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potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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Sign me up.

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potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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Zurui posted:

Your trope is...



Yeah, I don't know how you're going to make that one work either!

LaSquida posted:

What did I ever do to you

I'll take it off your hands. I love the idea of attempting to make a game about slapstick.

potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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Looking ahead: How do we submit the first round entry? To you by email?

potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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The trick is to spew bad game design ideas so that your competition pick them up and you win.

*ahem hem hem*

"I'm going to start writing a D&D hack."

potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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I started thinking about it today.

potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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Alright, done.

I'm pretty pleased with what I came up with -- it's incomplete but I think it's a decent core of something.

potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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I favour anonymity until the final round, when all three creators are named next to their final work.

potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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I think I'm going to grab me Entry #8, although there are a lot of strong contenders.

potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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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.

potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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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.

potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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It's only the second phase, so I think it's more important that you do something than that thing is complete or even good.

potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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Antivehicular posted:

Same! There's definitely stuff here that will need a rework, to the point that I could probably put a FIX THIS, AUTHOR 3 section at the end

I'm pretty certain I did exactly that. Just draw a big circle around the bits I wanted to do but didn't and label it HINT HINT.

potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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I think I will take BUTTON MASHER. Got a few ideas for how I could expand that.

potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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Antivehicular posted:

Let me know if you'd like a link to the original Google doc, btw; I just looked over the PDF, and a lot of the formatting got screwed with in the conversion. (Also the tables I made are gone? THANKS GOOGLE)

That would be pretty useful, yeah, thanks.

potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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Alright, third-round entry in. I didn't really change much, just expanded on what was already there.

That said, I'd been kind of burned out on game design before I signed up for this little contest and this was a fun way to get back into it -- just doing small bits and pieces, a mechanism there, some lore here, limited to a couple of thousand words a go, that kind of thing. I've enjoyed all three stages and I'm looking forward to seeing what people do with the stuff I made in prior rounds.

potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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Zurui posted:

Y'all have turned in some amazing stuff and it sounds like there's till more cooking!

Here is the list of entries so far

pre:
DalaranJ	Sćhrímnir
JMBosch		Tempo City Dreams
Hostile V	MAGICON
LaSquida	Shadow of the Moon Wizard
Antivehicular	In the Court of the Invisible King
Lux Animus	Skeleton Justice Warriors - Wizards Must Die!
Let me know if I missed anyone.

I'm on the spreadsheet but not on the above list, and I definitely sent you the link a few days ago.

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potatocubed
Jul 26, 2012

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My original was the step-die resolution system. To answer someone's comment from back then, I'd heard of 20XX when I wrote it but never actually looked into it, so any similarities are entirely a case of convergent evolution.

It was also I who changed 'The Wizard Came From The Moon' to 'Shadow of the Moon Wizard' when I chose it as my stage 2. I feel like there were a lot of directions that the original could have gone in, and I chose... one of them.

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