Competition Genre Suggestions...

[Huehnerschaender]

Hmmm.... I am not a friend of those retro things and "lets do it as small as possible" competitions. We have 2008, so why trying to do things that run on 20 year old machines? I see no sense in this, but thats just my personal opinion

I like to be creative, and not only in the coding way. Doing arts is about 50% of the fun to me when making game projects.

I like the idea posted by Jason: "The big race" ....where everyone could find a game he would have fun to make.

And to be honest.... wouldn't it be great to have something you could use further after the competition? Something thats the starting point for a commercial game?
I don't think you can sell beep beep bang 16 color games

I know, this should just be fun etc.... but I don't like to spend my time on things I cannot use in the end. Its like writing down 1000 pages of nonsense text to throw it into the chimney in the end

[3_of_8]

You certainly got a point there. Although I for one won't ever sell one of my homemade games. Open Source ftw! (Or rather freeware, since my code looks like a dog's breakfast, no one with a sane mind would ever read it)

[arthurprs]

sorry for the question, but a 50% python 50% delphi game will be accepted ?

[Ñuño Martínez]

Hmmm.... I am not a friend of those retro things and "lets do it as small as possible" competitions. We have 2008, so why trying to do things that run on 20 year old machines? I see no sense in this, but thats just my personal opinion

Well, why does people picures with oil painting? We have nice digital cameras, photorealistics renders, photo editors... :roll: But do a retro-style game was just an idea.

Another idea I had: a Reinvent compo. That is: get a classic game and reinvent it with modern graphics. Something like Tron <-> Armagetron Advanced.

[3_of_8]

The thing is: There's not too much games where that would work. In most of those games the only thing you could do is improve the graphics and the sound, which is kinda boring, I think. And there already are a lot of clones for almost every old game, which makes coding another one even less interesting. Who cares for another Super Mario clone, even if it has 3D graphics?

[De-Panther]

Sport Game would be greate!

thers lots of games and ideas u can make



hey - maybe i'll even find time to take part in this compo

[Luuk van Venrooij]

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.

This would be my favorite to, I personally never participated because of the themes didn`t appeal to me.

[WILL]

You kow... if you hold off long enough to be able to organize a themed competition as part of such a festival then it might create an event with a larger scope.

In fact you could extend the length between events from yearly to every-other-year....

[NecroDOME]

This time I go with anything...

But if you want my opinion: I would like to see retro graphics in some more advanced style. Something like the uber zombie style, retro, but still cool due the glow effect .

Edit 1:

Or an "anything forever". You can make what you want (however this would be hard to make deadlines, goals etc...)

Edit 2:
I am willing to go for "The Big Race". Still want to make a fatal racing-like game
Fatal racing rulezz!

[De-Panther]

maybe "anything forever" but the main theme would be "The Big Race"

that way people could put whatever game they want, and still they can always go for the sport theme


and between us - in any game u have competitive part
space invaders - who finish more levels... who finish levels fastest
soduko - who solve soduko fastes
etc...