Competition Genre Suggestions...

[savage]

Hi all,
As there seems to be some interest in holding a competition this year, Ian and I have been racking out brains to come up with some suggestions for an interesting competition. The list we have so far is :

• Cut Scene engine - Thats right basically a story telling engine that is typically used to push the story along. Think Machinima, but could be 2D or 3D. Maybe picking your favourite movie scene and re-creating it with computer graphics and code. NO pre-rendered stuff, it must all be scripted and real-time.
  
  A game that can be controlled by someone with disabilities. EG, controlled by 1 key press, voice recognition, webcam interaction etc.
  
  A maze based game.
  
  A sport based game (arcade or manager/statistical style) as it is the Olympics this year.
  
  An educational game.
  
  Something similar to this java based game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocode I'm quite interested in this as you compile your own tank and let it do battle against others.
  
  Multiplayer collaboration game : (2 or more players on the same pc of connected via the internet). This would in some way be going back to our competition roots and was the very first competition called Dog Fight that PGD held

If you have any other competition suggestions, this is the thread to post it in.

[technomage]

Dom

Cut Scene Engine is an interesting concept, if you decided on this I think it would be nice to have at least 2 categories best 2D and best 3D. I think if I did a cut scene it would be this one from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cEbQKTYeDis&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cEbQKTYeDis&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

one of my favourite scenes ever, specifically the bit where the sun hits the map room.


The Olympics theme is nice too, there are plenty of sports events to choose from, that kind of game brings back memories of Daley Thomsons Decathlon
where you hammered your kewyboard with all your might.

Multiplayer collaboration would be nice, but it doesn't have to be realtime it could be turn based, by e-mail

Dean

[chronozphere]

Nice suggestions

I also have an idea.

Take a retro-game concept like pong, pacman, space invaders, tetris whatsoever... and make something new out of it. You could change lots of stuff while still keeping some concepts/graphics that characterize some famous retro game. You could even combine 2 retro games.

I know this is starting to look like another multiplexity kinda compo, but i like the idea.
(Crashblock is an example of a game that would fit in this compo, i guess )

We could also make fantasy-games. Games that a minimal ammount of things that we know of in this "real world". This compo might result in some funny series of cool, and weird games with a high "never seen before" factor. You could make an unrealistic world where gravity points up, or you could make some kind of puzzle games like chess, or some psychedelic racegame (that also use a minimum of real world items).

Just a few idea's... hope you like'em.

[Robert Kosek]

I'd suggest a turn-based strategy game. But it looks like you've got enough to choose from already.

[3_of_8]

What about something stealthy? Or a strategy game? Or a RPG? Maybe online?

[jasonf]

I quite like the cut scene idea, It'd make for great YouTube movies too.. but I do think, there'll be a lot of work for anyone wanting to do it. Lots of art assets to create, lots of animation and a ton of scripting.

[Robert Kosek]

I quite like the cut scene idea, It'd make for great YouTube movies too.. but I do think, there'll be a lot of work for anyone wanting to do it. Lots of art assets to create, lots of animation and a ton of scripting.

Heh, yeah, that disqualifies ~80% of us right up front.

[chronozphere]

Heh, yeah, that disqualifies ~80% of us right up front.

I second that. If that is the theme for this compo, i guess i could not join then. I'm absolutely not experienced with art, 3d models, animation etc... and i don't think i have time to learn that stuff, and make something satisfactory. :?

My power and skill is pure coding, so i need some challenging project where i can put my "real" skillaz to the test

[Mirage]

* gameplay: physics-based, AI-based, music-based, etc.
* High-speed (any sense) game
* just a game

[LP]

Why not just making a Pascal Games Festival? That is, any game can participate that was released between dates X and Y, written in Pascal. You can qualify sections such as graphics, originality, completeness, sounds, etc. This will hopefully let everyone participate without any major restrictions.