Description

Game Chill is a winter game making contest, the goal of which is to make a game in a little over two weeks. Entries will be commented on by a trio of judges and ranked accordingly. A simple theme will be announced at the start of the contest to ensure equal footing with respect to time of development, but otherwise just have fun making games.

Theme:
Opposites! Your game must directly involve two opposing ideals, forces, or elements. Examples would be magnetic polarity, lightside vs. darkside, etc. BUT your game must allow you to play both sides.

Rules:
- The contest starts on December 12th at 12:00 AM GMT and goes until December 28th at 11:59pm GMT. Entries should be made during this time-frame.
- Teams of any size may work together to create a game.
- A theme will be announced at the start of the contest and participants will be expected to follow it, to a degree decided on by the judges. (This theme will inevitably not be Christmas-related, as that is too overdone!). The theme can be nearly anything from a setting to an abstract concept.
- All art, music, and sound should be original or public domain. When you made it is not important so long as you have proper rights to it. Entrants may stray from this rule if they wish, but should expect harsher judgments towards ripped content than original.
- Your game must run on the Windows XP platform or above. Your game should not require any additional components that a judge would have to purchase.
- Games should come with a readme.txt file of some sort, describing how to play the game, listing any resources used that are not yours, and describing what components the game needs to run.
- At the end of the contest, 3 judges will rank each game using their own scoring system, and provide commentary for the entries. The combined ranking of each game will determine the final outcome.
- Games started before the start time are frowned upon.
- Entries not submitted by the end time will not be accepted.
- Extensions might be possible, but will be granted only by popular vote and judge approval (ie. don't rely on it). If extensions are given, they will apply to everyone, for fairness. If an extension does occur it will be only a few days at most.
- Your game can be of any genre, not just RPG.

Check out #compo on irc.esper.net for real-time compo action!


Results
Winner:
Avarice (3 votes)
Runner-Up:
Ghost Voyage (1 vote)

We will be posting our individual thoughts on each entry in the near future!

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Teams Members Entry
Kill Monsters
Radneon
NO GIRLS CLUB (BOY ONLY!!! GIRL KEEP OUT)
Losers
Gecko's Gear
Team Sakura Wolf
Sval
RS Maffia
FUNK
Team Cascade
Silver Satyr
Fourth Dimension
thedjt's Team
Neoniverse
Super Polka Weasel
The Fighting Mongooses
DaVince
Team Nackster
Moonwalk
Team Lonely
TEAM GEODUDE: GEOBROS FOREVER KRO
The Noblemens
The Finland-Swedish National Socialists (FSNS)
Texty Venture
Wing It
Winter Snow
My Pixels Are Round
Screw Gravity
Decrescent Moons
Decrescent Moons
Team
This team totally kicks the ass of all the others also emo rocks marry me Pete Wentz
Catnipika
Avenger
Dark Court
Kevils Entertainment
wündermint
Stupid Me
-Trick-
Unlikely to Do Anything
Team Maybe I'll make something this time but probably not so don't get your hopes up
Good member(s)
Rage Agenst the Dragon
Team Sam and... Sam =_=
Neophytes on this Team. Do not expect anything sensible. Do not expect anything at all.
Ninrat
Crimson Dreamer
Pirox
Just Redd
egamers
I'm OK By Myself

Posts

What a perfect time to put this story of mine to use. We need more arpgs and I plan on making one.
For this I'll drag out my dusty 3DGameStudio Acknex engine and make something with that. Someone gave it to me, but their name shows up every time you boot up the game (for a split second) so they're already credited.
There really needs to be an edit button. I wanted to add that it's with this engine that I've made tons of games in the space of a handful of days.
arcan
Having a signature is too mainstream. I'm not part of your system!
1866
Quite a few people signed up. I bet 50% of them only signed up so they could have a cool team name but I don't blame em.
I signed up because I need more practice pulling games out of my ass.
LouisCyphre
can't make a bad game if you don't finish any games
4523
It's totally not an excuse to team up with awesome people and make awesome shit really honestly
tardis
is it too late for ironhide facepalm
308
my team's the awesumest
tardis
is it too late for ironhide facepalm
308
your team is not a team












you facist
my penis is bigger
Solitayre
Circumstance penalty for being the bard.
18257
I am glad I get a notice every time someone posts here so I don't miss a word of this important conversation.
LouisCyphre
can't make a bad game if you don't finish any games
4523
As am I.

Continue entertaining me.
It's so awesome today. I got out my thumb drive to transfer some old files to get my old game engine on my laptop to find out the thumb drive part of my thumb drive is somehow not in my thumb drive- it's just a plastic case with the metal clip you use to attach it to thing.
We are going to pwn you guys so bad 8D
Er... I don't think most of the teams on there actually want to compete and win, they just wanted to make a silly game in 2 weeks.

2 weeks twoooo owooooo weeekkeesssssss! twoowowowowwwww weeeeeks!
AFrenchDreamer
plz send msg for internet grl shmoozing tipz
0
This seems interesting......

I've got a "Trick" up my sleeve for this......
LouisCyphre
can't make a bad game if you don't finish any games
4523
30 hours until GO TIME.

This seems interesting......

I've got a "Trick" up my sleeve for this......

So you're cheating?
WIP can you throw a curve ball with the theme so that some of these CHEATERS won't be able to submit their already-half-completed game?