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Shalinor posted:Who wants a 2-month temporary Unity Pro license? Because I have one with 100 activations on it. Jo posted:come join us in IRC. #SAGameDev on synirc! Every year, we erstwhile few gather on the field of code and art, and do battle. Some for glory, some to prove that they can finally finish a project, and others for the glittering riches. Some simply wish to redeem themselves, and finally have their name scratched from The Wall Of Shame. But for whatever the reason, we've done it for 7 years. SEVEN YEARS. And now the eighth year is upon us. Get ready, because it's time for:  (Logo and tiny logo and layered PSD by Polo-Rican) SomethingAwful Game Dev Challenge 9 Every year, we hold a game development contest here at SomethingAwful. The goal? To make an ENTIRE GAME within a single month. June, the month in which you stand today, is for ORGANIZATION AND TEAM FORMING. You are NOT to write a single stitch of code, ink a single line of art, that is project specific. Instead, now is the time to formulate ideas, write general code systems for engines, begin rough concepting, and generally figure out how, come July, you will make a game for the following theme. This year's theme is: Public Access Television https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXkBzTLOyjchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_ukLomGV7M Especially if you're not from the US, you might have no idea what "Public Access TV" means. Basically, it a channel/band on which people broadcast just about anything, with no standards or control or anything else. Like the above. Here's a YouTube on the subject, with yet more bizarre examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cll61_VOqzA If you're still confused, and going "but I'm not from the US, I've never even seen this!" - yes you have. You've seen Tim and Eric, and they have the soul of Public Access TV down pat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFTaiWInZ44 You would be forgiven for thinking "wait, this year's theme is about... making terrible games?". No. Terrible games that no one wants to play are still terrible. Your challenge, over the month of July, is more be to make a charmingly terrible game. Something that's awkward, and stilted, but endearing or interesting enough that players want to see how it ends. Something that inspires conversation, that's fun and engaging (if also bizarre). You could also make a game about running a Public Access TV network, or a game that takes place backstage of a Public Access TV show, or command police raid on a suspicious apparently-terrorist Public Access TV show, or... just about anything. Have fun with it! Get creative! Competition Begins: July 1st Competition Ends: July 31st, midnight (in your timezone) If you wish to enter, your entry must be in by midnight, July 31st, on the SA GameDev wiki. The judges will then begin judging, and we'll see who wins. How do I submit my entries?
This sounds fun, but what if I don't have the slightest idea how maku gamu? Don't worry about it! Tons of people have entered this without ever having made a game before, and they pretty much all had a blast doing it. That's a huge part of why we run it every year. It's a great excuse to finally take the plunge and commit to making something, and it's an even better motivation to actually FINISH that something. So give it a go! We usually have people spanning the gamut of skillsets, from absolute novices to super experienced types, and you'd be surprised how often it's the novices or lesser known types that actually win. Tools that might help:
Judging And Winning The competition has two ways of winning. First is via judging. Our group of volunteer judges will sit down with all of the games, play them through, and rate them on the following scales... Visuals (10 points) - How attractive is your game? Is it pleasant to look at, or does it make eyeballs bleed (in a bad way)? Audio (10 points) - Does the game's sound pull you into the game? Is it whatever the game feels like it needs? Fun (20 points) - Is the game entertaining/engaging? Does it draw players in, and make them want to complete the game? Polish (10 points) - Is the game well put-together? Is it stable, and juicy? Does it feel "complete"? Innovation (10 points) - Is it a generic corridor shooter/platformer/whatever, or does it really try to do something original with the theme? Theme Adherence (30 points) - Does this feel like a game that makes good use of the theme? Or does it feel like the theming was sticky-taped on top of a game made for another purpose? Story (10 points) - Does the game tell the story it sets out to tell? Is it well-executed/engaging? ... we add the category scores up for each game to a final total. From that, we choose the winners (typically a top 3, etc). We ALSO skim the top 10-20 games off the top, and those become the poll options for a player-chosen SA Gamer's Choice award. Sometimes the same game wins both, other times, it's totally different, and each tends to have its own prizes. As you can see, theme adherence and fun are most important. So bake those brains, and make sure you have a compelling use of the theme that's both cool and fun. Easy, right?  Known Entrants:
