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What is this?
This is a game making event where we partner up in order to create two games per partner!
TWO games?! Are you mad?!
I don't think so? Oh, wait, that was a rhetorical question, right?
Anyway, it's a pretty simple premise. You start a game and work on it for one week. At the end of that week all the games are pooled and then distributed semi-randomly to each other. Then everyone finishes the games they are given over the next week.
Basically, a big swaparoo~
Rules
Achievements?
As always, there's badges to consider~
Started in the Middle with You - 30MS - Received at the end of the event for those who started a game and had it completed.
Ended in the Middle with You - 30MS - Received at the end of the event for those who finished a game.
Meshing the Middle with You - 20MS - Given to the game that feels like a concerted effort to create a whole piece.
Mashed in the Middle with You - 20MS - Given to the game that is a mess of mashing together the elements.
Beyond the Middle, it's True - 50MS - Given to the overall best game of the lot, as judged by our panel of select cherry-pickers.
This is a game making event where we partner up in order to create two games per partner!
TWO games?! Are you mad?!
I don't think so? Oh, wait, that was a rhetorical question, right?
Anyway, it's a pretty simple premise. You start a game and work on it for one week. At the end of that week all the games are pooled and then distributed semi-randomly to each other. Then everyone finishes the games they are given over the next week.
Basically, a big swaparoo~
Rules
- Sign up below. Make sure that you're dedicated for the whole two weeks/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.
- 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 2 weeks. You can go over this amount, but remember that the longer the game, the less chance there is to finish it.
- 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?
Achievements?
As always, there's badges to consider~
Started in the Middle with You - 30MS - Received at the end of the event for those who started a game and had it completed.
Ended in the Middle with You - 30MS - Received at the end of the event for those who finished a game.
Meshing the Middle with You - 20MS - Given to the game that feels like a concerted effort to create a whole piece.
Mashed in the Middle with You - 20MS - Given to the game that is a mess of mashing together the elements.
Beyond the Middle, it's True - 50MS - Given to the overall best game of the lot, as judged by our panel of select cherry-pickers.
Clown/Joker signs by Brian Edwards
Details
- 02/27/2016 12:00 AM
- 03/21/2016 11:59 PM
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Isrieri
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CloseMy personal philosophy for the event:
As long as everyone does that I think this will be the most fun event ever.
What I like most about this idea is that it gives us the chance to write a story and then see how other people choose to interpret the things in it. By leaving things open-ended we can all lay down the brickwork for some cool ideas and then watch how those ideas grow when someone else takes the reins.
- Try to make a decent game that people will want to play.
- Make it as easy as possible for my partner to pick it up and do what they like with it.
- To assume that my partner put a lot of work into their half. It would be frustrating if someone did, only for me to be just completely irreverent toward it (unless the theme is, indeed, comedic irreverance).
- When I get my partner's project, try to keep true with the themes and tone they created with the first half. Adding my own spin will be fun, but I want to respect my partner's input from the first week.
As long as everyone does that I think this will be the most fun event ever.
What I like most about this idea is that it gives us the chance to write a story and then see how other people choose to interpret the things in it. By leaving things open-ended we can all lay down the brickwork for some cool ideas and then watch how those ideas grow when someone else takes the reins.
Tungerman, this will not be an anonymous event. I didn't know that you needed to create a gamepage though, but I guess that ain't a deal breaker.
I think the way the Submit button is currently set up may be a mistaken, since the rules state: "When it comes time to submit, for the first half of the game upload the WIP to the event locker" AND "The second halves will be submitable by either game page or event locker. You may make a game page for your game whenever you like, just remember to update the information when the second creator comes into play."
That makes it seem like you don't have to have a Gamepage for the first part.
That makes it seem like you don't have to have a Gamepage for the first part.
When making an event game, I always follow the K. I. S. S. rule: Keep It Simple, Stupid. With the time limit, there's no real time for experimentation, so just grab your resources, make a basic game, and if you've got an element you want to experiment with, don't make the completion of your game dependent on you getting that element to work.
The second person, I assume, since they make the game profile.
I think it's going to be best going in NOT having an overarching plan in mind, because you're only going to be disappointed. Set up a story that you can't think of an end to, so as to challenge the other creator.
