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GENERAL => Challenges & Competitions => Topic started by: spathi on January 12, 2012

Title: Game Competition?
Post by: spathi on January 12, 2012

Anyone interested in a retro (or anything) game competition?

Really I am selfish, I just want new games to play.

Title: Re: Game Competition?
Post by: Jim on January 12, 2012

Have you tried the ones from the two-button competition (http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php?topic=5140.msg68746#msg68746)?

Jim

Title: Re: Game Competition?
Post by: combatking0 on January 12, 2012

A retro / low res / limited control game competition would be cool.

I wouldn't be able to participate until February though.

There's some classics in the two-button competition.

Title: Re: Game Competition?
Post by: benny! on January 13, 2012

Speaking of game competition, do you know Ludum Dare (http://ludumdare.com/) ?

Title: Re: Game Competition?
Post by: Shockwave on January 13, 2012

The only reservation I have is that last time we ran the game competition somebody asked me if I thought that I was diluting the demoscene focus of the forum, I didn't happen to agree with that because games are released by sceners, even some comps have game categories so I'm interested in what other people think - if there's enough support for it then we may do something like this.

Title: Re: Game Competition?
Post by: hellfire on January 13, 2012

Quote from: Shockwave on January 13, 2012

last time we ran the game competition somebody asked me if I thought that I was diluting the demoscene focus of the forum

The main difference between a demo and game is some level of interactivity and some sort of score.
Interactivity is usually a good thing for demo-effects, too, as it is much more fun to play around with it than watching the same fixed timeline when running it.
Personally I like games with demo-like visuals very much, eg. +/- (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=27264), Bittrip Runner (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt2qS02UZJ4) or even Rez (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfibH_HYVBM).
So I don't see a reason why you shouldn't ask sceners to do a small game...

Title: Re: Game Competition?
Post by: Raizor on January 13, 2012

I agree with Hellfire.

Title: Re: Game Competition?
Post by: Kirl on January 13, 2012

Game comp would be cool, but meaby an interactivity challenge would help to keep things more general and demo related.
I'm up for both!  ;)

Title: Re: Game Competition?
Post by: jace_stknights on January 13, 2012

Quote from: Kirl on January 13, 2012

Game comp would be cool, but meaby an interactivity challenge would help to keep things more general and demo related.
I'm up for both!  ;)

Yep I agree with that !

Title: Re: Game Competition?
Post by: Pot Noodle on January 13, 2012

I agree with you all, after all it's still coding..

Title: Re: Game Competition?
Post by: spathi on January 13, 2012

Demos always seemed to me like they were, well, demos of game engine technologies.  There are very few demos out there that couldn't be turned into games on their respective platforms without much effort, provided that you didn't have to adhere to a 4k limit or so.

Title: Re: Game Competition?
Post by: combatking0 on May 12, 2012

Based on what I've learned from the current competition, I'll be making a cube-based game in the near future.