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Yeah, can't wait to see the entries. Excite!
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Everyone is in for Round 1! You can view the entries here. What do I do now? Choose one entry (other than yours) and post your choice in the thread. You have until 25 July to expand and edit it to 2500-3000 words. This is by far the meatiest portion of the contest; you have to take someone else's seed of an idea and turn it into something real. If you haven't already selected a trope, you can opt for one in this round. If you have (or if you'd like another chance to earn a bonus point), there will be two opportunities to earn a bonus point in this round. The first will be for the submission that enacts the greatest transformation on the original. The second will be for the submission that follows through most thoroughly on the spirit of the original. I am away from my Deck of Tropes until tomorrow; I'll deal them out then! Zurui fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Jul 12, 2021 |
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Jul 12, 2021 01:20
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Where's my entry? I sent mine to you 9 days ago, using the same email I confirmed myself with to atlantisrevoked@gmail.com Are you telling us these are the top 10, chosen by you? If so, that was never clear. E: I'm also pretty sure Dog Kisser submitted an entry, too, as we'd been talking about it on a discord. E2: this has been cleared up! Lux Anima fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Jul 12, 2021 |
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Jul 12, 2021 01:47
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Yeah, sent mine yesterday to that address before the deadline!
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Jul 12, 2021 02:12
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I apologize; Gmail marked your emails as spam for some reason. I have corrected the error and uploaded your entries!
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Jul 12, 2021 02:30
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Zurui posted:I apologize; Gmail marked your emails as spam for some reason. I have corrected the error and uploaded your entries! That's a relief! Cheers 
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Jul 12, 2021 02:37
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Lux Animus posted:I already have a concept written out for round 1: I am in-advance requesting a trope for round 2, to be delivered when the OP sees fit. Reminder to hit me up with a sicknasty trope sometime this round, OP! Thanks!
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Jul 12, 2021 02:38
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I think I'm gonna pick #3.
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Jul 12, 2021 02:49
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I will take up the challenge of Entry 11.
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Jul 12, 2021 03:09
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Can multiple people pick a single game? Also: should we keep our choice secret
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Jul 12, 2021 03:25
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Lux Animus posted:Reminder to hit me up with a sicknasty trope sometime this round, OP! Thanks! I also want one for round 2. Hostile V posted:I think I'm gonna pick #3. I wonder if whoever did that one has been reading the game series 2400. Also I’d like to give permission to whoever picks my game to just replace my mechanics wholesale with Gnome’s Fellowship. Since you don’t know which one is mine just assume it applies to any of them because fellowship is that good.
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Jul 12, 2021 03:56
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Not familiar with 2400, do tell.
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Jul 12, 2021 04:07
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There's definitely something that speaks to me about #s 1, 4, 5, 11, and 12... ...But I think I'm gonna pick #10. JMBosch fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Jul 12, 2021 |
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Jul 12, 2021 04:26
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Hostile V posted:Not familiar with 2400, do tell. In short the primary resolution mechanic is a single dice trinary roll. Roll a d6 skill dice, higher (i.e. larger die) with more skill: 1–2 Disaster. Suffer the full risk. 3–4 Setback. A lesser consequence or partial success. 5+ Success. The higher the roll, the better. And my immediate thought when reading it was, "It would be cool if there was a 'critical hit' level, probably at 10?" Based on the way the critical hit mechanic works in PBTA.
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Jul 12, 2021 06:08
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Dog Kisser posted:Can multiple people pick a single game? Also: should we keep our choice secret Multiple people may choose the same one but the purpose of making your choice public is so that you can make an educated decision. Some of the concepts here are relatively narrow while some others could be taken in a dozen different directions.
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Jul 12, 2021 06:31
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I think I'm going to grab me Entry #8, although there are a lot of strong contenders.
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Jul 12, 2021 08:56
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Yeah, honestly all of these are loving great. It's going to be rad seeing what y'all come up with.
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Jul 12, 2021 17:26
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I'm going to pick up #6, it's singing to me
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Jul 12, 2021 18:32
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I'm going to go with Entry #2, a resolution mechanic already suggests a kind of game to play!
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Jul 12, 2021 21:14
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Zurui posted:Yeah, honestly all of these are loving great. It's going to be rad seeing what y'all come up with. Oh, can I get my round 2 trope now?
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Jul 13, 2021 01:22
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DalaranJ posted:Oh, can I get my round 2 trope now? 
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Jul 13, 2021 01:39
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DalaranJ Pretty straightforward...OR IS IT? Lux Animus  Will it be Kingdom Hearts, Stargate, or The Cat Who Walked Through Walls? WHO CAN KNOW? WereGoat  This one is weird. I'm very interested to see what you pull out of a hat for it. Since LaSquida asked, I will definitely pull more tropes off the deck for you but I'm going to rule that only the first one is good for a Bonus Point; the rest are just style. Did I miss anyone?