I also thought about making something not a traditional RPG, like a city builder or something, but then realized that'd be cruel for the next creator having to pick up my loose ends, haha...
I think it's going to be best going in NOT having an overarching plan in mind, because you're only going to be disappointed. Set up a story that you can't think of an end to, so as to challenge the other creator.
I also thought about making something not a traditional RPG, like a city builder or something, but then realized that'd be cruel for the next creator having to pick up my loose ends, haha...
It would be hilarious to create something so ridiculous that it would be a mission to make it into a coherent ending.
If you created the city builder game, then I'd see if I could then create an RPG in the built city. :P
If you created the city builder game, then I'd see if I could then create an RPG in the built city. :P
:Craze starts city builder:
:Ends up being a weird dream by the hero the night before fighting last boss:
:profit?:
Ah, the damn submit page is annoying in that one setting overrides another. I'll remove the gamepage option for now and put it back when it's time for the second part. Upload by locker in the first part, and gamepage on the second part.
Game name... probably better for the person who finishes the game (and thus has the best idea of where the game goes) to pick that, but after the event ends partners can hash that out a bit more.
Again, backseat driving is not on. It's completely up to the second person what they do with your game after the fact. And yeah, while it isn't a secret, you don't have to tell people whose game you've got on the second part.
@Isri: That's definitely one way to go about it, but other people can go crazy if they want to take the game a completely different way too - that's half the fun. But hey, there is a badge for the most complete-seeming game, so...
:Ends up being a weird dream by the hero the night before fighting last boss:
:profit?:
Ah, the damn submit page is annoying in that one setting overrides another. I'll remove the gamepage option for now and put it back when it's time for the second part. Upload by locker in the first part, and gamepage on the second part.
Game name... probably better for the person who finishes the game (and thus has the best idea of where the game goes) to pick that, but after the event ends partners can hash that out a bit more.
Again, backseat driving is not on. It's completely up to the second person what they do with your game after the fact. And yeah, while it isn't a secret, you don't have to tell people whose game you've got on the second part.
@Isri: That's definitely one way to go about it, but other people can go crazy if they want to take the game a completely different way too - that's half the fun. But hey, there is a badge for the most complete-seeming game, so...
XD
If the first person wants to give an interim name, who's to say it won't end up as the name of the game if it's glorious enough?
If the first person wants to give an interim name, who's to say it won't end up as the name of the game if it's glorious enough?
Maybe we can create an "incomplete title" for Our game and have the next person fill it in?
Like, calling your game
"Legend of the"
And the next guy can go
"Legend of the Fine Ass Booty Hoes"
Or something?
Like, calling your game
"Legend of the"
And the next guy can go
"Legend of the Fine Ass Booty Hoes"
Or something?
Red_Nova
Sir Redd of Novus: He who made Prayer of the Faithless that one time, and that was pretty dang rad! :D
9192
I like the idea of starting a title and having someone else finish it.
Little Princess Sunflower AND THE ROTTING UNDEAD BIKER GANGS
Seamless.
Little Princess Sunflower AND THE ROTTING UNDEAD BIKER GANGS
Seamless.
Sure, okay, if you want to do that feel free! It adds another layer of fun to the fun-cake~
Existential crisis of THE PRETTY PRETTY PRINCESS BRIGADE!!!
Existential crisis of THE PRETTY PRETTY PRINCESS BRIGADE!!!
TangledLion
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This is sounding better by the minute!
THE ULTIMATE BATTLE OF ULTIMATE butts
E:Also no problem NeverSilent, To be honest it only proves how slow I type, lol.
THE ULTIMATE BATTLE OF ULTIMATE butts
E:Also no problem NeverSilent, To be honest it only proves how slow I type, lol.
That's a great idea right there! Hey, how about a badge for the creative titles?
Come on, I know you want 'em :D
Also: The Land of the Lost Kyarypamyupamyu Albums: The Desparate Hunt
Come on, I know you want 'em :D
Also: The Land of the Lost Kyarypamyupamyu Albums: The Desparate Hunt
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
Arcadia: A tale of Kardashians and dank memes.
