Start of The Official Charas Game Making Contest

[Robotam Plus]

Glitch, where you at? This is where you're suppose to convince people not to quit. Perhaps by dragging out the deadline for a little bit longer?
I'd love to join the race myself, but I just noticed about the contest a couple of minutes ago.

[Daetyrnis]

Originally posted by aboutasoandthis
Can you push this back till the end of spring break or something Glitch?

...?

When is Spring Break for America?

[Glitch]

Sorry sorry, I haven't been able to get to my computer lately. But here I am.

Yeah, I meant to say about 2 weeks ago that this contest was postponed until Charas 3.0 was resolved, I noticed once that thread got started up this thread and Meis's map thread both died down. But that thread has reached its conclusion from what I see. So the contest is back on!

So yeah, does anyone have a suggestion on what a good ending date would be? If not it's gonna be mid Aprilish. So peoples, if you have started a game, FINISH IT. If you haven't started, go ahead and start!

Also, Ace of Spades has informed me he is unable to judge Fun Factor in this contest. So I'm extending the offer out to the following people...

Gemini and Robotam. Please contact me via PM and explain how you would like to judge this area if you would like to. I'll send you a PM telling if I chose you or not, then you can post your judging style here. If neither of you are interested, then I'll just split up fun so that all of the judges give a fun factor grade, and then we average it out.

So yeah, go ahead and get back on your games if you want. Hope to see some good stuff out of you guys!

[aboutasoandthis]

My Spring break is Friday the 6th to Sunday the Fifteenth. How about Monday the 16th to give us two weekends?

Edit:
I'm thinking wtf at myself. My spring break actually starts tomorrow, and I get back on the 10th. My little brother's spring break messed me up.

[Vidian]

I was actually going to be ready with a 20 minute game at the end
of the month

I guess I can just make it better now.

[SilverBlade]

I've got vacation, so why wouldn't I compete too?


I'm in!

Edit: I saw in the rules that I have to tell what I'm planning. Well, the game will be named 'Secret of Thor' and I'm now searching for charsets, chipsets...

[aboutasoandthis]

Computer was basically wiped, so "The Witch King" is gone. I'll come up with something.

[SaiKar]

Originally posted by Glitch
Yeah, I meant to say about 2 weeks ago that this contest was postponed until Charas 3.0 was resolved, I noticed once that thread got started up this thread and Meis's map thread both died down. But that thread has reached its conclusion from what I see. So the contest is back on!

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but it didn't die down because of Charas 3.0. It died down because people came up with good ideas for games and then later realized they didn't want to put the effort into finishing them.

You may get an entry or two from the more dedicated people, but you can move the deadline back all you want; it won't largely increase participation too much.

Fact is, the scope is too big. Requiring custom systems and sprites for high marks makes it too daunting to finish. People can go entire nights just making custom character sets alone - I know, I've done it. I tried to suggest things like making Charas-generated sprites to keep the scope smaller, but nobody wanted to do that. So rather than short, simple games we ended up with everyone designing technical and graphical masterpieces - masterpieces that will never be completed.

Maybe I stand alone, but I just want to see what people can do. A lot of people on Charas talk big about their games; let's see them! Even if it's not the biggest project or the most detailed, every game is a reflection of its author's ideas. I'd rather see a small-scale game now than a million promises of something better later.

I'd recomend some sort of rules change, possibly removing the scoring from every single cateogry except gameplay. Or change it from a contest to a collection, encouraging people to submit what they have whenever they get it done. I don't know. You'll think of something.

[Bluhman]

Okay, how about this; everybody release a demo of their game by Friday. Wherever you are, by Friday, just slap a quick demo ending message onto your game and upload it. That way, we can see where everyone is, and at least have something for us people to... Well, play. How about that.

Also, why the hell does Firefox want to keep replacing okay with Tokay!?

[Robotam Plus]

Originally posted by Bluhman
Okay, how about this; everybody release a demo of their game by Friday. Wherever you are, by Friday, just slap a quick demo ending message onto your game and upload it. That way, we can see where everyone is, and at least have something for us people to... Well, play. How about that.

Also, why the hell does Firefox want to keep replacing okay with Tokay!?

But I just started.  

[SilverBlade]

Originally posted by Bluhman
Okay, how about this; everybody release a demo of their game by Friday. Wherever you are, by Friday, just slap a quick demo ending message onto your game and upload it. That way, we can see where everyone is, and at least have something for us people to... Well, play. How about that.

Also, why the hell does Firefox want to keep replacing okay with Tokay!?

In my game, I'm making the custom menu and then ABS-system first, so I won't have anything to show .

I like Saikar's idea though, but it won't be a real contest if everybody just put up their mini-games here. I suggest that everybody who want to make the game of 10 min-60 min says here in this thread, and that we wait untill their games are ready to be judged.
THEN we can have a contest without worrying about the deadline.

[aboutasoandthis]

It took all day, but I managed to create my game from scratch. My game should either be finished by tonight or tommorow morning. I only have to make some more maps and some cutscenes. The Witch King is back on.

I don't expect to win though. It may share the same title, but it's not what you think it is.

I need to go outside and play.