Description

The dead armies of games forgotten lurk in the dark, waiting for unsuspecting developers to lose their way on the path to their current games and stop in their tracks to think of days gone by.

It's time to dig them up from their early graves and release them on the world come this Hallowe'en.

Yup, it's that time of year again! Combining Release Something and the annual Halloween event, we task you with taking an old, abandonned game, shining it up and letting it run free in the fields of 2019.


Rules
- Start on October 1st
- Finish by October 30th
- Game MUST be abandoned. In this case, not worked on for at least a few months or put aside whilst you worked on something else. It can be game ideas that you threw away and didn't get far into creation, too.
- There needs to be a decent chunk of work done on it over the course of the month.
- Any engine, any resources, etc
- Must have a game page made and accepted to the site BEFORE the end date.

To Submit:
- You need a gamepage that has been accepted to the site (either newly made or an older one from the initial creation of the game)
- Sign up to this page as a participant.
- Click the Submit button at the top-right of the page.
- Upload the game to your gamepage.
- Choose the proper download for the game from the drop-down list and hit Submit.


Badges
- A badge for those who release a full game - 60 MS
- A badge for those who release a demo - 30 MS
- A badge for those who take part in at least one of the prompts that will put up over the course of the month to showcase progress made - 10 MS

Details

  • 10/01/2019 01:00 AM
  • 10/30/2019 11:59 PM

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Posts

Welp, I put a demo up. It's incredibly short, around 5 maps. If there's a stream this year, it'll probably take all of five minutes to see everything it has to offer XD
OzzyTheOne
Future Ruler of Gam Mak
4676
Congratulations on everyoen that managed to finish something for the event so far! Looking forward to seeing how many more games will get revived before the event ends.

author=KrimsonKatt
author=OzzyTheOne
This ends tomorrow right? So in about 24+ hours, right? I'm definitely not asking because I plan on maybe reviving something, nope, just asking for general knowledge.
I don't understand this statement. It says here that you maybe will review something from the event after the event. Or at least that was my interpretation.


I said "REVIVING" as in, to revive, not "REVIEWING" as in review xD
Congrats to everyone who finished their games!! Unfortunately, time wasn't on my side so I won't be able to release a demo or anything, but I'll be playing these games after the event for Halloween!
pianotm
The TM is for Totally Magical.
32347
Good job, everyone!
Congratulations to everyone who managed to finish their games! There are so many different kinds and styles of games that I want to give a try to them all... I think I'll try to do a playthrough of each one once the event it's officially over.
JustAShyDoge
Still a dumb and shy doggo
9731
It's alive, IT'S ALIVE! My resurrection is complete! Now I pray there's no game breaking issues.

Game page:
https://rpgmaker.net/games/11303/
Uploaded gam, some more stuff to tweak etc...and you know, finish the gam, but for a demo ye, I'm fine with it. Was looking at Felski's skill tree for the learn skill system, but would need another week to implement heh. I now fully expect peeps to find strange bugs everywhere.
With any luck I will have an actual demo done at basically exactly when the deadline is.


Also here is the game page: https://rpgmaker.net/games/11313/
Okay, after an embarrassing glitch with annihilates everyone with antimatter in the first battle, I've fixed that and replaced the download with version 1.1. If you have 1.0 already, I also have a patch that can be downloaded instead.


In case you missed it tho, here's how it went down.
KrimsonKatt
Gamedev by sunlight, magical girl by moonlight
3326
author=OzzyTheOne
This ends tomorrow right? So in about 24+ hours, right? I'm definitely not asking because I plan on maybe reviving something, nope, just asking for general knowledge.


I don't understand this statement. It says here that you maybe will review something from the event after the event. Or at least that was my interpretation.
OzzyTheOne
Future Ruler of Gam Mak
4676
author=KrimsonKatt
@OzzyTheOne

Hey, how about you review my game? It's a lot better than Zero Gear Fighters and Dragon Ascension. (Probably)


I don't really do reviews of games >_>
Also, time for me to see how much I can bring back to life with 24 hours left!
KrimsonKatt
Gamedev by sunlight, magical girl by moonlight
3326
@OzzyTheOne

Hey, how about you review my game? It's a lot better than Zero Gear Fighters and Dragon Ascension. (Probably)
Yes, about 24 hours from now
OzzyTheOne
Future Ruler of Gam Mak
4676
This ends tomorrow right? So in about 24+ hours, right? I'm definitely not asking because I plan on maybe reviving something, nope, just asking for general knowledge.
All ready to upload when page accepted. Couple tweaks, maybe a couple skills to add, but it's basically done. Well as a 0.15 demo heh.
*SLAMS DOWN ZIP FILE*
THERE. Me and Pudding did as much debugging as we could so this will have to do. It is complete enough for the player to reach the ending so that's all that matters at this point. Polish can come at a later date.

Now if you excuse me, I need to hibernate.
Final stretch, game page pending, 40% playtest done, etc. Gonna power through playtesting and tweaking stuff tonight after a brain break.
Hwelp, Game Page, Description & (...counts...) 24 screenshots submitted as of today. If/when the gampag gets accepted I'll get around to adding pages and, depending on how the next 48 hours go for me, maybe hopefully a demo, too.
author=StormCrow
Related: once a game that's been set to 'Private' in the submissions queue is taken off of private and has (a lot more than) the minimum number of images, is that game page "submitted" to the site? I don't see a separate submit button. This event has a submit button but that's for a download and a) I don't have my demo done yet b) even if I did I don't think I'd be able to upload it before the game page was accepted.

Edit (Related to Related): it seems impossible to add pages to a game page before it's been accepted?


Private or Public won't matter in the settings for going through the queue. If you add the corrent length of description and amount of images, not matter if it's set to private or public, it will go to the queue. I'll be able to see it either way.

Only after it gets accepted does that choice affect the game page. Private ticked will make it so that no-one bar the developers/testers/etc can see the page. Unticked means that it will be visible to everyone.

Pages, blogs, media and the like won't unlock until the game page is accepted through the queue.