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  2015 Steamgoon Holiday Contest sponsored by Depends, because nowadays all games are either piss-poor, or outright shitty. This year we’re running 3 main contests simultaneously from now to Monday, Dec 21st. Enter any of the main contests, comment on other people's entries, or send gifts or prizes to entries you enjoy. This is supposed to be a celebration, so let's have some fun!  1. Game Creator Extraordinaire:We're bringing back the game making competition for the fourth year in a row. You've got two weeks to make a ‘holiday’ themed game, which can be a puzzle, an interactive story, a flash game (also here), or an adventure game. If you need help, you can probably find it in the Game Making Megathread. Formats accepted: If it can be loosely considered a game and the judges can play it, we'll accept it, even a board game. But please build/draw/construct something for the game. Post more than just your idea. Prizes: First Place: $100 spending spree Second Place: $60 spending spree Third Place: $25 spending spree  2. Create a new Steam Achievement:I remember waaaaaay back when the Steam winter sale had a bunch of special holiday achievements. Nowadays they would probably have to add special emotes and trading cards for each game, too. Actually, that would be pretty cool, so let's do that. Pick a game on Steam and come up with a set of at least three holiday achievements, emotes, or trading cards for it. If you're feeling ambitious, you can do all three! Formats accepted: Pictures and text Prizes: First Place: $60 spending spree Second Place: $40 spending spree Third Place: $20 spending spree  3. Show us your Spirit:We want you to show your holiday spirit by challenging or embarrassing yourself in the name of the season. This one is limited only by your imagination and local law enforcement, but here are a few examples to get you started: • Dress up as your favorite character, and deliver food to a shelter • Cook a full holiday feast and blend it into a giant smoothie, then drink it on camera • Write a season appropriate song about gaming, then perform it for all to hear Formats accepted: all - just provide proof of what you did. Prizes: First Place: $60 spending spree Second Place: $40 spending spree Third Place: $20 spending spree Please post your name and the banner of the contest you are entering above with your entry. All three contests run simultaneously from now until ~6 PM (GMT-7) Monday, Dec 21st. They end early enough for you to maximize your spending spree over the xmas sale. We usually judge on the following criteria: Quality, Effort, Creativity/Humor. As always, there may also be a secret prize or two. Kragger99 fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Dec 6, 2015 |
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Are we limited to the genres/engines you linked for the game creator contest?
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Dec 6, 2015 19:02
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laaylrcislesogspxa?
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Deki posted:Are we limited to the genres/engines you linked for the game creator contest? Nope - it's wide open. Just wanted to provide some examples. corn in the bible posted:laaylrcislesogspxa? you'll have to do better than that  VVV Nope - you've got the letters, just not the right order. Also thanks for pointing out a minor mistake with my italics VVV Kragger99 fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Dec 6, 2015 |
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Dec 6, 2015 19:07
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I've unjumbled it, but what on earth does crystal axes spill ago mean 
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Dec 6, 2015 19:52
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I'm sure its A Rascally Sexist Glop. EDIT: Or possibly Still Alpacas Sex Orgy. Haberdashery fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Dec 6, 2015 |
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Dec 6, 2015 20:10
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No, no, the anagram is so difficult that Kragger is imposing a SPECIAL GLOSSARY TAX! e: of course, we could get into a fight about definitions, but then we'd be having a lexical glossary spat Occultatio fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Dec 6, 2015 |
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Dec 6, 2015 20:30
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Kragger99 posted:
Holiday mode unlocked Play the game during the holidays - good! NO CHEATS USED Complete an arbitrary portion of the game during the holidays with no cheats used - bloody good! GAME COMPLETED DURING THE holidays Just say Merry Christmas, you bloody heathen!
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Dec 6, 2015 21:34
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this man has a lexically gross past
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Dec 6, 2015 21:36
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pass lyrical gospel tax sounded good until I counted and it had one too many letters, instead go with lyrical gospel rear end tax
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Dec 6, 2015 21:49
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I swear it had one less L when I started trying this.
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Dec 6, 2015 22:06
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but Kragger, will Depends help with ill taxpayer rear end clogs?
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Dec 6, 2015 22:26
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HMS Boromir posted:I swear it had one less L when I started trying this. The only change I made was the L in 'also' of the last sentence was italicised in error, but that was fixed about 15 min after the original post (about 2 hours ago). Only the underlined and italicised letters count. I did not think it would be this difficult. The next one I'm planning requires much more effort.
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Dec 6, 2015 22:30
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I was definitely off by one somewhere. Anagrams aren't really a very good puzzle on their own, I'm afraid. Someone might still find it.
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Dec 6, 2015 22:32
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Escort spills a galaxy? This is A sly SASTG* pixel carol! *(Something Awful STeamGoon)
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Dec 6, 2015 22:33
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Kragger99 posted:The only change I made was the L in 'also' of the last sentence was italicised in error, but that was fixed about 15 min after the original post (about 2 hours ago). The CLOSEST SPIRAL GALAXY is Andromeda. (I don't know - is Andromeda a spiral?)
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Dec 6, 2015 22:33
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Gromit posted:The CLOSEST SPIRAL GALAXY is Andromeda. (I don't know - is Andromeda a spiral?) We have a WINNER!
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Dec 6, 2015 22:35
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Kragger99 posted:We have a WINNER! And Kragger just gifted my holiday rear end up like I was getting some sort of holiday-themed prostate exam. Glad he has just girlish slim fingers. Thanks pal!
