PGD Annual 2011 Competition; Thoughts

[WILL]

I can confirm that the next PGD Annual theme will be simpler than the last few years.

[chronozphere]

I also think that we have to ask ourselves what the best time is to organize a competition. Personally, I dont have any time left in 2010. Februari/March would probably be good for me.

I can confirm that the next PGD Annual theme will be simpler than the last few years.

Actually, the "arcade" theme of previous year was really easy. The stupid thing was that I just ignored that and made one of the most complicated pascal games.. (math-wise) :? I really shouldn't fall into that trap again.

[Nitrogen]

I've always wanted to do something that has a strong interaction between the action on the screen and the sound effects and music.

Something like Everyday Shooter where every time you blow up something, it adds notes to the music.
Or that Song Rider game where you ride on a glowing line that represents the music track currently playing, and it gets twistier the more energetic the music is.

[chronozphere]

Or that Song Rider game where you ride on a glowing line that represents the music track currently playing, and it gets twistier the more energetic the music is.

I immediatly thought about audiosurf. Yeah.. those kind of games are very interesting. The problem is that they have some pretty complex code to get the right information from the music track like bpm and such.

[Nitrogen]

Yeah thats the name, Audiosurf!

True, but FMOD has a DSP function that returns an array of floating point numbers telling you how loud each frequency band is right now, so you wouldnt be able to do something that requires future knowledge of the music, but you could do real time animation for instance against it..

[NecroDOME]

Can't wait... This time I'm going to make something simple... monochrome, 320x480...

[WILL]

Continuing from these posts in this thread http://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com...ll=1#post56086...

Any hints on the theme?

Indeed, any hints to a theme or potential themes/ideas to do with the next PGD? Looking forward to it already...

I can make a suggestion... get some assets ready and start to pick out the library/engine or get your own engine ready before-hand. I find that not having enough assets like sprites or having portions of my game code not working really slows down my development.

Actually often this is usually the case of what I hear from most competitors who's entries don't get submitted.

[paul_nicholls]

Thanks for the tips Jason

cheers,
Paul

[dazappa]

It's hard to focus on creating assets when 90% of them might not end up being used due to a specific theme; as for base code hopefully it won't take 3-5 months to get that ready

[code_glitch]

Could we have the basis for an entire game ready already? I mean, I have 2d tile drawing, map files from TileD, gravity and soon to be particle effects all working together, all I need is the tiles and place those in maps and presto: any 2d game is almost done. Except for space where I have to change over to my 'Open Movement' engine where its not based on 'steps' from tile to tile...

From that perspective it seems rather easy, so is that even allowed? But I agree with dazappa, it is hard trying to create random assets for almost no reason at all and without knowing if they will ever be used. Hey, anyone know of a good spriting/tile drawing/pixel art tutorial for GIMP/similar?

cheers,
code_glitch