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In honor of rpgmaker.net’s fourth birthday, and to celebrate our awesome users which have helped keep the site going, we are going to have an official site contest on June 3rd, 2011*.

The contest will take the form of a 4-hour game making event in which users will have four consecutive hours to make a game and submit it to be judged. To make the contest more accessible to everyone the game can be created during any block of four hours on June 3rd as long as it gets submitted by the deadline. Yes, this means we will be using the honor system – please don’t take the internets too seriously. There will be a theme for the contest that will be revealed at midnight on June 2nd, 2011.


All contestants will receive achievements and the winner will receive a monetary prize ($25). Losers will receive a complimentary t-shirt** and the sudden realization that they are forever alone on a Friday night. We may see what else we can scrounge up for participants.


- no restrictions on engine or graphics
- the 24 hour period will be for June 3rd central time zone
- the event period has now been switched to 4-hours per kentona's suggestion.
- people shouldn't back out because they can't make an "epic" or "worthwhile" game in the 4-hours. Most attempts are either end up being humorous or have some other gimmick. Develop them further after the deadline if you like.

We are having a 4-hour game making contest on June 3rd with a CASH MONEY prize.


* Yes, we realize rpgmaker.net officially launched on June 2nd, 2007, but we felt that having this on a weekend night may make the contest more accessible.
** Not really.





Click to reveal the theme


"Sequels that should never be made, but that we will make anyways."


REMEMBER - once you know the theme, you have 4 hours to complete your entry! Don't forget to mention that your submission is for the 4-hour contest to help it move quickly through the submission queue!



So we're like three weeks late and for that I apologize. I played many (but not all) the games during the initial weekend period but didn't communicate very well. I also have some very different ideas on how to handle similar events in the future, and some suggestions on some more serious events we will try. However, there were a decent number of responses and some of the games were actually playable!

So without further ado, the winner is...

*drumroll*

Fire Emblem 6 - TILoRtQatQfP

That makes Dyhalto the winner of a $25 prize. Contact me via PM to arrange payment and/or to select a charity of your choice to receive the funds.

I'll be honest, the game had a couple of things going for it from the start, like the fact that it was crafted with the Sim RPG Maker 95 engine, of which I love. I was the author of the original English translation patches and spent a lot of time testing the engine back in golden days of the internet. It was a unappreciated maker, but one that had a lot of good ideas that would be picked up in later incarnations of the RPG Maker series. It's definitely aged better than its RPG Maker 95 counterpart.

I am also a big fan of strategy/tactical RPGs though I have never played a Fire Emblem game before. The game was an unbalanced mess but was still pretty fun to play. Some of the units were dramatically overpowered and some were practically worthless. The dialogue was intentionally nonsensical. However, it was pretty cool how new units kept appearing during battle – more than once I found myself redirecting units to prevent surprise flanks.

Fire Emblem 6 - TILoRtQatQfP was ranked the top birthday game by two of the three judges, and was ranked number two by the other.

Runner-up was the RPG Maker 2003 game Sinfonia by Max McGee. It was pretty cool to have an actual attempt at a proper game in a contest obviously designed for blatant use of comedy and tropes.

I'll let the other judges chime in with their thoughts on the games if they are interested.

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author=Yellow Magic
Loving how my 4-hour entry has more downloads than my serious project. Maybe there's a lesson to be learnt


Yup. It's the same with mine.
Please sir, can we have an update?
author=Desmo360
author=Deckiller
People should totally review these entries.
RMN should get a 'like' button.
working on it!

Also, no update yet (this is holbert's contest to run, not mine). I can tell you that I've downloaded them all but that's it.
author=kentona
author=Desmo360
author=Deckiller
People should totally review these entries.
RMN should get a 'like' button.
working on it!


:D

So does anyone know how this contest will be judged? I know there will be one winner, but what about any runner-ups or sub-categories?
need to post screens of the greatest game that never was
First off turn this on. Don't turn it off. It doesn't in the game except at the final boss fight.


A sequel nobody would want? What would be better than Sonic? It's been in the cycle for years (Sonic Adventure 2 to arguably Sonic Colors). Sonic by itself wouldn't be enough. I had to find the worse Sonic which I could quickly apply into a game. There was only one choice:


Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with dumb fucking square brackets for extra awfulness. It was practically a visual novel with fights. I just ripped screens from episodes, put some text to it, and BAM new scene!


I spent the first hour blitzing through seven or so episodes screencapping whatever and giving it a name to sort by. Once I finished that I just started winging a story. Robotnik (fuck eggman) wants to beat up Sonic, Chaos Emeralds show up, Robotnik eventually gets them all and becomes GOD ROBOTNIK and loses his shirt. Never finished writing it, got distracted and I'm a terribly slow and terribly bad writer.


Combat was just ten fights. No healing except a Megalixer item: Chilidogs. Basically a boss blitz. How long can you last? Never got too far with this either.


I did change the font when evil robots talked. Wee!
Decky
I'm a dog pirate
19645
Just curious if there's an update here.
Come on Deck, you know what it's like with competitions. It took a 1 month+ for the 3-dayer to get results :P
Decky
I'm a dog pirate
19645
Aren't we still waiting on the Valedictory Game Drive, too?
Yeah it's like I'm in charge or something
It's so asymmetrical.. Like.. HEY DUDES MAKE A GAME IN THIS SHORT TIME FRAME!!! GO GO GO... and then we'll take fifty times longer to play them and give some evaluation.

/complain


(guilt edit: Okay, people have real-world obligations obviously and all that, I know. But yeah....)
InfectionFiles
the world ends in whatever my makerscore currently is
4622
Shawshank Dead Redemption hasn't won yet? :o
author=NewBlack
HEY DUDES MAKE A GAME IN THIS SHORT TIME FRAME!!! GO GO GO... and then we'll take fifty times longer to play them and give some evaluation.


My game only takes about five minutes to play; no one should have been able to make anything much longer than that, and there's only a handful of entries...
You know, I just realized. We need a section where users can make competitions! It would be great wouldn't it. I have an idea for a contest that I will let you guys know soon!
You can make a forum thread to drum up interest, make a logo, and request staff to make an event page for you! Action 52 - RMN Edition was a collaborative game that was done entirely across a thread or two (I think it was before event pages worked well) when I was a regular staff memeber so anybody can start one!
Starscream
Conquest is made from the ashes of one's enemies.
6110
The winner was announced here: rpgmaker.net 4th birthday contest topic

Congrats to Dyhalto for his entry Fire Emblem 6 - TILoRtQatQfP. Contact me via PM on prize arrangements.
Decky
I'm a dog pirate
19645
author=rcholbert
The winner was announced here: rpgmaker.net 4th birthday contest topic

Congrats to Dyhalto for his entry Fire Emblem 6 - TILoRtQatQfP. Contact me via PM on prize arrangements.

Not a bad little creation, but at least my game has Golem Sazh. Congrats to Legion for second!


The winner has been announced.

Congrats Dyhalto for the winning entry: Fire Emblem 6 - TILoRtQatQfP