First of all, thanks you for the votes and support and congratulations to Yoshbert for his entry in the previous competition. Congratulations to Wiiboy, Alex, Guinea and D-Dazzle, too. You guys rock!
Our next competition will not be a 24 hour one, but instead a 7 day long one. You get one entire week to make a minigame based off the theme that will be revealed to you in due time.
And by due time I mean
Sunday, 15th May, 2011, 0:00:00 GMTThe competition will end exactly on
Saturday, 21st May, 2011, 23:59:59 GMTAny entries posted after this limit will be disqualified. Unlike the 24 hour competitions, you do not get an hour of grace for uploading and packaging. 168 hours should be be more than enough to make a game, zip it and upload it to a good host like
http://mediafire.com (as an example, if you are more comfortable with another service then, by all means, use that).
The theme, and a countdown to the end of the competition, can be found on the following page:
>>
THEME <<
You are allowed to use characters from other franchises besides Mario, but they must obviously be gaming-related. Of course, you can make a game with Mario-related characters or even your own indie characters if you like.
And the formalities: (Mason/Guinea)
This theme should be easy to execute too, as long as you have a good imagination and save the details for later. Don't restrict yourself!
All information needed to join is found on the above linked page. Use common sense when making the game. The theme is broad yet the main idea is specific, so as long as you involve it, you'll be fine. You can start the second the page becomes visible.
Anyone can enter! Everyone should enter! Please enter!
It's okay to join late! As long as you submit the game before the deadline, you're fine.
Think about documenting your progress with a camera or screen recording or log! It'd be great to look back on with your badge!
If you'd like a log for yourself, see the end of this post.
The rules of this competition are:
- You have one week. 7 days. 168 hours.
- Your entry must be posted in the topic on MFGG by the deadline
- While teams are allowed, only one person will be allowed to receive the badge. Please decide who gets it well in advance to avoid disputes.
- No previously made engines, whether made by yourself or someone else, but you can use some lines of old code, based on "fair use".
- Feel free to document your work, using a camera, live broadcast, audio recording, screen recording, twitter-like log etc.
- Feel free to sleep, eat, drink as much as you need. You do not need to program the full 168 hours!
- You may use characters from any video gaming related franchise.
Good luck guys!
P.S. If you'd like a "log" of your progress not unlike the ones
I have and
Guinea has, please PM me with a desired username and password and I will set up a log for you at
http://charhost.co.cc/stuff/mgclog/<your username>.