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This is the second time we've ran the Swap in the Middle with You event. It's a pretty simple premise. You start a game and work on it for two weeks. At the end of that fortnight all the games are pooled and then distributed semi-randomly to each other. Then everyone finishes the games they are given over the two weeks.
Rules
Achievements?
As always, there's badges to consider~
Started in the Middle with You, Too - 50MS - Received at the end of the event for those who started a game and had it completed.
Ended in the Middle with You, Too - 50MS - Received at the end of the event for those who finished a game.
Creators are allowed to change the content of the first half of the game this time around, in order to make it fit the end half ideas. It's expected so don't be upset if you find your game has changed between sending it off and getting it back! I highly recommend making your first half a fun game that you don't mind morphing into something else, so as to stave off any protective instincts you may have towards the story and ideas.
If it helps people to disassociate themselves a bit from being clingy with their games think of the first half of the event as you making part of a game for someone else - it's not your game, it's theirs. You're just making it for them to mess with. The second half is where you get to make what your get yours.
Remember, we're doing this for fun, guys, and a big part of that is seeing how someone else takes your ideas and makes them into something else. Ideally we'll see games come from this with interesting changes and twists, so don't get attached to the first halves!
Rules
- Sign up below. Make sure that you're dedicated for the both parts of the event.
- Games must be new and made only for this event.
- You may use any RM engine. Sorry, while it is a neat idea in theory to use any engine, most people who sign up might not have experience in those engines, limiting the ability to finish the games. Please point out if you have the legal or non-legal versions of RPG Maker 2000 and 2003! It won't do anyone any good if I hand you a legal version to finish when you only have the non-legal version to work with, after all!
- If you only have access to a particular RM engine, please note that in the comment section so that I know to account for that when distributing the first half of the games.
- Also, make sure to include an RTP stand-alone version of the game (and include resources) when passing it over so that your partner is not looking for different files to make it work.
- When it comes time to submit, for the first half of the game upload the WIP to the event locker (accessed by Submit in the top corner).
- First halves of games must be in by the time shown under the Details section after you add your time offset in the settings of your account. The Date End reflects this and will be changed when the second halves are handed out.
- The second halves will be submitable by game page ONLY. Make a game page for your game whenever you like, just remember to update the information when the second creator comes into play.
- To keep time realistic, aim for each half to have a half-hour of play at the most. This will make an hour-long game, which is pretty decent for a month of work. You can go over this amount, but remember that the longer the game, the less chance there is to finish it.
- At least 10 minutes of game play time per half!
- In the spirit of the event, don't be a back-seat driver to the second creators. They can take the game where they like - that's half the fun of the event. In fact, let's just say that you keep your fingers out of the game pie after it gets handed over. Make it something of a surprise, eh?
- All games must abide by site rules - pared down to 'no hate speech, no highly sexual content, etc'. If you have questions about what is and is not appropriate, PM Liberty and ask.
Achievements?
As always, there's badges to consider~
Started in the Middle with You, Too - 50MS - Received at the end of the event for those who started a game and had it completed.
Ended in the Middle with You, Too - 50MS - Received at the end of the event for those who finished a game.
Creators are allowed to change the content of the first half of the game this time around, in order to make it fit the end half ideas. It's expected so don't be upset if you find your game has changed between sending it off and getting it back! I highly recommend making your first half a fun game that you don't mind morphing into something else, so as to stave off any protective instincts you may have towards the story and ideas.
If it helps people to disassociate themselves a bit from being clingy with their games think of the first half of the event as you making part of a game for someone else - it's not your game, it's theirs. You're just making it for them to mess with. The second half is where you get to make what your get yours.
Remember, we're doing this for fun, guys, and a big part of that is seeing how someone else takes your ideas and makes them into something else. Ideally we'll see games come from this with interesting changes and twists, so don't get attached to the first halves!
Clown/Joker signs by Brian Edwards
Details
- 08/25/2018 12:00 AM
- 09/28/2018 01:00 AM
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Closeauthor=JustAShyDogeI don't have the legal versions of vx or vx ace I have only paid for RMMV. 86 dollars CAD later lol.
I can use VX if needed, but its not legal so...
StormCrow
2877
i kind of wish i had only the illegal copies of everything
then again i pirated 2k and 2k3 (back when that was the only way to get 'em), was gifted ace, and got MV for 70% off so i'm ahead of the game...except for the fact that I paid for VX twice lol.
