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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author=Max McGee
Stop hitting yourself, Link, it's not that bad.

(It is the avatar where Kirk is smacking the shit out of himself.)

I like that people have to quote the visuals of my avatar for context xD

I'm probably going to team up with Jin. If not, I'll wait til next round and hopefully some cool people will team up with me out of pity ;D
So do we just direct all our hype and WIP art, mapping and other work to the original mcbaconjam forum post? Or is this a new base of operations?
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
Just post your game when you're done. Until then you can talk with your team on Skype or make a private design forum on boards.net if that's better for you than Skype (it gives more organization but takes a little more time to set up).

This event is too short to be spending any of it doing anything but working.
Officially working with Jin now. Our game will be amazing.
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15170
Link_2112
Yeah, been asking around. I'll probably just skip this one. That kinda killed the momentum for me xD So much hype and then I'm left out haha


Link_2112
Officially working with Jin now. Our game will be amazing.


Someone please be on my team! I don't want to feel like a slacker this weekend. Team up with me and pm/dm me saying you want to be on my team.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
@Dopplespots: Maybe try teaming with landas1? I dunno. Just a thought that occurred to me.

*Edit: Also, I think that's the other team that has one member, since jin69 hasn't updated his teaming with Link_2112 yet.
Nevermind. I just deleted my team. I think i'll try my luck joining an already made team. Check your mailboxes soon!
Join Link, and I. We have a pretty cool idea, but atm I am busy with a lot, so additional help would be great!
Zeigfried_McBacon
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
3820
author=jin69
Join Link, and I. We have a pretty cool idea, but atm I am busy with a lot, so additional help would be great!


While you're at it Jin, make sure to at least add link to your team.
Finally! My chance to let somebody else do all the work and claim I helped!
Sign me up for the Reserves, boss.

Qualifications:
Time
...yeah that's about it.
I'll be glad to serve as some team's unneeded appendix and help out with mapping, character design, story-line, or whatever else I can.
Zeigfried_McBacon
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
3820
This is already in progress and sign ups are over. There's always next time.
author=Zeigfried_McBacon
This is already in progress and sign ups are over. There's always next time.

Will do. Sign me up for reserves in the 2nd jam, if you can, just in case...
unity
You're magical to me.
12540
How is everyone doing? Has everyone managed to come up with a good concept and gotten started? ^_^
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
@unity: I've a few files in my locker (they are marked "private", in the case you don't see them). Meanwhile, Ebeth showed us some neat concept portraits! Not quite sure where Glasses is at with his work. Miiiiight be time to poke?
We did and it's kinda scary due to crunch time...;w;
slash
APATHY IS FOR COWARDS
4158
Our game is coming along well too :D We settled on a little story and characters and gameplay and we're gonna hammer in the details as we go.

I'm currently neck-deep in character art, sprites and tiles!
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 currently don't have enough time. I feel like I should be most of the way done with my part of the game by now so that I have enough time to test and refine it after it's done, but I'm not even close to that point. It's not helping that I have never actually worked in VX Ace before, nor that our game is probably way too big.