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Jul 13, 2021 01:42
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I will also take a card pull!
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Jul 13, 2021 02:08
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Zurui posted:Lux Animus Hm, this feels like both #6 (Sublime Players) and #8 (Magic vehicles) would be decent fits for such a trope, but I will go with Entry #1 to keep things fresh.
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Jul 13, 2021 02:20
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I'll take another card pull, for laughs.
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Jul 13, 2021 03:08
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Meinberg posted:I will also take a card pull!  Disclaimer: if, for any reason, you feel you cannot do this topic justice, I will happily draw another for you. Otherkinsey Scale posted:I'll take another card pull, for laughs. 
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Jul 13, 2021 04:04
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Zurui posted:DalaranJ Well, now I wish I had watched JoJo, I guess. I could do something like Miami Connection or No Retreat, No Surrender, that could be funny. I guess there's Dragonball Z, or ... Ranma 1/2 ... Oh, oh no. *starts sweating furiously* *leans over microphone, speaking with the voice of a dying ghost* twelve.
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Jul 13, 2021 05:20
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Zurui posted:
I can work with this
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Jul 13, 2021 05:39
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Just tracking things:pre:Lux Animus Entry 1 - "The Undungeoneers" Agent Rush Entry 2 - Card-based resolution system Hostile V Entry 3 - Step-die resolution system Entry 4 - "Rentocracy" Entry 5 - Wizard Academy Meinberg Entry 6 - "The Sublime Players" Entry 7 - "Spotlight Harmony" potatocubed Entry 8 - "The Wizard Came from the Moon" Entry 9 - "Let's be Pirates" JMBosch Entry 10 - "Skeleton Justice Warriors" Antivehicular Entry 11 - "The ABCsys" DalaranJ Entry 12 - "Gals and Goons"
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Jul 13, 2021 06:10
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Zurui posted:
Ok, I was completely blank when I seen this at first, but I've got some thoughts beyond "whuuuh?" now. Gonna join Lux and go with Entry 1- the Undungeoneers.
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Jul 13, 2021 19:16
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The hardest part at this point is not expanding this into a full thing. Need to leave enough room for someone to put finishing touches on it.
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Jul 14, 2021 12:46
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potatocubed posted:The hardest part at this point is not expanding this into a full thing. Need to leave enough room for someone to put finishing touches on it. Also, it took me embarrassingly long to figure out that PbtA-style playbooks is a real bad direction to go when you have such limited wordcounts. Just copying the template for each playbook ate up over 1,000 words. Deleted that real quick. JMBosch fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Jul 14, 2021 |
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Jul 14, 2021 20:58
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I can definitely see that being a struggle. How do people feel about an (effectively) unlimited wordcount for the final submission?
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Jul 15, 2021 06:04
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I'd be fine with it, personally -- it's reasonable to want small games, but it's easy for game mechanics to really eat words. I'd even be fine with more words for the second phase as long as the delivered project still has stuff for the final writer to fill in.
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Jul 15, 2021 06:07
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I'd definitely be against upping the word limit for this second round unless everybody's struggling. The limit is still a good creative restriction. I just have to abandon my first approach and try something else. I'm open to increasing or removing the word limit for the last round, though, since it's tough to gauge how many words might be needed to consider a game "finished" after what people will get from the second round entries.
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Jul 15, 2021 15:27
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Going with Entry 7, Spotlight Harmony - not taking a trope because my wife already had a firm idea for one and upon seeing the entry said I had to do that one!
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Jul 15, 2021 16:03
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I'll take entry 9, let's be pirates.
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Jul 15, 2021 16:25
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Updated list:pre:Lux Animus Entry 1 - "The Undungeoneers" Weregoat Agent Rush Entry 2 - Card-based resolution system Hostile V Entry 3 - Step-die resolution system Entry 4 - "Rentocracy" Entry 5 - Wizard Academy Meinberg Entry 6 - "The Sublime Players" Dog Kisser Entry 7 - "Spotlight Harmony" potatocubed Entry 8 - "The Wizard Came from the Moon" LaSquida Entry 9 - "Let's be Pirates" JMBosch Entry 10 - "Skeleton Justice Warriors" Antivehicular Entry 11 - "The ABCsys" DalaranJ Entry 12 - "Gals and Goons"
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Jul 15, 2021 17:37
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Hmm. So I've reached 3000 words and it's just a mess. There's a hint of a game in there somewhere but it's going to need some substantial expansion. On the other hand, since people can choose which entry they want to work on I feel less bad about submitting something that needs so much work. Folks can just avoid it if they like. I suppose in theory I've got enough time to rewrite the whole thing to be more compact, but in practice I do not, in fact, have that time.
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Because i’m a fool, I’ve been working heavily on a project that’s due Monday, before working on this one that’s due next week. That said, I’m finally digging into the stuff now!
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