Description

Summer, with fields of wheat and grain blowing in the gentle breeze. Warmth that sinks into the skin making days long and lazy, perfect for swimming and indulging in frozen treats.

Autumn, full of gusty breezes and warm afternoons. Turning paths to gold as leaves fall like a riotously coloured shower, leaving the trees bare of their foliage, stark against the sky.

Winter, with frozen evenings spent huddled around an open flame, telling tales of the past and future to loved ones, a decorated tree listening in from the corner, it's tiny lights twinkling between leaves of green.

Spring, bursting with new life as the long sleep ends and nature returns ten-fold to rejoice with explosions of colour as all kinds of new plants turn their faces up to catch the sweet drops of fresh rain.

The four seasons are wonderful times full of amazing moments and this event focuses on them. There will be a total of five of these events over the course of the next few years. Each of the first four events will have you focus on a different complete game based on a season you didn't do before, allowing you to collect all four of the seasonal badges. The fifth will be a game where you will use all four seasons in a game. Keep an eye out for these events if you want to nab every badge!


Your aim this time - to make a game that uses one of these seasons as a main inspiration. They can be represented in different ways - surviving the frozen wilds, a story set in autumn following the death of a character, a visual novel with spring colours as the palette... the use is up to you, as long as it's easy to tell which season has been referenced.



Rules!
- You have three weeks in which to make the game.
- You may use any engine.
- You may use resources you've used in the past, however the game itself needs to be made within the three week period. That is, if you made custom resources for a game you may use those, however you can't just take an old game and finish it off for the event.
- The games must have an accepted game page. The game page must be accepted before Friday the 1st of June.
- Event begins on Saturday the 12th of May and ends at Midnight, Sunday the 3rd of June.
- Create a game based on a season. You must only use one season! This is for reasons that shall become apparent in due time.


Rewards
Each person who took part will receive a badge worth 10 MS.
Each person who completed a game will receive a badge worth 75 MS, themed around the season they drew inspiration from.



To reiterate - the season you choose doesn't have to be the season the game is set in but it needs to be a large component of the game, and easily recognisable as such.



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Logo: Dorling Kindersley Limited.
Logo Text: Cooltext.com

Details

  • 05/12/2018 12:00 AM
  • 06/04/2018 12:59 AM
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Teams Members Entry
Team Blitzin you all
Team Wintergrasp
Now is the Winter of our discontent
['Spring','Summer','Autumn','Winter'].sample => 'Autumn'
You never see that coming
LET IT SNOW!
Spring Frolics
I'll finish this game and nothing will stop me: A winter Story
Springtide
Autumn Ghosts
The Salt, Pepper, Herbs, and Spices, of the RMN Soup
Team Climate Change
Summer or later
Winter's The Winner... ter. Weiner-ter. Heh. Heh.
Spring is the Default Tileset
Autumn is beautiful
The world has seasons all fucked up, which one has the rainy days again??
Winter Winner Chicken Dinner
Spring Chickens
One year two months 20 days
What about Construction Season? It's as long as three regular seasons combined!
Experience
Winter is Coming
Season's Creatings
The Winter Potion
Weird Weeaboo Winter Waifus
The Fall
LET'SBIAN DO THIS
Fall back, Spring even further back, never finish a game
Harvest
Summer is coming
0.5 starblaze
Let's do some garDyning
starspire and skylight make shit
School Might Drown Me
I'll be the Idiot using SMBX.
Team Ketchup
I'll finish something this time, I swear (Do not confuse with OzzyTheOne's Team)
The Hollow of Dry Leaves
Professional Procrastinators
OrudoPatto Team-da

Posts

Waxius
"Someday I'll finish my game... someday.."
3898
author=Mirak
While I like to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, the fact that davenport submitted a game barely three days after the event began is fishy. Moreso because it says "version 2.48".


And I've barely made three maps so far and no game mechanics yet.
Mirak
Stand back. Artist at work. I paint with enthusiasm if not with talent.
9300
While I like to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, the fact that davenport submitted a game barely three days after the event began is fishy. Moreso because it says "version 2.48".
Oh man, my only idea is likely to be terrible. XD

To save on mapping time, I might try semi-shuffled dungeon floors so that 5-7 floors can be turned into a semi-random 20 floor dungeons that get tougher as you go via variables.

While this does serve the "Go in, get resources in limited inventory space, get out, prepare for the coming disaster" idea pretty well...I get the feeling this won't play super well.
Well, get to it then. ;p
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
"Team Not-Appearing-in-this-Event" would be give me a chuckle. However, "Summer-ner of Winterkill" strikes my irony chords more. The combination of Final Fantasy 10 reference and World of Xeen reference is just perfect.


If, you know, I was making a thing for this.
Caz obviously has the best team title!
Seiromem
I would have more makerscore If I did things.
6375
I just joined to create a witty team title. I may or may not do anything for this.
Probably not ;-;
If I can think of a good angle I want to exploit, and a story that works with a seasonal theme, I might jump on this.

For now I'm drawing a blank. :(

*sits on log* Think think, think think.
author=Waxius
All Four Seasons.. in about 30 seconds!
I made this to show how you can use the "Change Map Tileset" function effectively.



Okay, great, but please only use one season in your games for this.
Waxius
"Someday I'll finish my game... someday.."
3898
All Four Seasons.. in about 30 seconds!
I made this to show how you can use the "Change Map Tileset" function effectively.

Mirak
Stand back. Artist at work. I paint with enthusiasm if not with talent.
9300
The event date says it starts tomorrow though? I'm kinda confused.

Ohhh it must be the timezone settings i guess.
THIS IS A JOKE PEOPLE WHO DON'T REALISE!

The event doesn't start til Saturday, so don't fret!
Just about finished my Winter game, folks.


Gonna start prepping the resources for my Autumn game, for later on! >.<)b

author=MsterLouie
Nice break from developing my current game. Need some inspiration for puzzle mechanics I can use on my current game. :)

Question. Does it need to be a team? Or would only me on the team be ok?


No need to team. You can be your own team!
Nice break from developing my current game. Need some inspiration for puzzle mechanics I can use on my current game. :)

Question. Does it need to be a team? Or would only me on the team be ok?
author=Liberty
No, standalone games each time only.


Boo. I'll probably sit this one out then as I had already had a seasonal farming game in mind and it will incorporate all four seasons.
author=Waxius
I have a question about teams. Does each team make ONE collaborative game or does each member still make their own game and the team submits multiple games?

One game. You actually can't make multiple games in this and the other Season events. If you team up with someone it'd be your only game.

author=Illy
Is it possible for us to make one game, just add the seasonal inspiration with each new event?

Like say I wanted to make a farming game, but for this event just made the Spring Cycle, then made Summer for the next, Autumn, and so on.

No, standalone games each time only. If, after the event, you want to add other seasons to one of the games, go for it, but for the event focus should be only on the season you picked for that event.


Reminder that inspiration doesn't mean that it should be set in the season itself.

It can be a cheesy romance for spring, a surfing alpaca game for summer, a game about a dying woman coming to terms with her life for autumn and a game with a wintery palette for winter. They'd all be very different games and might not necessarily focus on the seasons themselves, but the themes that the seasons evoke such as death, renewal, darkness, warmth, etc.


Here's an inspiration brainstorm list that was started on the discord.

Feel free to add inspirations to the list for each season, or to draw from the list ideas for your own game.
pianotm
The TM is for Totally Magical.
32347
Fantastic!
10/10 Would Team Again.

I just placeholder'd myself.
pianotm
The TM is for Totally Magical.
32347
Well, shoot. I was going to see if Arcy wanted to team up again.