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

I'm releasing what I've got even if it has nothing to do with anything and half the moves are missing from the characters. Gotta crash with style~
WIP
I'm not comfortable with any idea that can't be expressed in the form of men's jewelry
11363
Anyone who pulls a Team Cascade has no idea WTF a compo is about.
I have the same feelings as you tardis, but unlike you I'm releasing SOMETHING with the Game Chill 2009 Demo brand on it with the complete game coming afterwards. Kind of like those E3 demos you've seen only extremely messy.
tardis
is it too late for ironhide facepalm
308
Well put sir. :D
It's not that we didn't plan well enough, we planned way too well and got a bit too inspired for the scope of a two week contest. The upside is we came up with some awesome ideas and built a lot of stuff for a really cool game that hopefully folks will still be able to play and enjoy sometime soon. Just not by the end of this contest. We're going to put screenshots out, though, since we think we came up with some pretty cool visuals.
Oh and merry christmas, game chill.
But our overdoing it led to a great game. :]
Well it is a 2 week contest, you shouldn't have overdone it D:
tardis
is it too late for ironhide facepalm
308
Like the French, Team Cascade has decided to fuck this contest and is now pulling out. We decided we'd rather release a polished full version of our game on our own time rather than put out a rushed release for the contest. It was fun, but maybe another time baby.
Best of luck to everyone in the contest.
I'm only for the extension just so it would make the deadline the end of this year. I think I'm pretty much in trouble either way.
Deadline is near...
Pressure's in my veins now....

And I'm just on the second phase of my game....
Logically thinking, due extension is really neat....

But literally, it should not be implemented. We had given time to read the rules before the event even started. And it says a little more over than 2 weeks.

(But honestly, I NEED AN EXTENSION..... please...)

And why're the others backing out???? <(o_O<)

@davince
Cool! You only have 3 more days to make the game... I wonder what game is it....well, goood luck! (^_^ )
Mwah hah hah, I've only started making my game today. Considering my idea it shouldn't take too long to make, anyway.
If you weren't finished by the normal deadline, you're not going to really be able to take advantage of any time extension anyway. Use the extra time to fix bugs.
I've finished mine for the most part, save for having to draw a ton of art to replace art that is just holding places. I can't wait to see what everyone has done. If anyone is moving the deadline I'd love to know as soon as possible, I don't want to have been busting my ass over nothing.
That's actually a good idea. Make the deadline the end of this year, simply because it's the turn of the new year.
Happy
Devil's in the details
5367
From 28th to say, 31st? It'd be a symbolic release date as last day of the year! Then again, I dunno.

It'd be cool to have a few hours free time at Christmas.
Be positive everyone! Fun fun! ^^
rooting for Team Sakura Wolf


Yay!


I'm constantly mortifying myself by how ugly my code and methods are just to get things done.... I love it!
tardis
is it too late for ironhide facepalm
308
god yes catmitts.
this is an rpgmaker contest guys why are we arguing
LouisCyphre
can't make a bad game if you don't finish any games
4523
umm ill thank you not to take MY zoid script pal...... it took me ages to find it on the rmxp.net boards.....

also sorry to be a bitch about this guys!!! lets all just make some games. lets just make the heck out of some games
tardis
is it too late for ironhide facepalm
308
my zoid system is the zoid system that will pierce the heavens