CHARAS GAME MAKING CONTEST. Real prizes. Enter today. Win a tablet.

[fruckert]

Oh, wow, this is harder than I thought.

ed: Getting good progress with my game, though.
I mean, I can move around...doesn't mean I have any game logic, though.

[MissingName]

I'm making progress.

[fruckert]

I really, really, really want to share everything that I'm doing right now, because I personally think it's one of the coolest things I've done.
Unfortunately, I can't, because, you know...contest.

[zuhane]

I'm making an RPG game with 100 playable classes, over 200 quests and complete freedom, a day and night system,
Direct X11 tessellation, and 600+ hours of gameplay. It's still in the concept stage, but once I get a team to do everything
else, it'll be amazing!

[fruckert]

**** it.

Project Ceres

Controls:
Z       - Toggle Missiles
A       - Toggle Missile Pods
X       - Toggle Afterburner
C       - Cycle auxiliary upgrades
CTRL  - Play auxiliary animation.
Shift   - Use afterburner
Space - Toggle waypoints

[RockJohnAxe]

I can whip out something

[SaiKar]

 

[Ben]

HECK YES.

Update...Ill be buying the second tablet prize a week from yesterday, when I get a chance to run arounds and do my banking and crap. Expect pics.
I may give a breif extension to the deadline if its looking like its needed. But keep in mind the extension will be breif.

Ive been stuck at work virtually most of the time, and for this I apologize. But screw that. Prizes and games are two of the best things out there.

[Ben]

No, if one person enters, theyll get the grand prize, and Ill resign from charas for eternity. Because if I cant stimulate some game making with cash from my own pocket, then its never going to happen.

[fruckert]

At this rate, I'm not going to be done in time.

Ceres is having some huge framerate issues...I haven't even programmed anything else in, and it's running at 2/3 speed.
Until I get that fixed, I can't really work on anything else.

I'll see if I can't churn out something else, though.

[MissingName]

My game is also taking longer.  I have schoolwork and stuff.

[SaiKar]

There's no way an extension should be required. Like 3 months is plenty of time to make a game between 25 minutes and an hour long. Mine was like 80% done within the first few days.

[A Forgotten Legend]

I started working on some stuff, but this is getting hard with how much work I have this semester.  I'm going to try though.

[fruckert]

My main problem is squashing bugs and trying to figure out the new tech that I'm using.

I may have to simplify my space game, though.

[SaiKar]

Does your game have custom graphics and did you code everything yourself?

no i donwladed a gmae and put my name on it lol

But seriously, if time is an issue, then I'd say you are going well above and beyond the scope of the contest here. Getting extensions is kind of cheating the system since then more time would be available to make bigger projects when everyone else was expecting less time for smaller projects. It's like... um... if we were running a 10-lap race, and everyone paced themselves for 10 laps, and on the final lap it was announced that it was actually a 20-lap race. People weren't pacing themselves for a 20-lap race - they're probably dead tired, having given their all for running a really good 10-lap race. Someone would win the race, but it would probably be a different someone. The race would have changed.

If you do more work than me for your game, and it makes your game better than mine, you should win. But you shouldn't use the fact that you have to do more work as an excuse to get more time. If anything, not having enough time is a failure to understand what would be required for the contest.

Honestly, I don't think I'll win. I probably won't place. But I'll have something to enter that I didn't just give up on because it got too big, complicated, and boring. And for me, and probably a lot of us, that counts as a decent achievement around here.