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 six 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. The sixth will be a second-chance event where you can finish off games from the previous events in order to get the badges you missed out on during that time. 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 the 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. And no, just having the name of a season in the title doesn't count!



Rules!
- You have one month in which to make the game.
- You may use any engine.
- You may use any resources you've used in the past, however, the game itself needs to be made within the month period. That is; if you made custom resources for a game in the past 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 Sunday the 26th of January.
- Event begins on Saturday the 4th of January and ends at Midnight, Sunday the 2nd of February.
- Create a game based on a season. You must only use one season!
- You may not use a season that you have used in a previous Seasons of RMN event!


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.





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

Details

  • 01/04/2020 12:00 AM
  • 02/03/2020 04:00 AM

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Posts

Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15150
i would like to say that i am only doing the writing for this event project and thus libby will be Saved from my, how did piano put it last stream? something about just copy-pasting encounters in boring corridors? that.
I don't think you copy/paste into boring corridors. You've stopped doing that a while ago. XD


No, you can't use an old game. Yes, you can make a sequel as long as the project is fully new.

Did I miss anything? I think I covered the bases.

You can work in teams, the event page is being a bitch, so remember to add your team members to your game page and I'll refer there for badges! >.<)b
Is this Seasons a solo event? Last year, we were allowed to have teams.
Mirak
Stand back. Artist at work. I paint with enthusiasm if not with talent.
9300
In the post above yours libs said "You can work in teams, the event page is being a bitch, so remember to add your team members to your game page and I'll refer there for badges! >.<)b"
orz

Boy, do I have egg on my face!
LouisCyphre
can't make a bad game if you don't finish any games
4523
author=Craze
i would like to say that i am only doing the writing for this event project and thus libby will be Saved from my, how did piano put it last stream? something about just copy-pasting encounters in boring corridors? that.


instead, it will be I who is copy-pasting encounters into hallways for him. so suck on that one, chumps.
Since Teams are allowed...
I am in need of a Mapper (or two)
I've been muddling around with some spriting, battle animations, and 2k3-eventing novelties like having one character able to Throw weapons a la FF Ninjas. Apart from having almost all of the charsets and anims finished, here's a screencap of what I've put together thus far.

Nevermind the slime. He's just a placeholder. I'll probably mix it up with RS3 and FF6 enemies because I'm an oldboy who loves rips.

As for what to map, I'm doing the Spring theme this year and I need naturescape dungeons. So for example, a plains dungeon, forest dungeon, river dungeon, mountain dungeon, or whatever your creativity puts together. There are no real restrictions or requirements since the plot is fluid and I can piece everything together.
No town is necessary, although the game does open at a small roadside Inn.

Tileset-wise, I'm leaning towards Refmap, but Rudras or anything else you like (that doesn't clash with the characters) is perfectly fine.

Thanks for reading my plea for help =)
OzzyTheOne
Future Ruler of Gam Mak
4676
Time for me to start working on this.

Is it possible to be in two seperate teams?
I'm gonna need to step out of the monthly event. I got a lot on my plate & I don't think I can get something substantial done.

Best of luck to all the other participants. Ill still be checking out all your projects ;)
author=Harmless
I'm gonna need to step out of the monthly event. I got a lot on my plate & I don't think I can get something substantial done.

Best of luck to all the other participants. Ill still be checking out all your projects ;)


Same here. Turns out moving my entire life to a whole new city is waaaaay more intense than I thought.

I haven't even had time to think about the kind of game I want to make. @_@ As much as I'd like to, I'll have to sit this one out.
author=OzzyTheOne
Time for me to start working on this.

Is it possible to be in two seperate teams?

yes
i got a game in the works, theres a beach littered with towels but i only have a handful of designs on the towels. If any peeps wants to design quick 32x64 or 64x32 sized beach towels for the game, it will be really cool
I'm going to be really busy for the rest of the month, then going on vacation, so just submitting what I have so far. Not as polished as I would like and literally no story, but don't want to forget and miss the deadline. For anyone who plays it, just keep in mind that it was made in 2 weeks instead of a month.
Noooooooooo. I can't believe I am just now coming around to see this... I am going to either need to latch on and leech off someone else's summer or spring game... or I am going to need to throw something together in a week. Hmm hmm.

I can't miss one of the badges after I already got two!
There wil be a make-up event!
I won't be able to make it for this event- errands and holiday. Best of luck to everyone!
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15150
lol oh i guess we need screenshots for the gamepage due todaay huh. hm
Libby extended the game page deadline a bit on account of her being sick. I don't think there's a new date set, but there is extra time if you need it.
Mirak
Stand back. Artist at work. I paint with enthusiasm if not with talent.
9300
by extra you should expect just a couple of days though
author=Liberty
There wil be a make-up event!


Well thank the RM gods for that as I am don't have time to put anything else together. I know I tried... then spent two days working on a simple 2 building forest map... I hate mapping.