifles. Two big lines of blue and grey soldiers having a big brawl.
Needs a scream button like Chivalry.

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!
And like JonTerp clarified before, it doesn't even have to be local to you.

Bring on the poutine games.

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!
Last year had a 3D Zardoz head that made a few appearances because of a thread challenge.

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!

Temper Trudeau posted:

So far I've only been able to make grey buttplugs, some with studs, some with spikes and all in different sizes. I've saved them all to pitch to the dildo industry once my game dev dreams flop.
Sounds like a contender for next year's theme!

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!

JossiRossi posted:

A lot of people seem to be looking at "Critical Omission" only in a game mechanic sense, but you are absolutely allowed to use it in other ways. If you are having trouble with the theme feel free to take a look at it from different angles. I know that might not suddenly give everyone ideas, but a game that is fully featured but uses the theme in other ways is just as valid as removing a mechanic from a preexisting genre.
Since I'm not doing anything at all, may I offer Shooter Without Guns, Variation #3: This is not a gun.

Don't point your noodlefinger at me!

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!

SynthOrange posted:



It keeps getting worse!
I am sensing some residual Tonkor nerf sadness here.

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!

Giggs posted:

So far I haven't done any work on the game today but I spent a couple hours making this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-8X3Lwpp3Q
Your game is now an abstract youtube annotation point and click musical adventure

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!

SynthOrange posted:

This gamedev is going to be filled with out of control cars. :v:
Clearly, you should've made an aquarium game without fish, so it's just thousands of out of control ragdolling shrimp, and the player's desperate attempts to keep their population under control.

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!
That third button!

Say, is the Zardoz head model from last year still floating around anywhere?

Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!
Where's the waggle animation? Where is it?!

EDIT:

KRILLIN IN THE NAME posted:

watchu gonna do with them big space legs

waggle waggle waggle

This pleases me greatly.

Fish Noise fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Jul 14, 2015

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Fish Noise
Jul 25, 2012

IT'S ME, BURROWS!

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, BURROWS!
Lot of "holy poo poo lol" entries this year.

But this

Games are art.

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