'MO IMPO'TANTLY:
I'm really going to try to turn in my thing today. It's very stressful working on something right down to the wire and I really want to be ahead of the deadline, not chasing it.
then again i pirated 2k and 2k3 (back when that was the only way to get 'em), was gifted ace, and got MV for 70% off so i'm ahead of the game...except for the fact that I paid for VX twice lol.
'MO IMPO'TANTLY:
I'm really going to try to turn in my thing today. It's very stressful working on something right down to the wire and I really want to be ahead of the deadline, not chasing it.
Jesus christ. At last it is done and up. I NEVER wanna do that again.
So when is swap in the middle 3 again
So when is swap in the middle 3 again
Jeroen_Sol
Nothing reveals Humanity so well as the games it plays. A game of betrayal, where the most suspicious person is brutally murdered? How savage.
3885
I think I'm going to have to drop out. I couldn't invest enough time this first half, and definitely won't be able to in the second half. I have some stuff, and it's probably 10 minutes especially if I add just a little bit tomorrow, but I really feel like I should've done more and this is unfair to whomever gets my half.
He did say he wasn't going to be able to make a second half though.
If you can squeeze it in though, I totally recommend you do it jer.
If you can squeeze it in though, I totally recommend you do it jer.
bicfarmer
3601
I tried the ace games in here so far, they are pretty interesting.
It'll be even more interesting when these games have massive style changes 2 week day later
It'll be even more interesting when these games have massive style changes 2 week day later
philteredkhaos
775
My life has been shattered into a billion pieces, as such I was unable to even try to work on a game. See you all at some later point in the future.
*slaps down a big fat exe file* THERE, DONE. Now I'm going the heck to sleep and hope whoever gets my game isn't scared off by the Deep Lore in my half.
coelocanth
5448
Apologies for the size of the zip, normally I'd strip out the unused files, but the instructions said specifically not to.
author=coelocanth
Apologies for the size of the zip, normally I'd strip out the unused files, but the instructions said specifically not to.
Are we talking about...
Also, make sure to include an RTP stand-alone version of the game (and include resources) when passing it over so that your partner is not looking for different files to make it work.
...this rule? I read that to mean that whatever parts of the RTP you actually used were to be be included, and to make sure it could run without the RTP installed . Also, include any additional resources that were used in the project. Though, that point seems to fall under the "not looking for different files to make it work" portion of the rule.
Though, I think there was a comment about including all of the RTP if one was using 2K/TsuK or 2K3/TsuK3?
StormCrow
2877
what is sleep human beings don't need sleep right i mean that's just a myth right HA HA HA WHO NEEDS SLEEP sleep is optional am i rite?
translation: because i am a crazy person i have not slept in over 24 hours
i spent the last 15 of those hours working non-stop on my half so i could be done with it, because it's a crazy person, i mean because i'm a crazy person. in my rapidly fading hypomanic state i'm irrationally convinced with the zealotry of a mujahideen that it's the greatest (half a) story i've ever told in any medium and the greatest (half a) game i've ever made but i am sure that delusion will pass as soon as i am able to human again. it does have a minimum of 90 minutes of playtime though. that's nine times the minimum. wow. the number nine. it sure is. 9 9 9 9 9
I INCLUDED THE WHOLE RTP IN MY THING BECAUSE RTP RTP RTP also the rules
9: what a cool number
9: bic farmer where do lighters grow from also you're playing these as they come in? aren't you a participant? like doesn't that kind of spoil the fun. blue powerade. barak obama. that meme from mgs2 i need scissors 61
fleeting moment of sanity: I really need to reevaluate my idea of "unambitious"; i thought chapelwaite was an unambitious idea and i wound up sinking 100s of hours into it and I was even more sure that this project was even more unambitious and then i had to burn my circadian rhythm to ashes in order to finish it. i need to find a 'minimum effort' gam mak gear, or at least a gear that is not 'maximum effort'.
i did not playtest the final build of my 1st half in any meaningful way so i will try to make sure it's not borked anywhere along the line tomorrow or whenever i wake up. if i wake up. i have transcended tired and i am in a state of...crazed bleeding eyed mania? yes that sounds rite. because i am a crazy person. god i can't even type or spell right now. why did i do this to myself.
