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
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Ocean
Resident foodmonster
11991
Everyone assumes when you're a NYer, you must be from NYC. I am not. Still get delicious pizza though.

Whoops accidentally swiped a new page, here try out RUIN FRONTIER http://rpgmaker.net/games/7362/downloads/6645/
When you get a chance!
Okay, guys, McB is probably going to be away for a few weeks from what he PM'd me (yeah, it's kinda bad) so I've extended the time by an hour or so, so that those who forgot to submit their games here can add them up.

Put them up while you can. No extensions beyond that point.
Ocean
Resident foodmonster
11991
Submitted, thank you Liberty!
Sorry I've been radio silent in this thread. Every spare moment these past three weeks has been spent on this game, and that's about two collective hours short of not being a hyperbole. But, man, I'm super proud of the game we put out. I hope ya'll enjoy it!
Did everyone who had a game to get in, submit to the page?
We don't have a download available. Should we still submit? I'm kind of unsure as to how this works.
Seiromem
I would have more makerscore If I did things.
6375
I can get a download, but SOMEONE had to be using my computer at the moment! Ah well, they shouldn't take more than an hour to type their email... and it's only a few hours till the deadline!

Ugh.


EDIT: Here it is!
No, link, and I didn't get to submit our game.
I didn't have time to make a gamepage. Stayed up real late to finish and crashed. Then had to work all night. I'll make a page.
Cap_H
DIGITAL IDENTITY CRISIS
6625
This third week was super exhausting. I felt pretty good week ago, now I'm sick and tired. I spent all my free time either working on the game or avoiding working on the game.
Still, I had damn good time.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
Man, which gam to play first? This... might just be the hardest decision yet!
Nice work everyone that managed to finish something.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
author=SnowOwl
Nice work everyone that managed to finish something.


Right! And the best way to celebrate the creation of games is to play them!
Play them in the order they appear on the playlist~

http://rpgmaker.net/users/Liberty/playlists/52950/
Jeroen_Sol
Nothing reveals Humanity so well as the games it plays. A game of betrayal, where the most suspicious person is brutally murdered? How savage.
3885
Just one more day until I'm somewhere that has WiFi again so I can play these games...

It's funny in a sad way. You really learn how dependent you are on WiFi if you don't have it for several weeks. And I even still have this crappy mobile network, so I'm not even completely disconnected.
The most tragicomic part is that I've become very invigorated and wanting to do things thse past few weeks. The internet apparently drains all of my free time and willpower.
Well, I've tried and given feedback to every game jam game that's been released so far. Still waiting on the slackers; hurry up and upload your stuff!
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
We went ahead and uploaded an updated version of our game with some minor fixes and a few combat balance changes. I didn't get enough time to add different difficulty settings, so the current version's difficulty might be too much for some people who don't expect normal battles to require any effort. It's not really hard, but it's perhaps harder than people expect, and the battles are not short.
Indra
YOU ARE BEING TOO AGGRO
11514
Heya. I played and streamed all the games with downloads, you can check the out over here if you want.

(I didn't play Poor Man Rich Man, it asks for a RTP I don't have and doesn't even provide a link, and I'm not going thru all that trouble just to play an alphabuild, sorry =_=)
I also didn't play Born Under the Rain for obvious reasons (LPing your own game feels kind of masturbatory, and besides I already know what happens, there's no interest there :X)

The best game for me flat out was Ruin Frontier. Haven't finished it but dang the intro engaged me.
Divergence was also pretty good, tho it had some GAH moments in the puzzles when it came to movement and collision detection.
Oh crap, forgot to fix the RTP thing

Ok, fixed it.

But I have to warn that it's short to the point of disappointment :/
Our team didn't finish but we got some really neat ideas and experience from this. We're pretty happy overall, but we have plans to finish our game some time in the future!

Until then, I'm just going to enjoy the lovely gams that are here. Ruin Frontier looks nice!