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[greenraven]

5 Minute Game Contest

Starts: NOW! through September 30th.

Guidelines: Make a quick, short, game about 5 minutes in length.

• You may use any maker or program you feel comfortable with. (RPG Maker, Game Maker, C++, Stencyl, ASCII, anything goes.)
• You are allowed to make as many entries as you like. If you make'em within the time limit, flaunt'em up.
• 5 minutes is a general estimate of how long your game should be. Feel free to make an epic +50 hour saga if you can pull it off.
• You are allowed to have controversial subject matter such as nudity or religion. But warn people beforehand if there's anything for others to be nervous about before playing your game(s).
• More than one person (teams) is/are allowed to work on any one given entry. If you only have a specialty area and can't make an entire game by yourself that's perfectly fine.
• While it would be pretty keen if you were a registered member of Angel Spire in order to participate, people are allowed to enter by proxy through me. If you're shy about becoming a member under my tyrannical reign then simply PM me your entry and I will submit it for you.
• These rules should generally remain as they are, but nothing is set in stone. Any and all rules can be amended as "situations" and  "incidents" arise.

Judging: Come October 1st the entries will be put up to a public vote that will last through October 7th whereupon the winner will be coronated.


That's it, get kraken! :D


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So while I've been sitting around twiddling my thumbs waiting for Natako to review my gamepack I've hit a bit of a nostalgia streak. And now I've got a sudden urge to make a new game. I've decide to host a little game making contest over at my site. So now I'm just going around the community promoting this little cockfight.

I can't really offer much in the way of prizes, I'm wearing hobo rags and eating beans out of a can as it is. At one point I could have offered Spire Points (our on-site currency), but our virtual marketplace has been blown to crap during a power-trip "incident" which I won't go into right now. All I can really offer is a bloody fun good time, my eternal love, and your name hanging atop the flagpole for no less than the timespan of 1 week.

This contest is designed with the state of the RPG Maker community in mind, to get most people back into the groove of game design, to unhinge those rusty gates. The rules are quite simple: Make a game. As short and as crappy as you can, around 5 minutes worth in length. Hence the contest is called the 5 Minute Game Contest, clever I know.

For those of you that are interested, you can check out what all the commotion is all about here. We also have our own newspaper, the contest will be given an article there as well (whether you've won or lost your name will be mentioned as a participant regardless).

Thank you for your time. Hope to see you all soon. :)

[Natako]

Pie!

But seriously...maybe. I'm still finishing up my own crappy game (which is going to be over 5 minutes and length but probably under 20) that I had promised for a specific person in the past, but after that I would  most likely be able to whip something short up. My mind has no bounds when it comes to nonsensical, random ideas. As soon as I finish my other crappy game, I could probably take on a second one.

Also, see the deadlines in my sig. Today or tomorrow on your game.

[greenraven]

Thanks, and take your time.

As long as I get a better turnout than last year, I'll be happy. Only 4 entries, 2 of which were mine.

[Meiscool]

I would lose. I can't make crappy games.

[fruckert]

Haha.

I'd join, but I can't make RPG maker games.
And I don't have enough of a codebase to make anything else.

[greenraven]

I would lose. I can't make crappy games.

You don't have make a crappy game if you don't want to. Crappy is simply the lowest standard of acceptance. XD

Haha.

I'd join, but I can't make RPG maker games.
And I don't have enough of a codebase to make anything else.

Make a platformer if you want, or a sim. It doesn't really matter what kind or what maker you use. Last year someone made an SNES Mario clone.

[fruckert]

Again, I don't have enough code to make anything other than a "mouse over the sprite and win!" game.

[Meiscool]

That would be pretty crappy. It might win.

[Archem]

No, because I'm so damn lazy these days.

I'll watch what happens, though.

[Prpl_Mage]

What the hell. Why not? A week to make something that finishes in 5 minutes, might even get them review people to do some reviews on these.

I'm in.

[greenraven]

No, because I'm so damn lazy these days.

I'll watch what happens, though.

That seems to be the general consensus these days. 

What the hell. Why not? A week to make something that finishes in 5 minutes, might even get them review people to do some reviews on these.

I'm in.

Excellent! Thank you!

I'll give it a few more days to see how many people sign up, and then I'll announce a deadline. (Most likely I'll have it start on September 1st.)

[Meiscool]

I will enter a demo of what I am working on if something that could be considered "a complete game" can be made by then.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Yeah I'll submit a demo of something I had worked on too. To be fair its a short demo. It might not even be 5 minutes.

[greenraven]

Feel free to submit whatever you feel like, just keep in mind that the judging won't be done by me but will be community voted upon.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Nevermind is waaay longer than five minutes lool.

But I'll make something. For the sake of making.