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 14th of February.
- Event begins on Saturday the 23rd of January and ends at Midnight, Wednesday the 24th 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.



Streams


Stream 1:
- Call of the Overseer
- Under the Hunter's Moon
- Decline (Part 1)






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

Details

  • 01/23/2021 12:00 AM
  • 02/24/2021 12:00 AM

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Posts

Gretgor
Having gotten my first 4/5, I must now work hard to obtain... my second 4/5.
3420
I'm thinking about joining with an autumn themed Easter egg hunt (it's autumn in the southern hemisphere in Easter). The idea would be a simple graphic adventure with puzzle elements and some dodge-and-collect skill challenges akin to stuff like Frogger of Pac-Man thrown in for good measure. It's gonna have very little story, but hopefully I can shoehorn a message about friendship or something in.

What do you guys think of this idea?
AtiyaTheSeeker
In all fairness, bird shrapnel isn't as deadly as wood shrapnel
5424
author=Gretgor
I'm thinking about joining with an autumn themed Easter egg hunt (it's autumn in the southern hemisphere in Easter). The idea would be a simple graphic adventure with puzzle elements and some dodge-and-collect skill challenges akin to stuff like Frogger of Pac-Man thrown in for good measure. It's gonna have very little story, but hopefully I can shoehorn a message about friendship or something in.

What do you guys think of this idea?

I think it sounds lovely! Soulrain did something similar a couple years ago (his was a JRPG-lite with a race against time), and I am excited to see such action-based puzzling.
This event is a good opportunity to experiment with path-finding and trails in the snow.
What is this? A curse? How come every time I start working on an unfinished project some event suddenly pops out. If that ain't a curse u tell me what it is.
Useless to say I'm down for this.
It's not a curse ! It's a side-project opportunity !
I silently look at all these game-making events all the time, but this is the first time I've actually went and clicked the "sign up" button... ohhh man,,, Well, good luck to everyone! Hope yall are having a nice time in the planning phase!
Mirak
Stand back. Artist at work. I paint with enthusiasm if not with talent.
9300
wait what there's a planning phase? oh sh-
We don't plan around these parts.
OldPat
OrudoPatto, kisama!
5107
No planning this time if not for the basic stuff, I don't wanna get swamped.
OzzyTheOne
Future Ruler of Gam Mak
4676
Delsin and I are gonna knock this one out of the park!
hope i can get some good maps this time as well
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15150
Irog
This event is a good opportunity to experiment with path-finding and trails in the snow.


ah cool idea! i'm still focused on spring atm, but that's a fun idea

Mimironi
I silently look at all these game-making events all the time, but this is the first time I've actually went and clicked the "sign up" button... ohhh man,,, Well, good luck to everyone! Hope yall are having a nice time in the planning phase!


gogogo! :)



also i'm convincing karsuman to do his first SOLO PROJECT without me for this. should be..... interesting
Gretgor
Having gotten my first 4/5, I must now work hard to obtain... my second 4/5.
3420
So yeah, I'm not gonna partake in this event :( I need to finish my thesis by February, and if I distract myself with gammak, I might get in trouble.

I will be making a cute egg hunt game on my free time, that much I promise.
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15150
hidden for light nsfw

https://i.imgur.com/HR69th8.png

(Jay's pronouns change over the course of the game which is why they start as he here.)
Oh, this looks fun! If I have time, I'll see if I can create a little seasonal game !

But I have a question... as I see it is a solo event, are we allowed post-event to update our game? I ask 'cause I usually have voice over, which would count as a team, so would I be allowed to make a post-event build with voice over so long as I keep the original unvoiced online?
CashmereCat
Self-proclaimed Puzzle Snob
11638
author=Craze
hidden for light nsfw

https://i.imgur.com/HR69th8.png

(Jay's pronouns change over the course of the game which is why they start as he here.)


OOOOOOOOH interesting! I very much like where this is going, interested to see if it's fantasy or modern, based in real life or an alternate. universe. where. a. completely. different. and. separate. pandemic. has. occurred.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
author=Kokoro-Hane
But I have a question... as I see it is a solo event, are we allowed post-event to update our game?

Working on a game post-event should be fine? I would, personally, suggest separating any work done post-event into a separate download. If nothing else, to be a kind of record to show how much the game progressed from it's infancy, as it were.
I thought the event was only set as Solo because Liberty forgot to change it to Teams... and when she tried to do it then everything bugged out for those already in the event so she changed it back so people could drop the event and rejoin after she changed it to Teams again. Except during that time multiple new people joined the event so she didn't change it again as it would have just compounded how many people were bugged so now she was going to have to go off the actual gamepages for the teams...

or am I misunderstanding the end result of the situation?
author=Marrend
author=Kokoro-Hane
But I have a question... as I see it is a solo event, are we allowed post-event to update our game?
Working on a game post-event should be fine? I would, personally, suggest separating any work done post-event into a separate download. If nothing else, to be a kind of record to show how much the game progressed from it's infancy, as it were.

Oh yeah, if I made a post-event build, it'd be a new available download so people can play either version if I did do that!

Also, when we are done with an entry, how do we submit it here? Just link the game page in this thread?
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
The "Submit" button either lets you submit a download the the event directly (ie: uses the Event Locker), or select a previously established download from a gamepage from a drop-down list. I believe this event uses the latter method.