Though it is not necessary to pre-register (we judge ANY games submitted by the end time), please do give a shout in the thread if you're down. You can have as many non-goons as you like in your team, one of you just needs to be able to post your entry here / in the submission system (more details later) when you're done. If you say you're going to do it, though, then BE WARNED. Those that fail to submit an entry by the end, even a bad entry, shall have their True Names etched on The Wall Of Shame forever more, redeemable ONLY by submitting an entry to a future SA GameDev. (and yes, any team member can be a member of as many teams as they like - this is especially handy for musicians, voice actors, certain artists, etc) Known Judges:
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Almost all prizes come from you guys. If you want to put one up - cash, a gift card, a Steam game, whatever - just say so, and also post some kinda contact detail we can use to direct the winners to you at the end. Prizes can be awarded for ANYTHING... by default, we'll put them toward the 1/2/3rd slots and Gamer's Choice, but if you want to offer a bounty for the best underwater stealth escort mission, or the most convincing kitten simulation, or you want to assign a prize to the absolute WORST animation in a game, whatever, go for it. Extra complicated prizes: Ulta posted:So I to clarify, half of the the games I have offered to will go to the best Twine game (as determined by the judges). The winner will get to chose what games they want. Then the best game made by someone who has not made a game before (as determined by the judges) will get the half of the rest. The second place game made by someone who has not made a game before (as determined by the judges) will get the remaining games. In the event that no one makes a Twine game, then the pool transfers to the no game before winnings. If for some reason, neither of these conditions are met, I'll just post the codes in the thread and hang my head in shame. Ulta posted:Ok I have a TON of unused Steam keys from various bundles. If it's cool I'd like to offer up the following as prizes. poemdexter posted:Along with throwing my hat in to judge, I mentioned that I would be hosting a #SAGameDev Choice award. One winner will get $200 from yours truly as a way to spread some of the indie wealth around after Western Complete FPS did so well during the Unity sale. stoutfish posted:I am going to complete an entry Mo_Steel posted:I'm going to force myself on this so what the hell, blastron posted:gently caress it, if there's a prize involved, then sure! On behalf of TEAM PUNCH FIGHT I'll shs posted:No fears here, there's a good chance I'll finish something sighnoceros posted:And I will Protocol7 posted:I just spent $20 on forums upgrades so I'd hate for that to go to waste. I will have a game submitted by the end of July. SlightlyMadman posted:I'll jump on the Monnotonne posted:This sounds like a lot of fun. I'll Lutha Mahtin posted:I flunked out the past two years. I will not flunk out again. Gunzil posted:We're in it to win it as Team Terrible TripleD Gramphics with TheBrigand and TheBumbler, and two non-goons helping out as well. Hopefully our scope and premise will be realistic and attainable unlike those last two times, so we don't end up cutting half our content! Diametunim posted:I'm going to try one last time to officially Satire posted:I just noticed that my team and my Takanago posted:Since the start date is almost here, I think I'll throw in a Slifter posted:Ok, I'm sleep deprived and in the mood to make poor decisions so I'm in. Also may as well put my Afal posted:I've also got a bunch of other important stuff to do this month so it's probably a good idea for me to a medical mystery posted:Aright I'm gonna get started, and 
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Look at me, being an idiot, quoting an unfinished post  EDIT: Edited to be clearer with the theme. No, you don't have to make a game that could BE a Public Access TV show, just anything attached to it. Get creative with it! Shalinor fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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TheOrange posted:That's uh... a unique theme idea. I kind of want to try and do a take on my idea from last year as kind of an attempt at redeeming it (Cthulu Teaches Culting), still want to revisit it but never had the time. Assuming it wasn't using a bunch of pre-created assets and code and the like would that be okay? Obviously would need to do lots more in order to make it work with this years theme but I'm sure a malevolent force could use public television as a means of brainwashing and subversion... Also, this year's theme came from the GameDev IRC. They did a big brainstorming session, and the result seemed neato to me, so here we are!