if this seems like it is like being forced faked or exaggerated its not this is literally the muddy stream of consciousness spewing forth from my badly malnourished brain meat
my family is going to be over watching FOOTBALL of every goddamn thing (ugh loud cheering/yelling) so i have taken four different kinds of sleeping pills. because i am a crazy person. if i can even fall asleep in my dreams i will totes dream about each and every one of you taking this game and finishing it. jesus. that's like a gang bang. i have a filthy mind. not literally. figuratively.
in retrospect i apologize for this post.
goodnight cruel world i'll see you in the morning. oh shit that was kanye. wasnt it.
translation: because i am a crazy person i have not slept in over 24 hours
i spent the last 15 of those hours working non-stop on my half so i could be done with it, because it's a crazy person, i mean because i'm a crazy person. in my rapidly fading hypomanic state i'm irrationally convinced with the zealotry of a mujahideen that it's the greatest (half a) story i've ever told in any medium and the greatest (half a) game i've ever made but i am sure that delusion will pass as soon as i am able to human again. it does have a minimum of 90 minutes of playtime though. that's nine times the minimum. wow. the number nine. it sure is. 9 9 9 9 9
I INCLUDED THE WHOLE RTP IN MY THING BECAUSE RTP RTP RTP also the rules
9: what a cool number
9: bic farmer where do lighters grow from also you're playing these as they come in? aren't you a participant? like doesn't that kind of spoil the fun. blue powerade. barak obama. that meme from mgs2 i need scissors 61
fleeting moment of sanity: I really need to reevaluate my idea of "unambitious"; i thought chapelwaite was an unambitious idea and i wound up sinking 100s of hours into it and I was even more sure that this project was even more unambitious and then i had to burn my circadian rhythm to ashes in order to finish it. i need to find a 'minimum effort' gam mak gear, or at least a gear that is not 'maximum effort'.
i did not playtest the final build of my 1st half in any meaningful way so i will try to make sure it's not borked anywhere along the line tomorrow or whenever i wake up. if i wake up. i have transcended tired and i am in a state of...crazed bleeding eyed mania? yes that sounds rite. because i am a crazy person. god i can't even type or spell right now. why did i do this to myself.
if this seems like it is like being forced faked or exaggerated its not this is literally the muddy stream of consciousness spewing forth from my badly malnourished brain meat
my family is going to be over watching FOOTBALL of every goddamn thing (ugh loud cheering/yelling) so i have taken four different kinds of sleeping pills. because i am a crazy person. if i can even fall asleep in my dreams i will totes dream about each and every one of you taking this game and finishing it. jesus. that's like a gang bang. i have a filthy mind. not literally. figuratively.
in retrospect i apologize for this post.
goodnight cruel world i'll see you in the morning. oh shit that was kanye. wasnt it.
Jeroen_Sol
Nothing reveals Humanity so well as the games it plays. A game of betrayal, where the most suspicious person is brutally murdered? How savage.
3885
Okay, I'm not dropping out. I actually got a lot more done today, and I'm at a point where I'm happy with the amount of content. So now I just need to test and polish a bit and upload it.
Fair warning, I've been playing La Mulana 2 a lot lately, and I've let myself be heavily inspired by it.
Fair warning, I've been playing La Mulana 2 a lot lately, and I've let myself be heavily inspired by it.
author=JosephSeraph
StormCrow you're a treasure to this event
^^^^THIS
THAT POST IS FUCKING HYSTERICAL
Jeroen_Sol
Nothing reveals Humanity so well as the games it plays. A game of betrayal, where the most suspicious person is brutally murdered? How savage.
3885
Alright, I did it. I think I tested it enough and included all the used RTP files, but if not, the second dev can contact me.
Let's hope I have enough time to finish whatever game I get.
Edit: Just after I typed that I saw an egregious mistake that made me have to reupload. Oops. Should be good now though. I hope.
Let's hope I have enough time to finish whatever game I get.
Edit: Just after I typed that I saw an egregious mistake that made me have to reupload. Oops. Should be good now though. I hope.
I wanted to work on one but I ended up being invested on this octopath traveler plugin series with my friend Olivia. I'll try to get something done in 4 hours...maybe...
Jeroen_Sol
Nothing reveals Humanity so well as the games it plays. A game of betrayal, where the most suspicious person is brutally murdered? How savage.
3885
@Cash Don't feel bad! You've been so extremely busy, it's commendable that you even tried!
