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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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

I hope a giant pile of resources doesn't count as "started already". I don't want to be a dirty cheater. ;_;


It's generally assumed that everyone has their resource libraries and game engines ready. Having a giant pile of resources is being prepared for a challenge and hardly cheating- even better if you have rights to those resources. Lots of us were working on things before so the chances are high of us already having lots of stuff to slap together a game with. It would be a perfect time to get your stuff ready now.

Personally I'm drawing everything I can from scratch to match the theme better than something already made, also since most RPG Maker resources are useless to me because I'm using a 3D engine.
LouisCyphre
can't make a bad game if you don't finish any games
4523
Twenty-six hours, gentlemen and ladies.

Get your tillsets ready.
I hope a giant pile of resources doesn't count as "started already". I don't want to be a dirty cheater. ;_;


When you made it is not important so long as you have proper rights to it.
LouisCyphre
can't make a bad game if you don't finish any games
4523
So, do we make gamepages on the 12th and add downloads to them on the 28th, or what? Or is it up to the makers?
I'm going to actually make my tilesets during the competition, I mean, I don't know what the theme is, so if I made them early I wouldn't be able to use them. =\
NoblemanNick
I'm bringing this world back for you and for me.
1390
It seems we're coming down to the starting date. Good luck to all of you.
I think it's a bit funny that in this race we actually have "engines" to start.
haha, i really like that. GENTLEMEN, START YOUR ENGINES
Whoa!!!!!

How many more hours left????

I didn't know that joining in an event such as this is this exciting....
(though the fact that its pressuring....)

uh....

Are all the entries getting to ranked....???
If it is then, wouldn't it be embarrassing to be ranked the last????

(Well, I dont care if i'm the last..... I'm just an amateur....)

WEEEE!!!
Try eating walnuts to counteract the effect the canned energy drinks have on your system.
LouisCyphre
can't make a bad game if you don't finish any games
4523
19.66- hours.
GOOOOD question though, do we need to make game pages before the contest starts, right when it starts, or can we make them anywhere between the start and end times? I personally want to make the game page when the entire game is ready to ship.
LouisCyphre
can't make a bad game if you don't finish any games
4523
Well, I'm asking because I want to post DAY ONE DAY TWO DAY TEN etc.

</narcissist>
system might hinder you there, i think WIP programmed it so a game page can only be submitted once you have 3 screenshots. a bit difficult on day 1 :)
LouisCyphre
can't make a bad game if you don't finish any games
4523
I will be mapping for day one, so not as hard as you think! (In fact I have a good idea how this will play out on my end, not sure about rei- or ness.)
mapping.. heheheehehehe..
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!


But I was just joking :(
system might hinder you there, i think WIP programmed it so a game page can only be submitted once you have 3 screenshots. a bit difficult on day 1 :)


Oh god, DUH I'm forgetting about the screenshots.
LouisCyphre
can't make a bad game if you don't finish any games
4523
Ten hours.