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Dec 6, 2015 22:52
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I think I'll be writing an interactive short story/game for this if there's time between university and christmas business. I'm wondering though, is there a way to have global variables or something in Twine? Like, "you did X back at another point, so it opens a different possibility now"? Doing several different branches will be agonizing otherwise. edit: Yes. http://twinery.org/wiki/set, http://twine2.neocities.org/ for twine2 Thoughtless fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Dec 6, 2015 |
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Dec 6, 2015 22:59
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Neat! I'll have to mull those contests over as I tend to gravitate to the "spend 5 minutes in MS Paint and we'll throw the entries into random.org"-type ones.
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Dec 7, 2015 02:06
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Kragger99 posted:
Here's my entry for this one, I give you Earth Defense Force Insect Armageddon Holiday Cards! All 4 classes have now become festive. Paint the town red and green with the blood of our giant bug enemies from space!     And here's the full view on Battle Santa if you'd like:  Here's my steam profile: http://steamcommunity.com/id/cryomancer/ And in the spirit of giving, here's where I got the steam card template, so anyone else can use it too: https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1271192 Light Gun Man fucked around with this message at 07:20 on Dec 7, 2015 |
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Dec 7, 2015 05:45
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gonna try and make a game thing that is itself a contest
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Dec 8, 2015 23:55
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Well, here's an excuse for me to download that GameMaker Pro licence I got in that Humble Bundle back in September.
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Dec 9, 2015 00:20
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I think I'll try my hand with number 2.
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Dec 9, 2015 00:40
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Jamfrost posted:I think I'll try my hand with number 2. I did that once. Let's just say it was a poo poo show. I'll be posting another detailed puzzle this weekend, so keep an eye out for that one.
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Dec 9, 2015 00:52
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Kragger99 posted:
new vegas doesn't even have any trading cards, you'd think they'd have added some by now    also here's my steam profile http://steamcommunity.com/id/ShadowMar
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Dec 9, 2015 01:23
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Kragger99 posted:1. Game Creator Extraordinaire: I'll set the bar really low! Anyone can do better than this!
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Dec 11, 2015 02:33
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Akilles posted:I'll set the bar really low! Anyone can do better than this! http://www.twitch.tv/zolthorg/v/29315574 Totally going to make a puzzle game to surpass metal gear for this contest
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Dec 11, 2015 04:41
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zolthorg posted:http://www.twitch.tv/zolthorg/v/29315574 Nice. Hopefully Quiet is in there somewhere 
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Dec 11, 2015 04:50
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Like every year I'm adding my little birthday contest 
Good luck and have fun!
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Dec 12, 2015 16:51
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Palpek posted:Task: just mash together gaming and christmas in any way or form 
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Dec 12, 2015 23:06
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The resolution on those games seems pretty accurate.
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Dec 12, 2015 23:17
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Owns.
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Well, we're halfway through the contest, and we've had I think 2 entries. Thank you for those! We've been debating cancelling it altogether due to the lack of interest, but we're not sure that's the best option. We will scale back the prizes though. For each competition, unless there are 5 or more entries, we'll only have one prize. As for the crossword I was going to post this weekend, I'll save that for another day. Put too much effort in for potentially no interest. I'm also not going to post reminders of this thread in the main Steam or Gifting/Contests threads, as apparently it pisses some people off. We'll run this to the end, to be fair to anyone that was going to enter. Thanks for the entries so far! Hopefully we'll have some more before next Sunday. Sorry if I sound butthurt, but when putting up ~$300 in prizes with 2 entries halfway through, it's a little disheartening.
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Give it some time, mang. I'd only be worried if mid next week is looking bad. Procrastination rules! In other news, I spent my a good portion of my afternoon using Palpek's contest to learn more about Krita and here's the result: 
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Dec 13, 2015 00:57
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I've been working on my entry for the game contest. 
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zolthorg posted:I've been working on my entry for the game contest. Yup - keep at it We're not cancelling, but may have to scale back the number of prizes.
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Kragger99 posted:Sorry if I sound butthurt, but when putting up ~$300 in prizes with 2 entries halfway through, it's a little disheartening. Nah it's a reasonable response. Usually you get a pretty good turn out too, I dunno what's up with this year.
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I saw this post and I was pretty sad to see the lack of entries but it did remind me of way the gently caress back in 2011 there was one of these threads and the one time I entered them, because I know I'm not creative enough to make a good entry. I think in 2011 that was the time I first met the actual steamgoons community and became a part of them on IRC and steam and whatnot. ANYWAY, because I was reminded I actually hunted around for my dumb entry which I remembered all this time even though I have no idea what the actual competition was, but I do remember it being ran by Palpek for something though. So here is my picture:  This is me, badly trying to look like Johnny 5 Aces in the most  way possible, like the dumb fat goon I am. it's not even an entry for this year because it doesn't fill any category, I just wanted to post it.If it inspires laughing at me then that's fantastic, I just want to see more entries because Kragger99 and Palpek are awesome dudes and this topic should be flooded with dumb and fun entries, like my lovely picture was 5 years ago. Do it dudes.
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Light Gun Man posted:Nah it's a reasonable response. Usually you get a pretty good turn out too, I dunno what's up with this year. For the record I thought this had started on Dec 10 when it was first posted in the game dev threads, and a ludum dare just started on ~dec 10 so that's probably the reason for the quiet front regarding the game competition
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