Description

THE THEME IS:
DEPRIVATION AND/OR ABUNDANCE


Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls; I'm sure many of you have wished to work with someone new, especially someone well known and respected, or maybe just someone who's gotten your attention and appreciation of their work. Perhaps you aren't well know but would like to meet and collaborate with some people, show what you got? Are you just looking for something a little different? While not all of these can be promised, it would be nice to be able to do some of these, yes? I give you, McBacon Jam.



The idea and goal of McBacon jam is to give people a chance (and excuse) to team up with people they wouldn't normally team up with an give them an idea of what its like to work with them. Hopefully, this encourages less cliques and more willingness to diversify collaborations.



Here are the basics:
  • This event will run from 1/21/2015 to 2/11/2015 (3 weeks because everyone been getting sick and McBacon loves you)
  • I will announce a theme on the 21st; that is when your team can officially begin.
  • Team sizes must be a minimum of 2 with a maximum of 4 (remember, this is about collaborations). Solo entries will not be accepted for this.
  • You may be in only 1 team.
  • You may submit some basic info about yourself so that others can get a better idea about you at a glance.
  • Just to set the record once and for all, there IS NO APPLICATON OR APPLICATION PROCESS. all info is provided voluntarily and for the benefit of others.
  • If you already have a team decided, be sure all members join said team.
  • If you dont have a team, but want to join one, make a team with just you in it. if someone joins your team, make sure everyone in said team talks about it too.
    If no one does join said team, I will be talking to everyone without a team and helping everyone get teamed up.
  • If you don't care one bit about who you're teamed up with, consider going into reserve. Being in reserve allows me to makes sure anyone that wants to be in a team can. plus, it grants you the best trophy in this event!
  • Assuming this is a success, don't expect to team up with the exact same people every time. Each new jam means different team arrangements!
  • If bizarre circumstances occur or if you're having some team issues, let me know and I will take care of things accordingly.




Badges!
Only 1 badge will be handed out, depending on the circumstances:

McBacon Jam Effort: 10 MS
  • Given to people on a team who at least turns in something remotely playable and tries to meet the theme.

McBacon Jam Pioneer: 25 MS
  • Given to people on a team that end up making something and meets the theme quite well (I expect this one to be the one handed out mostly)

McBacon Jam Reserve: 30 MS
  • This award overrides the others and is given only to people who went the extra mile and put themselves in reserve, provided they still turn in something though.




Questions? Comments? Concerns? Speak up and post!

Details

  • 01/21/2015 12:00 PM
  • 02/12/2015 02:59 AM
  • 4

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Zeigfried_McBacon
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
3820
author=Seiromem
So it actually turns out assumption of abandonment is what ceased activity! Never assume, people! (practicing what I preach next jam)


I can't stress enough that communication is KEY.
blueperiod/yuna/hasverscalmone: You guys need to add another screenie!

Yeah, I'm tending the queue all day so if you put your projects up, I'll send them to the site, but they still have to abide by the rules (sorry!).


Also, here guys: http://rpgmaker.net/users/Liberty/playlists/52950/
This playlist has all the games that have currently been added to the site. I'll keep adding to them when they go through the queue. Just remember to put a line somewhere about it being for McBJ!
Oh, sorry about that! *adds screenshot*
Done. No biggie~ ^.^
Gah, must rush. >_<
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958


Guys. I haven't slept in three weeks. Our scope was WAY TOO BIG. How the HELL did we finish this game!?

Please don't ever host another game jam! I'm 100% positive that I would literally physically die.
Dear lord, that window skin is genius. I'm going to go and make floor/wall tiles into windowskins after I finish this love game.

The rest of the shot looks okay I guess.









(Pfft, who am I kidding? It looks great.)
Zeigfried_McBacon
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
3820
author=LockeZ
Guys. I haven't slept in three weeks. Our scope was WAY TOO BIG. How the HELL did we finish this game!?

Please don't ever host another game jam! I'm 100% positive that I would literally physically die.


Relax, future McBacon Jams will last a whole month, plus, I'd love to see some crazier team ups with you in them.
author=Zeigfried_McBacon
Relax, future McBacon Jams will last a whole month, plus, I'd love to see some crazier team ups with you in them.


Please don't do this, it'll have the opposite effect of what you're looking for. We're going to scope things as big as they can be given the deadline. If you push the deadline back, I'm not going to relax more, I'm just going to be pushing myself for a longer period of time. It's hard enough for me to commit all my free time for two weeks, let alone three weeks or a month, which is why you see people complaining about deadline extensions. One month isn't really a game jam. When you're going to be putting 100+ hours into something minimum, it takes a little more planning.

That being said, having a lot of fun working on this one. No sleep tonight though.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
Yeah. I mean the problem wasn't the time limit. Any time limit would be fine if we made a game of an appropriate size for that time limit.

The problem is that the appropriate size for a 2-3 week game jam by hobbyists is about 20-30 minutes long, and we made a game ten times that size. The extra time did nothing except guarantee that all my arguments about how we should cut content from our game were outvoted by my team. They were right; we had the time. I just... sort of wish we didn't. I put a good seventy hours into this game over the three weeks we had, and I think Indra probably put twice or three times that many in. I can't keep that pace up for more than a week or two!

I'm impressed and amazed with the game we put together as a result, but I am dying. If this had ended at the original time, I'd have been much happier.
If only I didn't procrastinate this could have been something interesting. Not to bash my teammate, I do like the sprites, but he didn't produce very much when I listed some things we needed. I did just about everything myself, for about 2 days total. I'm not reliable, either.

It was fun to design something new. I remember why I like doing this. But I also remember why I don't finish doing this. Oh well.
CashmereCat
Self-proclaimed Puzzle Snob
11638
I agree with LockeZ and psy. I think we would benefit from 1-2 week long game jams in the future because then we get to try out more teams as well. Also working this hard for this long is taxing. So shorter bursts would be preferred.

That said, this has been so rewarding. I have learned so much and my team members can confirm that as well.
Huh? I need to make a gamepage to submit a download? I didn't know that... There was no game before tonight, really, so that wouldn't have been possible haha Here's the game http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/9179/locker/Gamejam1.zip

You will probably need 2k3 RTP. Sorry bout that.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
There are at least ten different 2K3 RTPs, and you're releasing the game to players who possibly have never heard of an RTP and almost certainly don't have it installed, so please include all the files you're using.

Also, make a gamepage, dork! No point in posting anything here, only the other entrants will see it.
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15170
i agree with 1-2 weeks. a month is a proper contest with rewards and shit.
I'm here online so as long as the game page fits the rules of the site, it'll go straight through~
Zeigfried_McBacon
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
3820
The truth id. I had wanted to do a webcast following this up, but this morning, some vision problems of mine decided to make themselves worse, so I wont be able to do that or play games too well for a while. I'm very sorry guys.
NeverSilent
Got any Dexreth amulets?
6299
Don't feel bad about it, Zeigfried. I just hope you'll get well soon.
Our games aren't going to run away, so there should always be time to do something like a webcast at some point in the future. No hurries, I'd say.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
I'd like to hear one eventually!
LockeZ .. you .. and .. wow. You all must have worked your ass off.