No communication between the two parties. Basically, take what you got and work with it to the end - this means try not to mess with the front half too much. Some of it will be unavoidable, especially if you find a bug or need to connect events to one another, but removing characters and messing with the pre-existing battles (bar bug-fixes) is no-go.

That said, you can make your own battles using the system that already exists or making your own. You can choose to change the tone and gameplay completely from the first half (turning a horror game into a dating one, for example) to the second. That's half the fun. Of course, you could also choose to expand apon the existing game, too, trying to build on what is already there - but if you do want to go zany and change that sidescrolling bullet-hell about saving your spouse into a top-down puzzle where you have to protect the evil lord, then do it~ As long as the first half is still there in all it's glory too.

Well, if 10 people did MV games, then I'd disperse those 10 games randomly among those who have access to MV (which would be at least 10 people, if not more, based on the fact that we'd have 10 MV starts.)

This is why I specified only RM engines - because most people have a couple of them (or can get their hands on them) and know how to use them. I mean, more than a few people here have listed at least 2 or more of the engines, so we're guaranteed to have more than two people who have the same engine (I have access to all of them, for example, so that's at least one person outside of the starter group who could use each engine).

I only have MV, though if needed I could use Ren'Py or something like that.

I'd really like to join, but I see a bit of a potential problem: Since RPG Maker XP is the only RM engine I own (well, except for VX Ace Lite, but that doesn't count), my possibilities are somewhat limited. Now, I don't have any moral issues with making some poor other person work in that engine to finish my first-half-game. But I can easily imagine nobody else but me starting their original project in XP. So how would I be supposed to finished someone else's game if I participated in this contest?
Maybe I should just stay out of the event this time instead of making things more complicated for everyone...


LATE EDIT: Never mind all this any more. I now have 2k3, XP and VX Ace at my disposal. Problem solved.

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I'd really like to join, but I see a bit of a potential problem: Since RPG Maker XP is the only RM engine I own (well, except for VX Ace Lite, but that doesn't count), my possibilities are somewhat limited. Now, I don't have any moral issues with making some poor other person work in that engine to finish my first-half-game. But I can easily imagine nobody else but me starting their original project in XP. So how would I be supposed to finished someone else's game if I participated in this contest?
Maybe I should just stay out of the event this time instead of making things more complicated for everyone...

I don't mind digging up my copy of XP and making my game in that, if it'd help. I may even still have the installer somewhere to put on my current Lappy. ^_^

This sounds exciting. I only have Ace!

I have it on good authority that one or two people who've signed up were going to make their projects in RMXP anyway, based on chatting with them. (It does still have the best mapping of any version of RPG Maker. It's more popular than you think.)

I have a stupid newb question.

I'll assume I can use resources downloaded from the site. How does that work with crediting and such? Do I tell the person who is going to get my half what I used so they can then either make a credits scroll in game, or, add it to the game page or something?

I'd say put all the necessary credits in a txt file and include it with the other files.

Ninja'd