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Manslaughter posted:Shalinor, it's time to end the Game Maker hate, please put it in your list of tools and bring down this wall of oppression 
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heap posted:P.S. Hey Shalinor, can musicians still contribute to multiple teams like last year? I don't see it in the OP.
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Third Murderer posted:Is the part I bolded meant to imply that an entry doesn't actually have to be about television at all, if it goes for "charmingly bad" instead?
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Afinostux posted:I'd like to enter! Can we use royalty free sounds and music? Only real issue is - if your game features recolored Mario sprites, we're PROBABLY going to see Mario, not <your magnum opus>, so I'd avoid using recognizable stolen art like that. EDIT: Well, ok, Leif. there is literally a lawyer, but, I swear we won't care regardless. Nobody cares. Only matters much if you try and sell what you're making.
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Rogue Lemon posted:I just happen to have started dicking around with Stencyl, maybe I'll feel up to this in a couple of weeks. In fact this would be a FANTASTIC opportunity for someone to make an FMV game, if anyone ever wanted to try one of those. Man. I wish I had the spare money to offer a bounty to see that happen. I've no doubt we'll see FMVs already (Sigma-X, etc), but I want to see a terribad Tex Murphy game, dammit, or a Sewer Shark or something. Tube posted:Also, it's possible that I'll throw together some sort of entry that I don't intend to be judged. That's been known to happen. Shalinor fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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Leif. posted:Oh my god, I will give a bonus prize of some kind to anyone who makes a public access FMV game remake of the original Police Quest SWAT. Yeah, SWAT 1. With the gun-toting grandma hiding in the yard.  ... and do you want a single BIG bounty the one of your choice that does it, or the as-currently-written bounty to anyone that does it.
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JossiRossi posted:Orphan Contributors and Desired Skills has been updated. If anything wrong or if you get recruited and want people to stop pounding down your door, let me know and I'll update appropriately. EDIT: VV 
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stoutfish posted:I am going to complete an entry 
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Huh. Well THAT'S a cool perk. Who wants a 2-month Unity Pro license? Because I have one with 100 activations on it. First come first serve. Either PM me, or message me elsewhere (@glassbottommeg or whatevs) and convince me you're a goon / an honest person that won't just leak this code and spoil the fun for everyone. This is also only open to people competing in SA GameDev. EDIT: Oh, and my contact at Unity is also working on some press attention for the eventual winners. Sounds like it'll go out through their channels. So I guess that's also kind of a prize?
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Mido posted:Current project plan for team Honk is multiplayer Public Access Smash TV with some hidden/unannounced twists ... which begs the question: will Spider Fingers Lady be the show host?
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EDIT: You know what, disregard that. PBS is publicly funded, whereas Public Access TV is more airtime for anyone. Related, but separate concepts. Keep it to the previous examples. ... but a campy Bob Ross painting game, or a terrible educational program, would both fit. Both had analogs on Public Access. Shalinor fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Jun 6, 2014 |
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Mo_Steel posted:I'm going to force myself on this so what the hell,
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blastron posted:gently caress it, if there's a prize involved, then sure! On behalf of TEAM PUNCH FIGHT I'll shs posted:No fears here, there's a good chance I'll finish something
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sighnoceros posted:And I will Protocol7 posted:I just spent $20 on forums upgrades so I'd hate for that to go to waste. I will have a game submitted by the end of July. SlightlyMadman posted:I'll jump on the Lowen SoDium posted:Back on the subject of Bob Ross and public access: Enos Shenk posted:Is it legit for someone entering to also offer up prizes?
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Mo_Steel posted:Channel 17 - Create: Arts & culture, lifestyle topics (including sports, documentaries & slice-of-life, humor & comedy, food, families and parenthood, and so on), and youth & education And then drummers on either side. The camera man appears to be stoned, and the shot keeps drifting to the mid-point between the Tuvan guy and the Dijurido lady, where there's a lovely flower vase.  (it actually isn't awful - if this were playing in a New Age coffee shop, I wouldn't immediately run into the street with blood leaking from my ears)
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Pilchenstein posted:I've got a Cosmos idea, was Cosmos public access or PBS? That's largely rhetorical because I don't have any other ideas. (it's one of those borderline shows - it's long since exploded past its humble, awkward beginnings and I think changed networks... so like, Carl Sagan cosmos? Ok. Modern Cosmos? That's not really to-theme anymore.)
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Monnotonne posted:This sounds like a lot of fun. I'll xzzy posted:How about a Sierra style adventure game and/or riff on Atari's E.T. where you try to gather equipment so you can air an episode of Wayne's World?
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pixaal posted:This could very well be this years HONK! It'd make HONK look downright pedestrian. Except that HONK would still be awesome. HONK is eternal. HONK.
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It looks like the old SA GameDev wiki might have been taken down by a troll. bbcisdabomb is working on a new one / has a ton of zips from all the entries themselves, but information as to which was from which competition, team page contents, all of that appears to have been wiped. Could also have just been a spambot, who know, but still.  If that indeed ends up the case, we'll create a "history" page of some sort where previous entrants can link their old entries up in the appropriate previous year / see how much of that we can reconstruct.
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Third Murderer posted:I think the technical rule is: if you feel like you're cheating, you're cheating. If you don't feel like you're cheating, you're probably not.
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I'm at Denver ComiCon this weekend showing off Hot Tin Roof, hence my silence. Tomorrow's our last day, and then I'll probably be passed out on my couch on Monday, but then I will say stuff in here again. EDIT: if anyone's still struggling for ideas... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF9srmYC8_A Shalinor fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Jun 15, 2014 |
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Leif. posted:I can't find my 360 controller at the moment, so I wouldn't be able to score your game.  Polo-Rican posted:I have a lot of poo poo going on in July so I don't think Holy Wow will have time to make a game. However I think it could be really fun to judge... we have a cool webcam setup now and it would be a blast to put together some sort of livestream thing, like some goons did last year.  (yes, that was fixed midway through judging last year... I had just forgotten to disable the calculations that were in the sheet, meaning a TON of work was done every time a judge entered a single number) ... and, OP is updated with new entrants. Today was nice. I sat and did nothing, and was basically half-comatose the entire day.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:I flunked out the past two years. I will not flunk out again.
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Mido posted:Daring move, comrade. One I will not forget lightly. HONK.
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The SA GameDev wiki lives again! Anyone want to do a logo for this year's SA GameDev? If so, we'll throw it up there. If not, we'll remain logoless, like animals.
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Had a family tragedy, so when the "THE COMPETITION IS ON!" thread is delayed a bit, please nobody panic. Just start development on July 1st, etc. I'm just scarce online lately.
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Polo-Rican posted:drat!! Well here's the idea I wanted to try doing. It was supposed to look Street Fightery but instead it looks like Borderlands... D'oh!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaawOHOo6Y0&t=67s (all I could remember is that line - took me a while to find that stupid game... great for the time though! )
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(I am no longer updating the team list from now on, but as stated, there's no registration req / anyone can submit an entry)
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Praseodymi posted:"Going to the Store": The Video Game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRZ2Sh5-XuM
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Jo posted:
 Probably shouldn't do this as an av. But man. So tempting. Going to sleep on it.
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Jo posted:"Let us take a dab of brilliant #f0120cff. The color is softlinked to an experience I had with your mother."
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This is my favorite part of the contest. "Who will post the most polished looking early screenshot that seems to be great progress, only to disappear halfway through the contest / submit nothing and be beaten by the dude that didn't post a thing and came out of nowhere." It happens every drat time. I always get excited about someone's early results, then they just... disappear. 
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Polo-Rican posted:I've been setting up a sweet video streaming thing for when we judge the games... why is open source video streaming software 1,000x better than any other open source software?? Open Broadcaster works so well and allows you to do so much. I really can't believe it's free. I thought this would be a pain to set up, but it was really effortless to set up a bunch of complex scenes, including a thing that feeds a playlist of games from a text file. Anyways, thank you Notch and League of Legends! (Before this, the only real way to Twitch stream on Mac required a $400 piece of software)
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